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Free iTunes Money Is Your Deal of the Day

Today’s Best Buy deal is one to pick up: it’s offering $100 iTunes gift cards for $80. Shipping’s free too. The card works like any other iTunes gift card: you can redeem it for music, apps, movies, or whatever, all at 20% off. So instead of monitoring the app deals or digital media deals in…

Tech News Kif Leswing Mar 18 '13

The Most Mind-Expanding Lesbian Science Fiction Books

Nicola Griffith wrote the classic novels Ammonite and Slow River, so she’s uniquely qualified to weigh in on lesbian-themed science fiction books. Someone asked her for some recommendations on her blog, and her list is well worth checking out. Including some obvious choices, like James Tiptree, Jr. and Joanna Russ, but also some books you…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 18 '13

Check out Gizmodo’s awesome show on BBC America! Tonight!

Join the team of insane gadget geeks from io9’s sister site, Gizmodo, for the premiere of Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers, their all-new special on BBC America, at 10:20/9:20c, right after the season finale of Top Gear. The hosts will be live on Gizmodo tonight to talk to you about the show as it happens. More…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 18 '13

These Beautiful Overflowing Baths Are Soak Sanctuaries

Guaranteed, your tub is nothing compared to the Oveflow Bathtubs. You might not be dirty, but after gazing at these new sunken whirlpools from Käsch, it’s totally natural to want to spend the rest of your day soaking until your toes shrivel. Water drips into the pools in the line from a nice little fountain.…

Tech News Leslie Horn Mar 18 '13

How To Watch (Or Record) Gizmodo TV

By now you’ve heard that our special is airing tonight on BBC America after the season finale of Top Gear UK. If you haven’t, please see this, this and this. Oh, and this. Now, to make things easier for you and everyone else you’re going to share this link with, we’ve started a handy guide…

Tech News Peter ha Mar 18 '13

The Avengers are Earth’s Morphinest Heroes in this Power Rangers mash-up

The Power Rangers opening credits done with Avengers clips and soundbites? Don’t mind if I do. It works out pretty well, unless you start trying to figure out who’s who — I mean, Iron Man is the Red Ranger, naturally, Captain America is Blue, Hulk is Green… and then it gets tricky. Let’s say Thor…

io9 Rob Bricken Mar 18 '13

James Cameron explains Avatar 2 delays: “I’m living in Pandora right now”

Last we heard, Avatar 2 should have been filming this year — but alas, the mighty James Cameron is still drafting the screenplay. But the director isn’t discouraged by the slow going — he says he’s “deep” into the script, and points out that everyone should back off, because it’s not like he has some…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 18 '13

There is no such thing as emptiness. There is only quantum foam.

According to some scientists, there is no such thing as empty space. What we have instead is called “quantum foam.” We can’t see it, but we just might be able to sense it. The guy who came up with the term “quantum foam” is John Wheeler. In the “shut up and calculate” era of post-World…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 18 '13

Marvel At These Mesmerizing Meticulously Manufactured Maple Marble Machines

Believe it or not, artist and wood-savant Paul Grundbacher doesn’t draw up a rough schematic or do any kind of planning before he starts building his amazing marble machines. He just dives right in, crafting the components he needs out of maple, ash, and linden wood. That approach also means he spends a lot of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 18 '13

Google Maps’ New Mountain Summit Street View Lets You Peek Off the Peaks You’ll Never Climb

Face it, you’re no mountaineer. Unless you are, in which case congrats. But for the rest of us, there’ll be no mountain-top revelations to make our souls take flight. Not in real life anyway. But Google Map’s new summit shots are the next best thing. Google’s Dan Fredinburg, program manager and mountaineer, lead Google Mountain…

Tech News Eric Limer Mar 18 '13

The Most Accurate Map of NCAA College Basketball Fandom

Like it or not, Facebook is a pretty good barometer if what people like. So it’s fun when it gathers up its considerable data troves and spits out maps of stuff we like. Today it broke down the fans of teams in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. The data uses simple Likes for the team…

Social Media Kyle Wagner Mar 18 '13

Why T-Mobile’s 4G Network Could Kick Everybody’s Ass

A lot of people wrote T-Mobile off when its big merger with AT&T fell through last year. The pink carrier had no iPhone, no 4G. But with yesterday’s announcement of the company’s official LTE rollout, it may have just put itself in a position to offer something no one else can. For the past few…

