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Lady Wasteland Kicks Ass After the Apocalypse

Tonight a new post-apocalyptic Web TV show launches with a bang — or maybe that’s a whimper. Lady Wasteland tells three interconnected stories about life after a mysterious force brings down civilization. There won’t be any guys in tankers searching for spam here. Show creators Mark Rouche and Greg Demchek say they were inspired by…

Television Annalee Newitz

‘X-Files 2’ Seeks Alien Gynecologist

Sides for the X-Files movie sequel surfaced on the web today, and they’re casting for the part of a gynecologist who likes to stick alien fetuses into women. While we’re all for more Mulder and Scully finally getting it on, we sure hope Scully doesn’t end up with one of these things in her uterus.

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Freakishly Huge Algae Bloom in London

Massive algae blooms killed seals, birds and sea lions on the California coast earlier this yea because algae exudes a toxin called domoic acid. When these blooms got out of control, aquatic animals would ingest the toxin because the fish they eat had been nibbling on these super-blooms. But those algae blooms were nothing compared…

io9 Annalee Newitz

By Whose Command?

Rejoice, forward-thinking collector dorks! Diamond Select Toys has put out a Santa-worthy sampling of oh that fucking word again! reimagined Battlestar Galactica action figures. There’s just one glaring omission. There are no Adm. Adama, and no President Laura Roslin. Lee “Apollo” Adama and Starbuck, of course. Caprica Six and Adm. Cain, yes indeedy (and gods…

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Lost is for Right-Wingers

Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain are fans of J. J. Abrams’ hit TV show Lost, about a bunch of airplane crash survivors led by a rugged white dude and menaced by semi-supernatural forces ambiguously associated with French people. [SyFy Portal]

Television Annalee Newitz

What to Wear to Motorama of Tomorrow?

Nine minutes of kitschy delight set at GM’s Motorama, the 1956 video “Design for Dreaming” conclusively proves that the future is an all singing, all dancing extravaganza of old-fashioned girliness. Repeat after me: “Girls don’t go to Motoramas/Dressed in a pair of pink pajamas.” And what do they wear? A ball gown! Watch the movie…

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Black Dossier: Better If You Don’t Read The Words

With the release of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier, writer Alan Moore continues his one man mission to make comics full of sex and violence into extraordinarily boring lectures about classic literature and the importance thereof. It wasn’t always like this, of course; Moore’s earlier work demonstrated not only a command of…

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What To Do With That Spare $400 Burning A Hole In Your Pocket

Yes, that really is a lifesized, wearable, brass-plated replica of Iron Man’s helmet. And if gold doesn’t work with your winter color scheme, it’s okay; it comes in silver as well. Iron Man Gold Helmet [Windlass Studios]

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Helium Leaking Out of the Ground in Nevada

Massive quantities of helium were discovered leaking out of the ground in Nevada. This mysterious gas emission is even stranger because usually geologists only see this kind of thing near volcanoes. Is Nevada about to become a volcanic hellhole? [Discovery News] 10,000-year-old trees were discovered during a construction project on a farm in Michigan. They…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Tate Modern’s Innovative Crack

Colombian artist Doris Salcedo thought she was doing good for humanity when she created Shibboleth, an installation consisting of a giant crack that cuts through the pavement in front of London’s Tate Modern. The crack, made with concrete and steel mesh, is intended to represent the fragility of the ideologies carrying the Western world. Now…

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It’s Not Our Leaked Concept Art, But We Own It (Sorta Maybe)

Following the excitement and outrage that greeted the “leaked” concept art from James Cameron’s upcoming-two-years-from-now Avatar movie, Fox have announced that the leaked concept art is not only not impressive, it’s also not real. But if it’s really a fake, then why did Fox release cease-and-desist letters to sites carrying the image earlier this week?…

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Max Headroom Returns, Looks Fugly

Max Headroom screams 1980s louder than a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers and Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love,” but the BBC is bringing him back. The intervening years have not been kind to him, to say the least. Max Headroom was originally born as a video-jockey on the BBC’s Channel 4, and starting this Saturday he’ll be…

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Cloverfield Monster Is Free Willy With Pubic Lice

The monster in the J.J. Abrams-produced Cloverfield movie has had everyone speculating about what it could be. For months people have been wondering if this was a new Godzilla movie, a return of the Loch Ness monster, or something more sinister. We’ve found out that it is a lot more sinister than that. In fact,…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Give Me Some (Artificial) Skin

In Patrick Süskind’s 1985 novel Perfume, a psychotic perfumer goes to murderous lengths to create the ultimate scent. He kills a young woman to incorporate her natural smell into his latest cologne – and he is himself later ripped apart by people driven into a state of bloodlust by the power of his creations. But…

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Bionic Woman Fans With “Urgent” Ideas About Jeans

Is Bionic Woman the only show on TV that is disliked even by its own fans? A visit to NBC’s official message boards might make you think so, with threads bearing titles like “I want something different” and “PRODUCERS: you are KILLING this show.” Not that all of those dedicated enough to post to the…

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Cosmic Death Ray Hits Las Vegas

No, it isn’t a time-traveling Tesla aiming his Cosmic Ray at the city that hardly needs more electricity. This is from a lightning storm two days ago in Las Vegas. Getty Image by Ethan Miller.

io9 Annalee Newitz

Children Are a Sinister Threat to the Future

The latest craze among environmentalists is killing children by not having them. These people are appalled by the huge carbon footprint kids leave behind. Think of all the consumer electronics devices they’ll use up and throw away, not to mention all those gallons of gas parents use to ferry their little carbon emitters to toxic…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Pi Meets Cube In Fermat’s Room

A new Spanish film features four rival scientists struggling to solve logic puzzles before the walls of the room they’re trapped in squish them into jelly. Fermat’s Room combines elements of Pi (brilliant new untried math theorems) with Cube (deadly rooms that’ll kill you unless you figure out the puzzle) in this new movie that’ll…

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Leia Follows In The Family Business

Really, any attempt at an explanation wouldn’t be as fun as what you’re already imagining. Harry Potter Does Drag for Manilla Gay Bar [Towleroad]

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New Enterprise Will Look Like Old Enterprise

Fanwankers, unclench: The Enterprise won’t look much different in the new Star Trek movie, except for a “grittier metal texture.” And J.J. Abrams has been shooting desert scenes that could be the birth of Spock. [IESB] Sean Connery’s son will direct an action-thriller about an elite army team who must rescue a scientist from the…

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Lady Wasteland Kicks Ass After the Apocalypse

‘X-Files 2’ Seeks Alien Gynecologist

Freakishly Huge Algae Bloom in London

By Whose Command?

Lost is for Right-Wingers

What to Wear to Motorama of Tomorrow?

Black Dossier: Better If You Don’t Read The Words

What To Do With That Spare $400 Burning A Hole In Your Pocket

Helium Leaking Out of the Ground in Nevada

Tate Modern’s Innovative Crack

It’s Not Our Leaked Concept Art, But We Own It (Sorta Maybe)

Max Headroom Returns, Looks Fugly

Cloverfield Monster Is Free Willy With Pubic Lice

Give Me Some (Artificial) Skin

Bionic Woman Fans With “Urgent” Ideas About Jeans

Cosmic Death Ray Hits Las Vegas

Children Are a Sinister Threat to the Future

Pi Meets Cube In Fermat’s Room

Leia Follows In The Family Business

New Enterprise Will Look Like Old Enterprise

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