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Waffle-Loving Rapper Sued For Using Waffle House Logo

Why didn’t southern diner chain Waffle House want a 450-pound tattooed rapper to use their trademarks and logo on a record called Whiskey, Weed & Waffle House? “Jelly Roll’s use of those trademarks was one of the more flagrant violations we have seen,” a Waffle House spokesman says. “Actions were taken to protect owner’s rights.”…

Sploid Ken Layne

Someone Needs to Make This 8-Bit Abrams Star Trek Video Game Right Now

There’s a very good chance that if you’re a fan of Star Trek, you’re also a fan of video games. And even if you didn’t grow up in a time when 8-bit graphics were mind-blowing, it’s still easy to love this condensed re-telling of J.J. Abram’s first Star Trek movie as told via the original…

Movies Andrew Liszewski

We’re scared of this Toothless cosplay from How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon is both awesome and amazing, but the very best part was the puppy/kitty dragon Toothless. One clever costumer has recreated the dragon in real life! It’s amazing, adorable, and also kind of horrifying. Impressive cosplayer Monoyasha created this beauty, and yes, there’s only one person inside of that dragon. Well…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Counting the Dead: 92,901 Killed In Syrian Uprising

Syria’s violent crackdown on the uprising has already claimed 92,901 lives, and that very specific number was reached by human rights groups collecting the actual names of those killed from family and friends in Syria since fighting began two years ago. Still, analysts admit the real number is much higher.

Sploid Ken Layne

Deep Magic brings exotic spells and wizard schools to your RPG

There’s one thing a D&D campaign can never get enough of: magic. More spells. Weirder spells. New ways to interact with the magical forces in our favorite fantasy worlds. With Deep Magic, Kobold Press has harnessed some big RPG names (including Ed Greenwood) to give us all the magic we could possibly want. Deep Magic…

Books & Comics Ed Grabianowski

LiveMap: An F-35 Fighter Pilot Helmet for Motorcyclists

Move over, Glass, there’s another AR solution for motorcyclists. A startup out of Russia has ideated a helmet with a HUD that claims to solve all your navigation needs. LiveMap’s helmet looks more like the lovechild of a Simpson racing lid and fighter pilot helmet, than a traditional motorcycle helmet. The company says it will…

Tech News Peter ha

Yes, Of Course There Is Kinect Porn [NSFW]

With the announcement that the Xbox One requires Kinect, there’s been plenty of outcry that its ever-present robot eyes are creepy. Especially if you want your Xbox in the bedroom. Artist Alejandro Gomez-Arias probably wouldn’t mind, though. Hell, he’d probably be into it; he’s already starred in his own Kinect porn. https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-new-kinect-much-more-than-mere-motion-cont-509063783 The piece, called…

Tech News Eric Limer

Europe’s Answer to American’s Dreamliner Flies for the First Time

According to the European airplane manufacturer Airbus, their new A350 XWB plane is more fuel efficient and can carry more passengers (350 vs 250) than its American counterpart, the Boeing Dreamliner. It flew today for the first time in Toulouse, France. https://gizmodo.com/airbus-a350-xwb-first-flight-video-the-dreamliners-nig-513360748 Of course, a test flight is just a test flight. The Dreamliner was…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The Science Delusion argues that science wrecks truth and beauty

Curtis White’s book, The Science Delusion, makes two broad points: that science is based upon ‘assumptions that are deluded,’ and that scientists can be real jerks. He provides ample proof for one of those claims. The title of the The Science Delusion, published on May 28th, is an obvious reference Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion.…

Books & Comics Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Impossible History of Perpetual Motion

On November 12th, 1717, clockmaker and mechanic Johann Bessler placed a 12-foot diameter, strange-looking wheel into a room. With a tender push, he started the contraption rotating, then confidently turned and strolled outside. Guards promptly secured and locked the door behind him. Nobody would be allowed to enter the room for two weeks, lest the…

Physics & Chemistry Ross Pomeroy - RealClearScience

The 2013 “Dance Your Ph.D.” competition has officially begun!

