Here's one Easter Egg you might've missed in BTTF. At the beginning of Back to the Future, Marty McFly stumbled upon Twin Pines Mall, but after running over a pine tree during his escape, the shopping center becomes Lone Pine Mall near the end of the film. Click here to view the first image in this week's funny Facebook status updates gallery. Continue reading for a viral video of Britain's biggest dog.
Even the bravest of daredevils might find this clip tough to stomach.
This nail-biting video from a slacklining group called the Skyliners shows the team attempting to cross a slackline between two floating hot air balloons.
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The video description explains that no one managed to successfully cross the slackline, but the group is planning to try again. This gasp-inducing stunt is a collaboration with Spanish hot air balloon company Globus Kon Tiki.
Fear of heights or not, wobbling across that shaky wire is the last place we'd want to be.
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This sweat-inducing video brings new meaning to the phrase "Don't look down!"
Rock climber Alex Honnold is known for his free solo ascents of enormous rock walls, which means that he forgoes ropes, harnesses and other protective gear while climbing. In this clip from YouTube climbing channel REEL ROCK, Honnold performs his signature climb up El Sendero Luminoso, a 15,000-foot wall in Mexico
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The terrifying clip is a preview for a film about Honnold's ascent that is set to premiere on The North Face's YouTube channel
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Sage Kotsenburg brought the United States its first gold medal by nailing a "back 16 Japan" during the men's slopestyle snowboarding event. Afterward, Kotsenburg spouted a fair amount of technical jargon mixed with standard chillbro slang during his press conference, which did not make life easy for his translators.
    
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U.S. luger Kate Hansen's medal chances in Sochi aren't strong, but she brings the boogie wherever she goes as part of her warmup routine. NBC luge commentator Duncan Kennedy has a problem with this.
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I’m sure there are a good number of you rejoicing at the fact that Flappy Birds developer pulled the game from the Google Play Store (and Apple App Store) over the weekend. For some of us, it was the game we loved to hate, and where there were a vast number of copy-cat games gradually began flooding the Google Play Store in an attempt to cash-in on the Flappy Bird phenomenon, we came across one that actually helps you take out your frustrations on that derpy little bird.
Titled Flatty Bird, the game borrows from the same graphical elements as Flappy Bird, even going as far as replicating its antagonist. What it doesn’t do, is feature gameplay that’s anything like Flappy Bird (although, challenging none-the-less). Simply tap on the screen to squash the flappy birds as they attempt to fly in-between the pipes. Have to admit, we found it oddly satisfying to exact our revenge on the bird that soared its way into pop stardom.
While the game is rated-G, we would have loved to have seen a version with little more gore. Channel your hate and give it a Flatty Bird a download below.
Download on Google Play: Flatty Bird
You might have noticed something missing from the Play Store in the last few days. One-click theming app Themer Beta by MyColorScreen was pulled from Google Play late on February 2nd due to a copyright complaint from Apple. When it will return is not clear, but it's probably not going to be immediate.
The issue stems from Themer's "Seven" theme, which you can see above. This is, admittedly, an obvious clone of iOS 7 – Apple pointed to the icons in Seven as the infringing content.
Apple Copyright Complaint Gets Themer Pulled From Google Play, Might Not Be Back For A Few Weeks was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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It seems the Loch Ness Monster has left the building — that is, if she was ever in it.
For 18 months there have been no confirmed sightings of the supposed being, said to reside in the second largest body of water in Scotland. It's the longest period of time without a Nessie sighting in nearly 90 years, the BBC reports.
Gary Campbell is a Scottish accountant who has been keeping a register of Nessie sightings for 17 years, back when he claims to have seen something suspicious himself. Campbell said this is the first time since 1925 no one has come forward for so long. Read more...
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By now, you've been accosted by enough of your Facebook friends "look back" videos to realize that you do not ever want to look back at your life via social media
It's basically a timeline of bad choices, bad statuses and bad haircuts rolled into a one-minute shareable video (thanks, Facebook) — that is, unless you're Walter White
In that case, your look-back video becomes an epic compilation of your life's greatest hits and highs, from lowly chemistry teacher to underworld kingpin Heisenberg
Hey, Jesse, remember the pizza on the roof? So funny! Wait, bro, you never Liked my status about my new hat? What's up with that? Read more...
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A bite-sized camera has been approved for use by the FDA as an alternative for patients who are unable to have a complete colonoscopy.
The pill-shaped capsule has a camera on both ends. It navigates through your intestines over an eight-hour period, taking high-speed images that are sent to a device worn by a patient that are later examined by a doctor.
PillCam is a product of Israeli company Given Imaging. In the United States, approximately 750,000 colonoscopies are incomplete every year, according to the company. "Incomplete" means that doctors weren't able to see everything that they needed to for a number of reasons, including a history of abdominal surgery or advanced diverticular disease, which affects the colon, among others. Read more...
