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The largest photo ever taken of Tokyo is zoomable, and it is glorious

It took photographer Jeffrey Martin two days of shooting and four months of editing to create the interactive panorama you’re about to experience. At 600,000 pixels wide, it would measure 50 meters by 100 meters if printed at photographic resolution. And yes, it is every bit as awesome as it sounds. Go ahead. Try it.…

Is this the worst football team of 2013?

Like most things in Florida—and especially Tampa—the Tampa Bay Buccaneers suck big time. It’s not an arbitrary opinion—Deadspin’s Drew Magary has plenty of good reasons to slam them hard in this edition of “Why your team sucks.” https://deadspin.com/why-your-team-sucks-2013-tampa-bay-buccaneers-974600962

Todd Holland worked on Twin Peaks and Wonderfalls, and now he’s just sold NBC a TV show about immortal humans, one of whom is a bounty hunter. He’ll write and probably direct the pilot.

Copyright Takedowns on Twitter Are Up 76 Percent

Twitter just released its latest transparency report detailing government requests for information requests, content removal requests and copyright takedowns. Not just one or two but all three categories are up in the first half of this year. Taking the lion’s share of the requests are copyright takedowns. Between January 1 and June 30, copyright takedowns…

The Problem of Premature Nerdgasms

Geeky pop culture sometimes feels like a collection of cool stuff: “Hero” moments and “holy shit did you see that” images. And sometimes it feels like the people who update our most beloved stories want to include those moments — without doing anything to set them up properly. The premature nerdgasm is a serious problem.…

This Intense Real-Life F-35 Picture Looks Like an Iron Man Frame

This is an awesome shot of a test F-35 zipping around California’s Edwards Air Force Base sent to us by a tipster. Can you imagine this buzzing by your window? The F-35 might have a hard time getting off the ground, but when it does, it’s a majestic sight. https://gizmodo.com/the-trillion-dollar-f-35-is-grounded-yet-again-5986365

Bon Voyage, Big Bertha! Seattle Digs a Cave For the Future

In coffee shops and bookstores across Seattle this summer, advertisements for concerts and gallery shows shared space with a less common urban invitation: to a party for a really big drill. The drill—specially designed to dig a tunnel underneath downtown Seattle, building new car capacity to replace an aging, earthquake-damaged viaduct that has dominated Seattle’s…

Inca Children Were Drunk And Stoned Before Ritual Sacrifice

A new analysis of three immaculately-preserved 500 year-old mummies found in 1999 atop a 22,000 foot volcano in South America reveals that Inca children were given increasing amounts of coca leaf and corn beer for up to a year before being sacrificed. The three children, who were found in an ice pit atop Llullaillaco volcano…

A Handheld 3D Scanner Could Let You Upload Your Whole World

3D printing is more popular and accessible than ever, and printers are on course to get even cheaper soon. But printing is only one side of the equation; what about taking 3D pictures? There’s a convenient, handheld gadget in the works that could do just that, and way cheaper than anything else has before. The…

Technology Really Is Making You Fat (But Not How You Think)

It’s lazy to point out that technology makes us lazy. Of course it does. The entire idea of technology is predicated around an efficiency whose end is specifically a decline in human exertion. You know, lazy. But technology’s actually making us fat for another reason altogether. Kathy Sierra wrote a piece last week pinned to…

The Insides of Meteorites Are Nature’s Stained Glass

On the outside meteorites look like volcanic rocks. But astronomy photographer Jeff Barton cracks them open to reveal the glittering geodes inside. Barton—who is the director of Sciences at Cowell, Texas’s Three Rivers Foundation—calls the innards of space debris “natural stained glass.” He’s been collecting these gems since 2004. The photos from this set are…

Dealzmodo: Your Pick Of Great TV Deals, Multi-Touch Monitor, Newsroom

Lots of great deals are better than one. Today you’ve got your choice of several killer prices on new TV’s. As Corey Foster of Deals.Kinja put it, these are “Black Friday level,” especially in the case of the Westinghouse. • LG 60″ 120Hz LED 1080p TV ($800) | Best Buy via Deals Kinja • Westinghouse…

Meet the potential characters of Duncan Jones’ Warcraft movie

It looks like Duncan Jones might have generated his first player-characters in his upcoming Warcraft movie. Bleeding Cool reports that the cast will include the well-known Warcraft characters Khadgar, Medivh and Lothar; alas, there are no Pandarians (…yet). Old spoilers for the Warcraft game, and I guess potentially new spoilers for the Warcraft movie ahead.…

Watch the trailer for Splice director Vincenzo Natali’s Haunter

Vincenzo Natali made another movie? And it’s about ghosts, or a creepy ghost-catcher man? We don’t actually know — but we bet it’s going to be f-ed up. This is the guy who made Splice, after all. The synopsis sounds simple, “Abigail Breslin stars as a young girl who must unravel a decades-old mystery to…

Google’s Sordid History of Net Neutrality Hypocrisy

Google is a company that’s long stood up for the principles of net neutrality, the idea that all packets of information on the internet should be treated equally. But now that it’s an internet service provider, the company’s changing its tune. It’s not the first time. Google’s stance on net neutrality is being called into…

The 12 Least Threatening Dragons of All Time

Dragons are powerful, savage beasts that rule the air and land, hoard gold, and burn knights alive in their armor… except when they’d rather play with 8-year-olds instead. There’s a whole movement of “nice” dragons that are tarnishing the reputation of real, hardworking evil dragons, and it’s got to stop. These are the 12 most…

There’s Enough Ikea Furniture in Porn to Fill a Whole Tumblr (NSFW)

Let’s not beat around the bush: We all watch porn. OK? OK. And it turns out that while we’re doing that, we’re getting a full view of Ikea’s affordable, easily cleanable, porn-friendly furnishings. As Buzzfeed has discovered, a site that sounds totally SFW called Just Another Ikea Catalog isn’t actually very SFW at all. Sprinkled…

New York’s Underground Moving Sidewalk That Never Was

At the turn of the 20th century, the moving sidewalk was the future of urban transportation. As much as airplanes soaring in the sky and automobiles rumbling on the streets, the moving sidewalk represented a bold new vision for tomorrow. This idea of rolling pavement appealed to people in major cities who didn’t yet see…

This amazing Labyrinth fan-created backstory just BLEW OUR MINDS

Someone has just attempted to answer the age-old Labyrinth question, “Why did David Bowie kidnap a child from Jennifer Connelly?” This incredibly well thought-out hypothesis is so compelling that we have no choice but to commit it to our minds, as Jim Henson canon. Penned by the TUMBLR writer Glamdamnit, here is a detailed guess…

Tables of Power: Inside the Inner Sanctums of Fortune 500 Companies

Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink has been inside some of the most important and cloistered rooms in the world. But these aren’t science labs or political offices—they’re the opulent boardrooms of Europe’s largest companies, which Hassink photographed as part of a project called The Table of Power. During the boom of the mid-1990s, Hassink set out…