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Sometime in the 1960s, a nuclear-war obsessed mad person illegally built this surreal house 25 feet under The Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. A full family home complete with a swimming pool, painted landscapes and a system that crudely simulates sunlight through the day. This happy place to spend the rest of your life after…
There are 30 things you must carry in your car at all times, says Lifehacker. Some are just convenient to have, but others may save your life one day. Photo by Getty Images https://lifehacker.com/30-essential-things-you-should-keep-in-your-car-1263514115
This new Mercedes BRABUS 850 iBusiness is the new four-wheel toy for the super rich with family or chauffeur. It has an engine more powerful than this dump truck, with (real) gold tubes that nobody but a mechanic would see. Inside it looks like a Gulfstream jet, so its owner never feels out of his…
It’s hard to believe that the sky in this photo is not a frame from a sci-fi movie. The weird ball on top of a mountain, the antennas, and a sky that seems to belong to an alien world… it’s a sky that you can only see in one place in the world. That place…
His name, according to the New York Police Department, is Christopher Adam Tang. He claimed he drove around Manhattan in just 24 minutes and seven seconds using a BMW Z4. The man was arrested following the publication of his video and an interview in Jalopnik. https://jalopnik.com/source-says-police-have-arrested-manhattan-speeder-afro-1253640248
“The cure for Ryan Leaf is, unfortunately, not being Ryan Leaf,” says John Cagney Nash on Playboy Safe for Work. Read the fascinating and saddening confession of former NFL player Ryan Leaf as written by his cell mate. https://playboysfw.kinja.com/ryan-leafs-jailhouse-confessions-written-by-his-cell-1254883817
Gizmodo’s Leslie Horn makes a good observation about the Samsung Galaxy Gear and all the smart watches coming soon: They will be perfect for creepshots, thanks to their conveniently disguised cameras. https://gizmodo.com/galaxy-gear-creepshots-and-the-gross-future-1253797007
If you feel awkward talking to people you barely know or your conversations always fall flat, here’s a round up of the five best tips to avoid it. https://lifehacker.com/how-to-avoid-the-most-common-awkward-conversation-mista-1257095824
DC Comics—publishers of Batman and Superman—has forbidden the lesbian marriage of Batwoman and her girlfriend Maggie, resulting in the resignation of the comicbook’s creative team. It’s a bizarre move, since their relationship has been explicit for a long time. Apparently, DC Comics thinks that lesbian relationships are ok, but it’s not ok for them to…
Even while we don’t have colonies in Mars or orbital Holiday Inns, we live in the Space Age, says io9’s Annalee Newitz. Our modern world is so deeply dependent on our space ventures that our economy, scientific progress and intellectual growth as species would collapse without them. Just try to stop for a few minutes…
Scarlett Johansson is getting married to some Romain Dauriac. Who is Romain Dauriac? A French journalist who conquered the actress’ heart before you did, that’s who. Photo by Getty Images https://jezebel.com/scarlett-johansson-engaged-to-stone-fox-french-journali-1256407421
Homophobic President Vladimir Putin asserted his masculinity yesterday while visiting a school somewhere in Russia. He drew a vagina in front of all the students and then he said it was ‘a cat from behind.’ No, Vladimir, that isn’t a cat, you fascist pig. https://kotaku.com/vladimir-putin-is-an-artist-1256300307
TSA Pre-Check—a paid registration system that allows airplane passengers to skip security checks as long as they agree to get fingerprinted—is now available to everyone instead of just frequent fliers from some airlines. Now you just have to pay them $85 to get back the dignity and rights they stole from you. http://gawker.com/the-tsa-racket-is-now-selling-your-basic-rights-back-to-1254693465
Given enough force you can probably kill with anything you want—so it’s not surprising to see these custom Lego shotgun shells inflicting such damage on metal and plastic. If any of these hit your soft flesh on the right place, it would be way more lethal than any brick left on any rug. https://gizmodo.com/imagine-getting-shot-in-the-face-with-this-lego-shotgun-1254378238
These holidays there will be new versions of the PlayStation and the Xbox. That’s great news, but the best news are these: You really don’t need to buy them just yet. Or ever, for that matter. That old 1980s Nintendo system is still as fun as day one! Kotaku explains why it may not be…
I spent some of my young years playing Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and X-Wing on a PC. They’re my all-time favorites. Kotaku readers are putting together a list of the best ever PC classic games. A must read, even while it includes games released in 2003. https://kotaku.com/the-classic-pc-games-you-must-play-1246823468
Choose: you can watch the video below to see the 11.5 years that took to build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge compressed down to four minutes OR just watch the four-second GIF above for four minutes. Life is short, my friends. https://jalopnik.com/watch-a-san-francisco-bridge-go-up-in-just-4-minutes-1251774643
Back to school, holiday travel, holiday gifts, year-end tax planning… September is a crucial month if you want to save a lot of money in the coming months till May, the other crucial financial month. Here’s a good list of things to do. https://lifehacker.com/the-financial-moves-you-should-make-in-september-1250711845
After the commoditization of phones and tablets, companies are desperate to find the next big thing. Some believe that people really want smart watches. The only problem is that smart watches are stupid. Smart watches are like the old 1980s Casio calculator watch but without the tiny buttons and sightly smarter. Take the Galaxy Gear…
If you want to disappear from the internet or just nuke some of your web accounts quickly and—mostly—painlessly, here’s a good solution: Just Delete Me, “a massive list of the most popular web apps and services with links to delete your account from those services.”