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Everything You Need To Celebrate the First Inaugural National Jerky Day

You may not have realized it, but today is the first inaugural National Jerky Day. And sure, it might be nothing more than a publicity stunt cooked up by Jack Links to sell more product, but we’re ok with that. Because dammit, beef jerky deserves more recognition. So here’s everything you’ll to need to celebrate…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Are we living in the Golden Age of Trash Culture right now?

We often tend to think that the best era for trash culture was sometime in the middle of the Twentieth Century. An era where there were a lot of 25 cent paperbacks with gun-toting lesbians on their covers, plus drive-in movies, stag films, cheap comics and weird burlesque shows. And so on. But actually, the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

How the Most Accurate Clocks in the World Work

Atomic clocks are super accurate, but do you know how they work? Probably not! Well, unless you know about quartz vibrations regulated by Cesium energy states at the atomic level, which are separated by magnets and ovens. But assuming you don’t know that stuff, here’s the engineerguy Bill Hammack explaining how these clocks work, and…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Soon You’ll Be Able to Buy Stuff With Your TiVo Remote

Thanks to a new partnership between PayPal and Tivo, you could be ordering Girls Gone Wild DVDs Shamwows at the click of your TV remote as soon as this fall. There’s just one glaring question, who asked for this? The proposed system, as reported by Bloomberg, would enable TiVo Premiere owners to make political donations…

Television Michael Zhao

This Old Fashioned Snow Cone Maker Is Your Sweet-Revenge Deal of the Day

You remember it too well: 38 years ago you were walking merrily down the street, snow cone in hand, waiting for it to melt—just a little—just enough, so it’s soft and juicy. And then what happened? Big, mean Karl Hanover came along and knocked it out of your hands, spilling it onto your penny loafers.…

Tech News J.D. Levite

New Terry Pratchett Novel is a Series of Tubers

Sir Terry Pratchett first came up with the idea of the Long Earth multiverse back in 1986. He set it aside to focus on Discworld. The 75 million copies sold of those wildly popular fantasy novels would indicate that this was a pretty good idea. Even the Queen of England agrees. As uncomfortable as it…

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How the Hell Is This Piece of Crap a Real Product?

Gawker alumnus Matt Cherette makes a good point: how could this “Forgot Your Password?” notebook be a real product? Unless you are an engineer at LinkedIn, who is going to spend $4.29 in this piece of crap? [Tumblr]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Set of disembodied lungs found lying on L.A. sidewalk

So this is weird. Even by Los Angeles standards, this is really weird. A pair of lungs has been discovered on a sidewalk on the city’s southside, and officials still aren’t sure where (or who/what) they came from. According to the L.A. Times: Coroner’s officials said Monday they will examine what appears to be a…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

A Close Look at the Kryptonian Suits from Man of Steel

Here’s the suit that Superman’s dad wears in Zack Snyder’s new Superman movie Man of Steel. On display at the Licensing Expo were the costumes for Jor-El (played by Russell Crowe), General Zod’s evil henchwoman Faora (Antje Traue), and Superman (Henry Cavil). The detail is pretty impressive, and also very “alien” in a great way.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

All the New HD Wallpapers from the Latest OS X Mountain Lion Beta

The new MacBook Pro retina screens look crazy good, but you need pretty stuff to look at on it, too. At the very very very least, that means nice-looking wallpaper. Here’s what Apple’s got loaded up in the Mountain Lion beta so far. There are 34 options in all, at 3200×2000 resolution, and you can…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

New Twitter Feature Shows What’s Trending Just Among People You Follow

The Trending topics you’re used to seeing on Twitter are organized by place—a city, a region, or worldwide. But now the company is making them a little more specific, with Tailored Trends. This new feature will offer topics based on the people you follow as well as your location. It begins a gradual rollout today,…

Tech News Leslie Horn

This Spoiler-Filled map tracks the travels of every major character from A Song of Ice and Fire!

