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The io9 Guide to April’s Science Fiction and Fantasy!

What does April have in store for you in science fiction and fantasy? A new Dark Tower novel by Stephen King! Christopher Moore on book tour! Joss Whedon’s long-awaited Cabin in the Woods! Nazis at the Center of the Earth! And much, much more. Here’s our complete guide to April’s science fiction and fantasy. Top…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Toilet Freezes Your Poop To Keep It From Stinking

Composting your poops is one of those things you might actually consider were it not for all the gross, decomposing feces you’d need to store and transport about your property. Biolan’s got an idea that might help ameliorate some of that vile mess by freezing the smell in its tracks. Treehugger reports on one of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The World’s Least Practical Flying Car Takes Flight

Flying cars are the Jetsons dream that never came true. But wait, some Dutch dudes have cobbled together a weird-ass helicar contraption that combines all the worst, most impractical elements of car and helicopter into one amazingly expensive prototype! Thank goodness. On the ground, this thing—called the PAL-V One—has three wheels and tilts as you…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

10 Bizarre Things People Have Done In Their Sleep

Parasomnias are the class of sleep disorders associated with abnormal sleeptime behavior. One of the most common examples of parasomnia, for example, is somnambulism (better known as sleepwalking). But as far as parasomnias go, sleepwalking is actually fairly run-of-the mill. Here are ten examples of some of the most interesting, dangerous, and peculiar cases of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

An exclusive art preview of DC Comics’ new “dinosaurs versus soldiers” title

In the 1960s, DC Comics published The War That Time Forgot, a wacky storyline about soldiers battling dinosaurs on a mysterious Pacific island during World War II. This spring, DC is updating this prehistoric anarchy in the new military anthology G.I. Combat, and we have an exclusive sneak peek. Here’s a first look at Ariel…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Priest’s PC Autoplays Gay Porn Slideshow to Congregation

Father Martin McVeigh was giving a talk to 26 parents and one 8-year-old kid when computer disaster struck. He connected his USB drive into a PC to start his Powerpoint presentation and, instead of the word of God, a hardcore gay porn slideshow started—thanks to Windows’ autoplay. Some parents—who were there to hear McVeigh talk…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Watch a Man Cheat Death as His Truck Plummets Off a Cliff

Jumping out of a moving vehicle just before it plummets off a cliff is standard stuff for action movies and James Dean impressionists, but actually seeing it happen in real life is breathtaking. A tow-truck driver in Norway did just that, though, when the heavy truck he was towing slipped off the icy road. The…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Why there really is no such thing as an unsinkable ship

The Titanic’s sinking was a hundred years ago this month, and not all the commemorations are directly related to James Cameron’s movie. For one thing, we can finally get to the bottom of just why anyone ever called Titanic “unsinkable.” https://gizmodo.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-is-behind-the-only-major-technical-5898221 Of course, the whole unsinkable thing waqs mostly a bit of marketing hubris, an…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

HBO pays for Game Of Thrones fans to get tattooed by the House of Lannister

Here’s a pretty rad event for Game Of Thrones that we’re supremely sad we missed. HBO paid for a collection of die-hard Game Of Thrones fans to drop by the Wooster Street Social Club for free tattoos. They could be inked with one of five sigils from the warring families of Westeros. And they turned…

Television Meredith Woerner

Tracy Morgan Explains Twitter

The Shorty Awards are exceptionally dumb and awful. They are to deserved accolades what screwing a chicken is to losing your virginity. But this Shorty Awards promo video with Tracy Morgan is a riot. I have no idea why this was posted several days after the actual awards. Please remember that, despite this fantastic video,…

Tech News Mat Honan

This Week’s TV: Adventure Time returns! Plus the Monty Python Lightsaber Battle You’ve Been Waiting For!

