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The most beautiful literary mystery in Edinburgh

Over the past year, Edinburgh, Scotland has witnessed the unfolding of a lovely and enigmatic homage to the written word. In libraries, theaters, and literary community centers, people began finding gorgeous, anonymously-created book sculptures. Each of these detailed artworks depicts a scene inspired by the books they’re crafted from. Above you can see a T-Rex…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Apple Hiring to Fix Siri

Apple’s Broken Promise aka Siri aka The iPhone 4S’ Gimmicky Party App has a lot of problems and Apple is trying to fix them. There are two new job openings for iOS software engineers to work with Siri’s user interface team: We are looking for an engineer to join the team that implements the UI…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Timbuk2’s Crater Case Lets Your MacBook Air Breathe

It looks like something between the Nickelodeon Astro Crag and a piece of swiss cheese, but Timbuk2’s latest sleeve has a lot of thought behind it. The casing is meant to ventilate your laptop—just watch for rain. I’ve really been digging the freshly-launched sleeve. The materials feel great—soft, sturdy, and well-crafted—although I wish it gave…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Evernote’s New Apps Will Help Make Your Over-Documenting Friends Even More Annoying

Hey look, I like the advanced notetaking tools we’re afforded on our computers, smartphones and tablets as much as anyone. But there’s a point at which your documentation of life just gets in the way of you actually living life. Case in point: Evernote’s two new apps, Food and Hello. Oh great, more tools for…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The 10 Greatest Spherical Monsters In Science Fiction And Fantasy (NSFW)

A monster doesn’t need limbs or appendages to be great. No, sometimes all the being needs are ample curves to strike fear into the hearts of its foes. Here are ten of our favorite circular beings, and be forewarned that there’s a NSFW creature or two among the bunch. 10.) Clifford Simak’s They Walked Like…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Famous optical illusion reveals your brain’s hidden reflexes, say scientsts

You’ve probably seen this optical illusion before, in which two lines of identical length appear to be different by adding opposite-facing arrows to them. It’s a very powerful effect – so much so that it overwhelms all other visual information. That’s the finding of researchers at the University of London, who in an experiment asked…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Meet the Solar-Powered Amelia Earhart, Build a DIY Earthquake Sensor, and more from TreeHugger

This week, building your own earthquake sensor, turning trash into speakers, hacking Minecraft to include carbon emissions, treadmill conference rooms and more. 1. Vibroy Portable Vibrating Speakers Use Everyday Objects to Blast Your Tunes You can turn anything from pots to old boxes into speakers. 2. Build a DIY Earthquake Sensor You’ll know when the…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch - Treehugger

Ridley Scott: Streaming Movies Suck

Three-time Oscar-nominated director of many awesomesauce movies Ridley Scott penned a HuffPo article yesterday, detailing why streaming movies are still vastly inferior to physical media such as Blu-ray. Oh, yeah, Mr. Scott? You’re… you’re… absolutely right. Sigh. As much as we like our on-demand flick fix, Scott has a point. Namely, that we’re so quick…

Movies Brent Rose

Look Who’s The President in a World Without Warehouse 13‘s Pete Lattimer!

Apparently we have Agent Pete Lattimer to thank for President Obama — in the world where Pete was never born, John McCain is president! How did this happen? And what’s the town of Eureka like in the McCain universe? Spoilers ahead… I’m seriously confused as to how we end up with President John McCain just…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Only USB Cable You’ll Ever Need

Manufacturers are never going to agree on a universal charging standard, but Innergie makes that empty promise easier to stomach with their Magic Cable Trio that’s got you covered whether you need a microUSB, miniUSB or Apple dock connector cable. The tips all daisy-chain together, creating a single cable when you need to use it…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Myth of Multiple Personality Disorder

Fiction has mined the idea of multiple personalities for centuries, but it was only in the 1970s that science followed suit. But many argue that “multiple personality disorder” is not a real psychological ailment. What exactly is the science behind this disorder, and does it even exist? How does it work for people who are…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The New Facebook Is Finally Public! …In New Zealand.

We reviewed Facebook Timeline, the awesomely personal, beautifully designed new profile, in September. September. Facebook said it’d be open to everyone soon after. Clearly, that hasn’t happened—but the wait is over! If you live in New Zealand. What? As someone who uses Timeline daily, I’m without an explanation for why Facebook is holding out on…

Social Media Sam Biddle

The Lorax trailer! What the hell was that?

