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Purify Your Water With a Burnt Stick

It uses the same principle as your Brita filter to purify water, but Black+Blum’s Eau Good bottle does it with way more style using a stick of charcoal that’s always visible through the bottle’s lovely curves. Known as Binchotan, the black stick is a type of carbon made from tree branches, which the Japanese have…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Anonymous May Have Completely Destroyed This Military Law Firm

Anonymous’ gutting of Puckett & Faraj, the firm that defended the Marines behind the Haditha Killing, might have been more than a major embarrassment. The hack attack might have killed the group entirely. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-leaks-marine-corps-massacre-case-updated-5882057 In an email released by Anonymous in the wake of the attack—suggesting they still had their hands inside the attorneys’ bowels…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Can Google’s new conference really save the world?

Google already most likely controls your email, your personal calendar and your web searches, but can the internet giant also create a conference that comes up with real solutions to the world’s problems? Google just launched a new conference, Solve for X, which will bring together experts to discuss “radical technology ideas for solving global…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Solve a Mystery, Become an Archer, and Win the GrandPrix

How many Law & Order versions are there? It seems like there’s a new one every week. They even have one for App Store. Law and Order: iOS, DUN DUN. Okay, so that’s not really the name, but it should be. Sick of procedural crime dramas? We also have archery and F1 racing management games…

Commerce Roberto Baldwin

Hunger Games Screencaps: Wall of Fire, Love Triangle of Doom!

Katniss gives Prim the Mockingjay pin that will keep her safe, no matter what. This is way different from in the books, where Madge Undersee gives Katniss the pin. A slightly different look at the selection ceremony in District 12 — President Snow is addressing the people of the district, via a big video screen.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

It Takes More Than a DSLR and Warm Clothes to Shoot the X-Games

Think about it this way: For every 1080 McTwist you ogle at the Winter X-Games, there are dozens of shooters scrambling to capture it in any way possible—and often that means gear. Lots of gear. The kit runs the gamut from DIY rigs, to RED Epics, to split-beam 3D systems, and the best of it…

Tech News Michael Hession

G.I. Joe: Retaliation Super Bowl Screencaps

Hello Jinx, played by Elodie Yung. Readying herself for a blindfolded training session with Snake Eyes. Thank you yes please. No more GIANT LIP FACE Snake Eyes. Sure they’re still there, but seriously toned down this time, thank goodness. Roadblock! The White House is under Cobra Command now. So awesome. The ORIGINAL Cobra Commander mask,…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Your Deleted Facebook Photos Still Aren’t Really Deleted

Three years ago, Ars Technica discovered that when you “deleted” your photos, they were still kept on Facebook’s servers, and anyone with a static URL could still access it. Three years later, Ars Technica revisited the matter and found little has changed. But Facebook says that things will be different…eventually. Ars Technica’s Jacqui Cheng got…

Social Media Adrian Covert

Iceland Is So Inbred It Needs a Website to Avoid Incest

When your society has inhabited a small, remote island for countless generations and boasts a population of only 300,000, the odds of having sex with a relative are significant. Luckily, Icelanders now have a handy tool to avoid family-sex. Íslendingabók—meaning “book of Icelanders”—is an online incest avoidance search engine. Plug in your name and that…

Tech News Sam Biddle

10 Reasons to go Back to Bed

It’s Monday. For most of us, that means it’s back to the grind — whether that grind be work, school, or some other scheduled obligation. Unfortunately for weekend warriors everywhere, these obligations typically require us to get up earlier than we’d choose if it were up to us. But sleep is important — and not…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

North Korea’s New Killer Drone Is Made In the USA

That red thing flying next to the F-16 is an MQM-107D Streaker, a target drone that was developed in the 1970s for the USAF and the Army. The North Koreans have bought several of them from Syria, and they are now using them to build unmanned attack drones loaded with high explosives. Yes. American drones…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A Congressman Thinks The Onion Is a Real News Source

John Fleming, a Republican US representative from Louisiana, made a dimwitted mistake on his Facebook page last week. Hell, it might be even more embarrassing than naked pics! Here’s what happened: Fleming missed the obvious humor of a satirical piece by The Onion and posted the fake piece to his Facebook followers as a real…

Social Media Casey Chan

How Much Abuse Can a Blackberry Take?

