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Why You Can’t Blame Bitcoin for Silk Road Shadiness

The man alleged to be “Dread Pirate Roberts,” the founder and operator of the Silk Road—an online marketplace where bitcoins were traded for a range of goods and services, including drugs—was arrested by the FBI in San Francisco Wednesday. The criminal complaint, released today, provides many details about how the site and its users relied…

Tech News PARKER HIGGINS Oct 5 '13

Watch the Welcome to Night Vale podcast live show now!

This weekend is LA Podfest, during which various podcasters are recording their shows live in front of an audience—and a camera. Right now, the Podfest is streaming our favorite horror podcast, Welcome to Night Vale. Update: Video is up! Hopefully, there will be a video of the complete performance up later for anyone willing to…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 5 '13

PSA: If you live in Haven, never EVER take your eyes off your kid

Seriously. Don’t leave the room. Don’t blink. Don’t fall asleep—or else risk losing your little ones to Haven’s latest Trouble. Sometimes Haven goes a bit overboard with its Trouble of the week, getting so heavy-handed with the special effects that it’s hard to care much about the Trouble or the people it affects. But this…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 5 '13

Google Is Now Deleting Nine “Pirate” Links Every Second

Groups like the RIAA are putting in millions of DMCA requests to pull “pirate” links off Google, and even though it doesn’t seem to help, the landslide’s not letting up. As of last month, Google was taking down nine pirate links every single second of every single day. Torrentfreak dug through the latest Google transparency…

Tech News Eric Limer Oct 5 '13

Lego Should Make a Line of Adventure Time Sets ASAP

BMO, the adorable sentient video game console on Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time, has been lovingly recreated as a working Lego model, using a Raspberry Pi microcomputer. Michael Thomas, a software developer, created the build for this weekend’s Seattle BrickCon. The model has “Lego skin and a Raspberry Pi heart.” “I had purchased a Raspberry Pi…

Tech News Tatiana Danger Oct 5 '13

What’s Your Favorite App That No One Knows About

The best, most awesome apps for phones or tablets usually get found out and blow up into a flurry of success with hundreds of thousands or millions of downloads. But not every good app is so lucky thought. So what is your must-have totally-awesome app of choice (iOS, Android, whatever!) that no one seems to…

Tech News Eric Limer Oct 5 '13

National Weather Service hides furlough message in forecast

Thousands of employees of the National Weather Service are currently working through the US government shutdown, but don’t know when they’re getting paid. And someone from the Anchorage office has expressed their displeasure in a secret message hidden in the forecast discussion. The Washington Post points out that there are currently two versions of this…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 5 '13

Will Asami turn into a war profiteer on The Legend of Korra?

The Legend of Korra returns to its old stomping grounds in Republic City this week, but it hardly feels like a homecoming. Everyone is scrambling to deal with their own business while Varrick comes up with a way for everyone to win in the Water Tribe civil war. After the pilot episode, my major concern…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 5 '13

The Lake that Turns Animals to Stone, iPhone 5S Sensor Snafu, and More

You’ve had a busy week, so why not just sit back, kick up your feet and take in our best posts of the week? Dive in! “I’m the Actor Who Provided the Voice for Siri” Siri has provided iPhone users around the planet with everything from weather forecasts to restaurant reviews, whilst fending off dumb-ass…

Tech News Eric Limer Oct 5 '13

Whoa, These Sci-Fi Laser-Shooting Telescopes Are Gloriously Real

Observatories don’t just gaze into the endless starry abyss above our heads; sometimes that’s not enough. Sometimes they shoot righteous 40-watt lasers into the great beyond too. Obviously it looks awesome, and this stellar timelapse showcases exactly how awesome. (Spoilers: very awesome.) The location is the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii, and this new, fantastic…

Tech News Eric Limer Oct 5 '13

Game of Thrones ladies get melancholy Mucha-style theater posters

Artist Elin Jonsson channels Alphonse Mucha for a series of prints inspired by the Art Nouveau illustrator’s theater posters. Four ladies from Game of Thrones each get a turn in the starring role. The details associated with each lady add a touch of sadness to many of the posters, especially Lady and Khal Drogo in…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 5 '13

Government shutdown ongoing coverage: Day 5 (updating…)

