If you’re working on an image in Photoshop that’s cut into numerous sections, sometimes you find yourself needing to carefully align the different layers just by eye. Set one layer to the “difference” blend mode, though, and it’s infinitely easier. This video from Scott Kelby shows how it’s done. Read more…
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Use This Blend Mode in Photoshop to Perfectly Align Images
Have some vinyl you want to listen to anywhere in the house? The folks over at Mozilla (yes, that Mozilla ) wanted to find a way to get one record player to stream audio throughout the entire office. Their solution was a Raspberry Pi. Read more…
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Stream Music from a Record Player to Any Computer In the House With a Raspberry Pi
Look, I didn’t want to write this. Centipedes have too many legs and they move so quickly and it’s all just fucking nasty and wrong. Read more…
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Somebody Tested How a Centipede Moves Because Of Course They Did
Behold the U.S.S. Discovery, designation NCC-1031. What’s really cool is that it’s based on concept art the legendary Ralph McQuarrie did for the first Trek motion picture. See it in action in the show’s first teaser! Read more…
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The New Star Trek TV Show Has a Title and a Starship: Discovery
I think the moral of the story (to my peasant ears, at least) in comparing a $5000 Martin D-42 guitar vs a $150 Motion TD-107 guitar is that if you know how to play the guitar, you can make any damn thing with strings sound good. But if you have better ears for audio quality than me, listen to Paul Davids compare the two guitars and see if you can hear the difference in sound. And if you can, is it worth $4850? Read more…
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What’s the Difference Between a $5000 Guitar and a $150 Guitar?
Refrigerated pasteurized milk typically lasts about two to three weeks before turning into a wretched hive of scum and villainy. A new process developed by researchers at Purdue University extends the shelf life of milk up to 63 days—and without the benefit of added chemicals. Read more…
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This Milk Lasts Up to Nine Weeks Without Spoiling
Remember 2001? Neither do I. But as best I can tell, it was a raucous time for people to get on the ‘net (that’s what people called the internet in olden times). And if you were confused about where to start, there were plenty of VHS tapes available to help navigate this brave new world—like Computer For Grannies , a bizarre artifact that I recently stumbled across at my local library. Read more…
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This Old ‘Computer For Grannies’ Video Is My New Favorite Movie
Keven McAlester’s short film which compares Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill in the 1940s to today using perfectly synced footage is the closest thing we can get to experiencing legitimate time travel . Read more…
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Perfectly Synced Side-by-Side Video Compares 1940s Los Angeles to Today
Neuroscientists working on the Human Connectome Project have compiled the most accurate map yet of the human cerebral cortex. The researchers identified 180 distinct areas of the brain’s outer layer—effectively doubling the previous number of known regions. Read more…
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Crazy Detailed Brain Map Finds Nearly a Hundred New Regions
Ever wonder why your highlighters glow in the dark? How about glow sticks at a rave? Our world is full of glowing objects that awe us even into adulthood, and their existence is easily explained. Read more…
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Fluorescence Is Like A Rave At the Molecular Level