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Concept Art Writing Prompt: Portrait of a Girl with her Demon Pet

Some pets have a face that only a child could love. But is this really a love connection or does this moment end in tragedy? Come up with a story based on this mismatched couple. This piece, by Omar Rayyan is titled “The Favorite” (via Super Punch) and if it strikes your fancy, he has…

The Internet Is Coming Back On in Syria

Just two days after the Syrian government cut the country off from access to the Internet, connectivity is coming back. Reports from Renesys and CloudFlare indicate that the country’s connections started coming back online at 14:32 UTC today. https://gizmodo.com/syria-just-turned-off-the-internet-updated-5964243 Renesys is confirming the restoration as “largely complete” and CloudFlare is reporting a “partial reestablishment.” The…

Dalek disguised as a Christmas Tree waits to exterminate Santa Claus

That Dalek thinks it’s so clever, covering itself with pine branches and white lights, lying in wait until Santa slides down the chimney. Silly Dalek, don’t you know the Doctor always shows up around Christmastime? Dalek Christmas [I’m Really Just a Mad Man with a Box via Neatorama]

Facebook Elbow Boobs, The Best Secret Gmail Feature, Apocalypic Emails Chains, and More

It’s been a long week, and now you want to just kick back and relax. What better than some Facebook elbow boobs to help you out. Not your bag? We’ve got plenty more like horrible pictures from a stolen tablet, the place where all nudie picks eventually wind up, the best hiding-in-plain-sight Gmail feature, iPhone…

3D printers could fabricate tools out of moon dust

One of the challenges of putting a colony on the moon is the need for stuff: building materials, food, and tools. Fortunately, researchers at Washington State University are working on a project that would help lunar colonists make some of those tools right at home: developing 3D printers that can print tools out of moon…

Blink and you’ll miss Smaug in the latest Hobbit trailer

We’ve been dying to know what Peter Jackson’s rendition of Smaug looks like, and the latest trailer gives us a glimpse of J.R.R. Tolkien’s great dragon…sort of. The new spot takes us to the burning of Dale, giving us the barest flashes of firebreathing Smaug. Didn’t quite catch Smaug there? Well, here he is: And…

What if spaceships had skeletons inside?

Josh Ln takes a peek inside the Enterprise, Serenity, and the Millennium Falcon, and what he finds is surprising. Instead of the usual network of corridors and engines, he uncovers animal-like skeletons beneath the surface of science fiction spaceships. Ln offers prints of his skeletal spaceships at Society6, where he also has colorfully monstrous images…

Gigantic Monsters With Atomic Hearts

Foot-power might be enough to get you across the house, and gas packs enough punch to get you across the country by car, bus, or plane. Coal had its time to reign as the king of the rails, and electricity is poised to take the world by storm. But when you’ve got a real job…

In the 1920s, businesses tricked shoppers by putting fake television sets in their windows

Although television sets wouldn’t be mass produced in the United States until after WWII, by the 1920s, many Americans were already captivated by the idea of moving pictures broadcast into their homes. To capitalize on the interest in this not-quite-ready-for-primetime technology, some stores would actually set up fake television sets to lure shoppers to their…

How to Spread Your Music Across the Web

Cloud storage has transformed the way digital music collectors access their media. But with so many competing hosting services, which should you choose? How about: All of them. Here’s how to sync your music collection throughout the cloud. iTunes Apple’s supplemented its ubiquitous media management program in 2011 with iCloud, a 20,000 track music locker.…

Cambodia’s floating village migrates with the seasons

On Cambodia’s Tonlé Sap Lake sits the village of Chong Khneas, but the exact position of the village changes depending on the time of year. As rains cause the lake to swell, the entire village moves to the edges of the lake, close to a nearby mountain. As the waters recede during the dry season,…

Saturday Webcomic: Propeller is a Hitchcock-inspired thriller—with superpowers

What if one of the schemers of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies had superstrength or psychic powers or the ability to keep witnesses from delivering exposition in front of the police? Rex, the central character in Ricardo Mo and Alberto Muriel’s webcomic thriller Propeller wears a pair of specially designed bracelets that give him the ability to…

An ultra-bloody short film about a detective who can peer into murder suspects’ memories

In the crime ridden future of the short film Memorize, everyone is implanted with a chip that records their every memory—a handy device for officers looking to bring criminals to justice. But when one detective goes on a hunt for the person responsible for a grisly murder, he comes up against not only a lot…

The Secret, Subtle Power of Graphic Design

They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but that’s not true; you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. You can, and chances are you do it all the time, so better make sure that cover is good, right? They also say a picture’s worth a thousand words, and that’s where graphic…

Google bought BufferBox. Looks like it’s getting ready to step up its e-commerce game. [BufferBox via Financial Post]

Life-sized chocolate baby heads are this season’s creepiest confection

For the cannibal with a sweet tooth and a strong stomach come these massive white chocolate sculptures sculpted to look like infants’ heads. Want to keep yourself from overindulging in sweets this holiday season? Every time you pick up a piece of chocolate, imagine on of these creepy things staring up at you. Cake maker…

BitTorrent Wants To Be Hollywood’s New Best Friend

Torrenting, it’s the tool of thieves and pirates, right? The evil protocol no honest person should ever dare touch? Not quite, but it’s got that reputation with some, and it’s trying hard to shake it. According to BitTorrent’s executive director of marketing Matt Mason, they plan to take it all the way in the other…

R2-D2 and a band of astromech droids fly into a secret mission on Clone Wars!

This week in the world of cartoons, Adventure Time’s Finn gets stabbed in the rear by a well-meaning porcupine, we get a very cool droid-centric episode of Clone Wars, and there’s a duel on My Little Pony! Yeah, really. A duel. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is off this week, but will return on December 8th.…

Watch This Army Of Cassette Tape Players Sing a Song of Days Gone By

Remember cassette tape players? Unlike the mp3 players so prevalent today, they didn’t just play music; they made some white noise too. This art installation called Binatone Galaxy by Stephen Cornford takes advantage of that fact to create a neat but eerie soundscape that’s totally living in the past. So take a little trip back…

Here Are All of Nintendo’s Video Game Consoles

Nintendo has an eternal soft spot in my heart. The NES, SNES, N64, GameBoy and DS had a lasting impact on my childhood. The original Wii was the most fun I had playing video games in a long time. Nintendo probably means the same for you! (unless you were a Sega and Sony guy). Watch…