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The McRib Is Now Available at Every Single McDonald’s

Like cicadas or Fleetwood Mac reunion tours, the McRib only comes around once or twice in a generation. Starting today, and for the next six weeks, every McDonald’s location in the US will carry the mythical manwich. Hallelujah. The last time we had a McRibbing of this scale was all the way back in 1994.…

Tech News Brian Barrett

NBC’s next supernatural soap is all about magical wine — no, seriously

NBC is pushing Take Ichise’s (The Ring) Vines drama forward. Focused around a troubled family seeking a new start, Vines takes place after the family purchases an ancient vineyard that makes wine with “dangerous” magical powers. [Deadline]

Television Meredith Woerner

The remaining episodes of “Caprica” will air on Canada’s Space channel

Last week, Syfy Channel abruptly announced that Caprica would be canceled, and that the remaining episodes would air early next year. But starting tonight, Canada’s Space channel will be airing the remaining episodes of Caprica at 10 PM EST every Tuesday until the bitter end (not that I’m bitter). While us Yankees down here in…

Television Annalee Newitz

101 Photos Taken With the Lens Detached

Take your DSLR in one hand. Unscrew the lens with the other. Tilt the lens away from the camera body-maybe even flip the optics backwards. And take photosthat you never imagined you could without expensive upgrades. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-freelensing-5674647 Lead Shot With the deadline for this challenge just a few hours away I decided to test out…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Shooting Challenge Freelensing Gallery 1

Canon EOS Rebel T2i Digital SLR EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens Shot with 1/30 shutter speed ISO 800 I just enrolled for a photography class at my University and a friend of mine showed me this site. I found the contests for photography and decided I’d take a shot at freelensing. This was my first…

Tech News Adam Harris

Shooting Challenge Freelensing Gallery 2

I visited a corn maze this past weekend and was taking pictures of all sorts of things and experimenting with freelensing, but these small pumpkins caught my eye and ended up being my best shot. Shot with a Canon T1i, 50mm f/1.8, ISO 100. -Aaron Lovell Nikon D60, f/3.5, +2.3 step, ISO -200, 1/13 sec.…

Tech News Adam Harris

Watch amazing slow-motion footage of bats using echolocation to find water

Scientists know how bats use echolocation to find insects, but how do they detect bodies of water? To find out the answer to this question, German researchers filmed a bunch of Bulgarian bats going bonkers in an enclosed room. Stefan Greif & Björn M. Siemers of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology tested bats’ capacity…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Dark Knight Rises casting rumors make us wonder if Clayface is in the mix

Rumor has is that Charlize Theron and a few other Hollywood beauties have been are being courted for the new love interests in The Dark Knight Rises. But even more excitingly, one of these ladies could bring Clayface with her. Comic Book Movie got a tip that Theron has been approached to play Detective Sarah…

Movies Meredith Woerner

You create two tons of carbon dioxide a year just from eating

Reducing our carbon footprints definitely won’t be easy. Indeed, 20% of all carbon dioxide emissions come from people eating – and digesting. Researchers at Spain’s Universidad de Almería has determined that all food-related CO2 emissions add up to about 2 tons of carbon dioxide and 20 gigajoules of energy per person every year. That number…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Ask Scott Westerfeld your greatest Dieselpunk questions!

Scott Westerfeld, author of the alternate-history Leviathan trilogy, is doing a live video chat about the history of illustrated books on Ustream, and you can ask him questions via AIM or Facebook. It starts at 6 PM EST, RSVP here.

