Because fact-checking is for people who don't have GOOD GUT INSTINCTS, a Danish news station recently displayed a rendering of Damascus from Assassin's Creed instead of the current Damascus skyline like they intended. I've since been fired from my position as head picture find... / Continue →

Note: If you're not into baby photography you might want to skip this one. This is a fantasy themed photoshoot by Wendi Riggens starring baby Maddie as the heroines from a bunch of different fairy tales. If I had a daughter I'd be temped to do something similar, except with v... / Continue →

Seen here looking suspiciously like a hair under a microscope, scientists have managed to capture an image of DNA's double helix structure for the first time, officially ending the era of me being able to claim DNA is actually shaped like little rainbows. Truly a sad day. The... / Continue →

Artist Daniel Nyari (of famous robots fame) has just created this print of famous weapons from video games, comic characters, and movies. I'm not really sure how Tetris blocks (tetrominoes) count as weapons, but I suppose if you beat somebody in the head with one it would hurt... / Continue →

Using long-wavelength observations, the Keck II telescope in Hawaii was recently able to see through the methane gas cloud surrounding Uranus and provide the best images of the planet to date. It really is surrounded by a gas cloud by the way -- that wasn't a euphemism for but... / Continue →

In outerspace news, the Curiosity Rover just beamed back some pictures to earth that scientists are saying provide proof-positive evidence that flowing water once existed on the red planet. Cool, now maybe if we time traveled back a billion years we could drink it. Scientis... / Continue →

So apparently every year the town of Bilbao, Spain holds a 'Concurso de Feos' (Ugly Contest). Contestants are asked to make the ugliest face they can, and, judging from these pictures, they all won first prize. No word what the winner actually gets, but hopefully it's a brown... / Continue →

This is the first "true-color" shot from the Curiosity rover beamed back to earth from the surface of the red planet some 352-million miles away. The ridge in the background is the north wall of the Gale Crater, or, as at least one blogger suspects, a Hollywood backlot recreat... / Continue →

Unbaby.me is a Google Chrome extension that replaces Facebook pictures of your friends' ugly babies with pictures of other, cooler stuff like tanks and cats and sandwiches. I assume it just replaces any image that it finds that includes text like "baby". That way when you're ... / Continue →

This is a Star Trek insignia engagement ring hand-crafted by Etsy selller VaLaJewellery and available for the low, low price of $500. It's so cheap because it's actually a white sapphire in the setting, not a diamond. It's perfect for the Trekkie girl in your life that you th... / Continue →