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The hidden bus routes in San Francisco that are only for techno-elites

Last year, design firm Stamen got a grant to create an art project based on the bus routes that people in San Francisco take to commute the 30-50 miles south to Silicon Valley. (Click image to enlarge.) Though they take busses, none of these workers take public transit. Their companies, such as Google, Apple, Facebook,…

All the Space Adventure and Superhero Angst You’ll Find in This Week’s Comics!

Some of the most beloved comics creators are putting out work this week — Darwyn Cooke and Paul Pope are both unloading some creator-owned goodness, Frank Cho is putting Wolverine in the Savage Land, and there’s a new issue of Brian K. Vaughan’s Saga. And meanwhile, Batman is still facing massive destruction in “Death of…

Who Does Facebook Search Screw the Most?

Graph Search, which we’re going to call Facebook search from here on out because nobody wants to read or write “Graph Search,” is a dramatic new way to browse Facebook. But its implications spill over its rivals—which companies lose the most? https://gizmodo.com/heres-what-using-the-new-facebook-search-looks-like-5976201 It’s hard to give Facebook’s new search engine a fair appraisal, because it’s…

9 species of animals that are having more fun than you

As humans, we like to think that we have a monopoly on living the good life. But we shouldn’t assume that other animals don’t also enjoy their lives and revel in their extraordinary abilities. Here are 9 animals that are probably having more fun than you right now. Before we get started, it’s important to…

Google Street View Car Not Guilty of Donkey Murder

The internet was freaking out yesterday because holy shit! It looked like Google ran over a donkey with a Street View car in Kweneng, Botswana. But no need to call up PETA, Google says it absolutely did not commit assicide. Street View tourists of Africa were up in arms over an image that showed a…

This Is the Dream Home Office I Wish I Had

Don’t you wish your office cubicle were like this? A nice wooden desk and a comfortable chair in a peaceful, fresh garden, just a few steps away from your kitchen and bedroom. I can imagine working there, sipping some lemonade on a perfect spring day, going to the big chair by the fountain to read…

Finally, proof that all movie trailers use the same color palette

The contrasting colors orange and blue appear together so often in movie posters and videogame box art as to inspire countless blog posts, tumblrs, and even their own entry on TV Tropes. Intrigued by the entertainment industry’s orange/blue affinity, Edmund Helmer — a masters student studying statistics at Stanford — decided to visualize the use…

Nintendo is reportedly merging its console and handheld divisions. Logical! And also a good look at next generation.

This Is the Chemical Weapon Reportedly Used by Syria Against its Own People (Updated)

In the nearly two years since the start of the Syrian Civil War, the international community has steadfastly refused to directly intervene—despite reports of atrocities ranging from horrific detainee abuse to indiscriminate airstrikes and shelling against civilians. However, the Assad regime may have finally crossed the “red line” by unleashing a deadly nerve agent against…

Listen to 150,000 Different Animal Sounds in This Humongous Online Library

This is more or less like the grown-up, nerded-out scientist version of those spinny roulette toys you had as a kid that taught you that The Cow Goes Moo. Except the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library tells you that the katydid goes, uhhh, “dial-up modem noise“? More or less. The Macaulay Library just went…

Silica Gel-Packed Lens Caps Suck the Moisture Right Out of Your Camera Gear

Dust and moisture are the main enemies when it comes to keeping your photography gear in top working condition. That’s why everything comes with lens caps, and why you should maybe consider upgrading them all to BRNO’s dri+Caps which feature a compartment for a small packet of moisture-trapping silica gel. Available in $45 lens and…

My Sexually Deviant Neighbor Totoro

To be fair, just because you might purchase this Cartoon Totoro Lycra Spandex Multicolor Zentai Suit — available from Milanoo for a mere $40 here —does not mean you’re necessarily a sexual deviant. And Just because someone might purchase and wear this nightmare, that doesn’t mean they also have little girls dressed like the stars…

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is a thing that is happening

Didn’t get your fill of naked men having a midlife crises in a hot tub? Well, you’re in luck! MGM is allegedly interested in making a sequel to the time-traveling comedy Hot Tub Time Machine. Why, because it made a pant-load of cash in relation to the pennies it took to make. Thankfully, Rob Corddry…

Wrangler’s New Jeans Are a Skin-Softening Spa in Your Pants

You’ve been thinking it for ages: What you really want your jeans to do is make your butt feel like it’s just been lathered with lotion. Pine for these skin softening slacks no longer, because Wrangler has invented moisturizing jeans. Let’s repeat that, but more slowly: Wrangler. Moisturizing. Jeans. The Denim Spa line hits asos.com…

NASA’s Curiosity Rover prepares to drill, baby, drill

Rovers, landers and satellites have been turning up evidence of a wet Martian history for years. Now, NASA’s recently landed Curiosity rover has happened upon even more signs of the planet’s watery past: veins of hydrated calcium sulfate (visible in the outrcrop pictured above) stretching across the planet’s surface — a geological feature which, here…

Use a Cheap Prism to Create Amazing Light-Bending Photo Effects

Digital photography is sometimes lambasted for being too clean and too perfect—lacking the character and unpredictability of film. Sure, you can fake it by using filters a la Instagram, but you can also open some creative doors with one wonderfully ‘analog’ tool: a prism. Photographer Sam Hurd describes on his blog how to use this…

Putter Pool Brilliantly Merges Two of the World’s Laziest Sports

If you need any more proof that we’re giving Nobel Prizes to the wrong people, behold the brilliant creation that is Putter Pool. It takes billiards and golf—arguably two of the laziest ‘sports’ known to man—and merges them into an indoor game that barely requires you to get up off the couch. Genius! If you’ve…

3 Privacy Settings You Must Change Before Using Facebook Graph Search

Tweaking your Activity Log just became a necessary and tedious new part of being a Facebook user. Thanks to the service’s new Graph Search feature, all that profile info you’ve painstakingly updated over the years (employer, home town, relationship status, movie likes, etc) and all the photos you’ve added over time, are now to become…

The Great Millennium Falcon Second-Shooter Conspiracy

So the craziest thing happened to me the other day. I was riding around post-apocalyptic North America, delivering the mail, when I came to a city. And this guy straight up asks me to have sex with Olivia Williams! And not Dollhouse Olivia Williams, who is still very attractive, but 1995 Olivia Williams. And get…

White House’s Petition Page Raises Bar from 25,000 to 100,000 Signatures

People of the United States of America! You can stick your dumb Death Stars up your collective black hole. From now on, instead of 25,000 signatures, petitions at the We the People site will require 100,000 signatures to get an official response from the White House: https://gizmodo.com/this-isnt-the-white-house-response-to-the-death-star-pe-5975377 When we launched We the People, none of…