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Use Google Images to Create a Language of Pictures

The Image Language, a new site that you’re about to waste your afternoon on, strings together images instead of words to make visual sentences. Type whatever you want into the box, and each word is instantly replaced by the first result of a Google Images search. Totally pointless, totally fun. From the project’s description: The…

Tech News Brent Rose

South Korea will remove evolution from its high school textbooks

It appears that the United States is not the only country having a hard time accepting evolution. According to a report in Nature, a South Korean creationist campaign has achieved victory in its efforts to see specific examples of evolution removed from high school text books. Their breakthrough is part of a larger campaign to…

io9 George Dvorsky

You Can Light Yourself on Fire If You Apply Sunscreen Right Next to Your Grill

Wear sunscreen. Slather it on. SPF 200 if you need it. But do not, in any circumstances, immediately walk over to an open flame, lest you want to end up like Brett Sigworth, who actually caught fire after putting it on because he got to close to his grill. Brett’s freshly-applied Banana Boat aerosol sport…

Health Leslie Horn

What Your Favorite Alien Movie Says About You

With Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel, Prometheus, around the corner, it’s time to look back and ask: What does your favorite Alien movie say about you? The answers may surprise you! Alien If the you’re a fan of the first Alien, you respond to the cold, dark world of the unknown. It drives you like the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

75 Reflective Photographs of Reflections

I have no idea why it’s so captivating. But capturing, not just an object, but its reflection is an effective photographic motif as old as photographs themselves. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you mastered the technique. Winner: Well-Manicured I was walking around in the city, and I happened to notice a really cool reflection…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Shooting Challenge: Reflection 1

So it was raining heavily for the last few days and I went out in search of puddles on the street to reflect something of from. The reflections always came out blurry because rain was falling on the water all the time. The solution of this problem – shoot under a bridge, which is what…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Shooting Challenge: Reflection 2

Funny story behind this picture… I was at Technical Crew (essentially the stage technicians for my school), and the Tech. Director runs in asking for someone with a camera to go outside. We all assumed there had been a car accident or something hilarious had happened, so we run outside to see what he was…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

An Important PSA On Why You Should Never Shoot Videos Vertically

It’s not quite as terrible a trend as using your massive tablet as your go-to camera, but smartphone users who shoot video in portrait mode run a very close second when it comes to annoying habits. Not only are the thick black pillarbox bars on either side of the video extremely annoying, but the human…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

In the 1920s, Stegosaurus had the ability to fly like a hang glider

In the August 15, 1920 edition of the Ogden, Utah’s Standard-Examiner, writer W.H. Ballou penned a paleontological assessment of the stegosaurus that had almost diddly to do with the established fossil record. Taking cues from the bird-like hips of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s Stegosaurus skeleton — and possibly the flying, plated dinosaurs…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Rule Your Office Kingdom With This $30,000 Game of Thrones Replica

Herman Miller’s line of office chairs might offer extreme comfort with proper ergonomics, but they’re lacking a certain something to ensure your co-workers cower at your feet. A certain something this $30,000 life-size Game of Thrones replica has in spades. The throne looks like it was formed from thousands of melted down swords taken from…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How to Tell if Your City is Dying

Detroit just took another huge step towards the abyss, with its proposal to turn off street lights across half the city. This is the nightmare scenario for anybody who loves a particular city: that one day, it’ll fail. Chances are, if you live in (or near) a city, you already worry over every little sign…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Your Facebook “Privacy Notice” Is Unenforceable Nonsense

If you have a Facebook account, you’ve likely seen your dull friends post some version of a “privacy notice” there recently. The idea is that posting it as your status will somehow prevent Facebook from, well, doing the things Facebook does with your information. It’s nonsense. Don’t be that person. Here’s the dumb block of…

Social Media Mat Honan

Airtime Is Just Chatroulette Without the Dicks

Airtime is a new startup by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning (of Napster fame) that recycles an old idea: Chatroulette. Yep, that random video chatting dickfest invented by some Russian teenager has seemingly been redressed in tailored suits and landscaped beards and is totally going to change the world. Joke. It’s Chatroulette buttoned-up, which means…

Tech News Casey Chan

How and When to Watch the Venus Transit Today

Unless someone discovers the fountain of youth in the next few decades, almost everyone alive right now won’t see another Venus transit after today’s. That’s why everyone is watching it, from astronaut Don Pettit at the International Space Station’s cupola to every telescope on Earth to a navy of space vessels in orbit. And you…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Nintendo’s Wii U Will Have Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon, and YouTube

Nintendo just announced at E3 that the Wii U would have Hulu Plus, Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube as content partners. It has a long way to go to catch up to the Xbox 360 as a content hub, but that’s a pretty nice start. [Kotaku]

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Man Lives in His Own Private 727 in the Woods

If you’ve ever seen the movie Alive, you know how uncomfortable it can be living in the fuselage of a passenger jet. But one man seems to have made it work with his very own Boeing 727 that he calls home. CNN reports on one Bruce Campbell, a mild-mannered Oregonian who purchased a 1969 Olympic…

Tech News Michael Hession

Astonishing Time-Lapse Video of a Fruit Fly Embryo Developing

A new microscope called the Multi-View SPIM, or MuVi-SPIM for short, is allowing scientists to take unprecedented images of rapid biological processes, at a level of detail we’ve never seen before. And to show off the power of this new microscope, the developers have released an incredible time-lapse video of a fruit fly embryo undergoing…

io9 George Dvorsky

Insanely Detailed Display Squeezes Over a Million Pixels Into Just 2.3 Inches

If you’ve ooh and aahed over the beautiful hi-res retina displays on the iPhone 4 and new iPad, prepare to have your mind completely blown by how much resolution Japan Display has squeezed into its new minuscule LCD screens. The company’s managed to cram a resolution of 1,280 x 800, the same as what the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This DIY Street View Kit Is Your Very Own Google Map Maker

Google is doing everything it can to photograph every last corner of the world for its Street View feature. But there are still some places its mapping fleet can’t go, and you can fill in those holes yourself with your very own Street View camera kit. Imagine being able to give total strangers an interactive…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Hardware For Blazing Fast Google Fiber Shows Up at the FCC

A few months ago we heard rumors about Google’s plan to launch a TV or video service, which would run on the Google Fiber that’s currently being installed in Kansas City. Now Engadget has turned up more evidence that this might be the case at the FCC. The GFHD100 box, which just appeared in the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Use Google Images to Create a Language of Pictures

South Korea will remove evolution from its high school textbooks

You Can Light Yourself on Fire If You Apply Sunscreen Right Next to Your Grill

What Your Favorite Alien Movie Says About You

75 Reflective Photographs of Reflections

Shooting Challenge: Reflection 1

Shooting Challenge: Reflection 2

An Important PSA On Why You Should Never Shoot Videos Vertically

In the 1920s, Stegosaurus had the ability to fly like a hang glider

Rule Your Office Kingdom With This $30,000 Game of Thrones Replica

How to Tell if Your City is Dying

Your Facebook “Privacy Notice” Is Unenforceable Nonsense

Airtime Is Just Chatroulette Without the Dicks

How and When to Watch the Venus Transit Today

Nintendo’s Wii U Will Have Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon, and YouTube

Man Lives in His Own Private 727 in the Woods

Astonishing Time-Lapse Video of a Fruit Fly Embryo Developing

Insanely Detailed Display Squeezes Over a Million Pixels Into Just 2.3 Inches

This DIY Street View Kit Is Your Very Own Google Map Maker

Hardware For Blazing Fast Google Fiber Shows Up at the FCC

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