When we see Nigerian princes or weird links or invasive people who want to much personal information pop up in our e-mail inbox, we immediately know that they're scams. It's part of the Internet. But what if it was a part of real life too? It would be absolutely terrifying to see online scams and viruses as people.

Hapstance Films created the short 'The Inbox' and even when you think you're clear of all scams and viruses, one will always sneak right in. [Hapstance Films]

We heard last year that HBO had greenlit a dark, single camera Silicon Valley comedy show pilot by Mike Judge (Office Space) but with the blink and you'll miss it nature of TV pilots, you never know what's going to happen until it hits the airwaves. Well, it's going to air. Deadline reports that HBO has picked it up and ordered a series.

The pilot starred TJ Miller, Thomas Middleditch, Josh Brener, Lindsey Broad, Amanda Crew, Angela Trimbur, Zach Woods and more. We don't know much about the show other than that it's by the Office Space guy (good), it's on HBO (even better) and it's not that stupid Bravo reality show (the best thing to not be). [Deadline]

The most iconic skyline in the world (or at least in America) would look completely different if it was on another world. On Venus, New York City would be a yellow haze, on Mercury would look glow in the dark, on Mars would make everything rusty and on Uranus and Neptune would totally obliterate the city.

Artist Nickolay Lamm (and friend of Gizmodo!) of StorageFront.com teamed up with astrobiologist Marilyn Browning Vogel to create this stunning series for Wired. His explanation for what NYC would look like on Mercury:

Mercury has but a thin envelope of gas that barely qualifies as an atmosphere. The inexorable solar wind continually strips the planet of any gases that might be captured or retained by gravity. The tenuous atmosphere consists primarily of hydrogen making the atmosphere transparent to the darkness of space and the withering radiance of the nearby Sun. The solar wind interacts with the planet’s magnetic field to blast columns of dust and charged particles up into the atmosphere that then become a comet-like tail, evident as the sparkling haze shown in the upper atmosphere. The landscape is perforated with impact craters and covered in volcanic dust, similar to Earth's moon.

You can see more of Lamm's work here. [Storage Front via Wired]

One of the most depressing things in the world: having a beer without a bottle opener. The carbonated deliciousness is looking at you through the glass, teasing you, popping your tastebuds. But of course, you don't need a bottle opener to open a beer. With the right amount of leverage, anything can open a bottle of beer. Just watch this video.

I remember using a park bench to open a bottle but ended up cracking it in half. Like most young pups who don't have access to such liquid gold at all times, I still drank it. But that's not even crazy enough for this video. People use skateboards, motorcycle wheels, golf clubs, guns, parrots, chainsaws, pizzas, helicopters and more to pop open a beer. You're going to be pretty thirsty after watching this video. [Clip Nation via The Awesomer]

Because Twitter wants to force lightning twice with self-imposed limitations on communication, Vine has been awkwardly limited to 6 seconds of video. But what does that 6 seconds mean? Could Vine promote Vine in 6 seconds? Could you explain what Vine is in 6 seconds? Is 6 seconds longer or shorter than you think?

The Kids Table Comedy poked fun of Vine's limitations by showing what would happen if Vine wanted to make a commercial about Vine using Vine. So meta! If you can't make a commercial about your product using your product, what do you have? [The Kids Table Comedy via Laughing Squid]

Wearing Google Glass might make you look weird but it's certainly a lot better than any of the prototypes that Google first tried out. Google Project Glass Staff Hardware Engineer Jean Wang showed off a slide revealing the earliest prototypes of Glass and they're a lot bulkier with open ribbons, chips, gigantic cameras and more. You'd look like a total robot wearing these.

Wang also revealed some of the first steps in creating Glass, which was not unlike to strapping cellphones to the side of your face and using literal helmet cams to get the same effect. Gotta love getting a behind the scenes look on what the future (hilarious how not futuristic it looks, though).

[Google Developers via @DannySullivan via Engadget]

The best thing about Google Glass might be its ability to give anyone a perspective they never see anymore. Whether it's the intensity of playing hockey or uh, the weirdness of being someone else in the shower, it's like a less obtrusive GoPro camera seeing what people's eyes see. This might be the best perspective though: a toddler.

Google Glass from the eyes of a toddler is just absolutely adorable. Chris Angelini attached Google Glass to his two-year-old and let his kid go wild with it. You can see the world as he sees it: fresh, curious, low to the ground and in desperate need of juice (preferably through a cup with a straw). It's so honest.

