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Brush up on your Game of Thrones history with these animated shorts

If you need a scorecard to tell the Baratheons from the Targaryens, or just want to delve more deeply into the history and legends of A Song of Ice and Fire, then check out the extra features from the first season of Game of Thrones, animated videos that explain the background behind the houses, religion,…

io9 Lauren Davis May 5 '12

This Insane Amusement Park Ride Looks Like Three Minutes Of Pure Malfunctioning Terror

If you think you’ve seen amusement park rides like this before, think again. This one adds a unique twist, literally, with the two giant support arms able to move independently of each other. So what looks like a video of the ride going haywire and spectacularly failing, is actually exactly what it’s designed to do.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 5 '12

Webcomic Something Positive tackles real-life superheroes

With real-life superheroes turning up on the six o’clock news and providing fodder for prime-time procedural dramas, we’ve seen some of the most sensationalized aspects of the real-life superhero movement. This year, the long-running webcomic Something Positive has cast some of its characters as costumed community servants, but while these real-life superheroes endure their share…

io9 Lauren Davis May 5 '12

How to Pirate Software Without Getting Caught

Pirating software you don’t own is always illegal. But there are times when you do own software that you can’t access without pirating it. The cruel irony is that in those times, you’re probably more at risk of getting slapped with a lawsuit than real, actual pirates. Here’s a guide to pirating like a pro…

Tech News Kyle Wagner May 5 '12

It’s officially legal to kill Bigfoot in Texas

Cryptid conservationists, be on the alert; it’s officially open season on Sasquatch. According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, if you can find Bigfoot in the state of Texas, you can kill it. Cryptomundo reader John Lloyd Scharf sent a letter to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department about whether it would be legal…

io9 Lauren Davis May 5 '12

Mix One Part Hot Glue, One Part Plastic Sheeting and You Have a Beautiful, Bizarre Art Installation

Sometimes wondrous beauty can surprise us by being made with the most mundane materials. Such is definitely the case with artist Yasuaki Onishi’s 2012 installation entitled Reverse of Volume RG. This wondrous display recalls images of mountain ranges and torrential downpours, all suspended eerily above the gallery floor. It was made by draping plastic sheets…

Tech News Michael Hession May 5 '12

What if Edward Gorey drew Lovecraft’s unspeakable horrors?

Edward Gorey was the master of understated terrors, and if he’d ever illustrated the madness-inducing monsters of HP Lovecraft, they might look like John Kenn Mortensen’s Post-It Monstres, in which horrific beasts loom over remarkably unperturbed kiddies. What’s especially lovely about Mortensen’s monster doodles is that, while Gorey is clearly an influence, it doesn’t appear…

io9 Lauren Davis May 5 '12

In memory of MCA, a little Intergalactic to start your weekend

Yesterday, we lost Adam Yauch, better known as MCA, one of the original members of the Beastie Boys, the favorite band of young joyriding James Kirk. Let’s pay tribute to him today with the giant robot vs. Cthulhu music video he directed, for their song “Intergalactic.” At least we can always remember MCA battling snow…

io9 Lauren Davis May 5 '12

Kick Off Your Weekend With Lightsabers, Space Mountain, and Steve Jobs as FDR

Your brain can melt trying to keep up with the endless torrent of video content on the web each day. That’s why we are here to ease your fatigue with the best videos of the week. Enjoy! How, When, and Why Moore’s Law Will Finally Collapse One day, Moore’s Law will no longer hold true.…

Tech News Michael Hession May 5 '12

Adventure Time in Hell & Stan Lee rambles about Fin Fang Foom at an auto show

On this installment of Saturday Morning Cartoons, Hulk destroys downtown on Ultimate Spider-Man, the Guardians of the Galaxy (including Rocket Raccoon!) appear on The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, and we get a two-part Adventure Time episode that sends Jake and Finn to the Nightosphere. Iron Man: Armored Adventures returns this week too (as re-runs), prepping…

io9 Keith Veronese May 5 '12

Illuminated Pocket Knife Lets You Stab Your Way Out Of a Dark Room

It might not be as revolutionary as Tim Cook’s toaster-fridge concept, but SOG might have come up with a handy bit of synergy with its new Blade Light that incorporates a set of six bright LEDs into a folding knife. https://gizmodo.com/apple-ceo-tim-cook-made-a-funny-updated-5904838 Powered by a dynamic duo of AAA batteries the LEDs are moulded into the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 5 '12

Tenacious D: Rize Of The Fenix

Reports of Tenacious D’s death have been greatly exaggerated. They may have been flying under the radar for a little while, but the dynamic duo is back with a vengeance. And a new album, which drops May 15. And a new music video, which drops right now. It’s so poppin’ fresh they didn’t even have…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola May 5 '12

