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Cool Dad Rents Whole Theater For Large-Screen Gaming On Son’s Birthday

A very awesome Florida dad rented out his local historic movie theater so his son could have a fantastic 13th birthday party: pizza and video games played on the big screen. Jonah has Type 1 diabetes and often volunteers with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

iPhone Versus Android Mapped Across the Entire World

iPhone versus Android is a battle for the ages, and it’ll never really be settled. But now you can see which camp is claiming what territory with this map the that shows the geographic use of both devices across the entire world. Oh and also there’s Blackberry. Now to be fair, this isn’t a comprehensive…

“Cure For Homosexuality” Quacks Shut Down Evil Church After 40 Years

A scam “Christian ministry” has shut down after 40 years of peddling a fake “cure” for homosexuality. Exodus International’s president says he is “deeply sorry” for all the misery the execrable tax-exempt organization has caused over four decades of jihad against gays.

This amazing R2-D2 cake can project a holographic Leia

This incredible — and edible — version of everybody’s favorite Astromech droid can actually project Princess Leia’s holographic message to Obi-Wan. I just hope whoever received the cake didn’t accidentally eat the Death Star Plans hidden inside, because otherwise the Rebellion is gonna be screwed. [WedgeStrap via Hackaday]

The STEHM Microscope: Finally, Nanoscientists Can See What They’re Doing

Your average atom is about 62 to 520 picometers in diameter, but since that’s a full factor smaller than the 390 to 700 nanometers human eye can perceive, direct observation using conventional microscopes is physically impossible. But that’s where the electron beams come in. The University of Victoria has just installed the most powerful scanning…

All hail the Periodic Table of Muppets

Mike Baboon combined the elements and Jim Henson’s oeuvre to design this amazing poster, which you can see in its entirety below, and which you can order for purchase here. Now all I can think of is how awesome it would be if the elements on the actual Periodic Table also had googly eyes. [Via…

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Oh boy, it’s Friday again. Our favorite day of the week other than Saturday and Sunday, where we can play with our gadgets without worrying that we have THINGS to do. If we somehow invented a time machine, we’d time hop from Friday to Friday, always visiting on the day of the week everyone’s most…

Earth and Jupiter Captured In the Same Photograph Taken From Mars

This photo shows both the Earth and its moon and Jupiter and its moons. In the same frame. It was taken from Mars, and it’s humbling and incredible. Be sure to click the picture to see its full scope. [Reddit]

A History of the Sky: Totally Mesmerizing Time Lapse Video

We don’t spend nearly enough of our time looking up. Fortunately, film maker Ken Murphy has done it for us, pointing a camera straight up, from sunup to sundown, for 146 consecutive days. It’s beautiful. The effect isn’t just aesthetic. It’s hypnotic. I’m struck by how similar most days look, but even more so by…

Man Sentenced to 36 Years In Prison On Blinking Testimony

Ricardo Woods has been sentenced to 36 years years in prison based on the blinking testimony of his paralyzed victim, who died shortly thereafter. The jurors found the man guilty beyond reasonable doubt even while the defense argued that this type of testimony could be confusing. http://gawker.com/5933928/dying-mans-blinks-are-key-evidence-in-murder-trial

1968 Time Capsule Opened Prematurely, Robbing Future of Cute Drawings

An elementary school in the Philadelphia suburb of Warminster recently opened up a time capsule from 1968. Unfortunately for time capsule purists, this uncapsuling was a bit premature. You see, the McDonald Elementary School’s time capsule wasn’t supposed to be opened until the year 2068. In this time capsule obsessive‘s humble opinion, opening any time…

Scientists have figured out why naked mole rats don’t get cancer

In all the years that biologists have studied the naked mole rat, they’ve yet to detect a single incidence of cancer. That’s amazing. And pretty damned important to understand. A recent experiment has offered an important clue as to how this extraordinary rodent pulls off this feat — and it has to do with its…

Official casting call reveals the characters in Star Wars: Episode VII

A Lucasfilm verified casting call for Star Wars: Episode VII has finally leaked. And now we have a vague grasp of just what kind of characters Disney wants to cast in the next Star Wars movie. And it’s a very “fit” future. Bleeding Cool uncovered the first official casting call for Star Wars: Episode VII,…

Would you magically reset your country to only its native species?

Let’s say you get a device, or perhaps a biological agent, or maybe even a weirdly specific wizard-wand. It has one function. If you use it, all the non-native species in your country would be gone. Would you use it? And if you’re on the fence, what conditions would sway you either way? The first…

Space Food Sucks: NASA’s Quest to Serve Astronauts Four Star Meals

If you’ve ever eaten the dehydrated “space food” sold in novelty shops, you probably thought, “Oh hey, not bad!” Now imagine eating the same thing for years on end. Yup, it would get boring. The New Yorker has a lovely story on Nasa’s quest to battle the “menu fatigue” that astronauts develop after they’ve been…

Apple May Destroy Classic Game Consoles With Just a Gamepad

Apple single-handedly created the world’s biggest handheld game market through low-cost, digitally-distributed games, turning traditional handheld game devices into niche products for dedicated gamers. Now they may be about to do the same with home consoles by adding a gamepad to their Apple TV.

This Tiny Wooden Speaker Turns Your Glasses Into Equalizers

Chances are you’ve used an equalizer before, and chances are there was a lot of blindly turning dials and hoping something good happened. The Timbre Speaker embraces exactly that kind of blind experimentation by using nothing but two glasses for its sound control. Designed by industrial design student Casey Lin, the speaker appears to be…

Hemlock Grove gets a second season on Netflix

Eli Roth’s gory werewolf series will live on for another season on Netflix. Based on the novel by Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove’s first season really got the blood pumping… and gushing, mainly all over its characters. The 13-episode gore and sex heave series has been given a 10-episode second season, which will be released in…

Ray Bradbury left his personal book collection, and some other personal effects, to the Waukegan Public Library, which is planning a permanent Ray Bradbury exhibit. Road trip?

Fascinating Map Shows the Original Meanings of Place Names in America

The Atlas of True Names—compiled by cartographers Stephan Hormes and Silke Peust—catalogs the etymological origins of place names across the world. This image shows the original meanings of the names of states, cities and landmarks across North America. Well worth at least thirty minutes of scrutiny.