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Waddaup playa, you tired of this 14-hour-a-day Salary Man drudgery? Well, your ticket to the boardroom has just arrived in an easy-to-open cellophane wrapper. Crunch through those delicious flash-dried noodles, rack up a seasoned fatty, and show Elaine in marketing what she’s been missing with Boss Noodles. Andre Maat conceived and produced this absurd commercial…
Did you know the American Museum of Natural History was on Kinja? They are, and they produce some really neat articles. They have a whole lot of palaeontology, with articles on fuzzy pterosaurs, pink pterosaurs, and toothy pterosaurs all this month. And this one, going on a road trip through the Gobi Desert.
When a semi-trailer truck carrying a rig filled with toilet paper crashes into a bridge, what happens? A giant mess. A giant mess that someone has to clean up. This timelapse shows a city clean up crew picking up all the crap, repackaging it for another truck and getting the streets clean so that no…
Is L.A. flat? With mountains ringing the Southland on three sides—and even bisecting the city of Los Angeles along the Hollywood Hills—”flat” has never been an entirely fair description. But for decades the city’s architecture betrayed a commitment to horizontality. While Manhattan and Chicago strained toward the stratosphere, Los Angeles imposed a strict 150-foot height…
This is bizarre. A 16-year-old girl saw a giant black ring in the sky above England and captured it on video. After three minutes of floating around like a cloud, the black ring disappeared completely. So far, experts have no idea what it was. The black ring appeared over Leamington Spa, Warwickshire in England and…
It’s been a while since we last heard of a software update for Glass and now I guess we know why. The team over at Mountain View has been busy updating the face-computer to run on the latest version of Android (4.4.2 a.k.a. KitKat). It sounds like it won’t be a very obvious change, but…
All anyone ever wanted to talk about for the past few months has been Frozen. It’s so fun! The songs are so good! We want to lip sync them! Disney Animation is better than Pixar now! And so on and so on. Was it really that good, guys? HISHE thinks it could have better. Or…
After seeing this video of strong magnets destroying glass in slow motion, I really wish I had a few to play with now. Magneto was always my favorite supervillain. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Crack open your dumb old phone, and you’ll find lots of circuits and no lack of precious metals. “In 100,000 cell phones, it’s estimated that there is 2.4 kilograms of gold, more than 900 kilograms of copper, 25 kilograms of silver, and more,” according to Motherboard. Could a safer and and cheaper method of recovering…
Fly Catbug Fly!, made by Ludoko Studios, is really good at eating up large chunks of time. When you start up a game for the first time, you’re liable to straight up lose 20 minutes of your time. Then again, that’s the nature of mobile games, isn’t it? The ideal offering is something that’s simple…
How paying people to be parents has created a baby boom in Finland. Decoding the maybe-too-flashy urban renewal of once-dangerous Medellín, Colombia. And why a long-standing rivalry between Boston and New York led to the first American subways. Here are today’s Urban Reads. This Finnish town is paying residents 10,000 Euros to have a baby.…
Amazon is running another promo on their Kindle Fire HD line, but today they’re taking things a step further by tacking on an additional 10% off for Prime Members. Here’s a free trial. Starting prices below, which of course go up if you up the storage. Extra 10% off shown at checkout. Kindle Fire HD…
This was the view that some lucky campers woke up to this past weekend at Coachella, the music and art festival that continues next weekend in Indio, California. 53 teepees were hand-painted by artist Teale Hathaway and rented as luxury accommodations starting at $2200. [Coachella]
There’s a case to be made—recently by designer Martino Gamper (and me)—that shelving is the most personal piece of furniture you own; a functional place to store your stuff that also puts it on display, like you’re curating own little curio exhibition. The Room collection, by Kyuhyung Cho and Erik Olovsson, might be the most…
If KFC can go double down on chicken, The Vulgar Chef can totally split a bacon cheddar sausage down the mid section and stick a god damn dog in it. Because, like he says, bread makes you fat but protein is just fine. I want one so badly. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
Remember watching the original Star Trek and realizing the show was just as much about Kirk banging space-babes as it was exploring the mysteries of the universe? Well, Deep Space 69, a YouTube series made by Mondo Media, takes the space-sex parts and runs with it — hard. You can see an example for yourself…
Parking garages are ugly by their very nature: They’re metal cages that take up valuable space in our cities to house our automobiles for a few high-priced hours. But not all garages have to be ugly. In fact, three of the most beautiful are located within a few blocks of each other, in the city…
The Deep Space Network is a collection of antennas distributed around the world that allow us to keep in touch with our herd of extraterrestrial explorers. The complexes contain a mixture of 26-meter, 34-meter, and 70-meter antennas, all serving different functions. Back when Jet Propulsion Laboratories had a sudden scramble to launch Explorer into orbit,…
Random text files can get deleted, sticky notes can go missing, but the chances that this seven-inch ceramic elephant goes missing from your desk are slim to nil—who would dare steal such a thing? And that’s why it makes for the perfect spot to quickly jot notes and things that need remembering. Well, that and…
We’ve all heard of the lengths to which NYC’s homeless have gone to find shelter, from living in abandoned factories to building whole encampments inside subway tunnels. But a report from the New York Post goes one step further, describing how people are now making homes out of small nooks and crannies between the Manhattan…
