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This Notorious B.I.G./Dinosaurs Mash-Up Video Is My New Happy Place

I apologize if you’ve already seen this, since it’s a couple days old — but I had to post this amazing music video, featuring Earl from Dinosaurs “lip”-synching to “Hypnotize” by the Notorious B.I.G. Because it is the most amazing thing I have seen in ages. Seriously, this is the entire reason why Dinosaurs, that…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Fast & Furious 7 really freaking did drop cars from a C-130 airplane

The Fast & Furious movie franchise is consistently the most fun anyone can have in a movie theater because the stuff they do is completely ridiculous and borderline insane. Like do you remember that scene from the Furious 7 trailer where they dropped cars from an airplane? That wasn’t CGI, that actually happened. We’ve seen…

Sploid Casey Chan

U.S. Post Offices Have Installed Hidden Spy Cameras to Film Customers

Did you know that the United States Postal Service has its own police force? It’s true. While the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is typically tasked with looking into mailbox vandalism and mail fraud, an investigation in Denver reveals that they’re also installing hidden cameras at post offices and spying on Americans. This postal surveillance program…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

Seeing these people do yoga on a cliff’s edge didn’t relax me at all

Yoga is supposed to bring peace and spiritual balance and relaxation so obviously it makes complete sense to do it on top of cliffs and on the edge of cliffs and on really thin but really tall rocks, right? The people doing this extreme yoga look completely at ease throughout this stunt but I totally…

Sploid Casey Chan

How “Fair” Are Science Fairs?

Science fairs require more parental help and involvement than ever before, writes Hana Schank in The Atlantic. Filled with tales from the front lines, including the author’s, the piece also explains the pros and cons of keeping this classroom tradition going. Photo by woodleywonderworks

io9 Cheryl Eddy

What’s The Weirdest Thing You’ve Got Saved In Email Drafts?

I’m writing this in an email draft right now. I love Gmail’s auto-saving drafts a lot. Putting stuff in drafts makes it easily accessible and searchable. I know I’m not alone in compulsively saving things in “drafts” that aren’t emails. What’s the strangest thing you’ve got saved? For years I’ve used this repository to keep…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

This delicious Hungarian pasta dish looks like boiled maggots

Our friend Anna Péter, from the food blog Malackaraj, continues to delight my virtual taste buds with another gross-looking Hungarian plate. This one is a maggot-like pasta called tojásos nokedly, a plate that you eat with a lettuce salad called fejes saláta. Apparently, it’s one of Hungary’s most iconic plates. SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Is This Film of Women in ‘Scandalous’ Swimsuits Really From 1898?

There’s something about this film that strikes me as strange. According to the film archive company British Pathé, it shows beach bathers in England in 1898. Supposedly, people of the time were scandalized by their “wanton display of bare flesh.” But I get the feeling that it’s all a big joke. And a more recent…

Tech News Matt Novak

Watch As Photoshop Experts Try (and Fail) To Use Photoshop 1.0

Photoshop recently celebrated a pretty big birthday—a whole quarter century of cropping, manipulating, and perfecting pictures from crappy creations to creative masterpieces. But take a collection of current Creative Cloud experts and inflict Photoshop 1.0 on them, and the results are disastrously entertaining. That’s exactly what CreativeLivedid, asking modern-day designers to take a quick jaunt…

Tech News Darren Orf

Guy inserts himself inside a video game to fight video game characters

I’m pretty sure every Cheetos eater on Earth who has ever played a video game has wished that they could play themselves as a character inside a video game. This excellently edited and riotously fun video from Keren Banget makes that dream come true, he “put” his real human self inside a fighting game to…

Sploid Casey Chan

A Closer Look At Sentinel’s Lovely Extremis Iron Man

We got a few teaser pictures for Sentinel’s latest Iron Man figure last month, but now the company have released a whole bevy of new photos of the wonderful figure, and it’s looking good. Extremis-ly good, am I right?* The 18cm figure was first shown off at Wonder Festival, but when a figure looks this…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Give Me Shelter

It’s a snowy day in this week’s Concept Art Writing Prompt, by artist Katharina Guettlein, but there is shelter ahead. Write a story inspired by this image and tell us: What will our lone figure find there? Each week, we feature an interesting piece of artwork and invite you to write stories inspired by the…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Ancient Secrets of a “Bleeding” Glacier Are Finally Being Revealed

Against vast whiteness of Antarctica, Blood Falls bleeds a deep dramatic red. The color comes from iron-rich ancient seawater trapped under the ice for 2 million years. For the first time, scientists have been able to take a sample from deep under the ice. The five-story tall Blood Falls was first discovered in 1911. In…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Was “The Chocolate Cream Poisoner” Really Insane?

