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Seeing dogs get confused by a magic trick was so darn cute the first time that magician Jose Ahonen decided to pull the same disappearing treat trick again with more adorable dogs. You can laugh as they hilariously react to the sorcery of seeing something vanish right underneath their nose and cry aww as you…
Los Angeles architectural photographer Mike Kelley posted this awesome image of almost all the departures and some of the arrivals at LAX during a period of eight hours last Sunday. You can buy the photo here if you want. Here is his explanation: This is (almost!) every departure and a few arrivals at LAX’s south…
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I fondly remember one of the very first games I played on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum: The Hobbit, a text adventure with crude illustrations that was probably made in BASIC. It was crap. But this Hobbit game looks great. So good that it makes me hate the Cinefix guys for making these awesome videos without…
You know the Hitchcock zoom effect: A camera on a dolly moves back or forward as the lenses zoom in or out, changing the field of view. French photographer Micaël Reynaud has created a new variation of the technique—which you can see above—combining the dolly zoom with slit-scan photography. The dolly zoom effect was developed…
Sponsored by the game Watch Dogs, the folks at RatedRR explain how you can hack into anything in real life—from cameras to AC units to smart power outlets to wireless LED lights—to use those home devices as remote bomb detonators. And of course, their demonstration includes actual bombs and explosions for your cheering pleasure. SPLOID…
Here’s International Space Station commander Koichi Wakata posing with robot AFJ013 in NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. It doesn’t get closer to the future than this, folks. I’m so jealous. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
io9’s Ron Miller has a roundup of all the early design specs for the the space shuttle. Really cool stuff. They remind me of the pre-Apollo years—with all those US Air Force awesomely shiny experimental jets and rocket planes flew by the Chuck Yeager and company. https://gizmodo.com/early-design-specs-show-the-space-shuttle-could-have-be-1528524224
This was posted on February but got no attention until yesterday, when these guys found it. And while it may have been staged, I have no problem believing it—there have been many similar cases of rotten or fragile buildings falling under minimal vibration. Most probably these guys were just walking by and noticed how the…
When I first saw this giant camera standing bigger than the house next to it I instantly thought it had to be a fake. It wasn’t. It’s a real and quite wonderful place in South Korea: The Dreamy Café. The Dreamy Cafe looks like a giant red Rolleiflex, the legendary twin-lens medium format camera originally…
Instead of coming up with idiotic ideas, perhaps all the dumb companies trying to push their stupid April Fools’ Day “jokes” down our throats should start making some actually awesome pranks. Like this one, played on young waitress Chelsea Roff, who basically got her shift turned into the best day of her life. Chelsea went…
This is a really unusual weather situation, according to the National Weather Service: Three low pressure systems in line over the entirety of North America. NASA Goddard describes them as “three atmospheric dragons.” They do look like dragons! It must be a Game of Thrones’ marketing ploy. There are three low pressure systems around the…
Is it worth investing a few weeks of your life in Battlestar Galactica? What about Game of Thrones? Or Deadwood? Here’s a graphical tool that maps all the Internet Movie Database’s ratings for every episode of every TV series—a scientific method to pick the next show that is going to make you lose countless hours…
Donuts are one of the world’s most perfect foods, and it’s just about impossible to make them better. But that doesn’t mean people shouldn’t try. So that’s why I applaud Krispy Kreme for combining its donuts with one of the world’s other most perfect foods: Pie. Today, Krispy Kreme announced two new, limited-edition flavors, and…
Chef Jasper van Ramshorst figured out the best way to skin an apple is to stick it on the end of a power drill, place a peeler in position and boom. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
There are very few things as scary as having a war plane coming at you firing its machine gun. The Aviationist found this video of a Syrian Arab Air Force Mig-29 Fulcrum strafing at rebel positions. Oh yes, that war is still going on, although nobody is paying attention any more. SPLOID is a new…
Game of Thrones season 4 starts this weekend. Everyone is going to be talking about it but you have no idea about what it is about. Or perhaps you forgot some plot elements after an entire year. You can do two things: Watch the three seasons for six days starting right now or watch this…
Watch daredevil Flaviu Cernescu crossing a 170-foot-high Romanian aqueduct using a unicycle and no safety gear whatsoever. Try not to scream when he falls forward. Fortunately, he kept himself on the wood path, which was only a few inches wide. My heart skipped a bit when I first saw it. According to the video narrator,…
This awesome photo of tires about to be burned in a cement factory was taken by Klaus Leidorf. It is as fascinating as it is gross. Spotted by a redditor, check out the original at high resolution here. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Owen Pallett has a great article on Slate explaining why Daft Punk’s Get Lucky was such a huge success through the lenses of classic Western music theory. It may be a little technical but, if you know a bit about music, it’s fascinating stuff. This bit is not music theory but very interesting too: ……
