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Brett Gardner took some friendly fire today in the Bronx as a fan attempted to throw back a fourth-inning home run ball off the bat of José Bautista and succeeded in drilling the Yankees outfielder in the back of the skull. [YES] To contact the author of this post, write to tim@deadspin.com (PGP key) or…
Vibrating, Bluetooth-enabled, custom-fit and applicator friendly? Yep, the condom game has changed. The latest in condom innovations is the VA w.o.w. Condom Feminine, a latex female condom that comes equipped with a miniaturized bullet vibrator in its frame base. Sitting snugly against the clitoris, the vibrating condom, created by IXu, would be the first-ever condom designed…
Last night, a security company released surveillance footage purportedly showing some of the final minutes of Christian Taylor, the Angelo State football player shot and killed by police in Arlington, Texas on Friday.http://deadspin.com/angelo-state-f… The new video appears to largely corroborate the police account of the moments preceding Taylor’s death, showing a man wandering around a…
Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four has been getting hammered this weekend—at the box office, by critics, and by audiences. The question everyone’s asking is: was the material bad from the get-go? Or did studio interference make this a bomb before it was even filmed? Earlier this weekend, Trank tweeted out that the movie that he envisioned…
The video “Pantone Pixels,” published in 2011, was an independent art project that used a swath of colors to illustrate a picture of the creator’s parents. Last week, Vimeo took it down. Turns out it was too similar to “Pixels,” a 2015 movie starring Adam Sandler. A reasonable human being might wonder what a tiny…
LGBT activists are calling for a boycott of Stonewall, Roland Emmerich’s film about the riots that are often cited as the beginnings of the gay rights movement, after claims that the director has “whitewashed” the protest, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The trailer for the film, which is being touted as a potential Oscar contender,…
On Friday night, frequent Fox news analyst and founder of RedState, Erick Erickson, announced that he had disinvited Donald Trump from a RedState gathering in Atlanta this weekend, citing sexist comments made by Trump about Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly. “I have tried to give a great deal of latitude to Donald Trump in…
Superhero movies have tried hard to leave behind some of their Silver Age comic-book trappings in the past decade. We’ve seen darker, grimmer versions of Superman and other heroes—but the new Fantastic Four reboot goes beyond darkness, into actual self-loathing. It’s kind of bizarre. Fantastic Four seems honestly mortified to exist. This movie’s central storyline…
Roomba has a new friend. Researchers have developed a robot that can help clean the kitchen. In a paper presented at Robotics Science and Systems in Rome in July, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison describe how they taught a Kinova Mico robot arm to help people do the dishes. The key, apparently, is slowing…
Courtesy of Marvel (Evans, Pratt); Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures (Cooper); From Moviestore/Rex/Rex USA (Taylor-Johnson). The lack of equality in talent behind the cameras in Hollywood has been at the center of conversation many times this year. And while we know that kind of inequality bleeds into the stories we see in front of the…