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Guillermo del Toro is directing the opening sequence of The Simpsons’ “Treehouse of Horror.” This year’s Halloween episode will kick off with a del Toro-created opener featuring monsters from the past several decades of horror movies. The episode airs on October 6th.

There Is Probably Nothing More Fun Than This Giant Slip ‘N Slide

How was your summer? Good? Spent some time at the beach? Get a little tan? Whatever because it’s about to look so pathetic next to this humungous slip ‘n slide. Just look at this monster. It flings you into the air so you can fly and twirl and spin and somersault and twist and enjoy…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Attention (NSFW)

Follow this one woman wrecking crew as she sticks it to The Man—or any man, really—with extreme predjudice. Hauke Hilberg directed this, the official music for Tim Royko & Philippe Lemot‘s new single.

For Google’s 15th birthday, Motherboard put together every single Google Doodle ever created into one looping animated GIF. Yeah. That’s 1,809 frames of doodles. Watch it in full here.

Microsoft Wanted Google to Censor a Wikipedia Page About Microsoft

After asking Google to censor Microsoft.com, Microsoft has given Google a copyright takedown request for a Microsoft Wikipedia page. Microsoft must want to scrub all mentions of itself on the Internet or something. It’s the only sensible explanation for its vigilance! Or, I guess, the other reason for vomiting out inane takedown requests like this…

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Homeland The Musical

Homeland is coming back this Sunday! After an uneven second season, what’s the third season going to be like? Should we hope for something as brilliant as the first even though it might be unrealistic or should we just root for Homeland… The Musical to happen on Broadway. After watching the hilarious video above, I…

Iran Hacked US Navy Computers

US officials have revealed that Iran has hacked US Navy computers. According to the WSJ, The Iranian hackers were able to tap into a “network that is used for e-mail and the service’s internal intranet.” The network is unclassified and US officials don’t currently believe that the hackers were able to obtain any information of…

What Do Kids Think About Social Media?

If you think that kids today are going to have screwed up childhoods because all they care about is playing with their phones or keeping up with friends on Facebook or shooting people in video games, well, there’s still hope! Comedian Mark Malkoff sat down and talked with some kids about social media and the…

You must only speak the words to enter the realms beyond

Weary traveler, I’m not sure how you made it here through the darkness. But now you are almost home. Our gates will open to all who know the languages spoken in secret among slaves, because we have built this place as a refuge. Pablo Palomeque is a concept artist in Buenos Aires, Argentina. You can…

Most Beautiful Items: September 21 – 27, 2013

Want to know Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia will look like when it’s done in 2026? Know what kind of software can enable a disabled artist to paint hands-free? Ever heard of clothes that decompose with you when you die? The answers to all of these questions and more lie within stories we found from the worlds…

NBC has bought a TV show based on my story about psychics in love

Now it can be told! NBC has put a television adaptation based on my novelette “Six Months, Three Days” into development, with Krysten Ritter, Eric Garcia and David Janollari producing. I didn’t really think this was actually going to happen, and I am kind of gobsmacked. In case you missed it, “Six Months” is a…

Comment of the Day: Sewage and Statistics Edition

In today’s comments, we learned how to calculate the event horizon of a black hole, where to look for the very best in sci-fi inspired music, and one very surprising fact about where those between-year census figures come from. In this post calling for the trade secrets from commenters fields of expertise, commenter BrigadierGeneral shared…

This fashion show is like a glimpse of the future

Fashion designer Rick Owens debuted his new line in Paris this week with this incredible, futuristic show featuring steppers. It’s absolutely mesmerizing, and reminds me of Afro-futurist art or the movie Born in Flames. Just gorgeous.

This Vampiric Vacuum Vants to Suck Your Blood (and Save Your Life)

Normally, when you suffer from a pulmonary embolism—a blood clot blocking the flow to your lungs or heart—you’ve only have two options; undergo chest-cracking open-heart surgery, or die. But thanks to an ingenious new blood filter system, doctors will be able to save lives without destroying sternums or requiring weeks of recovery. If you combined…

Static Jacks: Wallflowers

Because, really, what teenager/twenty-something doesn’t dream of constructing the perfect woman out of vintage technologies? It’s certainly a lot easier than actually talking to them. In the Static Jack’s latest music video, the boys carry on the proud, mildly-misogynistic Weird Science tradition of building a better lady friend. Wallflowers is the first single off the…

Beautiful Destroyed Structures of the Modern Age

Some of the world’s most beautiful buildings have risen up, only to be destroyed or demolished just a few years or decades later. Here we remember some these great structures for what they once were. The Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London, designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 The building…

There are secret messages left aboard the International Space Station

In a practice that’s reassuringly similar to roommate-behavior here on Earth, astronauts aboard the International Space Station have been known to leave eachother notes – little messages, requests and reminders to one another, posted inside (and, occasionally, outside) the spacecraft. Above: A diagram of a space toilet, with a relevant note on bathroom etiquette. For…

Now Available: Marshall Mini Speaker, Kindle Fire HD, Surface 2 & More

It’s hard keeping track of all the new goodness that goes on sale every week. That’s why we’re doing it for you. Here are all toys you can finally spend your hard-earned money on—or maybe just put on your wish list. Marshall Stanmore: Looking like it just rolled off the stage at the Palladium, this…

This Aluminum Lunch Box Comes With Its Own Cutting Board Lid

When lunchtime rolls around during the work week, you’ve got a handful of options that usually boil down to two: Head out to one of the food-slingin’ establishments within walking distance, or reach into your bag to eat whatever it is you packed yourself to chow down on that afternoon. Now, if you’re a regular…

Skull in a salt lake GIF is eerily relaxing

For the weekend: a skull sits idly in the shallows of a briny lake, long since caked in the salt that saturates the waters. We came across this GIF at Fresh Photons via these-shoes via osteo-princess, who found it over on reddit. After a fair bit of searching, we’ve had no luck tracking down the…