Look, there’s no way this trailer is safe for work, filled as it is with exploding human bodies. In fact, it’s probably not properly called a “trailer,” as there’s no way this version would make it into movie theaters unedited. Instead consider it a preview to a movie that by rights should be horrible, yet [...]

Los Angeles’ Griffith Park burned earlier this year; photographer Colin Brown traveled through the park and shot some amazing pictures, including one fantastic shot of a deer caught in a tree, its skeleton held aloft by its antlers.
After the Griffith Park Fire Set [Flickr]

Be advised: if you are not a buxom cheesecake model, you should not emulate every wriggle and slide in this HOWTO video.
Safe for work, sort of. Just explain that they made you wear a pressed shirt, so this is on-the-job training.
[via Complex]

All times Eastern.
• 6PM, Discovery Channel - How It’s Made: Wheel loaders; vegetable oil; hand tools; cotton swabs.
• 6PM, Science Channel - How It’s Made: Winter jackets; animation; mushrooms; gold rings.
• 6PM, History Channel - Modern Marvels: Failed Inventions. A retrospective of history’s failed inventions includes profiles of the dreamers who created them; and a [...]

The problem with coupons is two-fold: they make you buy things you don’t need; they’re never available for the stuff you want. Coupon site “Retail Me Not” has some useful tools to make coupons more convenient—I might even start using coupons again.
First of all, you can search their coupon database by URL. Want to see [...]

Because you never know when you might have to do a high kick into the face of the checkout girl who won’t take your coupons, Chuck Norris Action Jeans “won’t bind your legs.” Of course, you might want to skip the slick-bottomed cowboy boots, unless you’re Chuck Norris, who does not interface with friction like [...]

All times eastern
• 6PM, Discovery Channel - How It’s Made: Ropes; billiard tables; sailboards; cymbals.
• 6PM, National Geographic - Hooked! Monster Fish: Large fish are spotlighted. Included: the Mekong catfish, marlin and other bait fish. Also: anglers’ techniques for catching big fish.
• 6PM, Discovery HD - Really Big Things: Swing Bridge. Host Matt Rogers checks [...]

Don’t take too much of what I’m about to say about these floating Dutch “Capsule Hotel” units as gospel, as my information is gleaned primarily from a Google translated German information page. As far as I can tell, these are “survival modules” from the ’70s, original designed for shipboard usage, which have been converted into [...]

Going to war over oil is pretty horrible—I think we’d all rather just find a way to live without the constant infusion of oil. But going to war over beer? I am already packing my bags.
Mamand Mamandy, a Kurdish Iranian who sought asylum to Norway in ‘99, was back in Iran visiting his mother when [...]

All times Eastern.
• 6PM, Discovery Channel - How It’s Made: Springs; pavers; pianos.
• 6PM, History Channel - Man, Moment, Machine: Al Capone & the Machine Gun Massacre. The 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, orchestrated by Al Capone and executed with the use of the Thompson submachine gun, is recalled. Host: Hunter Ellis.
• 6PM, Science Channel [...]

I’m heading out to New Jersey today to interview Richie Kohler for a piece about deep sea diving, so I’ll probably be gone for most of the day. Suck it up.
But I leave you with this topic of discussion, should you choose to accept it: Someone I know recently commented that he’d been thinking about [...]