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It seems that the iPhone 5S' Touch ID sensor works with far more than just fingerprints. We've seen the iPhone 5S locked and unlocked with cat's paws, and now a video apparently shows a guy locking and unlocking the device with his nipples

In the genuine-looking video, published by Japanese site Rocket News, we see a male person successfully going through the process of registering "fingerprints" through the Touch ID sensor with his right nipple. Then, he proceeds to unlock the phone with it, and it works in less then a second

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In the last 10 years, 1,500 Americans died after taking too much of one of—nominally—the world's safest drugs: acetaminophen or, as you might know it, Tylenol. This viz goes a long way to explaining why that's the case.

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He's sort of like Plastic Man in that he can mold and shape his beard into anything. This isn't photoshopped. Incredibeard really did make his beard into a ramen bowl. You can see more photos of his heroic work at the link. Warning: clean-shaven men will leave his site feeling ashamed and inadequate.

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It's a pantsuit. The woman in this video bought it for $5. It's a life-changing experience, like finding the One Ring at a garage sale.

Can you handle it? Can you experience at this intensity?

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Today, my husband wanted me to "spice up" our sex life. I guess he didn't count on me vomiting when he came in my mouth. We won't be getting intimate again for a long, long time now. FML

Here's a supercut showing the last scene of movies you've probably seen before. And if you haven't seen these movies, well, then you can consider this compilation as an ultimate spoiler reel. Nearly 70 movie endings are in here, ranging from your favorite sci-fi movie like Tron, 2001 and Solaris to old greats like Rocky and ET and so much more. [Plot Point Productions]

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minty3 writes "Found in the Ocucaje Desert in southern Peru, the fossils belong to a group called Achaeocetes, or ancient whales, that possess both land and sea-dwelling characteristics. Over time, the ancient land animals adapted to water environments where their legs became fin-like and their bodies began to resemble modern sea mammals like dolphins and whales."

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This is exhibiting one of many properties of water, this picture in particular demonstrates that water is wet. 

Welcome to the new Dealhacker! Every day the Commerce Team, which now includes former Weekend Editor Shep McAllister, will be bringing you the best deals on the products, services, and apps we (and you) love. To be clear, we do make money if you buy something through our links. We definitely want your feedback! - Whitson Gordon

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The film Escape From Tomorrow delights in waving its junk right in Disney’s face, and the Mouse House, in an unusual move, seems willing to let that happen.

There’s been a lot of talk about the film since its Sundance premiere, and especially since the first official trailer premiered not long ago. The film was shot “illegally” (read: without corporate knowledge or approval) in Disney theme parks, and makes liberal use of registered Disney trademarks in a manner that isn’t at all consistent with Disney’s own use. There’s a Disney Princess prostitute, for example.

The marketing materials for the film (as seen above) also trade heavily in Disney iconography, to the point where a non-discriminating viewer could potentially mistake Escape From Tomorrow as a Disney product. OK, a very non-discriminating viewer.

So what’s up? Why hasn’t Disney slammed the hammer down on the movie? The answer is rooted in common sense and the Streisand Effect, but now there’s some unofficial talk backing up Disney’s strategy.

In short, the reason Disney is letting the film pass unmolested is that to do anything else would be to invite far more publicity than the movie is going to receive on its own. There will be a good amount of press when Escape From Tomorrow hits theaters in October, but it’s a small movie, meant for a niche audience, and a great many people will never know it exists.

Disney has rarely been shy about deploying legal muscle to stop infringement. Yet if Disney were to slap a lawsuit on the producers and/or distributor, or try to otherwise block the marketing or release, that would invite far more attention than Escape From Tomorrow is likely to receive on its own.

THR has a piece on the thinking over at Disney, and says,

A spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment, but a studio source says the strategy is to avoid giving Tomorrowattention that could lead to bigger box office. After all, The Weinstein Co. this year parlayed Warner Bros.’ objections to using the title The Butler, which Warners owns, into a mountain of media that put its film on the public’s radar.

