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Get to Know The Painters Who Turn Lettered Signs Into Modern Art

May 23, 11:00PM

Get to Know The Painters Who Turn Lettered Signs Into Modern Art

There is something seriously satisfying about watching someone with steady hands drag a paint-laden brush along a smooth surface to make a picture-perfect letter. Sign Painters is a new documentary that offers that—so much of that—and profiles people in the in-flux industry who continue to make the way-finders and place-markers in our cities truly beautiful.

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Pink Slime Is Back

May 23, 10:15PM

Pink Slime Is Back

Remember the great "pink slime" panic of 2012? Well, it's back—both pink slime and the ridiculous panic surrounding it.

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Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

May 23, 10:00PM

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Hey friends, it's the weekend—and not just any weekend, but a holiday weekend. For a lot of you, that means an extra day off work, and therefore an extra day to idly play around with your smartphone. Make it a great one with these, our favorite new apps.

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Let's Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

May 23, 9:39PM

Let's Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

"There's a long weekend in your future," the palm reader told me this morning. Perhaps she told you, too. Or perhaps she told you a stranger from the internet would bring you important news. That stranger is me. Welcome to the weekend.

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This USB-Friendly Flashlight Is So Bright It Hurts—in a Good Way

May 23, 9:30PM

This USB-Friendly Flashlight Is So Bright It Hurts—in a Good Way

Now that we all have pocket computers with camera flashes, the need for a good flashlight just isn't what it used to be. But if you're lost in the woods at midnight, that little LED is not going to cut it. The Maelstrom Regen MMR-X will.

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Blood, Bondage, and Silver Bullets: How To Drink Gothic

May 23, 9:00PM

Blood, Bondage, and Silver Bullets: How To Drink Gothic

Vampires and zombies, ruined castles and gloomy dungeons: the scary tropes of Gothic horror, which first terrorized the world 250 years ago with the publication of Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, still colonize our imaginations today. What better way to celebrate the anniversary than by mixing yourself a Silver Bullet or Nosferatini and settling in for a Twilight marathon or to re-read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

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Tonight's Meteor Shower Will Be Like Watching the Jump to Light Speed

May 23, 8:40PM

Tonight's Meteor Shower Will Be Like Watching the Jump to Light Speed

Already being hyped as one of the best of 2014—with some calling it a once-in-a-lifetime experience—the Camelopardalids meteor shower, which starts tonight, will also be unlike many meteor showers you might have seen: Instead of lights streaming across the sky diagonally, the meteors will be radiating out from a very visible point in the sky. WHOA.

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Herbalizer Vaporizer Review: High Times at a High Price

May 23, 8:20PM

Herbalizer Vaporizer Review: High Times at a High Price

The Volcano vaporizer has stood, virtually unchallenged, atop the mountain of tabletop vaporizers for years. This upstart all-in-one system designed by ex-NASA engineers looks to topple the Volcano from its perch—just so long as you're cool forgiving all the rattling.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past is a great movie, period

May 23, 8:14PM

X-Men: Days of Future Past is a great movie, period

Rejoice, humans: According to io9's Charlie Jane Anders, the new X-Men movie is really good. Not only as a superhero movie, but simply a good movie on its own right, from the script to the direction to the actors—everything clicks into a great production full of suspense and good storytelling.

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Century-Old Time Capsule Mystery Finally Solved

May 23, 7:00PM

Century-Old Time Capsule Mystery Finally Solved

Last year, a church congregation in Grand Ledge, Michigan cracked open a time capsule from 1912 filled with all the usual suspects: photos, newspapers, and newsletters. Basically, it had all the boring stuff you'd expect a church to put in their time capsule in 1912. But there was one single mystery item: a neat little package wrapped in brown paper . It was quite the puzzler. Until now.

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Short-Throw Touchscreen Projector Means There's No Remote To Lose

May 23, 7:00PM

Short-Throw Touchscreen Projector Means There's No Remote To Lose

Mounting projectors near the ceiling of a conference room keeps them out of the way, but it also means you're almost completely dependent on a remote if you need to tweak any settings. If it goes missing, it's time to find a ladder. Or, switch to Epson's new EB-595WT short-throw projector which features built-in touchscreen functionality that works on the projected image.

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App turns iPhone into turntable that plays music printed on paper

May 23, 6:22PM

App turns iPhone into turntable that plays music printed on paper


PhonoPaper is one of those apps that is useless but so cool that it feels like magic from the future when you're using them: It scans printed sound waves, turning them back into music, messages, or any other kind of sounds as you move your iPhone or iPad across the paper. Watch—and listen:

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Cool drawings show the anatomy of Godzilla and all his friends and foes

May 23, 6:05PM

Cool drawings show the anatomy of Godzilla and all his friends and foes

This diagram showing a medical cross-section of Godzilla was created in 1967 by Shogo Endo for a book called An Anatomical Guide to Monsters. Apart from Godzilla it contains a variety of anatomical drawings of many other kaijus, including Mothra, Gamera and Agurius.

