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Mickey Mouse flees zombie Goofy in Disney’s Halloween short

Disney has been releasing a new series of Mickey Mouse shorts online, and in honor of October, they’re sharing a spooky silly episode featuring an undead Goofy. Several commenters have noted that this video is, unfortunately, not available in many countries. Mickey Mouse in “Ghoul Friend” was written, storyboarded, and directed by Aaron Springer, with…

HP Chromebook 11 Review: Cheap and Cheerful

Google’s Chromebook line is often maligned as inexpensive but underpowered or, in the case of the Pixel, a really nice screen in front of limited functionality and an exorbitant price tag. But by pairing a solid build with a $280 price tag, HP seems to have finally found the right balance of affordability and performance…

Prepare for Rickrolling with “Never Gonna Give You Up” in Klingon

Rickrolling was an annoying phenomenon, but we may forgive a brief, geeky resurgence if Internet pranksters instead link to this cover of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” in the original Klingon. Christopher Kidder-Mostrom directed this video and provides the main vocals. All the performers are in the cast and company of A Klingon…

The Megaupload Takedown Killed At Least 10 Million Innocent Files

When Megaupload got taken down two years ago, it took a whole hell of a lot of data with it. And eventually it got obliterated. Some of it was pirate data, sure, but some was legit too. And new research shows that, at the very least, ten million innocent files got the axe. https://gizmodo.com/a-whole-ton-of-megaupload-data-just-got-obliterated-514277088 Researchers…

What if superheroes were drawn in the style of newspaper comics?

In this week’s The Line It Is Drawn art challenge, Comic Book Resources asked artists to draw superheroes as characters in popular newspaper comic strips. And so the X-Men invade Family Circus, Thor takes the place of Hagar the Horrible, and Bat-Snoopy leads a merry band of Woodstock Robins. These are just a few of…

What’s Fox News Do With Its Absurd, Giant iPads? Play Candy Crush, Duh

When Fox News first introduced its new news room full of ridiculously giant iPad-lookin’ Windows tablets, our first question was “why?!” but now that the team has done a little journalism on Candy Crush, it’s all suddenly crystal clear. We know first hand that Candy Crush can be addicting, but Shepard Smith took the opportunity…

Community returns for its fifth season on January 2nd, 2014 at 8 PM. Dan Harmon is back in the driver’s seat, and the series will kick off with two back-to-back episodes before settling into Thursdays at 8 PM, leading into Parks and Recreation at 8:30 PM. [LA Times]

The Totally True History of Video Game Graphics

Humans? Usually unappreciative and typically awful. But it wasn’t always like this! When we didn’t have fancy technology with so many features they become useless and couldn’t trap amazingness in a box in our pockets, we enjoyed the little things. Like 8-bit graphics and physical buttons and cords and cartridges. Hell, we even though the…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: The End

Until we get a better handle on this whole time travel matter—and stop letting Jean-Claude Van Damme and Bruce Willis near the machines—we can only speculate as to what really caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Animator Chris Meyer explores five of the more exotic theories/wild guesses in this delightfully deadly short.

Dick Cheney Was Scared of Getting Assassinated By a Heart Hack

Though this sounds like a joke, former Vice President Don Cheney and his doctors were legitimately scared about him getting assassinated via terrorists hacking into his defibrillator and causing a heart attack. So they turned off the wireless feature so nobody would kill him via heart hack. The extra security measure (or is it paranoia?)…

Breaking Bad Creator Admits Illegal Downloads Helped the TV Show

Breaking Bad, a TV show permanently sculpted onto television’s Mount Rushmore, whipped itself from a critically acclaimed yet not exactly ratings dominant TV show into THE bizz-bizz-buzzy pop culture phenomenon of the year as the series raced to its end. How did it happen? According to Breaking Bad’s creator Vince Gilligan, illegal downloads help. Gilligan…

Apple Hilariously Called the Gold iPhone 5S ‘The Kardashian Phone’

As Apple was prepping the perfectly glitzy hue of the goldpagne iPhone 5S, the phone was being referred to as “the Kardashian phone” inside Apple according to NY Times reporter Nick Bilton. Yes, that would be the same Kardashian as notorious iPhone auteur Kim and her well manicured yet totally overexposed family. Which means yes,…

Google Hangouts for iOS now lets you make free phone calls to the US and Canada. If you use Google Voice, you can receive phone calls through the app too. [App Store]

The Haunting Remains of the Virginia Renaissance Faire

Virginia’s Renaissance Faire ran from 1996 to 1999, and since then the site has remained untouched, slowly crumbling as it falls into the Dark Ages. Besieged by the elements, these Tudor-style buildings and grand castles are inexorably falling apart. Top image: Sean Toler. There’s a fantastic Flickr group devoted to the Virginia Rennaissance Faire, in…

Most Beautiful Items: October 12 – 18, 2013

How can a thousand photos turn into a single timelapse? And what’s it like inside an artificial cave 200 feet below Manhattan? The answer to both of these questions and more lie in the most beautiful items of the week. Watch an Artist Turn Thousands of Photos Into a Single Imaginary Moment Boston-based artist Pelle…

Comment of the Day: Fictional Maps Edition

In today’s comments, we theorized about the curious habits of predators and prey, looked at the very saddest of the sad Hulks (the Sulks!), and tried to pin-point just how to make the most perfect of imperfect maps. In response to this post on Bonini’s Paradox — the more perfectly a model or map represents…

North Korea built a candy-colored dystopian water park

It’s like something out of The Prisoner. Trying to bolster the crumbling myth of North Korea’s national prosperity, the Pyongyang regime has built a creepy water park. As the Washington Post explains: Premiere Pak Pong Ju delivered a speech at the ceremony, arguing, in typically North Korean style, that the water park proves that everyone…

Now Available: Kindle Fire HDX, Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, Sony Xperia Z1, More

Like some kind of six-months-delayed springtime thaw, or an ominous but perplexing metaphor for global warming, summer’s trickle of new gadgets has turned into a gushing waterfall. But don’t tread those swift waters alone. Let us be your earthy, outdoorsy guide. Kindle Fire HDX: This thing does everything a tablet should do, with fast reactions,…

A mammoth smokecloud envelopes Sydney harbor

Smoke from bushfires in the Blue Mountains advanced upon Australia’s largest city yesterday, looming low, thick and massive in the afternoon sky. Image: Rex/Phil Hillyard/Newspix Via New Scientist: Australia’s bushfires play an integral part in the ecology of the country. But climate change is causing them to worsen, along with other extreme weather such as…

Would This Bike With Storage Inside the Front Wheel Even Be Rideable?

They don’t need gas, they can weave in and out of traffic, and you don’t even need a licence to ride one. But unless you tack on a set of panniers or a basket, bikes are notoriously lacking in storage space; a problem that Industrial Designer David Hotard might have eliminated with his novel Transport…