What if Michael Bay Directed “UP”? [Video]
This one takes a while to get going, but if you’ve ever wondered what happens when you replace ordinary balloons with hydrogen balloons…
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JK Rowling Fleshes Out Undersung Harry Potter Character
While she’s moved on to a series of adult novels, JK Rowling hasn’t abandoned the Harry Potter universe. She’s just added a new piece to her free membership site Pottermore in the form of a biography of Celestina Warbeck, a half wizard, half muggle singer: Celestina Warbeck is one of my favourite ‘off-stage’ characters in […]
Game of Thrones Mug Has Surprise Inside
Give this to your friends filled with some tea or coffee and watch their confusion after they take a few sips. Description from Big Bad Toy Store: A few sips of your beverage and a familiar creature will be revealed. A few more sips and you will see a sculpted version of the Stark house […]
Batman Enemy Taxonomy [Poster]
Pop Chart Lab has a great poster for sale that tries to categorize Batman’s numerous foes. Here’s a small section: Check out a zoomable picture of the whole thing or buy the poster at Pop Chart Lab. [Via: Neatorama]
Around The World In 84 Rubik Moves [Video]
Harvard graduate Nuseir Yassin solved a Rubik’s Cube in 84 steps. That’s not impressive in itself, but what did make it notable is that he travelled to ask locals in cities across eleven countries to perform one step each and filmed the results. As he put it: 11 countries. 84 moves. 30 females. 54 males. […]
Dust Particles May Be From Interstellar Space
Researchers in the US are getting excited about seven dust particles, each no wider than one-50th the diamater of a human hair. Why? Because they may originate from another solar system. The samples were collected by the Stardust spacecraft (pictured as artist’s impression) from the dust left by the comet Wild 2. Although Stardust collected […]
An Army Of Pikachus [Video]
Presented without comment or explanation. Because, frankly, we don’t have one. [Via: Geekologie]
Facebook Testing ‘Satire’ Tag
Facebook has confirmed it is experimenting with labelling some links as satire to help users confused by spoof headlines. Arstechnica’s Sam Machkovech spotted that “[Satire]” has been added to the start of the text in some links to the Onion. At the moment the text only appears in the related articles section, which shows three […]
Bill Gates Geeks Out The Ice Bucket Challenge
You’d think pouring a bucket of ice over your head to raise money and awareness for charity would be a simple task, in logistical terms at least. When you’re Bill Gates, though, there’s no situation that doesn’t lend itself to a bit of engineering. For those who’ve somehow missed it, the challenge is to raise […]
Tiny Sydney: A Tilt-Shift Time-Lapse Look at Sydney [Video]
A short tilt-shift film showing the city of Sydney. Tilt-shift effect applied in post-production. Shot from Bondi Beach, Sydney Tower Eye, Pylon Lookout, Dudley Page Reserve. [Filippo Rivetti]