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Amazon Offering All T-Mobile Phones For 1 Cent

Joining the Shack and T-Mobile themselves, Amazon’s offering all T-Mobile phones—including the HTC HD2, Nokia Nuron, Motorola CLIQ, and the Blackberry Bold 9700 among them—for ONE PENNY until June 21, with a new 2 year contract. [Amazon]

Commerce Kyle VanHemert

Dear Hollywood, you absolutely suck at making Weird Westerns

Jonah Hex is the latest Weird Western blockbuster to be absolutely FUBAR. What filmmakers don’t understand is that Weird Westerns don’t need giant robo-spiders or CG fireworks, the setting — the endless frontier — does all the work for you. NOTE: This post contains spoilers for Jonah Hex, but I’m pretty sure you don’t care.…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

OnLive’s TV-Based Microconsole Up and Gaming By End of Year

Earlier today, Jason finally got to test the cloud-based gaming service OnLive from the comfort of his home (read: underpants). He liked it! Now there’s even more good news: a TV version will be ready before the year’s end. So says OnLive head Steve Perlman, in an interview with Joystiq: When we get to what…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

A Night in the Life of a Foxconn Worker

After a rash of employee suicides brought scrutiny to the working conditions in Foxconn’s factories, some horror stories quickly came to light. Now, the Times has followed a worker through his average night-shift, assembling some 1,600 hard drives. His opinion? It’s hard work, but it’s work nonetheless. 24 year old Yuan Yandong says that work…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

This Is What the World Cup Looks Like On Bizarro Earth

In 1964, Danish artist Asger Jorn published “The Application of the Triolectical Method in General Situology,” a philosophical tract that rebuked prevailing dialectics. Nobody knew what the hell he was talking about, so he invented three-sided football to illustrate. The game, as shown in this kinda-inscrutable but nevertheless interesting clip, is still very much alive…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Saturday matinee — Mr. Show’s “The Limits of Science”

Back in 1997, David Cross and Bob Odenkirk’s HBO sketch comedy program Mr. Show filmed one of the most memorable depictions of the medieval scientific method ever. Remember — “All facts begin as dreams, dreamt by a wizard!”

Television Cyriaque Lamar

OnLive Streaming Game Service Tested (At Home, Finally!)

We’ve checked out the OnLive pure-streaming gaming system before, but it was always in a somewhat controlled environment. Finally, the service has launched, and we can see what it’s like to play this at home. Where it matters. To start off, a quick explanation of what OnLive is. It’s an entirely cloud-based, server-side rendering solution…

Reviews Jason Chen

Ringworld is a lot like Lost, but there’s a crucial difference

Larry Niven’s Hugo-winning novel from 1971 has a surprising amount in common with network television’s biggest sci-fi hit. But what’s really interesting is how Ringworld differs from Lost. Now, the cynics among you might think I’m comparing a classic 40-year-old book to a massively popular TV show that recently ended simply because I hope it…

Books & Comics Josh Wimmer

Square Payment System Beset With Delays

Square, the super-cool payment system that lets you collect peoples’ credit card dollars on your smart phone, is delayed indefinitely while the company tightens various infrastructural screws. CEO Jack Dorsey admits they rolled features out “before they were fully baked.” In an email to users, Dorsey said that the company is delaying shipments of the…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Why is the sky black at night?

Yesterday we discussed why the sky was blue during the day. Today we’ll cover Olbers’ Paradox, and why the sky turns black in the wee hours. During the day, sunlight is bright enough to drown out the light from most of the stars. In most cities, streetlights, neon lights, and those obnoxious little light-up sneakers…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A Traditional Terracotta Roof That Happens to Harness the Sun

There are plenty of technical hurdles keeping the masses from decking out their roofs with solar panels, but their general ugliness doesn’t help much either. Tegolasolare puts their photovoltaic panels second to the surrounding architecture, not the other way around. The Italian company’s red clay roof tiles look just like traditional terracotta and incorporate photovoltaic…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Is District 9’s Neill Blomkamp next in line to direct The Hobbit?