RIM just put out a series of videos showcasing the durability tests a Blackberry has to withstand prior to its release. Pretty cool! The featured victim is a Blackberry Curve, which is dunked in water, bent to excess, and dropped. Details are slim regarding the specifics of the tests and their outcomes, but it’s still…

Tech News Michael Hession

In 1995, New Mexico voted on a bill requiring psychologists to dress as wizards

In 1995, New Mexico state senator Duncan Scott was getting aggravated by the number of psychologists and psychiatrists being used as expert witnesses in legal trials. To protest this perceived overuse of psychiatric professionals, Scott tacked the following protest amendment onto a bill: When a psychologist or psychiatrist testifies during a defendant’s competency hearing, the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

What It Looks Like Underneath a Wave

The world is ripe with awe-inspiring footage of surfers riding waves. I mean who doesn’t love a giant wall of water? But rarely do we get to see the terrifying underbelly that lies beneath the surface. Photographer Mark Tipple sets out to document this phenomenon with the Underwater Project. Mark turns the camera on ocean…

Tech News Michael Hession

Behold Olympus’s OM-D: Is Olympus Giving Up on DSLRs?

The camera blogs have discovered what appear to be full-size images of Olympus’ new OM-D-series E-M5 mirrorless camera. While we can’t be sure the photos are real, we can’t help but wonder if they indicate that Olympus is heading towards a DSLR-free future. https://gizmodo.com/gorgeous-shot-of-the-olympus-om-d-leaks-5881960 The new photos were discovered by 43 Rumors on Amazon Japan,…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

No Online Dating Site Can Match Up Your Inner Crazy

Online dating’s said to be the future of relationships, now that we’re all too busy to meet people in real life. But claims that websites can match you with your ideal partner using scientific algorithms are bull, according to a team of psychologists. Because not even fancy math can suss out our own unique brands…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Avengers Super Bowl Trailer Screencaps

The Avengers trailer begins like many before it. Over the New York city skyline, the quiet just before it’s invaded, and things go boom! A bitter Captain says nothing surprises him now. Wanna bet? Meanwhile a pair of Avengers Quinjets land on what we’re assuming is the SHIELD Helicarrier. New York city goes boom and…

Movies Meredith Woerner

John Carter Super Bowl Trailer Screencaps

A brand new look at the dry landscape of Barsoom, with a city in the distance Meet the Tharks! Riding on some Thoats, towards the water. Our best look so far at the Thoats in action? Taylor Kitsch looks up as they ride a boat along a canal, under a weird bridge. The boat drifts…

Movies Meredith Woerner and Charlie Jane Anders

Alan Moore announces new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic, featuring the Mountains of Madness

Over the weekend, Alan Moore engaged in a 2.5-hour webchat as a fundraiser for Cleveland’s Harvey Pekar Library Statue. During this frank conversation, the Bearded Master addressed questions about his feud with Grant Morrison (short answer: there isn’t one), why he wrote Neonomicon (“Because I had a massive, massive tax debt.”), and the difference between…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Purify Your Water With a Burnt Stick

Anonymous May Have Completely Destroyed This Military Law Firm

Can Google’s new conference really save the world?

Solve a Mystery, Become an Archer, and Win the GrandPrix

Hunger Games Screencaps: Wall of Fire, Love Triangle of Doom!

It Takes More Than a DSLR and Warm Clothes to Shoot the X-Games

G.I. Joe: Retaliation Super Bowl Screencaps

Your Deleted Facebook Photos Still Aren’t Really Deleted

Iceland Is So Inbred It Needs a Website to Avoid Incest

10 Reasons to go Back to Bed

North Korea’s New Killer Drone Is Made In the USA

A Congressman Thinks The Onion Is a Real News Source

How Much Abuse Can a Blackberry Take?

In 1995, New Mexico voted on a bill requiring psychologists to dress as wizards

What It Looks Like Underneath a Wave

Behold Olympus’s OM-D: Is Olympus Giving Up on DSLRs?

No Online Dating Site Can Match Up Your Inner Crazy

The Avengers Super Bowl Trailer Screencaps

John Carter Super Bowl Trailer Screencaps

Alan Moore announces new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic, featuring the Mountains of Madness

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