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Check out a chart of this year’s movie earnings

Finding out the month-to-month earnings of this year’s major movies is as easy as moving the pointer across the screen. This detailed chart can tell you what earned what and when. Earnings reports really need to include more rainbows. Xach.com has a chart that features of timeline of earnings for each of the largest movies…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Watch Graphic Violence Get Real Literal

Man versus man. Man versus graffiti. Graffiti versus graffiti. Graffiti versus man. It may not be the circle of life, but this short is at least a circle of cartoonish, explosive fun. I’ll take it! The animations in CorridorDigital’s “Graphic Violence” were made with After Effects, Premiere, 3ds Max, Rayfire, and a whole lotta green…

Tech News Brian Barrett

My Year Without Star Wars

Javier Grillo-Marxuach, creator of The Middleman television series and a former producer on Lost, spent a whole year without Star Wars. Why would he do such a thing? And what did he learn from going cold turkey on Star Wars? Thirteen months ago, during a prolonged bout with depression, I was visited — Ebenezer Scrooge-like…

io9 Javier Grillo-Marxuach

Deals of the Day

Time to spend your holiday bonuses on gadgets. We’ve got great deals on a 17″ Dell laptop and a 40″ Silo HDTV. Or go for the free stuff, like a free sample of Dove Daily Treatment Conditioner. Top Deals: • 17.3″ Dell Studio 1747 Core i7, 1GB Radeon HD 4650 for $799 with free shipping…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

Never Miss an Email

Being unavailable for your business contacts and clients is a thing of the past. With the business-optimized mail features of the DROID PRO by Motorola, you’ll always be plugged in to your business while on the go. It’s business as usual with the DROID PRO by Motorola. This Android smartphone supports both Exchange email and…

Tech News Gawkercreative

The Easiest Way to Hack Your Profile Page Design

We’ve seen how to make that brilliant Facebook profile page design using Photoshop, but what if you don’t have Photoshop? There’s a quick’n’easy Facebook app that does it for you (as evidenced by mine, here.) [ProfileMaker via AllFacebook via BGR] https://gizmodo.com/not-just-another-face-in-the-facebook-5712601

Social Media Kat Hannaford

Isn’t Real Steel missing the point?

The trailer looks cool, the graphics look slick, and Hugh Jackman looks appropriately hard-bitten and muscled-up — but robot boxing looks like it combines robot fights and boxing in a way that seems to undercut them both. “The human body can only take so much,” says Hugh Jackman in the trailer of Real Steel. “But…

Movies Esther Inglis-Arkell

No Shooting Challenge This Week

Given that no one likes to work over the holidays, our intrepid Shooting Challenge participants can take the week off to focus on making particularly lofty, soon-unfulfilled New Year’s resolutions related or completely unrelated to the art of the snapshot. But don’t go soft on us; we’ll announce a new challenge, as usual, next Wednesday.

Tech News Mark Wilson

The Core director says science doesn’t matter in movies – at a panel on science in movies

The Core director Jon Amiel told a panel at the American Geophysical Union that scientific accuracy always comes second in movies. But in his defense, Amiel insists “The Core articulates a good mystery story, like all great science.” [PhysicsWorld]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Blast-Proof Glass Brings Us One Step Closer to Transparisteel

A construction material that’s stronger than steel but perfectly transparent is a classic sci-fi invention, and a research team at the University of Missouri is bringing it a little closer to reality with their blast-resistant glass. We already have blast-resistant glass, but it has a serious design flaw – it has to be made extremely…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

How Careless Radiation Treatment Is Devastating Patients

Marci Farber sought radiosurgery to treat a pain from a nerve deep in her head. Today, she’s “in a nursing home, nearly comatose, unable to speak, eat or walk.” What happened? The radiation hit places it wasn’t supposed to. Her story, reported in today’s NYT, is far from an isolated incident, and it speaks to…

Health Kyle VanHemert

2010 in Space Exploration: The Highlight Reel

It has been another great year in space, and the European Space Agency has put together a video highlight reel for 2010. They look at the achievements in different areas, including Earth Observation, Science, Human Spaceflight and Telecommunications. From the launch of Cryosat to the Planck sky scan, from Node 3 Cupola completing the ISS…