Angelini's two-year-old's reactions on Google Glass range from "Mom! Look at my cool glasses!" to "cool gwasses" to "I'm done. They're hot". It's nice to be a kid again and be just as amazed with apple juice, Lego, footballs and Google Glass. [Chris Angelini via Digg Videos]

TV show websites are notoriously bad and comically unreal yet I can't help but be charmed by their hilarious simplicity (and god awful horribleness). Can you imagine if there were giant flashing RED ALERT messages popping up at you? Or if hacking was as simple as just slapping the keys on the keyboard a few times? I want to exist in this world of fake websites.

This mash-up video, made by Slacktory and edited by Debbie Saslaw, shows off all the fake websites and apps that pop up on Doctor Who. Can you imagine if we lived with such horrible websites in real life? We'd probably be a lot more productive! As an aside, seeing CRT monitors kind of hurts my soul. Those things were ridiculous. [Slacktory]

A bicycle. An old jailbroken iPhone. Maybe used furniture. Some free dirt. Those are the type of things you expect to buy off Craigslist. You definitely don't expect a Mom to offer up her three-year-old son on the seedy but useful classifieds website. But that's just what Stephanie Redus did. She used Craiglist to get her son adopted by a new family.

The Craigslist ad stated:

Hi, I'm trying to adopt out my 3yr old son. I'm not in a good place in my life and don't feel like I can care for him properly but I don't know where to start. If you or know anyone who is interested in caring for him, please let me know. I'm a single mom and can't do this.

Thanks, Desperate.

If Redus, a 29-year-old single mother, didn't feel equipped to continue being a mother to her son, that's totally her decision to make. But to put the adoption alert out on Craigslist? Um. Yeah. The only thing worse would be if Redus tried to pawn him off at a Flea Market with old stamps, broken typewriters and handmade jewelry. It's clear that a woman who would do this to her son needs a bit of help.

Redus, who admitted to posting the ad, told the police that she has been depressed and suffers from anxiety but hasn't been taken her medication because... she's pregnant with another child. She's been charged with "advertising for placement of a child", which apparently is a misdemeanor (for now). The three-year-old is now in care with a relative as Redus awaits her day in court. [KTRK via Daily Dot]

Turning water into ice usually takes a lot of time. Not for this guy though, he magically turns liquid water into frozen ice. It's instantaneous! Seriously, just watch water get poured from the bottle and then freeze immediately. What kind of sorcery is this?

The trick is getting the water to just about freezing in the freezer. Grant Thompson, the mastermind behind the video, put an unopened bottle of water in the freezer for about an hour and a half to two hours to get the perfect temperature. Then after the water is supercooled, he pours the almost freezing water over ice and watches it immediately transform into ice as it touches the ice cube. It's a fun little trick that'll blow your friends minds. [Grant Thompson via The Awesomer]

You might think 30 seconds is pretty short. Your body doesn't though. In order to keep everything running, there's a lot of things going on in those 30 seconds. Like you'll make 72 million red blood cells! And shed 174,000 skin cells! And have 25 thoughts. The human body, what a wonderful thing. [BuzzFeed Video]

The Nohmul pyramid, which is one of the most important sites in northern Belize (near the Mexico border), didn't look as polished as what you imagine a pyramid to look like because it lacked "the even stone sides frequently seen in reconstructed or better-preserved pyramids". But still, if you're destroying something over a 100-foot tall that is clearly not man-made, you probably should ask for permission first.

Jaime Awe, head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, said:

"Just to realize that the ancient Maya acquired all this building material to erect these buildings, using nothing more than stone tools and quarried the stone, and carried this material on their heads, using tump lines. To think that today we have modern equipment, that you can go and excavate in a quarry anywhere, but that this company would completely disregard that and completely destroyed this building."

Apparently it's a common problem in Belize (the destruction of Maya sites for road fill) but no one has ever destroyed a pyramid so large before. There's a time and place to move forward from the past but if something is still standing from 2,300 years ago and you're just using it for road fill, um, you should find something else.

[AP, Image Credit: AP]

I don't know why I enjoy this quick little video so much but I've watched it over and over. It's probably because anything involving a taser is always hilarious unless you're the person the taser wants to involve. It's probably also because even though a taser can turn a grown man into a baby, it cannot do anything to a candle. I mean nothing. [YouTube via BoingBoing]

There's a tedious balance between using apps on your smartphone or just using the browser. Sometimes like in the case of Google Maps or The Weather Channel, apps are better. Other times when you're just dropping quickly into an online dictionary or a silly link, you just want to use the browser. The problem with that though is those stupid websites stupidly bombard you with stupid notifications to download their stupid app!

