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Paranoid Movie Watches You Watch It and Changes to Your Liking

If Choose Your Own Adventure books weren’t your go-to in fourth grade there’s something seriously wrong with you. But you’re going to have another chance to dictate the creative process thanks to a movie that chooses its ending based on sensor data from the audience. Many Worlds is a 15 minute short film that taps…

Deadpool and Harley Quinn both lose their minds in their own version of The Notebook

Some people like their romantic comedies with a heaping scoop of blood. This past week, CBR’s The Line it is Drawn paid dubious tribute to the wonders of love by asking their guest artists to draw comic book characters coupled up. Some of the fictional pairings enjoyed romantic rooftop dates while others painted the town…

The Large Hadron Collider Just Started On a Two-Year Vacation

The Large Hadron Collider has been pretty busy lately, probably discovering the Higgs Boson, and definitely not destroying the world and whatnot. It’s probably earned a little time off, right? You bet it has, which is why it’s going down for a two-year nap. https://gizmodo.com/the-higgs-boson-discovery-just-got-more-certain-5930781 As of Valentines Day, the LHC won’t be running any…

How do you get someone to lose interest in their hobby? Pay them to do it

Think a little money would make you more interested in your hobbies? Think again. The overjustification effect says that paying someone for a task they enjoy is a sure way to get them to drop it. All it takes is a little money and a little planning to ruin anyone’s pleasures. One of the time-honored…

A short and stylish Simpsons webcomic set in a post-apocalyptic Springfield

Given the state of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, The Simpsons is perpetually on the brink of radioactive disaster. In his quickie webcomic Wasteland, Jack Teagle takes us to post-apocalyptic Springfield, where the bullies Kearney and Jimbo Jones must survive against ravenous mutants and the vile smog issuing from the power plant. Teagle created Wasteland…

Wanna free your data? Google’s Takeout service now supports Blogger and Google+ profile data. [Data Liberation]

6 Historical Forensic Detectives Who Deserve Their Own TV Shows

We’ve seen not one but two modern reinterpretations of Sherlock Holmes in the last couple of years, plus countless procedural dramas, including forensic-themed shows like Bones and CSI. Meanwhile, TV audiences are utterly charmed by historical dramas like Downton Abbey and Boardwalk Empire. And just this summer, ABC announced plans to develop a steampunk detective…

Do Colors Look The Same For All of Us?

It’s probably one of the most basic philosophical questions of childhood; “What if what I see as red is what you see as green, and we just never know?!” Well childhood and stonerdom. OK, and maybe the rest of us too. It is, after all, an intriguing proposition that mankind’s understand of color is based…

Mega Is Now Accepting Bitcoin Because Of Course It Is

Kim Dotcom’s Mega has been marching on into the future, so far without any sort of considerable pestering from one pesky United States government. In the meantime, Dotcom’s been doing his best to beef the service up, offering cash money to anyone who can strengthen its encryption. And now Mega is taking Bitcoin. Because of…

Microscopic cross-section photo of layers of paint is more spectacular than we ever would have imagined

This photograph may resemble the geological strata of an alien world, but it’s actually dozens of layers of paint. Natasha K. Loeblich of the Architectural Research Department of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation photographed a cross-section of the wall paints on an 18th-century theater at 100 times magnification, creating this rather stunning image. It was awarded…

Take a closer look at the video game caricatures hanging on Wreck-It Ralph‘s bar walls

When Ralph heads into the bar-themed game Tapper’s in Wreck-It Ralph, the animators wanted to replicate the look of the famous New York restaurant Sardi’s, which has celebrity caricatures on the wall. But of course, the celebrities of Wreck-It Ralph are video game characters, giving the animators an excuse the cook up their own caricatures.…

What Is the Universe? (In One Minute)

What is the Universe? Is the Universe everything there was, is and will be? Is the Universe everything we can observe and things we know exist but haven’t been observed yet? I mathematics part of the Universe or do they exist outside of the Universe? This one-minute-long video shows exactly what the Universe is—but proceed…

Amazon Is Selling Die-Cast Replicas of Military Vehicles, Everybody Panic

The Amazon product page for Maisto International Inc.’s model Predator drones has been inundated with snarky parody reviews mocking the replica, apparently as a means of “protesting” the government’s controversial practice of targeted drone strikes. But rather than dissuade potential customers, the shrill whine of impotent hippy rage has accomplished precisely the opposite—Amazon can barely…

The Avengers take over the Powerpuff Girls’ opening sequence and prepare to save Townsville

Iros Yan has been doodling the Avengers in the style of the Powerpuff Girls for quite some time now in comics, illustrations, and animated gifs. Now he’s given them a full minute of animation time by redoing The Powerpuff Girls theme with the Avengers characters. This clip still has the original PPG audio sitting under…

The Universal History of Music In One Awesome Timelapse Drawing

I love timelapse drawings that explain complex things, like timelines or processes. They are usually mesmerizing and beautiful. This history of music is no exception. It’s brilliant. Although some of the technical terms are in Spanish, you will understand it all. [Thanks Oscar!]

Blood is the new black at this deranged horror-themed fashion show

Amongst all of the fashions debuting on the runways of New York fashion week, The Blonds’ 2013 fall line was especially Psycho. It was also a bit of The Shining and more than a dash of asylum-chic. It was a fun, if utterly demented show, complete with shower stabbing patterns, a bloody PVC raincoat, and…

Scenes of Skywalker family life, if Anakin hadn’t gone over to the Dark Side

What if Anakin Skywalker hadn’t gone over to the Dark Side and instead set up a happy domestic life with Padme and their twin children? Artist Renata Castellani has sketched up a few sweet and silly comics and illustrations imagining the happy home life of the Skywalker family. Castellani has more of these Skywalker family…

Police Raided a Guy’s House Because He Posted a Picture of a Toy Mortar on Facebook

The British police officers that raided Ian Driscoll’s Tewkesbury home found the mortar they were looking for. They just didn’t expect it to be plastic. Or a model. “The Action Man looked a bit like me, so I decided to put it as my Facebook picture,” Driscoll, who makes models for a living, explained to…

Concept Art Writing Prompt: The Girl with the Skeleton Body

The subject of this week’s Concept Art Writing Prompt has a rather unusual body type: skeletal. Is she the result of a medical experiment gone awry? Some sort of ghostly creature? An especially dedicated cosplayer? Write your own story about this strange lady. This week’s image comes from Pixiv user Bsanshuiji via The Art of…

This Lay-Z-Boy/Ergometer Hybrid Fails as Both Arm Chair and Rowing Machine

You know what smells awesome? Hot, sweaty leather—like the ass crack of Jim Morrison’s pants. And now you can enjoy the pungent aroma every time you sit in this Frankensteined armchair and pull a 10k on its integrated erg. Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits spent more than three years developing the the GEWOS (Gesund…