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MobileAge Wine Enthusiast App Icon Looks Like Something…

…I just can’t put my finger in it. What could it be? [App Store – Thanks Jeremy!]

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 23 '08

Nom Nom Nom, Over And Out

ZOMG guinea peeeg spiez! Super guinea pig agents are out to stop a billionaire baddie in Jerry Bruckheimer’s new G-Force movie. Hooray for secret agent critters with gadgets! No one ever suspects the guinea pig. A group of technologically enhanced furries take on a billionaire bad guy who wants to control the world. The underwater…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 23 '08

Fry’s Electronic Store VP Allegedly Embezzled $65 Million For Gambling Debts, Probably Pocketed Some Slim Jims and an Odwallas Too

Fry’s VP Ausaf Umar Siddiqui has been accused by the IRS of taking $65 million of Fry’s company money to “fuel his lavish lifestyle and pay off gambling debts.” Siddiqui’s downfall came when another exec found a spreadsheet with backroom deals for contracts (he was a buyer for Fry’s). He’d then get vendors to sell…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 23 '08

PuzzleQuest Puzzling Up iPhones Now, Two More Installments Coming

PuzzleQuest, one of the pioneers of combining Bejeweled-style gameplay with RPG-style spells and weapons, just hit the iPhone. What’s interesting is that publisher TransGaming is releasing this in three chapters, meaning you’ll have to pay $10 three times if you want to get the “complete” experience. That is, if you haven’t already played the game…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 23 '08

3 Novel(la)s About Financial Shenanigans Of The Future

Every day, new revelations about financial wrongdoing come out, and the Bernard Madoff scandal seems to be the tip of the crapheap. But fear not — science fiction is here to make sense of it. Lately, I’ve come across a couple of recommendations of science fiction novels/novellas about financial hustling and evildoing. (Plus, of course,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Dec 23 '08

Lego Santa Crab Will Eat Your Cookies, Drink Your Milk, Kill You

Dear Kids. You all have been bad. You’ll be all dead tomorrow night. Merry Xmas, Lego Santa Crab. P.S. Check out my other cool pics. I rock. You don’t. Ho Ho Ho. Ho. [Andrew Colunga via Neatorama]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 23 '08

Notebooks Beat Desktops for the First Time Ever

According to the trusted researchers at iSuppli, laptop computer sales outpaced desktops for the first time last quarter. Strong netbook sales may have played a decisive role in the change. Netbooks may have been the deciding factor in pushing notebooks over the top. “The big news from iSuppli’s market share data for the third quarter…

Tech News Sean Fallon Dec 23 '08

Sex . . . In Space!

Need to know exactly how sex in space would work? Luckily our sister site Fleshbot has braved the dark byways of the History Channel, and unearthed a clip from one of their recent shows that explores this very question. With a video and everything. Check it out. (Video is worksafe, but it’s on Fleshbot, so…

io9 Annalee Newitz Dec 23 '08

Google Street View Captures Man/Woman Peeing In the Street

Google Street view has caught a lot of people doing a lot of things, but is this the first instance of it catching someone peeing on the street? Here’s what we think. This takes place in Madrid, Spain. Jesus frequents Madrid. This person likes peeing. Jesus is known to pee from time to time. Thus,…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 23 '08

Martha Washington Goes To The Movies

With The Spirit under his belt and Buck Rogers waiting in the wings, will Frank Miller return to his own creations for a third attempt at movie direction? Watchmen’s Dave Gibbons says maybe. Doing promotional interviews for next year’s Watchmen movie, Gibbons hinted that there may be a movie in the offing for his co-creation…

Movies Graeme McMillan Dec 23 '08

Eyeglasses With Fluid-Filled Sac for World’s Poor Are Instantly Adjustable

British Inventor Josh Silver has developer a pair of eyeglasses that are instantly adjustable. They’ve got a liquid-filled sac in the middle—add more fluid to make the glasses stronger, deflate to weaken them. The no-optician-required glasses rely on the principle that the fatter a lens is, the more powerful it comes, so by pumping in…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 23 '08

Last Minute Shopping: What To Do When The Goods Are Gone

The clock is ticking away, and with each precious moment, someone is snapping up the last copy the Dark Knight, World War Z and Watchmen. We braved the stores to find surefire last-minute shopping items. I traversed the city, poking my head in each store looking for what might be gone and what’s probably still…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 23 '08

Nano-Sized Semiconductor Dots Could Fix Your Terrible Vision

New Scientist reports that researchers at the University of Colorado came up with this crazy idea that if they inject semiconductor nanoparticles in your retinas, photons will make them glow, thus improving your vision. These quantum dots, as they’re referred to, would theoretically fluoresce when hit by light packets, and serve as a light amplifier…

Tech News Adrian Covert Dec 23 '08

New Monsters Vs. Aliens Trailer Includes Ginormica’s Secret Origin!

