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Who put the tiny sneakers on this poor little dog? Probably the person who uploaded the video! Anyway, the dog apparently survived the ordeal and now “likes” the tiny dog shoes. It’s one way to prevent heartworm, we guess.
You must watch this video of the installation of the World Trade Center’s spire, taken from a camera attached to the spire itself as crane operators lifted it to its final position. Make sure to make it full screen and click on the high definition button. [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-world-trade-centers-spire-being-installed-fr-504737144
When a Stanford University professor said the bizarre Atacama skeleton likely belonged to a human child between the ages of six and eight, it seemed crazy. How could this tiny, long-headed creature with less ribs than standard kids been inside a child of grade-school age? Today there’s a more plausible explanation: The “alien skeleton” was…
Do you live in a tiny apartment in the city? Here are some awesome tips to make the most ouf of it by Graham Hill, the guy who made the magically transforming apartment above—a perfect living environment that packs “1,000 square feet of function in only 420 square feet.” [Lifehacker] https://betterstate.kinja.com/ask-the-designer-behind-lifeedited-how-to-maximize-your-475116335
A shark killed a 36-year-old French surfer while his new bride watched in terror from the shore of Réunion Island. Twice attacked by the shark, the man was rescued from the water by lifeguards but had already lost so much blood that he died on the beach. The unnamed man and his new wife were…
YouTube has deleted David Bowie’s new music video (NFSW) for the song The Next Day arguing that it goes against the site’s terms of service. The video stars Gary Oldman as a priest and Marion Cotillard as a martyr dancing in a bar full of semi-naked saints and catholic priests. At one point, Cotillard’s stigmata…
A rash of Hulk attacks continues with a “She Hulk” accused of running wild in a McDonald’s and smashing a teenaged girl. The red-haired assailant, covered in green body paint and wearing ripped clothes, was captured on closed-circuit security cameras in York, England, but police have yet to catch the monster. http://gawker.com/300-pound-drunken-monster-attacks-stormtrooper-and-ghos-493166278
The AP is reporting that the US Air Force has decided to strip “an unprecedented 17 officers of their authority to control nuclear missiles after a string of unpublicized failings.” The Minot Air Force Base officers failed their tests to launch Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles, the backbone of the US atomic arsenal. [Gawker] http://gawker.com/no-biggie-but-our-nuclear-missile-launch-teams-are-inc-496036588
Airports, parks, stadiums—where are the nation’s filthiest public toilets? An unscientific survey of the country’s shared facilities finds that a single porta-potty at a playground is the absolute worst, followed closely in revulsion by a row of porta-potties, a dog racing rack, and the back of a long-distance bus.
According to the Smithsonian Institution researcher Gary Hevel, one trillion cicadas—a giant insect the size of a human finger—are about to take over the East Coast. Some had said it would be a mere 30 billion, which were already enough bugs to go to the moon and back. How gross this could be? University of…
According to Tami Reller—Microsoft’s Windows marketing boss—PC users think Windows 8 is too hard to learn. So hard that they are “fixing” it big time. Some people are calling this update the biggest consumer product failure since Coca-Cola’s New Coke, which was discontinued three months after its introduction. Except New Coke was a matter of…
Joe Francis, founder of the bankrupt Girls Gone Wild home-video franchise, faces up to five years in prison for falsely imprisoning three young women he lured to his Los Angeles home in 2011. Francis was found guilty on Monday of holding the women against their will and assaulting one of them.
Three girls who vanished a decade ago have been found alive in a Cleveland home along with another girl. Amanda Berry went missing in 2003, Gina DeJesus disappeared a year later, and Michelle Knight hadn’t been seen since 2002, when she was 21. Other “small children” were also found at the house, police said Monday…
Terrafugia—manufacturers of the first street-legal flying car—is now working on a new model worth of the Avengers: the TF-X. This hybrid car will be able to take off and land vertically, flying at a top speed of 200mph. They say it will not require a pilot license thanks to its onboard computers. Don’t panic yet—we…
This can make the entire gun control debate pointless: student/inventor Cody Wilson has successfully designed and tested a pistol that can be easily downloaded through the internet and made into reality using a cheap 3D plastic printer by anyone. One push of a button and bang, you are done. It’s called The Liberator and it…
Fictional superhero Tony Stark has destroyed nearly $6 million worth of luxury cars, military HumVees and Grand Prix racers during his four movie adventures, according to Jalopnik. With Iron Man 3 doing a record $175 million opening weekend—second only to 2012’s The Avengers—the wanton destruction of so many fancy cars is likely the last of…
Rejoice people, for the wonder of ice cream sandwiches factories has been revealed in this perfect animated GIF! Chocolate cookies sliding on two sides while a machine cuts a never-ending stream of ice cream into perfect rectangular shapes. Perfection. I can watch this animated gif for hours. Which is what I’m going to do right…
One of the best things of Game of Thrones—apart from it’s fantastic script or expensive but awesome production design—is its amazing actors that come from 12 different nationalities. This chart created by Jody Sie shows where each of them is from. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
I didn’t watch that new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie with Megan Fox because I was pretty sure it was going to suck. Anytime adult me makes an informed decision like that, I imagine childhood version of me shaking his head in disappointment and howling in sadness. Growing up is lame. Anyways, CineFix’s 8-bit version…
A camera on board NASA’s STEREO A satellite seems to have captured video of an unknown thing that looks like an actual spaceship. The blip appeared when a Sun’s coronal mass ejection (CME) reached planet Mercury. Watch the video and judge by yourself. Update: whatever it is, it appears on the images taken by STEREO…
