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The Air Force recently noticed that some of their F-22 Raptor fighter pilots were acting erratically, specifically, they were acting drunk. But sozzled they weren’t, instead it’s been revealed that anti-freeze, oil fumes and propane invaded their blood. Whaaaat? https://jalopnik.com/grounded-stealth-fighter-fleet-ko-d-by-oxygen-woes-5799273 It’s amazing, some of the pilots forgot simple things like how to operate the radio…
Tying a water balloon is infinitely less fun than throwing a water ballon. Turns out slippery wet latex doesn’t make for good grip! Enter Tie Not. It’s an impossibly crafty nozzle that practically does the tying for you. Watch. It’s been around for a while now but if you’re getting serious about water fights, equipping…
Nero YouTubes while Rome burns! The White House, probably realizing the entire country is mega-financially-screwed anyway, just rickolled a Twitter critic who complained about the “entertainment value” of an Obama briefing. Retaliation? Watch this annoying video, you jerk! You might think the official mouthpiece of the United States of America indulging in well-worn meme prankery…
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress is a documentary about the most insane—and one of the most influential—restaurants in the world, El Bulli, which is closing this month. El Bulli’s the epicenter of where weird science met delicious food and postmodern art under the guidance of wizard-chef-mad scientist Ferran Adrià. If the movie’s able to convey…
How else will they keep their swag up? Well, no. Rather, covering plowshares with diamond-hard carbon would actually do a number of cool things for farmers. It’s even better on the environment. Researchers at the German Fraunhofer Institute have been looking into how to reduce fuel costs for german plowshares, and the solution seems to…
What kid didn’t capture fireflies in a jar, hopelessly attempting to keep them alive by tossing in a few torn blades of grass? For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll capture fireflies again, but this time, on camera. The Challenge Take a photo of a firefly. You may call them lightning bugs. (A hat tip to…
Though a bit odd, it’s not unheard of for a guy to pretend to be a girl—or vice versa—on the internet. But researchersdeveloped a new algorithm which analyzes the content of tweets and predicts a user’s gender. According to Fast Company, Researchers at the Mitre Corporation found a sample base of users whose gender they…
It’s about damn time for some more iPhone 5 speculation! The latest? An iPhone case model that shows the next iPhone having an edge-to-edge screen, a wider home screen button (for possible gestures!) and an iPad 2-esque curved back. 9to5Mac says these case designs are being shopped around to Asian case manufacturers for production and…
Have you ever tried watching TV for 24 hours straight? And I’m not talking about sleeping with the TV on. I mean WATCHING for an entire day. Let me tell you, it’s not pretty. Sometime around the 12th hour, your attention span evaporates. Then when the 18th hour hits and you’re frantically drinking Red Bull…
Congratulations, Pocatello Idaho. You have American’s slowest Internet. That’s according to a new study by Pando Networks that tracked Internet download speeds and completion rates across the country for five months this year. Pando Networks found some pretty stunning differences nationwide. The coastal and Mid-Atlantic states had the fastest and most reliable Internet (with Rhode…
You know you wanna be like Indiana Jones, unlocking the secrets of ancient manuscripts. Well, that shit is hard. But the Egypt Exploration Society and Oxford University are giving you the chance by uploading their ancient papyrus to the web. By visiting Oxford’s Ancient Lives website, you and your fellow archaeologists can sit down and…
Since you clicked your first link, you were promised one thing about the internet: you may have to pay a cover charge, but once you’re in, everything’s free. Except that suddenly doesn’t seem as true anymore. You know what? Good. Hulu Plus. The NY Times paywall. Ditto Time magazine. Fox’s decision to delay new episodes…
Break out the beer, MS-DOS turns 30 today. On July 27, 1981, Microsoft purchased QDOS from Seattle Computer Products. It was kind of a good deal. When IBM came to Microsoft asking for a 16-bit operating system, the company had to scramble to get one together. Rather than writing a new one from the ground…
In his 1500-page manifesto—spammed to one thousand people more than one hour before the massacre—Norewegian killer Anders Breivik devoted pages and pages about how to read his deadly boring tome, including why he chose Microsoft Word: https://gizmodo.com/oslo-killer-emailed-plan-to-more-than-1000-people-one-h-5825170 I chose to send the compendium as a Word file for the following reason: 1. MS Word is…
Some of America’s biggest historical events, like Gettysburg or the Dust Bowl, are also some of the most complex—and rife with contradicting accounts. A new digital mapping system aims to apply Google Earth-like functionality to American History’s mysteries. Developed at Vermont’s Middlebury College by geographer Anne Kelly Knowles and her team, Geographic Information Systems (GIS),…
It’s easy to take an older technology and cast it aside as though it’s obsolete. But Redpark’s new serial cable for your iDevice is onto something. It can connect to your iPad to older but important machines and make them new. This cable will connect your iDevice to any hardware that still relies on an…
Facial recognition, like targeted advertising before it, is the internet’s newest bogeyman. Many have an instant aversion to their faces being scanned by a computer. You shouldn’t. With the right caveats, the tech’s like robot vacuums: helpful, not scary. It’s not so surprising that personal facial recognition has created a face-jerk reaction among privacy advocates.…
One of LulzSec’s purported kingpins is now in police custody. Topiary, apparently a 19-year-old Scottish kid, was arrested by the UK’s Metropolitan Police Service’s Police Central e-Crime Unit today, and now en route to London. Bad news for LulzSec. And he’s not alone, according to a statement released by the Metropolitan Police: A residential address…
BinderPad is an iPad case that can fit inside a 3 ring binder. What’s so special about that? For the kids man! It’s completely stealth so students can hide it in their binders and look like they’re studying when they’re actually on their iPad. Ignore your teacher, don’t pay attention in class and spend all…
Canadian Maskull Lasserre’s woodwork is miles from the kind of whittling woodwork that takes place down in Alabama in a rickety old rocking chair. For one, each piece is incredibly intricate, and extremely macabre, with skulls popping out of furniture and axe handles carved into skeletons. Just one slip of the hand, and suddenly the…