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Magazines Doomed Once Again as iPad Issue Sales Slump

It’ll take more than a touchscreen to revive the hemorrhaging magazine industry, if pitiful recent sales numbers are any indication—iPad editions have taken a nosedive among the highest profile glossies. Wired? Down to a fifth of its debut. Wired’s peers aren’t doing so hot either—and didn’t have the mammoth, 100,000 sale premiere to kick things…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Unleash the Kraken all over your friends this NYE with Kraken Rum

We’ve got the perfect spirit to ring in the New Year, Kraken Dark Spice rum. It’s dyed the same color as the evil beasts monsters ink squirts — just think of the toasting potential! We’ve seen Kraken, which you’ll have to find at your local supplier, sell for around $16.00 online, which isn’t a bad…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Why It’s Okay to Return that Christmas Gadget You Don’t Need

I love Blu-ray. I’m anticipating Star Wars release greater than my first child. But, like all gadgets, sometimes Blu-ray is pointless. Maybe you or someone dear to you got a pointless tech gift. And you can (should!) return it, guilt-free. People are protective over their things. Console wars! Format wars! My thing is brighter than…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Intel’s 310 Series SSDs Are an Eighth the Size of Their Predecessors

SSDs are great, and they’re getting smaller all the time. A lot smaller. Intel’s teeny new 310 Series SSDs deliver the same performance as the x25s that came before them, but they’re just an eighth the size. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-ssds-and-why-you-wish-you-had-one-5453498 The new drives, intended for notebooks, tablets, and rugged industrial and military devices, are 51mm-by-30mm and a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Tug the Film Out of Its Canister to Reveal the Wedding Invitation

What better invites for two photographers to send out for their own wedding, I do not know. 40 of the rolls were repurposed, with the film nub pulling out to reveal all the deets. [AmbientStudios via DailyWhat via Treehugger]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How can I be a more awesome crackpot?

Have you resolved this New Year to reveal your Theory of Everything to the scientific world, but aren’t sure how to do it in a maximally off-putting and confusing way? In this week’s “Ask a Physicist,” we’ll find out how. Top image: Vlue, via Shutterstock. Let me begin by saying that the vast, vast majority…

io9 Dr. Dave Goldberg

When did Doctor Who’s time machine get so easy to control?

After watching the latest Doctor Who Christmas special, one thought kept sticking in our brains: When did the Doctor become so good at controlling his time machine, the TARDIS? He used to be unable to steer it at all. The idea that the Doctor couldn’t control his TARDIS was a huge part of the show’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Does Anyone Know Where Kimberly, Wisconsin’s Time Capsule Is?

In 1985, officials in Kimberly, Wisconsin buried a time capsule. They were supposed to open it this year to commemorate the village’s 100th anniversary, but they’ve run into something of a snag: no one knows where the damn thing is. The capsule, a 2-foot-long piece of PVC pipe containing various local news clippings, coins, and,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Check out a chart of this year’s movie earnings

Watch Graphic Violence Get Real Literal

My Year Without Star Wars

Deals of the Day

Never Miss an Email

The Easiest Way to Hack Your Profile Page Design

Isn’t Real Steel missing the point?

No Shooting Challenge This Week

The Core director says science doesn’t matter in movies – at a panel on science in movies

Blast-Proof Glass Brings Us One Step Closer to Transparisteel

How Careless Radiation Treatment Is Devastating Patients

2010 in Space Exploration: The Highlight Reel

Magazines Doomed Once Again as iPad Issue Sales Slump

Unleash the Kraken all over your friends this NYE with Kraken Rum

Why It’s Okay to Return that Christmas Gadget You Don’t Need

Intel’s 310 Series SSDs Are an Eighth the Size of Their Predecessors

Tug the Film Out of Its Canister to Reveal the Wedding Invitation

How can I be a more awesome crackpot?

When did Doctor Who’s time machine get so easy to control?

Does Anyone Know Where Kimberly, Wisconsin’s Time Capsule Is?

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