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The Overgrown, Disused Railway That Still Runs Around Paris

Paris has a lot of history embedded in its sprawling urban grid, which has seen thousands of years of structural change. But even though space is at a premium, there are still spots that have evaded development and slowly drifted into obscurity. When photographer Pierre Folk was new to the city, he happened upon Chemin…

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DJ Matthew Dear Sampled Thousands of GE Machines to Make This Banger

DJ Matthew Dear teamed up with General Electric acoustics engineer Andrew Gorton to sample the tones created by the churn of “thousands” of different GE machines, from turbines to medical equipment. The sounds were then chopped up and reassembled into “Drop Science,” a frantic, meticulous music experiment. Matthew Dear’s career in weirdo music has taken…

Jennifer Lawrence and Scarlett Johansson morphed into one person

Maybe one day—when we get an X-Men vs Avengers movie crossover—we will see Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) morphing into the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson). Until then we will have this fan morph, which looks surprisingly beautiful. Usually, these kind of morphs end being pretty terrible. Do you have any other favorite of actors or actresses? Post…

Good God, Someone’s Selling a 99-Pack of Beer

Because everything is bigger in Texas, an Austin brewery has made a 99 pack of beers for 99 bucks. Ninety-nine beers, in one case. God bless America. In each massive case—you’ll need two, possibly three people to carry the whole thing—you will find 99 cans of Austin Beerworks’ Anytime Ale. But getting one of these…

Donald Glover Is The Perfect Miles Morales On Ultimate Spider-Man

Donald Glover is finally gettng his chance to be Spider-Man! Unfortunately it’s not in a live-action movie, but on the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon, where he’ll voice the comics’ Ultimate Spider-Man, Miles Morales. Here’s a clip! It all happens in the new season premiere of Web Warriors, airing this Sunday on Disney XD. From USA Today:…

7 Glimpses into Android’s Beautiful Future

The newest version of Android (Lemon Meringue Pie?) is on its way, bringing with it a whole new look for Google at large. For now it’s just a beta, but designers are already playing with Google’s new guidelines. So far, so good. The following collection of GIFs aren’t official apps; they’re guesses, by some talented…

The mesmerizing traffic of the Panama Canal in a fascinating time lapse

I can watch this time-lapse video of the Panama Canal’s ship traffic forever. Up, down, up, down—so mesmerizing. Here is a first person angle: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

What From Your Youth Are You Most Nostalgic For?

Sometimes we miss things because they were better, and sometimes we miss things simply because they’re gone. Today we want to know what things gone by you’re most nostalgic for. Maybe you miss the car you used to drive, a candy that’s no longer made, or the clothes you wore. Or maybe you miss the…

Citizen Science Helped Us Understand More About The Adorable Olinguito

It was just a year ago when the world first formally met the olinguito. The discovery of the creature – the first mammal discovered in the Americas in 35 years – made it the smallest member of the family that includes raccoons, coatis, kinkajous and olingos. Thanks to crowdsourcing, we now know a whole lot…

Evernote’s New Desk Organizers Keep Your Physical Stuff Tidy Too

Evernote has been helping you organize your digital world for a while, and now it has a little more to offer as far as your desk is concerned; it’s just added a whole new line of desk organizers to its offerings. The Pheiffer Collection was designed by furniture maker Eric Pfeiffer in collaboration with Evernote’s…

A Google Image Search Bug Is Flooding Results With a Russian Car Crash

Some lucky Google image searchers this morning have been met with a few rows of normal results, followed by many many more rows of the same image of a car crash in Russia. Jalopnik has the full rundown below. https://jalopnik.com/has-google-images-been-hacked-to-show-a-russian-car-cra-1626862262

This Personality Test Is Creative Writing In Disguise

The Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank can tell you what you’re like in 40 sentences, most of which will be written by you. The responses to very short prompts are scored according to how positive or negative they are. (I wish they had some scoring guidelines for how sarcastic they are, though.) Complete the following sentences:…

Build Your Own Adorably Tiny Arcade Cabinet With This DIY Kit

If arcades were part of your childhood, you’ve probably yearned for a cabinet of your own for playing classics like Pac-Man or Galaga. The only downside is they’re not exactly portable, here’s a better solution. This arcade cabinet stands just eight inches tall, so you can carry it anywhere, and it uses a Raspberry Pi…

Candles That Light Themselves Mean No Match-Hunting on Birthdays

Birthdays are as much about celebrating someone as they are a desperate attempt to find a book of matches or a working lighter to secretly get the candles on a birthday cake lit. But that mad hunt for fire could be a thing of the past if these self-lighting Match Candles ever become a reality.…

What Does A Major Potential Guest Star Tell Us About Captain America 3?

Jeremy Renner says there’s been “rumblings” of him appearing in Captain America 3. Ridley Scott doesn’t know when Prometheus 2 will get made, but he does have scripts for that, Blade Runner 2, and The Martian. Arrow begins filming Felicity’s story. And new photos showing the return of the Daleks to Doctor Who. Spoilers now!…

9 Failed Designs That Would Have Changed Times Square Forever

Times Square is one big, incredible machine that has the sweet caress of capitalism to thank for its success as much as it does careful city planning. However, when the area was famously filthy in 1984, New York City contemplated a major intervention that would’ve changed the landscape of Midtown profoundly. The intervention itself never…

Xerox’s Robot Printer Brings Your Documents Right To You

The one advantage to the paperless office being nowhere in sight is that every time you print something you get to leave your desk and waste time while wandering over to the copy room. At least until Fuji Xerox’s robot printer concept that delivers printed documents right to your desk becomes commonplace. Thanks to an…

New Oculus Rift game allows you to train like a real Jedi

Without a doubt, the Oculus Rift will be the be-all and end-all of our most cherished nerd fantasies (until the holodeck comes.) Example: This game to train like Luke Skywalker in Star Wars—a remote floats around you firing stun blasts that you have to deflect with your lightsaber. The video is a demo of a…

The World Health Organization Wants to Ban E-Cigarettes Indoors

The World Health Organization has published a report today which argues for stiff regulation of electronic cigarettes—and calls for a ban on their use indoors. The report also demands that restrictions be placed on advertising and the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, as well as highlighting the need for regulations on their contents. The news…