| The Colbert Report ends on Thursday, as host Stephen Colbert gears up to become the next host of The Late Show. But for those of us who never made it into the studio audience, Google is offering a tiny silver lining. Adding to its Google Maps Street ... | | | | | | LOS ANGELES — Here it is: the 28 seconds of The Interview that enraged North Korea, and may have doomed the film to oblivion. The scene is the film's climax, and it's funnier if you know the background: Earlier in The Interview , James Franco's character Dave Skylark bonds with Kim Jong-un over their mutual love of Katy Perry — particularly the song "Firework" — as they drive around in the supreme leader's personal tank SEE ALSO: 'The Interview' is over: How a threat in broken English knocked Sony out But Skylark later comes to realize that the dictator is truly evil and, in the midst of a chaotic showdown, jumps in the tank as a means to escape. With Kim's military helicopter bearing down on him, Skylark takes aim at the aircraft from the tank's turret. As he lets the shell fly, we hear dramatic strains of "Firework" firing up. The rest you can see, below — at least until Sony gets around to pulling the video down: Read more... More about Movies , Entertainment , Film , Kim Jong Un , and Sony Hack | | | | | | When it was installed on the western span of San Francisco's Bay Bridge, the jaw-dropping public art installation "The Bay Lights" was only slated to stay lit for two years The 1.8-mile, 25,000 LED light sculpture — which officially lit up in March 2013 — was installed as a temporary piece to celebrate the bridge's 75th anniversary. Now, after a successful two-month fundraising campaign, the sculpture will become a permanent fixture. See also: Poop map shows scale of San Francisco's human tragedy The nonprofit Illuminate the Arts announced Wednesday that it has raised a whopping $4 million (including a $2 million matching grant by a local philanthropist) to keep "The Bay Lights" as a permanent installation Read more... More about San Francisco San Jose , Us World , Us , and Bay Lights | | | | | | A Texas plumber was left bewildered after a truck he sold last year resurfaced this week — in the hands of Syrian rebels. One of Mark Oberholtzer's old work trucks appeared in a photo tweeted by a Syrian rebel group, prompting an influx of threatening phone calls to the plumber. See also: The barber, the baker, the plumber: Syrian children on the job His truck, with its original decal for "Mark 1 Plumbing" and a phone number for the business, is reportedly being used by the militant group to transport an anti-aircraft gun. The original tweet, below, was posted to an account associated with the Jabhat Ansar al-Din militant group based in Syria. Oberholtzer traded in his truck to a Texas dealership that then placed it up for auction in 2013. Read more... More about Texas , Syria , Us World , World , and Aleppo | | | | | | Prosthetic technology has made huge leaps in recent years, but the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is pushing it into Six Million Dollar Man territory Scientists recently equipped double amputee Les Baugh with a pair of Modular Prosthetics Limbs (MPL) that he controls with his mind. But it wasn't easy for Baugh, a Colorado man who lost both arms in an electrical accident nearly 40 years ago. Surgeons at Johns Hopkins essentially had to wake up dead nerves, and reassign others in Baugh's chest, so he could control the arms through his nerves. The process of "re-enverating" was, as Baugh said in the above video, quite painful. Read more... More about Robots , Tech , Gadgets , Prosthetic , and Prosthetics | | | | |
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