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Who is the hero of Game of Thrones?

We’ve seen two whole hours of HBO’s Game of Thrones, the sprawling fantasy saga, so it’s not too soon to start asking: Who’s the hero of this thing? Who, in particular, are we rooting for? Who’s our idol here? Last night’s episode offered us several possible choices for the hero of the saga — but…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Apr 25 '11

South Park introduces the HUMANCENTiPAD: part iPad, part Human Centipede

South Park’s 15th season premiere is this Wednesday. In celebration the show has unveiled a new killer app: the HUMANCENTiPAD. Yep, it’s just as gross as it sounds. Can’t wait to see what Trey Parker and Matt Stone will do with this one. Here’s a small clip from the premiere, which mocks Steve Jobs and…

io9 Meredith Woerner Apr 25 '11

Apple Patent Reveals Extensive Stalking Plans

The spying iPhone is no accident. A recent Apple patent application reveals that the location-tracking dossiers accumulated in iPhones are to be used in apps from Apple and any number of other companies. Ronald Huang, an Apple senior engineering manager, filed patent application 12/553,554 last month, “Location histories for location aware devices,” which explains how…

Tech News Ryan Tate Apr 25 '11

You Won’t Fix My Hard Drive Because I WROTE on the Label?

Almost no one reads the lengthy terms and conditions that come with nearly every piece of technology. But here’s a reason you may want to start: Toshiba is charging a customer over $400 to fix his friend’s hard drive because he wrote “X Faulty” on the label. Chris, a computer technician, determined that the drive…

Tech News Max Behrman Apr 25 '11

Doctor Who’s season opener was the show’s worst-rated debut since its return

Only about 6.4 million Brits watched the first episode of Doctor Who season six, “The Impossible Astronaut,” according to overnight ratings, versus 8 million for last year’s “The Eleventh Hour.” That number will no doubt go up when time-shifted viewers and other factors are included — the final number for “The Eleventh Hour” was 9.6…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Apr 25 '11

Taliban Prison Breakers Interviewed

The Daily Beast has interviewed two of the men freed in the prison break we covered earlier today. One interviewee, Mullah Asadullah Akhund, described the escape in detail, while an anonymous commander was quoted as saying, “We are poor in technology, but with the help of All Mighty Allah we embarrassed the enemy with all…

Tech News Brian Lam Apr 25 '11

Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies

A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most other Drosophila developmental biologists – consult regularly. The book, published in 1992, is out of…

Books & Comics Michael B. Eisen Apr 25 '11

The Great Escape: Today’s Prison Break Roundup

A Brief History of Strange Prison Escape Tools https://gizmodo.com/a-brief-history-of-strange-prison-escape-tools-5795458 The recent Taliban prison escape was undeniably crafty. But especially noteworthy was the creation of the 320+ meter tunnel without power tools, which would have been too noisy. Here are six other great escapes, and the gear that made them possible. More » Taliban Prison Breakers Interviewed…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Apr 25 '11

A Brief History of Strange Prison Escape Tools

The recent Taliban prison escape was undeniably crafty. But especially noteworthy was the creation of the 320+ meter tunnel without power tools, which would have been too noisy. Here are six other great escapes, and the gear that made them possible. https://gizmodo.com/500-taliban-prisoners-just-escaped-through-a-long-under-5795362 Alcatraz Federal Prison, San Francisco, 1962 The most famous escape attempt from Alcatraz…

Tech News Adrian Covert Apr 25 '11

The World’s Largest Tunnel Boring Machine: A 400-Foot, 9.5-Million Pound Mechanical Earthworm

We’ve been thinking a lot today about moving earth to make pathways. Tunnels. What if you’re not talking about thin, dirt tubes to move humans, though, but holes so big entire industries can flow through them? This is the world’s largest tunnel boring machine: an Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Shield developed by Herrenknecht AG. https://gizmodo.com/500-taliban-prisoners-just-escaped-through-a-long-under-5795362…

Tech News Max Behrman Apr 25 '11

The HUMANCENTiPad Is Probably the Grossest Way to Use an iPad

South Park’s 15th season is kicking off this Wednesday with an introduction of Apple’s lastest revolutionary new product: The HUMANCENTiPad. Yup. It’s exactly what it sounds like. The Human Centipede, which was disturbingly gross, combined with the iPad, which hasn’t been gross until now. Watch the quick teaser (complete with accurate cartoon image). Is comedians…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 25 '11

