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This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Student Loan STDs

Before you engage in risky grad school enrollment, remember that you run a high risk of contracting a student loan. And once you’ve come down with one of those, it’s almost impossible to clean up. If this applies to you, your partner, or you just like laughing about horrible indebtedness, full video below: The rest…

Tech News Splitsider Feb 17 '12

Zune Music Pass May Be Reborn as a New Xbox Live Music Service

Microsoft is reportedly looking to improve its less-than-stellar track record when it comes to digital music. Having already scrapped its Zune player and Urge service, the software giant could be contemplating rebuilding the Zune Music Pass program as a new, Spotify-style service by year’s end. According to an unnamed CNet source, Microsoft hopes to re-brand…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 17 '12

Wave Your Paws to a Techno-Kitten Beat, Lolcat-Style

If flying around as a kitten with a jetpack, a “butterfly” kitten, or even a kitten wrapped with bacon as techno music plays is your idea of a good time, then Techno Kitten Adventure is the app you’ve been waiting for. This music game mashes the popular lolcats internet meme with techno music, creating one…

Tech News Paris Hill - Evolver.fm Feb 17 '12

The Air Force’s Crazy Plan to Launch Nuclear ICBMs from a Cargo Plane

When you think ICBM, things get Freudian—a long, slender missile erupting from an underground silo or submarine bay, gliding upwards. You probably don’t consider a giant missile dumped from the back of a plane. The Air Force did. The outlandish plan actually worked, DefenseTech explains—at least for one daring test. The idea was about as…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 17 '12

Matt Buchanan’s Worst Gizmodo Posts

We love Matt Buchanan and couldn’t be happier that he’s marching off to make something that’s new and brilliant and unique in tech writing. You might’ve heard that today’s his last day, so what better way to send him off to puppier pastures than a list of all the stuff he did wrong. Here’s Matt…

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 17 '12

The Incredible Engineering Behind History’s Greatest Airships

Zeppelins are actually quite an impressive species of aeronautical engineering—you know, when they aren’t on fire. That’s especially true considering the level of technological prowess in the 1920’s. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 shots of these magnificent air-borne cruisers before they ever lifted off. Be sure to also check out the hangers that…

Tech News David Galbraith - Oobject.com Feb 17 '12

Shirt Shuttle: Keep Your Dressy Oxford Wrinkle-Free On the Road

Whenever I leave town for the weekend, I always pack a nice shirt—you know, just in case. Trouble is, I always stuff that shirt into a tiny bag so it gets wrinkled. The Shirt Shuttle is the traveling man’s savior. This lightweight, A4-sized plastic case stores your neatly folded shirt until it’s time to use…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Feb 17 '12

Start your weekend with an expertly crafted mashup of the internet’s most gorgeous time-lapse videos

There’s a good chance you’ll recognize a few of the clips featured in Welcome to Earth — a beautifully composed “universal time-lapse” made up of 179 of the internet’s most stunning videos — but we’re guessing you haven’t seen them all, and you definitely haven’t seen them like this. At the bottom right hand corner…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 17 '12

The Host: Godzilla for a New Generation

It being Friday night and all, you should watch a movie blending all the right parts of action, horror, suspense and camp. But it need not be devoid of quality. The 2006 Korean monster flick The Host should serve you well. Imagine some crazy doctor poured a ridiculous amount of formaldehyde down the drain, and…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 17 '12

These Are the Routes for All US Military Nuclear Weapons Trucks

You are looking at the map of the routes followed by the nuclear trucks—plain-looking, high-tech trailers that travel America’s busiest highways carrying nuclear bombs, material for atomic weapons, radioactive metals and nuclear fuel for the US Navy. No. Shit. All this nuclear material is transported “from a variety of labs, reactors and military bases, to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 17 '12

A veteran monster-hunter faces one last challenge, in an excerpt from Saladin Ahmed’s fantasy debut

Saladin Ahmed has been a finalist for the Nebula and Campbell Awards, and now at last his debut fantasy novel, Throne of the Crescent Moon, is here. Check out the prologue and first chapter of the book, in which the last great Ghul-hunter faces the fact that he might just be getting too old for…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 17 '12

