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io9 Roundup: July 6, 2011

SNOWBALL’S CHANCE IN A DINOSAUR FIGHT | Dinosaurs battle in the snow, in a scene from The Great Dinosaur Escape, airing tomorrow night on National Geographic. Details here. https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-tv-torchwood-goes-big-budget-plus-two-dose-5817852 https://gizmodo.com/what-the-creators-of-torchwood-miracle-day-promise-you-5818770 What the Creators of Torchwood: Miracle Day Promise You’ll See Torchwood: Miracle Day starts airing in a couple days on Starz, and we have pretty…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 6 '11

For Some Reason, Adorable Kids Are Holding Big Ass Guns

During Marine Week 2011 in St. Louis, kids get to meet Marines, see what real life heroes are like, watch some of their drills and…handle real, big ass weapons. Wait what? Yeah, these kids get to put their grubby hands all over weapons of medium destruction. I’m not saying it’s wrong—there’s no way those guns…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 6 '11

Why Is No One Trying to Kill These Strains of Super-Bugs?

The number of unkillable strains of bacteria is growing, but no one seems all that interested in funding research to stop them. It’s not like the money’s going to booze and pizza—well-funded HIV research is important—but there’s no love at all for hating bacteria. Dr. Eli Perencevich, from the University of Iowa, ran the funding…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 6 '11

Art Nouveau Heroes, Heroines and More

Super mario world-Art nouveau by NoxIllunis971 at noxillunis971.deviantart.com April O’Nouveau by ninjaink at ninjaink.deviantart.com Ready to Believe You by ninjaink at ninjaink.deviantart.com Honey Bunny by ninjaink at ninjaink.deviantart.com .batman – art noveau by Karen Zachary Wang at iamacoyfish.deviantart.com .wonder woman – art nouveau by Karen Zachary Wang at iamacoyfish.deviantart.com MODOK Au Nouveau by John Beatty…

io9 Mandy Curtis Jul 6 '11

German Government Warns of iPhone Malware Threat From 2007

Run and hide your iPhone as a dangerous PDF exploit will let malware infect your handset. Cyber criminals will then use this malware to steal your sensitive information says Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security. Does this scenario sound familiar? It should as variants of this browser-based exploit have been around since 2007. In iPhone…

Tech News Kelly Jul 6 '11

What the Creators of Torchwood: Miracle Day Promise You’ll See

Torchwood: Miracle Day starts airing in a couple days on Starz, and we have pretty high expectations for the Doctor Who spin-off. But when the show’s creators spoke to us on a conference call, they only raised our hopes further. We were lucky enough to be on a call with producer Russell T. Davies, plus…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 6 '11

Two Dudes Buy Abandoned Island on Craigslist (And Need Your Help!)

If you picked up your very own secluded island wilderness, you might be tempted to use it for something zany, like an evil lair or a nude drinking reserve. But two Kickstarter chaps want something more noble: an artist’s hideaway. The Rabbit Island project envisions a small artist’s residency on the otherwise untouched Michigan sea…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 6 '11

This Wooden Excavator Won’t Demolish a House but Its Details Will Blow Your Mind

This wooden 1/16 scale model of a Caterpillar 5230B front shovel took Rob Fisher’s Woodchuck & Co art studio 3000 man hours to complete. It has 4000 individual parts that come together to make a semi-functioning excavator. To clarify, semi-functioning doesn’t mean it can sort of take down a building. The original is 24.6 feet…

Tech News Michael Zhao Jul 6 '11

The Soviet Ship That Cuts Through Ice Like a Nuclear-Powered Knife Through Butter

What the Soviets lacked in ability for effective governance, they made up for in ballsy engineering prowess. Really, who else would think to pack two nuclear reactors into a ship and set it loose in the Arctic breaking ice? The North Koreans? Psshhh, not likely. The NS Yamal, named after the “Ends of the Earth”…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 6 '11

Buy Groceries at a Virtual Supermarket Inside a Subway Station

I would never do my grocery shopping inside a subway station. The smells? The rats? The slime? Gross. But what about a virtual supermarket where you scan QR codes of items and have it delivered to you by the end of the day? They have that kind of virtual supermarket in a South Korea subway…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 6 '11

Cryptid Or Not? You Be The Judge.

