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Lumens and Lux: Light Words Explained in a Single Image

If you’ve ever tried to compare flashlights or lighting of any kind, you’ve probably been confronted with a bunch of confusing terms like lumen and lux that are supposed to describe how powerful a light is.We think? Well here they are explained in a single image. The above image, posted yesterday by the folks at…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jul 27 '13

This is the nerdiest collection of insults ever and it is the best

The labcoat-wearing brain child of SMBC‘s Zach Weiner, Bad Astronomy‘s Phil Plait and illustrator Jess Fink, 27 Nerd Disses is easily the geekiest compendium of haughty one-liners ever assembled. Respect – you unlettered, historically oblivious, woefully innumerate brute. The e-book is available for download over at Gumroad, for the unbelievable price of… whatever you want.…

Books & Comics Robbie Gonzalez Jul 27 '13

How to Get Movies, Music, and More From Your Mobile Device to Your TV

There’s not much your phone or tablet can’t do these days, beyond maybe displaying their troves of mobile content on a screen larger than 10 inches. But that’s what televisions are for. And, with one of these five methods, you’ll be able to seamlessly throw music and movies from your little screen to your big…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 27 '13

Stop what you’re doing and watch the short film Post Human right now

Behold less than six minutes of action-packed awesomeness topped with a whole lotta blood and a dollop of NSFW nudity. This short film Post Human is completely fantastic. Watch it. Voiced by Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer and created by Cole Drumb and Colliculi Productions., we all would very much like for this short film to…

Anime Meredith Woerner Jul 27 '13

Webcomic Bird Boy is filled with ancient weapons and gorgeous monsters

Anne Szabla’s Bird Boy is one of those webcomics that’s simply knock-you-backwards beautiful. It’s set in a brutal world in which bizarre and astonishing creatures threaten the human tribes that live along the rivers. But one small boy stumbles upon a legendary weapon that could turn the tide in favor of his tribe. In the…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Jul 27 '13

An App to Unload Your Leftover Food Sounds Genius

It’s a scientific fact that all food (except pizza) tastes worse the next day. That Peking Chicken is not going to be very appetizing tomorrow, which is why it’s just going to fester in the back of your fridge—until you discover the moldy box weeks later and toss it into the garbage while having a…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jul 27 '13

A tour of the Saturnian system that will leave you breathless

Assembled from more than 200,000 photographs captured by the Cassini Spacecraft between 2004 and 2012, this remarkable video serves up one of the most awe-inspiring views of Saturn and its moons we’ve seen in ages. The piece, titled “Around Saturn,” is the creation of Fabio di Donato. The Italian filmmaker scoured the vast repository of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jul 27 '13

The Cthulhuphant: Great animal hybrid, or the greatest animal hybrid?

If I could choose any animal to grace my family’s coat of arms, it would be this trunktacled elephant/octopus hybrid (which we will refer to as the cthulhuphant), created by Puerto Rican artist Alexis Diaz. The mural, which was unveiled in London this week on Hanbury Street off Brick Lane, took one week and thousands…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jul 27 '13

TweetDeck Just Got Worse and Twitter Blames Google

If you’re a heavy TweetDeck user—we are bloggers, and thus, we are heavy TweetDeck users—you might’ve noticed that notifications got way crappier this week. It turns out, it’s not Twitter’s fault, it’s Google’s. Hmph. If you use TweetDeck’s Google Chrome extension, you would’ve noticed the change immediately when it switched over because it’s so much…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jul 27 '13

Disney’s Star Wars purchase rears its head on Spider-Man

This week in the world of cartoons, Anarky makes an appearance on Beware the Batman, Disney’s recent purchases of Marvel and Lucasfilm show through on Ultimate Spider-Man, and we get a raucous series finale to Transformers Prime. As always – minor spoilers ahead! Beware the Batman – “Tests” Anarky, the villain targeted as Batman’s number…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 27 '13

Instagram Users Say They Are Being Attacked By Delicious Smoothies (Updated With Instagram’s Response)

Instagram users are reporting that they’ve been attacked by a mysterious hack that posts photos of smoothies to their accounts. (We e-mailed Instagram to see if they’ve got anything to say.) From the looks of the tweets above and below, it seems the exploit is a phishing scheme, so don’t click any weird links on…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jul 27 '13

