Why yes, that is a guy playing a flamethrowing guitar atop a race car.
This trailer for the Mad Max reboot looks to be even crazier than the previous three. With spiked-out cars and creepy villains galore, the clip finally addresses the question of just how many explosions can fit into a two-and-a-half minute video. (The answer: not enough.)
Mad Max: Fury Road hits theaters on May 15. The people at NASCAR should take pointers.
Though the classic brick has not changed since it was patented in 1958, the Lego brand has evolved greatly in the past half-century
The simple building toy has grown into an empire boasting enormous playsets, board games, video games and even an awesome movie (with a sequel on the way)
With sets related to Star Wars, Harry Potter, Batman, The Avengers and more, Lego has basically had your childhood locked down for decades
So what are the most popular playsets from the past 50 years? What gargantuan sets have the most pieces? We could have just given you the answers to these questions in a simple list, but where's the fun in that? Instead, we built an explanation, IRL, using Lego bricks. Read more...
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Martha Stewart wants Justin Bieber to find a woman who's powerful, rich and famous
And maybe a lady who can roll an artisanal joint and likes gettin' freaky on 400-thread-count cotton sheets, sold exclusively at Macy's. Maybe, a lady like Ms. Stewart herself
During Monday's Comedy Central Roast of the Biebs, Stewart made a play for the 21-year-old pop star. They already have the same hairdresser, so he should have no problem tracking down her phone number.
"Like Martha, Martha, Martha. Oooh."
For April Fools' Day, a holiday that no one can be trusted on, John Oliver invites us to take the "No Prank Pledge."
In this Last Week Tonight web exclusive, Oliver asks his audience to raise their right hands and promise not to "post a fake engagement photo on Facebook like some kind of asshole," or engage in other infuriating tricks meant to confuse — and ultimately disappoint — friends and family
This year, just say no to pranks.
Long before 3D printing changed the way we think about physical products, there was cheese in a can
Snobby dairy consumers may mock this statement. "That's not cheese," they'll say. And they're right — it's not cheese. Cheese in a can is the birthplace of multi-dimensional creativity
Thankfully, one brave soul, Andrew Maxwell-Parish, is returning to the primitive roots of 3D printing — though with little to no success thus far
[H/T: Reddit]
WASHINGTON — After nearly 100 years, the National Park Service holds some of the most beautiful and historic places in the country, though there's also an $11 billion backlog of unfunded maintenance and a visitor base that's aging and mostly white.
With its centennial approaching in 2016, the park service will launch a major campaign Thursday in New York City to raise support and introduce a new, more diverse generation of millennials and children to "America's best idea," the national parks. First lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Laura Bush will co-chair the campaign, calling on Americans to "Find Your Park" to enjoy their public lands. Read more...
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That damn autofill
The Guardian has revealed, an unidentified officer at the Australian immigration department accidentally emailed personal details of world leaders to the wrong person ahead of the G20 Summit in Brisbane in November, 2013.
In a dinner party list to die for, the security breach included the personal details of U.S. president Barack Obama, Russian president Vladimir Putin, German chancellor Angela Merkel, Chinese president Xi Jinping, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and British prime minister David Cameron Read more...
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Are you ready for your next big career move? The Mashable Job Board is the ideal place to search. More than 3,000 employers in tech and digital have posted on our board, and they're looking to fill positions from Mashable's community.
Each week, we highlight five recently posted openings. Check out some of this week's newest listings, below, and be sure to read our Job Search Series for valuable career tips.
Position: Account Executive, Entertainment & Sports
Company: Digital Brand Architects
Location: New York, New York
More about Network, Job, Job Board, Business, and JobsDigital Brand Architects is in search of Account Executive with a thorough knowledge of the social media and digital space (from the changing media landscape to mobile tools and trends), sophisticated sensibility and on/offline communications skills to help manage a world-class portfolio of entertainment and sports clients.
The ideal candidate must be a team player with a self-starter mentality and the ability to handle multiple tasks at once, succeed in a fast-pace, high-energy environment.
DBA works with some of the top brands in the world to develop winning content marketing strategies and campaigns across multiple industries and brands. Read more...
