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US Soldiers Are Giving Away Their Positions with Geotagged Photos

People behave very stupidly on Facebook. But giving away your location in the geotagged info of your pictures as a member of the military is incredibly unwise and dangerous, even by Facebook standards. The Army has issued a warning to its soldiers to stop geotagging their photos on Facebook and other social media outlets. Because…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Meet the kappa leprechaun, a tiny monster at the nexus of Japanese and Irish folklore

Artist and io9 comrade-in-hanging-out Marcelo Gallegos has tipped us to his delightful yokai mash-up creation, the Kappa Leprechaun. This little guy is the hybrid of A.) those diminutive bastards who bedeviled Darby O’Gill; and B.) flatulent Japanese water sprites. Explains Marcelo of this wee creature: Swimming from Japan’s disused waterways (via Ireland) into your home,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

How Big Is a Neutron Star Compared to New York?

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has created this image to illustrate the size of a neutron star, the “crushed core of a star that has exploded as a supernova” and packs half a million times the mass of Earth. Look at its ridiculous size. A neutron star is smaller than Brooklyn! [NASA]

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

The Opposite of a Retina Screen, GIRL SCOUT COOKIES, and Timelapse for Dunces

I have a lot to do this weekend, but most of it will involve pornographic photos of iPads, because I pre-ordered one and I have never owned an iPad before. In fact, it’s been a while since I’ve owned an iOS device at all, so I’m going to track down an iPhone-carrying friend and hold…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Get Drunk With Creatures, Manage Your Shopiholism, Learn From Neato People, and More

TGIF! How’s this for a weekend ritual. You’re going to get together with your friends, play a drinking game, stay up late, and then impulse buy a bunch of stuff online. The next day, you’ll feel bad, go for a nature hike, and educate yourself to revamp your spirits. These apps will help you do…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Photographer Finds Standing 35-Foot-Tall Tree-Rex In England

Photographer Spike Malin and his wife Debbie were walking across the fields of Alby with Thwaite, Norfolk, England, when they found this 35-foot-tall Treennosaurus Rex. In reality, is an ash tree covered in ivy. If you look at it in a mirror, it will look closer than it appears. [Telegraph]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Every Marvel Comic Now Comes with a Digital Copy

Marvel announced today that every one of its $4 superhero comics is now going to come with a code to download the digital version to the Marvel app, which is available on every major platform. The digital code in a physical book model first started with The Avenging Spider-Man last year, and it was popular…

Books & Comics Kyle Wagner

The cracks between Awake‘s “police procedural” and “character study” are starting to show

Awake is still our favorite new show on television this spring — with the second episode treading ground that’s just as interesting as the first, in terms of main character Michael Britten and his relationships with his son and wife, each of whom are dead in one reality and grieving in the other. But the…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Reinventing the Cocktail Or: How to Set Drinks on Fire to Make Them Taste Delicious

I spill a dribble of liquid nitrogen onto the bar as I try to pour it from a steel vat into a coffee thermos for Dave Arnold, in a scene that vaguely reminds me of this image of Jesus turning water into wine, except that the splash turns into smoke and tiny beads, which skitter…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Smoking ban linked to major drop in pregnancy complications

Scotland was the first country in the UK to implement a public place smoking ban, back in March of 2006. Now researchers have gone back and looked at a number of birth complications, and seen them drop precipitously since the legislation came into effect. Specifically, the researchers were tracking preterm and underweight births from January…

io9 Tim Barribeau

5 Impressive Google Chrome Add-Ons for Music

The music section of the Chrome Web Store has amplified quite a bit since its initial rollout of 23 apps. In addition to offerings from heavy hitters like MOG, Rdio, and Pandora, it’s also home to a wide selection of apps and extensions from smaller developers from off the beaten trail. Getting an app into…

Tech News Andy Cush - Evolver.fm

If You Pre-Order a New iPad Now, You Won’t Get It on Launch Day

Were you hoping to pre-order a new iPad from Apple and receive it on launch day (March 16)? Guess what, you’re already too late. The earliest ship date for new pre-orders at this point is March 19th. Oh well, there’s always the line outside the Apple Store. [Business Insider]

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Woman Sells Three-Year-Old Chicken McNugget for $8,000 On eBay

