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Tech News Andrew Tarantola

X-Men Class of ’62 poses for their yearbook photos

An odd assembling of the X-Men: First Class cast graces the cover of Total Film. Get a better look at Emma Frost’s underoos, and Mystique in both mutant and “normal human” mode. So there’s some good stuff here, and some photoshop disasters. We’re not even sure the picture in the lounge is legit, but it…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Spring Cleaning for Your Computer: Evacuate PC Dust Bunnies

If your PC’s been humming along under your desk for more than a year or two, I’ve got news for you: Chances are inside that case, half a dozen dust bunnies are dancing around your hard drive, leeching onto your CPU fan and fluttering about your motherboard having a grand old time. This is not…

Tech News Gina Trapani

The Best Deal of the Day

Here’s the beginning of an essay I wrote about Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade: “The beginning of Romeo and Juliet presents us the characters very boldly. We are allowed to see their true personalities shine through, for at this point, none of the trouble of the rest of the play has begun yet. We…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

40+ Amazing Pieces of Dragon Art and Cosplay

HBO’s fantasy epic Game of Thrones starts this weekend, and we’re seeing dragons everywhere. Dragons perched over cities! Dragons on electric guitars! People and their pets dressed as dragons! Dragons are the universal signifier of awesomeness. To celebrate the unfathomable coolness and raging fury of dragons, we’ve collected dozens of hardcore pieces of dragon art…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders and Michael Ann Dobbs

1980s Star Wars Underoos commercial ruins the original trilogy

Remember when underoos were cool? These dancing kids will put a stop to that notion. Watch in horror as movie merchandising goes too far. Starring the stripper from Under Siege! Yep, Erika Eleniak is the C-3PO dancer. Via Laughing Squid.

io9 Meredith Woerner

Exclusive Images of FlipLive, the Streaming Video Camera that Will Never Be

Here are the first photos of Flip’s never-to-be launched FlipLive. The FlipLive was supposed to be Flip’s next-generation camcorder, one that could stream video to the cloud. But Cisco killed the brand the day before the Live was supposed to launch. David Pogue, who revealed the existence of the FlipLive, argues that Cisco should have…

Tech News Brian Lam

Wiimote and iPhone Combine Powers to Become…the Invisible Instrument!

I love this little Kickstarter project which has received some serious heat in the time it’s been running. The creator wants to build an app he can release on the App Store (hopefully for free), which will pair a Wiimote with iPhone or iPod Touch for some serious music-making. As the video shows, the app…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Scientists make a vase out of DNA

Scientists have begun to use DNA as a building material to make shapes. Usually those shapes are simple, but recently they managed to make a 3D vase out of human DNA. DNA is the blueprint for life, and the astonishing and elegant way that genes are stored and passed down through generations. It’s also a…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

How wasps produce their own antibiotics

We already know wasps are evil incarnate, but according to new research, they may yet have some redeeming features. Female beewolf digger wasps have colonies of symbiotic bacteria that inhabit their antennae and the wasps secrete this bacterial cocktail into the cocoons of their offspring. The bacteria create a potent salve of anti-bacterials and anti-fungals,…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Idiot Uses Live WWII Grenade as Paperweight

Oh, boy. After running the plates of a suspicious vehicle and finding an outstanding arrest warrant, Birmingham police pulled over and searched the car in question. Inside the found a man, his lady friend, and a live grenade from WWII. He’s been using it, he says, as a paperweight. The bomb squad was called in,…

Tech News Brian Barrett

HBO making a miniseries of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods?

