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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Death by Digital

Pull up those leg warmers and comb out your Selleck-stache, we’re about to take a bitchin’ ride down to Nostalgia Town with this homageriffic supercut of the best action the ’80’s (and 1991 for some reason) had to offer.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Here’s what the Winter Olympics looked like more than 80 years ago

I think ice skating at Rockefeller during the holidays looks more professional than this. But hey it was Lake Placid, NY, USA in 1932 and it was only the third Winter Olympics and what they were doing was probably groundbreaking stuff. There were only 4 sports! 14 events! 17 countries! 252 athletes! It’s like going…

Sploid Casey Chan

Edward Snowden Got a Bunch of NSA Info By Stealing a Coworker’s Password

It’s fun to imagine the spy games that must have been involved in Edward Snowden’s exposure of the NSA’s massively invasive surveillance techniques. But, as NBC reports, a lot of that information came the way you might snoop on your significant others’ email: He stole some poor sap’s password. The report cites a recently revealed…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Comcast Is Buying Time Warner Cable to Make Big Cable Even Worse

Time Warner Cable is getting swallowed by the only monster bigger than itself: Comcast. That means the biggest cable provider, Comcast, is buying the second biggest cable provider, Time Warner Cable, to form a ridiculously ginormous cable company that’ll deliver unsatisfying service under one iron fist. We should all hold each other as big cable…

Tech News Casey Chan

Can you find the sniper hiding with camouflage in this picture?

No? It’s okay, I couldn’t find him either. I tried really hard too but I’d just be a walking dead person by now if I stumbled across this field in real life because the sniper that’s hiding would have no problem mowing me down. He’s super close. No, not there. There. VICE posted an excellent…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Story of Star Wars Hand-Stitched into a 30-foot Bayeux Tapestry

Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, Aled Lewis cross-stitched “The Coruscant Tapestry,” a 30’x13″ visual retelling of the six Star Wars films with Aurebesh script surrounding the borders. “The Coruscant Tapestry” is currently on display at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles as part of Lewis’ Just Pixels solo show, and the folks at the gallery say…

io9 Lauren Davis

This unbelievably ripped 70-year-old man is not a cyborg (I think)

Holy cow. Now this is how you take care of your body. And this is how you live your life. And this is how you maximize your potential. Meet Sam ‘Sonny’ Bryant Jr. He’s a 70-year-old bodybuilder who doesn’t look a day over 40 and has a ridiculously ripped body that puts everyone younger than…

Sploid Casey Chan

Here’s what a Martian space elevator might actually look like

By the turn of the 23rd Century, our founding Martian colonies will be so large and developed we’ll be able to see them from space, providing a spectacular view as visitors ride down on the Tharsis Space Elevator. Titled “The Space Elevator to Mars — Descent At Dusk,” this is a stunning new piece of…

io9 George Dvorsky

Seeing people windsurf through a hurricane is like seeing people fly

You know how most people stay indoors when they hear a hurricane is coming? Yeah, these aren’t those people. These crazy guys go out in the ocean and chase the storm with their windsurf boards so that they can fly. Just look at the awesome dude above getting ridiculously big air. It’s like he doesn’t…

Sploid Casey Chan

Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay

People loooove getting hoodwinked by close-up magic, and Ricky Jay is a straight-up wizard at the art of sleight of hand. Watching him handle a deck is like seeing someone for whom playing cards are a part of the body—as though handling them is the most natural thing in the world. Deceptive Practice is a…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

The ISS will soon be outfitted with a “Laser Cannon”

What’s a space station without a laser cannon? The International Space Station will be getting its very own laser at the end of 2014. And unlike the planet-smashing capabilities of the Death Star of Star Wars fame, this laser will to be enlisted for the purpose of science. Above: CATS in the laboratory. Credit: NASA/GSFC.…

io9 David Dickinson – Universe Today

Possibly the greatest rap song about Pokémon ever written

I am so glad that this exists. Not just for Pokémon fans, but for the good of the universe. This sketch, called Pokéballer, was written by Alice Moran and directed by Mike Fly for the Second City Network. See more of their videos on YouTube!