Mark Zuckerberg Will Determine Whether You Get Wasted Tonight, Kiddies

Mark Zuckerberg. Grand overlord of everyone’s internet. He won’t be happy until he has a part to play in every single godforsaken aspect of your miserable lives. At least, that’s probably what the kids are thinking across the pond. Apparently, bouncers at bars and clubs in England and Northern Ireland have begun asking that the…

Social Media Molly Oswaks May 5 '12

Watch These Real-Time Skaters Ride a Time-Lapse World

It’s an amazing effect. Filmmaker Russell Houghten combines stop-motion and real-time video in Open Horizons, and not just in alternating sequences. He actually mashes them into the same scene, the same shot, at the same time. I have no idea how he did it but I want to see more. [F-Stoppers via PetaPixel]

Tech News Andrew Tarantola May 5 '12

A Void Has Been Filled in the Hooch-Swilling Golfer Market

SiliPint is a company unabashedly obsessed with silicone. They love it and want you to love it, too. That is why they created the SiliShot, a patent-pending multitasking silicone shot glass/golf tee/bottle stopper that’s dishwasher safe and virtually indestructible. But, wait. Do we really need SiliShot in our lives? Yes. We badly need SiliShot because,…

Tech News Molly Oswaks May 5 '12

Snoop Dogg Spinning, Papercraft Singing, and a Full Hour of Failure

Snoop Dogg Spins in Amsterdam with Busta Rhymes and FredWreck Oh man this Dutch Treat is fantastic. I just watched the first four minutes of this before I realized I have no clue what any of them are saying. Body Hotel This trippy music video from David Luepschen assigns a visual element to every individual…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola May 5 '12

Obama Takes Requests for Spotify Playlist; Romney to Follow Suit?

President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts governer Mitt Romney will go head to head in the 2012 presidential election, as you’re probably all too aware, given that this campaign already feels like it’s been going on for five years. The two contenders also doing battle as DJs on the fields of Spotify. No, we are…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm May 4 '12

The iPad Is Dangerous In Bed

This Taiwanese girl just learned the laws of gravity from her iPad. Not the apps inside the iPad, but the iPad itself. While holding the tablet over her head in bed, she dozed off. That’s when Newton decided to deliver his first and second laws directly to her face, in the form of a mouthful…

Tech News Andrew James May 4 '12

12 Awesome Designs from the Guy Who Invented the Jambox

From the looks of it, Swiss-born Yves Behar may have beaten Apple at its own minimalist design game. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of his best creations. When you’re done drooling over these, be sure to check out these Jacob Jensen gadgets, 12 Raymond Loewy designs, and 15 Dieter Rams classics. Clever Little…

Tech News David Galbraith - Oobject.com May 4 '12

Shit-for-Brains Hang-Gliding Pilot Poops Out Big Material Evidence

A Vancouver man named William Jonathan Orders was charged with obstruction of justice after swallowing the memory card from a video camera that was on when a woman fell to her death at his hang-gliding business last week. Lenami Godinez-Avila fell 300 meters off Mount Woodside in the Fraser Valley while on a tandem flight…

Tech News Molly Oswaks May 4 '12

Brush up on your Game of Thrones history with these animated shorts

This Insane Amusement Park Ride Looks Like Three Minutes Of Pure Malfunctioning Terror

Webcomic Something Positive tackles real-life superheroes

How to Pirate Software Without Getting Caught

It’s officially legal to kill Bigfoot in Texas

Mix One Part Hot Glue, One Part Plastic Sheeting and You Have a Beautiful, Bizarre Art Installation

What if Edward Gorey drew Lovecraft’s unspeakable horrors?

In memory of MCA, a little Intergalactic to start your weekend

Kick Off Your Weekend With Lightsabers, Space Mountain, and Steve Jobs as FDR

Adventure Time in Hell & Stan Lee rambles about Fin Fang Foom at an auto show

Illuminated Pocket Knife Lets You Stab Your Way Out Of a Dark Room

Tenacious D: Rize Of The Fenix

Mark Zuckerberg Will Determine Whether You Get Wasted Tonight, Kiddies

Watch These Real-Time Skaters Ride a Time-Lapse World

A Void Has Been Filled in the Hooch-Swilling Golfer Market

Snoop Dogg Spinning, Papercraft Singing, and a Full Hour of Failure

Obama Takes Requests for Spotify Playlist; Romney to Follow Suit?

The iPad Is Dangerous In Bed

12 Awesome Designs from the Guy Who Invented the Jambox

Shit-for-Brains Hang-Gliding Pilot Poops Out Big Material Evidence

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