Friday, December 25, 2009 - Page 2

Video: Riding This Slide Will Freeze Your Pretty Bum Bum

If you are near National Harbour in Fort Washington, Maryland, don’t miss their 4500sqm Gaylord National’s ICE! exhibit, a winter wonderland made with 900,000kg of ice. And let your pretty butt freeze, swooshing down their 6m slide.


Online

Seasonal PSA: NORAD’s Google Earth Santa Tracking

OK, boys and girls: NORAD’s got their annual Santa tracking up and running here. Keep tabs on the big guy if you’re wondering when he’ll be gifting your hemisphere, or if he owes you money. [NORAD Santa Tracker]


Science

Duck’s Corkscrew Genitals Showcase Kinkiness Of Nature [NSFW]

Here is a slow-mo video of a scientist making a duck have sex with corkscrew-shaped beakers. It is one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen. Merry Christmas!


TNMT Snuggie: Because You’re Never Too Old For Turtle Power

Around age 23, most men realise they’ll be stuck in normal – work a normal 9 to 5, buy a normal house and lift heavy objects with normal strength. But at least we can stay warm, dammit. [HotTopic via Geekologie]


News

Merry Christmas From Gizmodo Australia

Gizmodo AU

Well, another great gadget year has fallen by the wayside. I’m off until January 4th, but Elly’s still around pushing through the US content every day that isn’t a public holiday. But on behalf of all the Giz AU team, I’d like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and an awesome New Year.


Office Depot’s Laptop Glue Fix Fails In Predictably Epic Fashion

What’s the best way to fix a broken-off power port on an Acer Extensa? If you said “glue the sucker back in there”, you might just work in Office Depot’s repair department. You’re also, in that so-painfully-obvious-it-hurts-my-face way, real wrong.


How To: Build Your Own Full-Scale Eiffel Tower

So you’ve got your 7000 metric tons of puddling iron, your unruly 19th-century French construction crew, your Michelin-starred chef and a Rosetta Stone French DVD. Today, finally, you have the final piece: Blueprints!


Underground Five-Star Hotel Fit For A Mole King

This proposed subterranean London hotel is going to put all 200 guest rooms beneath the surface of a former golf course. Sorry, CHUDs: It’s time to gentrify the soil.


Science

First Space-Based Sushi Construction Expedition Underway

“Rolling sushi in space” is one small step away from “measuring the effects of weightlessness on tiny screws“. You go get ‘em, astronauts.