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The NSA's Official Love Notes Are Deeply Weird
The National Security Agency has created a line of shareable digital love note e-cards to send to your friends and family. Very normal, very cool, very NSA. People who like fake holidays all over the...
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The Secret of Writing An Action Movie in Book Form
Screw movies. A great novel can be just as exciting and thrilling as a big-budget Hollywood tentpole. A novel can contain massive, insane action, that movie-makers could never even afford to bring to...
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The True Meaning of Christmas Is Obviously Watching Spock Die of Radiation...
Hallmark, you have outdone yourself. Although I feel like Kirk and Spock should be wearing little Santa hats, don’t you think?You can order the new ornament here, which plays Spock’s “The needs of the...
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The Guardians of the Galaxy Cartoon Loves The Guardians of the Galaxy Film A...
The very first shot of Marvel’s new Guardians of the Galaxy cartoon is of Star-Lord’s cassette player. A hand reaches down onto it, the thumb presses play... and then Hooked on a Feeling blares out, as...
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Dozens of Cool Artifacts Recovered From the Antikythera Shipwreck
More than 50 items have been recovered at the site of the ancient Greek shipwreck that yielded the famous Antikythera mechanism. Working at a depth of 180 feet (55 meters), archaeologists managed to...
View ArticleGawker Full-Sized Pope Cracks Up at Sight of Baby Pope | Gizmodo NASA Says...
Gawker Full-Sized Pope Cracks Up at Sight of Baby Pope | Gizmodo NASA Says There’s Strong Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars | Kotaku Pewdiepie’s Game Tries Way Too Hard | Lifehacker Some Supplements Are...
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Which Book-to-Screen Adaptation Actually Did Justice to Its Source Material?
The visual here is, of course, Marjane Satrapi’s wonderful Persepolis, but this question could also apply to a live-action film (or a film not directed by its source-material creator): Which...
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10 Pictures Showing How We Finally Found Water on Mars
Today we learned something new, and amazing, about Mars. But, although today was the day that the news was confirmed, it’s been in the making for quite sometime. Here, in pictures, is a history of how...
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There's A Life Form That Exclusively Lives Inside Cephalopods
Dicyemida might get the award for strangest possible lifestyle. Not only does it only live in guts of cephalopods, it has two different modes of reproduction, which it deploys strategically through its...
View ArticleToday, the FBI released the 2014 edition of its annual report on crime...
Today, the FBI released the 2014 edition of its annual report on crime statistics, which found a decrease in violent and property crimes. New this year are federal stats on on offenses related to human...
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The Hunt For Destiny's Most Mysterious Weapon
Deep in the bowels of Destiny, a video game in which players travel through space wondering how the hell Bungie got away with that damn crucible bounty quest, there’s an enigmatic weapon that nobody’s...
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We Just Saw 3 Totally Different (And Mostly Great) Demonic Possession Films
Sunday into Monday at Fantastic Fest, I watched three back to back movies where the Devil was represented by a farm animal. First was the New England period piece, The Witch; second was a heavy metal...
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The Pope Has A Small But Deadly Army Of Elite Warriors Protecting Him
If you have ever visited the Vatican, you have seen the stoic guards that look like they missed the bus to the local Renaissance Festival. The truth is they are a high-end military force made up of top...
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This Star Wars Drink Competition Helped Me Trust My Feelings
Honestly, you never know what to expect at Fantastic Fest. One moment you’re sitting in the heat, the next you stumble into the bar and see four Alamo Drafthouse bartenders competing with Star Wars...
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Blood Moon over Vancouver | Here’s our favorite picture of last night’s...
Blood Moon over Vancouver | Here’s our favorite picture of last night’s Supermoon Eclipse, showing all the lights of Vancouver, with the red moon hanging over them. Photo by The Kaigan.Contact the...
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The Four Doctors Is a Comic Reunion the Twelfth Doctor Never Knew He Needed
When Doctor Who brought past Doctors together for its 50th Anniversary special, it wasn’t just to look back at the show’s past, but to examine the Doctor’s own insecurities. The Four Doctors, the Titan...
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New Clues Point to Hidden Chambers at King Tut’s Tomb
There may be treasures still waiting to be discovered at the site of King Tut’s tomb, nearly a century after it was first discovered in 1922. After inspecting the site yesterday, a team of...
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The Best Worst Batman Comic Ever Might Not Be Over
As we’ve discussed on several occasions, Frank Miller’s insane All-Star Batman and Robin comic is one of the worst interpretations of Batman ever, but it is also massively entertaining anyways. And...
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This Element Could Have Made an Atom Bomb If Not for One Thing
Uranium and plutonium have gotten famous, or infamous, because they are used in atom bombs. We could have been saying that about another material—one that few actually know. Learn about the material...
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