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I Wish My Books Magically Rearranged Themselves Like This

As someone who’s organized a bookshelf with highly specific color coordination, I greatly appreciate this video of one that organizes itself. With a bonus banana, even! Stop motion videographers of the world, I salute your delicate blend of patience and obsessive compulsiveness. [Urlesque]

Books & Comics Brian Barrett Feb 24 '11

OS X Lion’s Backward Scrolling Really Emphasizes iOS Direction of Macs

You can change the settings in preferences, of course, but Mac OS X Lion has trackpad scrolling backwards from what’s normal. Instead of two finger scrolling down making pages go down, it goes up, like if you were touching the screen. Like iOS. As if we needed more indication that Apple is trying to unify…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 24 '11

How a Pilot Risked His Life To Spy On Libya

Back in the late 80s, the United States and Libya were rabid enemies. This is the thrilling story of Brian Shul and his Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, as he zoomed through the skies of Qaddafi’s country, dodging anti-aircraft missiles.—JD In April 1986, following an attack on American soldiers in a Berlin disco, President Reagan ordered the…

Tech News Brian Shul Feb 24 '11

How a Pilot Risked His Life To Spy On Libya

Back in the late 80s, the United States and Libya were rabid enemies. This is the thrilling story of Brian Shul and his Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, as he zoomed through the skies of Qaddafi’s country, dodging anti-aircraft missiles.—JD [Gizmodo]

io9 Gizmodo Feb 24 '11

US Army Used Psy-Ops Tactics Against Powerful Americans to Push War

Psychological operations are important to the US military. Two highly unpopular wars are being fought among highly unfriendly populaces. But, under federal law, it’s illegal to use American psy-ops influence against other Americans. That hasn’t stopped us, Rolling Stone reports. According to statements made by members of the Army with psy-ops training—the strategy of both…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 24 '11

Westboro Baptist Bigots Blasted Away Online

There’s some uncertainty as to who’s responsible (all signs point to Anonymous, or it could be jingoist American hacker The Jester)—but the ignorant redneck subhumans of the Westboro Baptist Church are offline. As of right now, all of their sites are down. Now if only shutting them up IRL were so easy. [via Reddit and…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 24 '11

Video Games Teach Real Life Skills

I can’t believe some of the fetuses that work here don’t recognize this as a Pipe Mania/Pipe Dream reference. [Penny Arcade]

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 24 '11

Win a Copy of Catherine Fisher’s Relic Master: The Dark City

Anara, the world of New York Times bestselling author Catherine Fisher’s forthcoming book series Relic Master, is mysteriously crumbling toward devastation. And nothing is what it seems. Ancient relics emit technologically advanced powers; members of the old Order are hunted by the governing Watch, yet revered by the people; and the great energy that connects…

io9 Sponsored post Feb 24 '11

Man Trying To Set Glass-Breaking World Record Gets Humbled By Glass He Couldn’t Break

Reuben de Jong is a heavyweight kickboxer from New Zealand. You may remember him as Calthrop from the “Cursed” episode of Legend of the Seeker, though. Well, Calthrop recently took those, and other, skills to China in an effort to break the running-through-panes-of-glass world record. Calthrop failed. Fantastically. On live TV. In the land of…

Tech News Brian Hickey Feb 24 '11

Promise Pegasus Is the First RAID Storage With Thunderbolt

That didn’t take long! Promise’s new Pegasus R4 and R6 RAIDs support Thunderbolt, Intel’s new 10 Gb/s I/O tech, making for lightning fast transfer with a capacity of up to 12TB. Perfect for anyone who’s currently making their own feature length film and is going through the headache of dealing with all the files! [Promise]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 24 '11

This abandoned Soviet particle accelerator would have been the biggest in the world

In the twilight days of the Cold War, the Soviets began building UNK, a proton accelerator in the town of Provtino that would have been the biggest in the world. It was never completed…but its ghostly remains are still there. The photo up top shows the vast underground tunnels the Soviets were building for UNK…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Feb 24 '11

Watch the Discovery’s Final Voyage From the Comfort of Your PlayStation Home

At 4:50pm EST today, PlayStation Home users can tune in to watch NASA’s Discovery’s final blast-off from the Kennedy Space Center to the ISS, which will actually be Home’s first-ever live-stream of an event. There’s just one catch—it can only be watched from within the LOOT Sunset Yacht, which costs a pretty penny. If that…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford Feb 24 '11