We were optimistic when the first trailer for The Lorax popped up (what with the heartstring yanking tunes from The Polyphonic Spree and the decidedly Seussian village). But the latest trailer is simply the last straw. This longer look at the adapted classic has “lifted away” any sort of morality or mood from the original…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Microsoft’s Windows Store Will Start Peddling Apps, Books and Games in February

Windows 8 is coming and it’s going to make all your wildest dreams come true. OK, that might not be wholly accurate, but at least Microsoft is hoping it’ll shake things up in the world of computing. One of the new additions will be a Windows Store, which was shown off at a preview event…

Tech News Sam Gibbs - gizmodo uk

Does stress cause U.S. Presidents to age faster and die younger?

Being the U.S. President is a stressful job — just look at how quickly our last few leaders have gone grey while in office. But is that stress enough to shorten their lifespans? A piece of research in this month’s Journal of the American Medical Association answers that question definitively. In the study, doctor Jay…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Words of Wisdom from Walter Mosley: If publishers tell me which genre to write in, “I go to another publisher.”

Good news! Walter Mosley, best known for his Easy Rawlins novels, will be publishing more science fiction next year — he has a series of SF novellas coming from Tor, whom he describes as “THE science fiction publisher.” They’ll be packaged as one or more flipbooks. A new interview with Mosley in Associated Press is…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Massive Stargate graph attempts to chart out every SG-1 story arc

The brave fans of Richard Dean Anderson (known to Gaters as Col. Jack O’Neill) are attempting to map out every single Stargate story arc in the 10 seasons Stargate SG-1 was on the air. Clearly this is a work in progress, as “200” and “Bad Guys” from Season 10 are missing. But we’ve got to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

John Carpenter’s music video for the Big Trouble in Little China theme song is hard to watch

We all know that Big Trouble in Little China is the best movie ever made (in which Kurt Russell is extremely confused). But did you know that director John Carpenter and his band the Coup DeVilles starred in a magnificent music video to accompany the flick? It’s true! I owe Jalopnik bon vivant Ray Wert…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Here are 10,000 reasons to be excited about deep-space exploration

Yesterday, NASA announced a milestone in the almost 22-year history of its Hubble Space Telescope: The 10,000th refereed scientific paper based on Hubble data has now been published, reinforcing that Hubble is one of the most successful astronomical experiments in human history. Many people will see this as an incredible achievement — a testament to…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Read an exclusive preview of Uncanny X-Force, one of the best X-Men comics out there

All this week, we’ve been gearing up for the conclusion of the “Dark Angel Saga” storyline in Uncanny X-Force, one of the most rollicking X-comics to date. In this grand finale, author Rick Remender and illustrator Jerome Opeña take us to the mutant team’s last stand against Archangel, their erstwhile teammate who has been corrupted…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The most beautiful literary mystery in Edinburgh

Apple Hiring to Fix Siri

Timbuk2’s Crater Case Lets Your MacBook Air Breathe

Evernote’s New Apps Will Help Make Your Over-Documenting Friends Even More Annoying

The 10 Greatest Spherical Monsters In Science Fiction And Fantasy (NSFW)

Famous optical illusion reveals your brain’s hidden reflexes, say scientsts

Meet the Solar-Powered Amelia Earhart, Build a DIY Earthquake Sensor, and more from TreeHugger

Ridley Scott: Streaming Movies Suck

Look Who’s The President in a World Without Warehouse 13‘s Pete Lattimer!

The Only USB Cable You’ll Ever Need

The Myth of Multiple Personality Disorder

The New Facebook Is Finally Public! …In New Zealand.

The Lorax trailer! What the hell was that?

Microsoft’s Windows Store Will Start Peddling Apps, Books and Games in February

Does stress cause U.S. Presidents to age faster and die younger?

Words of Wisdom from Walter Mosley: If publishers tell me which genre to write in, “I go to another publisher.”

Massive Stargate graph attempts to chart out every SG-1 story arc

John Carpenter’s music video for the Big Trouble in Little China theme song is hard to watch

Here are 10,000 reasons to be excited about deep-space exploration

Read an exclusive preview of Uncanny X-Force, one of the best X-Men comics out there

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