Calling all past and present Ph.D. students! Have you ever felt the urge to convey your graduate work through interpretive dance? Well now’s your chance; Science’s 2013 “Dance Your Ph.D.” Contest has officially begun! The rules are pretty straightforward. You must be a Ph.D. or be working towards one; the Ph.D. must be in a…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

A Gorgeous Lightweight Carbon Fiber Bike Designed Exclusively For Kids

Children are impossible to please, no matter now many Lunchables you ply them with. But even the most ungrateful tykes will appreciate getting one of Mores stunning Petitpierre kids bikes crafted from carbon fiber so they’re easier to ride and maneuver. Featuring everything from built-in LED safety lights, to a clever footrest built into the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This alien world shouldn’t even exist

What you’re looking at could be a planet being born some 176 light-years away from Earth. It’s a small planet, only 6 to 28 times Earth’s mass. But that’s not even the best part. This alien world, if we can confirm it, shouldn’t be there according to conventional planet-forming theory. Top image: TW Hydrae and…

io9 Elizabeth Howell — Universe Today

Dad tries to name all the Game of Thrones characters in one sitting

Redditor Sartro quizzed his Father right after the season finale of Game of Thrones on the names of each character. The results are priceless. Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing this, more results over at reddit.

Television Meredith Woerner

Lohan Booted from Rehab Clinic After Making Life Hell For People There

Jezebel brings out their daily dirt bag of celebrity miseries and inconsequential life events starting with news of Lindsay Lohan getting transferred from the Betty Ford clinic to a Malibu rehab center for being “disruptive” and “making life hell for those around her.” She really works hard to grow her legend. https://jezebel.com/lindsay-lohan-transferred-from-betty-ford-for-being-hel-513356462

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Fill an egg with crystals this weekend

Have you ever dyed Easter eggs and thought that a slightly-different-colored egg wasn’t worth the trouble? How about an egg filled with crystals? Try out a chemistry experiment that lets you turn eggs into geodes. Geodes, as anyone who has ever wandered through an ‘educational’ toy store knows, are minerals that have air pockets in…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This Movie May Be the Most Accurate Vision of Earth’s Future Yet

Watch the movie trailer for Neill Blomkamp’s new sci-fi movie, the story of how the 1-percent go live in a perfect artificial world around Earth called Elysium and 99-percent stay in a wasted Earth, producing for them. A dystopian future set in 2154 which now seems more plausible than ever. https://gizmodo.com/new-elysium-trailer-is-f-cking-awesome-513329949

Sploid Jesus Diaz

How Nextdoor and NYC Will Pioneer Socially Networked Crime Fighting

Can you imagine what it would be like to report crimes via Facebook or call for a fire truck through Twitter? It would be pretty convenient, right? None of that scary “Call 911!” business. No ambling down to the precinct to fill out paperwork. No need to leave your living room at all, actually. It…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Alcohol Is Good to Get Big Ideas, Coffee Is Good to Make Them Happen

Scientists have proved that moderate alcohol consumption produces better and more ideas than coffee, which “can increase quality and performance if the task […] doesn’t require too much abstract thinking.” It seems reasonable, unless the scientists were wasted when they discovered this. Read the details at Lifehacker. https://lifehacker.com/why-you-should-drink-beer-for-big-ideas-coffee-to-get-513262326

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Boeing’s Giant Robot Arms Are Spray-Painting Prodigies

The Boeing 777 is a huge, hulking beast. And when you’re trying to churn out 100 of them every year, there’s only one way to pull it off: turn to the robots. These giant, spray-painting robot arms can coat one of the bird’s mammoth wings in mere minutes. Compared to old-fashioned manpower, the enormous pair…

Tech News Eric Limer

Waffle-Loving Rapper Sued For Using Waffle House Logo

Someone Needs to Make This 8-Bit Abrams Star Trek Video Game Right Now

We’re scared of this Toothless cosplay from How to Train Your Dragon

Counting the Dead: 92,901 Killed In Syrian Uprising

Deep Magic brings exotic spells and wizard schools to your RPG

LiveMap: An F-35 Fighter Pilot Helmet for Motorcyclists

Yes, Of Course There Is Kinect Porn [NSFW]

Europe’s Answer to American’s Dreamliner Flies for the First Time

The Science Delusion argues that science wrecks truth and beauty

The Impossible History of Perpetual Motion

The 2013 “Dance Your Ph.D.” competition has officially begun!

A Gorgeous Lightweight Carbon Fiber Bike Designed Exclusively For Kids

This alien world shouldn’t even exist

Dad tries to name all the Game of Thrones characters in one sitting

Lohan Booted from Rehab Clinic After Making Life Hell For People There

Fill an egg with crystals this weekend

This Movie May Be the Most Accurate Vision of Earth’s Future Yet

How Nextdoor and NYC Will Pioneer Socially Networked Crime Fighting

Alcohol Is Good to Get Big Ideas, Coffee Is Good to Make Them Happen

Boeing’s Giant Robot Arms Are Spray-Painting Prodigies

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