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The stars dance with a spiral galaxy 80 million light-years away

Everything in this image is so far away that it defies our comprehension. And yet we’re also looking at two vastly different scales here, as stars from well within our own galaxy share space with a far distant spiral galaxy. This image from the Hubble Telescope is a simple but powerful reminder of how cosmic…

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How Love Is Like an App Store

How is an App Store like love? Let me count the ways. Or rather, let this comic from Diesel Sweeties do it. Although I would add that given enough time, they both run up a huge bill. [DieselSweeties]

Books & Comics Brian Barrett

Gas Is Still Way Cheaper Than Water

Sure, you’ve been paying more at the pump for gas lately. But how expensive is gas these days, really? Or rather: how much more expensive than every other liquid you buy? Pretty cheap, actually! https://lifehacker.com/how-to-save-money-on-gas-with-apps-5778990 Good put together this handy infographic (click to embiggen) of how much various items cost were you to purchase them…

Tech News Brian Barrett

BlackBerry Protect Will Find, Remote Wipe and Backup Your BlackBerry for Free

It’s been in limited beta since July and hit the App World a few weeks ago but if you didn’t grab it then, go download BlackBerry Protect for your Blackberry now. You can locate your BB on a map, set a password, wipe it, make it ring loud or display a message and even wirelessly…

Tech News Casey Chan

A First-Hand Account of One of The First Forays Into Useful Nuclear Power

The Atlantic has just digitized the first-person account of Commander E.E. Kintner’s experience at the Submarine Thermal Reactor, a story they first published back in January 1959. It’s about one of the first nuclear reactors coming to life only a handful of years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and it details how exacting science must at…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Walt Disney didn’t put Rasputin in the Haunted Mansion to avoid being sued by the mad monk’s descendants

When Walt Disney was building Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion ride in the 1960s, he rejected a proposed portrait of the almost unkillable Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin. How come? He was afraid of lawsuits from Rasputin’s relations. As Long-Forgotten explains: One of the fundamental decisions that confronted the Imagineers who put together the Haunted Mansion was choosing…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

When surveillance goes so far that it becomes art

Ever wanted to spend your day watching yourself in third-person shooter mode, seeing the world from behind your head or over your shoulder? Now you can, thanks to Korean artist Hwang Kim’s CCTV chandelier, the ultimate surveillance accessory. Kim put the entire crazy device together himself, soldering circuit boards and mounting cameras on a metal…

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Watch The Incident at Tower 37, a CG film about the water war between humans and fish men

Today is World Water Day, and filmmaker Chris Perry has released his short film The Incident at Tower 37 online. Watch an amphibious race square off against a hapless water plant employee. Perry, who worked on such Pixar productions as Toy Story 2 and A Bug’s Life, created this film independently with animators from Hampshire…

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Stick Your Feet into the Boat Shoe Boat

We’re stepping up our coverage of shoe-shaped transport here at Gizmodo after yesterday’s electric car shoe, with today’s shoe boat from Sebago. I wonder how many (lace) knots this boat travels at? [Selectism] https://gizmodo.com/if-the-electric-shoe-car-fits-5783896

Tech News Kat Hannaford

“My We” Is Scary Art to Address a Scary Situation

In the Philippines, where you can die for singing Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” off key, artist Louie Cordero decided to satirize the ongoing violence with an over-the-top installation that shows just how crazy the phenomenon has gotten. It’ll make you think twice whenever you find yourself humming the Sinatra songbook. You may remember that the…

Tech News Kwame Opam

NASA picks the awesomest DIY space art from Etsy

The results of the “space craft” contest sponsored by NASA and Etsy are in, and the finalists include some of the coolest home-made space art we’ve ever seen. Here are some of our favorites. According to a NASA press release: Contestants entered an original handmade item or work of art inspired by NASA programs, such…

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The Middle East Revolts Laid Out in a Beautiful Interactive Timeline

The UK Guardian has a beautiful interactive timeline breaking down the chain of events as it pertains to the Middle East revolts, which involve Egypt, Tunsia and Libya. Cleanly organized by date, event and country, it’s a helpful way to make sense of a lot of information at the very least. [Guardian]

