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Slow Motion X-Ray Footage Reveals the Secrets of Bat Wings
Jul 07, 1:00AM
If you happen to see a bat flying around you in real life, it's easy to panic and not see much of anything but a vague blur as you cover your head and cower. But they're actually pretty graceful when you really look at them. And new slow motion, x-ray footage just goes to show it in even greater detail, all while revealing one of the creature's high-flying secrets.
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Operation Ivy: Sound System
Jul 07, 12:09AM
We've all got that record, the one we discovered early on that completely changed the way we look at music. Mine was Operation Ivy's 1989 effort Energy, and I'm proud to say that—I think—it still holds up.
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These Incredible Facial Scans Capture Detail Down to the Skin Cell
Jul 06, 10:36PM
Rendering CGI faces that look close to real is hard, but we're starting to see hardware that can pull it off. Then, the problem becomes the source material; you've got to have models that look good enough to pass for real. For that, a new kind of facial scanning is going to come in handy, one that can get detail all the way down to each skin cell.
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Aliens' Xenomorph Queen Was Way Less Scary in Her Larval Form
Jul 06, 9:27PM
There's no denying that the Xenomorph queen is terrifying in Aliens, but she doesn't seem quite has bad when her lifeless head is just sitting on a table in its earliest form, not quite sculpted into the horrifying finished product. She's still no looker, though.
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iOS 7 Is Secretly Baby-Proof
Jul 06, 8:00PM
Regardless of what you think of its icons, iOS 7 is a big design shift for Apple, and it's here to stay. When the new OS finally hits consumer phones everywhere, it might be a little surprise for some, but there's one demographic it's really going to flummox: babies.
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What Are Your Hottest Tips For Browsing the Web Like a Boss?
Jul 06, 7:11PM
With Google Reader finally dead and gone, it seems like as good a time as any to rethink the way we all look at the web. There's a whole wealth of browsers and widgets and apps and extensions out there that will try to alter your browsing experience. Some of them will change your life, other's won't.
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A Boeing 777 Has Crashed In San Francisco [UPDATING]
Jul 06, 7:02PM
A Boeing 777 is on fire at San Francisco International Airport. The emergency slides have deployed, though it is not immediately clear what caused the crash and conflagration, nor if there are any injuries.
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North Korea's Online Hype Team, Crucial Battery Care Tips, And More
Jul 06, 6:00PM
Happy Independence week. There were a lot of explosions, but some other things managed to happen too, and we've rounded up a festive smattering of them. Consider it GizBQ sampling plate. I'm talkin' about an exploding-building-GIF salad, some iOS7-calendar-icon-rant slaw, some hot, takin'-good-care-of-your-smartphone-battery burgers, and more. Dig in.
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Take an Eerie Tour of America's Creepiest Ghost Towns
Jul 06, 5:06PM
There are plenty of things that can make a ghost town, from dam projects, to nuclear disaster. The folks over at BuzzFeedVideo put together a rundown of some of America's finest—and most unsettling—from a town built on a hellish inferno, to a city buried beneath Seattle.
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A Perfectly Timed Bolt of Lightning Makes Fireworks Even More Awesome
Jul 06, 4:00PM
There's something to be said for dropping the cameras and just watching fireworks, but for Redditor AJ192, watching the pyrotechnic show through a viewfinder really paid off. Taken at an explosive celebration in New Mexico, it's definitely a one in a million shot. What a beautiful way to get lucky. [Reddit via Laughing Squid]
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How to Banish Bloatware from Your PC and Smartphone
Jul 06, 3:00PM
You're never going to use the borked trial versions of all these programs that came preinstalled on your new laptop or smartphone, so why should they continue taking up precious hard drive space? Here's how to cut the deadweight out of your operating system.
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The RIAA Just Got Insanely Fast at Censoring Links From Google
Jul 06, 2:16PM
It should come as no surprise that the RIAA, of all organizations, plays particularly fast and loose with its DMCA takedown requests. But thanks to a ridiculous blitz, the RIAA just had its 25 millionth link removed from Google search results. And it's not slowing down.
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Wake Up This Morning With an Earful of Coffee
Jul 06, 1:00PM
Mornin'! Welcome to Saturday! Before you put that piping hot cup of coffee to your lips, why not try some piping hot coffee for your ears? It's not as bad as it sounds. Who doesn't like a little aural pleasure?
