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Frenchy Mutants Are Much More Frightening Than These Intolerant Zombies

There’s is nothing worse than fighting with your boyfriend because he’s contracted some terrible Mutant virus that you’ve now got to get tested for, before you both turn into mutants. Zombie diseases are the worst. Mutants: Check out the latest trailer for David Morley’s French film Mutants, where one pregnant woman has to fight off…

North Korea Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Fails Miserably

According to the US Northern Command, the infamous North Korean launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile—which went over Japan terrifying Brian Ashcraft—has been a complete failure, with its payload falling into the Pacific Ocean: NORAD and USNORTHCOM monitor North Korean launch April 05, 2009 PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – North American Aerospace Defense Command…

It’s Time To Face The Jazz Music, Sam Raimi

Sam Raimi denies responsibility for Spider-Man 3, and you people? You tell him that he’s apologizing for the wrong thing. Is there no way for this financially secure, successful, famous movie director to win? So Raimi told Empire that he didn’t have creative control over the third Spider-Man movie, and that Venom and other elements…

A Day In The Life Of Sylar

He may play a superpowered psycho killer, but Heroes’ Zachary Quinto loves his dog and is prone to hugging his co-workers. How do we know? Because we’ve seen Bordeaux, a great behind the scenes short. Originally produced for the city of Bordeaux’s New Year celebrations last year, the five minute movie was constructed entirely out…

NASA Testing Next Generation Firefighting Gear for Fires… In Spaaace!

In space, no one can hear you scream “Fire.” Not that it’d matter, as few people could recognize a microgravity fire anyway. This means space firefighting gear needs to be special. NASA is on it. First, a primer. Fire in microgravity isn’t the flickering kind that happened when you set the house ablaze with your…

Touchscreen MRT800 Is Lenovo’s First Personal Media Player

There’s very little from Lenovo’s laptop side that appears with their splash into the PMP front. The specs for their newly announced China-bound MRT800 are pretty standard, and there’s nary an HD screen in sight. The MRT800 doesn’t have a release date or pricing yet, but if it’s anything like the specs, it could also…

Utne Reader Podcast

I sat down with Jeff Steverns Guntzel and Bennett Gordon at the Utne Reader offices in Minneapolis to talk about the Paleo-Future blog. You can listen to the podcast here. The year 2009 looked very different when seen from the 1950s. Nuclear powered cars roamed the streets and people feasted on meal pills for dinner.…

But Gay Marriage Will Destroy the Fabric of Society

Sometimes you come here expecting me to be funny, but this weekend, in light of what happened in Iowa on Friday, I’m afraid I’ve got to get serious. Deadly serious. About stopping gay marriage. http://gawker.com/5197067/gay-marriage-in-iowa Now listen. I’ve never met a gay person, and I don’t expect to, but I’m sure they’re all fine individuals,…

Le Whif Inhaler Stinks of Chocolate, Marketing Ploy

Harvard professor David Edwards wrote a graphic novel envisioning a future world where people ingested their food by smelling, or “whiffing,” it. That vision begot Le Whif, the chocolate inhaler. “Over the centuries we’ve been eating smaller and smaller quantities at shorter and shorter intervals,” Edwards said. “It seemed to us that eating was tending…

T-Mobile Summer Roadmap Details HTC Touch Pro 2, ‘Blade’ Sidekick Release Dates

Tipster Noah from Phonedog has directed us to a tentative list of release dates for several anticipated T-Mobile phones, including the “Blade” Sidekick (May 13) and HTC Touch Pro 2 (July 22). The list, leaked today to TMONews: * “Blade” (Sidekick 2009) – May 13 * HTC “Maple”/”Snap” – July 1st (contrary to earlier speculation,…

Geoff Johns Talks Flash: Rebirth

For fans of DC Comics, this week’s Flash: Rebirth marked a milestone: The return of the publisher’s own Christ figure, Barry Allen. We talked to writer Geoff Johns about resurrecting such a beloved character. Why bring back Barry Allen? Because the world needs heroes. Bringing back Barry Allen, that was something that grew out of…

Video Editing Tools Spotted In iPhone 3.0 Firmware Beta

Famous pairings include Apple pie and ice cream; Apple’s Steve and Steve; Jason Chen and pantsing new electronics; and, of course, the iPhone and video editing. It’s just a rumor for now, bits of newly discovered beta code, really, but that last pairing could be true, and soon. Now, video editing and the iPhone isn’t…

Wii MotionPlus Given July 10 Release Date By Obscure Amsterdam Retailer

Just down that whole shaker of salt right now, please, because some obscure Dutch games retailer has given Nintendo’s press shy MotionPlus attachment a July 10 European release date. https://gizmodo.com/wii-motionplus-not-delayed-says-nintendo-5167253 Kotaku has feelers out to Nintendo Europe for a comment, but my Spidey Sense is telling me they’ll probably get the usual “We do not…

The Love Affair That Was The Real Reason The Comedian Died

We’ve shown you Ponderosa’s… individual take on The Dark Knight before, but now the slash artist has turned her attention to Watchmen, and revealed that never-before-known connection between Sally and Ozymandias. Yes, really. Possibly NSFW. https://gizmodo.com/the-dark-knight-sequel-well-never-see-5037898 [Destiny Interrupted] Via.

Was Steve Wozniak Unfairly Eliminated From Dancing With the Stars?

One of our more educated readers has chimed in on The Woz’s Dancing With the Stars elimination. If he’s right, let the Internet masses descend on ABC with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. https://gizmodo.com/major-woz-dancing-with-the-stars-development-spoilers-5193101 Says Giz reader (and dancer?) Dallas in an email to Gizmodo from this morning: I just watched the [Woz]…

BlackBerry Leak Lists Product Code Names: Onyx, Driftwood, Magnum

If you’re the kind of BlackBerry gadgetphile who loves product code names, please sit down, because that’s what we have here. Three new cologne-sounding code names for BlackBerry products, coming soon: Onyx, Driftwood, Magnum. The secret list of three was procured by BGR, and is in all actuality a list of three different code names…

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Who’s Wearing the Mask?: On the Nature of Secret Identities

Secret identities. Do we really need them? More importantly, do superheroes? And how do they really work? (Do they?) Secret identities are sort of a messy idea. The definition is apparently a “persona developed in order to keep the true identity secret,” which, okay, is a workable definition until you start asking questions like, “If…

Google Street View Gets Ticket, Captures Self Getting Ticket On Google Street View

We tend to cover the zany antics of the Google Street View team quite a bit here at Gizmodo, as you can see. For those of you who hate that, this story is pure Schadenfreude. Last summer, when the team was busy mapping the streets of London for the recent European Google Maps Street View…

Leaked Dell Internal Product Roadmap Reveals Mini 11 Netbook

We received word today that Dell is talking about a Mini 11 netbook behind closed doors. Mahoney, that Mini 9 Hackintosh OS X howto was awesome, so be ready for this when it hits, ok? https://gizmodo.com/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-5156903 The big reveal came as some internal Dell docs were leaked to Netbook News. In the image at left,…