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io9Kung Fu Baby knocks the stuffing out of his animated stuffed dragon
It’s Enter the Dragon…with an actual stuffed dragon. Filmmaker Patrick Bolvin outfits this little tyke in Bruce Lee footie pajamas and sends him after a stop-motion stuffed dragon. When children’s toys come to life, it takes a special effects-driven, martial artist child to defeat them. [via The Awesomer]
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Tech NewsReinventing the Pocket Knife As a Crazy Machete
Do you carry a pocket knife? Does anyone anymore? They can be helpful if you need to open a stubborn package or if you need something for the TSA to take from you at the airport. But though they’re sometimes useful, they aren’t particular fearsome. At least, until Joerg Sprave makes one. As part of … Continued
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io9Science Fiction’s Presidents Of The 21st Century
Looking to get a jump on the history books? Science fiction already has a complete list of the men, women, and murderous aliens who occupy the White House in this bright new 21st century. The late twentieth century had a bit of a rough time when it came to fictional presidents, what with Richard Nixon’s … Continued
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io9What Mark Hamill revealed about Star Wars: Episode VII in 1983
While we anxiously await more information about the Star Wars: Episode VII of tomorrow, here’s a little nugget about the Episode VII of yesteryear. While being interviewed by Maria Shriver in 1983, Mark Hamill teased a 2004 Star Wars sequel, in which he’d either play an alternate universe version of Luke Skywalker or an entirely … Continued
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Hard-to-Read Fonts Will Make You Less of a Biased Jerk
It’s generally not a good thing to be biased. Sure, you can have your opinions, you can even cling to them strongly, but if they start actually altering your perception of reality, things can get messy. Lucky for you, hard-to-read fonts are here to the rescue, and might be able to save you from opinionated … Continued
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Welcome to the denture shop of your nightmares
Famed photographer Ferenc Berko took this photograph of this denture shop in Rawalpindi, India, in 1946. The giant model dentures may have been used to market false teeth, but they could easily have been the set for some fantastical horror film. I can’t help but wonder if the models scared off more customers than they … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Apple Posts Its Apology To Samsung, But For Real This Time
After trying to be snarky and biting with its court ordered apology to Samsung, and being reprimanded by the UK court and told to fix it, Apple has now put a second, simple, much less back-handledly “Samsung’s dumb and we’re the coolest” apology on their UK webpage. Hopefully this will be the end of it. … Continued
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Watch Pixar’s luminous, heartwarming short “La Luna” in its entirety
If you didn’t catch Pixar’s latest feature Brave in the theaters, you may have missed out on La Luna, Enrico Casarosa’s stellar short about the moon’s custodians: a young boy, his father, and his grandfather. Hit play and let yourself be transported to a magical world where you can sweep up the stars and a … Continued
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io9Comics
Saturday Webcomic: The dirtiest election of the campaign season pits roboticists against cheerleaders
While the current US presidential election swirls amidst Super PACs, editorial endorsements, and constant fact-checking, the high school election of Prudence Shen and Faith Erin Hicks’ Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong involves something much more powerful: the high school cheerleading team. When Nate, the neurotic president of the robotics club fears that his club’s money … Continued
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What happens when you look up Adam West in the phone book?
Redditor slapshotten11 lives near TV Batman Adam West, and decided to look him up in the Ketchum, Idaho, phone book. But it’s not that easy to track down the Batman. It’s nice to know that even in this digital age, paper phone books can still provide us with so much amusement. [reddit]
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io9Movies
More Hobbit Character Posters Than You Can Throw an Axe At
With a baker’s dozen of Dwarves tromping through The Hobbit, you practically need a scorecard to keep track of all the characters. These one-sheet posters zoom in on the Dwarves, giving us a closer look at each Dwarf’s individual weapons and style-including Kili’s smoulder. See the rest of the character posters at Empire Online, via … Continued
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io9A Wookiee Jedi takes a crash course in lightsaber construction while Donatello takes April on a date!
This week in the world of cartoons, young Jedis learn to make lightsabers on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes returns, the Ninja Turtles play with monkey brains, and we get the season finale of Transformers: Prime! Adventure Time is off for a couple of weeks, while DC Nation continues it’s unusually … Continued
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Tech NewsPlastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Plastic Paradise is a documentary by Angela Sun about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch at Midway Atoll. It shows how plastic is ruining nature, causing birds and animals to die and polluting the waters. It’s pretty bad. The documentary analyzes the change that inventing plastic has had on our lives and tries to answer the … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Romney Pours a Glass of Water
With this election looming, it’s important to keep two seemingly contradictory ideas in your head: First, that voting is essential. And second, that laughing at politicians is an essential part of democracy. Especially when it’s Mitt Romney. The rest of this week’s top comedy videos, including some still spooky Halloween-themed fun, can be found over … Continued
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Twitter Is Trying to Be Instagram By Adding Photo Filters
Instagram created the photo sharing social network right under the feet of Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. Facebook decided to buy it and Twitter is now trying to replicate Instagram by adding photo filters of its own (Flickr is just… sad). The NYT reports that Twitter will “introduce filters for photos that will allow people to … Continued
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Pretty Famous Celebrity Wears a Dress with 2,000 LED Lights That Shows Her Tweets
Nicole Scherzinger, who’s famous for once being a singer for the Pussycat Dolls but is still famous because she’s smokingly attractive, wore a Twitter Dress to an event. Not a dress designed by Marc Jacobs or Alexander Wang but a dress with 2,000 LED lights that display Tweets sent to her. The dress which has … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and Security
The TSA Finds Weapons in the Darndest Places: Knives in Foot Powder, Knives in Lipstick and More
People, why do you hide weapons when you fly. You’re just asking for trouble! And seriously, is there a need to wrap knives in foil and then hide it in a bottle of foot powder? Or put a knife inside lipstick? Here are the weapons the TSA found in the weirdest places. People think they’re … Continued
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Tech NewsIMDB’s Top 250 Movies in 2 1/2 Minutes
If you can name all the movies in this quick hitting list (there is actually 303 movies in all) in order, you deserve free popcorn or something. Jonathan Keogh stitched this video together and it combines the top movies in IMDB’s venerable top 250 list. How many have you watched? Keogh says: From what I … Continued
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Confirmed: Fleshlight Is STILL Developing an iPad Case You Can Have Sex With
You were getting worried, weren’t you. It’s been the better part of a year since we confirmed that the iPad sex toy case was going to (probably) be a real thing. I was worried. So we checked in with Fleshlight, who told us, Yes!-This is still going to be a thing! A Fleshlight spokesman told … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
The iPad Mini’s Screen Isn’t Retina But Its Pixels Are Super Small Compared to the iPad 2
The biggest beef that people will have with the iPad Mini (other than price, that is) is that it doesn’t come with a pixel dense Retina Display. It’s the only new iOS device-iPad 4, iPhone 5, iPod Touch-that doesn’t have one. But it turns out, its screen is still much better than the iPad 2 … Continued
By Casey Chan