Fascinating security cam footage showing a (probably) Israeli assassination squad stalking their victim, a Hamas official.

I’ll never trust guys with tennis rackets ever again.

Neat little animated short.

Wakfu is an animated series based on a mmorpg.

Despite being animated, it is not made by Japanese people, but by a strange race of beings known only as… the French!

Peter Watts writes fanfiction of The Thing from Another World from the perspective of the creature. Excellent stuff.

amazing live sand drawing performance. I’d seen something similar before but this one’s a lot better, I’m especially impressed by the detail on faces she manages to create with a quick smattering of sand

Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins Of ‘Friendster’ Civilization

Stardestroyer.net is a sci fi forum where such weighty topics as “Star destroyer versus enterprise, who would win” are routinely discussed and analyzed (I’m not knocking it, it can be fun)

Anyway, it seems at some point someone asked the question “what if The Lord announced that humanity has been abandoned to the dominion of Hell” and Hell came to collect. And so The salvation war, a collaborative fic describing the ensuing conflict was born.

And… it’s pretty awesome.

Some highlights:

A major land battle between the legions of hell and a combined US. British and Iranian tank army in the Iraq desert

A succubus attempts to seduce Bill Clinton to gain intelligence. He blows it away with a shotgun

The pope excommunicates God

Demons use volcanoes to destroy Sheffield and Detroit. The plan is to destroy human military industry, but they get their intel from condemned souls who aren’t quite up to date on where modern industrial centers are,

A murdered Richard Dawkins is rescued from the pit by US marines sent by James Randi, who has been recruited by the Pentagon to find real psychics (It turns out all the real ones are in psychiatric institutions)

And pages and pages of hellspawn being turned into mincemeat by lovingly described military hardware.

And of course, the invasion of Hell and the aerial bombardment of Dis and Satan’s palace.

I’m currently starting to read the continuation. Pamtheocide, in which the forces of Heaven begin to attack.

Garth Ennis would love this shit.

Very cool 3d projections on darkened buildings. I saw something similar to this last year only using models, this is far more impressive, especially if you get to see it live I imagine. As far as I can tell the trick is the buildings are reproduced in 3d so then you can project a false surface on top of the real one and make it look like all those strange effects are happening on the building itself.

A chemistry student from the northern Ukrainian city of Konotop was killed when a stick of chewing gum exploded in his mouth, Ukrainian media reported on Tuesday.

Investigators are to decide within a 10-day period whether a criminal case should be launched.

The 25-year-old student of Ukraine’s Kiev Polytechnic Institute was working at a computer in his parents’ house late on Saturday when the incident occurred.

“A loud pop was heard from the student’s room,” the ukranews.com portal said, citing an aide to the city’s police chief. “When his relatives entered the room they saw that the lower part of the young man’s face had been blown off.”

A forensic examination established that the chewing gum was covered with an unidentified chemical substance, thought to be some type of explosive material.

Police questioning revealed that the student had a bizarre habit of chewing gum after dunking it into citric acid. On his table, police found both citric acid packets and a similar-looking unidentified substance, believed to be some kind of explosive material.

Investigators believe that the student simply confused the packets, and put the gum, covered with explosive material, into his mouth.

Although the local forensic department does not have the necessary equipment to identify the substance, it refused to send it to the capital, Kiev, over fears that it might explode during transportation. Forensic experts from Kiev are expected in Konotop on Wednesday.

whoa