Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
What’s scarier than a huge, thundering jet fighter? Most people would say, “When it’s about to drop out of the sky on my head,” but these daredevil videographers like to be right underneath the monsters. https://jalopnik.com/whats-the-lowest-flyby-ever-recorded-on-video-1166589285
This lady told this guy: “STAY AWAY FROM ME + MY FAMILY YOU ARE SICK TRYING TO RENT AN APARTMENT IN MY BUILDING TO STALK ME. LEAVE ME ALONE!!!” https://jezebel.com/lady-gaga-accuses-perez-hilton-of-stalking-as-their-feu-1165668091
Look at these poor students taking an exam at a university in Thailand: a paper headband with two paper sheets stapled to each side so they couldn’t look at the next desk during exams. It’s been a scandal in the country because people find it humiliating—understandably. https://kotaku.com/these-anti-cheating-hats-make-me-sad-1165692137
A Palestinian man hacked into Zuckerberg’s Facebook page to demonstrate how much its security sucks. This happened after his efforts to communicate the access hole were snubbed by the company’s security team on numerous occasions. The result of the hacking was innocuous, but a lot of people are going to get chastised at Facebook’s headquarters…
Kinja user Kseth works at the Target store in Fargo, North Dakota. A few weeks ago he witnessed an absurd event starring an anti-gay Christian customer and a fellow employee regarding Target’s gay marriage cards. Pathetic. Sad. Dumb—all those adjectives apply. Have a good story for Kinja’s front page? Submit your Kinja post here. https://criticalhitrecords.kinja.com/woman-protests-target-selling-gay-marriage-greeting-car-1156124792
This strangely beautifully and claustrophobic island city is Male, the capital of the Maldives. Like the rest of the archipelago and other cities around the world, it may disappear soon thanks to climate change. Photo by Shutterstock https://architizer.kinja.com/cities-threatened-by-climate-change-1126510670
There are tens of thousands of tricks to make your life better and easier at Lifehacker, but you only need these ten simple graphical cheat sheets to remember the most essential ones. https://lifehacker.com/top-10-infographics-and-cheat-sheets-that-make-life-eas-1154316001
Step 1: Sit down at your table in this fake boat restaurant. Step 2: Catch your favorite living fish from the water stream surrounding your table. Step 3: Feel it palpitate down your throat as you’re eating it. If you don’t like your sushi that fresh, here are nine more weird Tokyo restaurants picked by…
Cat’s meat, thatched cottage, fanny, cartsue case, jam, quim-whiskers, front parlour, whopper, percy, doover, swanska, jamoke, jolly bean, donniger… these timelines tell you the nicknames of your intimate parts from 1250 to today. https://gizmodo.com/two-timelines-of-slang-for-genitalia-from-1250-through-1157205966
American singer Chubby Checker—known for popularizing the twist dance in 1960—is suing the underpants off HP. The conflict: the Palo Alto multinational corporation published a third-party penis measuring app for their now defunct Palm phones called Chubby Checker. https://gizmodo.com/chubby-checker-singer-can-sue-hp-over-chubby-checker-1155156358
Every year, the most luxurious, exotic and expensive cars in the world get together at Monterrey Car Week, commonly known as Pebble Beach among fans of all things on wheels. From unique classics to the unveiling of the latest models, these are the awesome cars you’ll never have. Here are the highlights so far. The…
There has been a fire in the middle of the Queensboro Bridge, which links Manhattan with Queens over the East River and Roosevelt Island. The explosion of a truck caused a fire on the lower level of the bridge, which is now closed. A thick column of black smoke from all over the city for…
Does that rock look to you like Elvis Presley? With a bit of imagination, it does. Or at least, that’s what the founder of the Museum of Curious Rocks thought when he started to collect 900 “face rocks” that look like characters like Jesus, ET, Boris Yeltsin or Donkey Kong. https://kotaku.com/wonderfully-odd-japanese-museum-has-face-rocks-1153070477
Gizmodo’s Kyle Wagner nails the first Jobs biopic as a bad montage of short clips that shows the mighty Apple leader as “a sociopath who systematically ruins his and others’ lives, and is rewarded lavishly for it.” The only thing that seems good about the movie is Ashton Kutcher (at times) and the supporting cast.…
Every year is the same thing: new TV series and new seasons of the old ones. io9 has a complete guide to all the fantasy and sci-fi series that may fill the void between the last season of Breaking Bad and the new season of Game of Thrones. https://gizmodo.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-this-falls-science-fiction-and-f-1149999892
Call of Duty—a warfare simulator that is one most popular and important games in history—is adding female soldiers to the game. The developers gave plenty of excuses in the past, but now they are finally caving in, adding a feature to customize your player, including the player’s sex. https://kotaku.com/why-female-soldiers-were-finally-added-to-call-of-duty-1142063196
There’s so many sci-fi and fantasy movies coming this fall that it’s really overwhelming. Some may suck, some look awesome, so here’s the ultimate guide from io9 so you don’t get lost. https://gizmodo.com/fall-movie-guide-our-forecast-on-20-science-fiction-an-1138983993
The Star Wars rumor maelstrom keeps sucking everyone and everything. This one says that J.J. Abrams—creator of Lost and the Star Trek reboots—could be a lot more than the director of the new episode of the galactic series. He could have gained control over everything. https://gizmodo.com/is-j-j-abrams-taking-complete-control-of-the-star-wars-1146160176
When you go to bed tonight, will they go to town on you? Yes, probably, if you have a bedbug infestation. But how will you ever know, other than by seeing the bites and welts all over your body? You could buy an expensive store-bought trap, or you could make one out of common baking…
Today’s lonely man who hangs around strip clubs wants a lot more than to see some skin and have a drink or three. He wants to have an orgasm from a stripper rubbing herself on his crotch. But this is apparently painful and unsightly, not to mention gross and pathetic, so please welcome the new…
