Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Sky Go and Now TV both coming to British PS4s this summer

Quietly mentioned inside Sky's financial report for this quarter, the broadcaster has revealed that two of its streaming services will arrive on the PlayStation 4 in just a few months. Details are scant (it just says what we've written above), but...



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Weight Loss Shows. Who Really Ends up Being the Biggest Loser?

Guest post by Charity Hirst Director of Marketing and Public Relations, the Medically Oriented Gym. As a facility that promotes health and wellness, the Medically Oriented Gym (the M.O.G.) fields a lot of questions about the latest health and fitness trends.



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High-Speed Photos of Bullets Piercing Water Look Almost Impossible

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High-speed photography requires a trained eye and an incredible sense of timing. Add objects that move faster than the speed of sound, and you might have a project that can be downright impossible.


Dutch photographer Alexander Augusteijn specializes in high-speed photography and designed his own equipment to capture bullets piercing colored water droplets. Using a special software, Augusteijn controls the water droplets, the firing of the guns, flashing lights and the camera shutter to capture mesmerizing photographs.



"I typically take a few hours to set up new scenery. After that, almost every shot is spot on, due to the precise level of control," Augusteijn told Mashable. Read more...


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This is how ancient Egyptians moved rocks for pyramids

Long before the days of trucks and bulldozers, ancient Egyptians were building pyramids out of heavy rocks they had to haul by hand. After getting slowed down in the desert terrain, they figured out a way to make transporting heavy stones a little...



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A Whale of a Mess: Small Town Fears Beached Carcass Will Explode

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A small Canadian town of 600 people is dealing with a colossal 60-ton problem.


The rotting carcass of a giant blue whale washed ashore near Trout River, Newfoundland, last week and is now spreading its stench throughout the town, according to multiple reports. What's worse, some fear the 85-foot-long whale may explode as a result of combustible methane gas brought on by decomposition, the Associated Press reported



"I'm not sure with the heat and gases that are trapped inside of this mammal if at some point in time it will explode," Emily Butler, Trout River's town clerk, told told the AP Read more...


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The full trailer for The Simpsons' Lego Spectacular special is here

The full trailer for The Simpsons' Lego Spectacular special is here


The full trailer for the special Lego episode of The SimpsonsThe Simpsons' Lego Spectacular—is here. I hope it has the best of the Lego Movie and the best of The Simpsons in it.


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Hitler materializes in lost family trip photos found at thrift store

Hitler materializes in lost family trip photos found at thrift store


Mat Ames found some negatives in a thrift store in Roanoke, Virginia. After digitizing them, a lot of the photos seemed to belong to a couple's vacation in Naples, Italy, in 1938. Among all the scenic Italian vignettes there was a creepy surprise—a sinister figure sitting in a car under the sun. It was Adolf Hitler.


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TYIN Tegnestue’s Bamboo Bathhouse Brings Cleanliness to an Orphanage in Thailand

These Tiny Tattoos Kick Your Sleeve in the Armpit

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Though tattoos the size of a baby make a statement, some of the neatest tats are barely bigger than a quarter


Seattle-based photographer Austin Tott recognizes the simple beauty of small, delicate body ink in his series "Tiny Tattoos."



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Tott's neatly composed photographs show off a series of small wrist tattoos of seemingly mundane items, and pairs each tattoo with its real-life counterpart


Tott told Mashable that there was no "big, deep meaning" behind the series. Rather, he just set out to make something purely fun and entertaining Read more...


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Even Game of Thrones' dragons would like to eat a Khaleesi Burger

Even Game of Thrones' dragons would like to eat a Khaleesi Burger


The Khaleesi Burger. As bloody and delicious as the Mother of Dragons and, surprise, vegetarian: "Smokey morsels of crisped shiitake "bacon," crown a regal beet gratin, smothered in Red Dragon cheese on top of a crunchy, berberre-rubbed kale patty, heirloom tomato, and slathering of sumac aioli."


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Note Found in Kurt Cobain's Wallet: True Scorn or Inside-Joke Love Letter?

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We’ll probably never really know the intent of the note that was found in Kurt Cobain’s wallet the day he killed himself 20 years ago and first made public this week — the one that appears, at first read, to badly disparage his wife, Courtney Love.


"Do you Kurt Cobain take Courtney Michelle Love to be your lawful shredded wife," goes the scrawl (below), “even when she’s a bitch with zits and siphoning all yr money for doping and whoring…"


SEE ALSO: 7 Emotional Moments From Nirvana's Hall of Fame Induction


The note is written on stationery from the Phoenix Hotel, a hip and gritty rocker hideout in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. The last time Nirvana played in the Bay Area was New Year’s Eve 1993 at the Oakland Coliseum, less than four months before Cobain wrote a page-long, heart-wrenching suicide note in red pen, pointed a shotgun at himself and took his own life. Read more...


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Adorable Stop Motion Man Discovers Life on Mars


Because, really, who among us hasn't come home from a grueling day at the office to find a magical miniature man made of aluminum foil sitting in the living room, watching classic films and listening to a bit of Bowie? What, seriously, just me?


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