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Adult Mad Libs, Turnplay, and More

If you’re a wordsmith, you’ll dig this batch of the week’s best iPad apps. We’ve got an adult spin on a popular kids game, another title that challenges you to make popcorn style stories, and more. Adult Mad Libs: Mad Libs was fun when you were a kid, and it’s still fun as an adult.…

Vice City, Elf on the Shelf, and More

It’s Friday. We’re all ready to cut out of work and enjoy the weekend. But before you do, we’ve got a couple Android gems for you to download. From a new weather app, to a classic game, these are the Android apps of the week. Weather Live: Here’s another alternative for your default weather app.…

Sitegeist, Flickr, and More

It’s great when apps make things easier, like giving you a way to easily access information. And this round of the best iPhone apps of the week will help educate you about your neighborhood, make it easier to share photos, and much more. So dive on in! Wink: Your friends always bug you about posting…

This Adorable Dog Can Smell Your Diarrhea Before It Happens

Cliff, the canine Diarrhea Oracle of VU University Medical Centre, may just have the worst job in the world: sniffing out hospital patient’s infected feces. Clostridium difficile (C. diff), a potentially deadly bacterium, is a highly contagious form of infectious diarrhea. So in places like this hospital in Amsterdam, it can spread between wards fast.…

A Tiny Tulip Shaped Humidifier Is the Cutest Humidifier

This is the most adorable little humidifier I’ve ever seen. The Tulip Stick Ultrasonic Humidifier is shaped like a sweet flower stalk and plugs right into your USB port. Who knew a humidifier could be this small and pleasant? This $92 product comes in four different colors—pink, yellow, green, and ivory, and it weighs just…

What comes after the end of factory farming?

Factory farming only really began 40 years ago, and it seems unlikely to continue for another 40 years in its current configuration. Even leaving aside the massive, huge ethical problems with abusing our fellow sentient creatures, the logic behind factory farming is based on some assumptions that won’t be true for much longer. So how…

I can’t stop looking at this Furry drawing book

I blame Disney’s Robin Hood for my fascination with furries. I love their mascot-like outfits, their button eyes, their tails. I love the strange way they anthropomorphize animals with cheerleading outfits, and yet refuse to give them shoes. So when I was sent Draw More Furries by Jared Hodges and Linsday Cibos, I knew I…

The Hulk, Batman and the Skywalkers Get Their Own Game of Thrones House Sigils

Game of Thrones House sigils. You love ’em. We love ’em. Which is why, even after showcasing these wonderful fan-made sigils for other pop culture families, we had to show you the work of Michael Lokia, a.k.a. the DeviantArtist Lokiable, who’s made an entirely new treasure trove of sigils for comic book characters, movie characters…

Stop Pretending You Don’t Look at Porn Online

Google is so convinced you don’t want to see porn that it started filtering its own search results. Bullshit. Everybody wants porn, and nobody wants to admit it. Except me, of course, I don’t look at that smut. But for the rest of you: It’s time to fess up. https://gizmodo.com/google-is-blocking-porn-duh-nsfw-updated-5967934 After all, everybody knows you’re…

The Secret Science In a Pint of Beer

There are two things we here at Gizmodo love unabashedly: science and beer. So, when we saw that the gang at the UK’s Institute of Physics had launched a site about the physics of beer, we just had to invite them to come for a chat. https://gizmodo.com/the-science-of-beer-bubbles-5967416 We’ve got Henry Lau and Rik Sargent (pictured…

Of Course Today Is the Day to Talk About Gun Control

The entire point of technology is to work to our benefit, not against us. The entire point of being a responsible, reasoned human being is to face our failings head-on, not to hide from them. Those points seem inarguable. So why is it that the only time we’re not allowed to talk about guns as…

Google’s Retiring Sync and Other Services In This Year’s Winter Cleaning

It’s that time of year again; Google’s leading its ostensibly lonely and unloved services out to pasture. This time Google Sync, and some more obscure calender options are headed for that big cloud storage unit in the sky. Google Sync allowed Google Mail, Calendar and Contacts access through the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol. The introduction…

Must Watch: China Mieville explains why science fiction is not superior to fantasy

Back in 2009, China Mieville gave a talk at Kansas University about the divide between science fiction and fantasy. And he explained just why the widespread perception on the internet that science fiction is smarter than fantasy, or superior to fantasy, is overblown. The whole thing is on Youtube, and here’s the first part. It’s…

How To Sound Smart at Your Holiday Party

It’s party season. In fact, we have our office shindig tonight, and maybe you’re attending a holiday fete of your own. At the minimum, you avoid devolving into a sloppy drunken mess. Best case scenario, you actually come across as clever and well-informed. Here are your talking points for the week. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-increase-your-drinking-tolerance-so-you-dont-ma-5962095 Did you hear…

Holiday Treats Are Even Better When You Destroy Them in Slow Motion

Conan O’Brien probably understands the absurdity of slow-motion destruction porn better than anyone else. But really, we’ve never seen anything like Andy Richter dressed as Santa getting doused by an ocean of egg nog in slow motion. So sticky. So good. Bless you, Conan. [Devour] https://gizmodo.com/conan-takes-super-slo-mo-to-absurd-new-heights-5930862

Our favorite photos from this year’s Geminid meteor shower

Last night marked the peak of this year’s gorgeous Geminid meteor shower, perhaps the most stunning celestial lightshow of 2012. Photographs of last night’s fireballs are still rolling in and stargazers can expect to spot intermittent meteors during predawn hours for the next few days, but here are ten of our favorites so far. Pictured…

Dropbox just overhauled their iOS app making for a more “enhanced photos experience.” It’s better, faster and stronger.

Here is the biggest goddamn snow blower you’ve ever seen

Add this to your ever-growing list of things you never knew existed but now desperately need: a BNSF rotary snow blower. The video up top is of a model currently in operation clearing railroad tracks in Aurora, NE, but you’ll find them all over the country, churning through formidable heaps of tightly packed snow like…

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un celebrates rocket launch with a smoke

Two days ago, North Korea finally lobbed a weather satellite into orbit, officially marking their entry into space. And as if to say, “About freakin TIME,” a photograph has emerged showing Kim Jong-un enjoying a post-launch cigarette moments after the rocket was launched. Other pictures show Kim wishing his generals good luck just prior to…

Cirque de Soleil Founder on Photographing Earth from Space: “So fragile in this universe”

Cirque de Soleil founder Guy Laliberté spent 11 days at the International Space Station in 2009, taking photos of our planet with a Nikon D3X camera. And now he’s got an exhibition opening at the Marlborough Gallery in Manhattan, featuring 40 of his best space photos. Over at ARTINFO, there’s a great interview with Laliberté…