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This Doctor Who drinking game will almost assuredly kill you

Are you a fan of Doctor Who and/or alcohol poisoning? Then The Warp Zone’s Doctor Who drinking game is for you! Assuming you watch a few episodes at a time and follow the rules to the letter, I’d say even an experienced drinker would pass out sometime during the third episode. Sooner if there’s a…

io9 Rob Bricken Jun 28 '13

This Is the Best Looking Reusable Grocery Sack You’ve Ever Seen

Storage, storage, storage. You can never have enough storage. Especially versatile, multipurpose storage, like the Pia canvas carryall. It doesn’t scream the name of some grocery store and it has a nice design. Plus, it doubles as a storage solution. I must admit I can be kind of messy sometimes. If I don’t have a…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jun 28 '13

An Ingenious Camera That Splits in Two Turns Everyone Into a Subject

There’s one in every family or group of friends: A photographer who—willing or not—spends most of their time behind the lens, and ends up conspicuously absent from nearly every photo. It’s inevitable. Well, not anymore. The Duo, a working concept camera, splits in half to capture both photographer and photographee at the exact same instant.…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jun 28 '13

Oh, how nice: a hyperrealistic life-sized sculpture of a beached whale

This fifty-five foot sperm whale whale is actually a sculpture. The cleanup workers? Those are actors. The sculpture was recently displayed along the banks of the Thames for the Greenwich_Docklands International Festival, though it has since been moved to the Old Royal Naval College in London, where it’ll be on display through tomorrow, Friday June…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jun 28 '13

Looking For a Job? Your Potential Employer Is Spying On You

Have you ever done anything fun? Gone to a rave or a political protest? Maybe put a video of yourself naked on Tumblr? Called someone a jackass on Twitter? Potential employers hate fun, and if they find out you had some, you may not get the job.

Sploid Ken Layne Jun 28 '13

Who Are You In This Chart of Car Owner Stereotypes?

BMW 5 Series’ drivers are rich assholes; Ford F-150’s owners are Wal-Mart zombies; and people who drive Buicks are old or Chinese. Jalopnik and its readers have a stereotype for every car owner in America. Find yours here.

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jun 28 '13

Low Budget Films That Are More Thrilling Than Most Big Summer Movies

Today sees the release of White House Down, which is the most Emmerichian film ever produced. But meanwhile, you could also enjoy Europa Report on VOD or Byzantium in select theaters. Tons of low-budget science fiction and fantasy movies are more exciting than your average big summer blockbuster. Here are 25 of them. Note: These…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 28 '13

20 Things You Might Not Know About Your Favorite Liquors

Jack Sparrow has his rum, Ron Burgundy has his scotch, and you probably have your own favorite liquor, too. But how much do you know about your beverage of choice from that magical shelf behind the bar? You spend more time with your booze than you do with most of our friends; isn’t about time…

Tech News Rick Marshall - Mental Floss Jun 28 '13

Over-Engineered Speaker Cables? Nope, Actual Speakers

Do you live in a bizarre, warped, Escher-style home that’s made installing a booming sound system next to impossible? The Anakonda KAN200 might look like a well shielded audio cable, but it’s actually a flexible speaker designed to squeeze into spots where traditional boxy speakers don’t fit, but still require jam pumping. Flexible enough to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jun 28 '13

Cave Hotel: The Perfect Headquarters for Any Evil Organization

This will be the $524-million Hotel InterContinental Shimao, near Shanghai. Built around the caves of an abandoned quarry’s cliffs, the 19-story structure will have a waterfall encapsulated in glass running across its façade.

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jun 28 '13

How to Meet an Online Friend in Real Life Without It Being Awkward

You’re not looking to bang every person you meet online. Sometimes, you’re just looking for friends. But somehow, meeting someone you know online platonically has become a far more awkward endeavor than a random OKCupid date. You know her but you dont know her. Do you shake hands? Do you hug? Do you do that…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jun 28 '13

The disease-causing fungi that lurk in your dishwasher

Researchers have found that dishwashers are particularly conducive to the growth and spread of disease-causing fungi. These fungi have been implicated in causing lung diseases and sometimes fatal infections, especially among those with weak immunity. Photo Credit: Bart Everson Fungi come in many different forms. According to a study published this month and another published…

io9 Kausik Datta, Johns Hopkins Medicine – The Conversation Jun 28 '13

NASA Puts Its ‘Galaxy Hunter’ Out To Pasture

At 15:09 ET today, NASA sent a signal to decommission the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) after ten years of tireless work shooting the galaxy in lower Earth orbit. NASA says GALEX will float around for another 65 years before it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere and essentially self-destructs. It appears as though funding issues are behind…

