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The IRS made a Star Trek parody video, and it’s just about the most amazingly bad thing ever. Check it out over at i09.

Dora the Explorer channels Indiana Jones in her live-action parody adventure

When Nick Jr. star Diego seeks out his young cousin, the famed explorer Dora, he finds her in much the same way Indiana Jones found Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark, only sucking down a juice box instead of shots. It’s an auspicious beginning for their parody archaeological adventure, Dora the Explorer and…

T-Mobile’s Testing Out Its LTE Network in 8 Different Cities

The “uncarrier” T-Mobile has an announcement coming up next week, and while it could be about anything, some recent data about their LTE testing provides a clue. According to OpenSignal, T-Mobile has already started testing it’s brand new, upcoming LTE network in a total of eight different cities. Here’s where you can expect some T-mobs…

Jason Voorhees enjoys some goofy time off in Saturday the 14th

What do slasher movie villains do during their time off? A hockey-masked fellow enjoys a few mundane moments in Kristjan Lyngmo’s silly animated short Saturday the 14th. Be sure to keep your eyes on the background, especially those fridge magnets. [via The Animation Blog]

At Least the IRS’s Ridiculous Star Trek Parody Was Also Crazy Expensive

We all have our favorite Star Trek episodes, and the ones we think aren’t quite up to snuff. But here’s something we can all agree on: the IRS’s nearly $60,000 Star Trek-inspired training video from 2010 would be the worst Star Trek episode ever. No contest. https://gizmodo.com/the-irs-spent-60-000-making-a-truly-awful-star-trek-pa-458466853 This little ditty is so bad, in fact,…

How Apple’s Password-Reset Security Breach Worked

Yesterday, The Verge uncovered a security breach that allowed malicious users to reset Apple ID passwords with nothing but an email and the user’s birthday. Luckily, the process didn’t leak out in full before the whole thing was patched up, but now iMore was able to reproduce the hack step by step and now it’s…

Anti-rape PSA from the Harry Potter Universe warns against the use of love potions

One of the key uncomfortable events of the Harry Potter series comes about thanks to a love potion, and Potter fan Raph addresses the very serious moral and criminal aspects of love potion use with this PSA from the Ministry of Magic. Hopefully, this is covered early on in Hogwarts’ health classes. [Ashtray Boy via…

Concept Art Writing Prompt: The Man and His Moon

Some people have a special relationship with the moon, one that goes beyond the typical enjoyment of moonlit evenings. What kind of tale can you cook up based on this fantastical photograph? This photo is part of Leonid Tishkov and Boris Bendikov My Private Moon series. Head over to their blog for more magical realist…

What’s The Most Annoying First World Problem You Are Still Waiting on Tech to Solve?

As tech makes our lives easier and easier, the little incoveniences that are left just get more glaring by contrast. Sure, I don’t have to use a chamber pot but sometimes my magical pocket computer that knows practically everything gets uncomfortably warm when I’m using to to play GTA III and that’s annoying. As time…

The First Beautiful Android Phone, The Most Accurate Map of NCAA Fandom, The iDumbPhone, And More

Congratulations, you’ve successfully made it to the end of yet another week. How about a little celebration? We have plenty of goodies to choose from. Take your pick from the Voyager’s journey to the edge of the solar system, the first truly beautiful Android, why T-Mobile’s LTE network could kick serious ass, the iDumbPhone, a…

Gates McFadden has way too much fun with her Beverly Crusher action figure

What would you do if you had your very own action figure? Lately, Star Trek: The Next Generation actress Gates McFadden has been photographing her Beverly Crusher doll in all sorts of strange situations, creating a bizarre shrunken Dr. Crusher spinoff. McFadden is currently the artistic director of Ensemble Studio Theater in Los Angeles, and…

Check out the view from the top of the world’s tallest building

National Geographic photographer Joe McNally climbed to the top of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa so the rest of us don’t have to. He posted this image to his Instagram account, adding, “My old battered shoes climbed the worlds tallest building today. What an amazing structure! Tweeting from 820 meters straight up!” [via Design You Trust]

You see one South African fly-man that spits worms in his victims’ faces and eats their tears, you’ve seen them all

Well, last night saw one deeply goofy episode of Grimm. I was hoping that the episode’s worst quality would be the head of its Fly-Wesen antagonist, which looked either like bad CG or great CG of a bad rubber fly mask. But despite a few fun moments, “Mr. Sandman” was mostly just… baffling. Let’s start…

These Exploding Droplets of Glass Are a Bewildering Quirk of Physics

Making a Prince Albert’s Rupert’s drop is easy; you just let some molten glass drip into a bucket of water. But the resulting structure is so much more complex than the process that made it. The guys over at SmarterEveryDay took an in-depth look to explain why part of it can’t be destroyed with a…

Bartkira is a cyberpunk tale of Neo-Springfield

Bart and Milhouse have grown up as troublemakers in the streets of Neo-Springfield, but the nature of their relationship changes radically when Bart starts manifesting powerful psychic abilities. Artist Ryan Humphrey found a strange and visually compelling mashup with his Bartkira images, and it’s turning into a project to reimagine Ōtomo Katsuhiro’s entire manga classic.…

Why wear Jayne Cobb’s hat when you can dress as Jayne’s hat?

This clever cosplayer puts all of those Jayne hat-wearing Firefly fans to shame with her full-body Jayne hat costume. Pretty cunning, don’t you think? [GeekExchange via Blastr]

Recycle Your Old Water Bottles Into Flaming DIY Rockets

Those of use who know from experience can safely say there’s nothing quite as much fun as a homemade rocket. But part of that fun is not getting your hands blown off. Nighthawkinlight has a fun, easy way you can get the best of both worlds, and “recycle” your old water bottles in a literal…

Saturday Webcomic: A roboticist meets his transgender robot doppelgänger in O Human Star

Sixteen years after he died, famed roboticist Alastair Sterling wakes in a robot body to a world he barely recognizes. Artificial beings walk the Earth, many of them based on his own memories and designs. Confused about his resurrection and this brave new world, Al visits his old research partner Brendan to find more surprises…

Brad Pitt travels the zombie-infested world in the latest World War Z trailer

The latest trailer for World War Z does go global, but not in the fascinating and heartbreaking manner of Max Brooks’ original novel. Instead of seeing the political and social consequences of the zombie pandemic, we get Brad Pitt racing around the world, trying to learn the origin of the outbreak while dodging the faceless…

The Doctor gets advice on the playground in the prequel to “The Bells of Saint John”

The Doctor reunites with Clara Oswin Oswald in next week’s Doctor Who episode “The Bells of Saint John,” but in this short episode prequel, he’s still looking for her. And he gets a bit of advice on how to find lost things from a wise young girl on the swing set. [via Bleeding Cool]