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Town Bans Winnie The Pooh For Lack of Genitals, “Dubious Sexuality”

Council members in the Polish town of Tuszyn have deemed Winnie the Pooh too depraved to feature as the public face of a local playground, on account of the honey-fetishizing cubby’s “dubious sexuality,” “inappropriate dress,” and lack of genitals due to castration by razor. Via the Croatian Times: Councillor Ryszard Cichy, 46, said: “The problem…

Welcome to Jurassic World With This New Teaser Trailer

Universal Studios just released a 15-second teaser trailer for the upcoming fourth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, Jurassic World—and it feels great to be back. As teasers are wont to do, the brief spot doesn’t show much. We see some neat gizmos as characters go on some kind of high-tech safari ride and a…

NASA’s ‘Remastered’ View of Europa Is The Best Yet

Europa, Jupiter’s sixth-closest moon, has long been a source of fascination and wonder for astronomers. Not only is it unique amongst its Jovian peers for having a smooth, ice-covered surface, but it is believed that warm, ocean waters exist beneath that crust – which also makes it a strong candidate for extra-terrestrial life. https://gizmodo.com/this-image-is-why-everyones-so-excited-about-a-nasa-mis-1539388419 https://gizmodo.com/bill-nye-explains-why-the-search-for-life-could-end-on-1614208598…

The Next Big Piracy Battle Could Be Over Your Smartwatch

Smartwatches enter a wearable realm that have long been dominated by luxury brands like Omega, Mondaine, Swatch, and Armani. It’s these same brands that are also none to pleased about their own designs slowly spreading throughout the internet and onto our smartwatches. According to TorrentFreak, several watchmakers are beginning to send cease and desist notices…

The Netherlands’ Tallest Church Looks Even More Amazing From a Drone

Aerial drone videos, for better or worse, are here to stay, but it’s difficult to be too upset about this filming technique’s unchecked adoption when it captures video like this. Dutch filmmakers Jelte Keur and Reinout van Schie filmed the tallest church in the Netherlands, and the results are breathtaking. Filmed with a DJI Phantom…

All this animated Firefly clip needs is 2 Seconds to break your heart

It’s funny how two seconds of animation about a 9-year-old plot point can be so emotional, but I guess that’s just Firefly’s MO at this point. Excellent work, Stephen Byrne! We’ve featured Byrne’s work on io9 before, but this tease for an ‘Animated Adventures of Firefly’ he’s working on is enough to have us all…

A Halo Of Young Stars Rings This Galaxy In Bright Infrared Light

An outer ring of baby stars glows brightly in infrared around a core of cooler, older stars. A faint S-bar in the middle identifies NGC 1291 as a barred galaxy. At 33 million light years away, galaxy NGC 1291 has had 12 billion years for stars to gobble up dust and burn through their fuel.…

It’s Time To Revisit The Shawshank Redemption

It should’ve taken Tim Robbins twenty years to dig his way to freedom through solid concrete; and this year marks the 20th anniversary of The Shawshank Redemption. That gives you a good reason to re-watch possibly the greatest movie of all time. But heck, you really don’t need a reason. I’ve probably seen Shawshank five…

Band of Horses: The Funeral

A couple days ago, you might’ve come across this video of a guy on a bike doing an awesome loop-the-loop for a slightly cringe-worthy promo for Microsoft’s Cortana. But before he was shilling for #Brands, Danny Macaskill was making far better videos with his friends, and setting them to Band of Horses’ breakthrough single, The…

These LEGO Instructions from 1974 Are Awesome (And Yes, They’re Real) [UPDATED]

This photo of a note to parents, purportedly printed on a pamphlet included in a LEGO set from the 1970s, has been making laps around the Internet. The legitimacy of the note, which is noteworthy for its egalitarian tone, has been called into question – but we can now confirm its authenticity. UPDATE: LEGO has…

Why All These Ineffective Umbrellas Won’t Just Go Away Already

Winter has officially arrived (just look at Buffalo) which means it’s once again time to battle through streets clogged legions of holiday shoppers wielding eye-poking, rain-dribbling umbrellas. But one man believes he has found the perfect solution to staying dry in the wet: fancy pants. Dan Bransfield’s case against umbrellas is a surprisingly strong one.…

Is This GIF The First Footage From Star Wars: Episode 7?

Major speculation ahead, but a Star Wars fansite is claiming that this GIF of the Millennium Falcon might be the first-ever bit of footage from the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens. What do you think? The GIF was originally spotted and uploaded at Making Star Wars. There are no details on where it came…

SpaceX Is Testing Autonomous Space Rocket Landing Ships

Elon Musk’s list of crazy/brilliant inventions is getting pretty lengthy, but he’s decided to add to the list with the Saturday afternoon unveiling of “X-wing config” wings for the Falcon 9 rocket, and a self-piloting ship to act as a landing pad for the reusable rockets. The grid fins are the small waffle-shaped wings you…

Someone Made Daenerys Targaryen in Dragon Age, and she looks Amazing

Holy crap, this is fantastic. Dragon Age Inquistion’s character creator is pretty excellent, but I didn’t know it was quite so capable as this. Behold Daenerys Stormborn, Mother of Dragon Age! The latest game in the Fantasy series came out this week, and players have been sharing their handsome Inquisitors all over – but this…

Legend Of Korra Does A Clip Show And Decides To Make Fun Of Itself

Due to budget issues, The Legend of Korra spent this episode on a clip show, revisiting the first three seasons of the show. But at least while Korra was forced to tread water, it poked a bit of fun at itself along the way. First off, thanks to Aldo O. Carvalho, who pointed me to…

That Time Mark Ruffalo Scared The Crap Out Of A Preschooler

Mark Ruffalo appeared on The Tonight Show recently, where he told a story about visiting his daughter’s preschool and Hulking out on one of her classmates. [The Tonight Show]

This may be the coolest, most futuristic bomber ever built

While the Saab 35 Draken may be the coolest, most futuristic combat jet ever made, when it comes to bombers that title goes to the XB-70 Valkyrie, a gigantic supersonic strategic nuclear bomber that never entered service. Seriously, when I say gigantic I really mean it. This thing is unbelievable—check the image below. There were…

Samsung has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission asking it to block sales of NVIDIA graphics chips and Tegra mobile processors. It’s a tit-for-tat move, after NVIDIA tried to block sales of certain Samsung handsets back in November. [Bloombergvia Engadget]

This Machine Turns Water And CO2 Into Petrol

Despite all the efforts to the contrary, it’s an uncomfortable truth that our world mostly still runs on oil, made from dead little creatures and pumped from under the ocean. So a machine that could generate oil, without the need for drills or rigs or pipelines, just by combining hydrogen and CO2, sounds quite attractive.…

This Jurassic Park/Ace Ventura Mashup Is So Wrong, Yet So Very Right

Admit it. You know perfectly well what this is. You know exactly where it’s going. And you’re going to watch it, because you already know it’s perfect. That swelling John Williams score gets me every time. Bravo, What’s The Mashup, for creating this. The Internet is in your debt. H/t /r/videos