With Google Reader finally dead and gone, it seems like as good a time as any to rethink the way we all look at the web. There’s a whole wealth of browsers and widgets and apps and extensions out there that will try to alter your browsing experience. Some of them will change your life,…
There’s a great paper cutout feel to Thomas Plaete’s short film Nimbus Machina. An engineer in a monstrous steampunk vehicle must flee the storm he created. Plaete uses his monochromatic palette to a nice industrial effect, while employing a limited geometry to create a grand sense of scale. There’s also some rather gorgeous concept art…
As part of his Masters of Branding study at the School of Visual Arts, Tyler Adam Smith is creating 100 covers for books that should be written, from goofy snarks at popular authors to imagined sequels to beloved books. Designer Debbie Millman, who chairs the branding department, charged each student in the program to come…
Happy Independence week. There were a lot of explosions, but some other things managed to happen too, and we’ve rounded up a festive smattering of them. Consider it GizBQ sampling plate. I’m talkin’ about an exploding-building-GIF salad, some iOS7-calendar-icon-rant slaw, some hot, takin’-good-care-of-your-smartphone-battery burgers, and more. Dig in. How To Take Care of Your Smartphone…
There are plenty of things that can make a ghost town, from dam projects, to nuclear disaster. The folks over at BuzzFeedVideo put together a rundown of some of America’s finest—and most unsettling—from a town built on a hellish inferno, to a city buried beneath Seattle. So take a look, and appreciate the ruinous beauty.…
Retired from the tracks, many old trains find themselves in glorious graveyards, filled with car upon rusted car. Photos of these scrapyards let us witness the magnificent decay of these mighty vehicles. The last stop before the scrapyard, a railway ferry harbour built in the 1980s, somewhere in Germany (via Eike Ramba) Uyuni Train Cemetery,…
The Saturday Comic-Con schedule is now up, with panels on Catching Fire, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Futurama, True Blood, Arrow, The Vampire Diaries, and much, much more.
What do you do with that old unwanted time machine? In this week’s writing prompt, this clunker of a time travel device is going up for sale. This piece is titled, quite directly, “Time Machine For Sale” by Tom Colbie, via Geek Art Gallery. It’s part of Colbie’s surreal series, Shots from a Parallel Dimension,…
There’s something to be said for dropping the cameras and just watching fireworks, but for Redditor AJ192, watching the pyrotechnic show through a viewfinder really paid off. Taken at an explosive celebration in New Mexico, it’s definitely a one in a million shot. What a beautiful way to get lucky. [Reddit via Laughing Squid]
You’re never going to use the borked trial versions of all these programs that came preinstalled on your new laptop or smartphone, so why should they continue taking up precious hard drive space? Here’s how to cut the deadweight out of your operating system. Bloatware is installed your device for the manufacturer’s benefit (read: cash…
Even if World War Z isn’t your cup of undead tea, it’s fascinating to see how the visual effects artists at MPC created the massive zombie crowd in the Jerusalem scene, using a combination of motion-capture performances and AI interactions. Hat tip to Scott!
The latest entry in Jason Heuser‘s badass presidents series sends Richard Nixon back to the ice age, where he takes on a Smilodon with his not-quite-bare fists. Heuser includes this blurb with the image: When Richard Nixon first traveled through time there was a considerable malfunction with his time machine, he was transported back to…
It should come as no surprise that the RIAA, of all organizations, plays particularly fast and loose with its DMCA takedown requests. But thanks to a ridiculous blitz, the RIAA just had its 25 millionth link removed from Google search results. And it’s not slowing down. According to TorrentFreak the RIAA hit its 20 million…
Last weekend, when the casting for Oberyn Martell, the A Song of Ice and Fire character commonly known as the Red Viper of Dorne, was announced, many commented that the actor was fairer skinned than they had anticipated the character would be. On his blog, author George R.R. Martin weighed in on the casting of…
Reformation Church pastor Kevin Swanson recently went on his Generations with Vision radio show to condemn Star Trek Into Darkness because it shows James Kirk in a post-coital bed with members of the “wrong species.” To which we can only respond—has Swanson ever seen Star Trek? On a June episode of Generations with Vision, Swanson…
Mornin’! Welcome to Saturday! Before you put that piping hot cup of coffee to your lips, why not try some piping hot coffee for your ears? It’s not as bad as it sounds. Who doesn’t like a little aural pleasure? Using what is quite possibly the most technically sophisticated coffee setup known to man, sound…
The king cobra’s favorite food is other snakes, and this week-old snake makes its first meal of a water snake that isn’t much skinnier than it is. It’s fascinating to watch it wolf down the long body of its prey. National Geographic posted this act of snake-on-snake predation. The king cobra’s genus name, Ophiophagus, means…
If you’re not already reading KC Green’s webcomic Gunshow, I recommend tuning in for his latest longform arc, Graveyard Quest. In it, a Gravedigger travels through the underworld on a hunt for his mother’s stolen bones and encounters ghostly hijackers, a wise mole, a village of worms, and the constant disapproval of his long-dead father.…
Remember Game of Thrones Season One, when all the major characters were still alive? The ladies of Not Literally are back with another pop culture-parodying video, this time using Gotye to pay tribute to “A Character I Used to Know.” Spoilers for Season One. Now that we’ve gotten through the Red Wedding, we need a…
San Diego Comic-Con is less than two weeks away, and Comic-Con International has posted the schedule for the first two days. Let’s see what’s on tap for the entertainment extravaganza. For Thursday, we’re psyched about hearing more about Europa Report, Ender’s Game, and Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem. And on Friday, there will be peeks…
