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A musical memorial to dead Game of Thrones characters we used to know

Remember Game of Thrones Season One, when all the major characters were still alive? The ladies of Not Literally are back with another pop culture-parodying video, this time using Gotye to pay tribute to “A Character I Used to Know.” Spoilers for Season One. Now that we’ve gotten through the Red Wedding, we need a…

Television Lauren Davis Jul 6 '13

San Diego Comic-Con Thursday and Friday schedules have been posted!

San Diego Comic-Con is less than two weeks away, and Comic-Con International has posted the schedule for the first two days. Let’s see what’s on tap for the entertainment extravaganza. For Thursday, we’re psyched about hearing more about Europa Report, Ender’s Game, and Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem. And on Friday, there will be peeks…

io9 Lauren Davis Jul 6 '13

Avengers Assemble kicks off & Deadpool crashes Ultimate Spider-Man

This week in the world of cartoons, Avengers Assemble begins its weekly run on DisneyXD, Deadpool makes an amazing cameo, and Bender tries to steal the powers of a guitar hero on Futurama. TMNT is off, but returns July 20th. As always – minor spoilers ahead! Ultimate Spider-Man – “Ultimate Deadpool” Most days I feel…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 6 '13

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: The Arsehole Gene (NSFW)

In a world where seemingly every physiological foible is being reclassified as a disease or an addiction (looking at you, husky sex addicts) it was really only a matter of time until the biological mechanism behind assholism surfaced. As this documentary by December Works explains, it’s not your fault that you’re a poorly-socialized, narcissistic, self-serving…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 6 '13

Glas: Glass Blowing Looks So Fantastically Fun

Bert Haanstra’s Glas is a short 10-minute documentary from 1958 about glass that won an Oscar. It’s a beautiful short that shows the art of glass blowing versus the character-less mechanism of automated glass bottle making machines. There’s no voice over, no narration, just beautiful scenes of glass being made. It’s like porn for manufacturing.…

Movies Casey Chan Jul 5 '13

Where Exactly Is the Middle of Nowhere?

We’ve all said it or thought it or joked about it or believed it at one point in our lives. That damn, we were in the middle of nowhere. But that corn field or dark stretch of the highway hardly qualifies as nowhere. True nowhere is actually in Idaho. Visual Statistix created this wonderful map…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 5 '13

Watch How Silly People’s Reaction Times Are in Slow Motion

This is fantastic. Distort measured people’s reaction time by making them catch a falling ruler to see how quickly (or slowly) their brains can translate what they see into what they do. Putting the video to slow motion emphasizes how silly our reaction times can be. Some of us are so slow we might not…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 5 '13

Google Supposedly Paid Off AdBlock Plus to Not Block Google Ads (Updated)

Any advanced Internetter knows that the best way to enjoy the pure Internet is to get an ad blocker. It zaps away all the excess and gives you the meaty good stuff. However, it looks like companies are figuring ways to circumvent ad blockers… by paying them off. Google is reportedly paying one of the…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 5 '13

Woodland Sculptures Recreate the Moment Felled Trees Hit the Ground

You could see Philippe Handford’s weird tree sculptures as somber reflections on life and the natural world and blah blah blah trees are alive, man. That’s fair, but really, this art is kind of funny too. Imagine walking down a trail in northern England and stumbling upon this tree. I kind of want to talk…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jul 5 '13

Silicone Pens Give You The Maintenance-Free Lawn You’ve Always Wanted

If you love the look of plants on your desk, but have a nasty habit of killing them through neglect, consider this faux greenery as an alternative. What look like tall blades of grass are actually unfortunately-named Pooleaf pens with long wisps of silicone coming off the end. They’re just $5 each, which isn’t too…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 5 '13

The Best iPhone Apps of the Week: You Know, For Kids

One of the very great pleasures of being an (imbecilic) adult is going to department stores to buy something painfully mundane and taking a detour through the toy department. YOU CAN BUY ALL OF THIS STUFF. It’s there, for you, to buy, and you don’t have to ask anyone’s permission. I’ve, uh, been at Target…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 5 '13

