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My Dog Treed A Mountain Lion

My dog treed a cat last week a few miles from my house in Los Angeles. No firemen were needed to get it down. The cat weighed 100 pounds. Setting the scene: I own a Karelian Bear Dog. These dogs are bred to hunt bears, moose, and other large game. Sansho is intense, determined, unbelievably…

Tech News Ty Brookhart

Scream Queens Horror Show Casts The Original Scream Queen

Ryan Murphy may have (falsely) claimed to have invented the horror-comedy genre for his new show Scream Queens, but at least his casting is still spot-freaking-on. The new series welcomes the biggest Scream Queen of them all. Today it was announced that one of the original scream queens, Jamie Lee Curtis, is also one of…

Television Meredith Woerner

Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Review: A Futuristic Laptop That Lags Behind

My laptop bag has never felt this light. My computer, never this thin. The $1,350 Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro feels like the future. But the future ain’t here yet. What Is It? A super-thin 13” laptop that bends over backwards to become a 13” tablet, too. A laptop that literally uses a giant metal watchband…

Reviews Sean Hollister

Must-Watch Short About How One Man Changes The History Of The Cold War

After his father dies, Edward races to his childhood home to uncover a secret that has been weighing on his heart for decades: What landed in his family farm in 1960 and how did his father’s reaction to it alter history? Director Josh Tanner’s The Landing has racked up numerous accolades at various film festivals,…

io9 Lauren Davis

Save $30 on UE Booms, Wireless Sennheisers, and More Deals

Ultimate Ears’ Boom Bluetooth speakers are among the most highly-regarded in the industry, and they’re both $30 off today on Amazon. Tons of color options available. Ultimate Ears MINI BOOM Wireless Bluetooth Speaker/Speakerphone ($70) | Amazon Ultimate Ears BOOM Wireless Bluetooth Speaker/Speakerphone ($170) | Amazon We’re no strangers to Chromecast deals around these parts, but…

Tech News Shep McAllister

Facebook Finally Lets You Search For Specific Posts

Facebook is getting some long overdue functionality to help you find not just people and pages, but also specific posts from the past. So as in the example above, if you search for your friend Jessica’s wedding, it’ll search full posts for keywords “Jessica” and “wedding” and hopefully return the result you were looking for.…

Social Media Mario Aguilar

Did Arrow Just Reuse Some Fallout 3 Armour?

Huh. Warner TV Asia has released a teaser trailer for this week’s Arrow Midseason Finale, purportedly revealing the final look of Brandon Routh’s Atom armour suit. But if you’re a fan of the apocalyptic RPG Fallout 3, it might look more than a little familiar to you. (UPDATED) UPDATE 12/09 – The obvious has been…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Seriously, Fuck Discovery And Its ‘Eaten Alive’ By An Anaconda Show

Last night, the Discovery Channel aired its controversial special Eaten Alive, in which a man tried (and failed) to get a green anaconda to eat him. And while we’re glad that it didn’t get that far, this special was just a bullshit excuse to use fear of these animals for the sake of ratings. We…

Television Lauren Davis

Depressing graphic shows the time humanity spent watching Gangnam Style

The Economist made this sobering graphic of the hidden cost of the most popular YouTube video of all time—with more than two billion views since June 2012: “At 4:12 minutes, that equates to more than 140m hours, or more than 16,000 years.” Then they compared it to some of humanity’s most monumental tasks. 20 Empire…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Man, the Government Sure Likes to Blame Shit on Tor

In a non-public report, the Department of Treasury revealed that an increasing number of hackers are using the Tor network to maintain their anonymity. Surprise surprise! After all,Tor is one of the biggest online anonymity services. So the government is suggesting (again) that blocking Tor would keep hackers away, though. And while that might be…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

This Wookiee Diary Actually Roars Like Chewbacca When Opened

Need some place to keep track of all the cargo you’re smuggling? This Chewbacca-themed 160-page notebook is not only covered in a luxurious coat of fur, it also makes actual Wookiee sounds whenever you open the cover. It doesn’t have a lock, but doesn’t need one because everybody knows not to mess with a Wookiee,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Fascinating video shows fighter jet nuclear missile strike mission