India Thought Jupiter and Venus Were Actually Chinese Spy Drones

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a Chinese spy drone! Oh, and there’s another one! That’s what the Indian Army must’ve thought when they saw two specks of something “spying on them” in the sky. Instead, what India thought were Chinese spy drones turned out to be… Jupiter and Venus. Even more embarrassing, the…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 27 '13

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Cocaine (NSFW)

The one in which Nick Offerman gets fired, gets drunk, and pisses all over Nic Cage’s star on the Walk of Fame. Fidlar did this, buy their self titled album at Amazon.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 27 '13

Test Your Typo Finding Skills in This Stressful Timed Test

Spot a typo on the Internet? Get your pitchforks, saddle up the horses, write to your Congressman and raise hell until it’s fixed. Or… just leave a nasty comment! Truthfully though, typos suck. When you’re reading something, blatant tyops (heh) can smack your eyes and snap you back to consciousness. It’s like being pinched in…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 26 '13

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Daria Movie Trailer

I’m probably not as big a fan as some of you guys when it comes to Daria and/or Aubrey Plaza but even I have to admit Aubrey Plaza as Daria in a real life movie of Daria is all kinds of awesome. I’d actually like it if more movies and TV shows flip flopped into…

Tech News Splitsider Jul 26 '13

Google Nexus 7 Teardown: Hey That’s an Inductive Charging Coil

The ace team at iFixit has given the ol’ teardown to the new Google Nexus 7 and they’ve discovered that the rear case is very easy to open, that it’s taller, narrower and thinner and that there’s an… inductive charging coil (the first iFixit has seen in a tablet). The battery inside the new Nexus…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 26 '13

Just a Reminder That FedEx Doesn’t Give a Crap About Your Packages

It can be FedEx. It can be UPS. It can be any shipping service, really. They all promise to get your packages to where you want them to go but there’s no guarantee they’ll treat your packages with any sort of tender, love or care. Most likely, they’ll be thrown around, banged around and destroyed…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 26 '13

Most Beautiful Items: July 19 – 26, 2013

From an abandoned asylum that the Department of Homeland Security is moving into, to beer labels turned into animated GIFs, we posted all kinds of lustworthy things this week. So before you head off into weekend, check out the wonders of design, art, and architecture we’ve got for you. There’s a Beautiful Chair Hiding in…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jul 26 '13

The old spaceship engine casing was the perfect place for a cat

At sunset, Megumi liked to walk in the starship graveyard, admiring the stripped hulks made from materials that would never rust. It was there that she met the cat whose cybernetic implants suggested a history far more complicated than its purr did. Scott Kikuta is a concept designer who works on videogames, when he’s not…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 26 '13

Is Minecraft the next plague that will destroy kids’ minds everywhere?

Back in the 60s, the media thought rock’n’roll would destroy kids’ minds. Before that it was comic-books. Now the brain poisoning plague is Minecraft, a Lego-like construction video game that most adults can’t understand and kids are addicted to. Like crack, they say! https://kotaku.com/minecraft-is-now-mine-crack-says-local-news-everywhe-927656796

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jul 26 '13

Lumens and Lux: Light Words Explained in a Single Image

This is the nerdiest collection of insults ever and it is the best

How to Get Movies, Music, and More From Your Mobile Device to Your TV

Stop what you’re doing and watch the short film Post Human right now

Webcomic Bird Boy is filled with ancient weapons and gorgeous monsters

An App to Unload Your Leftover Food Sounds Genius

A tour of the Saturnian system that will leave you breathless

The Cthulhuphant: Great animal hybrid, or the greatest animal hybrid?

TweetDeck Just Got Worse and Twitter Blames Google

Disney’s Star Wars purchase rears its head on Spider-Man

Instagram Users Say They Are Being Attacked By Delicious Smoothies (Updated With Instagram’s Response)

India Thought Jupiter and Venus Were Actually Chinese Spy Drones

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Cocaine (NSFW)

Test Your Typo Finding Skills in This Stressful Timed Test

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Daria Movie Trailer

Google Nexus 7 Teardown: Hey That’s an Inductive Charging Coil

Just a Reminder That FedEx Doesn’t Give a Crap About Your Packages

Most Beautiful Items: July 19 – 26, 2013

The old spaceship engine casing was the perfect place for a cat

Is Minecraft the next plague that will destroy kids’ minds everywhere?

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