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Two People Are Dead Because They Unfriended This Man’s Adult Daughter on Facebook

A Tennessee man, Marvin Potter (on the right), is in police custody tonight, charged with two counts of first degree murder in the shooting deaths of a couple who had unfriended his 30-year-old daughter on the popular social site. The murderous spat began when Billy Payne Jr. and his girlfriend, Billie Jean Hayworth, unfriended Potter’s…

Social Media Andrew Tarantola

Stunning Concept Art from Adventure Time Creator’s New Space Opera Series

Adventure Time has gone from a shiny new distraction to a major freaking part of our lives. We can no longer remember a time before Adventure Time, and it feels as though Finn and Jake are more real than most of our friends. So it’s exciting that Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward has a new…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

How Does This Tiny Wood Grill Reach 1,100 Degrees?

A uranium core? A miniature sun? Molten lava? None of the above I’m afraid. Like the blacksmiths of yesteryear, the Cook-Air uses bellows, or in this case a fan, to provide an ample source of oxygen to fuel the flames. Instead of a bottle of propane or other combustible gases, the Cook-Air uses simple compressed…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

New trailer for Nacho Vigalondo’s Extraterrestre hints at the aliens’ sinister agenda

Nacho Vigalondo made waves with his first movie, Timecrimes — but can his second movie, about aliens attacking, win him a bigger following? Check out the full-length trailer and decide for yourself whether you’re up for a blend of alien invasion and romantic comedy. Plus, the new footage includes some hints about just what nefarious…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

You Come From This Thing: The Oldest Animal Ever Discovered

Scientists believe that this is the animal from which everything else evolved. The first multicellular being that spawned every living being in this world through billions of mutations, from fish to amphibians to reptiles to birds to mammals to you. It’s an amazing discovery. Its name is Otavia antiqua, and it is the oldest animal…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Man Who Paid 16 Bucks for a $330,000 House Got Evicted

Kenneth Robinson, an American hero who found a loophole in the system to buy a $330,000 house for 16 bucks, has sadly been evicted from his “house” because Bank of America claimed ownership of the property. Dammit. Does that mean there really aren’t any shortcuts in life? https://gizmodo.com/man-used-a-loophole-in-the-law-to-pay-16-bucks-for-a-3-5823573 Kenneth Robinson lived in the house for…

Tech News Casey Chan

Behold, Wonder Woman beating the crud out of an octopus god!

Author Brian Azzarello’s Wonder Woman has been one of our favorite books of the DC Comics relaunch, what with its profoundly creepy take on Greek mythology and the Olympic pantheon’s political machinations. And in the latest issue of Wonder Woman, the heroine is caught between the blubbery, tentacled Poseidon and the candle-headed death god Hades.…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Writing Tip: Figure out your “Candy Bar” scenes in advance

In an interview with So I’m Fifty, Above World author Jenn Reese talks about her planning process, including figuring out what her “candy-bar” scenes are: I am an unrepentant planner. When I start working on an idea, I write everything down in a Moleskine notebook that never leaves my side – not while I’m at…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The Transmission Tower Coat Rack Will Electrocute Your Eyes

Electricity is beautiful, but transmission towers are eyesores. That contradiction hurts my brain. How am I supposed to feel when I look at a beautiful landscape, and it’s ruined by giant towers disappearing into the horizon? We NEED the towers so we might as well get used to them. The Nanton Coat Rack re-envisions the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

An Abnormally Weird Spin on the “Author Meets His Own Characters” Story

The story of an author meeting his own fictional characters is a common one — and usually it becomes some kind of metafictional meditation on the nature of authorship and what it means to be a fictional character. But what if that fictional character comes from a weird post-apocalyptic world, and it was kind of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Behold, one of the most ancient celestial clusters in the Universe

Damn. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what stargazers call a globular cluster — a spherical grouping of gravitationally bound celestial bodies, swirling about deep in the inky blackness of space. [Hi-res available here] There are somewhere between 150 and 158 globular clusters in our galaxy (the exact number depends on who you ask), but the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Geekiest Marriage Proposal Yet: Binary, Bender Mask, Flying RC Shark

Raising the bar on nerdy wedding proposals, YouTuber doctorpappa (possibly not a real doctor) decided to ask his girlfriend to marry him by donning a paper-mache Futurama Bender mask, and popping the question in binary. As the story goes, he asked his girlfriend to close her laptop for a couple of minutes while he posted…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Shoot At Your Friends, Build a Railroad, and Become the Next Deadmau5

