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RockMelt, Craftsy, and More

This week’s best iPad apps are all about education. Even though many of these titles are kid-friendly, there is clearly no age limit on learning. We’ve got some old classics (from this century and beyond) and some new stuff too. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown : Stop right now and buy this for your…

Tech News Leslie Horn Oct 12 '12

Photoset, The Paris Review, and More

We have a bit of a high-brow edition of this week’s best iPhone apps. From an app that’ll teach you all about wine, to a stalwart lit mag, we’re flexing your brain muscle for you this time around. Photoset: Part of the beauty of Tumblr is the ability to share photos in simple sets. Unfortunately…

Tech News Leslie Horn Oct 12 '12

Zagat, Beat Bang, and More

We’re got all different kinds of titles for you in this round of the week’s best Android apps. From one that will help you settle on dinner, to another that will tell you when you need your umbrella, you’ll be all ready for the weekend. Beat Bang: Learn a little bit about electronic. Beat Bang…

Tech News Leslie Horn Oct 12 '12

Smallest Penis Gets Free iPhone 5

How far will you go to get a free iPhone 5? What about embarrassing yourself in front of your entire country claiming that you have the tiniest penis in your homeland? That’s the contest proposed by Singlesex.dk, a sex dating site in Denmark. Its owner, 45-year-old Morten Fabricius, has asked men to send photos of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 12 '12

Drugs Addiction vs Drug Control Spending: More Statistics Graphics Should Be Animated

I wish all statistical graphics were animated. They will not automatically become clearer or more illuminating, but many can benefit from it. Some a lot, some less—like like this comparison between drug addition and the money spent in the war on drugs. Watching something like this makes me think that perhaps we should follow the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 12 '12

Watch Rian Johnson’s somewhat darker pitch reel for Looper

Before Looper was blasting buckshots into time traveling mob victims, it was just an idea in the head of Rian Johnson. And you’d better believe he had to pitch the hell out of his time traveling mobster movie, so this is what he made. From Johnson’s Looper Movie site: This is a strange curiosity I…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 12 '12

CVS unwittingly accepts return of used enemas, re-sells them to customers

Everyone has a hobby. For Florida resident Ronald Eugene Robinson, that hobby used to involve going to his local CVS, buying a six-pack of enemas, using those enemas, carefully re-sealing said enemas in their original packaging, and then returning them “unopen and unused” to the CVS from whence they came. Robinson is believed to have…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 12 '12

Libratone Zipp Review: A Sweet-Sounding, Great-Looking Airplay Speaker That’s Easy to Use

There will be wireless speakers in the future. Whether they will use DLNA, AirPlay, or Bluetooth isn’t certain—none of those technologies are quite perfect yet. But some, like Libratone’s new Zipp AirPlay speaker, are very close. And it’s better the previous Libratone Live in nearly every way. What Is It? A $400 battery-powered AirPlay speaker…

Reviews Adrian Covert Oct 12 '12

The mysterious icy figures who haunt the Andes

These mysterious ice figures form only at high altitudes, and only under very specific conditions. In the Andes, they’re called “penitentes,” and fields of them can stretch for miles. If you’re an astronomer (as no doubt many of you will be) and walking through the high terrain in the Andes (as hardly anyone can avoid),…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 12 '12

Faux Loko Gummi Bears: Highly Caffeinated, Incredibly Alcoholic Candy. Yeah, Candy.

Do you remember when we taught you how to get really drunk off Gummi Bears? Of course you do. Kind of. And surely you recall our recipe for Faux Loko: The DIY Four Loko we shouldn’t have told anyone about? https://gizmodo.com/get-really-drunk-off-gummi-bears-5864703 Both were unforgettable, classic episodes of Happy Hour. Now, we just found a way…

Tech News Brent Rose Oct 12 '12

Probe data reveals a surface on Titan that’s soft, sandy, and fragile

Even though the Huygens probe landed on Titan back in 2005 and transmitted data for only about 90 minutes after touchdown, scientists have still been able to eke out information about Titan from the mission, squeezing all they can from the data. The latest information comes from reconstructing the way the probe landed — and…

io9 Nancy Atkinson - Universe Today Oct 12 '12

Big Theological Questions that Science Fiction Should Answer

We love it when science fiction gets cosmic. And some of science fiction’s greatest creators have proved, over the years, that science fiction doesn’t have stay away from big religious topics — as long as you avoid some basic mistakes. In fact, science fiction can say things about the nature of the universe, and the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Oct 12 '12

