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This false-color infrared image of southern Borneo reveals areas of vegetation in red, manmade constructions in white and swamps in blue. Looks closely, and you’ll notice the land divided into neat plots in different shades of red—revealing where different crops are grown across the region. [ESA]

Arrow Really Could Be Following Through On That Insane Cliffhanger

Plus find out how Spectre will use its large budget and new location. Roberto Orci shoots down a Star Trek rumor. Andy Mientus talks about his awesome Pied Piper costume for The Flash. The Scream series will remake a famous moment. And a ton of information on Once Upon a Times’ villainous plans. Spoilers now!…

Another study for the “fake it ’til you make it” pile: forcing yourself walking with a spring in your step can improve your mood. On the flip side, slumping your shoulders can make your mood more negative. Be conscious walkers! [viaScientific American]

Julian Assange Is Crowdfunding a Life-Size Statue of Himself

Julian Assange remains holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London with ailing health and plenty of time on his hands. So much time, in fact, that he’s decided to… crowd-fund a life-size statue of himself, presumably so people don’t forget what he looks like? The Independent reportsthat Assange is attempting to drum up funding…

It’s Perfectly Legal to Tell People How to Remove DRM

Telling users how to strip the DRM from their legally purchased ebooks is not contributory copyright infringement, according to a ruling last month by a federal judge in New York. Judge Denise Cote dismissed two publishers’ claims of contributory infringement and inducement inAbbey House Media v. Apple Inc., one of the many cases to come…

This 8TB Seagate Hard Drive Only Costs $260

If you’re running out of digital storage and are on a tight budget, you could do a lot worse than consider Seagate’s latest hard drive. Part of its Archive HDD line, you can pick up an 8TB model for just $260. Other 8TB disk drives tend to sell for closer to $1,000 so this is…

Everyone has their own way of naming documents, and they almost certainly only make sense to that person. Looking in their document folder isn’t worth the internal pain it will inflict upon you. [XKCD]

NASA’s ‘All About That Space’ Parody Is Pretty Perfect

Most interns get coffee and do endless photocopying. At NASA, however, the interns make parody videos of pop songs. Personally, I can’t really imagine a better use of tax dollars. The video was made by the Pathway Interns at the Johnson Space Center, notionally to help publicize Orion’s first flight. But let’s be honest, this…

Good night, London

It’s a little weird to say this but I’ve mostly ignored London as a city to visit. Even though it’s been years since I’ve last been and even though I enjoyed my time there, I never think about it when I get bitten by the travel bug. And I don’t have a legitimate reason why…

Close encounters with Russian warplanes as tension increases in Europe

Things are not looking good over the Baltic Sea. Poland has announced that Russian naval and air force activity in the Baltic Sea region is “unprecedented,” with Sweden being the most affected country, which have resulted in numerous close encounters. According to the BBC,these are some of the incidents we know about: On Tuesday the…

Watching the amazing skills of this baker is almost hypnotizing

Do yourself a favor and watch the video below. It’s such a joy to see someone enjoy his job so much. He bakes bread, tosses flour, massages dough, slices open holes and even cleans and takes out the trash with so much energy that he looks like a kid bouncing around in a playground after…

Daredevil jumps off his flying motorcycle and parachutes into a river

Now this is how you bail on a stunt: when the whole point of the stunt is to bail in the most epic way possible. The motorcyclist in the video flies his motorbike off a ramp, jumps off the bike while releasing his parachute and then lands right into the narrow river as the bike…

Magic ultrasonic cutting machine perfectly slices sandwiches in half

It never occurred to me to wonder who or what cuts those soul crushing pre-packaged sandwiches that I always find myself eating at an airport, but now I know: it’s one of these magic machines. The cutting arm seeks out whole sandwiches and positions its slicer perfectly with ultrasound to deliver the optimal cut. The…

NASA Interns Make an “All About That Bass” Parody All About Orion

The Pathways Interns of NASA’s Johnson Space Center made “All About That Space” as a way to raise interest and excitement in the Orion launch (as if we needed it!). It’s the most charming thing in the whole world. [via Tastefully Offensive]

Extraordinary overhead photo of two F-35s on an aircraft carrier

This amazing photo by Dane Wiedmann reminds me of a toy aircraft carrier I had when I was 12. It’s the F-35C CF-3 and CF-5 on the deck of the USS Nimitz during their first trials at sea. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Watch this awesome Lego monster truck dominate stacks of books

Sariel makes the coolest custom Lego Technic models and this one is no different than the dozens that came before it. This all custom 4×4 crawler is jacked up with some mid-2000s Technic shocks that he designed to be adjustable and custom RC off road tires. I giggled when I saw one of his obstacle…

The Apple Store will now let you buy stuff online with PayPal in the US and the UK. Along with the new payment option, Apple is also promoting PayPal Credit, which lets you pay for that shiny new MacBook in interest-free monthly instalments, rather than having to sell a kidney upfront. [re/code]

Stupidly cool Iron Man parody turns a regular iron into a superhero

This parody makes absolutely no sense until it makes perfect sense. And that moment is when Tony Starch gets outfitted with the Iron Man Iron suit. I mean, the animation is pretty well done throughout the parody but that scene when the Febreze-like spray bottle turns into an Iron just slayed me. Iron Can was…

NASA Has Some Beautiful New Maps Of Saturn’s Moons

Back in the 1980s, NASA’s Voyager spacecraft made a brief flyby of Saturn’s moons, providing us with a tantalising glimpse of new worlds. Now, the Cassini mission has finished the job, providing us with high-resolution, color maps of Saturn’s six icy moons. The images aren’t just photos — they actually incorporate data from the ultraviolet…

This Lego Soyuz carries the coolest astronaut ever

Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut and star of one of the best videos on the internet should be happy that he now has his own Chibi-style effigy. This tiny Soyuz and its Commander Hadfield pilot by John Moffatt, was made for a microfighter building contest over at Brothers Brick. You’re reading Leg Godt, the blog with…