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Warehouse 13 gives us an oddly whimsical look at death and betrayal

This was bound to be kind of an intense episode of Warehouse 13 — Myka deals with last week’s terrible revelation, while Claudia gets betrayed by the teenager whom she was seeing as a younger version of herself — but it was definitely odder than I’d expected. Spoilers ahead… Seriously, the fallout from Myka’s cancer…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Organize Thousands of Photos With This Easy Method

Overwhelmed by digital pictures on a dozen computers and external drives and tablets and phones? Baffled by different formats for files and folders and camera data? Use these simple tips to get them all organized, quickly, and you’ll love taking pictures again.

Sploid Ken Layne

These Five Unemployment Lessons Will Help Get You Back On Your Feet

America’s jobless people told their tales in 40 episodes of Gawker.com’s “Unemployment Stories,” and from their experiences you can learn many valuable lessons that might lead to better fortunes. Going into more debt for more education, for example, rarely pays off. http://gawker.com/five-things-we-learned-about-unemployment-573268270

Sploid Ken Layne

Behold the First Images of the Official Lego Back to the Future Set!

Brick News has obtained photos of the official Lego Back to the Future set, including the minifigs for Marty McFly and Doc Brown. As you can see, it’s more elaborated than the version approved by Lego Cuusoo but not as pretty. Not even close. You’ll be able to create all the three versions of the…

Movies Jesus Diaz

Why Google banned brainteasers from their interview process

How many piano tuners are there in the city of Chicago? As recently as a couple of years ago, knowing how to approach a brainteaser like this might have helped land you a job at Google. The company used to pose stumpers like this in a lot of their interviews, but the practice was recently…

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Bike Doctor: Repair Your Bike As Well As the Pros Without the Price

For the beginning (or even experienced) cyclist, making your own bike repairs can seem like a daunting task. Most bike repair guides you’ll find around the ol’ internet can be complicated labyrinths of instruction that end up doing more harm than good. But taking your wheels to a pro can come with a major price…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Buildings Designed to Look Like Barcodes

We are surrounded by objects adorned with bar codes. So why not make buildings with bar codes too? That’s exactly what these architects did — and the results were these weird, often hilarious designs. Barcode Hall, Lingang New City, China (designed by Meinhard von Gerkan from gmp group, 2008) (via gmp-architekten, photos by Hans-Georg Esch)…

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Why Anti-Affirmative Action Texan Abigail Fisher Should Shut Up

23-year-old Abigail Fisher sued the University of Texas after being rejected, claiming the institution’s affirmative action policy discriminated her. The US Supreme Court has now sent her case back to a lower court, where she plans to keep fighting. Krystie Yandoli has very good advice for her: shut up. https://jezebel.com/an-open-letter-to-affirmative-action-reject-abigail-fis-570774253 Photo by Getty Images

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This freaky lizard lived in an isolated desert 250 million years ago

Whoa, get a load of this thing. It’s called Bunostegos — a cow-sized pareiasaur that roamed an ancient desert of Pangea during the Upper Permian era. Its discovery suggests that a part of the supercontinent contained an ecosystem all its own. The Pangea supercontinent may have been a single landmass, but paleontologists now suspect that…

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A Real-Life Iron Man Suit That Could Be as Comfortable as Pajamas

Tony Stark used exotic composites, metal alloys, and other Hollywood-only make-believe materials to build his armor-plated Iron Man suit. But researchers at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute, constrained by the limitations of reality, took a different approach with a muscle-enhancing exoskeleton that could one day be as comfy to wear as your favorite pair of jeans.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Superman and Batman have their first date in This Week’s Comics!

The tale of the first New 52-niverse meeting between the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight will finally be told. Greg Rucka brings his dark new scifi epic Lazarus to Image. Most importantly, Hawkeye’s Pizza Dog gets the recognition he deserves. All this and more in this week’s comics! New Issues Dark Horse: •…

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Pakistani Folk Art and US Drones Collide in These Ornate Paintings

Pakistani-American artist Mahwish Chishty was originally trained in painting miniatures in her native Lahore. But these days, Chishty is also emerging as a notable conceptual artist abroad, treading the potent line between Pakistani and American culture. Yesterday, in an interview with Mother Jones, Chishty discussed her paintings of American drones—which she covers in traditional Pakistani…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Here’s what New York City looked like before “sanitation engineering”

In the nineteenth century, New York City was full of trash. You can see what that meant in this horrific image of a dead horse rotting in the street where kids were playing. But then there was a revolution that transformed New York into an experiment in urban trash planning. Anthropologist Robin Nagle has just…

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What’s the best movie that failed at the box office?