You can run around shooting people or build a railroad. Are you the soldier or the builder? These are the hard questions you have answer in the world of apps. No wait, you can be both because the games are on sale. Hooray for capitalism! But if shooting and building aren’t your thing, you can…

Commerce Roberto Baldwin

The Long, Strange Quest to Find a Substance that Kills Sexual Desire

Aphrodisiacs have a rich and often-told history — but what about their opposite? Throughout history, people have tried to find ways to suppress sexual desire. People have used methods ranging from saltpeter to cornflakes to modern-day chemical castration, with mixed success. Why do people want to discover a way to kill sexual desire? Find out…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Gizmodo Is Hiring

The person we’re looking for knows and gets technology, gadgets, design and the internet crazy amazingly well. They’re smart, and snappy, like cybernetic whips. That’s you, isn’t it? Sure it is. Gizmodo’s looking for both interns and night and weekend editors to start asap. Requirements for both positions are below: Night/Weekend Editors • For the…

Tech News Gizmodo

33 Photos Filled With Countless Clones

I’ve always wanted to swim in Duck Tales’ vault of gold. Alas, it’s not in my cards (and besides, diving into scraps of metal isn’t exactly good for the joints). These 33 photographs will need to do the trick. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-room-full-of-something-5881221 Dragon Slayer This stuffed dragon was mine when I was a kid. Recently, I asked…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Shooting Challenge Room Full Gal 2

Brian C Hall My brother sent us this Amaryllis bulb for Christmas. It just now bloomed. I told him it put out several flowers; I’m sending him the photo evidence. Taken with a tripod-mounted Canon 60D. Manual exposure set to f/3.2, 1/6 second exposure, ISO 100. Composited in Photoshop 7. Sunil Seepuri This challenge was…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Shooting Challenge Room Full Gal 1

So this photo breaks down many of the hats, i mean sunglasses, i mean breaks my sunglasses.. This photo shows the many roles a “bedroom” can play and does play for my life. I attempted a vintage film look with my incamera settings. With a complete lack of strobe or hot lamp setup I angled…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Inside GoPro’s Outdoor Camera Genius

What’s not to love about a GoPro camera? Absolutely nothing. At least that’s what you’d think after watching CBS This Morning’s report on GoPro and its founder, Nick Woodman. Woodman has done pretty well with the wearable camera, selling about 800,000 cameras in 2011. And frankly, some of the footage GoPros have captured is every…

Tech News Michael Hession

What Is HOIC?

Anonymous is on a destruction spree lately—after Megaupload was killed, their reaction was swift and powerful. They made it look easy—and that’s because thanks to the HOIC (High Orbit Ion Cannon), it is. Here’s the newest hacker superweapon. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-goes-on-megaupload-revenge-spree-doj-riaa-5877679 It’s the newest way Anonymous is attacking websites… Anonymous relies on the mob, corralled by a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Two People Are Dead Because They Unfriended This Man’s Adult Daughter on Facebook

Stunning Concept Art from Adventure Time Creator’s New Space Opera Series

How Does This Tiny Wood Grill Reach 1,100 Degrees?

New trailer for Nacho Vigalondo’s Extraterrestre hints at the aliens’ sinister agenda

You Come From This Thing: The Oldest Animal Ever Discovered

The Man Who Paid 16 Bucks for a $330,000 House Got Evicted

Behold, Wonder Woman beating the crud out of an octopus god!

Writing Tip: Figure out your “Candy Bar” scenes in advance

The Transmission Tower Coat Rack Will Electrocute Your Eyes

An Abnormally Weird Spin on the “Author Meets His Own Characters” Story

Behold, one of the most ancient celestial clusters in the Universe

Geekiest Marriage Proposal Yet: Binary, Bender Mask, Flying RC Shark

Shoot At Your Friends, Build a Railroad, and Become the Next Deadmau5

The Long, Strange Quest to Find a Substance that Kills Sexual Desire

Gizmodo Is Hiring

33 Photos Filled With Countless Clones

Shooting Challenge Room Full Gal 2

Shooting Challenge Room Full Gal 1

Inside GoPro’s Outdoor Camera Genius

What Is HOIC?

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