Tech News Adrian Covert

Every Egg Should Have Nutritional Facts Printed On Its Shell

This egg had its nutritional facts printed on its shell by an Eggbot (a machine that prints stuff on ping pong balls, eggs, and other ball-shaped objects) and holy moly there’s 71% of your daily value of cholesterol in one egg? Anyway! This is genius. I’d approve of printed-on nutritional facts for everything. Fruits, eggs,…

Tech News Casey Chan

There is a possibility that we live in a universe dominated by antimatter

We first created positrons, electrons’ antimatter counterparts, in 1932. But it took decades to create more antiparticles. Now, the newly-discovered antihelium-4 could help us figure out whether there are vast pockets of antimatter in our universe. Specifically, researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider were able to observe 18 antinuclei of helium-4…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The First Major WP7 Update Has Begun

I know, I know. You got all excited about the last WP7 update, only to find that it was actually more of a pre-update. This time, though, the real deal is coming your way: ‘NoDo’ has started rolling out, bringing with it copy and paste, faster app loading, and some other minor performance enhancements. Run!…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Upgrade Your Man Cave

Or your lady cave. Take this equal-opportunity survey and you could win a $150 gift certificate to Best Buy. Just email the last question to [email protected] with “Best Buy Gift Card Contest” as the subject line. You could get new speakers, or a TV, and finally have the “alone time space” of your dreams. Standard…

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This Breakdancing Android Will Fill You with Wonder and Horrible Nightmares

How do you sell Sony products? You can either have the ultracute Kristen Schaal shill as a psychotic gamer, or you can put some poor, poor sap in an Android costume and force him to frantically breakdance. Shudder. [via Fark] https://gizmodo.com/new-xperia-play-commercials-have-enslaved-my-soul-5784428

Tech News Sam Biddle

19 Objects Cloned by Light

You know that special Mortal Kombat kick where there are, like, multiple Johnny Cages? Well, by firing a flash a bunch of times during one photo, you can create Johnny Cage kicks out of anything. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-its-stroboscopic-5782480 WINNER and Lead Shot – Hot Wheels So, I’ve been wanting to submit a Shooting Challenge for several weeks…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Which comedy series should Syfy greenlight?

According to rumors the Syfy channel is hell-bent on making a single camera comedy series. We’ve got a list of the three possible pilots Syfy could order up — vote for the one you’d like to see! According to Deadline Syfy has narrowed down the list of potential comedy series. Here they are: In the…

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The Best Deal of the Day

Have you seen the South Park episode where the internet goes down? Cataclysmic, right? If their plan of unplugging and plugging-it-back-in didn’t work, what would they have done? What would you do? https://gizmodo.com/how-to-fix-the-internet-according-to-south-park-381088 That’s why you should always have a backup router. Think about it—everything you do for fun pretty much goes through the internet…

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The stars dance with a spiral galaxy 80 million light-years away

How Love Is Like an App Store

Gas Is Still Way Cheaper Than Water

BlackBerry Protect Will Find, Remote Wipe and Backup Your BlackBerry for Free

A First-Hand Account of One of The First Forays Into Useful Nuclear Power

Walt Disney didn’t put Rasputin in the Haunted Mansion to avoid being sued by the mad monk’s descendants

When surveillance goes so far that it becomes art

Watch The Incident at Tower 37, a CG film about the water war between humans and fish men

Stick Your Feet into the Boat Shoe Boat

“My We” Is Scary Art to Address a Scary Situation

NASA picks the awesomest DIY space art from Etsy

The Middle East Revolts Laid Out in a Beautiful Interactive Timeline

Every Egg Should Have Nutritional Facts Printed On Its Shell

There is a possibility that we live in a universe dominated by antimatter

The First Major WP7 Update Has Begun

Upgrade Your Man Cave

This Breakdancing Android Will Fill You with Wonder and Horrible Nightmares

19 Objects Cloned by Light

Which comedy series should Syfy greenlight?

The Best Deal of the Day

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