NEW YORK, New York — On a frigid winter day at Brooklyn Bridge Park, I found myself flying a kite for the first time in 20 years
The kite’s owner and my instructor for the day was Scott Dunn, a tall, cheerful man. He handed me a remote control. It operated a complicated mechanical rig mounted with a digital camera dangling from the kite
I used the remote to twist and tilt the contraption. With another button, I triggered the camera’s shutter. In the brisk wind, I pointed the lens all over the place, snapping greedy, sloppy pictures. After some fiddling, I managed to face the kite to the Manhattan skyline Read more...
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Nathan Blaney had just walked into the East Village bar Bull McCabe's on Friday when he heard the blast.
The photographer, who shot the events of September 11 and says he hasn't left home without a camera since then, ran around the corner and right into the aftermath of a gas-related explosion that tore through the Sushi Park restaurant at 2nd Avenue and 7th Street. Blaney then started taking photos.
"I was on scene about one minute post-explosion," he told Mashable. "In those first moments, people were saying 'bomb' rather than 'gas explosion' but either way, I had a sense of what images I was looking for. As the scene evolved, I tried to document the events as they unfolded," he said. Read more...
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One dollar may not get you much these days, but it could buy you a stolen password to an Uber account and free car rides around town.
Vendors on dark net sites such as AlphaBay, which often sell illegal products like drugs and counterfeit goods, are offering active Uber username and login details for $1, according to Motherboard. Other information that comes with the purchase includes partial credit card data and telephone numbers.
Motherboard said it was able to verify that some of the accounts were still in use by Uber members and that, in one case, a previously hacked Amazon password was used to get into an Uber account because the passwords were the same. Read more...
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson flexed his acting muscles on Saturday when he ruined Disney's childhood classic film, Bambi, in a Saturday Night Live sketch
This time, Bambi is back to seek revenge against the hunting club that took his mother's life, and he's fully equipped with weapons and fluffy backup to do so.
The film's soundtrack was also updated with a hot new track, "Wham, Bam, Bambi" by Ludacris (played by Jay Pharoah).
Demands to rename Tillman Hall at Clemson University, the circulation of a video showing a racist chant at the University of Oklahoma and the discovery of a fraternity pledge book discussing lynching at North Carolina State University demonstrate how persistent racial issues are on college campuses.
Benjamin Tillman was a post-Civil War politician, racial demagogue and participant in racial violence, who was critical to Clemson University’s founding in the late-nineteenth century.
Tillman was not the only one. The University of North Carolina trustees are considering a request this week to rename Saunders Hall. The building was named in 1922 for William Saunders, a leader of the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan. Read more...
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Ethiopian schoolteacher and journalist Reeyot Alemu was teaching English to her high-school class when police raided the building and arrested her in 2011
Alemu, a vocal critic of the Ethiopian government, was charged with terrorism. The only evidence presented at her trial were critical articles she had written and phone calls she had made discussing peaceful protests
Alemu has been in prison for 1,376 days
Last year, 220 journalists across the globe were imprisoned for attempting to cover the news. To raise awareness and funds for the unfairly jailed men and women, journalism students at the University of Maryland have spearheaded an Indiegogo campaign called Press Uncuffed. Read more...
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What's in your fridge? Periscope users want to know.
In the days since Twitter launched the live streaming video app, requests to peek into other users' fridges have, by our unofficial polling, proven more popular than just about any other comments during a Periscope video. Some enthused users are even using the #fridgeview or #showusyourfridge hashtags on Twitter.
Aaron Trent, a 29-year-old retirement planner in Greenville, South Carolina, was checking out Periscope with a friend Friday evening when they noticed users in virtually every stream clamoring for a look at the fridge. Read more...
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Angie's List, the website that publishes reviews of local businesses and service workers, announced on Saturday it had suspended plans to expand its Indianapolis headquarters following the passage of the state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The new law makes it legal for businesses in the state to turn away gays and lesbians for religious reasons.
“Angie’s List is open to all and discriminates against none and we are hugely disappointed in what this bill represents,” Angie's List CEO Bill Oesterle said in a statement.
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