All of which is exactly what people have guessed might happen over the course of the past nine months. But having a semi-official clarification of the Disney position is useful. Will this invite more people to try the same thing? Probably not. There can only be one Escape From Tomorrow, and now that it exists, the trick is used up. There’s not much value in being the second movie to film in Disney parks without permission.

You can read Peter’s account of the film from Sundance; I share most of his feelings, but I think I liked the movie a bit more overall than he did. A new, shorter cut is playing Fantastic Fest soon, and I’ll report on that when I get a chance to check it out. (The Sundance cut was a bit meandering; I’d expect the new cut to reign in that aspect, without trimming much of the weird Disney imagery that makes it an unusual experience.

• ‘Escape From Tomorrow’ Trailer: Walt Disney World as Hellish Nightmare Landscape
• First Poster for ‘Escape From Tomorrow’ Draws Blood From a Mouse
• Disney-Set Tale of Madness ‘Escape From Tomorrow’ Gets October Release
• ‘Escape From Tomorrow’: A Feature Film Shot in Disney Theme Parks Without Disney’s Permission [Sundance 2013 Review]
• Final Wave Of ‘Fantastic Fest’ Films Include ‘Escape From Tomorrow’ And ‘The Zero Theorem’

You know that scene in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind when they're scanning through Jim Carrey's playdoh-faced head, looking for bad memories to erase? A bunch of eggheads from MIT just figured out how to do that for real! Sort of. In all seriousness, though, the discovery is poised to do a lot of good for sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder.

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The Getty stock video used by producers to fill your screen with topical imagery is impossibly weird on its own. Seeing anything without sound is spooky and off-putting. But I'm laughing like I'm high as a kite at this compilation of stock videos that has been dubbed with sound. I can't be the only one who thinks this is hilarious.

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Gabe takes to LinuxCon to tease Linux hardware in the living room.

Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.

Gaze upon the work of Nick of DudeFoods. It is a glorious, but it is also sad. For what worlds are there now for Nick to conquer? He writes:

After all 43 sandwiches were finished and sitting at my table I got to work putting the McEverything together. I originally anticipated it only being a couple of feet high, but as you can see from the pictures it ended up MUCH taller than that. I took a few photos along the way as well just so the whole thing wouldn’t be a total waste if ended up tumbling over onto the floor before I finished stacking all the sandwiches on top of one another. Oh, and if you’re wondering how I held the entire thing together the answer is bamboo skewers… lots and lots of bamboo skewers….

At the link, you can see more photos and read the story of our hero's journey into greatness.

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All right, all right. It's obviously a viral campaign. But it's a dream of mine, so bear with me, mmkay?

New Zealand beer Tui commissioned a team of pranksters to route the plumbing of their friend's house so beer came out of every tap. Kitchen sink? Beer. Bathroom tap? Also beer. The guys wired their house with hidden cameras to catch the unsuspecting friend's reaction.

The friend, a man named Russ, came home with his wife and dog, and went to the kitchen. His wife noticed the kitchen tap dripping - but it wasn't water that came out. Rather, a dark and strange liquid ...

Now, you'd think that Russ' first instinct was to take a bath in beer (like the beer bath in the Starkenberger Brewery in Austria), but instead, he decided to investigate. Watch the man's reaction in this YouTube clip - Thanks Cole Stryker!

Well played, Kiwis. Now, when can you come to my house?

Oh, and if you think that my dream to have beer piped straight into the house is strange, just know that physicist Niels Bohr, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics, got Carlsberg to pipe beer straight from the brewery to his house. I don't know what's better, winning the Nobel Prize or having a perpetual supply of beer in the house.

Who wants to sift through a spreadsheet or massive lists of text? This is the 21st century, and as such we expect information to be presented to us in an entertaining and stylish manner. Enter: Pop Chart Lab's NES Nebula piece, which presents over 700 NES releases spanning 1984 to 1993.

Super Mario Bros. is represented in the middle, with every subsequent release spiraling out from the center. Just about every game you'd expect is represented here, including Ice Climber, Donkey Kong, Hogan's Alley, River City Ransom and so many, many more.