Report: Google’s One Step Closer to Being Hit with an FTC Anti-Trust Case

According to Reuters, top brass at the FTC is convinced it should bring an antitrust case against Google. The writing’s been on the wall since last year, but it looks like things could finally be coming to a head. The Reuters report says that four out of five FTC commissioners are convinced that Google used…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Oct 12 '12

Photographing Mountain Climbers Takes Balls—And Ladders—Of Steel

If you’re a photographer who covers extreme athletes like mountain climbers and wants to capture a moment from a unique angle, you’re probably willing to take some risks yourself. Like Corey Rich’s use of an incredibly precarious folding ladder tethered to the near vertical side of a mountain. Here’s to hoping he wasn’t working for…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 12 '12

Indisputable facts about the hedgehog, “mother nature’s cruelest predator”

For the weekend: what do the Big Bang, the enslavement of the human race and toilet paper rolls have in common? Hedgehogs. Yes, hedgehogs. Don’t ask, just watch; Ze Frank is about to hit you with some epic spiny, scrotum-y mammal knowledge. [Ze Frank via Laughing Squid]

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 12 '12

Jon Snow reveals how dark he’s going to go in the new season of Game of Thrones

Jon Snow will be eating, sleeping, and living with the enemy, in the upcoming season of Game of Thrones. But does that mean that we’ll be seeing a darker version of Eddard Stark’s bastard? We caught up with Jon Snow himself, Kit Harrington, who hinted at the terrible deeds we’ll be seeing beyond the Wall.…

Television Meredith Woerner Oct 12 '12

Sinister is good in ways you’d never guess

Sinister is a horror movie about a writer (Ethan Hawke) who wrote one bestselling true crime book, and has spent the rest of his adult life chasing the fame he once had. Ellison has carted his long-suffering family with him from crime scene to crime scene, trying to find another murder story that will make…

Movies Annalee Newitz Oct 12 '12

Does Grant Morrison know the secret of the Wu-Tang Clan?

At New York Comic Con, io9 met up with famed comic scribe Grant Morrison. We picked his brain about such topics as the RZA, Batman and Superman’s S&M games, and that time Wonder Woman built a sneaky sculpture of herself out of cured ham. First off, you recently announced that your DC Comics alternate reality…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Oct 12 '12

Finally, a Way To Make Virtual Reality Even Lamer

Standing around in an awkward set of motion tracking video goggles while tethered a computer makes virtual reality feel anything but real. You need to be able to move around to really get the virtual experience, which this bizarre sliding platform lets you do—kind of. Calling the Wizdisk a treadmill is a bit of misnomer…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Oct 12 '12

Amazon Lockers Review: The Drugstore Is Your New Mailbox

Say you are a man without a mailbox. You never receive anything you order online—either the mail carrier just can’t get it together or the building is so shitty that the neighbors would even swipe a birthday card. Amazon lockers just might save your delivery life. What Is It? A locker in a local grocery…

Reviews Leslie Horn Oct 12 '12

RockMelt, Craftsy, and More

Photoset, The Paris Review, and More

Zagat, Beat Bang, and More

Smallest Penis Gets Free iPhone 5

Drugs Addiction vs Drug Control Spending: More Statistics Graphics Should Be Animated

Watch Rian Johnson’s somewhat darker pitch reel for Looper

CVS unwittingly accepts return of used enemas, re-sells them to customers

Libratone Zipp Review: A Sweet-Sounding, Great-Looking Airplay Speaker That’s Easy to Use

The mysterious icy figures who haunt the Andes

Faux Loko Gummi Bears: Highly Caffeinated, Incredibly Alcoholic Candy. Yeah, Candy.

Probe data reveals a surface on Titan that’s soft, sandy, and fragile

Big Theological Questions that Science Fiction Should Answer

Report: Google’s One Step Closer to Being Hit with an FTC Anti-Trust Case

Photographing Mountain Climbers Takes Balls—And Ladders—Of Steel

Indisputable facts about the hedgehog, “mother nature’s cruelest predator”

Jon Snow reveals how dark he’s going to go in the new season of Game of Thrones

Sinister is good in ways you’d never guess

Does Grant Morrison know the secret of the Wu-Tang Clan?

Finally, a Way To Make Virtual Reality Even Lamer

Amazon Lockers Review: The Drugstore Is Your New Mailbox

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