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Spike TV Missed Out On Secret Stories of Professional Athletes

This video is a clip from the unaired pilot for “Way Out of Bounds,” a show that would have animated the untold stories of well known athletes. Baseball legend Pete Rose and comic personality Artie Lange really had this talk, though it was put together from about two hours worth of conversation (and this online…

The Latest Androids on Sale, Wacom Bamboo Tablet, Klipsch Earbuds

Klipsch makes some great earbuds, and Lifehacker readers loved the Image S4 line in particular. Today, Best Buy is offering them up for only $40, or you can pay $10 more to get a set with a built in mic and media playback controls. Klipsch – Image S4 Stereo Earphone | $40 Klipsch – Image…

Never Forget Where Your Booze Came From With This Lovely Whiskey Chart

Our friends at Pop Chart Lab love tracing down the tangled, tortuous branches of the family trees connecting some of our favorite things. They’ve done it for beer, and now they’re switching to the hard stuff, with a lovely taxonomy of the world’s many types of whiskey. Like all of Pop Chart Lab’s creations, this…

Google is reportedlygearing up to let anyone in the United States buy Glass—for a single day. In other words, on April 15th, you won’t have to be a fancy Glass Explorer as long as you have the $1500 to pay for the specs. The full consumer rollout of Glass is supposed to hit later this…

The Heartbleed-Vulnerable Passwords You Need to Change Right Now

By now, chances are you’ve already heard about the preposterously huge security hole in SSL. You’ve also probably heard how it could easily have left you exposed to all sorts of nefarious activity over the past few years. Now, thanks to Mashable, we also have a better idea of exactly which websites had the flaw.…

What Are The Bravest Warriors Doing In An Avicii Music Video?

This is some seriously weird shit, but I guess Avicii must be a fan of Pendleton Ward’s online-only cartoon Bravest Warriors. Still, you’d think that since this is the official music video for Avicii’s song “Hey Brother,” someone would have actually put in some effort to make this good. And frankly, it goes beyond being…

Android Now Offers Routine Malware Surveillance For Your Phone

It’s no secret that Android apps can get a little shifty, but having the freedom to explore that is part of what makes Android great. Now Google is helping you stay even safer by keeping a constant eye on whether or not any of your apps are doing anything they shouldn’t be. This security-minded move…

Geology Bake-off

First, it was the planetary cakes. Then, it was the Star Wars astronomy tea. Then, it was the 3D weather system construction, and the Silurian Death fossilized cupcakes. Now, it’s a full-blown geology bake-off. Geological Society of London is hosting a geology bake-off contest, with entries accepted until May 9th. They’re offering point-breakdowns for different…

The amazing story of two conjoined twins who live happily in India

Shivanath and Shivram Sahu are two conjoined twins who were born 12 years ago in a village near Raipur, in central India. They share the same stomach and two legs, but have fully independent brains, hearts, lungs, and two pairs of everything else. Their life is not easy at all, but they do everything other…

My Type of Neighborhood: Mapping the Type Foundries of New York City

I love old type specimen books. Any foundry, any period, it doesn’t matter. They will have me hypnotized. But I don’t usually linger at the title pages. Who would, really? All the fun and exciting stuff comes after that: the impossibly small text faces, the spectacular display faces, all the sample uses variously dowdy and…

Perfectly Age Your Face Through 80 Years Based on a Single Photograph

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new technique for simulating the aging of faces over nearly eight decades—and it’s incredible. Using what they call “illumination-aware age progression,” the method requires only one initial photograph as it “automatically produces a series of age-progressed outputs between 1 and 80 years of age, accounting for…

This Special Ops Missile Prioritizes Precision

Despite their generally overwhelming combat prowess, many large US naval vessels remain vulnerable to small, fast-moving speedboats. But with the latest iteration of Raytheon’s multi-role precision missile, that won’t be a problem for much longer. The AGM-176 Griffin is a precision munition developed by Raytheon since 2008, designed as mission agnostic, low-collateral-damage weapon for use…

Scientists: Ancient papyrus that says Jesus was married is authentic

Three teams of scientists at Harvard University, Columbia University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have concluded that the ancient coptic papyrus that talks about Jesus’ wife is authentic and not a forgery. The Vatican claimed the latter when it was discovered. The papyrus is called the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife because it contains phrases…

Adorable Justice League Watches Grant You the Power of Punctuality

Unless being late to a dinner date is a felony, Nooka’s new line of DC Comics-themed watches won’t give you any crime-fighting powers. What they will give you is the ability to show off your allegiance to one of five different DC universe characters including Superman, The Flash, Batman, The Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman.…

The Pacific Northwest at Night

An astronaut on the International Space Station took this picture in 2012 over Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia of city lights and green airglow.

You Can Actually Solve This Working Rubik’s Cube Lamp

If you’ve reconciled your childhood frustrations and animosities towards the Rubik’s Cube, you might be happy to hear there’s now yet another way to make the iconic puzzle a part of a room’s decor. Believe it or not this Rubik’s Cube LED lamp is actually solvable, although you probably won’t want someone to ever mess…

Should Copyright Law Also Cover Hyperlinks?

The U.S. Copyright Office recently proposed a seemingly small addition to copyright law that bears some huge implications. It wants to enable copyright holders to protect unauthorized versions of their work from hyperlinks. You read that right: it could soon be illegal simply to link to certain content. Think about that for a second. Let’s…

Atomic eggs Benedict burger is the stuff that my dreams are made of

There are no words to express the lust and gluttony I feel about this breakfast: Pornburger calls it the Cali-corn-ication burger, but it’s actually eggs Benedict with a chorizo-based hollandaise, a beef patty with huitlacoche (Mexican corn smut), avocado, ancho rubbed corn, and salty pork rind crumble as crunchy seasoning. All on an English muffin.…

Scientists Manipulate Genes to Make Old Organs Young Again (in Mice)

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh showed this week that they could teach an old mouse’s thymus to bounce back to a healthy, youthful state, simply by manipulating a single protein that controls gene expression. It’s the first time scientists have been able to regenerate a living organ by gene manipulation, and it could have…

The Invention of the Slurpee

They stain tongues green, red, and blue; they send blood sugar levels on Odyssean voyages; they induce brain-freezes that crumble even the most stoic men. Every year, 7,290,000 gallons of Slurpee are consumed worldwide — enough to fill 12 Olympic-size pools. The beverage — essentially frozen, flavored sugar water blasted with carbon dioxide — comes…