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Fox Steals Dog’s Toy While the Dog Barks Jealously From Inside

I feel like tonight, we are all this dog. And we are trying to hard to be the fox. [via Tastefully Offensive]

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Why Is Warner Bros. Developing TWO Aquaman Scripts?

Warner Bros.’s DC strategy has taken a strange turn. Well, an even stranger turn than before, as The Hollywood Reporter says that the studio has two writers working on two separate Aquaman scripts. Did anyone anticipate that we’d be getting overloaded with Aquaman news? Between Zack Snyder calling a radio station to defend the character…

Watch The Art In this Gallery Transform When The Lights Go Out

What happens when the lights go out in a Williamsburg gallery? All kinds of cool stuff. Brooklyn- and Barcelona-based graphic designer Alex Trochut has adorned Kinfolk 94 with a series of his trippy glow-in-the-dark art, and the results are pretty awesome. Trochut picked pics for his Binary Prints based on a kind of “city lifestyle”…

Land diving is way scarier than bungee jumping

Bungee jumping seems like a much safer alternative when you’re comparing it to the ancient tradition of land diving (or nagol). National Geographic shows how villagers in the South Pacific jump off a rickety 100 foot tower toward the ground with only vines attached to their ankles. Crazy. And even if you can get over…

They Came Together: Every Romcom Ever Summed Up In One Perfect Parody

All romantic comedies are the same—couple falls in love, couple falls out of love, couple eventually lives happily ever after, probably in New York City. They Came Together is a perfect parody that has the genre pegged. The movie stars Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd as a couple whose story of how they met is…

Crank The Volume Of This Old Jam To Boost The Mood On A Crummy Day

Earbuds in. Volume up. It’s time to blast the living daylights out of “Hold on Tight.” The classic tune was recorded by the Jeff Lynne-led Electric Light Orchestra in 1981. It is unabashedly rah-rah. It is a sure-fire mood lifter. It’s just the thing when you just need to shake it all out, when getting…

Photoshop Contest: Give the LA Clippers a New, Ballmer-Friendly Logo

As you may have heard, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer isnow the official ownerof the Los Angeles Clippers. And considering he paid a whopping $2 billion for the team, we want to make sure he’s getting his money’s worth. Let’s give Steve a logo he can be proud of. Does that mean inserting Ballmer himself?…

Guy climbs a building with no equipment like a real life Spider-Man

Meet the closest thing we have to a real life Spider-Man: rock climber Alex Honnold. After scaling mountains and rock walls as high as 1500 feet in nature, Honnold has finally decided that with great power comes great responsibility and has taken in his talents to the city. Watch him climb urban buildings with ease.…

Is This Samsung’s Phone-Powered VR Headset?

The Verge reports that the boxy set of goggles with a controller above is the rumored VR rig that Samsung’s supposedly been prepping. If so, it looks way more serious than the leaked schematics we’d seen before. Looks like its primed to fit the rumored Samsung Galaxy Note 4. According to The Verge, the headset…

A Simple Accessory Turns Your Shopvac Into an Extra Set of Hands

Even if you’re working with a team of carpenters, Festool’s new CT Wings accessory seems like it could be the next must-have tool for every workshop or jobsite. It’s designed to attach to the end of the hose on of one of Festool’s shop vacuums and then securely suction itself to a wall so that…

Tip This Robo-Bellhop in Tweets For Delivering Your Room Service

Put that dollar away, the future is already upon us. Aloft Hotels, a swanky hotel in Silicon Valley is about to debut the world’s first robotic bellhop, a speedy automaton built to fulfill your every wish, or at least bring you a midnight snack. Dubbed the Botlr, this fleet-wheeled robot will serve a variety of…

How One 1920s Feminist Imagined Our Futuristic High-Tech World

Josephine Daskam Bacon was an author known for her adventure serials that featured female protagonists. But in 1929, she took a break from her regular fiction writing and slipped on her futurist goggles for an article in Century magazine titled “In Nineteen Seventy-Nine.” Bacon imagined just how much progress women will have made fifty years…

In the Middle of the Ancient City, They Found a Carbon Fiber Bridge

The archaeologists weren’t expecting to find the remains of anything more than a tiny village, so they were awed by the scale and grandeur of the stone city. Especially when they tested it and realized that its stones were made of a high tech material. Jeremy Chong is a concept artist and illustrator in Kuala…

KitchenAid’s SodaStream Machines Look Transplanted From a Fifties Diner

They might make it slightly cheaper to produce your own carbonated beverages at home, but those SodaStream machines aren’t exactly the loveliest things you can put on your kitchen counter. Thankfully, the company has teamed up with KitchenAid who’s given the machines a retro makeover and an all-metal design so they’ll survive years of making…

A Counterfeit Ring Behind $77 Million in Fake Bills Finally Got Busted

For years, the Secret Service has been tracking down the legendary “Russian-Israeli Note,” one of the most sophisticated and common fake Benjamins ever made. This high-tech international ring was finally busted and indicted this week, thanks to years of good old-fashioned surveillance and legwork. The lucky break in the case came back in May 2012,…

George Orwell Was Actually Born on This Animal Farm in India

For the first year of his life, George Orwell lived on a farm in India, very much like the place he eventually described in his famous parable Animal Farm. Now the place is being turned into a museum to honor the author — but not in a way that Orwell would have liked. On the…

Alien Sexuality Should Be More Diverse Than Human Sexuality, Not Less

In response to a Star Trek writer’s excellent rebuttal to a homophobic reader, we’ve had a lot of discussions in the last 24 hours about diversity in science fiction, how Star Trek should show a wider ranger of sexualities onscreen, and why alien sexuality and reproduction shouldn’t necessarily resemble that of humans. There were a…

Are Millennials Compatible With U.S. Military Culture?

An editorial in a magazine published by the U.S. Naval Institute grouses about the behavior of Millennials: their constant texting ignores the chain of command and they’re way too laid back to serve in the military. A Millennial naval officer has responded online—and he blew those complaints out of the water. The opening salvo in…

George R.R. Martin Explains Why There’s No Gay Sex In His Novels

One of the most noticeable differences between George R.R. Martin’s books and the Game of Thrones television adaptation was the fact that the latter features fairly explicit homosexuality, especially between Loras and Renly. Talking to the Edinburgh Book Festival, Martin explained why he left that out of the books. Basically, it boils down to the…