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Holy Crap, Orphan Black‘s Season Finale Changes Everything

Orphan Black promised to open up a new chapter in the cloning conspiracy—and boy, did it pay off on that promise. We’re more excited than ever to see what’s ahead for Clone Club, and a brand-new faction in the Orphan Black world. We open in Siobhan’s home, with Felix still drugged and feeling guilty about…

Star Wars Recut Like Guardians Of The Galaxy Is All Kinds of Wonderful

Some mashups just work. A few of them really, really work. This is an example of the latter. YouTuber The Unusual Suspect took footage from the original Star Wars trilogy and repackaged it in the style of the first few GotG trailers. It’s a little unreal how mimicking the latter’s action-packed visual comedy while applying…

Star Wars Now Has a Slick Guardians of the Galaxy-Style Trailer

And now for something awesome. Just in time for the new Guardians of the Galaxy movie coming out in August, YouTuber The Unusual Suspect has released a GotG-style trailer… for Star Wars! It’s amazing how well it works, and in a roundabout way makes me even more excited for Guardians of the Galaxy. Enjoy! [Twitter]

This Reaction Makes an Explosive Chemical Snake

We’ve all seen test-tube reactions that overflow in long snakes, but this one is so quick it’s like someone used a jump-cut on a film. The resulting foam has been studied by NASA for its fire-resistant properties. Too bad it takes sulfuric acid to make the stuff. Welcome to io9’s Word of the Day. Today’s…

A Map That Shows Which States Are Xbox One and Which Are PS4

The XBOX One is beating the PS4 — at least on Facebook, if not in sales numbers. A map published by the Movoto Blog takes a look at the popularity of current-gen consoles in every state in the United States based on the number of Facebook likes. The results are surprising: The XBOX One was…

This Weekend In 1984 Was An Incredible One For Movies

1984 was a great year for movies in general, but this weekend thirty years ago was especially noteworthy. The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man’s facts check out. Other big years for cinema? 1977. 1994. 1999. Personally, 1993 has always stood out in my mind; I used to think it was a microgenerational thing, but it looks…

Are You Using Facebook’s Slingshot?

Slingshot is Facebook’s second attempt at trying to jump onto the ephemeral messaging bandwagon. It’s basically a mashup of the disastrous Poke and Snapchat but with a twist – to unlock a message you’ve received, you need to send one back. If you’ve tried it, you’ll know that at best, this is a chore. At…

A Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes/Celine Dion Fanvid For The Ages

If you watch one video today about the long, anguished relationship between Steve Rogers and James “Bucky” Barnes set to Celine Dion’s sweeping soft-rock power ballad “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,” by the gods, let it be this one. Trust us on this one. Press play. Shhhhhhhhhhhh… Shhhhh… Just press play. [MeFi]

More than Half of Heartbleed-Vulnerable Servers Are Still Exposed

Over 300,000 servers out of the 600,000 that were vulnerable to Heartbleed are still unpatched two months after the nasty vulnerability in OpenSSL was discovered by a Google engineer. The numbers were announced by security researcher Robert David Graham who found that although half of the 600,00 servers were patched a month after Heartbleed was…

A New Mantra, ‘Follow the Methane,’ May Advance Search For Alien Life

Astronomers have developed a powerful new tool that could boost the search for extraterrestrial life. Above: Extrasolar planet HD189733b rises from behind its star in this artist’s concept. The new work presented here shows this planet has 20 times more methane than previously thought. Image Credit: ESA To date, that search has been largely limited…

Designing a Deca-millennium Warning System

Symbols change meaning over time, so how do you set up a warning system to warn people off of living near nuclear waste repositories for 10,000 years or more? A radio show on design, 99% Invisible, tackles the problem, outlining the limitations and proposed solutions. The whole history of ideas is fascinating, but one of…

Famous characters look more badass with cool beards on them

Vanja Mrgan has imagined what different famous characters would look like with beards. From Robocop to He-Man to Batman to Wario to Popeye to Porky Pig to Boba Fett to Snoo—Reddit’s alien mascot—they all look quite cool. Some even better than the real thing (like Popeye, Wario, and even Batman!) Vanja Mrgan is a brilliant…

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: God’s Crazy Monsters

Hey kids, let’s go down to the museum where you can see how back in ancient times people used to ride around on dinosaurs! It’ll be fun and educational! In case you missed it, here’s all the big comedy stuff that happened this week: Playing House and Louie both aired their season finales. We reviewed…

Jake Doesn’t Handle Being Rich Well On This Week’s Adventure Time

I’m not sure why I haven’t been leading every recap with the wonderful episode art each week, but we’ll just pretend I always have been. Anyway, “Furniture & Meat” was a pretty solid episode despite not having much to do with this season’s story. It does, however, finally address that boatload of gold Finn and…

Watching desperate polar bears searching for ice is truly heartbreaking

This beautiful video shows something terrible: How polar bears now have to swim for incredibly long distanceslooking for ice to hunt their prey without being seen. Many of them drown. Some get back to land and die later, exhausted and starved. All thanks to the collapse of the northern ice sheets. According to NOAA, NASA,…

ISS Astronauts Make the Best Vines, Everyone Else Just Give Up

Astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this Vine a few days ago from the International Space Station. It’s so beautiful, it makes me want to delete my Vine app. Because I know I’ll never even come close to this beauty. Wiseman’s an excellent tweeter to follow. He’s been on a real photography kick lately, tweeting out absolutely…

Mayer Hawthorne: Maybe So, Maybe No

Today’s the first day of summer, and the longest day of the year, and a Saturday. The perfect combination of elements for spending the day roaming around, casual and aimless. No pressure, no rush. To me, this is the soundtrack for that kind of day. Sharp-eared listeners and Motown fans know this is a cover…

This 360° Panoramic Time-lapse Of The Night Sky Is Incredible

Astrophotographer Vincent Brady rigged up four – four – DSLR cameras, each equipped with a fish-eye lens, into a filming contraption of his own design so he could capture the footage required for this gobstopping 360° panoramic time-lapse of the night sky. “Beautiful” doesn’t begin to describe it. Brady’s four-minute time-lapse reminds us a lot…

The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

What’s most notable about Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is that the epic science fiction adventure was made using old-school practical special effects, well before computer graphics became a staple of the film industry. So when someone like Taschen releases a four-volume book set detailing the film’s production, you just know it will be…

Pocketnow saysApple’s forthcoming iWatch will come in two styles: “Sports,” rectangular with a rubber strap, and “Designer,” round and stainless steel. Pocketnow says both models are “hard to distinguish” from a regular watch—which seems unlikely with a 2.5 inch face we reported last week. [Pocketnow]