Tech News Peter ha Jun 28 '13

“Game Consoles” Are the Final Key to Digital Domination

Google might be building a game console, rumors say. Apple too. Actually, everyone’s building game consoles. It’s just, they aren’t game consoles, exactly. They’re puzzle pieces. https://gizmodo.com/wsj-google-is-making-an-android-video-game-console-and-603197957 Game consoles have historically been their own little colony off to the side of technology. For a while that’s because they were seen mainly as an expensive kids’…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 28 '13

Read an exclusive preview of the new Transformers novel Retribution!

The Autobots and the Decepticons fought each other for centuries before they came to Earth. Now the upcoming Transformers novel Retribution, by David J. Williams and Mark S. Williams, aims to reveal what happened when the Transformers fled Cybertron to head here. And we have an exclusive — and massive — preview! The book is…

io9 Rob Bricken Jun 28 '13

This Is What It Feels Like to Pass Through A Singularity

The government has an automated system to track your movements and monitor who your friends are. Our news comes from remote-controlled “drone reporters.” There’s a device in your pocket that can produce a sex partner for you at the touch of a button. Maybe the singularity just happened, and we didn’t notice. https://gizmodo.com/edward-snowden-the-nsa-whistleblower-explains-why-he-512212147 Perhaps the…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 28 '13

Friday Afternoon Was Made for In-Browser Orcas

It’s Friday, and you’re just about in the home stretch. Well, assuming you’re not on Pacific Time, that is, in which case stop reading right now because your entire day is about to go pleasantly bobbing down the drain. Bobbing. Always bobbing. Just like our new whale friend here. Bestowed upon us by a friend…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Jun 28 '13

The scientific feud that ended in an execution

There have been a few famous feuds in science history, but there’s only been one that left a scientist headless. Unfortunately for all of history, in this case, the better scientist lost. That’s politics for you. Antoine Lavoisier is considered, by some, to be the father of modern chemistry. He’s one of the scientists that…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jun 28 '13

These Fur Coats Are Made Entirely of Human Chest Hair Because… Milk?

If you were an advertising executive tasked with selling chocolate milk, what approach would you take? Fun cartoon characters? Promoting the health benefits of calcium? Touting its delicious taste? Wrong, wrong, wrong. The right answer is to commission the creation of a fur coat hand-woven from over a million strands of male chest hair. Because…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 28 '13

The shockwave from the Chelyabinsk meteor circled the Earth — twice!

You know an explosion is powerful when an explosion requires a team of researchers who normally look for illicit nuclear bomb tests shift to study it. And yes, the group’s results show that the Russian meteor created a big boom indeed. Looking to understand more about the February 15 Chelyabinsk asteroid explosion, a research team…

io9 George Dvorsky Jun 28 '13

This Doctor Who drinking game will almost assuredly kill you

This Is the Best Looking Reusable Grocery Sack You’ve Ever Seen

An Ingenious Camera That Splits in Two Turns Everyone Into a Subject

Oh, how nice: a hyperrealistic life-sized sculpture of a beached whale

Looking For a Job? Your Potential Employer Is Spying On You

Who Are You In This Chart of Car Owner Stereotypes?

Low Budget Films That Are More Thrilling Than Most Big Summer Movies

20 Things You Might Not Know About Your Favorite Liquors

Over-Engineered Speaker Cables? Nope, Actual Speakers

Cave Hotel: The Perfect Headquarters for Any Evil Organization

How to Meet an Online Friend in Real Life Without It Being Awkward

The disease-causing fungi that lurk in your dishwasher

NASA Puts Its ‘Galaxy Hunter’ Out To Pasture

“Game Consoles” Are the Final Key to Digital Domination

Read an exclusive preview of the new Transformers novel Retribution!

This Is What It Feels Like to Pass Through A Singularity

Friday Afternoon Was Made for In-Browser Orcas

The scientific feud that ended in an execution

These Fur Coats Are Made Entirely of Human Chest Hair Because… Milk?

The shockwave from the Chelyabinsk meteor circled the Earth — twice!

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