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E. Coli and Crossing Signals: What's Ruining Our Cities This Week

May 23, 6:00PM

E. Coli and Crossing Signals: What's Ruining Our Cities This Week

Berlin's "walking men" found at every crosswalk are too manly for some local feminists. And Portland has yet another issue with water contamination. It's What's Ruining Our Cities!

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How Darpa's Using the Oculus Rift to Make a Cyberwarfare Battlefield

May 23, 6:00PM

How Darpa's Using the Oculus Rift to Make a Cyberwarfare Battlefield

Wired just published a in-depth piece on how Darpa is "weaponizing" the Oculus Rift for cyberwar. But does this mean that soldiers are about to start firing at each other in virtual reality? No, of course not. But it's an interesting development for a piece of technology dreamt up for games (in which you often shoot people).

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Looks like the new Star Wars film is really comin' together!

May 23, 5:55PM

Looks like the new Star Wars film is really comin' together!

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Even More Free Android App Credit, Apple Everything, Surface Pro 3

May 23, 5:45PM

Even More Free Android App Credit, Apple Everything, Surface Pro 3

Since Amazon Coins are so in vogue right now, here's another way to score some freebies. Amazon is giving away $10 in Appstore credit with the purchase of select gift cards. Options include Subway, Starbucks, cinema chains, Whole Foods, and a ton more, so chances are you'll find one that you'll use anyway. [$10 Amazon Appstore Credit With Gift Card Purchase]

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How the City Looks When You're Hanging Out of a Helicopter Above It

May 23, 5:30PM

How the City Looks When You're Hanging Out of a Helicopter Above It

Aerial photographer Jason Hawkes spends an outsized amount of time hanging out of the open door of a twin-engine helicopter. Your nightmare is his living—he's been shooting from the sky since 1991. And over on Sploid, he shares some of his latest work, including images from London's Shard and NYC's New York Times building.

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Waste Away Hours At Work Wondering Where This Infinite Corridor Goes

May 23, 5:00PM

Waste Away Hours At Work Wondering Where This Infinite Corridor Goes

The infinity mirror trick is as old as time, but the folks at ThinkGeek have come up with a fun new application that will appeal to Dungeons & Dragons fans who find themselves stuck at a -10 desk job during the day.

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Crazy kid crawls across the railway tracks under a running train

May 23, 4:34PM

Crazy kid crawls across the railway tracks under a running train

Forget those crazy Russians, this American kid crawling across the railway tracks while a train is still running above his head is the most insane video I've seen in a long time. Thanks to a bit of agility and a lot of luck he is not crushed like a bug. Skip to the 2:10 mark to see it.

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Flexible LED Studio Lighting That Can Be Rolled Up Like a Blanket

May 23, 4:28PM

Flexible LED Studio Lighting That Can Be Rolled Up Like a Blanket

Short of solving world hunger, there doesn't seem to be much LEDs aren't good at. They're a far superior alternative to incandescent and even fluorescent lights, and given they're so small and indestructible, they can be used in incredibly unique lighting products like these flexible, roll-up studio lights.

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Butterfleye Keeps an Eye on Your House For Safety and For Fun

May 23, 4:03PM

Butterfleye Keeps an Eye on Your House For Safety and For Fun

Gone are the days of nanny cams embedded in teddy bears or CCTV arrays mounted outside your front door. The new home camera Butterfleye represents a new surveillance device that's somewhere in-between—a small, unintrusive device designed for monitoring your home's security, but with smart activity-sensing features which could also feasibly capture your baby's first steps.

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A Senate Panel Just Set Aside $100 Million To Build a Putin-Free Rocket

May 23, 4:02PM

A Senate Panel Just Set Aside $100 Million To Build a Putin-Free Rocket

Could the budgetary shot in the arm our space program so desperately needs come from rising tensions between Russia and the US? In the latest development in the New Cold War™, a Senate panel has budgeted $100 million to fund a state-of-the-art rocket engine designed and built right here in Amurica.

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This Hyperspectral Eye in the Sky Gives Police Planes X-Ray Vision

May 23, 3:40PM

This Hyperspectral Eye in the Sky Gives Police Planes X-Ray Vision

Unless your home planet is Krypton, seeing through solid objects is a bit of a challenge. However, with these airborne infrared peepers, everyone from law enforcement to the military to energy production companies will soon be able to spot hidden dangers in real-time.

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The Fermi Paradox: Where the Hell Are the Other Earths?

May 23, 3:20PM

The Fermi Paradox: Where the Hell Are the Other Earths?

Everyone feels something when they're in a really good starry place a really good starry place on a really good starry night and they look up and see this:

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