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The Women of Marvel as James Bond Cover Girls

In 2008, Michael Gillette created a memorable series of covers for Penguin’s James Bond novels featuring the books’ lovely ladies. The always amazing Bill Walko (of The Hero Business) reimagined those book covers with the superwomen of Marvel comics in the starring roles. Naturally, each heroine or villain is particularly well suited to her accompanying…

Saturday Webcomic: For Gaia‘s wizarding students, the real adventure begins after graduation

Ilias Oter is a student at the Academy for Arcane Studies and Material Arts of Cania, but he’s no Harry Potter. He’s a fighter training with some of the best adventurers and wizards of Cania, and he’s desperately in love with Lilith, a preternaturally talented sorceress who already has a sword-wielding boyfriend. And it’s not…

Breeze Through TSA Security During the Holidays

Airport security used to be simple—pack your own bags, keep them in your possession, board your flight. Easy, right? However, since 9/11, Americans have been treated to a complicated and confusing rendition of public security absurdity. It’s going to be a zoo at the airport this holiday season—and you don’t want to be the one…

Doggy Leeloo might be the greatest Fifth Element cosplay ever

Skimpy outfits don’t look good on everyone, but this pooch pulls it off. It’s just proof that a great wig and the right expression can bring even the most daring look to life. The Best FIFTH ELEMENT Cosplay Ever [Badass Digest via Fashionably Geek]

Gotham High is the teen romantic comedy we deserve

If you thought your high school was an asylum, you haven’t seen the teenage madhouse that is Gotham High. This faux trailer mashes up bits of 10 Things I Hater About You, The Princess Diaries, Powder, and more into a clever imagining of a young Batman romantic comedy. And by the end of the trailer,…

This Shower Head Will Do Your Shower-Singing For You

Being able to listen to music in the shower is great, and it’s no suprise there’s a whole punch of products that cater to that specific silly-but-awesome luxury. Kohler is taking things a step further by straight-up building a speaker into a shower head. The bluetooth speaker isn’t pernemantly attached to the shower head, but…

General Grievous returns while Finn travels to a post-apocalyptic alternate reality on Adventure Time!

This week in the world of cartoons, Clone Wars continues the David Tennant saga and tosses the Younglings into their first adventure while Regular Show and Adventure Time return! As always – minor spoilers ahead! Star Wars: The Clone Wars – “Bound for Rescue” The Younglings are on their own! The Younglings infiltrate the pirate…

Is Twitter Ruining Journalism or Making It Better?

It’s undeniable that Twitter has changed—and is still changing—the face of journalism. It makes some things simpler and some things more complicated. But how is it affecting journalism on the whole? This PBS Off-Book segment gives that some thought and uncovers one deep, universal truth: Twitter is neato. [PBS Off Book]

These MacBooks and iPads Made from Wood and Duct Tape Are Not Really MacBooks and iPads

People. Especially people of Florida. Listen up. If you get approached to buy a MacBook or iPad in a parking lot, don’t buy it. Even if it’s dirt cheap and a freaking steal and you need a new computer or whatever. Why? Because it might end up as a pile of wood and duct tape.…

Everybody Definitely Needs a Hoodie That Lights Up

The hoodie is perhaps the most perfect item of clothing there is. Comfortable, warm, casual and stylish. How can it get better? By adding electroluminescent rope on the zipper and hood to make it light up like Tron. The Delaware St. Hoodie is made by Electric MVMT and it adds the perfect amount of technology…

Holy Crap, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Says Amazon Loses Up to $1 Billion a Year on Streaming Video [AllThingsD]

Anonymous Targets Israel by Taking Down Hundreds of Websites and Leaking Emails and Passwords

It looks like Anonymous followed up with its threat of digitally attacking Israel for taking military action in the Gaza strip. They’ve knocked down websites, deleted databases and have leaked e-mail addresses and passwords. It’s a whopping takedown. The targets taken down include the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs database and Bank of Jerusalem database,…

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Why Doesn’t MTV Play Music Videos Anymore?

I’ve done it. You’ve done it. Your friends have done it. Why, we whine doesn’t MTV play music videos anymore? And it’s true! They don’t. It’s just a big seething crap reality tv show pile-on. But you know what? As the (not really) head of MTV programming tells you himself, it’s your own damn fault.…

John McAfee Reveals His Hiding Place (Updated)

In a too-strange-to-be-true twist on an already bizarre crime story, fugitive tech millionaire John McAfee today revealed where he’d been hiding over the last six days: in his own compound. McAfee, wanted by police in connection with the murder of his neighbor Gregory Faull over the weekend, said in a phone interview that he had…

These Art Pieces Made By Ironing Are Incredible

I can hardly even iron my shirt without burning myself so I’m absolutely impressed with this ad showing artists ironing a sheet into famous art pieces. A few snaps of the fabric here, some presses there and all of a suddenly there’s a girl with a pearl earring. The ad is made by Philips Russia,…

Farewell to Twinkies, America’s most futuristic food

Today Hostess, maker of Twinkies and Ding Dongs and HoHos and every other geometrically precise cake, announced it was closing its doors. You have less than a week to buy your last Twinkie before the troubled corporation vanishes forever. It’s not just the end of a company. It’s the end of an era of food…

A Tiny Fire Escape, a Giant Digital Hourglass, and Three Other Aesthetic Wonders

You’re in the home stretch before a five-day weekend, but still, just to distract you in the meantime, here are some lovely things. From a sleeping desk to fire escape shelving, these are the most beautiful items we found this week. Secret Sleeping Desks Should Be Installed in Every College Library https://gizmodo.com/secret-sleeping-desks-should-be-installed-in-every-coll-5961262 Falling asleep while…

Gwenda Bond’s Blackwood is in development as an MTV series!

We really enjoyed Gwenda Bond’s young adult novel Blackwood, which weaves together the mystery of the Roanoke disappearance with a lot of supernatural craziness for a fun story of growing up cursed. And now, on the heels of MTV’s success with Teen Wolf, we could be seeing Miranda Blackwood on television every week. The MTV…

Of Course People Are Already in Line for Black Friday

There are sane people. There are insane people. And then there are people who line up for Black Friday deals more than a week early. These two women camped out in front of a Best Buy on Wednesday of this week so they can snag some Black Friday deals after Thanksgiving. It’s the earliest the…

The world’s most beautiful gardens are miracles of geoengineering

There are gardens and then there are carefully engineered masterpieces of plants, stones, and animals that fill acres of land with anthropogenic natural wonders. Humans don’t always trash their ecosystems. Sometimes we reshape them into something amazing. Here are some of the most incredible examples of landscape architecture, also known humbly as gardening. Click any…