We’ve gotten a lot of great cryptid photos from people trying to win our Cryptid Summer bounty, and even some video. Here are a few of the pictures people have sent us over the past two weeks — some are a little disturbing, so be warned. https://gizmodo.com/io9-offers-2000-bounty-for-authentic-photos-of-cryptid-5812013 Now you can vote on which you think…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 6 '11

Angry Robot Books offers a full year’s subscription for just £69

Here’s a business model that could help use the internet to save publishing from the abyss. Angry Robot Books will offer you e-book versions of every book it publishes in a year — up to 24 books — for £69. Other small publishers have tried a subscription model before, but given the tech-savvy nature of…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jul 6 '11

At Last, the First Image from Joss Whedon’s The Cabin in the Woods

Well this is promising! It’s been a long time since we’ve seen anything about the Joss Whedon film The Cabin in the Woods, co-written and directed by Drew Goddard. But now the first ever image is out. This picture shows the whole cast, including Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchinson and Fran Krantz — who plays a…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 6 '11

Amazon Brings Its Cloud Player To The iPad, Adds Unlimited Storage

Amazon sweetened its Cloud Drive service by adding support for the iPad and giving both its free and paying customers unlimited storage. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-cloud-player-goes-live-will-let-you-upload-and-5786628 iPad owners can play their music by opening the web-based Cloud Player in mobile Safari. The web player is not as elegant as a native app, but it’s better than nothing. Amazon…

Tech News Kelly Jul 6 '11

How did no one die in this horrific crash?

When first responders arrived at the scene of a crash on Indiana’s Sam Jones Expressway they saw the type of accident firefighters dread: A dozen crushed cars and an overturned 18-wheeler. Amazingly, there wasn’t a single fatality. How? [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/how-did-no-one-die-in-this-horrific-crash-5818656

Tech News Apisuper Jul 6 '11

This iPhone Plastic Surgery App Shows You How Ugly You’ll Be Once You Get Plastic Surgery

If you’re unhappy about the way you look, you can take a picture of yourself with an iPhone app and give yourself virtual tummy tucks, facelifts and any surgery imaginable. You’ll end up looking like a Real Housewife and real ugly. This is a thing! The virtual plastic surgery is disgusting. You’re brushing folds and…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 6 '11

New Ugly Americans clip spoofs The Omen

We’ve got an exclusive clip from tomorrow night’s episode of Ugly Americans (a show set in an alternate monster-populated universe). This week, it seems they’re lampooning The Omen, but with a nasty baby girl demon — aptly named Lilith. Here’s the synopsis from the episode, titled “Callie and Her Sister.” Callie’s parents get back together…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 6 '11

Is a robot playing the theremin the most science fictional sight possible?

We love the theremin for being a staple of science fiction soundtracks, so we’re just tickled that YouTuber and robotics researcher MsPetiteGeek has recorded one of her robots jamming with one of these warbling instruments. https://gizmodo.com/the-bizarre-musical-instruments-behind-classic-scifi-mo-5815346 She explains: My fellow lab mate, Tatsuhiko Itohara, created a program for HRP-2 to follow his hand while playing…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 6 '11

Are wide male faces really a predictor of unethical behavior?

The wider a man’s face is, the more likely he is to deceive others and cheat to get ahead…or so a new study claims. Is this just the new phrenology, or could there be something to the idea? Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, let’s look at the actual study. Researchers at the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 6 '11

io9 Roundup: July 6, 2011

For Some Reason, Adorable Kids Are Holding Big Ass Guns

Why Is No One Trying to Kill These Strains of Super-Bugs?

Art Nouveau Heroes, Heroines and More

German Government Warns of iPhone Malware Threat From 2007

What the Creators of Torchwood: Miracle Day Promise You’ll See

Two Dudes Buy Abandoned Island on Craigslist (And Need Your Help!)

This Wooden Excavator Won’t Demolish a House but Its Details Will Blow Your Mind

The Soviet Ship That Cuts Through Ice Like a Nuclear-Powered Knife Through Butter

Top Stories: Wednesday July 6, 2011

Buy Groceries at a Virtual Supermarket Inside a Subway Station

Cryptid Or Not? You Be The Judge.

Angry Robot Books offers a full year’s subscription for just £69

At Last, the First Image from Joss Whedon’s The Cabin in the Woods

Amazon Brings Its Cloud Player To The iPad, Adds Unlimited Storage

How did no one die in this horrific crash?

This iPhone Plastic Surgery App Shows You How Ugly You’ll Be Once You Get Plastic Surgery

New Ugly Americans clip spoofs The Omen

Is a robot playing the theremin the most science fictional sight possible?

Are wide male faces really a predictor of unethical behavior?

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