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All the Fake Websites from Doctor Who Make Me Wish They Were Real

TV show websites are notoriously bad and comically unreal yet I can’t help but be charmed by their hilarious simplicity (and god awful horribleness). Can you imagine if there were giant flashing RED ALERT messages popping up at you? Or if hacking was as simple as just slapping the keys on the keyboard a few…

A Mom Tried to Sell Her Three-Year-Old Son on Craigslist

A bicycle. An old jailbroken iPhone. Maybe used furniture. Some free dirt. Those are the type of things you expect to buy off Craigslist. You definitely don’t expect a Mom to offer up her three-year-old son on the seedy but useful classifieds website. But that’s just what Stephanie Redus did. She used Craiglist to get…

Watch Liquid Water Instantly Turn into Ice

Turning water into ice usually takes a lot of time. Not for this guy though, he magically turns liquid water into frozen ice. It’s instantaneous! Seriously, just watch water get poured from the bottle and then freeze immediately. What kind of sorcery is this? The trick is getting the water to just about freezing in…

Yuko Shimizu’s art is like a cooler version of your wildest dreams

You’ve probably admired the work of award-winning artist Yuko Shimizu before — her art has adorned some covers of Vertigo Comics’ The Unwritten as well as some great book covers and illustrations at Tor.com. But when you see a bunch of her gorgeous work all in one place, it’s pretty mind-blowing. Shimizu posted a new…

Iron Man 3 VFX reels make the Air Force One scene twice as impressive

One of the amazing things about The Avengers was just how seamless a lot of the CG cityscapes and creations felt. And it looks like Iron Man 3 had a similar amount of heavy CG. Check out some mind-blowing new VFX reels. https://gizmodo.com/weird-secrets-of-the-avengers-that-youd-never-have-gues-5940888 https://gizmodo.com/the-avengers-fx-reel-will-blow-you-away-5974971 Produced by Digital Domain, these reels show off how they put…

Google wants Microsoft to remove the YouTube app in Windows Phone 8 because it doesn’t show any ads. Understandable! But Microsoft says it would be happy to include advertising in the YouTube app… if Google gave Microsoft the proper APIs. Round and around we go. [Verge]

New Google Maps Hands-On: Maps Have Never Been This Cool

Amongst the the deluge of new stuff Google announced today, there was a rather large update to Maps. We took a good look at it earlier, but we just spend some time putting our hands all over it. The verdict? You’re in for a treat. https://gizmodo.com/google-i-o-whats-new-in-android-chrome-and-beyond-506734952 When you first open the new version of Maps,…

Learn to write Gallifreyan in 9 simple steps

You may never become a Time Lord — but least you can learn to write in their elegant, intricate language. There’s no “official” lexicon to the circular Gallifreyan script we’ve seen in Doctor Who, but Loren Sherman has a guide to writing in it. It looks cool, and it can be your own private code.…

What Your Body Will Do in the Next 30 Seconds

You might think 30 seconds is pretty short. Your body doesn’t though. In order to keep everything running, there’s a lot of things going on in those 30 seconds. Like you’ll make 72 million red blood cells! And shed 174,000 skin cells! And have 25 thoughts. The human body, what a wonderful thing. [BuzzFeed Video]

The Most Horrifying Industrial Disasters of All Time

Natural disasters have claimed countless human lives throughout history, with their unexpected waves of destruction. But there’s still something uniquely terrifying and heart-breaking about an industrial disaster, when our best precautions fail and our achievements turn deadly. Here are the worst industrial catastrophes ever. Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Fukushima, Japan, March 11, 2011 The largest…

Why does this ‘Google Glass 2.0’ video seem so wrong?

A Toronto-based creative agency has put together its vision of what the next version of Google Glass might look like. There are some really neat ideas in there, but the video also feels a bit… off. What do you think? The video was produced by Playground Inc. as a way to “visualize how heads up…

3-D Imaging Shows a Caterpillar Becoming a Butterfly

For the first time, scientists have taken 3D images of a caterpillar undergoing metamorphosis. And they are amazing. Until now, studying metamorphosing insects, including fruit flies, blowflies and butterflies, has mainly involved dissection. Basically, scientists would take a bunch of the insects that are the same age and dissect them individually to see how their…

Google Hangouts is live now in the iOS App Store, which means you can now Gchat from your iPhone. Go and get it right here.

Every fake website featured Doctor Who in one clip

behold every single made-up website featured on Doctor Who, with an added bonus of a collection of actors nonsensically mashing their fingers onto keypads. Oh, Doctor, if only real life was as simple as hacking into the Royal Navy from your bedroom. [via Geekologie]

Larry Page Reminded Us Why We Love Google Today

Larry Page, Google’s CEO and co-founder, closed out the Google I/O keynote today with a sentimental, almost subdued speech. He didn’t sound like a CEO. He sounded like a guy in charge of a company he genuinely thought could change the world. And it was a wonderful reminder that Google used to be, can be,…

Festival Ready: A Swiss Army App Tailored to Summertime Fun

Summer approacheth, and with summer comes festivals—all sorts of festivals! Whether you’re a music buff, renaissance enthusiast, or food and wine connoisseur there’s a festival out there somewhere waiting for you. Now an actual Swiss Army knife is handy to have, but probably won’t do you too much good at any of the above. A…

What’s the most overrated science fiction or fantasy movie?

There are so many classic science fiction and fantasy movies that have earned our love and respect, with their unforgettable characters and clever action. And then… there are the movies that somehow got a great rep that they didn’t quite deserve. What’s your pick for the most overrated SF movie? Please share your choice below…

Buy Popular Mechanics’ 1955 House of the Future For Only $1.8 Million

“I’m just completing a new house that is a mechanical masterpiece,” writes Popular Mechanics editor Thomas Stimson in a 1955 article proudly titled I Chose a Steel-Frame House. “The house has a steel frame like an office building. To a large extent it was put together with a welding torch instead of hammer and nails.”…

This amazing Optimus Prime painting was made in two and a half minutes

It was also made in eight months! That’s how long artist Robert Burden — whose amazing, intricate painting of classic toys are always wonderful to behold — took to create this giant masterpiece of the Autobot leader. Then it took over 2,000 photos to assemble this time-lapse video of the painting coming to life, which…

The Ultimate Video of People Being Idiots in Shopping Carts (Ouch)

Look at all the stupid people. I mean, there’s probably more to say here, about responsibility or exhibition of reckless behavior brought on by the wired age, but really, like… look at all these stupid people. Idiots, using shopping carts stupidly. Enjoy. [YouTube]