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How to Talk to the Cops After Getting Pulled Over with a Trunk Full of (Legal) Weed Getting pulled over sucks regardless but getting lit up by police flashers with your semi-legal medical marijuana stash in the car can be an especially nerve racking experience. Here are a few tips from Big Buds on the…
Nikon has been teasing development of the new absurdly long, fixed AF-S Nikkor 800mm, f/5.6 aperture lens since last year. Now it’s here, and you’ll be happy to know that this lens’ crazy and inflexible magnification potential is coupled with the absolutely ludicrous price of $18,000. But don’t worry, cheapskates, because there’s an actually affordable…
According to users and various reports, Facebook is currently down in the US of A. As in it’s not working. As in it won’t even load. In fact, Facebook hasn’t been working for over an hour. How in the world is the world surviving? Downforeveryoneorjustme notes that Facebook is down but mobile apps seem to…
Men lie, women lie, number’s dont. PBS takes a look at the sheer ridiculousness of some numbers and then compares them against each other. Like how there are 7 billion humans… but 10 billion bats in the world. Or how humans weigh 287,000,000 tons total but one species of krill would weigh 500,000,000 tons. If…
Still worried about your privacy in the era of Facebook search? Check out some extra tips from FB itself. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-facebook-graph-search-5976186
9to5Mac has an image that shows a prototype design for the next iPad and guess what, it looks a lot like the iPad Mini. These pictures are only unconfirmed images, but if proven to be real, it looks like the big iPad might follow in the iPad Mini’s footstep of lovely chamfered edges. Taking a…
These warped chairs, designed by French studio Ibride, have so many hidden features it’s making my brain wrinkle at a rate it’s never scrunched up before. The optical illusion is to show the chair with a classic silhouette from one angle, while the actual sitting of the chair requires a completely different angle. It’s a…
Because Netflix spends so much time tweaking, working and twerking its recommendation engine to spit out more personalized results for you, sometimes the suggestions can get a little bit eerie. Just because I watched a movie about twin brothers doesn’t mean I like incest movies! UCB Comedy poked fun at Netflix’s ridiculously specific movie suggestions…
Whether you chalk it up to the hyper-realism of today’s video games or an overzealous neighborhood watch program, it’s hard to blame the Swedish police who responded to a frantic call reporting what sounded like a brutal massacre. The ten-man team raided the apartment to find a group of teenagers in the midst of murder…
So JJ Abrams is directing Star Wars Episode VII, and everyone is quite certain that it will be very great or very bad or very dumb. But before we see a single frame of lens flared footage, this shot-for-shot recreation of the Star Trek Into Darkness trailer using original trilogy clips is a taste of…
Hey nail art enthusiasts: Pinterest is testing a redesign with easier navigation, better discovery, and bigger pins.
Want to know how I know your Kickstarter project isn’t going to get funded? You started with “oh hey, I didn’t see you there” which, in the minds of consumers, means you’re either an unobservant stooge who can’t be trusted with money or we’re really bad at hiding. And, as we all know, rule number…
There are few things more annoying than bringing an umbrella with you when you don’t need it. Never make that mistake again—Nooly will give you accurate, super-local forecasts for your exact neighborhood. What does it do? It gives you the most localized weather report possible, by telling you exactly where and when it will rain,…
Lucky for you a well-lit night is just a lightswitch away, but it wasn’t always that easy. The “Weight Here” family of candle-holders by Menu harkens back to a more fiery time, with a flourish of sleek minimalist design. The collection contains single candle-holders and three-pronged candelabras in thin models for normal candles, and thicker…
iPhone 5 users have been waiting a long, long time for a jailbreak. Sure, the current versions of iOS have been opened, but unlucky kids with A6 chips and the fancy new Apple devices they come in have been out of luck. But no longer! Probably. With today’s release of iOS 6.1, jailbreak release rumors…
I don’t get Vine. I don’t give a looping turd about it. Every video I’ve seen so far is six seconds of jerky concentrated idiocy. I may be too old for this crap but I’m not alone—thanks, [Willa via Laughing Squid via Petapixel]
Cheese and chocolate are, separately, two of the best food items. And if for some reason you want to marry the two, you can with the Trisa Starline electrical gourmet mill ($140), because it has two separate chambers. The multitasking mill works for not only the two aforementioned foods, but also for nuts, frozen things,…
Stale tobacco smell. It clings to clothing, permeates wall paint, saturates upholstery, and brands everything it touches with that unmistakable scent. Here’s how to keep from smelling like an ashtray just because your roommate won’t show the common courtesy of cracking a window. There are two general schools of thought when it comes to combating…
What’s worse than the Star Wars prequels? The Star Wars prequels ramrodded in your face with an extra dimension. Lucasfilm was planning on subjecting idiots with loose wallets to re-released 3D Young Anakin, but Disney says no more bullshit. Deadline reports that Lucasfilm will pass on distributing the other five Star Wars flicks after The…
If you haven’t heard of Vine—Twitter’s video-sharing app—before today, it might’ve come across your screen this morning after a brief scandal: a dildo porn clip was featured as an “editor’s pick.” Porn on Vine—crazy, right? No. Shut up. There’s porn on almost everything, and there always will be. https://gizmodo.com/vine-is-twitters-new-gif-like-video-sharing-service-5978676 The notion that porn on Vine…
