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Now You Can Explore Gorgeous National Geographic Maps With Google

A well-drawn map isn’t just a functional chart, it’s a thing of beauty. National Geographic has been making gorgeous print maps for over 120 years, and thanks to a new partnership, over 500 of them will be available online, powered by Google Map Engine. On Google’s blog, National Geographic’s Frank Biasi says the historic society’s…

In this Most Dangerous Game, players must stay in close proximity

Ryan Connolly’s short film PROXiMITY takes the familiar concept of “The Most Dangerous Game” and adds an additional rule: players wear ankle monitors that require them to stick close together or suffer the violent consequences. PROXiMITY uses a fairly simple concept to make an exciting, if brief, thriller that forces its protagonist to fully understand…

A Disney artist imagines Wicked as an animated film

Minkyu Lee is an animator and visual development artist who has worked on The Princess and the Frog and Frozen. As part of his visual development portfolio, he imagined how Elphaba might look in her very own animated adventure, based on Wicked. Lee created these images while he was studying at CalArts and interning at…

What Happens When a Boeing 777 Tries to Land in a Major Crosswind

There’s a pretty harrowing video making its way around the internet today of a Boeing 777 as it makes an attempt (and fails miserably) at landing. But it’s no crash—thanks to an insane crosswind, it literally cannot land. So what exactly is going on here? We asked friend of Gizmodo and brilliant mind behind It’s…

Winter is Coming: Make Game of Thrones paper snowflakes to celebrate

Krystal Higgins has come up with a series of paper snowflake designs inspired by the great houses of Game of Thrones. Just print out the designs on Higgins’ site, cut along the lines, and paste a flurry of your favorite house sigils to your windows. Free “Game of Thrones”-inspired snowflake patterns [Krystal Higgins via Laughing…

Marvel has confirmed that Drew Goddard will run the show on Netflix’s Daredevil series. The Cabin in the Woods director will write and direct the first episode as well as serve as showrunner and executive producer for the 13-episode series. Hurrah! [via GeekTyrant]

Disaster interrupts an alien mission to rescue the human race

The Fiah’s Exodus mission is a noble one, to remove sentient races from their doomed planet and relocate them to a safer preserve. But Ethma and Endi’s assignment on Earth is troubled from the start, though their crew of accidental human stowaways is the least of their problems when the entire Exodus mission takes a…

Famous Museums Incredibly Recreated in Gingerbread and Candy

Sweet gingerbread cottages have nothing on these sugary architectural marvels. Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves recreate iconic museums and art galleries in gingerbread, licorice, cotton candy, and chocolate. The pair created these morsel models for a Dylan’s Candy Bar display at Art Basel Miami. In addition to the Guggenheim Museum above and the Karuizawa Gallery…

Bang your head to this Star Wars/Bohemian Rhapsody music video mashup

What happens when you mix Star Wars cosplayers with Queen’s classic opus and add in a brand new set of lyrics? Anyway the Force flows… The Students and Faculty of the Digital Video Program at University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona, produced this video with the help of their cosplayer performers. Stephen Panagiotis, Jamall…

Check out an alternate reality Avengers and a Potterish My Little Pony

This weekend in the world of cartoons we have an interesting selection for your viewing pleasure. Earlier in this week we were greeted by a visit from Root Beer Guy on Adventure Time, while this weekend an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic airs that I’m sure many of you will identify with.…

This majestic nature time lapse will make you want to go outdoors more

It’s the colors that get you when you’re out in nature. If you live in a city, you’re mostly dealing with drabs of gray speckled with Instagrams of exposed red bricks. If you live in the suburbs, you’ll see manicured lawns, potted trees, stucco and tile roofs until you’re myopic. But if you’re outside, like…

Life After Nintendo

There are several dozen tracks thus far in the “sound diary” credited on SoundCloud to Corruption, who gives as a residence Funabashi, Japan. Many are noisy escapades, tagged simply as “sound diary,” while the one dated “2013.11.19″ and given the subtitle “like a moth to a candle” bears a second tag: Nanoloop. That’s the name…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Jim Morricone

Phil RetroSpector mashes up the Doors and Ennio Morricone to create a haunting home movie reel fit for a Lizard King.

What kind of sorcery illusion lets these two blocks be the same color?

One is dark, one is light. One is gray, one is white. These are obviously two different blocks with two different colors right? Wrong. The two blocks are the same color. Seriously, they’re the same shade of gray. Just place your finger across the seam (where the blocks meet in the middle) to reveal the…

Car avoids getting crushed by a semi-trailer that was tipping over

Some days you get incredibly lucky. This guy who managed to record a video of a semi-trailer truck almost tipping over and crushing his car just had one of those days. The road was wet, the winds were strong and the truck was about to lose control and fall over. You don’t want any of…

FBI can secretly turn on laptop cameras without the indicator light

Scary. Insane. Ridiculous. Invasive. Wrong. The Washington Post reports that the FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computer’s camera “without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording” for years now. What in the hell is going on? What kind of world do we live in? Marcus Thomas, the former…

Lorde Discovers Ruin Porn with Pleasing Results

You know you feel it—that mix of envy and amazement when your hear Lorde’s music. The lyrics feel moody, wise and even fanciful at times. The beats are sturdy. And Lorde herself, she’s only 17 years old! What were you doing when you were 17? Looks like Lorde, in her young years, has discovered ruin…

OMG it’s the Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark trailer!

Possibly the greatest epic in Syfy Movie of the Week history is coming soon — and we’ve got the trailer! This time, there is a GIANT SHARK ROBOT. Also, it turns out that the real solution just may be love. All that mega shark really wants is a date.

We secret our vessels here, in the lee of the magnetic field

In the most remote crags of the ice-buried mountains of the southern ice cap, the pirate crew had a safe house. This icy scene was created by Jae Cheol Park, a concept artist in Korea who worked on the movie Snowpiercer among other things. You can see more of his work on his Facebook page.

Watch a real life Human Torch create fire with his bare hands

Who knew that one of the easiest superhero powers to get (at least on a neutered, pathetic human scale) is the Human Torch’s Flame On power? If you’re Russian and/or drink a lot of vodka, you can use a hot wire and a debauched sense of pain to create fire with your bare hands. Just…