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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Tits. (NSFW)

Boobs, tatas, naughty pillows, fun bags—we’ve got so many nicknames and objectifications for the human breast that the fact that they’re still attached to people is often ignored. NYC-based artist and animator, Louisa Bertman recounts her own youthful obsession with obtaining the “perfect” set in this frenetic, sometimes explicit but ultimately touching and thought-provoking animated…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Leaked Documents Detail the Cyber Operations of US Spy Agencies

The Washington Post has some more documents that reveal the offensive cyber-operations of US spy agencies. The cyber campaign is even broader and more aggressive than we first thought and uses movie-appropriate code names like GENIE, TAO, TURBINE and The ROC. Apparently, US spy agencies launched 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011. Under GENIE, the US…

Tech News Casey Chan

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: The Shocker

Moms are the coolest. Not because they birthed you into this world, not because they raised you, not because they can never stop taking care of you but because there was a point in time where she wasn’t a mom yet. And she gave that all up to create another human. So never doubt that…

Tech News Splitsider

Seeing Random Things Cut in Half Is the Best Thing

Here’s your #FollowFriday or #ff or whatever the cool tweet birds called it back when Twitter launched years ago and people had no idea what it was for so they made their followers create a giant circle: @HalfPics. It’s a simple Twitter account that shows random things chopped in half. How random? There are grenades,…

Tech News Casey Chan

What’s Your Favorite Cookbook App?

I’ve got a stack of loose paper recipe cards 18 inches tall, dozens of cookbooks, a bookmark folder jam-packed with links to Food Beast, Sunset, Bon Appetit, and enough canning ratios rattling around in my head to fill a 21-quart pot. What I don’t have is a single mobile resource to digitize, organize, and store…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Zack Snyder explains why he wanted mass deaths in Man of Steel

Why did so many people have to die in the climax of Man of Steel? Even in a summer full of disaster porn and murder porn, the Superman reboot stands out in its bloodthirstiness. But now at last, director Zack Snyder is explaining: the deaths are necessary to make it connect to myths and legends.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Most Beautiful Items: August 24 – 30, 2013

Sadly, Labor Day weekend marks the spiritual end of summer. But don’t fall into the dumps yet, friends. What lies between you and the colder months are both a day off and a some of the best things we found from the realms of art, architecture, and design this week. A Creepy Tour of Russia’s…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Would You Trust a Helium-Filled Floating Venue On Your Wedding Day?

If you like the idea of an outdoor wedding, but not the idea of setting up a tent which can be a hassle, you might want to reach out to design studio Qastic. As part of the Connecticut-based firm’s research into the feasibility of using floating structures in its architecture, it created this inflatable helium-filled…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

iPad Apps of the Week: The Converted, Blackbar, ReadQuick, And More

The best weekend of the end of summer is nearly here! Or already here, if you’re the kind of person who knocked off work before 6pm. Or not here at all if you work weekends. Anyway, in honor of Labor Day, we labored all week to find you the best iPad apps. Dig in! The…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

iPhone Apps of the Week: The Converted, Flickr, Blackbar, and More

It’s Friday night, and you know what that means: we’ve got a fistful of apps for you and your iPhone. Which is a lot like a fistful of dynamite, without the explosions. A fistful of dynamite apps! Yeah! The Converted: This is a highly visual conversion app that actually gives you a sense of the…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Android Apps of the Week: Digg Reader, Dynamic Notifications and More

It’s Friday, it’s the weekend, it’s Labor Day weekend — it’s a good day to be alive. And for Android users who’ve been dying to get their hands on some sweet new apps all week, it’s an especially good day. Check out the best of what’s out there this week! Digg Reader: This is a…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

The Luxurious Afterlives of Abandoned Sea Forts and Oil Rigs

You yearn for the sea life, but life on ship might not be exactly what you want. Then why not create your own country on an abandoned sea fort or oil rig? That’s what these people have done. Spitbank Fort and No Man’s Land Fort in Portsmouth Harbour, turned into luxury hotels These mid-19th century…

io9 Vincze Miklós

This Video Explains the History of Color Film Technology in 21 Minutes

From the early experiments using 2-color processes to the color movies we know today, this fascinating 21-minute video from FilmmakerIQ breaks down the history and technology behind color motion pictures. https://gizmodo.com/an-enlightening-look-at-the-history-and-science-of-colo-1227167778

