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What if Breaking Bad was all Hal from Malcolm in the Middle‘s dream?

Few people expected that Bryan Cranston would prove such a badass in Breaking Bad after playing Hal, the goofy dad from Malcolm in the Middle. In this sketch, we learn the truth: that Walter White’s entire story was just Hal’s nightmare. This “alternate ending” for Breaking Bad takes a page from Newhart’s playbook, recasting the…

How Morphine Made My Pandora a Baffled, Incoherent Mess

Earlier today, I revealed how music suggesting algorithms have never, ever worked for me. Believe me, I tried. But when I saw how Pandora fumbled with this song, I gave up on streaming music algorithms entirely. https://gizmodo.com/do-music-and-movie-suggestion-algorithms-get-you-1465640784 Morphine was anachronistic in their time, layering crooning vocals, slide bass and baritone sax into velvet smoke while…

His Time Lord’s Voice

Although K-9 would call the Doctor “master” no matter what shape he wore, it was the Fourth Doctor’s voice that always made his programming flutter. A Doctor Who tribute by madaigual. His Master’s Voice [madaigual via Neatorama]

Now You Don’t Have To Shut Off Your Electronics on European Flights

After last month’s hugely celebrated decision by the United States FAA to overturn the personal electronics ban on flights, Europe’s EASA has come to a similar decision. The Guardian reports that by December, passengers on European flights will no longer have to turn off their cellphones, e-readers, or laptops, though larger devices will need to…

What is Haven like without its Troubles?

Actually, it’s pretty nice, if a bit on the snobby side. Last night, Audrey traveled to an alternate Haven universe and learned what her friends’ lives would be like without the Troubles. Well, if there’s one thing that we’ve learned from this episode, “The Trouble with Troubles,” it’s that there’s no upside to the Troubles.…

You Probably Shouldn’t Eat This Creepy, Cryogenically “Cooked” Egg

Gizmodo’s mad scientist Brent Rose had some super-cold (minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit) cryogenic fluid left over from yesterday’s Happy Hour experiment making booze into cryo-spheres. So he did what any mad scientist would do: cracked an egg in it! Watch the weirdness that transpires. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-make-alcoholic-cryospheres-because-we-can-1465349489 The end result looks like something out of Alien. Brent…

Gorgeously animated Walking with Dinosaurs ads with dino fun facts

The latest series of video ads for the upcoming movie Walking with Dinosaurs shows off the myriad animated beasts trotting, flying, and stomping through the film. It also shares so quick factoids about its prehistoric stars. Walking with Dinosaurs hits theaters on December 20th. I almost can’t wait for it to come out on home…

Great: Cancer-Causing Compound From Cigarettes Found in Fried Foods

More bad news from the FDA. Turns out frying, baking or roasting certain foods causes the formation of acrylamide, a carcinogen found in cigarette smoke. Why does death always have to taste so good? The pesky thing here is, acrylamide formation is pretty much unavoidable during these types of high-temperature cooking. It turns out, the…

London Will Soon Have Fifth Element Style MultiPass For Public Transit

All of a sudden, it’s the 23rd Century. The UK’s government innovation board has just approved funding to begin implementing an all-in-one train/bus/subway/airline pass in 2014. And yes, they actually named it MultiPass after the thing from the Bruce Willis movie. The plan revolves around a passcard with an e-ink barcode display that would replace…

The Legend of Korra ends a rocky season on a powerful note

Nickelodeon surprised fans by releasing the entire Legend of Korra finale last night, giving us two hours of Avatar goodness. And while the final episodes did a lot to highlight the flaws of this season, it tied up several of the characters’ arcs on a satisfying note and finally gave Korra a deed worthy of…

AMC may finally be bringing Preacher to television

What is going to fill the television-viewing hole left by Breaking Bad? It may very well be a TV adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s foul-mouthed, blasphemous, supernatural road comic Preacher. It’s unconfirmed by the network (s0 best taken with a grain of salt), but Badass Digest is reporting that AMC has ordered a…

Someday, Doctors May Test Circulation With Blood-Boiling Sonic Blasts

Currently, doctors use ultrasound to measure blood flow in the body. Doppler effect, just like bats! But it can’t detect flow in the small, slow-moving vessels where diseases often start. The solution? Sonic blasts that heat up a tiny drop of blood, then watch where it goes. Science! While this might sound like a comic…

Flying is fun. Here’s a Turkish F-16 diving and rolling while firing flares.

Do Music and Movie Suggestion Algorithms “Get” You?

I pretty much universally hate streaming music services. They all promise to broaden my horizons, analyzing my tastes to bring me music I never knew I couldn’t live with out. They can all go to hell. My typical algorithm-driven streaming music experience goes like this: I’ll punch in a song, or artist, or whatever, that…

Concept Art Writing Prompt: A Boy in the Hall of Hearts

A boy stumbles into a chamber where dozens upon dozens of hearts are being kept. Is it the lair of a romantic mad scientist? Or has the boy stumbled upon a host of extra lives? This pieces is by concept artist Brun Croes, via Concept Art World. Incidentally, Croes recently released a video tutorial, Sketch…

The entire alphabet, photographed on butterfly wings

Nature photographer Kjell Bloch Sandved has amassed a massive collection of butterfly and moth wings, capturing a host of unusual patterns. Using those patterns, he has assembled entire butterfly alphabets. This is just one of Sandved’s alphabets; he has a second butterfly alphabet and a more varied nature alphabet. He has posters of the alphabets…

​Grimm examines the worrying problem of fundamentalist fish-men

I feel weird saying that the best Grimm of season 3 is the one about fundamentalist fishmen, but here we are. It’s just another case of the week with virtually nothing else going on, but at least it moves fast enough to be enjoyable. We begin as four teens have sexy fun times by a…

Radical ’80s Malls, Panorama Camera Balls, iPad Mini’s New Screen, More

Feast your eyes! From a photographic flashback to the days of hair metal, to a brand-new iPad Mini that finally satisfies your eyes, this week’s best stories were all about the visuals. Give your peepers a quick Cliff’s Notes of our best stories this week. Retina iPad Mini Review: A Sight for Sore Eyes Last…

The SF Chronicle published a special Gotham-themed Batkid edition

Yesterday, the Make-a-Wish foundation and the city of San Francisco brought tears to our eyes by enabling five-year-old Miles to play Batkid for a day. The San Francisco Chronicle got in on the act, printing a Gotham City Chronicle front page for the occasion. https://jezebel.com/afternoon-cry-bat-kid-will-make-your-cold-black-heart-1465351191 Apparently, the Batkid page was so popular that the Chronicle…

This Photo From Space Makes Earth Look Like an Oil Painting

Astronaut Mike Hopkins tweeted this picture last night, taken from the International Space Station. Pretty cool, huh? It looks more like an oil painting of a tiger than the surface of what we call a “blue” planet. Just more proof that everything looks cooler from space. https://gizmodo.com/even-the-sunrise-is-out-of-this-world-on-the-iss-1461586226