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JL8 creator Yale Stewart is writing a series of Superman kids’ books

One of the best things to come out of the DC Universe recently is Yale Stewart’s touching and funny fan webcomic JL8, which imagines the members of the Justice League as eight-year-olds. Soon Stewart will have a series of licensed DC children’s books on the shelves: The Amazing Adventures of Superman. Stewart posted an image…

Our Efficient New Skyscrapers Are Raining Chunks of Ice Down On Us

On a particularly cold, sunny day recently, thousands of people arriving in Lower Manhattan were forced to reroute their commute—because huge slivers of ice were cracking off of the One World Trade Center and plunging hundreds of feet down onto the street. And the WTC isn’t alone. Last year, Tokyo’s new, 1,900-foot Sky Tree Tower…

We say hell yes to this Knight Rider movie with Danny McBride

Finally a Knight Rider remake we can get behind. Chris Pratt and Danny McBride could be teaming up to bring back the series all about some bro and his talking car. Love it. Schmoes Know is reporting that Chris Pratt and Danny McBride are in talks for a Knight Rider remake. They go on to…

Shooting Challenge: Fisheye

Fish are lucky. Because they get to see 180 degrees or so at once. Photographers can do the same using fisheye lenses (or cheating it with a filter). So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re all going fishing. The Challenge Take a photo with a fisheye lens or simulate one with a post-production app/filter. The…

The Most Insane Moments from Robocop: The TV Series

Robocop has fought crime in four movies and a slew of comic books — but meanwhile, he’s also had a pretty wild ride on television. The cyborg lawman starred in a “family friendly” 1990s TV show and a 2001 miniseries, which pushed him to places the movies never contemplated. Here are Robocop’s craziest moments on…

Listen to Hieronymus Bosch’s 500-Year-Old Butt Song From Hell

In any other painting, a naked butt tattooed with a musical score would be the first thing you’d notice. But it’s just another detail in Hieronymus Bosch’s masterpiece, The Garden of Earthly Delights—which explains why it’s taken someone 500 years to try to play it. Bosch’s famous painting is a triptych that depicts heaven, earth,…

A Single Night of Sex on This Luxury Hotel Submarine Costs $390,000

Well here’s a new option for the wealthy tourist who’s seen it all. No, it’s not a trip to space. It’s not a floating hotel room or even a wild safari. It’s a luxury submarine—an underwater palace built for a Bond villain that can be yours for the weekend. But it’ll cost you. https://gizmodo.com/this-floating-hotel-room-comes-with-an-underwater-fish-1465177811 British…

The Ultimate Whale Watching Vessel Isn’t a Boat—It’s a Satellite

Whale watching: you’re out there on the water with salt spray in your face and wind in your hair, waiting for a gigantic sea mammal to surface and do something splashy. It seems like a touristy thing to do, but scientists actually track whale populations from that very same vantage point. Sea level’s cool and…

Your Choice Of 4K Monitors, GoPro, Game Of Thrones [Deals]

Reasonably priced name brand 4KTVs may still be on the horizon, but affordable 4K monitors are quickly coming within our grasp. This 28″ Dell 4K Monitor is down to $560 today, and a great deal if you’re dying to get 4K on your desk. [Dell] The 31.5″ ASUS is decidedly more expensive at $2700, but…

This is NASA’s new giant crawler for its next-generation spaceship

Things keep moving at the Kennedy Space Center in preparation for the first mission of NASA’s Space Launch System and its Orion spacecraft in 2017. The crawler-transporter just passed “the first phase of an important milestone test.” The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program completed testing of new traction roller bearings on crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2),…

Escape Your Winter Nightmare In These Five Perfect Dream Houses

If you’re somehow not sick of winter yet, then you’re sick of hearing other people complain about it. And there’s at least another month of this crap in our future. So sit back, relax, and let Jesus Diaz take you on a calming ride through the world’s best beach houses.

This is what a 40-year-old fetus inside a 80-year-old woman looks like

Doctors have found a 44-year-old fetus inside the body of an 84-year-old Brazilian woman. But surprisingly, this isn’t the first instance of a “stone baby” discovery. Above is a picture of a 40-year-old fetus, found in an 82-year-old Colombia woman last December. Here are two reasons to never get pregnant. In the case of the…

New Teleconverter Will Give Your Fujifilm X100s a Longer Lens

That little camera that everyone seems to love, the Fujifilm X100s, is getting a new accessory that will extend the camera’s 35mm (equivalent) lens to 50mm, making it a bit more versatile and delightful. Images of the new teleconverter were tweeted by Fujifilm UK during the CP+ show in Japan It sure looks like a…

You Can Finally Choose Custom Gender Options on Facebook

For the many who identify as neither male nor female, Facebook has finally heard you. Starting today, those using Facebook in U.S. English will be able to select a custom gender field with no less than 10 different identification terms. Done in collaboration with GLAAD, the new feature doesn’t just let you identify as transgender,…

New York fought the 1947 snowpocalypse with flamethrowers

The folks over at The Daily News compiled an amazing gallery of New York City snowpocalypse photographs from past decades. It was a simpler time when snowdrifts were melted with flamethrowers, back in 1947. An abandoned train on an elevated pass in Third Avenue. Here are some firefighters trying to “free up equipment completely encrusted…

This Beautiful Floating Bungalow Is the Perfect Jungle Hideout

Eager for an escape? You might consider Sri Lanka, that ancient island off the coast of mainland India that’s not nearly as dangerous as it used to be. If you’re not interested in ancient statues of Buddha, you might just want to rent this beautiful jungle bungalow. Designed by Narein Perera and built in 2010,…

SanDisk Just Made the Fastest 4K-Slinging SD Card Yet

SanDisk just announced an absurdly fast card that can go almost three times faster than the previous champ. Why do you need all that horsepower? To chomp 4K video, of course. 4K, the next standard for ultra-high definition video, requires huge amounts of data to form the crystal clear images. For the newest breed of…

OK, it didn’t win the design competition, so this proposed radio tower will never be broadcasting over a city near you, but its harp-like cables and rings sure do make a cool structure in the sky. Designed by the London-based firm Architects of Invention for a site in Santiago de Chile, the tower would have…

Five perfect dream houses to escape this winter hell

The weather is miserable through the entire Western Hemisphere—a constant avalanche of steel grey, with cold snow and rain piling up in a soup of frozen sludge that is taking everyone down. It’s time to daydream in the face of this winter torment. Here are the perfect homes for your fantasy summer paradise. 1. Universe…

The girl from the 1981 Lego ad is now a doctor and still loves it

Remember the stereotype-busting, heartwarming 1981 Lego ad featuring an adorable Lego-loving (gasp!) little girl? Well, her name is Rachel Giordano and she’s all grown up,working as a naturopathic doctor in Seattle. She’s still gaga for Lego, she just doesn’t want a girly pink set. When the ad was shot, Giordano was five-years-old. She was given…