You know what's weird about the universe? Everything, for starters. But especially what's mentioned in this song, inspired by a Reddit thread about the most mindblowing facts you ever heard. Time to appreciate our strange and wonderful existence. More »
It's 26 inches long. It has a 5 inch girth. It has a ribbed body, and weighs in at 3 lbs. It's the World's Largest Gummy Worm, and I feel dirty watching this guy try to eat it. More »
If you can ignore the apparent violent tug of war going on between these two lamps, this prototype design by design firm mischer'traxler is quite pretty. Just don't knock it over—that bulb looks difficult to replace. [Core77] More »
We've seen some leaked documents showing off potential Windows 8 features and we expect to see the operating system in 2012, but now we know that it is going to be Microsoft's "riskiest product bet." More »
Thanks to Google Maps and an eagle-eyed Reddit user, we now know that the United States Air Force is hiding very special weapon on a military base in Okinawa, Japan. Oh yes, they're working with him. More »
I don't know this couple. I'll probably never meet them. But I'm confident that any two people that celebrate their wedding with a cake bust of Captain Jean-Luc Picard are destined to a lifetime of happiness. More »
Somehow this illustration of an Internet commenter's daily life looks familiar to many of us. Are we really this bad? More »
Today, after 20 years of digging by some 2,500 workers, 8 of whom lost their lives, Swiss engineers blasted through the last bit of rock to create the world's longest tunnel. The accomplishment even made macho Swiss miners cry. More »
VPlayer is an Android equivalent of VLC—that most wonderful of media playback programs that will take almost any file format you throw its way and chew through it with ease. And a free alpha version is now available. More »
"You might not want light that cigarette there," says James Stegall, co-owner of the Hard Times Distillery, as I stand outside the barn doors. He points out the mist from the still. "That's a cloud of alcohol vapor." More »
Half a century ago, it was a real pain in the ass to use the subway in London. So they added a "travelator"—not an escalator, mind you, but a climbing moving walkway. And London was pumped. More »
After ten years of bullet-time, you'd think the effect would be completely played out. But you haven't seen crazy surfing shot in bullet-time with 52 Canon Rebel T2is. More »
Unbeknown to us, the Finnish YouTube user "markorepairs" is quite the video legend with 988 videos showing...well, not much! Except for this recent corker, which features his entire VCR player collection and the most amazing bowlcut seen since Friar Tuck. More »
We spent the Cold War in perpetual fear that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. would start an intentional nuclear conflict. The truth is, we came far closer to blowing ourselves up with nuclear weapons than we ever came to WWIII. More »
An intriguing detail from AppleInsider about the new, 11.6-inch MacBook Air that's expected to be revealed next week: It's not going to use a hard drive or an SSD for storage. It's going to use something else. More »
This water pool can create waves in any shape you can imagine. Not just rough sketches, but perfectly clear shapes like hearts, stars with hard angular points, and even a musical note. More »