Tech News Matt Novak

An Enlightening Look at the History and Science of Color Film

If you’re a history buff, or a cinema buff, or a science buff—any kind of buff, really—you will love this comprehensive tour of the evolution of color film and photography. FilmmakerIQ hosts this informative account of how we got from black-and-white to the rich naturalistic colors of today. Not surprisingly, it wasn’t one sudden breakthrough.…

Tech News Michael Hession

The creator of Vader and Son takes us to the Jedi Academy

Hard as it may be to believe, not every kid in the Star Wars universe wants to grow up to be a Jedi. Roan, the protagonist of Jeffrey Brown’s Jedi Academy, just wants to be a starfighter pilot. But after he’s rejected from pilot school, he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to Jedi Academy, and starts…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Should you return long-forgotten property that you have by mistake?

What would you do if your friend asks you to return something of hers that you have had by mistake for many years? Invoke the statue of limitations, kick her out of your house, and never talk to her again? That seems reasonable, but this may be a better solution. http://gawker.com/thatz-not-okay-the-gold-medal-in-silver-theft-ugly-bu-1221991835

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Google Bought a Smartwatch Company

According to GigaOM, Google bought WIMM Labs last year to help develop its upcoming Android smartwatch. WIMM Labs was the maker of the WIMM One, a smart watch released a few years ago that ran a modified version of Android. https://gizmodo.com/report-google-is-making-a-smart-watch-too-5991834 Makes sense for the company behind Android to snatch up an Android smart watch…

Tech News Casey Chan

An IT Flaw Has Let Unauthorized Users Exploit Army PCs for Years

Earlier this week, Buzzfeed reported that a computer security flaw in has left Army computers vulnerable for at least two years; today, the Army confirmed to Buzzfeed that this was, in fact the case. And that they have no plans to do anything to fix it. While the specifics of the flaw haven’t yet been…

Privacy & Security Brian Barrett

The Easiest Way to Upgrade Your Gin and Tonic

As the name suggests, there are really only two components to a gin and tonic (unless you count the lime), which means only two ways to screw it up. It’s easy enough to avoid a bad gin. Bad tonic water, though, is the rule, not the exception. Look at a label and you’ll see cheap…

Tech News Brent Rose

The line between fiction and fic has never been blurrier

Hugh Howey’s Silo saga has taken the bestseller lists by storm — but before Wool was a worldwide sensation, it was a humble series on Amazon, gaining popularity one online fan at a time. Now, Howey’s stories have spawned a new kind of fanfic community that could change the publishing world. Photo: Steve Crisp/Reuters Pundits…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Tits. (NSFW)

Leaked Documents Detail the Cyber Operations of US Spy Agencies

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: The Shocker

Seeing Random Things Cut in Half Is the Best Thing

What’s Your Favorite Cookbook App?

Zack Snyder explains why he wanted mass deaths in Man of Steel

Most Beautiful Items: August 24 – 30, 2013

Would You Trust a Helium-Filled Floating Venue On Your Wedding Day?

iPad Apps of the Week: The Converted, Blackbar, ReadQuick, And More

iPhone Apps of the Week: The Converted, Flickr, Blackbar, and More

Android Apps of the Week: Digg Reader, Dynamic Notifications and More

The Luxurious Afterlives of Abandoned Sea Forts and Oil Rigs

This Video Explains the History of Color Film Technology in 21 Minutes

An Enlightening Look at the History and Science of Color Film

The creator of Vader and Son takes us to the Jedi Academy

Should you return long-forgotten property that you have by mistake?

Google Bought a Smartwatch Company

An IT Flaw Has Let Unauthorized Users Exploit Army PCs for Years

The Easiest Way to Upgrade Your Gin and Tonic

The line between fiction and fic has never been blurrier

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