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People have been talking about running cars on water for years, but it's a slow march from science fiction to reality. Even on a small scale, development is difficult. But the i-H2GO is the second revision of an all-water remote controlled car that seems to actually work.

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(843): I thought my life was going to shit but then I read about Amanda Bynes and I realize it's not so bad.

(708): I JUST SEARCHED GINGER COCK ON TUMBLR AND THEY'RE ALL REALLY WELL HUNG? I'M CRYING. IS THIS HOW GINGERS KEEP REPRODUCING?
(224): WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

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During their routine teardown procedure of Google's new Chromecast, iFixit noticed what appears to be a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy easter egg that's hiding in plain sight.

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Alcohol brands can plaster their logos all over race cars, and gun nuts can sponsor races, but if you pay to show an ad attempting to educate NASCAR fans on the benefits of weed, they'll pull it.

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This is Maria. She makes ASMR trigger videos. I like staring at her while she whispers lovingly into the camera. She's what I think a visitation from a saint would be like. I never understood how internet dudes could/would buy gifts or send money to camgirls or any other semi-fuckable attention whores before I learned of her. Now I paypal a fiver to this bitch every month. She helps make living in the modern world bearable. 

The Force was with Boba Fett, C-3PO, Chewbacca, Emperor Palpatine, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Wicket the Ewok Thursday. The actors behind these seven iconic Return of the Jedi characters were reunited on stage for the first time since Star Wars Episode VI was released — all of 30 years and two months ago.

The occasion? Star Wars Celebration, the annual Lucasfilm-sponsored fanfest. This year it's being held in Essen, Germany. It's only the second time in its 14-year history that Celebration has been held on the European side of the Atlantic.

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wiredmikey writes "US authorities have charged four Russians and a Ukrainian five on charges of running a global hacking operation that targeted major payment processors, retailers and financial institutions. The charges stem from hacking attacks dating back to 2005 against several global brands, including the NASDAQ exchange, 7-Eleven, JC Penney, Hannaford, Heartland, JetBlue, Dow Jones, Euronet, Visa Jordan, Global Payment, Diners Singapore and Ingenicard. The men allegedly used SQL injection attacks as the initial entry point into the computer systems of global corporations. Once networks were breached, the defendants allegedly placed malware on the systems. According to the indictment (PDF), the malware used created a "back door," leaving the system vulnerable and helping the defendants maintain access to the network. The men face five years in prison for conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to computers; 30 years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud; five years in prison for unauthorized access to computers; and 30 years in prison for wire fraud."

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Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website.

1994's Pulp Fiction is one of the best and most original films in recent movie history. It has always been my favorite Quentin Tarantino movie. It's one of those films that when you first see it, it bowls you over, with both its originality and its interesting, engrossing storyline.

Now, because the film has been widely imitated and "borrowed from" (after Pulp Fiction came out, it seems like there were dozens of mystery/thriller/crime capers with a host of quirky characters), a bit of its originality may seem to have worn off. Nonetheless, Pulp Fiction remains a classic, an extremely watchable, enjoyable film.

Pulp Fiction also has another interesting distinction: it was John Travolta's comeback film. Because John is known the world over as a hugely successful movie star (incredibly, Travolta has been making movies longer now than Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, or Clark Gable ever did), many movie fans forget that before Pulp Fiction, John's career had sunk to a fairly low degree. Before Pulp Fiction came out, John was mainly looked upon as a bit of a washed up "former" superstar.

But with his Oscar-nominated comeback performance in Pulp Fiction, John was back again, reclaiming his well-deserved superstar status. John's comeback is one of the greatest in show business history.

In the plot of Pulp Fiction, there's a briefcase filled with an orange light. Apparently, many movie fans have theories about what exactly is contained in the briefcase and what is the meaning of the orange light.

One popular theory is that it is Marsellus Wallace's soul (in the film, Marsellus Wallace is the mobster boss of Samuel L. Jackson and Travolta). Other "what's the orange light in the briefcase" theories are more diverse and fascinating. They include:

* It was filled with golden, delicious Twinkies.

* It was glowing uranium.

* It was a really nice lamp.

* It was Satan.

* It was a piece of the sun.

* It was leprechaun gold.

