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Half way done with Toybox’s third and final month on the Recruit program. Let’s have a catchup with how we’re doing this week, shall we? Well, the first astronomical hit from last month has now slipped out of Quantcast’s monthly tracking, so despite an overall above average week for Toybox, there was quite a knock…
Welcome to the nearing death of another weekend and, of course, another Reading List, gathering together some of this week’s best words, phrases, and sentences spun into incredible stories. This week we have online black markets, the future of cybernetic prosthetics, the endangered art of the London cabby, and the brave and/or foolhardy mission of…
They grow up so fast, don’t they? It just seems like yesterday that the internet was cruising at 56k speeds and loading horribly designed websites. Now, the web is all grown up, but there’s been some negative side effects for the sake of progress in the form of ads, dubious data gathering, and hostile trolls.…
A plan to get the Navajo Nation healthy will mean taxing Snickers and Pringles. The California drought has a new enemy: Water thieves. And did you know that you can get a DUI while on horseback in Colorado? It’s all this week in What’s Ruining Our Cities. Junk food is ruining the Navajo Nation Cities…
There’s an excellent moment in Joss Whedon’s horror-comedy Cabin in the Woods, where the stereotypical stoner, Marty, pulls up in his rundown auto drinking coffee from a mug. Except, it’s not a mug at all but rather a giant retractable water bong. As is true with most awesome props, the smoke mug has become reality.…
It’s another Sunday and teams across the U.S. will take to the grid iron in an effort to scratch another W. These players will play the same as any other Sunday, and like any other Sunday, the sport’s biggest threat will remain unaddressed. Sixty-nine concussions have already been reported this year, and odds would suggest,…
Remember Iam8Bit‘s unveiling of their new gallery show, Sequel? Well, good news everyone, now that the show has opened, every poster in the series is available to view and purchase online. Check out even more of these amazing art pieces that have us longing for sequels that might have been. https://gizmodo.com/these-posters-will-make-you-long-for-the-sequels-we-nev-1655362338 Header Image Credit: The…
If there is one thing the internet has a lot of, it’s opinions. When things don’t align with our conservative or liberal viewpoints, we tend to vehemently voice our concerns via Twitter. With Woody Harrelson hosting, Saturday Night Live decided to see what would happen if Twitter dictated a sitcom’s characters. The result is pretty…
Here is a box shot of the new Lego Modular building that will be released in early 2015 under the Creator Expert line. Detective’s Office (10246) looks to be a pretty awesome set with a pool hall, Al’s barber shop, an apartment and of course the office of Ace Brickman, private detective. Thanks to Eurobricks…
As is true with almost any spacefaring mission, conspiracy theorists are eager to deconstruct and point out the LIES! our government space agencies are telling us, and of course, the ESA’s recently successful Philae mission is no exception. But I’ve got to say, this conspiracy tale would make a great book. As The Guardian reported…
For years, tech companies like Google and Softcard (formerly known as ISIS) begged with consumers to adopt its NFC-powered payment platform, and for the most part, their pleas went largely unheard. Now that Apple Pay has graced millions of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users with NFC purchasing powers, things are beginning to change.…
Wesley Crusher – Wunderkind, General Annoyance, Style Icon. But never fear, dedicated followers of Star Trek fashion: Wesley’s most iconic design travesty sweater can now be emulated in handy dandy Hoodie format. Good god people, what have we done? We must be stopped. Yes, Wesley’s infamous ‘Acting Ensign’ sweater is now a Hoodie, thanks to…
So far, the places we’ve landed are all within our solar system. But this list keeps on getting longer, and the compiled image keeps getting wider. I love the future. The Distant Horizons graphic was originally designed by Mike Malaska, and was most recently updated by Micheil Straathof to include Philae landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.…
The latest version of the Cybermen on Doctor Who looks sleek and pretty cool… but they could have looked more insectoid and shown more of their former existence as organic humans, if this concept art from Millennium FX had been used. Check out that horrible mouth! (Click to embiggen, it’s worth it.) The above image…
The only movie that anyone’s been able to talk about this week is Interstellar, which by all accounts is incredible. But if, like me, you haven’t made it all the way to a movie theatre to catch it, you can at least see the lead actor in one of his earlier sci-fi attempts. Contact is…
When musical duo YACHT released “Terminal Beach,” this week, Claire Evans (aka @TheUniverse) tweeted that the song is based on one very bizarre image of an ancient computer, ravaged by time and tree roots. The image, it turns out, is from an obscure 1980s book called Zen and the Art of the MacIntosh. Created in…
If you’re sitting down at the drawing board to design a robotic security guard, and you don’t want people to run the other way screaming ‘oh hell no’ at first sight, here’s a little tip: don’t make it look like the evil killer robot from a science fiction show. The K5 is a robotic security…
Kim Dotcom is probably the most wanted man in the movie theaters’ fight against piracy. He’s under investigation by the FBI, and they’re trying to extradite him from sunny, safe New Zealand to the States. But those pale in comparison to his latest problem: his account on Mega, the cloud storage site he founded last…
French sculptor Alain Bellino has quite an impressive portfolio of metal sculptures with some sci-fi references, but this Darth Vader helmet made from old brass ornaments is pretty incredible. He takes rusted old pieces of metal, cuts them up in a way that suddenly makes sense, and then solders and chemically repaints the result until…
Visualizers were the sort of thing that I kind of assumed had died with Windows Media Player and Winamp. But Google says no. Google says you must have motion with your music. If you needed another reason to use Google’s online music service (apart from it still having the Taylor Swift back collection, duh), its…
