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Twitter once again allows users to send URLs in direct messages. It’s been over a yearsince the network announced its backend wouldn’t allow that to happen consistently.
You have Thor, Captain America and Wolverine on one side. Master Chief, Alyx Vance from Half-Life 2, Ash Ketchum and his trusty Pokeball and a blocky guy from Minecraft. It should be no contest, outside of some fancy weapons, the superheroes should destroy any video game character… but do they? I guess the moral of…
There is just something unexplainably awesome about carnivorous plants eating things. It’s like nature’s revenge mixed with some alien imagination, like if these plants were grown from a different planet. Watch these carnivorous plants grow and chomp at bugs in this wonderful time lapse. Chris Field, who filmed this, wrote: Over a year of effort!…
Phil Lord and Chris Miller were featured on the Empire Film Podcast to talk about about the Lego Movie, 22 Jump Street and future projects. Thankfully, they give us a couple nuggets of information about the new Lego Batman movie from Will Arnet’s acceptance of the role to a little insight into what the movie…
“If every kitchen needs a rolling pin, then why not have it made from anodized aluminum?” So speaks Kevin Vann, one of the creators of aforementioned anodized aluminum rolling pin. And he speaks sense. Seriously, though: why has the metal rolling pin never caught on? It seems like a much better option to wood —…
dif STICK shared this (just barely) minifigure scale Millennium Falcon over on Korean Lego fan site, BrickInside and it is adorable. We are huge fans of the new MicroFighters stuff, but this model that Han can actually squeeze inside is so much better. You’re reading Leg Godt, the blog with the latest Lego news and…
QR codes are certainly practical, but they’re also dumb and stupid and ugly and instantly ruin almost anything they’re placed on. That’s why this tech that uses simple light as a replacement for QR codes is so awesome. The idea comes from Fujistu, and it’s pretty darn simple: replace QR codes with a LED lightbulb.…
BuzzFeed recorded normal, everyday things people do with a thermal imaging camera to see what our bodies’ temperature looks like when we’re, well, doing normal, everyday things. Spoiler: it makes a lot of things look really gross, especially exercise which looks like a damn disease. Having Predator vision is sort of neat but would totally…
Among first-world capital cities, Paris is fairly unique in its rejection of skycrapers: to date, there’s only one, the Tour Montparnasse, in the center of the city. And thanks to a politically tense vote yesterday, things are set to stay that way. The ‘Triangle Tower’ was a proposed Herzog & de Meuron project that would’ve…
The Leonids meteor shower will peak soon in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. For best viewing, dress warmly, head out after midnight, and lay back watching the sky directly overhead. Failing that, you can always watch these space agency livestreams from the comfort of your home. Top image: An apparent fireball seen November 17,…
Train surfing is not new. Videos of crazy Russian kids are not new either. But a video of crazy Russian kids jumping from high speed train to high speed train, risking a deadly fall or electrocution by the 25,000-volt overhead electric lines that power the JSC Russian Railways—that is new. And freaking crazy too. SPLOID…
The dark web owes the FBI a thank-you. It turns out that during its recent mass seizure operation against a number of Tor sites (including Silk Road 2.0), a little more than half of the sites taken down were either clones or scams — and, in a number of cases, the real, functional websites are…
3D printing in its current guise is kinda cool, but also limited by its use of plastic — there’s only so many combs you can print before you get bored. An affordable 3D printer that uses metal would be a major step up in practicality, which is exactly what this team is hoping to achieve…
The first computer bug, the story goes, was a moth squashed inside an old electromechanical computer. In Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, one such bug gets stuck in a printer, resulting in a typo that leads to the killing of poor innocent Archibald Buttle, a cobbler, rather than alleged terrorist Archibald Tuttle. Such is the oppressive bureaucracy…
Sarah Lee is one of the best photographers I’ve ever found. It’s not because of her perfect technique and aesthetics. It’s that she has the ability to evoke nostalgia with every shot—even if I have never experienced her scenes in real life, I’ve lived them in my dreams of eternal summer. She told me this…
You have absolutely blown me away by taking polarizing, hot-button topic as an opportunity to engage in detailed, nuanced discussions on a wide range of related topics. Here are some highlights from your fabulous conversations. We really can have nice things! http://space.io9.com/that-time-a-scientist-was-held-accountable-for-his-sens-1658525347/ Astronaut Steven L. Smith waving to a colleague during a Hubble Space Telescope…
Remember the 90s, when we had videos on VHS to teach us about this new thing called the internet? Lucky for us, Andy Baio (@waxpancake) has preserved those tapes for the YouTube generation. Baio’s whole playlist is six hours long, but might we suggest you start with “Internet Power! Volume 1”? Discover The World of…
The Oxford Dictionaries 2014 word of the year has arrived. And that word is… vape. As in “I vape so hard I grew a robot lung, bro.” Oxford Dictionaries Online (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary) chooses a word each year, providing blogs such as this one with plenty of things to…
NASA and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute have published a new research paper detailing how space flight affects “cardiovascular, immunological, sensorimotor, musculoskeletal, reproductive and behavioral implications” on men and women. Here are the highlights: Orthostatic Intolerance, or the inability to stand without fainting for protracted periods, is more prevalent upon landing in female astronauts…
Apropos of nothing, here’s a TLC classic. If this song were a person, this year it would be able to have its first legal drink. It’s just a great song! “Creep” is one of those tracks you have to play the whole way through every time it comes on. And man. Nothing compares to those…
