1) How to save a rusty ruined cast iron skillet.
2) Dad photoshops young daughter into sf/f movies.
3) Insights from a real sword fight.
4) Authors dress up as their favorite characters.
5) “There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.” Frankly, I say this fossil isn’t scary enough for the name.
6) Ten ridiculous Kickstarter campaigns people actually supported
7) Conversation with Twitter bots draws in Bank of America. #lol
1) 20 Terrible Real Estate Photos. It’s hard to believe some of these are real. via Beth Pearson
3) Man trolls Craigslist ad searching for “disguisable” weapons.
4) The Holy Taco Church. It’s funny, but I just sold a story to John Joseph Adams about a (mobile) taco church for his anthology of sff kickstarters. You think you’re being outlandish….
5) Tracking Detroit’s Decay Through Google Time Machine.
6) A review of Ancient Germanic Warriors: Warrior Styles from Trajan’s Column to Icelandic Sagas.
7) Know your double. <-- Funny
1) A comparison of Zulu and Filipino stick fighting. Video.
2) The Oatmeal on the wonderfulness of the Tesla Model S electric car.
3) Five Details They Cut From My Season Of The Biggest Loser. We all knew this show was complete shit, but it’s even worse than I thought.
4) What happens when engineers own dogs. Video.
5) The 10 Commandments of Typography.
7) “In my view, the parties do not need a judge; what they need is a rather stern kindergarten teacher” Spiteful upper-class twits drive each other wild.
1) Map of boys names from around the world. I didn’t see one for girls.
2) Huge 3D printer built ten one-story buildings in one day out of construction waste and cement. The video is cool.
3) Sony wages a brutal 35 year war with record producer over their refusal to pay royalties.
4) New Zealand artists create 3D Sand pictures.
5) Movie Scripts Ranked by Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level. Hey, the higher the reading level of the script, the more critically-lauded you’d expect it to be, right?
1) The LEVERAXE! which twists in your hand to split wood faster. It’s science!
2) Was the drop in crime caused by unleaded gasoline?
3) Orion, The Masked Man. The singer, not the comic book character.
4) How to make a “sick edit” with mountain bikes. I don’t even know much about mountain bike videos, but I learn a lot from parodies.
5) Is “mankind” the right word to use when you refer to all human beings? Scholars weigh in.
6) German man builds a “web shooter.” This is very similar to the “mini-railgun” ranged weapon my buddy gave to his Champions martial artist years ago.
7) Lip sync battle between Jimmy Fallon and Emma Stone. Video. This is just flat hilarious and amazing.
1) Baby noises edited into beatboxing. Video.
2) Every live action Marvel movie from 1998 ranked. I’d quibble with some of the rankings, but who wouldn’t? Also, there was no excuse for Elektra being so terrible.
3) The Ten Most Deadly Rocks And Minerals. h/t Kat Richardson
4) The placebo effects of food labeling.
5) Metal Albums With Googly Eyes, a Tumblr.
1) What is NeoRealism? Video. Extraordinarily interesting contrast between neorealist and Hollywood movie techniques. h/t @RodneyRamsey
2) The Uncomfortable, a collection of deliberately uncomfortable everyday objects.
3) Sony gets Blender-made animated short pulled from YouTube even though they have no copyright claim to it. You can still watch it on Vimeo, though.
4) Vatican to digitize 41 million pages of ancient manuscripts. Of course, the manuscript pages themselves will outlast whatever file type the Vatican chooses to put them in.
5) Workouts inspired by your favorite fandoms. Heh.
6) What if the moon was a disco ball? Video. A question we’ve all asked at one point or another.
1) Quicksilver “comes out” to his father, Magneto.
2) Clips of Mike Tyson boxing, looped with sound effects from STREET FIGHTER. Video. Funny but longer than it needs to be.
3) The Velveteen Rabbit, a horror story.
4) The world’s deepest known cave has been mapped.
5) A home made pendulum marble clock.
1) The inevitable D&D-themed yoga. So cool, Brewster.
2) True Detective as Hardy Boy’s style covers.
3) I have never been as deeply moved by anything as this lady is about curtains. True salesmanship. Video.
4) The High Five Camera. Video.
5) Which pet should I get? A Flowchart.
6) Visual charts showing how people around the world communicate. Very interesting and completely authentic, I’m sure.
7) The ten words in English with the most meanings. Another chart.
1) First sentences of famous novels, diagrammed.
2) Guy creates Kickstarter to interview loving couples to find out what makes relationships last. His results.
3) Pedestrian rollercoaster not as cool as it looks. Why couldn’t they just make the stairs twist so you could go up the loop?
5) Ursula Vernon on becoming tired of reading fantasy. I’m having similar feelings.
6) Star Trek Into Darkness: What Came Next. lol
7) In 2005, a fifth-grader wrote a letter to her 20-year-old self.