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: The Arsehole Gene (NSFW)
Jul 06, 4:00AM
In a world where seemingly every physiological foible is being reclassified as a disease or an addiction (looking at you, husky sex addicts) it was really only a matter of time until the biological mechanism behind assholism surfaced. As this documentary by December Works explains, it's not your fault that you're a poorly-socialized, narcissistic, self-serving little prick (unless you're Justin Bieber). It's genetics.
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Glas: Glass Blowing Looks So Fantastically Fun
Jul 06, 3:00AM
Bert Haanstra's Glas is a short 10-minute documentary from 1958 about glass that won an Oscar. It's a beautiful short that shows the art of glass blowing versus the character-less mechanism of automated glass bottle making machines. There's no voice over, no narration, just beautiful scenes of glass being made. It's like porn for manufacturing. Even while you don't understand what's going on, it's lovely to see
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Where Exactly Is the Middle of Nowhere?
Jul 06, 2:00AM
We've all said it or thought it or joked about it or believed it at one point in our lives. That damn, we were in the middle of nowhere. But that corn field or dark stretch of the highway hardly qualifies as nowhere. True nowhere is actually in Idaho.
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Watch How Silly People's Reaction Times Are in Slow Motion
Jul 06, 1:00AM
This is fantastic. Distort measured people's reaction time by making them catch a falling ruler to see how quickly (or slowly) their brains can translate what they see into what they do. Putting the video to slow motion emphasizes how silly our reaction times can be. Some of us are so slow we might not even catch the ruler!
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Google Supposedly Paid Off AdBlock Plus to Not Block Google Ads
Jul 06, 12:07AM
Any advanced Internetter knows that the best way to enjoy the pure Internet is to get an ad blocker. It zaps away all the excess and gives you the meaty good stuff. However, it looks like companies are figuring ways to circumvent ad blockers... by paying them off. Google is reportedly paying one of the most popular ad blockers, AdBlock Plus, to not block Google's ads.
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Woodland Sculptures Recreate the Moment Felled Trees Hit the Ground
Jul 05, 11:00PM
You could see Philippe Handford's weird tree sculptures as somber reflections on life and the natural world and blah blah blah trees are alive, man. That's fair, but really, this art is kind of funny too.
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Silicone Pens Give You The Maintenance-Free Lawn You've Always Wanted
Jul 05, 10:30PM
If you love the look of plants on your desk, but have a nasty habit of killing them through neglect, consider this faux greenery as an alternative. What look like tall blades of grass are actually unfortunately-named Pooleaf pens with long wisps of silicone coming off the end.
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The Best iPhone Apps of the Week: You Know, For Kids
Jul 05, 10:01PM
One of the very great pleasures of being an (imbecilic) adult is going to department stores to buy something painfully mundane and taking a detour through the toy department. YOU CAN BUY ALL OF THIS STUFF. It's there, for you, to buy, and you don't have to ask anyone's permission. I've, uh, been at Target a lot the past few weeks, and now there are way too many Nerf guns in my apartment. iPhone apps!
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The Best iPad Apps of the Week: Not Worse Than Food Poisoning
Jul 05, 10:00PM
I bought a case of flavored "wild berry" bottled water this week. It was an accident, I thought it was just regular old water, but no, it's some foul mix of whatever the dentist gives you right before he gives you the water cup to spit that crap out and tin foil. But it's what I have here, so I'm drinking it. And so, here are this week's iPad apps. Metaphor.
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The Best Android Apps of the Week: The World Didn't End (Yet)
Jul 05, 9:59PM
Ashley's out this week, so you're stuck with me for your apps coverage. Did you know that I use a Windows Phone? There's a newish Domino's app for Windows Phone that is pretty good but also it tricked me into ordering a Domino's pizza when it came out, so I'm sort of holding a grudge. Here are some Android apps I haven't ordered a pizza from (yet).
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A Map of the Entire Internet, 1977
Jul 05, 9:30PM
Once upon a time, you could draw a map of the known Internet. Here's what the world of networked computers looked like in 1977 when ARPANET was still just a huge government-funded science project. It's actually incredible that the network proliferated this much in the eight years after the first four-node network was established back in 1969.
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Sandy Play-Doh Lets You Build Your Castles Anywhere
Jul 05, 9:20PM
Engineering the perfect sand castle is tricky even in ideal conditions. If you don't get the sand to water ratio just right, your majestic creation will collapse and wash away. Unless you're cool with cheating. In that case all you need is a jar of Brookstone's magical Sand that's always the perfect consistency.
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