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A young Finnish man and his dog get stuck in a fox spirit’s dream

While guiding the Aurora Borealis across the sky, a mischievous young fox spirit accidentally traps an entire Finnish town in a land of slumber. Now the only hope for restoring everything to normal is Hannu, a grouchy young slacker, and his faithful dog Ville, who must convince their fellow villagers to return to the waking…

11 Tips to Keep iOS 7 From Destroying Your Battery Life

While your iPhone’s new operating system comes with plenty of advantages, iOS 7’s not without its drawbacks. Battery life just ain’t quite what you’d want it to be, but we’ve got some tips to squeeze the most out of that sucker and stay juiced all day long. https://gizmodo.com/ios-7-review-pretty-is-as-pretty-does-1327221981 Many of iOS 7’s fancy new features…

River and the Doctor’s date goes awry in Neil Gaiman’s minisode

River and the Doctor are in danger of being sacrificed to the rain gods in this Neil Gaiman-scripted Doctor Who minisode. Naturally the Doctor has an escape plan—though it’s not necessarily an elegant one. Over on his Tumblr, Gaiman explains that this started as a deleted sequence from the episode “The Doctor’s Wife,” and was…

The Cast of Adventure Time, Carved Out of Crayons

What time is it? Crayon Time! Artist HQ Tran carves fictional characters out of Crayolas, and he’s been working his way through the cast of Adventure Time. If you head over to Tran’s Wax Nostalgic blog, you can see his other crayon sculptures, including of characters from Futurama and Star Wars, and the house sigils…

It’s Always Awesome To Start a Fire with Water

You think of water and fire as opposites, but it doesn’t have to be that way. If you’re clever enough about it, they’ll get along together just fine. And there’s just always something so paradoxically cool about starting a fire with H2O. As the King of Random shows off here, there are a couple of…

Wolverine & Captain America battle robot ninjas on Ultimate Spider-Man

It’s a big week in the world of cartoons! Ultimate Spider-Man returns from hiatus this Sunday, Anarky makes a pivotal appearance on Beware the Batman, and the Avengers find out what it’s like to walk in the Hulk’s shoes. Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. is off this week. As always – minor spoilers ahead!…

Incredible Arcade Sim Will Let You Drive Every Batmobile

For all of the Batman games that have come and gone, very few have ever let you play with the Dark Knight’s ultimate toy: The Batmobile. But that’s all about to change thanks to this new arcade simulator from Raw Thrills and Specular Interactive that lets you drive almost everything in Batman’s garage through the…

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.