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Can you drive your car at full speed—with the police chasing you—crash against two trains and survive the collision? Of course you can, if you are this mad woman. https://jalopnik.com/woman-runs-from-police-gets-hit-by-two-trains-somehow-1446413450
The skinniest tallest tower in New York will be a reality in 2016, after being approved by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. This shard of glass and metal will stand 1,350-foot-tall by 60-foot-wide on 107 West 57th, looking over Central Park. I hope this guy gets the top floor. https://gizmodo.com/the-skinniest-skyscraper-in-nyc-is-one-step-closer-to-r-1446563249
The Russians keep hunting for fragments of the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk earlier this year. This space boulder—the largest piece so far—has just been found by divers deep in the Chebarkul Lake, about 930 miles east of Moscow. https://gizmodo.com/meteorite-explodes-over-russia-panic-spreads-5984476 The meteor weighed 1,256 pounds (570 kilograms) before the balance broke. The analysis of the…
This is the first commercial ultra-high definition porn in the world—also known as 4k porn. That means it will look just like real life in televisions with 4,096 pixels of horizontal resolution. You will be able to see every skin pore and fluid drop on every single naughty bit. Check out these samples. The teaser…
One day, all spaceships will probably work like SpaceX’s Grasshopper, launching and soft-landing from a single base like in a spaceship movies. Tests are going incredibly well, as this amazing footage taken with an aerial drone shows. https://gizmodo.com/the-aerial-footage-from-the-latest-grasshopper-test-lau-1445046357
“Jellyfish are taking over the seas,” says Gwynn Guilford at Quartz, “and it may be too late to stop them.” But the fact is that scientists can’t say if this is an unprecedented full scale invasion or just part of a larger unknown cycle. What we know, however, is that human activity is colliding with…
This new Game of Thrones scene was recently filmed in Ballintoy Harbor, Ireland. Who the hell is getting burned here? https://gizmodo.com/what-is-going-on-in-these-horrifying-game-of-thrones-se-1446030760
These images—created in collaboration with animal ophthalmologists—show how cats see the world compared to humans. Cats have a wider view angle, focus the scene from a farther distance, see at night, and detect fast movement easily. All they need to hunt you down. https://gizmodo.com/these-images-show-just-how-differently-cats-and-humans-1445728239
Dark Energy. We think it exists. We think it accounts for about 70 percent of our reality. This mystery force can give us the solution to the Universe’s final destiny, but we are just beginning to understand it, according to Mordecai-Mark Mac Low at the American Museum of Natural History. https://amnh.kinja.com/a-brief-history-of-dark-energy-1445780297
Walter White, Michael Corleone, Hannibal Lecter… terrible people with no morals, capable of the worst things. And yet, most people root for them. Writers use some clever tricks to make audiences love the bad guys. Here are ten that never fail. https://gizmodo.com/10-ways-to-make-everyone-root-for-your-amoral-protagoni-1445692961
Kinja blog The Dogs has unearthed this funny 1993 clip from Late Night with Conan O’Brien, starring a very young Louis CK, Robert Smigel—aka Triumph the Insult Dog—and Adam Sandler. https://dogs.kinja.com/louis-ck-speaks-dog-on-conan-in-1993-1443891998
A marine science instructor has found this gigantic 18-foot-long oarfish—one of the most elusive animals on Earth—in Toyon Bay, 22 miles off the Port of Los Angeles. A horrible beast that, sadly, is too flabby and gooey to eat. Here’s a living oarfish captured on camera, a very strange event. https://gizmodo.com/a-marine-science-instructor-found-this-18-foot-long-oar-1445530770
Brazil’s infamous spirit girl in the elevator TV prank was truly horrible, but ultimately unbelievable because it’s based on fantasy. But finding cadavers all around you can be very real—especially in Japan, after Fukushima—which is why this TV prank is worth of Lucifer himself. http://gawker.com/5963405/not-even-kidding-hidden-camera-show-pulls-scariest-elevator-prank-ever https://kotaku.com/surviving-two-traumatic-japanese-pranks-is-not-easy-1445483702
Japan—land of robots, tentacles and the weirdest weirdos—now has a “wine made exclusively for cats” made by a pet food company. They call it Nyan Nyan Nouveau and it contains Cabernet grapes juice, vitamin C and catnip, which means they will get drunk. It actually sounds like Four Loko for cats. In any case, this…
Perverted nerds and insufferable indie movie lovers everywhere are really excited right now, for someone has discovered a way to watch Ellen Page’s totally naked, even changing the camera angle to focus on all her naughty bits. It’s not the real Ellen, though, but her virtual body in the new video game Beyond: Two Souls.…
io9’s Charlie Jane Anders says that Toy Story of Terror—Pixar’s first ever TV special—is so good that she watched it two times in a row. It “lives up to the Toy Story legacy.” It’s airing on Wednesday at 8pm on ABC. https://gizmodo.com/this-week-pixar-comes-to-tv-plus-the-cws-answer-to-g-1444731722
If an agreement between the White House and Republicans doesn’t happen soon, the Congressional Budget Office says that the country would have to stop paying its debts sometime after October 22. That will make the United States of America the first major power to default after Nazi Germany, says Bloomberg: Reneging on its debt obligations…
These black on white canvasses are signed Banksy originals, each of them worth tens of thousands of dollars. Yesterday, the British artist tried to sell them for $60 each in Central Park and failed. Only three people actually bought something, for a grand total of $420. The actual cost: an estimated $224,000. Banksy has said…
Kyle Allums has been a fighter for most of his life. Fighting to excel at the sport he loved and fighting to find acceptance for who he is. Growing up transgendered led him into a suicidal depression, but basketball was his salvation. This is his incredible story.
Whatever happened to erotic cinema? Rourke & Bassinger raiding the fridge for a late-night “snack”…Brando and that stick of butter…and of course Deneuve, the original “Desperate Housewife.” With the ridiculous success of “Fifty Shades of Grey” some are speculating that erotic cinema is about to make a very big comeback.
