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What Did Syfy Want With A Kristen Johnston Reality Show?

Back in September, we reported that Syfy was trying to “Imagine Greater” programming developing new reality TV shows, even a possible cooking show. We think we may have uncovered one of these strange pitches, thanks to Kristen Johnston. https://gizmodo.com/syfy-channel-getting-a-cooking-show-5351045 Thursday night, on Bravo’s late night reality recap call-in show, Watch What Happens Live, host Andy…

Television Meredith Woerner Jan 30 '10

Leonardo da Vinci’s Resume Explains Why He’s The Renaissance Man For the Job

At one time in history, even da Vinci himself had to pen a resume to explain why he was a qualified applicant. Here’s a translation of his letter to the Duke of Milan, enumerating his many talents and abilities. Stone posted the scan of the letter along with this translation: Most Illustrious Lord, Having now…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 30 '10

Universal Heat Death Could Happen Sooner Than We Realized

According to researchers at Australian National University, the end of the universe will happen earlier than anyone previously thought. The mother of all deadlines is coming up! Dr. Charley Lineweaver and Ph.D. student Chas Egan at ANU, who recently tried to tally and account for all the entropy in the universe, ended up finding about…

io9 Alex Eichler Jan 30 '10

Kinda Extreme Skimboarding Captured By Very Extreme Camerawork

GoPro cameras are our go-to choice for filming extreme sports of any kind, but we weren’t nearly as creative as this duo who attached their GoPro to a broom handle and started winging it back and forth while skimboarding. https://gizmodo.com/gopro-hero-hd-camera-review-5396576 This short video, entitled “Skimboarding in a Storm,” is supposed to be noteworthy for its…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 30 '10

Hate Superheroes? Time to Meet The Boys

Alan Moore’s Watchmen is revolutionary for its “real world” conceit, and Garth Ennis’ and Darick Robertson’sThe Boys uses a similar conceit, but with a twist – what if the superheroes were a bunch of assholes? Minor spoilers below. Ennis has always had a tendency towards extreme violence and the occasional dick joke, and The Boys…

io9 David Grossman Jan 30 '10

The Week in Gizmodo

This was definitely the week of the iPad. But the week offered a lot besides Apple’s new tablet, including our look at the new Microsoft Arc keyboard, Mass Effect 2, Bill Gates on the Daily Show and more. The iPad. Oh the iPad. Here, all wrapped up in one post, is everything you need to…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 30 '10

There’s Less Us To Us Than You Think

One of the problems with decoding the human genome was discovering how little of the human genome was actually… well, human. Are we really made up by mostly virus DNA? As biologist Frank Kelly explains, scientists sequencing the human genome discovered that not only were there around 5 times less genes than originally anticipated, they…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jan 30 '10

Archipod Is Pine Cone On the Outside, Apple Store On the Inside

If you want your backyard home office orb to be minimalist and clean on the inside but woodsy and natural on the outside, the Archipod is the pod for you. There’s nothing wrong with wanting your sanctuary to take the form of a futuristic pod. But you have to be willing to find one that…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 30 '10

Futuristic Pavillion Beams Into Regent’s Place

Regent’s Place in London now has a permanent Star Trek teleporter effect, thanks to architect Carmody Groarke‘s award-winning pavillion design created to “enrich and activate the public open space.” More details about the pavillion here. [Contemporist]

io9 Graeme McMillan Jan 30 '10

Wi-Fi Detecting Bumper Sticker Helps Out the Wardriver Behind You

Here’s a neat Instructable for significantly increasing the geek factor in your car’s rear windshield, showing how to modify a Wi-Fi-detecting t-shirt into a Wi-Fi-detecting window decal. At some point in some traffic jam, you’ll make a fellow nerd’s day. Starting with a novelty t-shirt that displays the strength of Wi-Fi signals in the area,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 30 '10

Firefox Mobile 1.0 Burrows Onto Nokia N900s

Firefox Mobile crawled into its first pockets last night, going live on Maemo5. The mobile version retains the full awesomeness of the Awesome Bar and includes WeaveSync for keeping tabs, passwords, and bookmarks straight across desktop and mobile versions. The Nokia N900 sports a lot of impressive unofficial achievements on its resume, like dual-booting (sort…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 30 '10

New Smallville Trailer Finally Shows The JSA In Action

With only a week left, the CW is getting their trailer money out of Smallville: Absolute Justice, the Justice Society-gueststarring two hour movie. Click through for the final trailer, complete with glimpses of the team in action. [Entertainment Weekly]

