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Percy Jackson 2 director draws comics about the making of the film

We may not have loved Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, but director Thor Freudenthal’s comics about the making of the film are perfectly delightful. He reveals what it was like to film the movie’s effects-driven scenes and what Nathan Fillion was like on-set. https://gizmodo.com/percy-jackson-2-could-make-you-stop-believing-in-the-he-1051225823 EW has all three of Freudenthal’s Percy Jackson comics. You can…

Zardoz director John Boorman almost made a Lord of the Rings movie

John Boorman is the director behind Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, and Excalibur, but his CV nearly included a Lord of the Rings movie. It would have been a pretty bonkers interpretation, with Aragorn wielding double blades and Frodo and Galadriel getting it on. Boorman has said in his autobiography Money Into Light, and more recently…

For three 12-year-old ghost hunters, family can be scarier than ghosts

In 1958 Pineville, Kentucky, young Chopper Sweeney sees a ghost in his bedroom, kicking off a summer of supernatural investigations. But while Chopper and his friends root through haunted houses and chase down mysterious dogs, they’re dealing with their own losses and pain. After the death of his police officer father, Chopper, the narrator of…

The Pirate Bay Celebrates 10 Years With a New Blockade-Busting Browser

File sharing site The Pirate Bay set sail ten years ago. While the site and its founders have had plenty of legal trouble along the way, like Keith Richards, they refuse to abandon ship. They’re marking a decade of file plundering with a typically typo-laden decree and a new way to circumnavigate torrent blockades. https://gizmodo.com/pirate-bay-co-founder-charged-with-hacking-and-fraud-in-5994854…

How a pair of torpedos led to the worst shark attack in history

On July 26, 1945, the USS Indianapolis reached the island of Tinian, where it delivered the components and enriched uranium necessary for the atomic bomb Little Boy, which would soon devastate Hiroshima. But it’s perhaps best known for its role in history’s worst shark attack. This incident may be burned in a lot of folks’…

The History of Doctor Who as a Tube Map, with a Line for Each Doctor

Crispian Jago represents the Doctor’s multi-threaded history as a Tube map, with one transit line for each of the eleven doctors, and the various characters and aliens the Doctor encounters as stops. Daleks are pretty much the ultimate cosmic transfer station. Head over to Jago’s site to see the complete interactive map—and be sure to…

Cartoon Reality Show Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. hits your TV

This week in the world of cartoons, Leela grows some tentacles on Futurama, we are treated to a very interesting new Hulk series on DisneyXD, and an hour-long TMNT season finale! Ultimate Spider-Man is off for a little while to make way for the new Hulk series. As always – minor spoilers ahead! Hulk and…

Why the Hell Doesn’t McDonald’s Serve Breakfast All Day? (Updated)

Look, say what you will about McDonald’s — they know how to do breakfast. The Egg McMuffin is such a perfect packet of good-morning deliciousness, I swear Ronald McDonald must’ve cut his burger-flippin’ teeth in the kitchen of a roadhouse diner. But unlike my favorite diners, where breakfast is a Constitutional right 24 hours a…

These Gorgeous Black And White Photos Turn Truckstops Into Art

Sometimes it feels like the romance of the road is lost at truck stops. Those oases of diesel fuel and stale coffee seem too industrial, too pragmatic to fit into a Kerouac-style vision of road tripping. Photographer Michael Massaia lends some highbrow class to the truck stop with his series Seeing the Black Dog. Suddenly,…

What It Would Be Like If You Were Trapped Inside a Mirror Sphere

There’s not a single soul in the world who doesn’t love it when they get to see the endless world that appears when you’re in a room of mirrors. I remember trying to count as a kid how many versions of myself I could see. But what would happen if you were in a perfect…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet: SUPER SAYAN KUSH

Remember stoners, it’s one thing to think, “This is the best weed ever, Imma go punch somebody’s grandma in half.” It’s another thing entirely to go balls-out, “I am a Golden God” Super Saiyan and actually knock her into next Tuesday.

The NSA Monitors 1.6% of the World’s Internet Traffic

To be slightly more transparent and/or spew numbers to confuse the common citizen, the Obama administration released two documents to show the scope of the NSA’s data collection program. Those documents reveal that the NSA monitors 1.6% of the world’s Internet traffic and reviews .00004% of all traffic. Sounds so little, right? Just what the…

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Disney’s Vehicle Movies

If you’re over the age of 12, you probably wondered why the hell Pixar ever made Cars 2. And then when you heard about Planes, you probably wondered who in the world would go see a Pixar-less Disney movie that sounds like the direct to DVD cousin of Cars. Merchandising is not an excuse for…

The next Xbox 360 update will finally officially kill Microsoft Points dead. All your points will be converted over to an amount of currency equal to or greater than your points. Any Microsoft Points Cards will still be valid too (and transferred to real dollars). [Microsoft]

Watch an Epic Supercut of the Last Shot in Blockbuster Movie Trailers

This is fantastic. The Nerdwriter Evan Puschak created this killer compilation video that stitched together last shots of different blockbuster movie trailers. You know that last scene. Spectacular explosions, beautiful screaming heads, tense as hell sequences and probably an Inception horn thrown in. It’s the scene that if successful, leaves you gasping for air and…

How Technology Has Innovated Loneliness

It’s simple, as the world has gotten easier because technology has gotten better since touch screens have gotten touchier and social networks have filled every social void in our empty soul, we’re still searching for substance. Too often social networks can result in the technological equivalent of empty calories—sure it feels good to get liked…

Artist invents his own killer Game of Thrones characters

We’ve seen tons of amazing Game of Thrones fan art before, but we’ve never seen anything like this. British concept artist Bjorn Hurri created a brand new set of characters in the Game of Thrones universe — including this dragon-wrangler, who looks like she could give Daenerys a run for her money. https://gizmodo.com/a-gallery-of-great-and-not-tv-inspired-game-of-throne-5985595 As Hurri…

Behold San Fransokyo from Disney’s first animated Marvel movie

Big Hero Six will be Disney’s very first animated Marvel feature — taken from the lesser known, but highly praised, Japanese superhero manga of the same name. Check out this brand new artwork. We love what they’ve done to the Golden Gate Bridge. This brand new image is straight out of D23 and (we think)…

Deep and Wide: Stunning Amateur View of the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae

Here’s a beautiful deep look at a wide-field view of the Lagoon Nebula (M8, NGC 6523) and the Trifid Nebula (M20, NGC 6514) along with star cluster M21 and star forming region NGC6559. Amateur astronomer and astrophotographer Terry Hancock from Michigan says this is one of his favorite fields of view to observe. However right…

Ecstasy of Order: Remember How Good You Wanted to Be at Tetris?

Tetris and I were born just a month apart. And what Cold War kids we were. Tetris was the brainchild of a young Soviet computer engineer with a knack for building addicting games. I was the actual child of a couple of former hippies with a bit of a disco hangover. I knew Tetris and…