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Why doesn’t Syfy have a show like Battlestar Galactica any more?
Last week, the first two episodes of Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome went online, and we all remembered our love affair with BSG. This show was thought-provoking, powerful, and obsessively mysterious. And we can’t help wondering: Why hasn’t Syfy had a show like that since? https://gizmodo.com/how-battlestar-galactica-addiction-can-ruin-your-life-5869221 It seems like at any moment on television, there … Continued
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What Is the Most Expensive Gadget You Own? (Car Not Included)
Gadgets are expensive. It’s inescapable. You’re going to have to plunk down some cash for a really killer piece of kit. Sometimes it’s not worth it. But other times you wind up with essentially a digital life parter—a gadget you’re in physical contact with more often than you are with your loved ones, probably. https://gizmodo.com/13-inch-retina-macbook-pro-review-so-good-but-so-not-5959780 … Continued
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Drum Machine Beanbag Chairs Are Great If You’re Beat
Even if you’ve never played with Roland’s iconic TR-808 drum machine, you’ve most definitely heard it used in the background of hit songs over the past 3o years. So what could be a more appropriate way to enjoy those songs than kicking back on this massive TR-808 beanbag? Made from a nylon material that’s supposedly … Continued
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Learn the ABC’s of each death from Game of Thrones, drawn Edward Gorey-style!
Check out Game of Thrones’ great death scenes, recreated like The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey. Watch as almost every death from Game Of Thrones is illustrated and rhymed into the alphabet. WARNING: huge spoilers. Big Spoilers! So do not look any further if you don’t want to be spoiled — for all of the … Continued
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GIF Is Officially the 2012 Word of the Year
I think I’m going to puke a Tumblr’s worth of emotions because GIF has been named the Oxford American Dictionary’s 2012 word of the year. ZOMG! BetaBeat reports that GIF beat out such worthy competitors as “YOLO,” “Higgs boson,” and “Super PAC” to take this year’s crown. In a statement, Oxford told Beta Beat: The … Continued
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Red Rain, the New R. L. Stine Novel For Adults
Red Rain, R.L. Stine’s latest attempt to scare adults the way he scared children with Goosebumps, Fear Street, and other iconic series, opens with a hurricane. A travel blogger named Lea Sutter goes to Cape Le Chat Noir, a French-speaking island off the coast of South Carolina. During her visit, Lea learns that the island … Continued
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An Incredible Gallery of Buildings that Look Like Rocket Ships
If we can’t fly to space, at least we can live in buildings that look like rockets. Here are some of the coolest pieces of rocket-inspired architecture in the world. The Omiya Rocket Building, Omiya-ku, Greater Tokyo Area, Japan This is the image you see above. It was built in the early 1980s. In the … Continued
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Explore the Beautiful World of Herman Miller Furniture With This Comprehensive Online Portfolio
The Herman Miller Collection, as Design Director George Nelson put it, is supposed to be a “a permanent collection designed to meet fully the requirements for modern living.” Though he said way back in 1952, it still holds true. This comprehensive portfolio shows it all off. Divided into four different sections—Living and Lounge, Dining and … Continued
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Here’s Hoping These Clever Paperclip Headphones Don’t Sound Like Crap
Most office drones assume paperclips can only be used with stacks of documents. But somewhere out there, someone has realized that the clipping power of paper clips could keep control of an annoying headphone cable—and now we have a brilliant solution for wrangling earbud wires. These Paperclip Headphones have a hollow plastic design that allows … Continued
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Internet’s Cutest Dog Endorses World’s Dumbest Headphones
Boo the Dog, for whom a large portion of the web has a zeal that borders on sexual, just became the latest shill in the Beats by Dre money machine. Reminder: this animal makes more money than you do. There’s no word as to whether you’ll be able to buy tiny dog-sized headphones like the … Continued
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Digital Camera Dissection Explains Why Your Dirt Cheap Shooter Sucks
The image quality might be absolutely terrible, but one advantage to dropping just $18 on a low-low-end digital camera like the Vivitar V25 is that you can dissect it without feeling guilty. The Kahn Academy certainly didn’t shed a tear over the demise of this V25. Instead, they used its death as a golden opportunity … Continued
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An Anthology About The People Who Actually Keep Your Space Station Spinning
I love the idea of Menial, a new anthology from the peeps at Crossed Genres coming in January. We’ve had plenty of anthologies about space admirals and cosmic heroes — but how about the people who actually get their hands dirty keeping the spaceship flying? The engineers, mechanics, and even sanitation workers? Here’s the official … Continued
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How (and why) animals change color with the seasons
Quick, name a color-changing animal. Did you say octopus? Chameleon? Cuttlefish? Excellent work — but there are a lot more. And they may only change color once a year. https://gizmodo.com/and-now-two-mimic-octopuses-making-sweet-sweet-love-5867057 https://gizmodo.com/chameleons-use-color-to-communicate-not-hide-349490 https://gizmodo.com/and-now-three-minutes-of-flamboyant-cuttlefishes-resem-5861171 The ability to change colors is one of the most useful adaptations in the animal kingdom. Color can camouflage, hiding you from predator … Continued
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17 Ways You’re Wasting Money on Winter Heating and Lighting
Homeowners in northern states have already had to turn on their furnaces and boilers this fall. And a lot of them are already paying too much to make the house warm and keep the lights on. The thing is, you don’t have to be a glutton to waste energy—many homeowners with good intentions still end … Continued
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Hey everybody, let’s spend the rest of the day watching live HD footage of the largest polar bear gathering in the world, deal? Deal.
It’s that time of year again. The time when roughly 1,000 of the world’s 20,000 remaining polar bears travel to Churchill, Manitoba (aka “The Polar Bear Capital of the World”) to hunt for seals, and we — the Internet — watch. Because it is our duty. Because polar bears are awesome. And because explore.org has … Continued
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This Cheap Computer Monitor Is Your Massive-Screen-Space Deal of the Day
The easiest way to convince your coworkers and colleagues that you’re super-productive is to have a ton of screen space. Especially if your 2nd monitor only shows charts, trends, and graphs. When you peel your vision away from your Minority-Report-style screens for a minute, you’ll look onto your poor single-screen having friends, and you’ll know … Continued
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Stare into the eyes of the flying monkeys from Oz: The Great and Powerful
Do you enjoy gazing into a rainbow kaleidoscope of potentially problematic CG? You’re in luck, we’ve got a whole mess of stills from Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great and Powerful. For everything we love in these images, there’s something we can’t stand. Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, and Michelle Williams as Oz witches? YES! Flying monkeys? … Continued
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All Chemistry Classes Should Be Taught by Adorable Dogs (Updated)
Matthew Hartings is a chemistry professor at American University, and will most likely go down in history for coming up with the absolute best way to teach chemistry concepts to non-college types: using his dogs. Matthew’s hobby is actually training Paige and Dexter, and what better way to make complex ideas like chemical bonds easy … Continued