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San Francisco Bans Happy Meals

San Francisco has done the unthinkable. Not win the World Series. It’s effectively banned happy meals. In order to include a toy with purchase, these new, unhappier meals must meet a checklist of nutritional requirements (PDF): • The meal can’t exceed 600 calories • Less than 35 percent of the calories can come from fat…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

10 insane facts comics taught us about American history

In honor of Election Night 2010, let’s remember the bizarre historical minutiae comic books have taught us about the ol’ U.S. of A. You know, like the time Henry Kissinger met Doctor Doom. 10.) Batgirl and Robin battled Benedict Arnold and Satan (Batman Family 1, 1975) At a certain point in her pre-Crisis career, Barbara…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Twenty-First Century Bonfire Lacks Heat But Not Looks

When I think of bonfires, I picture a blazing heat pit circled by beer-drinking, smores-making, flannel-wearing campers. The 21st century bonfire, an aleatoric light sculpture, seems to be a bit classier, catering more to the high-heeled, martini drinking type. [Vimeo]

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Apple Will Give You 90-Second Song Previews In iTunes Soon

We’ve heard rumors of longer iTunes song previews, but it looks like Apple is finally preparing to begin offering them. Soon you’ll be able to enjoy a whoppin’ 90 second preview of any song over 2.5 minutes in length. Shorter songs will still have previews lasting only 30 seconds, but that’s just something we’ll have…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Echolocation Forces Poor Bats to Nosedive Into Metal

It ain’t easy being a bat, what with hanging upside down, and extinction threats. But fascinating research shows they’re also helpless against their innate echolocation sense, which makes them attempt to drink from metallic sheets they detect as still water. The above video from Nature illustrates new findings about the navigational capabilities of the little…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Does your brain think that all white people look the same?

An infamous concept in psychology is the ‘Other Race Effect.’ People are able to differentiate between faces of their own race better than between the faces of other races. A new study probes the mechanics of the phenomenon. The Other Race Effect, and its equally unpleasant sounding attendant, the ‘all look alike’ phenomenon have been…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Google Tool May Have Wrong Polling Place Locations for Hundreds of Thousands of Voters

Google’s polling place locator was supposed to make your life easier by guiding you to the appropriate polling place so that you can vote. The only trouble? It may have guided you and hundreds of thousands to the wrong place. After a Fast Company editor got a wrong address from Google’s polling place locator this…

Tech News E.B. Boyd - FastCompany

Is Capital One Offering Different Loans Based on Your Browser?

A fellow named Devin was looking to grab a car loan from Capital One to pay off his new ride. Normal stuff. Not normal? The bank’s website apparently offering different interest rates based on which browser he used. Algorithm discrimination! Devin found that when using Firefox, he was offered a 3.5% rate. But when using…

Tech News Sam Biddle

A sneak peek at tonight’s game-changing Stargate Universe

Lots of crazy space crap is about to hit the Destiny fan tonight, on Stargate Universe. We’ve got a batch of stills and two behind-the-scenes videos: one all about the start of a new relationship and the end of another. First up is a look at TJ and Young. Greer plays match maker for Eli!…

Television Meredith Woerner

Touch Dirk the Daring With Dragon’s Lair HD for iPad

It isn’t easy being an adventure gamer these days—especially one who gets off on the vintage and oft-forgotten stuff. Lucky for you, Dragon’s Lair—the hilarious, laserdisc classic, has a new home on the iPad. The $5 touch-enabled title stays true to the original, using visuals adapted from the same beautiful, hand drawn artwork of the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Gulliver’s Travesty! New trailer reveals more wrongness, including a Transformer giving Jack Black a wedgie

If you thought Jack Black’s reimagined Gulliver’s Travels would be the worst film of the year, it’s time to lower your expectations. A new trailer includes a robot-induced wedgie, a flab-vs.-cannons sea fight, and a tiny Liliputian Kiss cover band.