After Guillermo Del Toro’s departure from The Hobbit, producers have been scrambling to find a replacement. TheOneRing.net is now reporting that District 9 director Neill Blomkamp could very well be tapped to helm the project. MrCere at TheOneRing.net recently reported that there’s a strong chance Blomkamp is in the running to direct the live-action version…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

18 Oil Disaster Solutions (And Why None Of Them Will Work)

The BBC asked readers to submit their ideas on how the Gulf oil disaster might be resolved. Iraj Ershaghi, USC’s director of petroleum engineering, went down the list and briefly explained how each idea would fail. We’re pretty much doomed. The 18 proposed solutions run the gamut, including some you’ve heard of (nuclear blast; polystyrene…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The 1977 print ads of an unscrupulous time-traveler from 2010

If digital artist Alex Varanese had a time machine, he’d go back to 1977 with a suitcase full of modern electronics and make zillions. Plus, the cheeky print campaign for Varanese’s wood-paneled laptops and cellphones guarantees consumers that he’s not a time-traveler! Varanese’s series — ALT/1977: WE ARE NOT TIME TRAVELERS — is an experiment…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

10 Redesigns of the Bicycle

You might assume that after some 100 years of refinement the modern bicycle has achieved perfection. Not so! Popular Mechanics has rounded up 10 variations on the common bicycle that could have us pedaling less and coasting farther. [Popular Mechanics]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Ghostbusters burlesque foists a buxom Slimer upon unsuspecting audience (slightly NSFW)

New York’s Epic Win Burlesque once turned Barbara Gordon’s crippling into a sexy striptease, but in their most recent show Ghostbusters!, they unleashed something far more offensive — Slimer’s denuded rack. NSFW for pasties and puppet nudity. In addition to appearances by Janine, Gozer the Gozerian, Zuul, and Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, the Epic Win…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

What Boba Fett wears on his day off

When not trolling the galaxy for his latest bounty, Boba Fett likes to kick back in this casual hoodie/jacket combo. He’s joined on the high-fashion runway by his dear old dad, Stormtroopers, and even Jar Jar Binks. Artist John Woo (no relation to the director) painted the “He Wears It” series, with characters from Star…

io9 Lauren Davis

All Palm Apps Temporarily 50% Off

Woah! From June 18 to July 9, all apps in the Palm App Catalog will be half price. Pretty decent deal. [Pre Central via BGR]

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Jaws Is Now 35 Years Old, But Still Manages To Give Me Nightmares

I was just reminded what an old movie Jaws actually is. In fact, it turns out that Bruce, the mechanical shark, has been giving young and old scaredy cats nightmares for 35 long years now. [Wikipedia via The Scuttlefish]

Movies Rosa Golijan

Your Daily Computing, Minus the Computer

Pop-up ads, Blue Screens of Death, hiding your games of solitaire from your boss—all annoyances that should be familiar to any office-dwelling computer-user. Turns out they’re even more annoying when you remove the computer from the equation. [MeltMedia]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Amazon Offering All T-Mobile Phones For 1 Cent

Dear Hollywood, you absolutely suck at making Weird Westerns

OnLive’s TV-Based Microconsole Up and Gaming By End of Year

A Night in the Life of a Foxconn Worker

This Is What the World Cup Looks Like On Bizarro Earth

Saturday matinee — Mr. Show’s “The Limits of Science”

OnLive Streaming Game Service Tested (At Home, Finally!)

Ringworld is a lot like Lost, but there’s a crucial difference

Square Payment System Beset With Delays

Why is the sky black at night?

A Traditional Terracotta Roof That Happens to Harness the Sun

Is District 9’s Neill Blomkamp next in line to direct The Hobbit?

18 Oil Disaster Solutions (And Why None Of Them Will Work)

The 1977 print ads of an unscrupulous time-traveler from 2010

10 Redesigns of the Bicycle

Ghostbusters burlesque foists a buxom Slimer upon unsuspecting audience (slightly NSFW)

What Boba Fett wears on his day off

All Palm Apps Temporarily 50% Off

Jaws Is Now 35 Years Old, But Still Manages To Give Me Nightmares

Your Daily Computing, Minus the Computer

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