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Cool thingamajig lets you have your books flying around your home
This Harry Potterish floating book thingamajig designed by Kiril Gitman lets you display your favorite volumes flying around your living room. Useless awesomeness. He says he was inspired by the 2012 Oscar-winning animation The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
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This dude has eaten only cheese pizza for the last 25 years
This is Dan, a 38-old-year old woodworker from Maryland who claims he has only eaten pizza for the last 25 years. Cheese pizza. Exclusively. He says he didn’t stop eating it despite being diagnosed with diabetes. That’s when doctors told him he had to change his diet if he didn’t want to lose his life … Continued
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I wish they made this amazing version of Dune
“Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unbridled enthusiasm for the project doesn’t seem to have waned in the thirty years since he began assembling what might be the greatest story never told on the silver screen,” says Jordan Kushins in Gizmodo. I don’t blame him—it would be so awesome. https://gizmodo.com/incredible-concept-art-from-the-most-amazing-sci-fi-mov-1531018019
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Somebody please make this Batman vs Terminator into a movie ASAP
The animation in this tiny short may not be as good as I’d like, but oh boy oh boy oh boy I really need to watch a movie or a TV series that chronicles Batman’s fight against Skynet in the Terminator universe. (We can kill the rest of the superheroes because Batman is enough.) SPLOID … Continued
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Spot-on Muppets ad replaces everyone in New York with Animal
If you leave aside the fact that The Muppets are shilling for the world’s crappiest brand of tea, this TV commercial in which everyone in New York gets replaced by Animal from the Muppets is absolutely brilliant. Because the truth is, my friends, that everyone eventually turns into Animal in this city. “Out of my … Continued
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Why dark chocolate is good for your health
Confirmed: Dark chocolate is good for your heart. Really good. What’s better, scientists have discovered that people who eat 70 grams of chocolate every day increase their vascular health dramatically by “restoring flexibility to arteries and preventing white cells from sticking to the walls of blood vessels.” The research published in the March 2014 issue … Continued
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Hilarious prank makes guy think he’s trapped in a deadly police chase
Poor Travis Okulski—one of Jalopnik’s writers—got pranked hard when NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon disguised as an ex-convict cabbie took him in a police chase. He totally bought into it and I just couldn’t stop laughing. “THIS NEVER ENDS WELL!” https://jalopnik.com/how-jeff-gordon-scared-the-crap-out-of-me-1531016226
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Beautiful time-lapse of The Boneyard, the airplane cemetery in Arizona
Impressive time-lapse video of The Boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, 2,600 acres of desolate desert where 5,000 military airplanes went to die. It makes me sad to look at them, but their decay is truly beautiful. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
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Obama says US Army is building a real Iron Man and no, he is not joking
Last Tuesday President Obama met with top engineers and Pentagon people. He publicly said: “Basically, I’m here to announce that we’re building Iron Man […] Not really. Maybe. It’s classified.” People laughed, but the truth is that yes, the US military is building Iron Man, and the first prototypes are coming in this June. First, … Continued
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Interdimensional portal to hell opens in Norway—or something like that
I guess this “Norefjell 2014-01-05. En stille skitur, plutselig skjer det noe 50 meter fra løypa. Kraftlinje på 132 kV tilhørende EB nett. Overslaget varte i minst 5 minutt” roughly translates to “Norefjell January 5, 2014. Bad news people, an interdimensional portal 50 meters high has opened in the forest. 132 demons have went through … Continued
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House of Cards intro creators remake it in The Walking Dead’s style
Time-lapse and video production company District 7—the people who created the intro for House of Cards—decided that it would be fun to mash it with The Walking Dead, which seems quite apt to me, knowing how Washington works. Here’s the result. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
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Friendly wild whale goes to fisherman and says hi waving her fin
The folks from I Want to Fish were about start fishing salmon off the coast of British Columbia when a humpback whale came to their boat to say hi. No, really, she actually came by, said hi waving her fin and left. That’s how awesome whales roll. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. … Continued
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China invades Japan’s skies with their dangerous pollution
This is terrible. Japan is getting under China’s blanket of gross air contamination. The situation is getting bad pretty quickly—proof that we need to think globally about gas emission controls. It’s not just about raising sea levels in the future. It’s about getting cancer now. https://kotaku.com/chinas-pollution-is-making-japanese-air-all-crappy-1531371641
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Impressive video of a B-1B bomber crash landing on a dry lake
Check out this video of a Rockwell B-1B Lancer bomber landing at Roger Dry Lake, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. After discovering a failure in their front gear, the crew was directed to land in this location because its clay surface minimizes airplane damage. I love how it keeps a steady level for many … Continued
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Bill Watterson’s first cartoon since the end of Calvin & Hobbes
After almost two decades retired, Bill Watterson—the genius who crafted the universally beloved Calvin & Hobbes from 1985 to 1995—has published a new cartoon: A movie poster for Dave Kellett and Fred Schroeder’s Stripped. (Wait, is that Calvin 20 years later?) He appears in the movie too, in his first-ever recorded interview. Some of his … Continued
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This crazy knife-throwing video is so well made you’ll swear it’s real
Of course, this insano knife-throwing video is not real—after all, these guys are not Russian. But the fake is so well made that you’ll swear it is real. I went through it frame by frame and you can’t notice the trick. Clever. Kudos to Freddie Wong and his team. SPLOID is a new blog about … Continued
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Why you should always order the largest pizza explained in one graphic
This is why I love data and data visualization: The larger the pizza, the cheapest the price per square inch is. Get the largest size, eat the rest at room temperature the next day. https://gizmodo.com/one-graph-explaining-why-you-should-always-order-a-larg-1531640267
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Just pop an Ambien and zoom into this psychedelic GIF for 30 minutes
Twister Sifter found this a 24,507-pixel tall image created by Nina Geometrieva. But instead of scrolling all the way through it, I made this GIF for your psychedelic and hypnotic pleasure. Zoom in to full screen, pop a pill, play something crazy, look deeply into it, and enjoy! SPLOID is a new blog about awesome … Continued
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Incredible photo of a supernova at peak brightness captured by Hubble
Even if Hubble had been a total disaster spewing one crappy image after the other for more than two decades, it would have been worth it just for this single image: a supernova explosion in the galaxy M82, taken on January 31, as it approached peak brightness. From NASA Goddard: This is a Hubble Space … Continued
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The giant Helmcken Falls must be the biggest ice machine in the world
These extraordinary photos by Viktoria Haack and Jaclyn Tanemura show the 463-foot (141-meter) Helmcken Falls. That’s almost three times the height of the Niagara Falls—half the size of the Chrysler Building! It’s like a giant ice machine pouring cubes into an ice bucket. Top image by Viktoria Haack. Just look at the size of that … Continued
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