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Business Card Animation Is the Stuff of American Psycho’s Dreams

This rad little stop-motion video made by Australian design firm Messy Design is an awesome, creative use of everyday things. But really, you’re a design firm and you left the tripod legs and extension cord in the shot? Tsk tsk. Maybe they’re called Messy Design for a reason. [Laughing Squid]

Tech News Brent Rose

How A.I.: Artificial Intelligence ends in a different, better universe

I have my own personal canon for the series I love. There is no epilogue to the Harry Potter series. Ron Moore and I have some differences of opinion on the final fate of the Galactica. Select later season episodes of Buffy and the entirety of Star Trek: Voyager NEVER HAPPENED. Is this arrogant on…

io9 David Daw

Watch the ocean currents turn the Earth into a living Van Gogh

Who knew that our ocean currents were constantly painting Van Gogh’s Starry Night across the planet? This visualization, created by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, captures the surface currents that danced and twisted across Earth’s oceans from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007 while transporting heat and carbon through the waters. Perpetual Ocean…

io9 Lauren Davis

This Optical Illusion Makes Me Trip Balls

Gah! No, this isn’t an animated gif but so help me god it won’t. Stop. Moving. The full-sized, square version does it even more. If you stare hard at one point it’ll kinda quit it, but really, you know it never stops. Ever. [BuzzFeed]

Tech News Brent Rose

How will we get around in the post-apocalypse?

One of the irritating things about many post-apocalyptic movies in TV shows is that everyone drives everywhere, with little thought about alternative modes of transportation. But how will we get around after armageddon? We weigh the post-apocalyptic transit options. Top image by Dave Schmidt. Hopefully, down the line, we’d see groups of people teaming up…

io9 Lauren Davis

10 LinkedIn Charts That Show How Apple’s Hiring Practices Set It Apart

We pulled a bunch of detailed information about Apple’s employees from LinkedIn – which is all available on the site. It turns out Apple employs way more general and administrative people than research and development engineers, according to the LinkedIn data. It also hires way faster than most other tech companies in the industry. Those…

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Cartoonist Mike Russell explains the origins of the Sabertooth Vampire’s hilariously oversized fangs

The Sabertooth Vampire is a small vamp with two very big problems: his enormous fangs, which are longer than he is tall. Mike Russell has been posting the frustrated adventures of the cursed count online, but soon the Sabertooth Vampire will be appearing in the pages of Dark Horse Presents — where he’ll battle a…

io9 Lauren Davis

How to Write Like a Scientist (by destroying your writing)

Scientific papers contain wonderful gems of knowledge and insight, but why are they often so dry? Comedian and molecular biologist Adam Ruben explains how you, too, can sound like the inside of an academic journal. Ruben, who wrote the satirical guide Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School just wrote this tongue-in-cheek…

io9 Lauren Davis

Watch a tail-wagging reunion between a woman and her wolf friends

You know how excited dogs get when their owners come home at the end of the day? Multiply that by four and turn those dogs into wolves, and you’ll have an idea of the pure canine joy in this video. For two years, this woman, Anita, socialized these wolves at the Polar Zoo in Salangsdalen,…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Instagram for Android Signup Page Is Live

Android users: are you tired of your iPhone toting friends using Instagram as their go-to “You don’t have this app on Android so nany-nany poo-poo” argument? I know you are. Well, you’re one step closer to finally shutting them (the fuck) up about it. If you head on over to Instagr.am/android you’ll be greeted with…

Tech News Brent Rose

What is this cloudy spot on Mars?

Mars watchers have a bit of a mystery on their hands. An astronomy buff captured this photo of the red planet, with what looks like a growth emerging from the sphere. So is it a towering cloud? Or just a trick of the light? Amateur astronomer Wayne Jaeschke has taken many pictures of the night…

io9 Lauren Davis

DC superladies don sweaters for cold-weather crimefighting

Don’t superheroes ever get cold? I suppose that spandex might be specially formulated to regulate temperature, but that still doesn’t help with bare-armed superwomen who fly the frigid skies or run through the chilly streets fighting (or committing) crime. These ladies from the DC Universe decide to bundle up instead with some nice cozy sweaters.…

io9 Lauren Davis

Best of the Week: March 17-March 23, 2012

STRANGE MOONRISE | That gorgeous giant moon rising over the horizon? It’s an optical illusion. Find out more about it here. https://gizmodo.com/this-stunning-moonrise-is-an-optical-illusion-5895950 The Hunger Games Will Ruin You https://gizmodo.com/the-hunger-games-will-ruin-you-5895771 The Hunger Games movie will punch you in the gut. The saga of Katniss, teenage dystopian gladiator, turns out to be just as addictive in movie…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Supernatural, I honestly don’t know what to think of you anymore