Christiana Edmunds was arrested for murder in 1871, after poisoning boxes of chocolate creams in stores. People are still arguing about whether or not she was insane — and what insanity actually means. The Chocolate Cream Poisoner In 1870, Christiana Edmunds was living in Brighton with her mother and having an affair with her across-the-street…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Sign Up for the iOS 8.3 Beta to Get Your Brand New, Jaundiced Emojis

We’ve known that a new set of diverse/sickly cartoon friendshas been on its way for a while now. But thanks to the new iOS 8.3 beta download, that day is finally here. You can officially send your friend a tiny, jaundiced, disembodied head. To get the slightly less racist set of emojis for your very…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Watching Magnetic Putty Devour Magnets In HD Is Ridiculously Satisfying

Magnetic silly putty, neodymium magnets, and time-lapse. Always a winning combination. “I have recently acquired some new magnets that are much much stronger than the ones I had been using before,” writes YouTuber Ian Parks, who shot the footage. “Interesting to see how the putty behaves differently.” Indeed. H/t BuzzFeed

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How To Survive An Avalanche

Want to have fun in the snow outside a ski resort? Then avalanches are going to be a huge risk. 35 people were killed by them in the US last winter alone. But, with a little preparation, a few gadgets and some basic knowhow, they can be survivable. Before skiing out of bounds into the…

Tech News Wes Siler

CSI Cyber: Just Your Basic Gore Porn Forum Rollercoaster Slaughter

Hello my CyberHeads! Who wants to go to Six Flags? Not me. This episode has instilled a very deep and likely wholly unreasonable fear of Hacked Rollercoaster Murder in my heart. Just kidding, this episode’s villainy so conspicuously lacked any gossamer tether to human motivation that I think I actually feel safer now. Before launching…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Why Announcers’ Voices Sound So Much Different Than They Used To

When you imagine the life of a voiceover actor, you probably think of hushed radio booths, a team of sound engineers, and ridiculously large microphones. But the job of a modern voiceover actor looks very different, and this helps explain why that “announcer’s voice” we’ve come to expect keeps changing. In response to a question…

io9 Ria Misra

Carl Sagan’s Son Is a 9/11 Truther

Carl Sagan is arguably science’s biggest rockstar—the ultimate champion for logic and reason. Which makes it all the more painful to find out that his son is a vehement 9/11 truther. In a recent interview for a radio show called 9/11 Free Fall (already off to a great start), Jeremy Sagan—the younger son of Sagan…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

This Notorious B.I.G./Dinosaurs Mash-Up Video Is My New Happy Place

Fast & Furious 7 really freaking did drop cars from a C-130 airplane

U.S. Post Offices Have Installed Hidden Spy Cameras to Film Customers

Seeing these people do yoga on a cliff’s edge didn’t relax me at all

How “Fair” Are Science Fairs?

What’s The Weirdest Thing You’ve Got Saved In Email Drafts?

This delicious Hungarian pasta dish looks like boiled maggots

Is This Film of Women in ‘Scandalous’ Swimsuits Really From 1898?

Watch As Photoshop Experts Try (and Fail) To Use Photoshop 1.0

Guy inserts himself inside a video game to fight video game characters

A Closer Look At Sentinel’s Lovely Extremis Iron Man

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Give Me Shelter

The Ancient Secrets of a “Bleeding” Glacier Are Finally Being Revealed

Was “The Chocolate Cream Poisoner” Really Insane?

Sign Up for the iOS 8.3 Beta to Get Your Brand New, Jaundiced Emojis

Watching Magnetic Putty Devour Magnets In HD Is Ridiculously Satisfying

How To Survive An Avalanche

CSI Cyber: Just Your Basic Gore Porn Forum Rollercoaster Slaughter

Why Announcers’ Voices Sound So Much Different Than They Used To

Carl Sagan’s Son Is a 9/11 Truther

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