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While Adobe Photoshop is a powerful, creative platform, using plugins can help to extend its capabilities and use it to its full potential. Using an add-on can help you perform tedious or difficult tasks in a more efficient manner, enabling you to spend more time on design.
There are thousands of plugins to choose from, but many are outdated and no longer work with updated versions of Photoshop. We've collected the best free plugins you can download, install and start using right away.
We focus on a variety of free plugins best suited to web and graphic design, to help you work faster and more productively. The plugins can help with a range of functions, including layer control, exporting assets, icon exploration, guides and fonts. Read more...
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Is there an Olympic medal for terrible luck? Because Johnny Quinn would definitely qualify
The American bobsledder tweeted an image on Monday that showed him trying to pry open an elevator door in Sochi. It seems the Olympic athlete got trapped along with fellow Team USA competitors David Cripps and Nick Cunningham
No one is going to believe this but we just got stuck in an elevator. Ask @BOBSLEDR and @Crippsee who were there..pic.twitter.com/Rwg57CBbUU
— Johnny Quinn (@JohnnyQuinnUSA) February 10, 2014
More about Entertainment, Pics, Sports, Sochi, and Winter Olympics 2014Now we're stuck in the elevator! Can @JohnnyQuinnUSA get us out ? pic.twitter.com/sVbyksEXlc
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Deep breaths, citizens of Westeros: HBO has unleashed 15 full minutes of Game of Thrones' gore, action and drama
The "Ice and Fire: A Foreshadowing" sneak peek video of the hit show's fourth season gives fans a glimpse at unseen footage, flashbacks and cast interviews
Prepare to learn how much this cast cries. The clip also details weird stuff they've done, new characters such as the Prince of Dorne, Oberyn Martell and dangerous dragons.
And in case you weren't psyched enough, the show's executive producer and writer David Benioff says, "Some of the most shocking and mind-blowing scenes of the entire series come at the end of this coming season, some very bloody confrontations." Read more...
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The Obama administration is considering a drone strike against a U.S. citizen suspected of being a member of al Qaeda and planning terrorist attacks against the United States. However, the president is struggling with the legal implications under his administration's new policies to carry out drone strikes, according to the Associated Press.
The identity of the target, or the country where he's hiding, has not been released, but the CIA is already watching the suspect with their fleet of spy drones. The CIA, however, can't carry out an attack because President Obama last year decided that only the Pentagon could kill an American suspected of terrorism. Moreover, the country where the target is residing right now doesn't allow American military operations on its soil Read more...
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God I hate this game. Flappy Bird is simple, and you can easily cheat at Flappy Bird. I just want it to be done so it can go away. Hats off to the developer who figured out how to make a few dollars from endless frustration and a couple hours of coding, but Flappy Bird needs to die.
It hit me this afternoon — the best way to stop playing a game is to cheat so hard you'll never be able to match the result by normal means. After that, you never want to play again and don't care when everyone else talks abut playing it.
Luckily, Flappy Bird is as easy to cheat at as it is to die flapping.
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Flappy Bird is dead, in case you haven’t heard. No, no, not the bird itself. At least, we hope that little guy is OK — all this commotion lately can’t be too good for his little heart. We’re talking about the hit game from Vietnamese developer Nguyen Ha Dong that had people going crazy for the past few weeks. Its popularity prompted hundreds of millions of downloads across all available platforms and had Dong raking in over $50,000 a day in ad revenue.
So now that the game is gone (whether it was due to legal pressure or a genuine desire for peace and quiet), how can you get it? Well, some desperate folks seem to be willing to pay thousands. And tens of thousands. And maybe even hundreds of thousands.
Head to eBay right now and do a search for “Flappy Bird,” and you’ll be treated to tons of listings for devices — mainly iPhones — with the game pre-installed. Some are going for as little as $600, though one auction is sitting at a ridiculous $99,900 bid as of the time of this writing. The auction started at $650, but a few aggressive bidders have been battling it out since early Sunday morning. The craziest part is that — 74 bids and $99,900 later — there are still more than 6 days to go before the auction closes.
While we immediately wondered if the high-valued bids were submitted by one-off shill accounts, the latest bid was made by an eBay user with a reputation score of over 700. It was the bidder’s only activity in the past 30 days, though, so we’re still not quite sure what to make of it just yet. For what it’s worth, the next active bidder has a score of 48, and has participated in more than a few different auctions in the past 30 days.
And it’s not just a one auction anomaly, either. The next closest auction with active bids is currently sitting at $99,200 after 65 bids. These two auctions have prompted many other sellers to list Flappy Bird-equipped devices with buy-it-now prices ranging from $25,000 to $75,000. One ridiculous listing even has a Samsung Galaxy S4 with the game going for a buy-it-now price of $1,000,000.