On last night’s episode of Supernatural, “The Born-Again Identity,” we got the all-star treatment. Showrunner Sera Gamble wrote the episode, veteran director Robert Singer was at the helm, and three (count ’em THREE) fan favorite characters showed up for special guest spots. And yet I was still left feeling restless and unsatisfied. Is it just…

io9 Annalee Newitz

You’ll Always Have an Emergency Hood While Wearing This Backpack

You probably won’t always remember to bring an umbrella when the weather is gloomy, but as long you’re wearing this Puma Urban Mobility Backpack from designer Hussein Chalayan, you’ll always have a quick way to keep your head dry. As an added bonus, when the backpack is particularly full and heavy-laden, you can put the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Olivia is kind of a doormat, on Fringe

Fringe has played the “will they or won’t they” game with Peter and Olivia a dozen times now, so it’s hard to get excited about the latest iteration. But at least last night’s “A Short Story About Love” found a new wrinkle on the theme of universe-crossed lovers… and it was actually much more creepy…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Hipster He-Man and Other High-Fashion Cartoon Heroes

He-Man has been around since 1980, and it’s high time he got a wardrobe update. Illustrator Fabian Ciraolo is happy to oblige, designing new looks for the prince of Eternia and other cartoon favorites: the Thundercats, Jem, Captain Planet, and She-Ra all earn themselves a fashion makeover. Ciraolo’s Oldschool Heroes series does look like it…

io9 Lauren Davis

A Chemistry Set That Turns Jello Creations Into Music

Any kid knows how to produce an entire foley library worth of gross sound effects from a bowl of jello. But Raphaël Pluvinage and Marianne Cauvard’s Noisy Jelly kit produces more pleasing sounds using gelatinous shapes and a special playing board. The kit includes food coloring and agar powder which lets the performer mix up…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Liquid-Cooled Laptops Can Handle Overclocked Processors Without Overcooking Thighs

Most laptops can barely handle a late-night YouTube session without reaching sperm-scorching temperatures. So if you dabble in over-clocking, you’ll be frying eggs in no time. That is unless you’ve got Asetek’s new liquid-cooling system for laptops. Liquid cooling is already inherently more efficient than air-based systems because liquids have much greater thermal mass. But…

Gadgets Michael Zhao

These vertical forests will soon dominate Milan’s skyline

We’ve seen a lot of amazing concepts for urban gardens — green-roofed cities, gardens that stretch high into the clouds — but this pair of vertical forests is more than just a concept design. It’s currently being built in Milan. The brainchild of architect Stefano Boeri, Bosco Verticale (simply “vertical forest”) is currently under construction…

io9 Lauren Davis

Business Card Animation Is the Stuff of American Psycho’s Dreams

How A.I.: Artificial Intelligence ends in a different, better universe

Watch the ocean currents turn the Earth into a living Van Gogh

This Optical Illusion Makes Me Trip Balls

How will we get around in the post-apocalypse?

10 LinkedIn Charts That Show How Apple’s Hiring Practices Set It Apart

Cartoonist Mike Russell explains the origins of the Sabertooth Vampire’s hilariously oversized fangs

How to Write Like a Scientist (by destroying your writing)

Watch a tail-wagging reunion between a woman and her wolf friends

The Instagram for Android Signup Page Is Live

What is this cloudy spot on Mars?

DC superladies don sweaters for cold-weather crimefighting

Best of the Week: March 17-March 23, 2012

Supernatural, I honestly don’t know what to think of you anymore

You’ll Always Have an Emergency Hood While Wearing This Backpack

Olivia is kind of a doormat, on Fringe

Hipster He-Man and Other High-Fashion Cartoon Heroes

A Chemistry Set That Turns Jello Creations Into Music

Liquid-Cooled Laptops Can Handle Overclocked Processors Without Overcooking Thighs

These vertical forests will soon dominate Milan’s skyline

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