io9 Annalee Newitz

Here’s how much stronger carbon fiber is compared to steel in one GIF

What you’re looking at is a carbon fiber drive shaft and a steel drive shaft being twisted with force until they break. As you can see in this torque test between the two, the carbon fiber shaft doesn’t budge (that’s not a still image, folks) while the steel shaft cork screws itself and becomes deformed…

Sploid Casey Chan

Build your own map of The Kingdom of Eliphaz from Knights of Badassdom

LARP comedy Knights of Badassdom (which we enjoyed despite the rumors of editing hackery) is releasing a piece-by-piece map of the fictional Kingdom of Eliphaz. And here’s another section to the puzzle. To check out the rest of the growing map, head over to Knights of Badassdom website.

Movies Meredith Woerner

A Map of Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede, Where We Might Be Able to Live

One day, poor planet Earth will succumb to the centuries of abuse we’ve dealt her, shrivel up, and cease to support life. Then, if we’re not already living in some Elysium-like habitat in space, we’ll have to find a new home. Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede, might just be it. Ganymede with its underground ocean and rocky…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes

Sex-Changing Frogs, Corn Espionage, and a Time-Traveling Greenhouse

Rising and falling in this week’s landscape news: the rise of artificial snow and the fall of a Chinese agricultural spy, the rise of corn and the fall of male frogs. The End of Ski Resorts? All right, let’s get the laughs about snow and Sochi out first. While the Russian city can probably hoard…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

One of the remote-controlled Lost World dinosaurs actually bit an actor

In the second Jurassic Park movie, a pack of tiny Compsognathus swarm Peter Stormare’s character, Dieter Stark. Apparently, even the remote-controlled puppet versions of these Compies were vicious little critters; some were designed to actually bite Stormare’s lip. Stan Winston Studio posted this video of how they accomplished the Compy attack, and it’s a great…

Movies Lauren Davis

How a Pressure Cooker Can Turn Up the Heat on Your Valentine’s Dinner

Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to make a restaurant-caliber meal at home—especially if you just realized it’s on Friday and there are no good dinner reservations left. Modernist cooking enlists techniques that require less active time cooking, while still producing rich flavors—just the sort of thing needed to create a memorable dinner that you…

Tech News Modernist Cuisine

Korean police training is absolutely ridiculous

I don’t know what the hell is going on here. Maybe this is the normal training of all special forces in the world. It just looks ridiculous to me. Check out the video and you tell me in the comments. Watch these with a Benny Hill soundtrack: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Graphene’s Newest Trick Is Fighting Deadly Blood Clots

Man, graphene is shaping up to be a real wonder-material (if it can make it out of the lab and into the real world). Chalk up another future use: a coating that eliminates blood clotting in medical devices by kickstarting the body’s natural clot-fighting mechanism that lasts way longer than anti-clotting drugs. Cool! In a…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Death by Digital

Here’s what the Winter Olympics looked like more than 80 years ago

Edward Snowden Got a Bunch of NSA Info By Stealing a Coworker’s Password

Comcast Is Buying Time Warner Cable to Make Big Cable Even Worse

Can you find the sniper hiding with camouflage in this picture?

The Story of Star Wars Hand-Stitched into a 30-foot Bayeux Tapestry

This unbelievably ripped 70-year-old man is not a cyborg (I think)

Here’s what a Martian space elevator might actually look like

Seeing people windsurf through a hurricane is like seeing people fly

Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay

The ISS will soon be outfitted with a “Laser Cannon”

Possibly the greatest rap song about Pokémon ever written

Here’s how much stronger carbon fiber is compared to steel in one GIF

Build your own map of The Kingdom of Eliphaz from Knights of Badassdom

A Map of Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede, Where We Might Be Able to Live

Sex-Changing Frogs, Corn Espionage, and a Time-Traveling Greenhouse

One of the remote-controlled Lost World dinosaurs actually bit an actor

How a Pressure Cooker Can Turn Up the Heat on Your Valentine’s Dinner

Korean police training is absolutely ridiculous

Graphene’s Newest Trick Is Fighting Deadly Blood Clots

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