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Marcus Jordan—the son of legendary NBA player Michael Jordan—just posted a picture of his dick on Twitter. Anthony Weiner approves this message. https://deadspin.com/marcus-jordan-tweets-his-dick-then-about-mistake-goes-941472919
Sometimes you realize that the shorts you put on don’t actually have pockets or that the pockets on your jacket are really inaccessible. And then your day is ruined. If you had a t-shirt with a clear plastic gadget pocket this would never have been an issue. Obviously. Japanese t-shirt designer inink has a whole…
Google Maps offers a lot of tools for developers (or anyone!) to work with, visualize and customize the existing service. And a lot of cool maps, infographics and tools come out of the APIs. But sometimes it’s nice to take something like the topographical data and move it in a totally different direction. Like maybe…
Economic news has felt bleak for years now. And every time things seem to pick up there’s something like Detroit’s bankruptcy looming as a reminder that times are still tough. But we know that there is some recovery going on and this infographic shows the sectors that have momentum. Made by MyCorporation and Visual.ly using…
People have been talking about running cars on water for years, but it’s a slow march from science fiction to reality. Even on a small scale, development is difficult. But the i-H2GO is the second revision of an all-water remote controlled car that seems to actually work. In 2008 Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies and Corgi…
For the most part, this collection of iconic photographs colorized by various authors will probably leave you cold. But some of them—like this atomic bomb explosion in the Bikini Atoll—surpass the original black and white images. In this case, it’s perhaps because the starker contrast between destruction and paradise. https://gizmodo.com/iconic-black-and-white-photographs-colorized-911645264
Many people don’t like to watch football, but NBC thinks they can make everyone like it by using awesome eye candy, like replays using the bullet time effect, the same one you saw in the Matrix. If you don’t like football, would this convince you to watch? https://gizmodo.com/matrix-like-360-replays-are-going-to-take-over-sunday-n-935949674
Being a parent demands certain sacrifices. You sleep less than you used to. Your schedule is no longer your own. You become intimate with another human being’s poop. And sometimes, just sometimes, you listen to lullaby versions of songs you sort of liked when they first came out 10 years ago. “Through the Wire” was…
Phil Fish is the creator of a very popular and much loved video game called Fez. He’s also the target of a lot of internet hatred. The latest hate burst has been so intense that he’s calling it quits, canceling the second part of his original masterwork. Fish is not only scrapping Fez II, but…
There’s no question that the most boring part of any football game is waiting for the referees to respond to a coach’s challenge. But the agony of the endless replay is going to ease up at least a little bit this season, with NBC’s Matrix-style 360-degree replays giving us plenty of space-aged eye candy to…
From the 15-inch-long 2-inch-wide King Dong to Dragon Tongues and Buttkrakens, some of the sex toys out there are wonderfully terrifying. Enjoy this nightmarish catalog from afar—or order some! https://jezebel.com/the-scariest-sex-toys-weve-ever-seen-nsfw-926168180
Photography is like anything else in life; there’s a right way and a wrong way to do it. It just so happens, though, that in this case the wrong way yields way more satisfying results. Matthew Cetta has made striking photographs by abusing his film with everything from absinthe to turpentine. And you can’t tear…
An incredible fact from a fascinating new Buzz Aldrin interview: the Saturn V was only making 7 inches to the gallon at the moment of launch. Of course, the fuel economy improves dramatically when you actually take into consideration the entire distance travelled. https://gizmodo.com/did-you-know-that-the-saturn-vs-fuel-economy-was-7-inc-935695163
Sir David Frost has interviewed Buzz Aldrin—the second man on the moon—in a fascinating talk full of amazing facts, personal stories about Aldrin’s journey, depression and alcoholism, and a hopeful view of the future of space exploration.
Your father may have taken you camping, or driven you to cello practice, or taught you all the lyrics to Jefferson Starship songs. But chances are he didn’t go the lengths Laurent Aigon. Over the last five years, at great expensive and after much effort, he built a 737 cockpit so life-like, it’s been used…
The last time France saw the Statue of Liberty, the copper sculpture was in pieces, being shipped to New York for permanent installation. But this summer in Paris, Vietnamese artist Danh Vo has installed his recreation of the iconic monument in 30 copper fragments, each an exact replica of the original—right down to her reading…
The 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, triggered by an earthquake and tsunami, has created an ongoing environmental and public health crisis. Nuclear experts say that the greatest radiation-releasing damage to the plant may have been caused by the explosion of built-up hydrogen as the plant overheated. Now, MIT researchers have developed a…
During their routine teardown procedure of Google’s new Chromecast, iFixit noticed what appears to be a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy easter egg that’s hiding in plain sight. The Chromecast’s model number is H2G2-42, which as iFixit points out is the common abbreviation for Douglas Adams’ classic space adventure book followed by the “42”, which…
It’s been almost two years since America launched its last astronauts into space. If you want to feel especially emotional, watch these videos showing the shuttle’s ascent in glorious HD: from her point of view, from the ground, and a beautiful tribute with all the launches combined into a single one. https://gizmodo.com/absolutely-mindblowing-video-shot-from-the-space-shuttl-5893615
Happy Saturday friends! Since you are inside staring at the Internet instead of outside staring at the ocean, here’s a selection of the most bestest stories we published this week. They will make you laugh and cry simultaneously with outrage and joy! I Can’t Stop Watching This Woman’s Epic Apple Store Meltdown Here we have…
