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Could North Korea Really Hit Us With a Nuke?

In a predictably insane but still unsettling development, North Korea has declared its interest in showering the US mainland with missiles. The bluster comes on the heels of an American stealth bomber show of force, and is largely just posturing. https://gizmodo.com/north-korea-is-putting-its-rockets-on-standby-for-fire-5992860 But if it came down to it, could they follow through? Could a North…

Ride Out North Korea’s Preemptive Strike in These 24 Cold War Fallout Shelters

With North Korea’s missiles at the ready—pointless though that may be—we may not be far from another mini-Cold War. With the potential end of civilization at the hands of a pudgy, late-20s Dennis Rodman fan looming, there’s only one thing that can protect the American public: bunkers! https://gizmodo.com/could-north-korea-really-hit-us-with-a-nuke-5989194 Here are two dozen of the best…

The Axis of Awesome: Rage of Thrones

The entire world—my geek friends, my non geek friends, my non TV watching non geek friends—is waiting for March 31st because that’s when Game of Thrones is finally coming back to HBO. Westeros! Dany! Jon Snow! Tyrion! Robb Stark! Robb Stark’s girl who is the great granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin! Everyone is excited except… the…

The First Honest Cable Company Commercial

Cable companies are universally regarded as only slightly more popular than evil dictators, and a little less fashionable than certain strains of STDs. How do you fix something like that? Honesty! We’re awful; we’re unstoppable; you’ll hate us; deal with it. That’s something you could respect (and which would be applicable basically everywhere in the…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: My Dreamlapse

Mixing serene stop-motion scenes with abstract 3D animation, digital artist Mitch Myers delivers a haunting vision of his dreams. Which are apparently far better than my dreams. Those typically involve me running from hordes of the undead while dragging a footlocker full of avocados. Go figure.

North Korea Is Putting Its Rockets on Standby for Fire After the US Made a Show of Force with Stealth Bombers

According to Reuters, North Korea has readied its rockets to attack US military bases in South Korea and the Pacific Ocean after the US made a show of force earlier today by flying stealth bombers over South Korea. Kim Jong Un had apparently signed off an order for North Korea’s rockets to be “on standby…

A Batman Coffee Table Bruce Wayne Wish He Had

Because we all dreamed about being Bruce Wayne once upon a time (or to this day), here’s something you can get that he could never: a batman logo coffee table. Made by Charles Lushear of the Bohemian Workshop, the coffee table is carved from wood with hairpin legs and is a must for any comic…

Toilets in Video Games Are All Pretty Gross

Though most video games never involve a player having to drop a deuce, video game worlds always seem to have dirty toilets in even dirtier restrooms. Who uses these toilets and why are they universally dirty! Video Game Toilets rounds up the toilets found in video games—it spans from like the early 80’s until now—in…

HBO Go will supposedly stream live boxing by the end of the year. We’ll be holding our breath until then.

Is Facebook About to Announce a Facebook Phone Running Android?

Facebook just invited the press to an event at Facebook HQ that’ll show off Facebook’s “new home on Android”. Is this the much talked about (and denied) Facebook phone? Will Facebook be using the Android OS to build a layer of Facebook on top of? HMM. Or is this just some new version of the…

Watch a Genius Two-Year-Old Use Nail Clippers to Pick a Lock and Steal His Sister’s Toys

Here is the most adorable theft ever. A two-year-old toddler figured out how to use nail clippers to pick the lock on his eight-year-old sister’s door so that he could steal a stuffed animal at night. His parents set up a baby camera to see the incredible “crime” go down. It’s truly wonderful. Joann Moser,…

There Is Such Thing As a Beer Pong Arcade Game

If you combined a horizontal version of skee ball and a super small version of pop a shot, you would get this beer pong arcade machine. It takes all the basic tenets of beer pong (ping pong balls, red solo cups, etc.) but forgets the most important part: DRINKING. In the arcade version of beer…

What’s Your Least Favorite Emoji?

Earlier today we asked you, faithful Twitter followers, which emojis you most despised. Results varied widely. The happy piece of feces seemed to be the most divisive, as it appeared in many “least favorite” tweets but is, in fact, known to be used widely and with impunity. And many of you were even able to…

Beautiful Collapsable Cubicles Are an Office Rat’s Dream Come True

The cubicle is a horrid monster of office design. While they might be functional, it’s never pretty to section off your office into endless false walls, resigning workers into their own little pockets of a giant ice cube tray. The designers at Taylor and Miller Architecture and Urban Design have a beautiful solution that even…

A Full, Offline Thesaurus in Your Pocket to Impress Anyone, Anywhere

Sure, there may already be a veritable cornucopia of dictionaries, thesauruses, and other word reference apps out there, but Thesaurus Rex is the thesaurus app to end all thesaurus apps. Packed with more information than you could ever hope to know and fast to boot, this will become the last word reference software you’ll need.…

DNA vs Razr: What’s Your Pick?

The HTC Droid DNA and Motorola’s Droid RAZR HD/RAZR MAXX HD are all sweet handsets. The DNA of course has an edge in terms of screen and display while the RAZRs’ battery lives are unmatched in the Android ecosystem. Sure the HTC One will be frickin’ awesome when it does eventually show up but “later…

The Ocean Is Safe from Swarms of Man-Sized Robo-Jellyfish—For Now

While there’s still a debate over whether the world’s real jellyfish population is exploding or not, a team at Virginia Tech is working hard to supplement the prehistoric blobs’ numbers with robotic monsters of their own. Huzzah? The team from Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering led by professor of mechanical engineering Shashank Priya unveiled a…

This Modular Wine Wall Is Good Even When the Booze Is Bad

Maybe you don’t know the first thing about wine except that you like it. Hell, maybe you make your oenological choices based on how cool the label is. Even if the wine is crap, you can still nail the presentation with STACT, a slick modular wine rack. Units start at $130 and come in six…

HTC One Teardown: Even Harder to Fix Than the iPhone

The HTC One is hands-down the most beautiful Android phone we’ve ever seen, so it should come as no surprise that it doesn’t come apart nicely. The folks over at iFixit gave it a shot and had One hell of a time getting the guts out so you won’t have to. And you shouldn’t try;…

How to Make Windows 8 Look and Feel Like Windows 7

If you have a PC with Windows 8 but miss Windows 7, there’s no need to downgrade. Following a few simple steps, you can make Microsoft’s current operating system look and feel almost identical to its predecessor. Here’s how to bring back the Start menu and the attractive aero glass theme how to hide other…