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In any other painting, a naked butt tattooed with a musical score would be the first thing you’d notice. But it’s just another detail in Hieronymus Bosch’s masterpiece, The Garden of Earthly Delights—which explains why it’s taken someone 500 years to try to play it. Bosch’s famous painting is a triptych that depicts heaven, earth,…
Well here’s a new option for the wealthy tourist who’s seen it all. No, it’s not a trip to space. It’s not a floating hotel room or even a wild safari. It’s a luxury submarine—an underwater palace built for a Bond villain that can be yours for the weekend. But it’ll cost you. https://gizmodo.com/this-floating-hotel-room-comes-with-an-underwater-fish-1465177811 British…
Reasonably priced name brand 4KTVs may still be on the horizon, but affordable 4K monitors are quickly coming within our grasp. This 28″ Dell 4K Monitor is down to $560 today, and a great deal if you’re dying to get 4K on your desk. [Dell] The 31.5″ ASUS is decidedly more expensive at $2700, but…
Things keep moving at the Kennedy Space Center in preparation for the first mission of NASA’s Space Launch System and its Orion spacecraft in 2017. The crawler-transporter just passed “the first phase of an important milestone test.” The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program completed testing of new traction roller bearings on crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2),…
If you’re somehow not sick of winter yet, then you’re sick of hearing other people complain about it. And there’s at least another month of this crap in our future. So sit back, relax, and let Jesus Diaz take you on a calming ride through the world’s best beach houses.
Doctors have found a 44-year-old fetus inside the body of an 84-year-old Brazilian woman. But surprisingly, this isn’t the first instance of a “stone baby” discovery. Above is a picture of a 40-year-old fetus, found in an 82-year-old Colombia woman last December. Here are two reasons to never get pregnant. In the case of the…
That little camera that everyone seems to love, the Fujifilm X100s, is getting a new accessory that will extend the camera’s 35mm (equivalent) lens to 50mm, making it a bit more versatile and delightful. Images of the new teleconverter were tweeted by Fujifilm UK during the CP+ show in Japan It sure looks like a…
For the many who identify as neither male nor female, Facebook has finally heard you. Starting today, those using Facebook in U.S. English will be able to select a custom gender field with no less than 10 different identification terms. Done in collaboration with GLAAD, the new feature doesn’t just let you identify as transgender,…
The folks over at The Daily News compiled an amazing gallery of New York City snowpocalypse photographs from past decades. It was a simpler time when snowdrifts were melted with flamethrowers, back in 1947. An abandoned train on an elevated pass in Third Avenue. Here are some firefighters trying to “free up equipment completely encrusted…
Eager for an escape? You might consider Sri Lanka, that ancient island off the coast of mainland India that’s not nearly as dangerous as it used to be. If you’re not interested in ancient statues of Buddha, you might just want to rent this beautiful jungle bungalow. Designed by Narein Perera and built in 2010,…
SanDisk just announced an absurdly fast card that can go almost three times faster than the previous champ. Why do you need all that horsepower? To chomp 4K video, of course. 4K, the next standard for ultra-high definition video, requires huge amounts of data to form the crystal clear images. For the newest breed of…
OK, it didn’t win the design competition, so this proposed radio tower will never be broadcasting over a city near you, but its harp-like cables and rings sure do make a cool structure in the sky. Designed by the London-based firm Architects of Invention for a site in Santiago de Chile, the tower would have…
The weather is miserable through the entire Western Hemisphere—a constant avalanche of steel grey, with cold snow and rain piling up in a soup of frozen sludge that is taking everyone down. It’s time to daydream in the face of this winter torment. Here are the perfect homes for your fantasy summer paradise. 1. Universe…
Remember the stereotype-busting, heartwarming 1981 Lego ad featuring an adorable Lego-loving (gasp!) little girl? Well, her name is Rachel Giordano and she’s all grown up,working as a naturopathic doctor in Seattle. She’s still gaga for Lego, she just doesn’t want a girly pink set. When the ad was shot, Giordano was five-years-old. She was given…
Despite what the classic video game Paperboy taught us, the biggest threat to cyclists isn’t dogs, RC cars, or random rolling tires, but the drivers they share the road with. So in addition to ensuring they’re definitely seen, the Fly6 bike light includes a constantly recording video camera designed to keep drivers behind a cyclist…
It’s a sad day for consumers as the rumored merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable is moving forward. What does it look like when the two biggest cable companies in the country jump into the sack together? The map above gives you an idea. It ain’t pretty. The original image taken from a 2011…
Between their remote locations and the ever present threat of ambush (or worse yet, IED), it’s simply getting too dangerous to deliver the average 100,000 pounds of supplies that far-flung American forward combat bases require each week. Air drops by cargo plane or helicopter are one option, but DARPA researchers may already have a better…
I have a very hard time distinguishing Gregory Thielker’s oil paintings from reality. It’s not only that his treatment of light and texture is perfect. It’s the subject matter, which makes me feel extremely nostalgic of countless road trips, driving under the rain in silence, talking with good friends and family, or listening to some…
The skyscraper index tells us that tall buildings and the market are closely correlated—and the unlucky ones being built during a catastrophic economic crisis run the risk of remaining incomplete forever. Such was the case with Sathorn Unique. Sathorn, a 49-story tower in Bangkok, has sat unfinished since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which got…
In our quest to rid the world of fun and joy, we’ve done a number of posts fact-checking viral images. Sometimes we’ll come across an image that just doesn’t smell right, and enlist the help of experts to determine its authenticity. And sometimes, even the experts aren’t quite sure. That was the case recently with…
