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Cover Your Walls In Brooklyn With This Wallpaper By Beastie Boy Mike D

Yesterday, the New York Times ran a tour of the amazing Brooklyn townhome Beastie Boy Mike D lives in with his family. The house is super cool, but most of the stuff inside is either one-of-a-kind or wildly expensive, by non-famous-person standards. Except for the amazing Brooklyn-themed wallpaper that Mike D designed for the MoMA…

Think your city’s skyline is big? That’s cute.

Here’s how the skylines of Toronto, Chicago, Boston and Montreal compare against the icesheets covering those locations during the last ice age. If the ice slabs of our current ice age were suddenly as thick and extensive as those of Earth’s last major glaciation, anyone living in an area colored white would be instantly crushed…

Dumb Out of Context Man of Steel Quote

Yep. “It’s coming through the RSS feeds.” It doesn’t make any more sense when you know the context.

See for yourself how Europa Report brings life back to space movies

We’ve talked a lot about the beautiful realism and style of Europa Report, and you saw the trailer — but now here’s your first clip from the film, showcasing just how much excitement this movie packs into a “realistic” treatment of outer space. https://gizmodo.com/europa-report-at-last-a-space-thriller-worth-taking-s-493192948 https://gizmodo.com/your-first-real-look-at-the-space-movie-everybodys-ravi-508259727 Like we’ve said before, the notion of a “found footage”…

How To Make a Multi-Layered Drink

Drinks are generally one boring, homogenous color. Usually it doesn’t matter because you’re in a dark bar and we’re drinking for the flavor (or more likely, to forget). But sometimes it’s fun to shake things up. Add a little color, add a new dimension to your drink. And wouldn’t you know it, the key ingredient…

Spectacular GIFs of Flickering City Lights at Night

Lightscapes is an experimental work by London-based designer Troy Hyde that takes satellite images of some of the most lively cities in the world and transforms them into flickering animated images. The series takes an extremely zoomed out look at these landscapes at night that are spectacularly lined and illuminated by lights. Much like someone…

The Promise of the Future Was That You Wouldn’t Have to Code

When I was in middle school there was nothing I wanted more in the entire world than to learn how to program my own computer games. So, armed with Foundations of Mac Programming, I spent weeks chugging along sporadically, doing my best to understand the concepts. Ultimately, I gave up. And I don’t regret it…

Some Random Shit You Can Ask Glass

Do you have Glass? I don’t. But here are 20 random things you can ask Glass to search for.

On Flag Day, Defend the U.S. Flag By Punishing Those Who Desecrate It!

Today is Flag Day, America’s most important holiday. And while it might seem like a good idea to wear flag wings over your bikini or use a tattered Old Glory as a summer blouse, such actions are illegal. But because there’s no enforcement or punishment for hurting the American flag, freedom is constantly under assault.

Panasonic VT60 Television: $3000 of Video Perfection

When it comes to high-end HD sets, you get what you pay for. And in the case of Panasonic’s new top-of-the-line plasma set, it’s worth every penny. What Is It? A THX-certified flat-screen television, and arguably the single best-looking plasma set on the market right now. Who’s It For? People whose home theaters are actually…

This is a gibbon tightroping across a perfectly good bridge

And it is our new favorite thing. The video shows Siam – a lar gibbon at South African primate sanctuary Monkeyland – swanning rather adeptly (save for a few minor missteps) across the handrails of a lengthy rope bridge. Oh, to be endowed with opposable toes. [Spotted on Laughing Squid]

What classic space opera novel do you want to see on the big screen?

If the Ender’s Game movie is a success, then maybe the floodgates will open for other classic space opera books to hit the big screen and rock our universe. What classic space opera novel (or book series) do you think would make a fantastic movie nowadays? Please include a cover image or some other cool…

First Active Noise-Canceling Computer Fan Will Finally Shut Your Computer Up

If you’ve got a powerful desktop, it probably sounds like a jet engine. You could opt for watercooling, but if you stick with fans you’re out of luck. They’re just loud. Until you bolt on some active noise canceling. Produced by enthusiast CPU-cooler pros, Noctua, with some help from RotoSub, the cooling unit is only…

Damn that’s a huge bitch. Maersk shipping just christened the Mc-Kinney Møller, the company’s largest Triple E class vessel and the newest “biggest ship in the ocean.”

What Emily Post Can’t Teach Us About ‘Netiquette’

True story: When I was in middle school, my mother sat my brother and me down at the dining room table to give us lessons from Emily Post’s big blue bible called Etiquette. Fold your napkin when you leave the table. Start with the silverware on the outside and work your way in. A lot…

The man who tried to make human-ape hybrids

Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was a gifted scientist, a dedicated conservationist, and a practical, grounded man who expanded everyone’s understanding of animal husbandry. He also, for years, tried to make human-ape hybrids. The post-revolution USSR was a nation that wanted to wholly embrace new technology and progressive science while reinforcing traditional nationalistic pride. It’s no wonder…

Ancient craters on Mars may have been oases for life

Meteorite craters on ancient Mars may have been home to primordial life forms. Because hydrothermal systems host the most ancient known lineages of life on earth, many biologists think that the first organisms on this planet arose in hot springs. On earth these were largely volcanic systems, such as those that exist today in Yellowstone.…

Why 3.5% Of Android Clocks Are an Hour Off

At OpenSignal, each datapoint we collect has two timestamps: the time the reading was taken and the time the reading was inserted into our server. Because we make extensive use of SQLite cacheing on devices, these times can be far apart – sometimes up to the order of weeks. The app reading time, however, should…

This Ergonomic Keyboard Is Your Deal of the Day

The keyboard you’re typing on is probably gross as hell, and it isn’t doing any favors for your posture, either. Consider replacing it with Microsoft’s stalwart ergonomic split keyboard, which is on sale for $30 from Amazon at the moment. Microsoft’s been making ergonomic keyboards in one version or another since the 90s, but they…

This video of a drone with a gun will freak you the hell out

If you were already feeling a little paranoid about drones, this video will put you into complete terror mode. It’s a DiY drone with a gun. What could go wrong? Find out, in this slo-mo capture of a drone on a shooting rampage. Luckily, the drone is only shooting fruit and my mobile phone (well,…