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

SGU “Trail And Error” Stills

Brian J. Smith as Lt. Matthew Scott and Elyse Levesque as Chloe Armstrong – photo credit: Carole Segal David Blue as Eli Wallace and Julie McNiven as Ginn – photo credit: Carole Segal David Blue as Eli Wallace and Julie McNiven as Ginn – photo credit: Carole Segal Louis Ferreira as Col. Everett Young and…

io9 Meredith Woerner

You Have One Year To Build Your DIY Remote Control Ghost

Now that it’s November, doesn’t all that Halloween hoopla just seem so childish in retrospect? And some dad building a remote controlled ghost out of an RC quadrocopter to scare nieghborhood kids? Especially childish. No wait that’s awesome. Michael Colton’s six-foot ghoul uses just some off the shelf quadrocopter parts, an aluminum frame, a few…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Masters of science and science fiction pick the genre’s greatest forgotten classics

New Scientist asked ten scientists and fiction writers, including William Gibson, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood, to name their favorite “lost scifi classics.” And to celebrate, New Scientist’s having a fiction contest, judged by Neil Gaiman. The lost classics named by the experts include some books you may have read, like Stanislaw Lem’s Cyberiad…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Sam Flynn finds his real dad in new Tron Legacy clip

We’ve seen the gorgeous neon light-cycle races and you’ve heard the slick beats from the Daft Punk’s score — now watch the first ever dramatic moment between father and son. Tron Legacy might be sexy, but does it have heart? https://gizmodo.com/the-light-runner-stars-in-the-latest-tron-clip-captain-5676256 https://gizmodo.com/daft-punks-latest-music-video-packs-plenty-of-awesome-n-5673719 We know Tron Legacy will sell tickets based on the visuals alone, but…

Movies Meredith Woerner

A mathematical analysis of what happened the last time the House went Republican

A few years ago, some mathematicians analyzed the US Congress using network theory, trying to determine which committees were linked by shared members. They discovered that the connections between committees and subcommittees changed markedly when Congress was dominated by Republicans. What you see above is a network diagram that shows connections between committees in the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

What Do the Neighbors Think of This Glass-Walled House?

Bilzen is a small, quiet city near the eastern border of Belgium. Its streets are lined with 17th and 18th Century buildings and modest homes. And then there’s Bassam El-Okeily’s glass-fronted Narrow House. Don’t forget to wear your robe. The three-story Narrow House, a collaboration between Brussels-based architect Bassam El-Okeily and Karla Menten, has a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Air Force Wants Neuroweapons to Overwhelm Enemy Minds

It sounds like something a wild-eyed basement-dweller would come up with, after adjusting the fit of his tinfoil hat. But military bureaucrats really are asking scientists to help them “degrade enemy performance” by attacking the brain’s “chemical pathway[s].” Late last month, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing revamped a call for research…

Tech News Noah Shachtman - Wired

Preview Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks

Surface Detail, Iain M. Banks’s new contribution to the Culture Series, is just out from Orbit Books. It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. For the uninitiated, let’s look at…

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Every Gmail User in the World Just Won a Settlement Against Google and Got Nothing

Congratulations to all Gmail users for winning a class action settlement. You should be proud of yourselves for making Google pay for putting your privacy at risk with its crazy Google Buzz settings. Your reward? A pat on the back. You can read the full terms of the settlement agreement here, but here’s an overview…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

San Francisco Bans Happy Meals

10 insane facts comics taught us about American history

Twenty-First Century Bonfire Lacks Heat But Not Looks

Apple Will Give You 90-Second Song Previews In iTunes Soon

Echolocation Forces Poor Bats to Nosedive Into Metal

Does your brain think that all white people look the same?

Google Tool May Have Wrong Polling Place Locations for Hundreds of Thousands of Voters

Is Capital One Offering Different Loans Based on Your Browser?

A sneak peek at tonight’s game-changing Stargate Universe

Touch Dirk the Daring With Dragon’s Lair HD for iPad

Gulliver’s Travesty! New trailer reveals more wrongness, including a Transformer giving Jack Black a wedgie

SGU “Trail And Error” Stills

You Have One Year To Build Your DIY Remote Control Ghost

Masters of science and science fiction pick the genre’s greatest forgotten classics

Sam Flynn finds his real dad in new Tron Legacy clip

A mathematical analysis of what happened the last time the House went Republican

What Do the Neighbors Think of This Glass-Walled House?

The Air Force Wants Neuroweapons to Overwhelm Enemy Minds

Preview Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks

Every Gmail User in the World Just Won a Settlement Against Google and Got Nothing

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