Save $30 on UE Booms, Wireless Sennheisers, and More Deals
Ultimate Ears' Boom Bluetooth speakers are among the most highly-regarded in the industry, and they're both $30 off today on Amazon. Tons of color options available.
Report: Apple's Hiring Fashionistas To Help Flog Its Watch
With the impending launch of the Apple Watch, many people have been wondering how a company geared towards selling gadgets to techies will flog $5,000 fashion accessories to Vogue editors. According to documents seen by 9to5Mac, the solution lies in hiring fashion-concious staff.
The hard but charming daily lives of people who work in Antarctica
It's hard to imagine the size and hostility of Antarctica from the comfort of our warm homes. Its overwhelming vastness feels like an alien world right here on Earth. Yet, this Wes Andersonian documentary makes it look fun to live there. These are the daily adventures of the people who work at Union Glacier, in West…
New Sony Hack Docs Reveal the Ridiculous Aliases of a Bunch of Actors
If you thought that actors obscured their identities with cool and bad ass aliases, I'm gonna suggest you have a seat, because a new batch of documents from the Sony hack suggests that most actors—including Tom Hanks and Daniel Craig—pick the lamest fake names possible.
Riding a motorcycle on a roller coaster is pure crazy
A lot of people already think that riding a motorcycle is dangerous. A lot of people find riding a roller coaster thrilling and scary. So why not combine the both and use a motorcycle to ride a roller coaster track? Mixing all that scariness and dangerousness and ridiculous thrills together gets you pure crazy.
Spin Yourself Right Round with This DJ's Workout
In this series of five posts, normal people with naturally active lifestyles will inject a fitness boost into their routine using the Fitbit, complete with exercises anyone can do to make every day a workout. To keep up, start here for the basics, then check back here in the coming weeks as more posts with custom,…
Neat time-lapse of the assembly of the International Space Station
Enjoy this neat time-lapse of all the International Space Station modules assembled since 1998 because, as the international tension between East and West continues, it's starting to become clear that it won't survive beyond its already extended-mission time limit of 2020.
Satisfy All Your Morbid Curiosities With Six Feet Under
Ever since our livechat with a mortician, a million additional morbid questions have sprouted in my mind. So I went to satisfy my itch the best way I know how: television. This weekend, I took my tub of peanut butter ice cream and binge-watched Six Feet Under.
The Plan to Save Louisiana's Coast Costs More Than the Manhattan Project
Louisiana is sinking, faster than you might think. Every hour, it loses more than a football field-sized chunk of land to the ocean. Or, to use ProPublica's more evocative words, it's like "a layer cake made of Jell-O, floating in a swirling Jacuzzi of steadily warming, rising water." To save its disintegrating…
Leak Reveals Hackers Sent Extortion Email to Sony Execs Before Attack
Now things are starting to make sense. The latest leak of data stolen from Sony Pictures in a recent hack appears to be the email archives of two top executives at the company. It also reveals that the hackers asked those executives for money to prevent the destructive attack. Apparently, the execs didn't even open…
Fascinating video shows fighter jet nuclear missile strike mission
The French Air Force has published this fascinating video showing a nuclear strike mission from beginning to end. Of course, the ASMP-A nuclear missile fired by that Rafale fighter didn't have an atomic warhead inside, but everything else is as real as it gets without starting World War III.
Vince Guaraldi Trio: Christmastime Is Here (Instrumental)
I consider myself lucky. I managed to make it through the first weekend of December relatively unscathed by bad Christmas music—I didn't even hear the "Do They Know It's Christmas?" remake, which I consider a victory. But there's one album you could put on repeat from now until December 25 and I wouldn't mind one bit:
These are NASA's coolest and strangest airplanes of the future
Most people don't know this, but NASA doesn't only work in exploring space. Its contribution to airplane technology—National Aeronautics and Space Administration—has been crucial to the development of safer, faster, more efficient travel. These are their coolest future concepts—some of which could enter service as…
Portland Sues Uber, Issues Cease and Desist Order
Portland has filed suit against Uber Technologies, the ride-sharing company that only recently began operating in the City of Roses. Uber rolled out its UberX service on Friday, explicitly in defiance of the city's warnings that it would fine anyone who drove for the service.
Depressing graphic shows the time humanity spent watching Gangnam Style
The Economist made this sobering graphic of the hidden cost of the most popular YouTube video of all time—with more than two billion views since June 2012: "At 4:12 minutes, that equates to more than 140m hours, or more than 16,000 years." Then they compared it to some of humanity's most monumental tasks.
A Genius Way to Stop Airplane Armrest Battles for Good
Today is apparently all about taking air travel from awful to marginally tolerable, the latest of which comes is this brilliant little armrest divider from Soarigami. Because airplane seats are already cramped enough without having to elbow-stab a stranger to claim your turf (and urinating to mark your territory just…
This High-Altitude Overlook Perfectly Frames a Volcano
It takes some work to get to Ecuador's Quilotoa Lake. Visiting the collapsed volcano requires hiring a bus or truck to navigate the steep roads, and a hardy constitution to endure its 12,000-foot altitude. Now a simple yet elegant platform allows a moment of meditative respite on the precipitous edge of the electric…
Slow-motion cutaway video shows how a fully automatic shotgun works
I can't have enough of videos that show things cut in half working. This one shows a fully automatic shotgun in action. It's sad to see how humans spend so much time and intelligence developing perfect death machines like these—but the engineering work is fascinating nonetheless.
This Cheap Sensor Will Tell Your Phone When Food Goes Bad
Some MIT eggheads invented a very impressive and very inexpensive sensor that stands to protect you against anything from a bomb to a bad pack of beef. And it's so simple. The new sensor is just a modified near field communication (NFC) chip that can detect the presence of specific gases with the help of carbon…
Trust Us, Change Your Yosemite Font From Helvetica to San Francisco
Brittle, anemic Helvetica is simply not a good choice as a default display font for Apple's operating system. That's why I'm pretty excited about this little trick to replace Helvetica Neue (the standard font that comes with Yosemite) with San Francisco, Apple's new typeface designed in-house for the Apple Watch.
You Can Hang These Legendary American Data Visualizations On Your Walls
Gift giving is difficult—go too general, and you look like you picked your gift off of Amazon's recommendation page, but target your loved one's hobbies, and you risk buying them something they already have. There is, however, a gift transcends interests and hobbies and personality types: Amazing maps from the 19th…
Hackers Demand Sony Pictures Kill The Interview
In case you forgot about the historically massive Sony Pictures hack last week, a group of hackers just reminded the world that they exist and remain angry. In a new post, hackers identifying themselves as "the GOP working all over the world" leaked data that they claim came from Sony's servers. Their demand? Pull The…
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