Disney Princess Torture Porn makes us really uncomfortable

Has the trend of weird, messed-up Disney Princess art finally gone too far? A new exhibition of Disney Princesses by photographer Thomas Czarnecki depicts them dying and getting injured, in “hilariously” clever fashions. The exhibition’s been making a splash the past week or so, with mentions on HuffPo and Design Boom, but is it too…

io9 Meredith Woerner Feb 17 '12

Why Mass Effect is the Most Important Science Fiction Universe of Our Generation

Mass Effect is epic. It’s the product of the best parts of Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and more with a protagonist who could be the love-child of Picard, Skywalker, and Starbuck. It’s one of the most important pieces of science fiction narrative of our generation. Mass Effect goes so far beyond other fictional…

io9 Kyle Munkittrick - Pop Bioethics Feb 17 '12

We’re Not Objective

Gizmodo is not objective. It never has been, I don’t think. And I hope it never will be. Because the point isn’t to be something as meaningless—and frankly, false—as objective. The point is to tell the truth. And sometimes, the truth comes with a point of view. A widespread, mealy-mouthed obsession with the appearance of…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 17 '12

Unique mid-sized black hole is the lonely survivor of a shredded galaxy

This is the Hubble Telescope’s latest and clearest yet image of the galaxy ESO 243-49. We’ve been watching this galaxy for a while now, because it’s likely home to the only known medium-sized black hole. And now we might know why that is. The black hole at the center of this galaxy is known as…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Feb 17 '12

I Am Legend Sequel (Or Maybe Prequel) Really Moving Forward?

Will Smith’s I Am Legend movie had a terrible, tacked-on ending that would make it difficult to continue the story — but Warner Bros. is determined to try. The Wrap reports that Warners is moving forward with an I Am Legend sequel — or, if Will Smith is willing to come back, a prequel, since…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Feb 17 '12

Seize Control of Your Music, Take Goofy Photos, Hurt Your Brain, and More

MY LIFE IS OUT OF CONTROL I want to manage my data and documents better. I want my music to sound better. I want my brain to work better. I want to watch videos on a bigger screen than my phone. And… I want to take funny pictures to make myself feel better about it.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Feb 17 '12

The Physics of Magnetic Nail Polish

Being of the Hack ’em Off or Chew ’em Up school of nail design, I was unaware that there was such a thing as magnetic nail polish. Now that I’ve learned about it, let’s take a look at the physics of a nail polish that forms fascinating patterns when exposed to a magnet! We all…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 17 '12

Listen to New Tunes, Play a Trippy Space Shooter, and Poll the Masses

I like listening to new music, I like playing games based around the sounds of that new music, and I like gathering the public opinion on everything. You too, right? If you want to see all the apps on one page click here. https://gizmodo.com/twitter-more-better-look-at-pictures-of-women-and-more-5884158 NPR Music: Beyond the live streams from 100 public radio stations,…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 17 '12

Canoodle with an iPhone, Control Everything, Throttle Evil Nerds and More

Weekend’s here. That means debasement and irresponsibility and, best of all, losing stuff. I’m planning on losing my phone this weekend. Haven’t decided where just yet, but that’s the fun of it. I might replace it with an iPhone, so here are some apps from this week that I’ll load it when I buy it.…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Feb 17 '12

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Student Loan STDs

Zune Music Pass May Be Reborn as a New Xbox Live Music Service

Wave Your Paws to a Techno-Kitten Beat, Lolcat-Style

The Air Force’s Crazy Plan to Launch Nuclear ICBMs from a Cargo Plane

Matt Buchanan’s Worst Gizmodo Posts

The Incredible Engineering Behind History’s Greatest Airships

Shirt Shuttle: Keep Your Dressy Oxford Wrinkle-Free On the Road

Start your weekend with an expertly crafted mashup of the internet’s most gorgeous time-lapse videos

The Host: Godzilla for a New Generation

These Are the Routes for All US Military Nuclear Weapons Trucks

A veteran monster-hunter faces one last challenge, in an excerpt from Saladin Ahmed’s fantasy debut

Disney Princess Torture Porn makes us really uncomfortable

Why Mass Effect is the Most Important Science Fiction Universe of Our Generation

We’re Not Objective

Unique mid-sized black hole is the lonely survivor of a shredded galaxy

I Am Legend Sequel (Or Maybe Prequel) Really Moving Forward?

Seize Control of Your Music, Take Goofy Photos, Hurt Your Brain, and More

The Physics of Magnetic Nail Polish

Listen to New Tunes, Play a Trippy Space Shooter, and Poll the Masses

Canoodle with an iPhone, Control Everything, Throttle Evil Nerds and More

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