One side of this picture is a real photograph, the other side is CGI. With CGI getting better and better, it’s almost becoming undistinguishable with real life. Which side do you think is real? The right or the left? More »
There’s manga for practically everything, and from the moment one popped about the politics of making Android devices, one about Steve Jobs was inevitable. Well, it’s here. More »
This Is Nature’s B-2 Bomber
Posted in: Today's Chili The B-2 Spirit aka Stealth Bomber has a very distintictive shape, and when you place it up against a hawk/falcon(?), you can suddenly see why. Nature has bombers of its own, and that form factor just happens to work out well for us too. But for all their similarities, I think we’d all prefer to get hit by the bird’s bombs if we had to pick one. [The Aviationist] More »
An Instagram Foot Shot From the Tallest Building in the World Is the Best Instagram Foot Shot
Posted in: Today's Chili Your feet in a front of a sunset. Your feet sprawled on a grassy knoll. Your feet surrounded by cats. Whatever the situation, Instagram’s about giving your friends and admirers a chance to peer through sepia-colored glasses at the fun and exciting life of your feet. But photographer Joe McNally may have just taken the Instagram foot shot to end all foot shots. More »
The red planet is an alien world, and though it may have once held life, it’s certainly no Earth. But thanks to a recent, mammoth panorama shot by Curiosity, we can get a glimpse of what it would be like if one of Mars’ mountains was transplanted here to ol’ Terra. More »
ALMA has arrived, and she is enormous. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, was officially opened today in the high desert of the Chilean Andes. Guests including the president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, gathered to celebrate the the largest ground-based astronomical project in the world. More »
We’ve already been plenty vocal on our opinions of people who use coffee shops as their personal office. But this guy—this digital rebel found by Twitter user @DGoddamnGlover—makes those non-ordering, space-consuming table squatters look like saints—and this their new pope. More »
The ordered lines of Jerome, Idaho (population: 10,000) start to disintegrate as you approach those parts of town that teeter on the edge of the Snake river canyon. Here the homes are “unregulated and unzoned”, says photographer Michael Light, who took this shot from his own light aircraft. More »
National Geographic Has an Amazing New Tumblr of Weird and Wonderful Photographs
Posted in: Today's Chili National Geographic has launched a new Tumblr, called Found, which showcases some of the most weird and wonderful shots from the magazine’s archive—and it has some amazing photographs online already. More »
If you’ve been using a knife to cut birthday cake this whole time, you’ve been doing it all wrong. When the Navy cuts a cake, it does it properly—using a digger. More »