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This Video Filmed By an Aircraft Carrier Crew Looks Better Than Top Gun

Beautiful timelapses and awesome angles filmed with GoPros inside F-18 cockpits. That’s what you will find in this video filmed by the men and women of the US Navy. I’m amazed at the skill of these people. It starts slow, but keep watching and it soon gets awesome. Worth of a Top Gun reboot.

Sleeping Dogs Is Your There-Goes-Your-Weekend Deal of the Day

Sometimes deals are too good to last. It happened this past weekend: Amazon rolled out a Square Enix bundle pack with Just Cause 2, and it sold out in hours. It was supposed to last a week. But sometimes disappointment brings opportunity: Amazon replaced it with a blanket coupon code, which, fittingly, can be used…

Urine flavor wheels helped doctors taste patients’ pee centuries ago

Back in the day, the medical analysis of urine relied on, well, a doctor’s five senses and superstition. But sometimes physicians needed a little extra help in divining the ramifications of some dubious tinkle. Enter the urine wheel, a diagram that doctors consulted to determine what maladies corresponded with the cloudiness, bouquet, and taste of…

Two ways to forget bad memories, according to a new scientific study

Despite having spent late nights ruminating over stupid things you’ve said, it is actually possible to make yourself forget bad memories. In fact, not only is it possible, but the brain actually has two very different systems for doing it. In a study, scientists asked volunteers to memorize associations between pairs of words, and then…

How Will Hipsters Afford This Gorgeous and Insanely Expensive Carbon Fiber Fixie?

They’re the preferred mode of transport for flannel plaided hipsters, sure, but when a fixie is crafted from carbon fiber by a company with a mastery of the material, it’s downright impossible for anyone not to lust over. Oh, UBC Coren bike, you are purdy. Even if $32,500 in a stupid amount of money to…

Horrid Airport X-Ray Body Scanners Are Finally Being Replaced

The maybe useless and definitely invasive X-ray body scanners at major airports across the country are being replaced with new models that don’t blast you with a bomb of radiation. Coincidentally, the new scanners won’t allow the TSA to see your junk anymore, too. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-tsa-says-body-scanners-saving-images-impossi-5696371 Pro Publica reports that backscatter machines have already been replaced…

What Is Pheed?

Pheed is the latest social network start up to roll off the factory line, promising to change our internet lives (or something). It combines aspects of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr (among others), and coats itself in a celebrity-endorsed sheen. So what is Pheed? Long story short, it’s a shitshow. Pheed is a social network……

Everything you need to know to catch this weekend’s Orionid meteor shower

The Orionid meteor shower — one of the year’s most spectacular natural light shows — is upon us. This weekend, Earth will plow through a dense stream of celestial debris given off by Halley’s Comet. These fragments of Halley will collide with the planet’s atmosphere at speeds approaching 150,000 miles per hour, setting the night…

Oh, good. @mentions on Instagram now translate automatically on Twitter, even if the username is different.

Be Nice to Your Sad Friends with BlackBerries

Plato said “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” This is particularly true if you meet someone using a BlackBerry, perhaps the hardest of all battles. But they don’t deserve pity. Around BlackBerry users, we must remember manners, courtesy, and a few basic rules of kindness. Don’t be a snob. Gadget…

5 Tricks to Convince People Your Fake Horror Story Really Happened

What are the five secrets to making a great “true” horror story? We reveal them all to you . . . and then something terrifying happens! Will Esther survive? Will the studio where we shoot this show ever be the same? Is it dangerous to get glowing green goo on your hands? Find out .…

What’s It Like to Spend One Minute as James Bond?

Most marketing stunts are just plain annoying, but every once in a while one comes along that doesn’t make you completely hate the company behind it. Such is the case with this cross-promotion for Coke Zero and the new James Bond movie, Skyfall, which turned unsuspecting travelers into James Bond for one very exciting minute.…

Kung fu goes steampunk in Tai Chi Zero, a masterpiece of escapist fantasy

Tai Chi Zero is one of those movies that you can’t believe exists until you actually plunk down in the movie theater and watch it unfolding gloriously and weirdly before your eyes. It’s a historical kung fu movie mashed up with an action-packed video game, and then jammed inside a giant steampunk explosion. With jokes.…

WW2 Veteran Had All This Shrapnel In His Knee

I love good World War II stories. They are always fascinating—although (too) often sad and dramatic. Sometimes, though, they are simply amazing. Like the tale of Ronald Brown, a soldier who stepped on a land mine in France and lived in silent pain with a shocking 6 ounces (170 grams) of shrapnel in his knee.…

Google Maps has added 25 million new building footprints, because you were just looking for a reason to miss it more.

With a Playable NES for a Head, One Vinyl Toy Is Not Completely Pointless

The words ‘vinyl’ and ‘toy’ should never have been put side by side. At least not when it comes to describing those plastic miniature sculptures that are most often used as cubicle decor. But we’ll make an exception for Hannes Hummel’s Super Gigan, which has a tiny playable NES for a head. The artist started…

Last Resort answers our most important question of all

People who watch television shows often clamor for answers nowadays. And television shows play to this, spinning out endless mysteries — for example, Last Resort wants us to obsess over who sent the fire order, and why the Secretary of Defense was replaced, and just what are those minerals on the island. But usually, the…

How to Respond to Legal Threats with Cute Animals

I registered designskunkworks.com, thinking it would be a good name for an Internet product company, not realizing that Skunkworks was a real, trademarked facility run by Lockheed Martin—or that you can now threaten to sue people just for registering a domain name. I’ve long been a fan of David Thorne’s hilarious email exchanges on 27b/6…

Need a creepy Halloween costume? Wear a 3D-printed mask of your own face

This Halloween, do you harbor the sociopathic desire to convey to everyone you know and appreciate — once and for all — that you truly are a walking nightmare? If so, why not make an unnerving 3D mask of your own face? That’s exactly what a fellow at the 3D printing firm Cubify did. As…

Joby Ultrafit Slingstrap Review: Focus on Getting a Shot, Not Adjusting a Strap

Carry a camera? If it’s too big to fit in a pocket, then you need a strap. There are hundreds of adequate options, including the strap that comes with your camera. But you would be surprised at the difference a better strap can make. Allow Joby’s new UltraFit Sling Strap to show you the way.…