It’s worth noting that none of these auctions or buy-it-now listings have been completed or sold, so it’s tough to know if demand for devices with the game pre-installed is really this insane.
We imagine if people really are crazy enough to buy these phones at these prices, then those who were outbid on the $90,000 auctions would jump at some of the newly-listed buy-it-now offerings as soon as humanly possible. That there haven’t been any sales thus far has us pretty skeptical, but eBay has our attention regardless.
So what do we take from all that? There could be some real serious demand for this insanely popular game that is now no longer available, and some insanely rich folks with more money than sense could be looking to get their hands on it any way they possibly can. That, or some people must really love trolling auctions with fake bids more than anything in the world.
All of this is even sillier when considering you could likely buy a cheap Android device (Moto G for $100, anyone?) and find a ripped APK to sideload just as easily as you could buy one of these overpriced listings. Now, excuse me while I go put my DROID MAXX and iPad up for sale.
Despite being the biggest and most successful, Samsung isn’t always the most vocal player in the game when it comes to discussing upgrades to new versions of Android. The company has yet to formally detail a list of devices that will be receiving Android 4.4 KitKat.
While anyone might have guessed that the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 might have been in line, a source close to the matter has confirmed to Phandroid that the following list of devices will be receiving the illustrious upgrade (devices in bold have already started to receive official rollouts):
As you can see, the Note 3′s rollout started late last month over in Poland, and should be heading to other regions as Samsung works out logistics and testing. As for the Samsung Galaxy S4, it was only this morning that Samsung began pushing out KitKat for users of the LTE-A variant over in South Korea.
Early reports of firmware from both the Galaxy S4 and Note 3 suggest Samsung didn’t change much in KitKat, though that’s because most of their significant upgrades came with the upgrade to Android 4.3 (which mainly enabled new camera features and Galaxy Gear compatibility). Users are treated to improved performance, though, as well as slight changes to Samsung’s UI which amount to little more than a couple of new icons.
Unfortunately, that’s about the length of our knowledge thus far. There’s no telling when, exactly, Samsung will look to push the upgrades out, nor do we know if they’re even close to being ready for public consumption.
More than anything, though, we’re just happy to know that devices dating back to 2012 are getting some love (especially considering a lot of other OEMs have already abandoned phones that only released just last year). We’ll be looking to dig up any information we can on the impending updates in the weeks (or months) to come.
NBC promised to show yesterday's Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony events from Sochi "as they happened." That obviously wasn't true, though compared to the network's butchering of London's closing ceremony two years ago NBC managed to keep most of the substance. Viewers in the U.S. saw 91% of the opening ceremony, leaving only 15:10 on the cutting room floor. Here's what you missed.
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It's safe to say American figure skater Ashley Wagner was expecting a better score than that. Her face—along with all pretense—dropped after seeing the judges' thoughts on her short program in ladies team competition.
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Yesterday, we brought you the unbelievable story of a runner falling in the snow immediately after giving an interview about the joys of running in the snow. It was 67 seconds of pure gold. We've since been in touch with Chelsea and she has graciously agreed to answer some questions.
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Last week, ladies' downhill skiing was halted after three runs because one jump was dangerously large and hadn't been properly tested. But at least courseworkers were able to fix it. Meanwhile, the snowboard halfpipe is in terrible shape, and according to a Yahoo report, one rider says it's "unsalvageable."
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Skeleton, which has only been a regular Winter Olympic event since 2002, is every bit as fast and intense and as scary as luge. Scarier; the sliders go down face-first. But that gives the sport an aesthetic edge over its cohorts. Look at those helmets!
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The internet is all abuzz about the fact that child killer George Zimmerman has agreed to fight 43-year-old rapper DMX in a three-round boxing match on March 1. But before we enter into weeks of discussing how horrifying the idea of these people profiting off of Trayvon Martin's dead body is, one thing needs to be made clear: There is next to zero chance that this match will be anything other than a total fraud, a prearranged entertainment.
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The Internet used its powers for good to make a young YouTube user's dreams come true.
Sir Fedora, as he is known on YouTube, uploaded a video expressing his excitement over the one Like he received on another one of his videos. After showing viewers a hole in the roof that he "jumped through," he then breaks into a cute rendition of Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball." Of course, the Internet couldn't help but encourage Sir Fedora to aspire for even further greatness.
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In an inspired piece of goofy scaling, the NY Times graphics department has plopped several Winter Olympic venues into various parts of Manhattan, just to give you a better sense of how absolutely enormous they are. Pictured above is the ski jump course, towering over the New York Public Library and Bryant Park. Those taking the run better be real confident into their stopping abilities lest you get hit by a car on Sixth Avenue or run into one of these two buildings.
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