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Steve Buscemi + Ryan Gosling = Macaulay Culkin
This is uncanny. What would the love child of Steve Buscemi and Ryan Gosling look like? The answer is Macaulay Culkin. Here's a side-by-side comparison image I made to illustrate the point.
The Dark Knight Rises Official Movie Trailer
Nice to see Pittsburgh represented so well.
You have 30 days to pay me $5,000,000
Cliff Notes: Guy drives an rc car with a camera into one of the great pyramids, wants $5,000,000 to keep a lid on what he found
Today, porn sites set to go .XXX
It's either a new, safer era for adult content on the Web or the first step in creating a digital porn ghetto, depending upon who you ask. On Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET, more than 100,000 websites are expected to go live with the new .xxx domain. The suffix was approved as a "top-level domain" address last year by ICANN, the international [...]
First Teaser Trailer for EASTBOUND & DOWN Season Three
Though Kenny Powers won’t be coming back until January 2012, that doesn’t mean HBO doesn’t want you to miss out on the majesty of such an iconic athlete. A short teaser for the third season of Eastbound & Down has just been released with one hell of an airbrushed tanktop featuring the shining face and signature curls for Kenny Powers on one [...]
Doom 3 source code now available, gory customizations welcomed
Doom for everyone. It's not a particularly festive message, but as promised earlier this week, the Doom 3 source code is now out on a general public license. Programming types can meddle with the game's inner workings as wintery temperatures force them to huddle close to the warm hum of excessive gaming rigs. Doom dad John Carmack announced the [...]
Tesla coil hat: “a really bad idea”
MIT student Tyler Christensen created a musical Tesla coil hat for his Halloween costume (it played the Mortal Kombat theme and the Harry Potter theme while discharging semi-tam lightning). While freely stipulating that this is "a really bad idea," Tyler is still generous enough to document his project for others who might follow in his bad [...]
The President Of Russia Has Cheerleaders (Because Why Wouldn’t He?)
Aw, if you thought the unnecessary call for attractive females was done today, then you, my friends, just don’t know me very well. Allow me to introduce Medvedev’s Girls, an organization of females in Russia that has pledged its undying devotion to the country’s president, Dmitry Medvedev. That’s right, Russia’s president has a group of [...]
“Judge” beats disabled daughter for using the Internet
A YouTube video posted by a person who claims to be Hillary Adams, daughter of Aransas County Court-At-Law Judge William Adams shows a video of a man said to be Judge Williams viciously beating her as a teenager in 2004 (in the video, her age is given as 16). The accompanying text states... Aransas County Court-At-Law Judge William Adams took a [...]
Android Dreams: Time-lapse Tokyo Homage to Blade Runner
Samuel Cockedey created this lovely short, and explains... This is a tribute to Ridley Scott and Vangelis, whose work on Blade Runner has been a huge source of inspiration in my shooting time lapses. Please watch in HD with sound on! Shot over a year in Tokyo with a Canon 5dmk2, mainly in the Shinjuku area. Music: "Main Titles" and "Blush [...]
Internet pornography destroying men’s ability to perform with real women, finds study
Internet pornography is creating a generation of young men who are hopeless in the bedroom, according to research. Exposure to lurid images and films in the new media is de-sensitizing so many young people that they are increasingly unable to become excited by ordinary sexual encounters, a report said. The result is that impotence is no [...]
The Biosphere 2 “starvation diet”
In 1992, eight individuals entered the "Biosphere 2" in the Arizona desert where they lived for two years. The point was to study interactions inside a closed ecological system. The success of the "planet in a bottle" experiment was, er, debatable. But there are a slew of fascinating stories of what happened inside. Christopher Turner, author of [...]
October 31st is Jesusween
Kids around the nation will be happy to hear that Jesusween celebrators plan keep their candy for themselves and instead "give out Bibles and Christian gifts -- in a friendly way!" on October 31.
The Mystery of Wrinkly-When-Wet Fingers, Solved
Now my question is why in the world is theses scientist concern with this topic to pull themselves away from real concerns. Are these people being governmentally funded? Mystery of the century, you guys. No, the millenium. All times. A new paper in the journal Brain, Behavior and Evolution has a new answer to the eternal question: why do our [...]