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Popcorn Exploding at 6,200 Frames Per Second Is Curiously Calming

Even slowed down to 6,200 frames per second, popcorn popping happens so fast, if you blink at a moderate speed, you’ll miss it. The video’s by Ryan Matthew Smith, the photo editor responsible for making sure techno-wizard Nathan Myrhvold’s Modernist Cuisine isn’t just the definitive tome for modern cooking, but one of the most elaborately…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The glittering lights of Earth: the ISS photographs the dark side of our world

The shape of early 21st century civilization stands out in bright golden lights, in new images from the International Space Station. You can make out the shape of Europe and Africa. Below, see the cities and highways in the desert. Check out the lights of Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt, as photographed from the ISS:…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This Is the World’s Most Heavy-Tech Guitar

Gibson’s Dusk Tiger has a name like cheap cologne and guts like no guitar before it. And with only 1,000 being manufactured, they’re something of an endangered species. You’re forgiven for thinking Dusk Tiger looks like your average Les Paul. It’s certainly similar enough, but as Wired points out: The top is flat, not contoured,…

Tech News Brian Barrett

TIE Fighters Invade Your City

Manhattan is a kinda interesting place, I guess. What would really liven it up would be the opportunity to defend it from the Imperial Fleet. A new augmented reality iOS game will let you—or protect your own hometown. Star Wars Arcade: Falcon Gunner, developed by Vertigore Games and published by THQ Wireless, takes your surroundings…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Google’s “Do I Really Need to Go Vote?” Map

Need motivation to get out of work or bed or wherever you’ve holed up to go vote? Google Maps’ election ratings mashup shows where the election’s going to be the bloodiest—i.e., where your vote matters the mostest. [Google]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

This week, Firefly’s Shepherd Book finally gets an origin story!

Derrial Book was one of the most enigmatic characters on Firefly, and almost a decade after the show premiered, we’re finally getting some answers in the good Shepherd’s very own graphic novel. Dark Horse’s Serenity: Shepherd’s Tale is penned by the brother team of Joss and Zack Whedon. Shepherd Book got the short shrift in…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Five Candidates Worth Your Geek Vote Today

Today, a few of you will vote. Sadly, there is no Geek Party candidate reppin’ in Congress. So we’ve picked out 5 geek-friendly politicians to consider leaving a hanging chad for. We’re not examining whatever else they stand for, or asking you to change your politics—we’re just looking at a few candidates based on their…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The NASA Countdown Clock Is Gigantic

If you’re a space nerd like me, you probably knew that the iconic countdown clock at the Kennedy Space Center was big. Yesterday—on my first day covering Discovery’s Wednesday launch—I learnt it wasn’t big. This thing is humongous. The digital countdown clock—which uses large, old school incandescent light bulbs to shape its numbers—actually looks quite…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Chuck’s totally insane cliffhanger ending saves us from more couples therapy

Last night, Chuck was wrasslin’ with Rassilon! Timothy Dalton’s superb guest-starring turn managed to elevate an otherwise “meh” episode, at least until it took a startling turn in its final moments. Spoilers ahead! It’s no secret that this season of Chuck has felt a bit more blah than previous years — and I don’t really…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Mac Mini’s Price Gets Reduced in Europe and UK

While the Mac Mini‘s price hasn’t budged from $699, Europeans and Brits have seen price cuts today, with Europeans getting €100 off so it’s now €699 (still too much, really), and £50 has been lopped from the UK’s price, so it’s now £599. [HardMac via SlashGear]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The McRib Is Now Available at Every Single McDonald’s

NBC’s next supernatural soap is all about magical wine — no, seriously

The remaining episodes of “Caprica” will air on Canada’s Space channel

101 Photos Taken With the Lens Detached

Shooting Challenge Freelensing Gallery 1

Shooting Challenge Freelensing Gallery 2

Watch amazing slow-motion footage of bats using echolocation to find water

Dark Knight Rises casting rumors make us wonder if Clayface is in the mix

You create two tons of carbon dioxide a year just from eating

Ask Scott Westerfeld your greatest Dieselpunk questions!

Popcorn Exploding at 6,200 Frames Per Second Is Curiously Calming

The glittering lights of Earth: the ISS photographs the dark side of our world

This Is the World’s Most Heavy-Tech Guitar

TIE Fighters Invade Your City

Google’s “Do I Really Need to Go Vote?” Map

This week, Firefly’s Shepherd Book finally gets an origin story!

Five Candidates Worth Your Geek Vote Today

The NASA Countdown Clock Is Gigantic

Chuck’s totally insane cliffhanger ending saves us from more couples therapy

Mac Mini’s Price Gets Reduced in Europe and UK

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