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LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy Is Making Music Out of Tennis

When LCD Soundsystem split up, it left frontman James Murphy with a lot of time and creative energy on his hands. So he’s been experimenting with a number of weird and esoteric projects, the latest of which is turning tennis data from the U.S. Open into music. https://gizmodo.com/lcd-soundsystems-frontman-wants-to-make-nyc-subways-mu-1529688444 Murphy has teamed up with IBM to…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Eight of the world’s prettiest women merged into one (perfect?) being

Sploid reader Marius Vibe merged eight of the most beautiful women in the world into a single person. The final result is intriguing, but the best part is the process itself—and the intermediate morphs. Who is more beautiful—the originals, the intermediate mixes, or the merging of them all? Marius sent us his experiment after seeing…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Dice Furniture Changes Form and Function When You Roll It

You can actually change how any piece of furniture looks just by flipping it over or tossing it onto its side. But the Dice, created by the talented designers at Torafu Architects, also changes functionality depending on how you orient it. It’s a clever and unique approach to furniture design that can expand a piece’s…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Scientists Found An Algorithm To Turn All Of Us Into Sheeple

The sheepdog is truly a superhero. Somehow, it manages to convince a group of uncooperative sheep to move in a particular direction. It sounds simple, but it’s not as easy as it sounds. What the sheepdog appears to do intuitively has baffled mathematicians. Most attempts to understand optimal sheepdog behavior start from a theoretical perspective…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

A Comic About Learning To Be Comfortable In Your Own Skin—With A Twist

There are tons of comics on the Internet about a person feeling discontent with their life or their body. This comic starts out that way, but then it goes somewhere you might not expect. You can check out F.D. White and Denise Clamors‘ very short comic Bodies below, or scroll through the pages over at…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Our First Glimpse Of A Galaxy In Its Earliest Stage Of Construction

For the first time ever, astronomers have observed a galaxy in its initial phase of development. The discovery of a massive galaxy, dubbed “Sparky,” reveals a dense galactic core that’s producing new stars at a ferocious rate. Artistic impression: NASA, Z. Levay, G. Bacon (STScI) The galaxy, which is being observed a mere three billion…

io9 George Dvorsky

What’s the Perfect Smartphone Screen Size?

Now that we have confirmation of Apple’s next iPhone event being just around the corner, it’s only a matter of days before we (very, very likely) see a bigger iPhone screen finally rounding out the bunch. Which got us thinking—what’s your ideal smartphone screen size? The iPhone 6 will most likely come in at a…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

American Horror Story Cast Pic Has Angela Bassett As A 3-Breasted Lady

Here it is, the first official cast pic from American Horror Story’slatest installment “Freak Show.” And it does not disappoint. This may be the strangest use of this star-studded cast yet. Angela Bassett has three breasts, Kathy Bates a beard, and Sarah Paulson has two heads. Looks like AHS is primed and ready to out-do…

Television Meredith Woerner

Louisiana Is Losing An Entire Football Field Of Land Every Hour

Louisiana’s coastline is changing — and changing fast, as you can see in the above map which shows the coastal land lost between 1922 and today. And the losses are only getting faster. Bob Marshall of The Lens and Brian Jacobs and Al Shaw of ProPublica put together a comprehensive look at the state of…

io9 Ria Misra

I Flew Like a Bird Using Oculus Rift

It should be a truth universally acknowledged that any man or woman using Oculus Rift will look like a dumbass. As awesome as it is to experience Oculus Rift, to everyone else, you are a crazy person with a black box strapped onto your face groping at thin air. And then I, of course, had…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

10 Times When Comics And Movies Sexualized Male Superheroes

You’ve heard the argument that male superheroes are sexualized simply because they are often bare-chested. But a man taking off his shirt doesn’t make him a sex object. It’s actually rare to find examples of male superheroes who truly are sexualized the way women are in comics. Here are ten examples. Top pinups by Joe…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Ivy-Covered Extension Cables Disguise Your Unsightly Tangled Power Cords

We live and die by the cord; the energy tethers are everywhere—powering our portable gadgets and stay-at-home decor—and they’re pretty much always a tangled, unsightly mess. We need them, but they’re ugly… Unless! Unless you could disguise the longuns in an artful sprawl of faux-ivy, like you lived in some kind of fantasy world where…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