The grassroots Star Trek campaign that saved the series

Before the age of Facebook campaigns and Twitter tags fans used to have to show up in person, and fight for their right to watch more Star Trek. Check out the original “save our show” protest, from 1968. The Los Angeles Times has released an old picture from their vault of a “Trekkie” protest on…

Television Meredith Woerner Apr 25 '11

Poisonous formaldehyde may have saved all life on Earth billions of years ago

About 4.4 billion years ago, a Mars-sized planet crashed into Earth. This cataclysmic event actually made Earth melt, and the fallout from the collision became the Moon. So how did Earth’s earliest organic molecules hang on during these apocalyptic times? Although this collision happened long before life emerged on our planet, the basic building blocks…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Apr 25 '11

How to Run iPad Apps on Your iPhone

It’s not exactly practical to do—what with different screen resolutions and such—but it’s possible to run iPad apps on your jailbroken iPhone. And true, the idea isn’t exactly new—enterprising folks did it when Netflix was iPad only—but it’s a bit easier to do now. Here’s how. Basically, you’ll need to download and install the iTelePad2Pod…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 25 '11

Calling the Internet Police

Life in the cloud is all well and good until a server goes down. Tweetage Wasteland’s David Pell posits on the pitfalls of entrusting our offline lives to online services. A few months ago my friend Hudson was working on a new and promising internet business. He hired contractors for most of the work –…

Commerce Andrew Tarantola Apr 25 '11

The most gruesome fates in fantasy

Consequences are what give actions depth, and when magic and high intrigue are in the mix, the consequences can be huge. Have a look at the most terrible fates that fantasy characters have ever met. Unhappy Afterlife Sometimes consequences don’t even have to be for losers to be awful. Harry Potter has some pretty heavy…

Movies Esther Inglis-Arkell Apr 25 '11

The Best Deal of the Day

Ah, childhood nostalgia. It’s great, right? Especially when you have a love for that semi-obscure cartoon that only you have any memory of. For some of you, that cartoon is probably Defenders of the Earth, the ’80s cartoon which saw Flash Gordon, the Phantom and Mandrake the Magician doing battle against the likes of Ming…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Apr 25 '11

World Of Warcraft Is The Future Of Online Dating

Dating sites are always looking for a method of matching people up with dates they’ll actually like in real life. But World of Warcraft may already have found it. Read the full story on Jezebel. https://kotaku.com/world-of-warcraft-is-the-future-of-online-dating-5795371

io9 Jezebel Apr 25 '11

Check out a 7-page preview of IDW’s Doctor Who comic: it’s the 11th Doctor vs. Jack the Ripper!

Here’s an exclusive sneak peek at IDW Publishing’s latest issue of Tony Lee’s Doctor Who. In the final installment of “Ripper’s Curse,” the Eleventh Doctor’s time-meddling may have put Amy Pond in the Ripper’s path. The issue hits stores Wednesday, April 27. Here’s the solicitation information from IDW: Doctor Who #4 Tony Lee (w) •…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Apr 25 '11

An iPhone App That Scans the Stuff You Buy in the Supermarket

I love supermarkets. The ginormousness and excessiveness of everything makes me happy. But I hate waiting in line in supermarkets. Seriously, I have to stand and wait in this line for 5 minutes in order to give you my money? But no more! I’m only shopping at Stop and Shop from now on, a supermarket…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 25 '11

Who is the hero of Game of Thrones?

South Park introduces the HUMANCENTiPAD: part iPad, part Human Centipede

Apple Patent Reveals Extensive Stalking Plans

You Won’t Fix My Hard Drive Because I WROTE on the Label?

Doctor Who’s season opener was the show’s worst-rated debut since its return

Taliban Prison Breakers Interviewed

Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies

The Great Escape: Today’s Prison Break Roundup

A Brief History of Strange Prison Escape Tools

The World’s Largest Tunnel Boring Machine: A 400-Foot, 9.5-Million Pound Mechanical Earthworm

The HUMANCENTiPad Is Probably the Grossest Way to Use an iPad

The grassroots Star Trek campaign that saved the series

Poisonous formaldehyde may have saved all life on Earth billions of years ago

How to Run iPad Apps on Your iPhone

Calling the Internet Police

The most gruesome fates in fantasy

The Best Deal of the Day

World Of Warcraft Is The Future Of Online Dating

Check out a 7-page preview of IDW’s Doctor Who comic: it’s the 11th Doctor vs. Jack the Ripper!

An iPhone App That Scans the Stuff You Buy in the Supermarket

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