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The Amount Taxpayers Pay to House Drug Inmates Is Absolutely Criminal While it is produced by Clarity Way, a drug treatment and recovery center, this animated infographic puts forth a well-reasoned and compelling financial argument for alternative treatment options for American drug offenders beyond . [PopSci] Archer: Insulting Nicknames Edition Bob’s Burgers may be the…
Here’s what you’ll be doing for the rest of the week: Temple Run 2. So tell your Mom to hold the dessert. Call your boss that you’ll be sick. And let your teacher know that you won’t have any homework. Because you have to download Temple Run 2, the sequel to the ridiculously popular running…
When buildings grow past their prime, they usually reach their demolition fate—a cobbled, dusty mess—through dynamite explosion. It’s a crashing spectacle of destruction. Loud, angry and ruthless. But maybe it doesn’t have to be like that. Maybe it can be subtle, quite and peaceful. Maybe it can be a strategic floor-by-floor demoltion like the skyscraper…
You don’t have to pretend here. It’s a safe space. Everybody watches porn on the Internet. It’s the real reason why the Internet exists. But do you know the days when people watch the least amount of porn? Pornhub.com (you might be familiar with their work) released statistics from 2012 that show when it got…
Imagine yourself sleeping at 3:00 AM on a Friday night. You probably wanted a little peace and quiet before tomorrow’s picnic at the park. You’re deep in a dream about running barefoot on the beach when SMAAASSSSSHHHH GUNKDAGUNK BOOOM. A drunk man drives a freaking tank inside your house and destroys it. Technically, the 14-ton…
I’ve grown up. I’ve faced reality. I now know that getting a DeLorean time machine like in Back to the Future isn’t going to happen any time soon. I think I’m okay with it. I’d definitely be okay with it if I could replace the DeLorean-sized hole in my heart with this awesome DeLorean Hovercraft.…
This is one of the best songs that never actually made it onto Kendrick Lamar’s highly-praised 2012 album Good Kid mAAd City. Even though this track was omitted, it totally fits in with the opus—a tale of Lamar’s coming of age in Compton. But apparently someone thought it didn’t work. Regardless, it has some pretty…
Masterstroke by Gizmodo Alum “Uncle” Joel Johnson, and that guy Gary He, deposed King of the Internet. I love the Internet. And these guys. http://lennaykekua.com/ Oh, and read the awesome Deadspin Scoop about Manti Te’o’s fake dead girlfriend if you haven’t already. Go now, or you won’t have anything to say to anybody. https://deadspin.com/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-an-5976517
Yes, that’s a serious question. No, it’s not the setup to a bad punchline—it’s the setup to an awesome aerial tug-of-war between gravity and nearly 200 of the stretchy rubber rings over a Nissan Micra. The team from Fast, Furious and Funny investigates. [The Awesomer]
After Japan grounded the giant Boeing 787 Dreamliner earlier this morning, the US FAA has announced that it’ll also stop flying the 787 for the time being. Battery failures have been causing fires in the jumbojet and the FAA will examine the lithium ion batteries of the Dreamliners in order to prevent damage to critical…
Storage space is precious, and most major services—Google Drive and iCloud, for example—only give you a measly 5GB for free. MediaFire, is pretty magnanimous, doling out 50GB on the house. And it just launched on Android. What does it do? Lets you stash your files and photos in the cloud for free. Why do we…
Sony NEX owners don’t exactly have a ton of lenses to choose from. There are many adapters out there for Leica, Nikon, Canon and other lens brands. But the latest from Metabones includes features that truly change the lens-adapter game. It’s called Speed Booster, and it comes on Metabone’s latest-generation Canon EF to Sony E-mount…
This 13-foot-long (4 meters), 3.2-foot-tall (1 meter) Lego model of an Erickson Air-Crane helicopter is truly outstanding. It is not as big as the 22-foot-long, 330-pound, 200,000-brick Lego battleship Yamato—still the largest Lego model ever built—but the engineering of this helo is extraordinary. https://gizmodo.com/lego-battleship-yamato-is-biggest-lego-ship-ever-5214510 It’s extremely difficult to create such a mahoosive model with just…
Here’s something you might want to save up for—Symbol Audio’s beautiful Tabletop HiFi speakers. They look like the were ripped straight from a stylish episode of Mad Men, 20 years from now when they remake Mad Men. They cost $1,800, but they sure are handsome. Although the console has a vintage look, the quality of…
Do you like being that extremely annoying person at parties, concerts, or sporting events that everyone wishes security would quickly escort away? That’s all but guaranteed if you show up with the Deaf Leopard: a CO2-powered handheld horn that’s as loud as a passing train. What could be a more memorable prank than sneaking up…
One of the features promised with the Facebook Messenger for iPhone update a few weeks ago was Voice-Over IP calling (Download it here). Facebook promised that in the coming weeks you’d be able to call your friends over a cellular or Wi-Fi data connection instead of using up your plan minutes. The feature is finally…
This is a problem. It’s not the biggest problem in the world, but it’s a just such a dumb, thoughtless, annoying design flaw that it bears mentioning. Apple’s doing headphone jacks wrong. Actually, no, everyone’s doing them wrong. In short: Headphone cords almost uniformly insert into the left cup. Some still connect to both, but…
Considering how terrible this year’s flu is, odds are good that you’ve already become a languid pile of festering contagions. And in case you’ve managed to evade the virus thus far, get thee a flu shot ASAP, obviously—but then go work out. It may just double your chances of staying plague-free. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-bad-the-flu-is-this-year-5975169 Flu shots themselves…
With security cameras on every corner and surveillance drones soaring overhead, designer Adam Harvey decided that average citizens needed an easy to way to protect their identity and privacy. So he created a line of “Stealth Wear” clothing including a metalized hoodie that hides the wearer from thermal imaging cameras. It’s perfect for dodging drones—or…
Mensa—the club for people who know they’re smarter than you—is offering its home test for free during the month of January. It’s an IQ test that takes 32 minutes to complete and at the end it’ll tell you whether you’re Mensa material. Although acing this test won’t get you admitted to Mensa—that test has to…