The Nebula of NES Games is 24" by 36" and comes either as a standalone print for $32, in a framed print package for $142, in a print mounted on panel for $92 or as a print with hanging rails for $62. Orders will begin shipping on September 20.

Travel to the Nebula of NES Games in this handy chart originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Saints Row 4's Super Dangerous Wub Wub Edition is currently $10 off at GameStop. Normally priced at $100, the special edition features in-game content like the Screaming Eagle VTOL, Uncle Sam uniform and 'Merica gun. The collector's pack also includes an eight-inch Johnny Gat Memorial Statue, a red doomsday button and 12-inch replica Dub Step gun.

The offer only applies to the PS3 and Xbox 360 special editions. PC owners aren't totally left out in the cold, as they can download the new Saints Row 4 DLC, the GAT V pack, for free on Steam for a (very) limited time.

Saints Row 4 Super Dangerous Wub Wub Edition discounted at GameStop originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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From A Hamburger Today

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So you've read our most recent ramen burger review and you perhaps are thinking of trying it out for yourself. What can you do?

Thus far my closest run-in with a ramen burger in the wild was at the San Francisco Street Food Festival a few weeks ago. I didn't actually get a chance to taste one due to the hour-long line, but considering that diners reported the end product being so-so, I don't think I missed out on much.

Instead, we're going to introduce ourselves to the domesticated version, the one that you can cook on your own stovetop so that you can come to your own conclusions about whether or not the concept is worth it.

Now, there are "ramen burgers" in which the ramen part replaces the beef, essentially becoming a noodle sandwich (check out the one they serve at Lotteria in Japan, for instance). But what we're talking here is a burger in which the buns are made from ramen. Frankly, it's a much more appealing concept, replacing one starch with another and adding a bit of Japanese flavor to the mix.

Most ramen burgers, like this one or this one, combine a seasoned, glazed burger patty with scallions and slip it into a bun made with ramen bound together with eggs and cooked on a flat-top. For my version, which starts with instant ramen, I replace the glaze with a bit of the seasoning mix from the packet, and forgo the eggs altogether, giving you a much more ramen-y bun.

The only tricky part is getting that bun to stay in shape. With egg-based versions, you shape the bun in the bottom of a plastic container, with the egg giving it enough structure to maintain that shape as you fry it. With my egg-free version, we've got to use a different approach. Pressing the noodles into the bottom of a can opened up on both sides and frying it in oil until the noodles bind together works perfectly.

Once the ramen patties are cooked, all you've got to do is cook the burger (seasoned with ramen packet seasoning, of course), top it, and eat. You can go Japanese with the toppings and use scallions and a sweet soy sauce, but for this version I decided to go a bit more Western.

Final verdict? As Erin mentioned, easting a ramen burger doesn't satisfy your craving for a burger or for ramen, leaving you doubly unsatisfied. It's a funny looking, mildly interesting novelty at best. Let's leave it at that, shall we?

About the author: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is the Chief Creative Officer of Serious Eats where he likes to explore the science of home cooking in his weekly column The Food Lab. You can follow him at @thefoodlab on Twitter, or at The Food Lab on Facebook.

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I guess the point here is to show that the steering system of a giant Volvo truck is super-responsive. It seems to me that could have been achieved by letting somebody obviously frail give it a go. But why would you do that when you can take apart a large fan, put a hamster in it, and motivate him with a carrot? Because that's totally something a non-crazy person would do. Clearly Muppet Chefs aren't the only Swedish folks who dream up strange concoctions. If you ever happen to have a hamster and a carrot handy, the following video could save your life... Continue reading "Steering a Truck With a Hamster and a Carrot, for Some Reason" >

You like Sriracha hot sauce, but you still have some questions, right? Thrillist has the answers, from how to pronounce it, where the rooster came from, how many Scoville units it has, and more facts that you didn't even know you needed, like how the company produced 20 million bottles a year. Link -via Foodbeast

(618): ANNA HAS DISCOVERED EROTIC FANFICTION OF SHARKNADO THIS IS NOT A DRILL.