Tech News Brent Rose Mar 18 '13

Autistic children are 28 times more likely to be suicidal

A recent study conducted by Penn State researchers has revealed that children with autism are significantly more prone to suicidal thoughts and attempts than typical children. The question now is, why? For the study, researchers looked at the frequency of suicide ideation and attempts in over 1,000 children ranging in age from 1 to 16.…

io9 George Dvorsky Mar 18 '13

10 Omnipotent Beings Who Are also Jerks

What is it about limitless power that turns people into such assholes? It’s not the old saying that absolutely power corrupts absolutely, because while there are certainly evil gods out there, these 10 god-like entities aren’t evil so much as they’re just jerks — jerks who use their power to make we poor mortals miserable…

io9 Rob Bricken Mar 18 '13

An Instagram Foot Shot From the Tallest Building in the World Is the Best Instagram Foot Shot

Your feet in a front of a sunset. Your feet sprawled on a grassy knoll. Your feet surrounded by cats. Whatever the situation, Instagram’s about giving your friends and admirers a chance to peer through sepia-colored glasses at the fun and exciting life of your feet. But photographer Joe McNally may have just taken the…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Mar 18 '13

The Krebs Cycle, rapped to the tune of Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop”

As longtime fans of both Macklemore and metabolism pathways (weird combo, we know, but whatever), we’re pretty damn excited about this “Thrift Shop” parody by Wilson Lam. You should be, too, especially if you’re studying bioenergetics. “One of the awesome things about the [intermediary metabolism] course at [The University of Ottawa] is that a song…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 18 '13

Watch BlackBerry Rock Out In Yet Another Staggeringly Awkward Music Video

BlackBerry 10 is here at last and so, of course, there’s another BlackBerry-tastic music video from VP of Developer Relations, Alec Saunders. Now that BlackBerry’s actually delivered on those promises from the first song, you can’t fault ’em for wanting to take a victory lap, even if it’s really hard to watch. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-why-rim-is-going-down-5946253 You gotta…

Tech News Eric Limer Mar 18 '13

An iPhone in Different Colors Looks Fantastically Fun

I’ve never wanted an iPhone in different colors. Black with a tint of gloss or white with a silver lining has always been plenty enough. But then I saw these renders of what an iPhone in different colors would look like and man, a red iPhone looks like so much fun. People want choices! People…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 18 '13

The angriest Wolverine action figure of all time

Have you been enjoying the pics of shirtless, impossibly ripped Hugh Jackman from the set of The Wolverine recently? Would you like a tiny, shirtless Hugh Jackman of your own? Diamond Select has you covered with its upcoming Marvel Select movie Wolverine figure, but be warned — this may well be the angriest action figure…

Movies Rob Bricken Mar 18 '13

Make Sure to Watch Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers Tonight on BBC America!

Add it to your calendar. Set an alarm. Set a reminder using this thing the kids told me about called Facebook. Tie a string around your finger, ask your mom to remind you, write it on your arm, whatever—just tune in tonight! Tonight! Join us for the premiere of Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers, our all-new…

Tech News Joel Johnson Mar 18 '13

Free iTunes Money Is Your Deal of the Day

The Most Mind-Expanding Lesbian Science Fiction Books

Check out Gizmodo’s awesome show on BBC America! Tonight!

These Beautiful Overflowing Baths Are Soak Sanctuaries

How To Watch (Or Record) Gizmodo TV

The Avengers are Earth’s Morphinest Heroes in this Power Rangers mash-up

James Cameron explains Avatar 2 delays: “I’m living in Pandora right now”

There is no such thing as emptiness. There is only quantum foam.

Marvel At These Mesmerizing Meticulously Manufactured Maple Marble Machines

Google Maps’ New Mountain Summit Street View Lets You Peek Off the Peaks You’ll Never Climb

The Most Accurate Map of NCAA College Basketball Fandom

Why T-Mobile’s 4G Network Could Kick Everybody’s Ass

Autistic children are 28 times more likely to be suicidal

10 Omnipotent Beings Who Are also Jerks

An Instagram Foot Shot From the Tallest Building in the World Is the Best Instagram Foot Shot

The Krebs Cycle, rapped to the tune of Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop”

Watch BlackBerry Rock Out In Yet Another Staggeringly Awkward Music Video

An iPhone in Different Colors Looks Fantastically Fun

The angriest Wolverine action figure of all time

Make Sure to Watch Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers Tonight on BBC America!

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