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Try not to get too excited about these Agent Carter TV series rumors

Please take this with an iceberg-sized grain of salt: The Mirror claims that Hayley Atwell has signed the lead role and is moving to Los Angeles to film that rumored Agent Carter TV series to premiere later this year. As much as I would love this to be true, I’m pretty sure it isn’t. See,…

The U.S. Northeast’s gigantic snow storm as seen from space

The NOAA has released a satellite photo of the massive storm that’s currently wreaking havoc across the U.S. northeast. It’s a bad one folks, with snow accumulation reaching one to two feet in some areas and temperatures dropping as low as -13F (-25C). Some 2,300 flights have already been cancelled, with hundreds more likely to…

Move Over, Virtual Reality: Is Mixed Reality the Future?

Virtual Reality has promised big since the 80s, but never quite delivered in the way many of us hoped it would. Now, though, a new form of augmented reality called Mixed Reality hopes to up the game. New Scientist reports that researchers from University College London have modified an Oculus Rift headset to combine real-time…

Is the next Marvel One-Shot going to be all about Loki?

A Captain America: Winter Soldier writer explains why Cap has no character arc of his own. The Walking Dead has a new poster. And new Dracula photos show the show getting its corpse on. Plus, new photos from Arrow and Tomorrow People. Spoilers now! Captain America: The Winter Soldier Co-writer Christopher Markus explained that Captain…

This Is the Sticker That Should Really Be on Your New Computer

Because this. [Bruce Sterling via Boing Boing]

Watch Mars Curiosity’s clever wheels and suspension system in action

In case there was any doubt, the engineers at JPL did an amazing job: Just look at how the the Mars Curiosity Rover deals with the red planet’s bumpy terrainin this time-lapse GIF, taken from the Left Navcam pointed down at the wheels in motion.

DreamWorks Dreamtab: A $300 Android Tab for Kids Full of Cool Content

DreamWorks has teamed up with hardware manufacturer Fuhu to produce an Android tablet specifically for kids, which will be regularly updated with exclusive content from the animation studio. The announcement, made in the New York Times, reveals that an 8-inch tablet will cost “under $300” and be available in spring, with a 12-inch version “also…

Rumor: YouTube Will Debut Low-Bandwidth 4K Streaming Next Week

Watching 4K video is wonderful and all, but with streaming increasingly popular and data caps largely still in place, it also still seems impractical. Not for long, though, if rumors of YouTube’s latest schemes are to be believed. A report by GigaOM claims that YouTube will demonstrate a new 4K streaming technology at CES next…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Free Fall Suspension

So apparently there’s a world record for bungee jumping with the base of the bungee cord embedded into the flesh of your back. To set it, you’ve just got to top this guy’s record-setting 170 meter base jump and not have the hooks tear out.

First Veronica Mars trailer fills us with squee

It’s the first trailer for the Veronica Mars movie, and things are looking damn good. Of course there’s a ten-year high school reunion, and of course bad boy Logan is involved in a murder scandal. And Veronica is kicking ass. Everybody is in this trailer — all your favorite characters from the show, including ones…

Hilarious guy recreates famous movie scenes with a dog

How do you top a couple that recreates movie scenes with their adorable baby? By recreating famous scenes with a dog. Yeah, it’s beautiful inspired work that should make us all want to grab our pet best friend in a warm embrace like Gosling did to McAdams. Redditor user mmsspp is the awesome guy in…

How Daft Punk made One More Time from a sample they say they never used

One more time. Even if you wear earplugs, turn off the radio and stay away from noisy clubs, you know Daft Punk’s song ‘One More Time’. It’s one of those songs that seems to be inserted into the memory of every human who has existed since the year 2000. Here, EDM producer Sadowick Production reveals…

This swarming horde of black stealth fighter jets is not a movie scene

We’re not preparing to fight the aliens. This isn’t a scene from Independence Day 2. It’s just a throwback photo of 25—yes, twenty five—Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk black stealth fighter jets celebrating its 25th anniversary back in 2006. What a beautifully intimidating celebration of power it was. According to The Aviationist, the jets flew over Heritage…

In a special article for the Washington Post Dr. [Thomas E.] Phipps used a series of analytical formulas based largely on past history and population growth to show “by the present calculations, the number of presidential assassinations will by the year 2014 reach one on the average of every four years.” — UPI White House…

How Corpses Helped Shape the London Underground

As Mexico City archaeologists sort through the surreal array of Aztec sacrificial skulls recently uncovered while excavating their city’s subway system, it’s worth remembering that parts of the London Underground were also tunneled, blasted, picked, and drilled through a labyrinth of plague pits and cemeteries. In her excellent and morbidly fascinating book Necropolis: London and…

The alien’s eyes are almost obscured by dark goggles

You might think you’re dealing with a human, but hold its gaze for just a few extra seconds. You see? Those flat, black orbs reveal everything you need to know. These images are from a series called “Residual Self Image,” by Martin Rinman. Rinman is an artist and photographer in Sweden, and you can see…

Record the Sound of Ice in a Glass and Make Something of It

Disquiet Junto Project 0105: Ice for 2014. Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. Tracks by participants…

Watch a sailfish try to bludgeon fish bait to death with its spear

It sounds brutal and horrible and cruel but it’s actually kind of adorable. In the video, you see a sailfish—perhaps one of the most fascinating creatures of the ocean—chase down fish bait attached to a boat and try to smack the bait silly with its spear-like bill. The sailfish doesn’t succeed but he goes a…

Bucky Fuller’s Forgotten WWII Shelters Rediscovered In New Jersey

Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Deployment Unit—an emergency shelter developed during WWII—isn’t his most well-known work. In fact, for years, it’s been unclear if any DDUs still existed. But this week, The New York Timestells the story of a handful of shelters that have resurfaced, after being abandoned on an army base just 30 miles outside of…

Which remake completely misses the point of the original?

We’re in the middle of remake fever, with classic films getting remade at a blinding rate. But sometimes, creators try to hard to put their own stamp on a property — and completely miss what it was actually about. Which movie (or comic, or TV) remake or reboot loses a key point of the original?…