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Kendrick Lamar: Swimming Pools (Drink)

This song is appropriate since we’re all spending the next two weeks hopping around from one liquor-soaked holiday party to another. Kendrick Lamar’s major label debut, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, was received by critics with high praise, and is getting a lot of love on those perennial end of year lists. It’s a narrative of…

Swappable Lens Wheel Puts 18 Crappy Filters On Your DSLR

You’ve been able to turn your iPhone into a low-quality Holga camera for some time now with this case that puts a spinning wheel of filters at your disposal. But DSLR users can now make the images from their thousand dollar cameras look like they were taken by a $30 plastic toy. https://gizmodo.com/holgas-retro-lens-iphone-case-works-like-a-retro-rotary-5859719 Just slap…

What’s your favorite giant robot or mecha design?

The Pacific Rim trailer is full of tantalizing glimpses of massive Kaiju trashing the world’s cityscapes. But the star of the trailer is probably the massive human-controlled mechas, which are shown off in their full battling glory. https://gizmodo.com/all-the-best-monster-punching-closeups-from-the-pacific-5968062 Which made us wonder: What’s your favorite design for a giant robot or mecha from before Pacific…

Gene Wolfe’s Out of Print Classics Now Available as e-Books

Gene Wolfe was just named the 2012 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master. But that’s not the only excellent news — Tor Books is reissuing 19 of Wolfe’s classic books, which were out of print, in e-book formats. Including The Urth of the New Sun. And Peace, which has a brand new afterword by Neil Gaiman.…

12 Amazing Movie Props You’ll Actually Be Able to Buy This Weekend

Profiles in History is holding a massive, massive memorabilia auction this weekend, December 15 and 16, and you’ve got the opportunity to buy over 900 screen-used items from some of the biggest movies of all time. The best part—you don’t even need to be in LA to place a bid. Luke’s Stunt Lightsaber from Return…

How Someone Measured the Speed of Light by Accident

At a time when many thought the Speed of Light was infinite, a few brave souls tried to come up with a definite number for it. Most of them failed. There was one guy, however, who wasn’t even trying, but came up with a great way to guess. Take a look at how he took…

Do we already know the plot of the Justice League movie?

We already reported the rumors that the Justice League movie’s villain will be Darkseid, the DC Universe’s closest equivalent of Thanos (the likely villain of Avengers 2.) But now Latino Review, which was the source of the Darkseid rumor, has gone one step further — and their sources claim to know exactly which comic book…

30 teachers + 1 reduced-gravity aircraft + 2000 ping pong balls = floathappy funtime

Watch this. Watch it and tell me that it doesn’t look like fun — that you don’t want anything more than to ride aboard a ping-pong-ball-filled 727 (aka a “vomit comet”) while it flies along a parabolic flight path (thereby simulating weightlessness) with thirty other people. That’s right. You can’t. Further proof that the best…

Why we should send uploaded astronauts on interstellar missions

The awesome 100 Year Starship (100YSS) initiative by DARPA and NASA proposes to send people to the stars by the year 2100 — a huge challenge that will require bold, visionary, out-of-the-box thinking. One possible solution is mind-uploading — what could give rise to highly versatile and resilient software-based astronauts and their e-crews. And at…

You can download iTunes 11.0.1 now, which has all the usual bug fixes AND the ability to see duplicates in your library.

Wink: Instantly Share Your Photos With Friends So They Stop Bugging You

Email me that photo. Hey don’t forget to Facebook those pictures. That kind of nagging you hear over and over from your friends gets annoying. But if you all download Wink, then they no longer have a reason to beg you to post your pics. What does it do? One tap lets you instantly share…

You Can Buy Original Art From the Woman Who Ruined That Jesus Portrait

Monkey Jesus lady, you gave us one of our favorite things of 2012: the botched restoration of a 19th century fresco called “Ecce Homo” in an old Spanish church. If you, too, are a fan of the work of Cecilia Gímenez, here’s some welcome news: You can buy her original art on eBay. The piece…

Indiana Jones is officially getting mail at the University of Chicago

Although he was last seen teaching Archaeology 101 at Marshall College, it appears that Henry “Indiana” Jones, Jr. still has a mailbox at his alma mater. The above package arrived earlier this week to the confusion of the University of Chicago staff and the general delight of the universe at large: The University of Chicago…

Organize Your Desk With a Boat

You should see my desk. It’s a goddamn nightmare explosion of pens, business cards, empty coffee cups, and random crap. These modular Desktructure Organizers would more than do the job of sprucing things up. They’re pretty adorable, too. One is a ship, another is a a city, and the third one is a collection of…

George Lucas cut female X-wing pilots out of Return of the Jedi at the last minute

The original Star Wars trilogy isn’t really known for having a lot of roles for women — but it turns out that the third film, Return of the Jedi, featured some female pilots in the Battle of Endor. Two of these fighter pilots are featured among the deleted scenes and extras on the recent Blu-ray…

The CW is just gonna go ahead and make a real-life Hunger Games, pretty much

The CW, much like its primary audience of teenage girls, likes The Hunger Games. A lot. So much so, in fact, that even after they ordering a pilot based on the Hunger Games-esque young adult book The Selection, as well as talking about some kind of Battle Royale TV show, the network has decided to…

The Dumbest Apocalypses That Hollywood Has Dreamed Up

There are many ways the world could end in real life. We could get whacked by an asteroid or nuke ourselves to hell. But there’s no way the end of the world could be as bizarre as some of the scenarios that Hollywood has already filmed — or put in the pipeline recently. https://gizmodo.com/9-ways-humanity-could-bring-about-its-own-destruction-5967660 Here…

The Most Important Laptops of 2012

2012 was a big year for laptops. Windows 8 came along with its touch-centric worldview, Intel kept plugging away on its ultrabook crusade, and Apple finally started pumping out Retina MacBooks. Here’s our list of the most important machines of the year. 10. Acer Aspire S7 11-inch https://gizmodo.com/acer-aspire-s7-review-this-is-how-windows-8-should-fee-5952833 This is a statement of intent from…

Boozy Gifts for Merry Drunkards

Yup, some people love to drink. And people who really truly love getting ripped can always appreciate a gadget that make knocking one back a little easier. Here’s some loot your thirstiest pal would love to find stashed away in a stocking. Hey there! You might notice our gift guides look a little different this…

Ollie pulls a reverse-Grinch on the Arrow Christmas Special

Remember how the Grinch attempted to screw Christmas up but ended up making it right in the end? Ollie does the opposite, attempting to make Christmas right for the Queen family, and inadvertently ruining everything for everyone. Now that’s the Ollie I know from the comics! I didn’t think you’d do it, Arrow. I didn’t…