After watching this new trailer, the only question is, will Monsters Vs. Aliens be the greatest movie of all time – or merely among the greatest? Also, some descriptions of new footage below. Dreamworks supremo Jeffrey Katzenberg has been traveling around showing off footage from MVA to select audiences of journalists. In particular, there are…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Dec 23 '08

Dell Confirms Adamo is MacBook Air Competitor

The (pulled) post on fashion site UptownLife that suggested Dell’s Adamo is a MacBook Air rival was actually a Dell ad, a spokesman admitted to the NYT. Which confirms it’s a MacBook Air thinger. [Bits] https://gizmodo.com/dell-adamo-could-be-lighter-thinner-than-macbook-air-5113604

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 23 '08

Costumed Crimefighters Who Share the Spirit’s Sense of Style

The Spirit may fight comic book crime, but he always preferred a fedora and suit to spandex. We look at the other heroes who’ve paired their masks with suits and hats instead of tights. Will Eisner wanted to distinguish the Spirit from costumed superheroes like Superman and Batman and bring comic books to a more…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Dec 23 '08

Art: Goonies’ Data In Full Gadget Attack Mode

I had no idea his name was Dick Wang. Here’s an interesting story. My parents told me that when I was really little, I played with the actor who played Data from the Goonies and Short Round from Indiana Jones. REALLY little, as in, from a time from which I can’t remember. Of course now,…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 23 '08

Crazy Japan Builds Crazy Highways to Drive People Crazy

This road smashing into a building and emerging out on the other side is the most “normal” highway in this album of Japanese infrastructures collected by Dark Roasted Blend. Here are our favorites. Absolutely nuts. Although other structures around the world can rival these, the concentration in Japanese cities is simple astounding. Head to DRB…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 23 '08

T-Mobile Blocks Stolen Cellphone Tracking Despite Victim, Cops’ OK

T-Mobile is refusing to track stolen cellphones despite having the permission of both Boston police AND the victim whose phone was stolen, citing “privacy restrictions.” According to the Boston Herald, T-Mobile will only help track the stolen phone (a Sidekick, snatched from a 16-year-old by an 18-year-old) if it’s a “life or death situation”, or…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 23 '08

Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, You’re My Only Baritone

You can go ahead and go over to the Dark Side now. Lucasfilm has okayed a Star Wars musical. According to E! Online, the Star Wars musical will premiere next year in London’s O2 arena, and will feature singing Wookiees and a Stormtrooper kick line. The show, featuring songs set to some of John Williams’…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 23 '08

MobileAge Wine Enthusiast App Icon Looks Like Something…

Nom Nom Nom, Over And Out

Fry’s Electronic Store VP Allegedly Embezzled $65 Million For Gambling Debts, Probably Pocketed Some Slim Jims and an Odwallas Too

PuzzleQuest Puzzling Up iPhones Now, Two More Installments Coming

3 Novel(la)s About Financial Shenanigans Of The Future

Lego Santa Crab Will Eat Your Cookies, Drink Your Milk, Kill You

Notebooks Beat Desktops for the First Time Ever

Sex . . . In Space!

Google Street View Captures Man/Woman Peeing In the Street

Martha Washington Goes To The Movies

Eyeglasses With Fluid-Filled Sac for World’s Poor Are Instantly Adjustable

Last Minute Shopping: What To Do When The Goods Are Gone

Nano-Sized Semiconductor Dots Could Fix Your Terrible Vision

New Monsters Vs. Aliens Trailer Includes Ginormica’s Secret Origin!

Dell Confirms Adamo is MacBook Air Competitor

Costumed Crimefighters Who Share the Spirit’s Sense of Style

Art: Goonies’ Data In Full Gadget Attack Mode

Crazy Japan Builds Crazy Highways to Drive People Crazy

T-Mobile Blocks Stolen Cellphone Tracking Despite Victim, Cops’ OK

Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, You’re My Only Baritone

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