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Community is making another Dungeons & Dragons episode, huzzah!

Get ready for the return of Bing Bong the Archer, Hector the Well-Endowed and Marrr. Community is making another Dungeons & Dragons episode! With special guest star David Cross! Which is hilarious considering NBC tried to kill the original beautiful episode before it aired. https://gizmodo.com/did-you-hear-about-the-time-nbc-tried-to-kill-community-5810498 “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons,” is hands down one of our…

A Reincarnation Story, Stunningly Told

Face paint and stop-motion are combined to beautiful effect in Ruby, a fantastically imaginative portrayal of life, death and rebirth. London-based artist Emma Allen calls her 75-second short “an animated self-portrait exploring the idea of rebirth and illustrating the transfer of energy from one incarnation to another.” Allen created the animation over the course of…

Scratch Your Own Drawing Into This Giant Virtual Moon

Only 12 people have ever made a mark on the surface of the Moon, but a new project by Olafur Eliasson and Ai Weiwei is inviting everyone on the internet to make a mark on the big wheel of cheese—or its digital equivalent, at least. The project, called Moon, is an interactive website where anyone…

Skeptical climate blog shamefully downplays Super Typhoon Haiyan

Before the numbers were even in, the science denialist blog Watts Up With That began downplaying the size, strength, wind speeds, overall effects — and even death toll of Super Typhoon Haiyan — a ferocious storm that may have claimed as many as 10,000 lives. https://gizmodo.com/welcome-to-the-age-of-the-superstorm-1460773814 Above: Super Typhoon Haiyan as seen from space. Credit:…

This Driving, Flying, and Swimming Drone Is a Real-Life Transformer

If you bumped into your eight-year-old self on the street and told him that actual Transformers would walk—fly, crawl, and swim—the planet within his lifetime, your eight-year-old self’s head would probably explode. But shape-shifting autonomous robots are exactly what’s in the works at the Sandia National Laboratory. The lab’s Intelligent Systems, Robotics and Cybernetics unit…

Watch Lady Gaga floating around in a flying dress like a freaking drone

Here’s Lady Gaga floating over a stage in a ridiculously cool and absurd flying dress made with fiberglass and six propellers. It’s a world’s first—just like her steak dress. She calls it Volantis. According to Deezeen, the dress was designed by “London company Studio XO and TechHaus, the technology division of the star’s Haus of…

The zombies outside and the plague inside join forces on Walking Dead

For the first time since the pilot, I have legitimately been scared while watching an episode of The Walking Dead. What I thought was going to be a slow, potboiler kind-of-episode — which would have been fine after four strong episodes in a row — slowly transformed into the tensest, most gripping life-or-death battle in…

This One Ad Sums Up Everything Wrong With Technology

A man misses his bus so that he can stare at his phone. A woman ignores a meeting so that she can stare at her phone. A man stays late after work so that… well, you get the point. No, this isn’t a cheeky indictment of our smartphone-obsessed culture. This is—somehow—a celebration of it. It’s…

Want a Moto X but have been holding out for pretty colors? Good news, Moto Maker customization is no longer exclusive to AT&T, and has now expanded to Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile as well. And now it’s only $100 on contract.

Which Fictional Character’s Style Do You Most Want to Steal?

Whether wearing a cape or a classic deerstalker cap, fictional characters always seem to have the best wardrobes. Today, we want to know which fictional character has the style that you most want to steal. Is it the fire-catching outfits and mad braiding skills of the citizens of Panem that you’re after? The slimming (yet…

Hide Your Messy Nest of Cables In This Neat Wood-Paneled Can

We all have one—that corner in your living room where the modem, the router, the surge protecter and friends live. It’s a mess. You can try to hide it behind the couch, or you can cover it with unread mail. Or, you could store everything in this handsome wooden container. It’s called the CableBin. As…

The only thing that makes this baby stop crying is the Star Wars theme

Well, because the only thing that makes him stop crying is the original Star Wars opening theme by John Williams. So unless you walk around screaming all day in misery until you too hear the Star Wars theme — which would be much less socially acceptable from an adult than an infant — then this…

A Guy Found a Dozen Lost Carl Sagan Tapes in a New York Thrift Shop

Carl Sagan was an inspirational figure to many of us, but he may not have had his last word just yet—because a dude on MetaFilter is claiming to have unearthed a box of his personal dictations on cassettes bought in a thrift store. Christopher Stangland claims to have picked up a box of unlabeled Sony…

The empire of sites in the Curbed family—including the Racked and Eater networks, dishing up fashion and food, respectively—have been bought by Vox Media for what’s described as “$20-$30 million in cash and stock.” Curbed, which has been dealing urban news, development gossip, and real estate porn since 2005 out of its base in New…

First Looks at Captain America‘s Agent 13 and SHIELD‘s Victoria Hand!

Plus check out some rumored Batman Vs. Superman art and find out who might be playing a major hero in that film. Bong Joon-ho’s talking about every cast member of Snowpiercer, Scott Gimple explains how Camus influenced this season of The Walking Dead and Cobie Smulders confirms that Maria Hill will be in Age of…

26 Stunning Cartoon Backdrops That Deserve To Be Hung on a Wall

Have you ever found yourself watching a cartoon and noticing the illustrations behind the characters? Those backgrounds can often be prettier than the action in the foreground. If only those pesky mice and long-nosed boys would get out of the way! If so, the upcoming Beverly Hills Animation Art Signature Auction is for you. On…

What The Soyuz Reentry Rollercoaster Looks Like From The Inside

European Space Agency posted this amazing–20+ minutes long but worth watching–video about how astronauts return home from the ISS in the Soyuz space capsule, with never before seen inside footage. This video is based on an actual lesson delivered to the ESA astronaut class of 2009 (also known as the #Shenanigans09) during their ESA Basic…

Is BlackBerry Getting the Android Google Play Store?

I think at this point we can pretty safely say that BlackBerry’s BB 10 relaunch was a bit of a disaster for the once-mighty Canadian smartphone makers. I mean, you don’t give your CEO the boot for nothing right? And it now seems the company is ready to fully capitulate to its Android rival. How?…

NASA’s Robonaut Is Getting Some Weird-Looking Legs

NASA’s Robonaut spacefaring robot has already taken over a fair few of the ISS crew members’ more menial tasks, and next year it’s going to get even more useful, as NASA kit the guy out with a pair of giant legs. Where was this guy when Sandra Bullock needed him? Going bipedal in early 2014,…

You Don’t Need a Smartphone to See These Instagram Pictures

Instagram has it lovers and haters—but either way you can’t deny that it’s crazy successful. For those without a smartphone, though, Brazilian artist Bruno Ribeiro’s art installation Real Life Instagram provides a taste of the retro-themed photography service on the streets of London. Placing cardboard frames with translucent green, blue, yellow, orange and red plastic…