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They Live IRL: Australian politician calls opponent a “jerk off” in subliminal ad

Subliminal campaign advertisements are a staple of dystopian science fiction, but trust reality to send the electorate a hidden message so nefarious it’d make Orwell spin in his grave. A recent television ad for Australia’s Country Liberal Party in the Northern Territory contained a coded barb for Labor Party Chief Minister Paul Henderson. Secreted away…

Fly Fishing Snowboard Bridges Summer and Winter Pursuits

Those who like to stay active all year long probably have a basement filled with gear that can only be used during certain parts of the year. So the folks at Signal Snowboards decided to build something that could be enjoyed whether it was balmy or snowy outside with this versatile fly fishing snowboard. The…

Amazon Glacier Locks Your Data In a Fortress of Solitude

If you’ve got a lot of data that you rarely touch, Amazon wants to put it on ice. Amazon Glacier is a new ultra-cheap cloud storage offering from Amazon Web Services that’s designed for companies—or data-hoarding individuals—who have a lot to stow away for the long haul. The advantages of Glacier are prices as low…

Doctor Who sets an airdate for its season premiere. Plus Bruce Campbell talks about the Evil Dead remake!

Could The Expendables 3 go science fiction, with a genetically engineered, part-animal super soldier played by Hollywood’s most awesomely batshit insane actor? Ron Howard’s The Dark Toweris dead… again. Kick-Ass 2 looks to Jim Carrey for heroism. Plus a brand new Dredd clip! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Dredd. The Dark Tower…

Windows 8 Pro costs $200 at launch, says the Verge. That’s comparable to Windows 7 Pro, so no NEWTHING discount. [Verge]

The Avengers gag reel assembles a lot of laughs

Things we learned from The Avengers gag reel: Joss Whedon is excellent at breaking up fights, Captain America is adorable, Loki is the master of many voices, and Hawkeye doesn’t know beans about Star Trek. Taken from the soon-to-be-released Avengers DVD, this might actually be the most hilarious bloopers footage we’ve ever seen. EDIT: Video…

iPhone 5 Commercial Is a Hilarious Parody Inspired by Us All

My iPhone isn’t so much my phone as it is my SMS and Email Device—which is to say, I talk on the phone not nearly often enough to warrant calling it that. But, hey, the name seems to have stuck. Probably the next most popular iPhone use, generally, is to snap food pics and post…

A Search Team May Have Finally Found Amelia Earhart After 75 Years

Seventy-five years after Amelia Earhart disappeared, people are still looking for her. In fact, just last month, a search team started a search expedition only to leave without discovering Amelia’s wreckage. Or so they thought. The team recently took a closer look at the underwater images they captured and now think they may have found…

The Stoner Channel: Rio Says No to Crack, Growers Say Yes to CO2, and a Boy Searches for His Bunyan

Eclectic Method – Bill Murray Celebrate Bill Murray’s heroic decision turn down the inevitable clusterfuck that will be Ghostbusters 3 with this supercut of his most beloved performances.[Buzzfeed] Rio Drug Dealers Say No to Crack Crack cocaine is more trouble than its worth—for the user, for the larger society, and in Brazil at least, for…

The Game of Thrones theme, performed by a cat

A new internet cat video has decapitated the Meow Mix theme, and now sits alone on the Iron Throne of internet awesomeness. We give you a cat singing the Game of Thrones theme song. You’re welcome.

Would You Trust Yelp Reviews With Your Life?

Yelp is a great way to weed out the lousy dry cleaners from the pros and locate various services in your area—but just how much should we be relying on the user reviews that keep this site alive? Would you go through Yelp to find a new doctor? Where do you draw the line of…

Samsung Says the Minuscule Sales of the Galaxy Nexus Means It’s Not a Threat to Apple

In the other court battle between Apple and Samsung, Apple is accusing the Galaxy Nexus of violating Apple’s “universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system” patent with its Universal Search. Samsung is saying Apple shouldn’t feel threatened by the Galaxy Nexus because the sales of the phone are so “minuscule”. Really. According…

The Fifty Shades of Lorem Ipsum: NSFW Dummy Text Generator

The Fifty Shades of Grey is the most successful, badly-written book around—so bad, the prose reads more like lorem ipsum dummy text than actual best-selling literature. Fiftyshadesgenerator.com is a single-serving site that offers an alternative filler to your regular TKTKTK. Thank you, Internet, for doing what you do so well. [DesignTaxi]

Leaked iPhone 5 Part Fitting Perfectly Into Leaked iPhone 5 Case Might Mean That This Really Is the Next iPhone

We’ve seen this rumored two-tone, elongated unibody design so many times that it’ll be surprising if the next iPhone doesn’t look like this. And now we have even more possible evidence that this really is the next iPhone: the leaked parts that popped up on Friday fit perfectly inside the leaked iPhone body that’s been…

True Blood starts a Fairy War… in Eric’s pants

Finally, a character on True Blood with the chutzpah to come in and explain to all the vampires that they are acting like a pack of assholes. Of course, this character is promptly killed — but for five beautiful minutes, there was logic on the Vampire (Religion Is Bad) Show. But that’s not all that…

Clayton Hawkins: 1nternet Friends

Up-and-coming hard pop artist Clayton Hawkins today released the music video (above) for the super catchy song “1nternet Friends,” off his brand new EP, Pixels, (dropping later this month). Gizmodo caught up with Clay, who was happy to spill the story behind Pixels and “1nternet Friends”… On the first day of recording my first solo…

AT&T limiting Facetime over 3G might be a violation of FCC rules says the New York Times.

Falling Skies has officially lost its way

There’s something that happens to a lot of TV shows, when they start throwing around 20 story ideas instead of focusing on one, and trying to manufacture emotional connection where none exists: The stakes start to feel unreal. The characters start to feel like they’re performing against a cardboard backdrop, and we don’t care about…

The evolutionary history of dragons, illustrated by a scientist

This is possibly the greatest mashup of science and fantasy I have ever seen. University of British Columbia evolutionary ecologist Rob Colautti has created a dragon phylogeny, or evolutionary tree, and has turned it into a gorgeous design for t-shirts (see below). The best part is his elaborate explanation of how he came up with…

Where Has This Glow-in-the-Dark Bike Been All My Life?

People have been coming up with all sorts of flashy, bright accessories for cyclists to wear after the sun goes down. But why on Earth has it taken so long for someone to come up with a bike that glows in the dark itself? Well, finally, that bike is here. The Kilo, by Pure Fix…