Television Graeme McMillan Jan 30 '10

Gigantic Music Box Is Finally Finished With Nowhere To Go

Henry Dagg spent four years building this gigantic pin barrel harp, commissioned for a London garden. It’s finally finished but is too fragile for the outdoors. Listen to it play "A Long and Winding Road" and reflect on its fate. Dagg, a former sound engineer for the BBC and self-styled sound sculptor, received a £56,000…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 30 '10

Wii Magic Stick Cover Ditches D-Pad For Analog Stick

If you can’t wait ’til spring, and you want to give your Wii-playing thumbs a rest with an analog stick, slide the $7 Magic Stick cover on your Wiimote. It ain’t pretty but it’ll do the trick. [Brando via Technabob] https://gizmodo.com/wii-classic-controller-pro-finally-hitting-us-this-spri-5456407

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 30 '10

Do You Want To See Frank Miller’s Dinosaur?

Has comic creator and filmmaker Frank Miller abandoned the noir of his Sin City and ill-fated Spirit movie for something a bit more prehistoric? Either that, or there’s some odd teasing happening on his new Twitter. Miller, who joined Twitter this week, has already used it to preview some new Sin City artwork, but it’s…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan Jan 30 '10

Doctor Who’s New Future Gameshow Spin-Off: WTF?

If the success of Doctor Who has taught British television makers anything, it’s that audiences love science fiction. But that’s no excuse for the announcement of Mission: 2110, a new SF-themed gameshow written by a former Who writer. 2110 is the creation of Who writer Phil Ford, and described by executive producer Sue Morgan as…

Television Graeme McMillan Jan 30 '10

How Regular Movies Are Converted To 3D

Now that Avatar is officially the highest grossing movie of all time, it’s inevitable that studios will continue to push 3D as the new frontier of cinema. But actually filming in 3D is prohibitively expensive. Here’s how they fake it. https://gizmodo.com/avatar-is-now-the-highest-grossing-film-of-all-time-me-5457366 Not many directors share James Cameron’s obsession with three dimensional authenticity, and not many…

Movies Kyle VanHemert Jan 30 '10

The Slate Walloped the State in Social Media

Two events dominated discussion last week: the unveiling of Apple’s iPad and President Obama’s State of the Union address. Leading up to last Wednesday, many wondered if Apple’s event would overshadow Obama’s. On social media, that was certainly the case. Monitoring Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, blogs and the rest, social media analysts at Viralheat found over…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 30 '10

The Apple-Amazon Ebook War Begins: Amazon Deletes Macmillan Books

Books published by Macmillan mysteriously poofed from Amazon yesterday. The reason, according to the NYT, is that Amazon is punishing the publisher for arguing that the price of Kindle books should go up to $15. This won’t end well. It feels like a repeat of the same shit Universal Music, and later, NBC Universal pulled…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 30 '10

History of Hip: Yesterday’s Tomorrows (Feb 2, 2010)

UPDATE: You can watch the video podcast of our presentation at the Minnesota History Lectures page on iTunes. I’ll be speaking about retro-futurism this coming Tuesday (February 2nd) at the Turf Club in St. Paul, MN. This Minnesota Historical Society event, The History of Hip: Yesterday’s Tomorrows, starts at 7:30pm. I’ll be sharing the stage…

Tech News Matt Novak Jan 30 '10

What Did Syfy Want With A Kristen Johnston Reality Show?

Leonardo da Vinci’s Resume Explains Why He’s The Renaissance Man For the Job

Universal Heat Death Could Happen Sooner Than We Realized

Kinda Extreme Skimboarding Captured By Very Extreme Camerawork

Hate Superheroes? Time to Meet The Boys

The Week in Gizmodo

There’s Less Us To Us Than You Think

Archipod Is Pine Cone On the Outside, Apple Store On the Inside

Futuristic Pavillion Beams Into Regent’s Place

Wi-Fi Detecting Bumper Sticker Helps Out the Wardriver Behind You

Firefox Mobile 1.0 Burrows Onto Nokia N900s

New Smallville Trailer Finally Shows The JSA In Action

Gigantic Music Box Is Finally Finished With Nowhere To Go

Wii Magic Stick Cover Ditches D-Pad For Analog Stick

Do You Want To See Frank Miller’s Dinosaur?

Doctor Who’s New Future Gameshow Spin-Off: WTF?

How Regular Movies Are Converted To 3D

The Slate Walloped the State in Social Media

The Apple-Amazon Ebook War Begins: Amazon Deletes Macmillan Books

History of Hip: Yesterday’s Tomorrows (Feb 2, 2010)

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