The Largest Scale Model Of Our Solar System Is In Sweden

Heck, it practically is Sweden. At a scale of 1:20-million, the Sweden Solar System (SSS) spans nearly the entire length of that country. Our parent star is represented by the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm (below the fold), the largest hemispherical building in the world. Photo Credit: Fredrik Posse/Stryngford Photo | CC BY-SA 3.0 Via the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This Truck Shakes the Ground So Hard It Can Simulate Earthquakes

The shaking of minor earthquakes can feel like a garbage truck driving by. T-Rex is no plain old garbage truck though. The 64,000-pound “mobile hydraulic shaker” is designed specifically to make the ground rattle and jolt—all so scientists can study how the ground reacts to earthquakes. T-Rex is in the spotlight again thanks to the…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Cosplayers Fight for Online Anonymity and Privacy During Dragon Con

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), io9, and a coalition of fan communities are launching “Project Secret Identity,” a cosplay photo campaign to raise awareness of the importance of anonymity and privacy during the annual pop culture convention Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia, Aug. 29 – Sept. 1. The campaign, online at ProjectSecretIdentity.org, is supported by…

io9 Dave Maass - EFF

Cool photo of an amphibious assault vehicle launched from its mothership

Cool US Navy photo of an amphibious assault vehicle being launched from the the USS Bataan. If the Battlestar Galactica were an earthbound aircraft carrier, this photo would be equivalent of a Raptor launching from one of its belly. Picture by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class RJ Stratchko. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Be the Envy of the Breakroom, 4K Upgrades, AirPlay Receiver [Deals]

If you ever take your lunch to work, Rubbermaid’s interlocking Lunch Blox system is a great space saver. Several Lunch Blox kits are on sale from Amazon, today only, along with a couple of carrying bags, and even a few shaker bottles. [Up to 40% off Rubbermaid Products] Get these deals and more, and earlier…

Tech News Shep McAllister

How Snarf-Ra Invalidated Every ThunderCats Episode Ever

Although we can look back now and see how terrible most ’80s cartoons used to be, most of them still have their charms. ThunderCats… not so much. Sure, it had an awesome opening credit sequence, but it was also the dumbest cartoon on TV, which was really saying something. And one episode, “Hair of the…

io9 Rob Bricken

How To Use Dropbox’s New Pro Tools

Good news, cloud storage fans! Dropbox has slashed its storage prices, simplified its plans, and rolled in a glut of new tools for paying customers, some of which were previously only available to Business accounts. Here’s a brief tour of some of the new features you’ll get if you decide to pony up $10 per…

Gadgets David Nield

How NYC Would Respond to an Actual Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Attack

It’s been 30 years since the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man first squished through Manhattan. With Ghostbusters returning to theaters tomorrow for an anniversary run, we thought it appropriate to consider a very serious question: How would New York City actually fight an evil god in the form of a marshmallow man? Stickiness and spoilers ensue.…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy Is Making Music Out of Tennis

Eight of the world’s prettiest women merged into one (perfect?) being

Dice Furniture Changes Form and Function When You Roll It

Scientists Found An Algorithm To Turn All Of Us Into Sheeple

A Comic About Learning To Be Comfortable In Your Own Skin—With A Twist

Our First Glimpse Of A Galaxy In Its Earliest Stage Of Construction

What’s the Perfect Smartphone Screen Size?

American Horror Story Cast Pic Has Angela Bassett As A 3-Breasted Lady

Louisiana Is Losing An Entire Football Field Of Land Every Hour

I Flew Like a Bird Using Oculus Rift

10 Times When Comics And Movies Sexualized Male Superheroes

Ivy-Covered Extension Cables Disguise Your Unsightly Tangled Power Cords

The Largest Scale Model Of Our Solar System Is In Sweden

This Truck Shakes the Ground So Hard It Can Simulate Earthquakes

Cosplayers Fight for Online Anonymity and Privacy During Dragon Con

Cool photo of an amphibious assault vehicle launched from its mothership

Be the Envy of the Breakroom, 4K Upgrades, AirPlay Receiver [Deals]

How Snarf-Ra Invalidated Every ThunderCats Episode Ever

How To Use Dropbox’s New Pro Tools

How NYC Would Respond to an Actual Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Attack

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