The Best iPad Apps of the Week: Not Worse Than Food Poisoning

I bought a case of flavored “wild berry” bottled water this week. It was an accident, I thought it was just regular old water, but no, it’s some foul mix of whatever the dentist gives you right before he gives you the water cup to spit that crap out and tin foil. But it’s what…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 5 '13

The Best Android Apps of the Week: The World Didn’t End (Yet)

Ashley’s out this week, so you’re stuck with me for your apps coverage. Did you know that I use a Windows Phone? There’s a newish Domino’s app for Windows Phone that is pretty good but also it tricked me into ordering a Domino’s pizza when it came out, so I’m sort of holding a grudge.…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 5 '13

A Map of the Entire Internet, 1977

Once upon a time, you could draw a map of the known Internet. Here’s what the world of networked computers looked like in 1977 when ARPANET was still just a huge government-funded science project. It’s actually incredible that the network proliferated this much in the eight years after the first four-node network was established back…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jul 5 '13

Sandy Play-Doh Lets You Build Your Castles Anywhere

Engineering the perfect sand castle is tricky even in ideal conditions. If you don’t get the sand to water ratio just right, your majestic creation will collapse and wash away. Unless you’re cool with cheating. In that case all you need is a jar of Brookstone’s magical Sand that’s always the perfect consistency. Remember that…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 5 '13

Daredevil: Marvel’s mightiest murderer of small children

Daredevil’s life is admittedly pretty horrible, but it might be possible that it’s not entirely undeserved. This page may provide some context: …or not.

io9 Rob Bricken Jul 5 '13

The Greenhound: Our Favorite New Summer Drink

We are officially in the dog days of summer. Here in New York it’s brutally hot, and the air has the consistency of bath water. You need something refreshing. The Greenhound is that something. It’s Friday afternoon, you’ve made it through the long week, and it’s time for Happy Hour, Gizmodo’s weekly booze column. A…

Tech News Brent Rose Jul 5 '13

Big Bertha Is Digging Seattle’s Massive Underground Freeway

The 2001 earthquake that brought down a length of State Route 99 running through downtown Seattle was a measly 6.8 on the Richter scale. But rather than rebuild the Alaska Viaduct, as the double-decker section was known, city officials instead decided to take the freeway underground in their very own Big Dig. To do so,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 5 '13

New Snowpiercer trailer explains how humanity destroyed the Earth

Still wondering how the whole of humanity wound up on a giant train in the middle of a frozen wasteland? Bong Joon-ho’s latest trailer for Snowpiercer and CG backstory video explains (almost everything). What happened: Snowpiercer is set in a future where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 5 '13

Say Goodbye To Hex Wrenches: Furniture That Assembles With Coins

If you’re a college student or a young professional in your first apartment, you’re probably well versed in assembling Ikea furniture. But soon after, those vital hex wrenches always seem to go missing, and when it’s time to move your bedroom set, it’s off to the hardware store to try and find a replacement. So…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 5 '13

A musical memorial to dead Game of Thrones characters we used to know

San Diego Comic-Con Thursday and Friday schedules have been posted!

Avengers Assemble kicks off & Deadpool crashes Ultimate Spider-Man

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: The Arsehole Gene (NSFW)

Glas: Glass Blowing Looks So Fantastically Fun

Where Exactly Is the Middle of Nowhere?

Watch How Silly People’s Reaction Times Are in Slow Motion

Google Supposedly Paid Off AdBlock Plus to Not Block Google Ads (Updated)

Woodland Sculptures Recreate the Moment Felled Trees Hit the Ground

Silicone Pens Give You The Maintenance-Free Lawn You’ve Always Wanted

The Best iPhone Apps of the Week: You Know, For Kids

The Best iPad Apps of the Week: Not Worse Than Food Poisoning

The Best Android Apps of the Week: The World Didn’t End (Yet)

A Map of the Entire Internet, 1977

Sandy Play-Doh Lets You Build Your Castles Anywhere

Daredevil: Marvel’s mightiest murderer of small children

The Greenhound: Our Favorite New Summer Drink

Big Bertha Is Digging Seattle’s Massive Underground Freeway

New Snowpiercer trailer explains how humanity destroyed the Earth

Say Goodbye To Hex Wrenches: Furniture That Assembles With Coins

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