Rebekah Speight of Dakota City found this McDonald’s Chicken McNugget three years ago. She thought it looked like President George Washington and she put it in the freezer—as you do in these cases. Now, she’s trying to sell it to get 50 kids to summer camp. She put it on eBay last week. When the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Self-Frothing Beer Mug Grants Your Brew the Massive Head You Never Wanted

I think I have been drinking and pouring my beer incorrectly. That’s the only way I can really explain this self-frothing beer mug from Japan. The Takara Tomy Beer Jug Jokki Hour Foam Head Maker works by funneling beer from the bottom of your mug through a swirly straw that runs through the handle of…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner

Throne of the Crescent Moon is the best fantasy swashbuckler of the year so far

Medieval fantasy stories about wizards and monsters are usually set in the epic countryside. But one of the many welcome tweaks to the genre in Saladin Ahmed’s debut novel Throne of the Crescent Moon is that its magical showdowns take place in a medieval city. And not just some backwater city, either — Dhamsawaat is…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

6 Ways to Totally Avoid Metro and Use Only Desktop Mode in Windows 8

While we’re huge fans of Windows 8’s Metro interface, there are plenty of folks who’d rather never let it see the light of day. If you’re one of them, our friends at Laptop Mag explain how to quash it from the get-go. As installed, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview forces users to navigate through two…

Tech News Avram Piltch - LAPTOP MAGAZINE

Watch drops of water in space ‘orbit’ a knitting needle like tiny planets

Ever wonder what planets would look like orbiting a cylindrical sun? Now, thanks to the magic of electric charge, microgravity, and awesome astronaut Don Pettit, you can see for yourself. Watch tiny liquid planets ‘orbit’ a knitting needle, and find out why they do. Some days it’s hard to recognize that the world is a…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Taco Bell Doritos Locos Taco Lightning Review: Love and Vomit (Updated)

J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, quipped famously that upon seeing the destruction his creation had wrought, he was reminded of a Hindu god’s terrible vengeance: “I am become death, destroyer of worlds.” Someone at Taco Bell is surely thinking the same, for the Doritos Locos is fast food’s nuclear weapon. What Is…

Reviews Sam Biddle

New Dark Knight Rises toys show off Catwoman’s ears!

A new batch of The Dark Knight Rises dolls show off a few new details about Chris Nolan’s characters. Plus there’s an Alfred doll, a figure of Joseph Gordon Levitt’s character (John Blake) — and Catwoman making a “reeerh” cat hand! Why do you think JGL gets his own action figure? Could his role be…

Movies Meredith Woerner

How a disease from ancient Rome made its way into your sandblasted jeans

Sandblasting jeans is a common way to give blue jeans a “distressed” look, with worn spots and artfully frayed holes. But the process of sandblasting is coming under fire due to its connection with silicosis, an incurable lung disease. Several manufactures and retail outlets are banning sandblasted jeans, but why? Let’s take a look at…

io9 Keith Veronese

US Soldiers Are Giving Away Their Positions with Geotagged Photos

Meet the kappa leprechaun, a tiny monster at the nexus of Japanese and Irish folklore

How Big Is a Neutron Star Compared to New York?

The Opposite of a Retina Screen, GIRL SCOUT COOKIES, and Timelapse for Dunces

Get Drunk With Creatures, Manage Your Shopiholism, Learn From Neato People, and More

Photographer Finds Standing 35-Foot-Tall Tree-Rex In England

Every Marvel Comic Now Comes with a Digital Copy

The cracks between Awake‘s “police procedural” and “character study” are starting to show

Reinventing the Cocktail Or: How to Set Drinks on Fire to Make Them Taste Delicious

Smoking ban linked to major drop in pregnancy complications

5 Impressive Google Chrome Add-Ons for Music

If You Pre-Order a New iPad Now, You Won’t Get It on Launch Day

Woman Sells Three-Year-Old Chicken McNugget for $8,000 On eBay

Self-Frothing Beer Mug Grants Your Brew the Massive Head You Never Wanted

Throne of the Crescent Moon is the best fantasy swashbuckler of the year so far

6 Ways to Totally Avoid Metro and Use Only Desktop Mode in Windows 8

Watch drops of water in space ‘orbit’ a knitting needle like tiny planets

Taco Bell Doritos Locos Taco Lightning Review: Love and Vomit (Updated)

New Dark Knight Rises toys show off Catwoman’s ears!

How a disease from ancient Rome made its way into your sandblasted jeans

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