This is what you get when you take the most detailed speculative map of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series (a map Martin himself called “very handsome”) and combine it with a scrupulous account of the characters’ travels throughout the series. Reader, prepare yourself — this thing is epic (and…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

15 Incredible Long Exposures Made Even Longer

We already know that one long exposure photo can be incredible. But what if you stack multiple long exposures, combining their perspectives in Photoshop? You cover more time, you can see more light. And the effect is remarkable. Winner – Night Landscape This was taken in the high mountains above Los Angeles. High enough, thankfully,…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello gives us the scoop on Orchid, his dystopian science fiction comic

Tom Morello has famously lent his axe-slinging skills to such acts as Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and his one-man band The Nightwatchman. But for his Dark Horse Comics series Orchid, Morello has traded pyrotechnics on a Fender Bassman for a simple pen. The guitarist told io9 his plans for this post-apocalyptic rebellion tale, which…

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Controversial fertility treatment requiring three genetic parents given thumbs up

A number of years ago we reported on how a “three-person IVF” procedure could be used to stop serious conditions from being passed from mother to child. The prospect caused serious concern among many scientists and ethicists. But now the BBC is reporting that a bioethics council is green-lighting the treatment. To review, scientists are…

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Record Labels Are Paying Students to Narc on Students Who Pirate Music

If you’re still pirating music, stop. It’s illegal and wrong and stealing and bad and yadda yadda. But it’s also dangerous because you don’t even know who you can trust anymore. There is no honor amongst thieves, record labels are using a task force of students to hunt down other students who pirate music. EMI,…

Tech News Casey Chan

MacBook Air 2012 Teardown: Same Skinny Body, New Beefy Guts

Sure the new MacBook Air is a fraternal twin of the last few versions, but it’s got some nice new guts that are showing up in Apple products for the first time, like the MagSafe 2. As usual, iFixit’s ripping the new machine to shreds. They’re not quite done with the teardown yet, but so…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Best iOS 6 Features Nobody Is Talking About (Updated)

iOS 6, your cup runneth over. The new future brain of your iPhone and iPad is lovelier than ever, and chock full of new features worth gabbing about. But what about the unsung stuff? Here are the coolest quiet additions. Wake up to a song Marimba gets a little stale. Now you can select any…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Tim Cook Isn’t Steve Jobs—So What?

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook should be happy. Yesterday’s Apple show-n-tell was the most important since the original iPad’s introduction—an action-packed gangbang of hot new hardware and shiny software updates, rather than the snooze fests that were starting to become the norm even when Steve Jobs was on stage. In just 90 minutes, Apple drenched the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

$60 Wireless Remote Controls Your 5D Mark III On the Cheap

When photography calls for a stable tripod a remote shutter release is a must-have accessory. But you’ve already given Canon thousands of dollars for a fancy DSLR; why spend almost $700 on its official wireless remote when Satechi’s does the same thing for just $60? For a fraction of the cost of Canon’s offering, the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Everything You Need To Celebrate the First Inaugural National Jerky Day

Are we living in the Golden Age of Trash Culture right now?

How the Most Accurate Clocks in the World Work

Soon You’ll Be Able to Buy Stuff With Your TiVo Remote

This Old Fashioned Snow Cone Maker Is Your Sweet-Revenge Deal of the Day

New Terry Pratchett Novel is a Series of Tubers

How the Hell Is This Piece of Crap a Real Product?

Set of disembodied lungs found lying on L.A. sidewalk

A Close Look at the Kryptonian Suits from Man of Steel

All the New HD Wallpapers from the Latest OS X Mountain Lion Beta

New Twitter Feature Shows What’s Trending Just Among People You Follow

This Spoiler-Filled map tracks the travels of every major character from A Song of Ice and Fire!

15 Incredible Long Exposures Made Even Longer

Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello gives us the scoop on Orchid, his dystopian science fiction comic

Controversial fertility treatment requiring three genetic parents given thumbs up

Record Labels Are Paying Students to Narc on Students Who Pirate Music

MacBook Air 2012 Teardown: Same Skinny Body, New Beefy Guts

The Best iOS 6 Features Nobody Is Talking About (Updated)

Tim Cook Isn’t Steve Jobs—So What?

$60 Wireless Remote Controls Your 5D Mark III On the Cheap

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