The Magic Behind Disneyland’s Sound

Part of what makes Disneyland such an immersive experience is the sophisticated sound design found throughout the park. Across dozens of narrative worlds, hundreds of sound cues must be deployed at just the right moment to keep the visitors suspended in disbelief. Here’s a look at the extraordinarily talented Imagineers who make it happen (though…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 24 '11

Why the New MacBook Pros Aren’t For Most People

The 2011 MacBook Pros are amazing machines. Fast processors, awesome graphics, new thunder-and-lightning connectivity. If you are a professional-on-the-go dealing with high definition video in Final Cut Pro, print-resolution images in Photoshop or 3D animation in Maya, Apple’s new laptops will make you very happy. But if you are just a regular user, the new…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 24 '11

What If US Cities Had Kept Their Original Names?

The good people at CrassTalk have whipped up a map with the original names of our most famous cities. Which, honestly, what’s it going to take to get Philadelphia back to Shackamaxon? [CrassTalk via biotv]

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 24 '11

10 Agribusiness Methods That Could Fail in the Next 20 years

A generation ago, most farms were still relatively small and independent, but the past 20-30 years have seen factory farms become a quasi-monopoly. What will farms look like a generation from now? One thing’s for sure — farming won’t look the same as it does now. Even if you ignore larger factors — like skyrocketing…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders and Michael Ann Dobbs Feb 24 '11

CNN App Wolf Blitzers Its Way onto Android Tabs

Lots going on in the news these days! Lindsay Lohan, am I right? Also some things in the Middle East. CNN’s got a new way to track it all, with a Honeycomb tablet app. Live video, grid view, citizen reporting. And free. [Android Marketplace]

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 24 '11

Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein leaps off the stage and into movie theaters

Now this is a show that doesn’t need fancy stunts to sell us. Watch the trailer for Danny Boyle’s stage translation of Frankenstein, coming soon to select movie theaters. (Previously Boyle directed 28 Days Later, Sunshine, and 172 Hours, among others). Just to make things really interesting, the two lead actors swap the roles of…

io9 Meredith Woerner Feb 24 '11

Rdio Now on Roku Boxes

Rdio, our most adored music subscription service, is now available as a channel on Roku devices. Subscribers can search for tunes, listen to playlists, and access a queue of songs built on the web or Rdio apps. They both have four letters and start with “r,” so it was kinda inevitable. [Rdio] https://gizmodo.com/on-rdio-5746268

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 24 '11

Trash Fights Back: The scariest monsters made of garbage!

Is there anything scarier than a garbage monster? If you even survived a trash-monster attack, you’d have to take one continuous shower for a week to feel clean afterwards. Plus some garbage monsters contain a lot of rusty metal. The only way to protect yourself from a garbage monster attack is to know how to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 24 '11

I Wish My Books Magically Rearranged Themselves Like This

OS X Lion’s Backward Scrolling Really Emphasizes iOS Direction of Macs

How a Pilot Risked His Life To Spy On Libya

How a Pilot Risked His Life To Spy On Libya

US Army Used Psy-Ops Tactics Against Powerful Americans to Push War

Westboro Baptist Bigots Blasted Away Online

Video Games Teach Real Life Skills

Win a Copy of Catherine Fisher’s Relic Master: The Dark City

Man Trying To Set Glass-Breaking World Record Gets Humbled By Glass He Couldn’t Break

Promise Pegasus Is the First RAID Storage With Thunderbolt

This abandoned Soviet particle accelerator would have been the biggest in the world

Watch the Discovery’s Final Voyage From the Comfort of Your PlayStation Home

The Magic Behind Disneyland’s Sound

Why the New MacBook Pros Aren’t For Most People

What If US Cities Had Kept Their Original Names?

10 Agribusiness Methods That Could Fail in the Next 20 years

CNN App Wolf Blitzers Its Way onto Android Tabs

Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein leaps off the stage and into movie theaters

Rdio Now on Roku Boxes

Trash Fights Back: The scariest monsters made of garbage!

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