What is it about slo-mo that makes things so funny?

As an accompanying piece to the “When Crocs Ruled” feature in the November issue of National Geographic, this artist’s rendering of the extinct “BoarCroc,” discovered in the Sahara by Paul Sereno and his team of researchers. It looks exactly like what most pulp fantasy fans would imagine as a stock-standard dragon. The camel case in [...]

…were awful. My apologies.

Whisky Magazine has an entire “Nosing Course” online for free, should you want to learn how to wank about whisky. (I do!) The image above is half of the “Whisky Wheel,” a graphic that helps you understand the terminology used when describing the taste and aroma of whiskies.

Director of BMW design Adrian van Hooydonk, I love you already. I know that we won’t see a car with this sort of shape for a while, but I can now starting dreaming of driving a sporty EV or hybrid in the future that doesn’t look like a Prius.

I offered to send my extra copy of Jonathan Coulton’s “Best. Concert. Ever.” CD and DVD to the person who could record the worst JoCo cover in 30-seconds. Here are the entrants and the winner. Gird your ears’ loins. Dan Beeston had already recorded his attempt to play “Skullcrusher Mountain” and sing at the same [...]

From my review of the Canon HF20 and WP-V1 underwater camcorder set on Gizmodo: But once I got underwater and watched many of the divers struggling with their rigs, catching protuberances on errant kelp fronds, I felt a little better about wielding this simple Canon setup. As a point-and-shoot (and shoot and shoot) piece of [...]

Enjoy at full 1080p resolution…if you dare.

I called District 9 a movie “made by gamers and for gamers,” a statement made with the knowledge that director Neill Blomkamp had been tapped previously to make the movie version of Halo. Still, when N’Gai said he “didn’t see it,” it stuck in my craw. To me, District 9 shows how heavily games and [...]

Road & Track dedicated nearly its whole September issue to Porsche past and present. John Lamm’s look back at two of the German automaker’s most technologically advanced models, the 959 and the Carrera GT, was especially illustrative of how far advanced some of Porsche’s thinking has been; the 959 in particular was a supercar decades [...]