It’s been five days since the most powerful country in the world was brought to its knees by a minority of demented extremists. Like their primate evolutionary kin, these Congressional asshats continue to punish the entire country by throwing poop at us. Here’s all the clusterfuck coverage thus far. Day 5 There seems to be…

Sploid Tatiana Danger Oct 5 '13

Watch all of Bravest Warriors Season One in a single video

If you haven’t gotten a chance to sit down and watch Pendelton Ward’s animated web series Bravest Warriors, now’s a good time to binge on it. Cartoon Hangover has conveniently loaded the entire first season into a single YouTube video. Season Two of Bravest Warriors launches on October 17th. [via Bravest Warriors Tumblr]

Television Lauren Davis Oct 5 '13

Concept Art Writing Prompt: The Rabid Unicorn

We kick off our October writing prompts with a gruesome sight: a once-noble unicorn gone utterly rabid. What story can you spin about this sick and terrifying creature. “The Rabid Unicorn” is a piece by Minna Sundberg, whose gorgeous webcomic A Redtail’s Dream we featured last week. As always, we invite you to come up…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 5 '13

What Happens When Cities Fall Apart?

Military strategist David Kilcullen was in New York City earlier this week to talk about the future of urban warfare at the World Policy Institute here in Manhattan. Gizmodo tagged along to learn more about “future conflicts and future cities,” as Kilcullen describes it, and to see what really happens when urban environments fail—when cities…

Tech News Geoff Manaugh Oct 5 '13

Dogfish Head brews a beer made with bits of the moon

The brewmasters at Dogfish Head are certainly no strangers to experimental beers, and their latest brew may just be out of this world. They’ve added a dose of lunar meteorite to the recipe. Celest-jewel-ale may be reaching for the pun, but the folks at Dogfish Head claim that the lunar minerals and salts are “helping…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 5 '13

What if all the Disney princes lived together in one castle?

According to KnightJJ’s webcomic Place of Princes, it would involve a bit of crossdressing fun and a whole lot of singing. The Netherlands-based artist has been posting these goofy short comics to her Tumblr and deviantART gallery. There have been tons of comics playing with the Disney princesses, and here their male counterparts get a…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Oct 5 '13

Julianne Moore warns Chloë Moretz to repent in latest Carrie clip

Carrie is about to leave for the prom in the latest clip from the Carrie remake. Naturally, Mama White is none too pleased and heaps a telekinesis-triggering scoop of fanaticism on her daughter. [via Comic Book Movie]

Movies Lauren Davis Oct 5 '13

Turn Your Old iPhone into a Wireless Music System

Attention, Mac people who just bought or are about to receive a new iPhone. If your old iPhone is still fairly new, you don’t have any kids yammering for an iPod Touch (that you want to give them), and you have no other reason to keep it, you should probably sell it. Thanks in part…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Eolver.fm Oct 5 '13

A Map of Internet Freedom Around the World

Here in the US, it’s easy to slip into the comfortable idea that the internet is unrestricted, a home for free speech and exploration, whether it’s meaningful and important, or dumb hashtags. It’s not that way everywhere though, and Freedom House has mapped out the current state of affairs across the globe. Freedom House’s Global…

Tech News Eric Limer Oct 5 '13

Why You Can’t Blame Bitcoin for Silk Road Shadiness

Watch the Welcome to Night Vale podcast live show now!

PSA: If you live in Haven, never EVER take your eyes off your kid

Google Is Now Deleting Nine “Pirate” Links Every Second

Lego Should Make a Line of Adventure Time Sets ASAP

What’s Your Favorite App That No One Knows About

National Weather Service hides furlough message in forecast

Will Asami turn into a war profiteer on The Legend of Korra?

The Lake that Turns Animals to Stone, iPhone 5S Sensor Snafu, and More

Whoa, These Sci-Fi Laser-Shooting Telescopes Are Gloriously Real

Game of Thrones ladies get melancholy Mucha-style theater posters

Government shutdown ongoing coverage: Day 5 (updating…)

Watch all of Bravest Warriors Season One in a single video

Concept Art Writing Prompt: The Rabid Unicorn

What Happens When Cities Fall Apart?

Dogfish Head brews a beer made with bits of the moon

What if all the Disney princes lived together in one castle?

Julianne Moore warns Chloë Moretz to repent in latest Carrie clip

Turn Your Old iPhone into a Wireless Music System

A Map of Internet Freedom Around the World

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