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Mark Sheppard and Jim Beaver tell us what to expect from season eight of Supernatural!
Supernatural comes back tonight, and we’re pumped up to see how Sam and Dean are reunited after the huge cliffhanger ending at the end of season seven. We caught up with Mark Sheppard, who plays the demon Crowley, and Jim Beaver, who plays Bobby, to get some hints about what’s in store. First of all, … Continued
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Does Anyone Want a 13-inch Macbook Pro Tablet for $3500 Any More?
Maybe 5 years ago—or at least before the iPad—the unicorn, double rainbow desire for all Mac users was a touchscreen MacBook Pro Tablet. The power of a MacBook Pro combined with OS X, on a touchscreen device. Nice, right? But can you imagine buying one of those ‘ModBook Pros’ for $3500 now? It’s a pretty … Continued
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Seanan McGuire explains why you shouldn’t expect every fantasy heroine to be raped
The other day, someone asked Seanan McGuire when the characters in her popular October Daye urban fantasy novels were going to get raped — because respect for the integrity of your own work, and pure realism demand it. McGuire’s response to this idea is worth reading in full, but especially the part where she explains: … Continued
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A Coffee Brewer-Turned-Coffee Pot Is a Tasty, Lovely Way to Caffeinate
The Kone Brewing System is as good excuse as any to ditch your crappy drip coffee maker—it’s quite fetching, and it should give you a cup with a richer, fuller taste. It’s available for $160 on preorder, but word has it that it already started to popping up in specialty shops. Hand brew up to … Continued
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Sluttiest and Weirdest Store-Bought Halloween Costumes for 2012
It’s almost Halloween — the time of year when the whole world does cosplay. Every year, the Halloween superstores roll out their new line of costumes that are vaguely reminiscent of the year’s hit movies and television shows. Except a whole lot sluttier. Check out our round-up of the trashy, strange and occasionally quite good … Continued
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What Is This?
The grain gives away that it’s obviously made of wood, but what is this tshirt-shaped slab of lumber supposed to be? The latest in eco-friendly fashion? An alternative to undershirts that’s easy to clean with a sanding block? Not even close. Designed by Benjamin Hubert, this strategically sliced wooden panel is actually the backrest and … Continued
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Sheep born with upside-down head does not want your sympathy
No, he only wants to dine upon this delicious pasture. Meet Terry the sheep. He lives in the United Kingdom and was born with his head screwed on backward. Despite his flip-flopped dome, Terry is in good health and goes about his sheep business as usual. It’s unclear what caused Terry’s condition, but one thing … Continued
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Vapp: Snap Pics With Your Voice
For whatever reason, sometimes you need to be able to take a picture hands-free. In those cases, you can try Vapp. What does it do? Responds to sounds to take pictures automatically, without the press of any buttons. Why do we like it? Because sometimes your hands are shaky. And sometimes you stand close to … Continued
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Researchers Discover Bacteria That Produces Pure Gold
The gold you see in the photo above was not found in a river or a mine. It was produced by a bacteria that, according to researchers at Michigan State University, can survive in extreme toxic environments and create 24-karat gold nuggets. Pure gold. Maybe this critter can save us all from the global economic … Continued
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Beautiful Map-Etched Glasses Help You Find Your Way Home
After an evening of enjoying libations at your local speakeasy, do you really think you’ll be of sound mind to find your way home using your phone? Probably not, and maybe that’s what inspired this beautiful line of hand-etched tumblers featuring the intricately webbed maps of large metropolitan cities. The first wave of the 10 … Continued
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Men with shaved heads appear more masculine, study finds
Advice for guys who are struggling to deal with their receding hairlines: You might just want to shave it all off. A recent study involving three separate experiments has shown that men who shear the hair off their heads are perceived as being more dominant, taller, and even stronger. But the increased perception of masculinity … Continued
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Dr. Horrible is even cuter as an Anime Musical
What if Neil Patrick Harris and Felicia Day from the beloved Dr. Horrible series were pointy jawed anime creations? It could potentially look a lot like this! One clever fan recut Steins;Gate AMV so that the characters belt out Dr. Horrible’s “Freeze Ray” ballad. In other musical blog news the webseries will make its television … Continued
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New Antibiotics Don’t So Much Kill Germs as They Do Disarm Them
The latest innovation in antibacterial drugs have moved past killing harmful cells. Instead, they just deactivate the parts of the cell that cause problems in the human body. It’s kinda like taking a gun away from someone instead of shooting them first. Developed by researchers at UCLA and the Geffen School of Medicine, the LpxC-1 … Continued
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Why Happy Numbers are Also the Naughtiest Numbers in History
A while back we had a post about how Happy Numbers and the Spiral of Four make up a sort of binary code for all numbers in existence. We thought that was all there was to say. How wrong we were! A reader wrote in, giving me more information on how his math class made … Continued
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I Would Resort to a Life of Crime to Pay for Bowers and Wilkins’ Badass New Soundbar
Bowers & Wilkins makes incredible-sounding speakers. Fact. And while its original Panorama soundbar is no exception, the home theater package was missing key connectivity in the way of HDMI inputs. The new Panorama 2 packs three-HDMI inputs, finally, and more importantly, 175 earth-shaking watts, into a gorgeous six-speaker array. The Panorama 2 costs $2200, and … Continued
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What If Your Boarding Gate Doubled As a Bomb Detector?
Just when you thought you were free of airport security checkpoints once you reached your gate, Hitachi wants to make that the last line of defence for explosives detection. Working with the Nippon Signal Company and the University of Yamanashi it’s developed a high-speed gate detector that gives one last sniff for trouble as passengers … Continued
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Tell Nissan Your Brilliant Idea for a Chance to Win $50,000
The time for keeping your amazing ideas to yourself is over. All you would-be inventors and secret geniuses, step forward and submit your ideas to the Nissan Innovation Garage to win $50,000 in seed money, and turn those dreams into a reality. The Nissan Innovation Garage is inviting Edisons-in-training to share their best “everyday ideas” … Continued
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Apple May Be Using Retail Store Employees to Fix Their Crap Maps
Mac Rumors claims that Apple is “turning to select Retail Store employees to help improve Maps for iOS 6.” What a genius idea! The rumor site says that multiple sources “indicated that participating stores will dedicate 40 hours of staff time per week, distributed among a number of employees, to manually examine Apple’s mapping data … Continued
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19 Amazing Massive Stereos
Giant stereos are everywhere—on the shoulders of cool 90s teens, in the living rooms of finance fat cats, and on the stages of face-melting electronic shows. Even though we have iPods and discreet speakers now, awesome huge systems haven’t gone anywhere. About 140 years before everyone became a DJ, Thomas Edison accidentally invented the phonograph. … Continued
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