Cinematographer Robert Richardson (Inglourious Basterds) is pitching HBO an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. Backed by Playtone Productions’ Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, Richardson hopes to co-write a pilot, based on the award-winning novel, with Gaiman himself. [Deadline]

io9 Meredith Woerner

New Rail Gun Rounds Zip Through Steel at 1 Mile a Second

Rail guns are still halfway between sci-fi and battlefield, but the armscrafters at General Atomics are still working to improve the futuristic weapon. Instead of launching clunky “bricks,” a new, aerodynamic round is being tested. Git ready fer military porn! https://gizmodo.com/this-navy-electric-railgun-annihilates-targets-100-mile-5711467 The “sabot” round uses a three stage mechanism that sends a dart-like shell hurdling…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Ten Craziest Superman/Batman Stories

Superman/Batman is a current DC title that chronicles the adventures of Superman and Batman. And they’ve had a few. See the ten nuttiest storylines current comics have to offer. Superman/Batman is one of the gems of contemporary comics. The title makes it look like the flimsiest possible excuse to put DC’s two most lucrative characters…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Discovering (or Debunking) a Link Between Cancer and Cellphones Isn’t Easy

Discovering carcinogens in the world is a tricky task as is. But as a Columbia professor of oncology shows, trying to create or destroy a link between cellphones and cancer is borderline impossible (for the time being). [New York Times]

Tech News Adrian Covert

Game of Thrones Is Not Your Friendly Neighborhood Epic Fantasy Nerdfest

Fine, there’s a little magic. But HBO’s brand-new series Game of Thrones is more Wars of the Roses than Lord of the Rings. See, the families of Westeros can’t stand each other—so don’t expect any bands of unlikely companions journeying across a barren landscape while forging unfathomable bonds. Instead, prepare for an interfamilial battle royale.…

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Game of Thrones Is Not Your Friendly Neighborhood Epic Fantasy Nerdfest

Fine, there’s a little magic. But HBO’s brand-new series Game of Thrones is more Wars of the Roses than Lord of the Rings. See, the families of Westeros can’t stand each other—so don’t expect any bands of unlikely companions journeying across a barren landscape while forging unfathomable bonds. Instead, prepare for an interfamilial battle royale.…

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Windows 8 Can Be Run From a USB Stick

A leaked copy of Windows 8 has had people scrambling to find new features and tidbits to gossip about—and it looks like there’s a surprise hidden there for us, as we’ll actually be able to run it from a USB stick. In fact, you’ll be able to create copies using the portable workspace feature, though…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Homemade Camera Looks Like Your Nan’s Kitsch Lamp

Little is known about this homemade camera that was spotted on the streets of Tokyo, other than it uses medium-format film and has a 360-degree lens which kind of resembles a crystal ball, as Photojojo said. I wonder if you can see the photo-future by staring into that lens? [Tokyo Camera Style via Photojojo]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

A documentary about Fredric Wertham, who nearly destroyed the comic book industry in the 1950s

Here’s a documentary I’d really like to see: The story of Fredric Wertham, a moral crusader and psychologist who nearly destroyed the comics industry. He claimed comics were turning children into delinquents and homosexuals – and America believed him. Now the Sequart Research & Literacy Organization is raising money on Kickstarter for a documentary called…

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Oobject Bridgelaying Gallery

X-Men Class of ’62 poses for their yearbook photos

Spring Cleaning for Your Computer: Evacuate PC Dust Bunnies

The Best Deal of the Day

40+ Amazing Pieces of Dragon Art and Cosplay

1980s Star Wars Underoos commercial ruins the original trilogy

Exclusive Images of FlipLive, the Streaming Video Camera that Will Never Be

Wiimote and iPhone Combine Powers to Become…the Invisible Instrument!

Scientists make a vase out of DNA

How wasps produce their own antibiotics

Idiot Uses Live WWII Grenade as Paperweight

HBO making a miniseries of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods?

New Rail Gun Rounds Zip Through Steel at 1 Mile a Second

The Ten Craziest Superman/Batman Stories

Discovering (or Debunking) a Link Between Cancer and Cellphones Isn’t Easy

Game of Thrones Is Not Your Friendly Neighborhood Epic Fantasy Nerdfest

Game of Thrones Is Not Your Friendly Neighborhood Epic Fantasy Nerdfest

Windows 8 Can Be Run From a USB Stick

Homemade Camera Looks Like Your Nan’s Kitsch Lamp

A documentary about Fredric Wertham, who nearly destroyed the comic book industry in the 1950s

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