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Wind Whipping the White Dunes of Argentina

The coastal dunes of Médano Blanco in central Argentina are a rumpled band between blue seas and patchwork green farmlands. Strong westerly winds shape the whole landscape from waves to dunes, and even within the cropland. Image credit & read more: Earth Observatory For a massive, unannotated version, click here. The dune ridges form perpendicular…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

What iOS Looks Like on a 4.7-Inch Display

Rumor has it, the iPhone 6 is going to have a 4.7-inch display, so 9to5Mac has created a mockup of what a phone of that size running iOS would look like. Spoiler alert: it’s not all that different. https://gizmodo.com/could-this-curvy-screen-be-the-front-of-the-iphone-6-1573512156 Funnily enough, 9to5Mac actually used a Moto X to make this simulator, because it has the…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Facebook’s Letting You Harass People About Their Relationship Status

Facebook relationship statuses completely revolutionized the art of “figuring out whether that person you want to bang is single.” It made it as easy as a search. But some sneaky people leave that drop-down menu empty, or protect that info from non-friends. Fortunately, Facebook is testing a button that lets you harass them about it.…

Social Media Eric Limer

Red Five May Be Disney’s Newest Stand-Alone Star Wars Movie

Remember how Disney wanted to release a new Star Wars movie every year? According to this list of upcoming Star Wars toylines from Hasbro, they figured out what these movies will be through 2020, and the newest addition is one titled Red Five. This list reportedly comes from a Hasbro toy event and published by…

io9 Rob Bricken

Back to the Future dialog remixed into a love song

Pogo takes sounds from movies and transforms them into new songs. This time he remixed Back to the Future into a song dedicated to all the lovers out there—I love it when they say things like that on the radio. Pogo had a few big hits in the internet already—these are some of them: Well,…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

True Blood’s Final Season Trailer Is Missing Vampire Eric!!!

HBO has released a much longer True Blood trailer for the final season of the vampire hump show. But one character appears to be missing! Where is our Vampire Eric?! The trailer sets up with a bunch of footage from the first season, which features wigged Vampire Eric but no modern-day Vampire Eric. None. There’s…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Beautiful photos of haunted New Orleans

Born and raised in New Orleans, Frank Relle takes us round his home town in these hauntingly atmospheric nightscapes. Frank uses long exposures and some serious lighting—mounted on stands sometimes three stories high—and works with city authorities to shut down street lights during his shoots. The resulting photos display a beautiful combination of colors and…

Sploid James Baker

This Tower Of Power Gives You 40 USB Ports For Charging Everything

It started off as a more elegant (and faster) alternative to parallel and SCSI computer ports, but now that USB can even be used to charge everything from phones to cameras, there never seem to be enough of them. It’s, admittedly, a first world problem, but one that’s now thankfully solved with this plug-in tower…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Godzilla Makes A Lot Of Money, Gets Sequel

Yes, it turns out that making nearly $200 million globally in your first weekend is enough to warrant a sequel, and Warner Bros. has put a second Godzilla movie in development. But what does that mean? Very little at the moment, other than some bigwig at WB yelled “MAKE ME A SEQUEL,” and now some…

io9 Rob Bricken

A Built-In Handle Lets You Empty This Sink Strainer With Less Touching

It’s the lesser of two evils. After rinsing or washing dishes in the kitchen sink, do you let all those food scraps simply go down the drain, possibly clogging it? Or reach in and then empty the sink strainer in the garbage, risking physical contact with all that gross food waste? There’s finally a middle…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

What 10,000 Calories Look Like

If you struggle to visualize what hundreds or thousands of calories looks like in the cold, hard light of day, then that firstly explains why your pants no longer fit, but also means you’ve missed one of the many explainers that have drifted across the internet in the past. So here’s another! https://gizmodo.com/what-does-200-calories-look-like-560954147 Above is…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Historic Photos On The Evils Of Alcohol Are Unintentionally Hilarious

Australia never enacted prohibition laws at the state or local levels, but temperance organizations flourished across the country. These studio photographs — depicting five stages of inebriation — were taken in the 1860s, and were likely commissioned for educational purposes. They’re hilarious. Today, it’s like looking at Reefer Madness in still life. (And, is it…

io9 Mark Strauss

Watch these hamsters and mice have fun on a turntable

This video shows a variety of rodents running on top of a spinning turntable, and it looks like they are having fun. If I was a rodent—maybe my ancestors were—I would enjoy this much better than the wheel. The video was created by Division Of Labor to be featured on Live Nation concerts. SPLOID is…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Tons of News From Avengers 2, Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars!