It's a pain in the ass when you have to come to a full stop because of an alert trying to get you to download their app instead of use their perfectly fine mobile website. Terence Eden feels your pain. He created the hilarious I Don't Want Your Fucking App tumblr to keep track of all the horrors of invasive app advertising. He explains:

Any modal message—full-screen or alert—that interrupts user flow to ask them to download your app suffers from #doorslam #ux antipattern.

I mean it's not unlike stepping into a store and getting bombarded with difficult to close pop up messages and impossible to avoid people pressuring you to sign yourself to the store's rewards card (that you have no intention of ever using). Or like walking into a restaurant and having the waiter stuff food down your mouth (actually that would be great, never mind). Do people really download these useless apps? Here's an example of how Eden tears down these silly notifications:

Dear Rotten Tomatoes, “Cancel to continue” - really?

Look, I’m trying to read a moview review quickly. I don’t want to have to piss about installing an app and then trying to find the fucking movie I was looking for in the first place.

I don’t want your fucking app.

Check out more hilarity here. Hopefully the companies who do this will realize that no one wants to download their app. Mobile websites are made for a reason! [I Don't Want Your Fucking App via The Next Web]

Right now, Google Glass is just a pair of weird looking specs that's pretty much only used to take blurry photos and Instagram selfies. And that's okay! The real promise is what comes next. Developers have been getting their hands on Google Glass and have begun to see what they can build with it. It's the base for the future.

Playground Inc. imagined what Google Glass would look like in the future. Not today's Explorer edition, but a concept of what it can be in a few years when wide ranging apps have been developed to take advantage of Glass' unique technology. It's not unlike comparing the iPhone today to what it first was way back in 2007 (a third party app-less phone that just showed you basic stuff like your calendar, the weather, photos, notes, etc.).

And though Glass will forever be easy to mock, it sure as hell looks like it'll give me a future I'll enjoy (other than that giving emergency CPR to your dad bit) . [Playground Inc]

Holy crap. You know in Grand Theft Auto when you're trying to destroy everything—cars, homes, the entire street—in your way while racking up as many police officers on your tail just for giggles? That actually happened in real life. A 51-year-old man went on a ridiculous rampage on his bulldozer destroying four homes, smashing cars and cutting power to thousands of people.

Barry Alan Swegle apparently was "highly agitated" at his neighbors and took his logging bulldozer to raze hell on his neighbors in Port Angeles, Washington. It looks pretty much like a war zone.

Neighbors suggest that Swegle went on his demolition streak with his International Harvester TD-25 because of a property line dispute that had been "brewing for some time". Swegle has been booked into county jail for first degree malicious mischief (which sounds like a pretty hilarious crime).

Just check out the destruction:

[Peninsula Daily News, Seattle Times via BoingBoing, Image Credits: AP]

After inspiring all of us on Earth, Commander Chris Hadfield and crew have finally re-joined us here. The Soyuz space capsule landed safely at 10:31 PM EDT in Kazakhstan. Hadfield had spent 144 days on the ISS, 2,336 orbits around the planet and totaled up around 62 million miles. That's a lot of miles!

The Soyuz capsule landed vertically, which is the preferred position. The crew, which includes Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield, NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, are back on Earth and reportedly all feeling good as they re-adjust to the gravity. Marshburn was one of the astronauts who performed the awe-inspiring emergency spacewalk to fix the leak of ammonia coolant two days ago.

The landing of the capsule comes a little over three hours since the capsule undocked from the ISS. It marks the end of the ISS' Expedition 35 Crew in space. The crew will head over to the medical tent to get all properly tested and fixed for normal Earth life. Or as normal life can be in the eyes of men who were in space.

Since 1958, 472 billion Lego bricks have been made. And even though most of those bricks are hardly bigger than your finger, 472 billion of anything is a ridiculous number. So what could you build with all the Lego bricks in the world? Surprisingly a lot. Like 74 Empire State buildings a lot.

There really needs to be more huge Lego structures in the world. Hell, there just needs to be more Lego in everyones life.

Imagine it, if 50,000 Lego bricks could create a 104-foot tall Lego Tower, 472 billion could practically build you a spaceship. Or a bridge to space. Of course, the Lego bridge might just end up crushing itself but hey, whatever, more Lego is always good.

[Movoto via DesignTAXI]