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If You've Never Read The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, What's Wrong With You?

Because I am old and hate new things, I spend a lot of time rereading well-thumbed copies of the books I first read when I was a kid. Sometimes they don’t hold up. Other times they are so great, I get...

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LA's Creepy Murder House Is Now Up For Sale After Laying Vacant for 50 Years

Photo: MLSThe house at 2475 Glendower Place in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles has it all: four bedrooms, ample parking, and a hell of a history. In 1959, its owner killed his wife and...

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A New Art Show Brings Your Favorite Movie Quotes to Life

Quotes are the currency by which we pay respect to our favorite movies. If you can spout off a one-liner from a movie, odds are it has a special place in your heart, and that belief drives an awesome...

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The Two Words Guaranteed To Make Any Agents of SHIELD Episode a Billion Times...

“Shotgun Axe.”Spoilers ahead...In the clip above, we see Mack triumphing over a handful of xenophobic wack jobs, by creating his signature weapon out of a shotgun and a meat cleaver. The Shotgun Axe is...

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Today's Best Deals: Swimwear, Supplements, Desk Lamp, and More

Speedo swimwear, protein powder, and an ultra-cheap LED desk lamp kick off Wednesday’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Commerce Content is independent of...

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Japan’s Lost Black Hole Satellite Just Reappeared and Nobody Knows What...

Earlier this week something happened to make Japan’s brand new black hole satellite suddenly, mysteriously lose all contact with Earth. Now, we have video of it spinning wildly in space—and JAXA has...

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Deadspin New York Times Responds To NFL’s Demand For Retraction, Unleashes...

Deadspin New York Times Responds To NFL’s Demand For Retraction, Unleashes The Burns | Jezebel Spurned Elle Writer Goes On Truly Bananas Rant, Torches Every Single Bridge in Media | Gizmodo Japan’s...

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First Look at Firewalk, a Supernatural Thriller From the Co-Creator of iZombie

Chris Roberson has been writing terrific alternate history books for years, in addition to his work on comics like iZombie and Superman. Now, he’s got a brand new supernatural thriller called Firewalk...

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What's the Legend Behind the Bogey-Owl?

It creeps through the ... air? Rather than under your bed? Regardless, it’s a terrifying thing to be following you around.The utter weirdness of the British Library’s public domain Flickr library...

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Hitting the Same Block Billions of Times Is the Weirdest Way to Crash Paper...

The great thing about Nintendo 64 games is that dedicated players are still finding exploits years later. But the true die-hards are discovering glitches that are purely theoretical.In Paper Mario 64,...

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Black Hole Blues Gives a Ringside Seat to Discovery of Gravitational Waves

Computer simulation of two colliding black holes. Credit: SXSWhen the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves, it was the...

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Nintendo Employee 'Terminated' After Smear Campaign Over Censorship, Company...

Nintendo employee Alison Rapp, who’s been a target of harassment over censorship controversies in recent months, said on Twitter that she has been fired. “Today, the decision was made,” she wrote. “I...

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Bradley Cooper Will Play an Astronaut Going Into the Ocean In Deeper

Bradley Cooper in Aloha.Last year, we wrote about a new movie called Deeper, which would follow a disgraced astronaut who decides to go to the deepest depths of the ocean. That movie is now moving...

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How To Get Into Star Trek If You Only Know the J.J. Abrams Movies

Star Trek has a proud and complicated history, including six TV shows and stories in every medium. But to a whole generation of people, it’s just two movies. J.J. Abrams’ film reboot reached the...

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Sabine Wren Will Get An Expanded Role In Star Wars Rebels Season Three

The finale of Star Wars Rebels season two aired Wednesday and it’s almost certainly knocked your socks off. We’ll have much, much more on that Thursday morning but, in the meantime, we have some huge...

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A Wannabe Supervillain Built His Own Thermite Cannon

It’s not often you come across a real-life mad scientist. They’re usually just over-the-top antagonists in comic books, but Colin Furze is the real thing. He has a penchant for building things that...

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All the New Details About Marvel's Next Big Comic Event, Civil War II

Civil War II #1 art by David Marquez and Justin Ponsor. It’s been a decade since Tony Stark and Steve Rogers came to blows over the struggle between freedom and security in the original Civil War...

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The 100 Greatest Movie Lines Delivered Right Before the Kill Scene

There’s no point killing someone in a movie if you’re not going to say something really cool beforehand.Burger Fiction compiled 100 of the very best one-liners that precede some deserving jerk—or...

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Adam Savage Goes Incognito to Comic Con as Hellboy

“Isn’t San Diego Comic Con in July?” you might be wondering. And you’d be right. But Adam went to the first inaugural Silicon Vally Comic Con on a personal invite from Steve Wozniak, and he pulled out...

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Why Is Everybody Lying About Jon Snow?

Greetings, one and all. In today’s mailbag: Why does it seem like DC Comics is rebooting itself again? When does waiting in line for a con exclusive stop being worth it? And why am I still getting...

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