Website Helps Icelandic Couples Avoid Incest
Sumitra, odditycentral.com

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In a coun­try with only 300,000 peo­ple, the risk of two peo­ple who like each other being relat­ed is quite high. Throw in the absence of last names, and the con­fu­sion only increas­es. This is pre­cise­ly the case in Ice­land today.…

The Great Nintendo Family Portrait
Jonathan Fallon, nerdapproved.com

Luis Car­rasquil­lo cre­at­ed this amaz­ing work of art which fea­tures basi­cal­ly every major Nin­ten­do hero ever. Check out the full image after the break, and if you find your­self need­ing some assis­tance iden­ti­fy­ing char­ac­ters, you ca…

Father Videotapes Children Coming Down Stairs on Christmas Morning, for 25 years
Sumitra, odditycentral.com

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Every fam­i­ly has its own tra­di­tions for Christ­mas, birth­days, anniver­saries and other spe­cial occa­sions. Writer Nick Con­falone recent­ly shared on YouTube, a par­tic­u­lar­ly endear­ing tra­di­tion fol­lowed by his dad dur­ing…

Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers
Elinor Mills, cnet.com

This is the Visa debit card Face­book is giv­ing to some secu­ri­ty researchers for report­ing bugs.

(Cred­it: Face­book)

A few com­pa­nies pay money to bug hunters. But Face­book is giv­ing out some­thing more unique than just a check. Some…

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Portal Xmas tree
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

Some unknown genius (pos­si­bly red­di­tor Tmyakal) cre­at­ed this insane­ly great Portal-themed Christ­mas Tree that presents the illu­sion of a tree being shoved through one of the inter­di­men­sion­al por­tals in the kick ass Valve game.

A Ve…

The Large Hadron Collider In LEGO Is Just As Baffling As The Real Thing
Jonathan Fallon, nerdapproved.com

Using 9,500 LEGO bricks over a 33 hour peri­od, Sascha Mehlhase cre­at­ed this 1:50 scale model of the ATLAS exper­i­ment at the CERN Large Hadron Col­lid­er. The project cost rough­ly $2614 and mea­sures 1m x 0.5m x 0.5m in size.

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Luke Plunkett, kotaku.com

You know why the PlaySta­tion took off in the mid-90s? Because it was cool. And noth­ing on the PlaySta­tion was cool­er than Wipe­Out.

Vanity Fair’s Year in Photos, 2011
By Vanity Fair, vanityfair.com

Jonathan Fallon, nerdapproved.com

Although there have been pre­vi­ous info­graph­ics chron­i­cling Doc­tor Who’s com­pan­ions, the exhaus­tive and enor­mous exam­ple after the break goes fur­ther than any we’ve pre­vi­ous­ly seen, cov­er­ing the com­plete series (even prior to the…

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