Rumors add not one, but two women to Star Wars Episode VII’s cast. There are posters for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s King Conan and the Despicable Me spinoff about the Minons. Doctor Who gets another guest star. Arrow promotes someone to series regular. And, most importantly, the Hulk gets stretchy pants. Spoilers now! Top image: Guardians of…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

15 of World’s Best Urban Bike Infrastructures

Well-developed cycling infrastructure is a fundamental and crucial layer of every city, where thousands of people commute by bike on a daily basis. This not only means that we need separate bikeways not available to cars, but much more: bridges, tunnels, and more—and more and more—secure parking places. So as part of our Bike Month…

Tech News Attila Nagy

MIT Is Building an Affordable Hologram-at-Home System

Sure, watching Michael Jackson strut his stuff once more is cool, but currently holograms are the preserve of the rich and richer. Fortunately, though, a team at MIT is trying to build a glasses-free 3D projection system that should be affordable enough to use at home. https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-dead-michael-jackson-perform-as-a-hologram-1578352019 The system uses two liquid crystal modulators to…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Antiques Roadshow Needs To Stop Appraising Ivory

I’ll say it: I love Antiques Roadshow. The look on the faces of folks who find out on national television that their priceless antiques are really worthless hunks of junk is, well, priceless. There’s just one problem: by appraising ivory the PBS show communicates the idea that elephants are worth more dead than alive. To…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

These Brackets Come With Shelves Included

We’ve all been there: you’ve got your hands on some lovely timber or such to fasten to your wall and put stuff on, only to find that all the brackets you can buy are dog ugly. So, designer Sylvain Willenz decided to make brackets that come with shelves included, instead. Indeed, they’re called Brackets Included…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

You Can Buy These Original Cupertino Rainbow Apple Signs

Fanboys, form an orderly line: true Apple fans can take their chance at buying these original rainbow logos that once graced the walls of the company’s Cupertino HQ in a forthcoming Bonhams auction. The larger of the two signs is made from foam and measures 46 by 49 inches, while the smaller is built out…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Flood makes bridge collide with another bridge

It is not easy to picture such massive manmade structures like bridges colliding—but then the flooding right now in parts of Eastern Europe is so severe that there is a state of emergency in several countries. This video was captured in Bosnia amid a massive relief effort and fears that wartime landmines might be displaced…

Sploid James Baker

Wind Whipping the White Dunes of Argentina

What iOS Looks Like on a 4.7-Inch Display

Facebook’s Letting You Harass People About Their Relationship Status

Red Five May Be Disney’s Newest Stand-Alone Star Wars Movie

Back to the Future dialog remixed into a love song

True Blood’s Final Season Trailer Is Missing Vampire Eric!!!

Beautiful photos of haunted New Orleans

This Tower Of Power Gives You 40 USB Ports For Charging Everything

Godzilla Makes A Lot Of Money, Gets Sequel

A Built-In Handle Lets You Empty This Sink Strainer With Less Touching

What 10,000 Calories Look Like

Historic Photos On The Evils Of Alcohol Are Unintentionally Hilarious

Watch these hamsters and mice have fun on a turntable

Tons of News From Avengers 2, Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars!

15 of World’s Best Urban Bike Infrastructures

MIT Is Building an Affordable Hologram-at-Home System

Antiques Roadshow Needs To Stop Appraising Ivory

These Brackets Come With Shelves Included

You Can Buy These Original Cupertino Rainbow Apple Signs

Flood makes bridge collide with another bridge

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