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Someone had the clever idea to erase every Brazilian player out of the humiliating World Cup game with Germany. The fact is that it doesn’t really matter because Brazil was an invisible troupe of clowns to begin with. The game plays just the same without them. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
The guys at Screen Junkies talk cult movies—why do some films rise unexpectedly from obscurity to achieve this hallowed status when most just fade into oblivion? Does a cult movie have to be bad? And why if you set-out to make one will you almost certainly fail? SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…
Instead of making the Marky Mark Transformers sequel, Michael Bay should have just sent in this sick, non-stop supercut of every single robot fight scene from the Transformers trilogy to theaters. Yep. This video is an orgy of explosive metal on metal battle scenes without any of the pesky humans screwing it up. I would…
The Northrop Grumman X-47B carrier-launched drone really feels like the future of aviation in this image taken on board the USS Harry Truman. And, while it looks like some alien spaceship from a sci-fi show, these beasts will completely replace those F-18s in a couple of decades. The X-47B in night tests at the Naval…
Here’s the official, anted up sequel to First Kiss,called Undress Me, which means “strangers” are taking off each other’s clothes now in a video to promote the new season of Masters of Sex. It doesn’t quite have the well acted charm of the original and you feel more like a voyeur this time around but…
If Google were a real person, he would probably have the world’s most frustrating job. I mean, Google has to deal with all the crud we type into the search engine and spit out results that match up to our perverted tastes, stoned questions, deepest fears, doddering mistakes all while trying to not to judge…
With some directors, you can immediately tell you’re watching a movie they directed just by looking at a still frame without any context. There’s a visual style they stamp on their films, a certain special effect they like, a narrative preference they utilize, basically, a trademark they have. WatchMojo came up with a list of…
According to observations made by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope, the Universe is missing 80 percent of all its light. Astronomers are completely baffled: “We still don’t know for sure what it is, but at least one thing we thought we knew about the present day universe isn’t true.” Those…
After the first Matrix—a movie not without faultbut at least entertaining and unique in its aesthetic—the entire franchise went to hell. Matrix Reloaded was particularly offensive, even with Monica Bellucci. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Proving again that great editing can turn any movie into something completely different, the geniuses from Unusual Suspects took the tragic story of Saving Private Ryan and converted it into that Hollywood clusterfuck of stupidity, bad writing, and explosions that is The Expendables 3. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on…
If you have old vintage books, you may have some book scorpions in your bookcase. Actually, you really should want to have them, even if they look scary and gross. Book scorpions protect your old books—they love to munch on the book lice that eat the glue which holds old books together. A book scorpion…
$500,000. That’s how much a Star Trek fan Anthony Sforza is, a man who put three years of his life into turning his basement into a temple dedicated to Gene Roddenberry’s sci-fi series—then filled it with unique memorabilia. He actually bought a piece of the set to analyze it and use the exact same materials.…
Dubai has unveiled plans for the world’s first indoor, climate-controlled neighborhood—a 450-hectare city area with a retractable glass roof and the world’s largest shopping center.This sounds to me like the hell on earth but I better get used to it: Every major city will probably be like this by the end of the century. It…
A team of astronomers led by John Bochanski has found the farthest stars in our galaxy in the mysterious Milky Way halo, a rare discovery that may change our understanding of the formation of our galactic home. They’re so far away that, if you took a photo of the Milky Way from their orbit, it…
It may sound like a good idea to drink the purest water you can find, but as this video explains, that is not actually the case. Ultra pure water has no impurities—so absolutely no taste and who wants that—but also in large quantities it will harm and even kill you because it will leach the…
Happiness is a difficult thing to measure due to its subjective nature, but scientists have been trying nonetheless. Here is a compilation of some of the most interesting findings they’ve gathered so far packed into one big infographic. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
From patent trolls to online media, this potted history of Hollywood tells a tale of adaptation, profiteering and survival in the face of relentless threats—social, legal, financial and technological. Fascinating stuff. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
The Illusion Lab created a fun illusion video that can cause some serious hallucinogenic effects just from watching the video. It only lasts for a little while but you’ll definitely feel as if the world around you is alive like you’ve never seen it before. All you have to do is watch the video (full…
Maybe you consider yourself a maestro in the bedroom or a lion in the sheets or think that you don’t need no stinking advice about sex. But do you really know what you’re doing? Do you really have all your info right? Mental Floss decides to debunk 20 common misconceptions about sex in the video…
If you think you’re looking at an engine blowing out in the plane above, you wouldn’t exactly be right. The plane is actually stocking a remote lake with fish by dropping them into the water from the air like it would a bomb. It’s a method that’s used all around the country but looks completely…
