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Think watching women trying to sing while having an orgasm is fun? Well, get a load of these dudes giving serious guitar-face while fondling their instruments. Rawr. The rousing tune—Godiva—comes courtesy of London rocker Eugene McGuiness, with delightful direction by the folks at ThirtyTwo. The video is a damn good time but if watching others…
Back in 2012, I saw a sign outside of a travel agency in Western Australia that filled my cold, black heart with glee. It was an ad for Virgin Galactic, with the implied promise that if I stepped inside that door, I could buy a flight to space from an “accredited space agent.” I knew…
As a name, Hessdalen may be more familiar to UFO watchers than scientists. The valley in Norway is prone to “strange, hovering, flashing balls of lights” best attributed, as some believe, to alien origins. Now scientists say they’re on the verge of an explanation: The valley is a giant natural battery. But first, let’s set…
Google search for iOS just got updated with Siri-style voice searching—including follow-up questions like “what’s the weather like?” followed by “how about this weekend?”. It also features custom alerts to keep you updated on your favorite sites, blogs, and more. Download it here for free. [iTunes via 9to5mac]
Ask any serious watch aficionado why they’re hesitant to switch to a smartwatch, and their reasons will have nothing to do with functionality—but everything to do with how ugly the current crop of smartwatches are. The Modillian, a replacement strap buckle that adds Bluetooth, hopes to fix that by adding basic smartwatch capabilities to more…
We have a problem. Be you blogger, journalist, tech writer, or commenter (both racist and otherwise), it’s time to stop with the gratuitous overuse of “hacking.” Existence itself is not a hack. It’s one thing to use “hack” to refer to anything crafty or resourceful. Appropriate even. You broke into the NSA’s database. You tweeted…
What’s the language that the most Americans speak after English? As you’d probably guess, the second-most common language spoken in the U.S. is Spanish. But if you look at the most common languages after English and Spanish, the results get a little more surprising, especially when you parse them by state. Using data from the…
Remember those floating chairs that our uber-lazy future offspring rode around on in the movieWall-E? Chevrolet just installed the real-life version in two of its assembly lines. Meet the fully-automated, gesture-controlled Ergo-Chair. True, the comparison to Wall-E isn’t one-hundred-percent accurate: the Ergo-Chair-riding employees use them for work, not for slovenly laziness of the highest order.…
I knew that all the airplanes and helicopters in this compilation of fatal accidents avoided at the last second weren’t going to crash. I knew nobody got injured or died. I knew all these things and yet I was curling my toes and found of myself saying “ffffffuuuuu” with every one of them. Very lucky…
The Animation Guild recently released some data they’d been collecting over the years, announcing that jobs in animation are at a record high. According to their data, there were more than 3,350 animators in the guild’s Los Angeles jurisdiction last year, which is more than ever before. The boom can likely be attributed to the…
The Xbox One is a fine machine—great even—but it’s nothing compared to what it was supposed to be. Reluctant backtrack after reluctant backtrack has left us a box that does a shadow of what it might have done. And with a new Kinect-free Xbox One bundle, Microsoft is fully burying those dreams and all but…
The population of earth has been destroyed…except for one person. That was the theme of this week’s Shooting Challenge, and the photos that you created in response are strange, funny, and most often, haunting. Winner: Table for One The Lone Survivor is visiting his favourite restaurant; it is still set up for hundreds of guests.…
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When two neutron stars collide, they viciously shred each other before merging into a black hole punctuated by a gamma ray burst. A new supercomputer simulation sets a mismatched pair of neutron stars in a death-spiral to investigate the process. The merger completes in seconds, ringed by a halo of diffuse gas. When a massive…
A year ago, Col. Chris Hadfield posted a stirring home-brew video of him performing David Bowie’s Space Oddity—while afloat in the International Space Station. For copyright reasons, today’s your last chance to watch the video. 22 million views later. Sheesh. Col. Hadfield just posted the following to his Tumblr: Bowie’s last day – we had…
At the end of its last financial quarter, Apple had $151 billion in cash just sitting there collecting dust. Is it any wonder it’s going after profitable companies like Beats? What’s $3.2 billion? Here’s a humorous look at just how many companies Apple could buy with its stack-o-cash—and just how easily a corporate shopping spree…
Spending time together outdoors is pretty much the neatest thing you can do with your dog. Here’s how to do it safely. In the 14 months that we’ve been together, Wiley’s been to Big Sur twice, the High Sierras once, chased coyotes around Joshua Tree, been attacked by a mountain lion in the Sespe Wilderness,…
This is amazing. With nothing but a mechanical pencil, this YouTuber drew out most frames from the opening to Attack on Titan and then animated the whole thing. Here’s the actual opening for reference, and watching them side by side shows just how accurate this pencil version is. The only difference is that this version…
This 1993 245GL Volvo is now for sale, and its owner—Swedish Art Director by the name of Castor—made this hilarious video to try to sell his masterpiece of kinetic energy. Reach out and touch faith—and buy my Volvo. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Six years ago, Abe Burmeister searched for a pair of good-looking pants that he could wear as he biked to work. When he couldn’t find them, he founded Outlier, a fashion-forward clothing line that’s since been embraced by urban cyclists. He’s here today to talk about starting that company and to share his tips for…