We were depressed to hear early predictions that Pacific Rim would be a box office bomb. Let’s hope it’s not true — but there have been plenty of decent or great movies that underperformed in theaters. What’s YOUR candidate for the best movie that audiences just didn’t show up for? https://gizmodo.com/is-pacific-rim-destined-to-be-an-epic-flop-576879105 Please include a poster…

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Racist Psychopath Loses It Entirely In Road Rage Video Shocker

A driver in Los Angeles caught this insanity on his dashboard video camera over the weekend, and then posted it to Reddit, so that everyone can enjoy this horrific nut screaming racist craziness at the world. If you see this guy (Illinois plates in Southern California), go ahead and call in a drone strike. https://jalopnik.com/watch-this-racist-idiot-commit-unbelievable-acts-of-roa-574105316

Sploid Ken Layne

Adorable Daughter Bills Dad for Home Tech Support

Oh, your parents: Teh Olds. They’re always needing technical assistance with the most rudimentary computer tasks. Worse, you can’t begrudge them the tech support since they’re always helping you out with rides to the movie theater and money for ice cream. You can’t deny them service, but goshdarnit, you should demand remuneration for your travails.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Senator to Stand for 13 Hours to Stop the Texas’ Anti-Abortion Bill

This is State Senator Wendy Davis three hours into her filibustering effort to stop a new Texas’ anti-abortion bill. She has to keep standing and talking for 13 hours in order to defeat the Republican-sponsored text, which will virtually ban abortion in the Lone Star state reducing clinics from 47 to just five.

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This Throne of Books Is Your Own Private Personal Library

There’s an endless number of distractions that can prevent us from curling up with a good book. So the folks at the London-based design studio, Tilt, created the OpenBook chair. It’s an oversized comfy seat wrapped in an empty library that you can fill with your favorite books and magazines, creating an oasis of reading…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Is Pacific Rim destined to be an epic flop?

This is heartbreaking. Early tracking suggests that Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited “robots vs. monsters” movie Pacific Rim is gaining less audience interest than Grown-Ups 2, which opens the same weekend. Legendary Pictures “risks losing a lot of money” on Pacific Rim, Variety warns. According to a sobering Variety article: Early tracking for the film is…

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Ford’s Wireless Brake Lights Warn Other Drivers There’s Traffic Ahead

In an attempt to improve safety and reduce the number of accidents on the world’s curviest roads, Ford has developed an experimental brake light that lets vehicles behind you know there’s slow traffic ahead, even if they can’t see your lights. The enhanced brake lights include a wireless transmitter that sends a signal to following…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Warehouse 13 gives us an oddly whimsical look at death and betrayal

Organize Thousands of Photos With This Easy Method

These Five Unemployment Lessons Will Help Get You Back On Your Feet

Behold the First Images of the Official Lego Back to the Future Set!

Why Google banned brainteasers from their interview process

Bike Doctor: Repair Your Bike As Well As the Pros Without the Price

Buildings Designed to Look Like Barcodes

Why Anti-Affirmative Action Texan Abigail Fisher Should Shut Up

This freaky lizard lived in an isolated desert 250 million years ago

A Real-Life Iron Man Suit That Could Be as Comfortable as Pajamas

Superman and Batman have their first date in This Week’s Comics!

Pakistani Folk Art and US Drones Collide in These Ornate Paintings

Here’s what New York City looked like before “sanitation engineering”

What’s the best movie that failed at the box office?

Racist Psychopath Loses It Entirely In Road Rage Video Shocker

Adorable Daughter Bills Dad for Home Tech Support

Senator to Stand for 13 Hours to Stop the Texas’ Anti-Abortion Bill

This Throne of Books Is Your Own Private Personal Library

Is Pacific Rim destined to be an epic flop?

Ford’s Wireless Brake Lights Warn Other Drivers There’s Traffic Ahead

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