In this week’s TV, a princess has to choose between piloting a blue lion and becoming Queen. And on a brand new Adventure Time, Finn discovers the truth about Flame Princess. There’s a fantasy-themed TV movie about Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Stephen Hawking guest stars on Big Bang Theory. Keith Mars steps up his…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The perfect Irish vampire movie

Bringing new meaning to the phrase “potato famine,” Belfast filmmaker John Clerkin has invented my new favorite Irish monster: the blood-drinking potato. In modern Ireland, potato eats you! Yes, the jokes just keep on coming, and that’s pretty much the point in Clerkin’s lo-fi flick about a GMO potato that gets you high — and…

Trailers Annalee Newitz

World’s Biggest Spacecraft Is Like a Flying Fresh Direct Truck

The International Space Station (ISS) is far from self-sufficient. To shuttle food and equipment resupplies up to the station, the European Space Agency (ESA) relies on a fleet of disposable Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) like the recently launched Edoardo Amaldi. The ISS needs restocking roughly every 17 months. It typically requires about 6.6 tons of…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

Behold, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle puppets of the 1990s acting extremely creepy

Back when the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were profitable enough to be bootlegged mercilessly and not be transformed into an alien race, movie studios employed state-of-the-art computers to give the heroes-in-a-half-shell orgasm faces. Here’s some 1992 test footage from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, in which a puppeteer from All Effects Company manipulates Donatello, who…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

How to Prove That Winning Lotto Ticket Is a Fake

You did not win the $640 Mega Millions jackpot this past Friday. But neither did all of the idiots out there who tried to fake it—some of them pretty darn convincingly. Dr. Neal Krawetz over at the Hacker Factor blog went out and squashed one of the especially convincing fakes. Here’s how. The fake was…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Best April Fools’ Day Gags, from Spiel Burgers to the Mass Effect 3 cartoon

So April Fools’ Day fell on a weekend this year. Instead of backtracking through all the pranks and gags of yesterday, we’ve compiled the best of the best for you right here. Behold, an orbital bed and breakfast and the most apocalyptic BBC headline ever. And for more tomfoolery, don’t forget Google Maps’ Quest View…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Woman Makes a Rainbow With a Shotgun

Kirsti asks: “Hey y’all, have you ever seen anybody make a rainbow with a 12 gauge shotgun?” No Kirsti, we certainly have not. But we are about to see it in this video you made. Yes, people. It’s Monday and we already have the most absurd, stupidest video of the week. High five, everyone. [Neatorama]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Today’s unfortunate sexbot breakthrough = a poster you can make out with

Oh, this is just downright dark. Researchers at Keio University have developed a sensing program that allows you to slobber on a digital two-dimensional image, which will react to your amorous advances. I suppose this what it’s like to get to first base with General Zod when he’s trapped in that Phantom Zone parallelogram. Explains…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Is Apple Adding Siri to iMacs and MacBooks?

Apple originally touted Siri as the killer feature for the iPhone 4S, but it might not be exclusive to the phone for long. A new patent shows that iPhone users could be using Siri to control their iMac or MacBook in forthcoming versions of these machines. It’s pretty logical to assume that Apple would include…

Tech News Leslie Horn

A List of Actors We’d Rather See Play Steve Jobs Than Ashton Kutcher

Apparently, Hollywood just made the kooky decision to cast Ashton “One Third of Two and a Half Men or Just 5/6th of One Man” Kutcher as the lead in an upcoming Steve Jobs biopic. Yes, there is some resemblance between Ashton and young Steve Jobs. Yes, Ashton is a famous guy. But people, he’s… Ashton…

Tech News Casey Chan

The io9 Guide to April’s Science Fiction and Fantasy!

Toilet Freezes Your Poop To Keep It From Stinking

The World’s Least Practical Flying Car Takes Flight

10 Bizarre Things People Have Done In Their Sleep

An exclusive art preview of DC Comics’ new “dinosaurs versus soldiers” title

Priest’s PC Autoplays Gay Porn Slideshow to Congregation

Watch a Man Cheat Death as His Truck Plummets Off a Cliff

Why there really is no such thing as an unsinkable ship

HBO pays for Game Of Thrones fans to get tattooed by the House of Lannister

Tracy Morgan Explains Twitter

This Week’s TV: Adventure Time returns! Plus the Monty Python Lightsaber Battle You’ve Been Waiting For!

The perfect Irish vampire movie

World’s Biggest Spacecraft Is Like a Flying Fresh Direct Truck

Behold, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle puppets of the 1990s acting extremely creepy

How to Prove That Winning Lotto Ticket Is a Fake

The Best April Fools’ Day Gags, from Spiel Burgers to the Mass Effect 3 cartoon

Woman Makes a Rainbow With a Shotgun

Today’s unfortunate sexbot breakthrough = a poster you can make out with

Is Apple Adding Siri to iMacs and MacBooks?

A List of Actors We’d Rather See Play Steve Jobs Than Ashton Kutcher

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