* It was Tinkerbell (Pulp Fiction was released by a Disney company).

Others claim it was simply "whatever you want it to be." But according to writer/director Quentin Tarantino, it was simply a "MacGuffin." The term MacGuffin is familiar to any writer or screenwriter. It is, basically, "something used to drive the plot along." It is a device, anything, just something used by the writer to keep the action going. In the classic movie Citizen Kane, the word "rosebud" was a MacGuffin, in that it kept the story going and gave all the characters a goal or reason to exist. A MacGuffin can be a prize, trophy, a medal, or a woman …whatever.

According to Tarantino's co-writer, Roger Avary, when they originally wrote Pulp Fiction, the briefcase contained diamonds. Not diamonds belonging to Satan, not supernatural diamonds, not even rare diamonds -just plain ordinary run-of-the-mill diamonds. They thought that not showing the diamonds gave it "an air of mystery." But because Tarantino had just used a case of diamonds as a plot device in his previous film Reservoir Dogs (1992), he nixed the idea. He and co-writer Avary both agreed that diamonds were "too boring and predictable" to use again.

Okay, but the orange light has to hint at something, right? I mean, that haunting, glowing, otherworldly orange light that keeps emanating, it had to have some kind of significance, didn't it?

Actually, the glowing briefcase orange light is not in the Pulp Fiction script. Anywhere. According to Avary, "Somebody had the bright idea, which I think was a mistake, of putting an orange light bulb in there. Suddenly, what could have been 'anything' became 'anything supernatural.'

"(We) didn't need to push the effect," says Avary. "People would have debated it for years anyway, and it would have been much more subtle."

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College Humor staged a prank in which a live human voices a taxi cab's GPS. The service goes from believable to slightly incompetent to downright goofy. This compilation of passengers only contains those who were paying attention. Paying attention can turn out to be fun! -via Viral Viral Videos

An anonymous reader writes "Following the /. story on the Feds demanding SSL keys, now comes news that the feds are demanding user passwords, and in some cases, the encryption algorithm and salt used. From the article: 'A second person who has worked at a large Silicon Valley company confirmed that it received legal requests from the federal government for stored passwords. Companies "really heavily scrutinize" these requests, the person said. "There's a lot of 'over my dead body.'" ... Some of the government orders demand not only a user's password but also the encryption algorithm and the so-called salt, according to a person familiar with the requests. ... Other orders demand the secret question codes often associated with user accounts.' I'm next expecting to see the regulation or law demanding that all users use plain text for all web transactions, to catch terrorists and for the children."

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We’re sad to report that actor Dennis Farina, star of Law & Order, Snatch and Get Shorty, has passed away at the age of 69.

Farina was one of those actors who brightened up anything he appeared in, with an uncanny ability to be equal parts intimidating and hilarious in the blink of an eye. He worked with some of the best in the business and never, ever disappointed in bringing an intangible life to a character.

Midnight Run, Little Big League, Luck, Saving Private Ryan, Miami Vice, Manhunter, the former Chicago police officer turned actor had the kind career we’d all dream of having. He’ll be sorely missed.

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When Google introduced the new tabbed interface for Gmail, it also brought along some new ads under the Promotions tab.

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This seven-minute behind the scenes trailer for the HD remake of Sega Genesis platformer Castle of Illusion gives a sense of the updating that went into the 23-year-old game's art and sound. It's not as cool as a "duckumentary," but it's still pretty neat.

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The peer-to-peer housing service ranks the hospitality of towns across the country based on the stays of its more than 4 million guests. While the South and West make it on the board, Northeast cities don't make the cut. [Read more]

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With the NSA leaks going full force it probably won't sound like news at all that a German cryptographer claims to have hacked a SIM card. But that's never been done before (as far as we know . . .) so it's kind of a big deal, and shows that millions of phones are potentially vulnerable.

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Even with modern digital tools, restoring and coloring a faded, damaged old photograph is a time-consuming process, requiring skills you can't pick up overnight. But making the past come alive in a well-restored portrait is worth the effort! Redditor thehatersalad applies his talents to a picture of redditor f2ISO100‘s grandmother in this time-lapse video. The work shown took 2.5 hours. Link