The French Air Force has published this fascinating video showing a nuclear strike mission from beginning to end. Of course, the ASMP-A nuclear missile fired by that Rafale fighter didn’t have an atomic warhead inside, but everything else is as real as it gets without starting World War III. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Revealed: Mystical Cover Art for Jodorowsky’s Autobiography

More good news for Alejandro Jodorowsky fans: the famed and proudly bizarre Chilean director’s autobiographical novel, Where the Bird Sings Best, will be translated into English. Publisher Restless Books offers this tantalizing description: Where the Bird Sings Best tells the fantastic story of the Jodorowskys’ emigration from Ukraine to Chile amid the political and cultural…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

Two Pictures Reveal Just How Intense Farming Really Is

If you’ve never lived around farms, it can be easy to miss just how much labor comes with every stage of the growing process. That’s particularly true about harvesting, but these two pictures can give you a pretty good idea of just what you’re missing. The first picture above shows a Landsat image of the…

io9 Ria Misra

What’s the Historical Reality Behind the Trojan Horse?

For hundreds of years, people have been trying to “decode” the legend of the Trojan War. Archaeologists have found the historical Troy, and they think that they’ve uncovered some of the major players. But what was the famous Trojan Horse? Homer’s epic poem The Iliad is one of our main sources of information about the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The World’s Ugliest Christmas Sweater Includes a Working Toy Train Set

Try as you might this holiday season to find the ugliest Christmas sweater imaginable, you’re not going to be able to top YouTube’s bd594’screation this year. It’s got an ugly argyle pattern, a tacky Christmas tree, blinking lights, and the pièce de résistance?: a working toy train circling the gaudy creation. There’s no word on…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Review: Lego Friends, City, Star Wars advent calendars–day 8

Day 8 of the 2014 Lego advent calendars gives us some chairs and a couple minifigures. See images and a review of the 8th day of mini builds after the jump! Friends Advent Calendar (41040) Today the calender has a couple of chairs for the table that I built yesterday. Nothing spectacular here, though I…

Reviews Michael Schulte

Stop Hating Original Science Fiction Movies Just For Having Tropes!

It never fails lately. We actually get a movie that’s a new story, instead of a rehash or continuation of a venerable tale. And people immediately start piling on, pointing out all the stuff in it that’s been done before. But just because something contains story elements we’ve seen before doesn’t mean it can’t be…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Sneak Peek At Avengers: Age Of Ultron Reveals A Whole Lotta Action

A new behind-the-scenes Avengers 2, sneak peek has all sorts of goodies. Including a lot more Joss Whedon talking explosions and action, and more Scarlet Witch. And also take a listen to what could possibly the robot-infused new score to the sequel. Taken from the bonus feature on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (which is…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Spacecraft That Will Finally Give Us a Close-Up View of Pluto

When the New Horizons spacecraft launched, Pluto was still considered a planet. Now, eight years later, the space probe is finally nearing the end of its 2.9 billion-mile journey to Pluto—and has just roused itself from deep hibernation ahead of its arrival. The New Horizons Spacecraft is the first step of NASA’s $650 million New…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

My Dog Treed A Mountain Lion

Scream Queens Horror Show Casts The Original Scream Queen

Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Review: A Futuristic Laptop That Lags Behind

Must-Watch Short About How One Man Changes The History Of The Cold War

Save $30 on UE Booms, Wireless Sennheisers, and More Deals

Facebook Finally Lets You Search For Specific Posts

Did Arrow Just Reuse Some Fallout 3 Armour?

Seriously, Fuck Discovery And Its ‘Eaten Alive’ By An Anaconda Show

Depressing graphic shows the time humanity spent watching Gangnam Style

Man, the Government Sure Likes to Blame Shit on Tor

This Wookiee Diary Actually Roars Like Chewbacca When Opened

Fascinating video shows fighter jet nuclear missile strike mission

Revealed: Mystical Cover Art for Jodorowsky’s Autobiography

Two Pictures Reveal Just How Intense Farming Really Is

What’s the Historical Reality Behind the Trojan Horse?

The World’s Ugliest Christmas Sweater Includes a Working Toy Train Set

Review: Lego Friends, City, Star Wars advent calendars–day 8

Stop Hating Original Science Fiction Movies Just For Having Tropes!

Sneak Peek At Avengers: Age Of Ultron Reveals A Whole Lotta Action

The Spacecraft That Will Finally Give Us a Close-Up View of Pluto

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