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These adorable steampunk illustrations make us want a pet octopus of our own

As it turns out, the entirely imaginary Victorian Land Octopus makes an excellent pet. He’s fiercely loyal, knows how to lace up a corset, is a master behind the sewing machine, and plays a mean game of hide and go seek. (The camouflage helps with that one.) Brian Kesinger’s Otto and Victoria illustrations bring us…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 28 '12

Everything You Need To Ride Out a Serious Storm

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know there’s an epically huge storm about to crash against the East Coast. If you have been living under a rock, you might be about to drown under it. https://gizmodo.com/how-hurricane-sandy-might-become-a-snowpocalyptic-frank-5955168 It’s always a good idea to be prepared for a storm, but it’s a particularly good idea…

Tech News Eric Limer Oct 28 '12

The Audience Effect explains how fans can screw up a franchise

Ever wonder what it would be like to have a bunch of people staring at you while you try to do your job? Scientists have, and they’ve come to some interesting conclusions. Fans usually catch all the screw ups of any given show. But perhaps the screw ups are there because of the fans. How…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 28 '12

The Death Star makes everything cooler, even a dog’s Cone of Shame

There’s something inherently sad about those post-surgery Elizabethan collars (or as the dogs from Up call them, “The Cone of Shame”). One dog owner discovered there’s one way to make even the Cone of Shame something to be proud of: put a Death Star on it. Now his pup Musha is ready to rule the…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 28 '12

This Is Steve Jobs’ Yacht

Venus, the incredible luxury yacht Steve Jobs had been designing up until his death a little over a year ago, seems to have made its first apperance as a finished product in the city of Aalsmeer in the Netherlands. Unsurprisingly, its design is breathtaking. Reportedly designed in a joint effort between Jobs himself and Philippe…

Tech News Eric Limer Oct 28 '12

Russell T. Davies pitched a Doctor Who graphic novel, was turned down

Mind-bogglingly preposterous news of the day: Russell T. Davies, the man who brought Doctor Who back from the dead and created the template for 21st century Who, says he recently approached BBC Books about writing a Doctor Who graphic novel… and they rejected him. In an interview to promote his new show Wizards Vs. Aliens,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Oct 28 '12

Physics PhD students make a zombie movie at the Large Hadron Collider facility

Think you’ve seen every single twist on the zombie movie? Decay has something that no other zombie flick does: the Large Hadron Collider. A group of Physics PhD students filmed their horror movie against the photogenic particle accelerator, cooking up a Higgs Boson-driven plot about a physics experiment awry. Watch the LHC-filled trailer. Sure, the…

Movies Lauren Davis Oct 28 '12

These Crazy Light Patterns Stretch On to Infinity

Mirrors can be for so much more than just gawking at your slack-jawed mug first thing in the morning. They can, for example, be used to give the illusion that towering designs made of light reach out past you, to an indeterminable vanishing point seemingly so distant as to be infinitely far. That second one…

Tech News Eric Limer Oct 28 '12

5 horror movies so gruesome, the makers were investigated for cruelty and murder

When you’re sitting in a dark theater watching some particularly gory act of horror, it can be easy to forget that it’s all just corn syrup and clever tricks. But every now and then, an especially ingenious special effect—or an especially gullible audience—has prompted police and courts to get involved. Here are five cases where…

Movies Lauren Davis Oct 28 '12

Here’s a Maddeningly Short Video of the Purported Nexus 10 Tablet

Thanks to Hurricane Sandy, Google’s Android event in NYC got canceled, the one where we were ever-so-probably sure there was going to be an announcement of the Nexus 10 tablet. Well, we have the next best thing, kind of. BriefMobile, source of previous leaks, released a video of the tablet. A brief one. https://gizmodo.com/googles-big-android-event-canceled-due-to-hurricane-san-5955462 Really,…

Tech News Eric Limer Oct 28 '12

The Artist: Turns Out Silence Is Golden

So The Artist was a big deal during the awards season of 2011, but I’m willing to bet a lot of you didn’t go out to see it. I know I wasn’t particularly stoked about paying up to go see a silent movie in theaters, but someone dragged me. And man, it was totally worth…

Tech News Eric Limer Oct 27 '12

Embryonic bats see no evil, speak no evil, and lie there looking adorable

The black mastiff bat (Molossus rufus) grows to be about 30 grams, but these little guys are just embryos, their bodies hairless, their eyes closed, and playing inadvertent tribute to two of the three wise monkeys. This photo, taken by Dorit Hockman of the University of Cambridge, took 20th place in Nikon’s annual Small World…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 27 '12

Battles: Atlas

Experiemental and math rock can be a little tough to get into. The rhymthms are impressively complex and intricate, but a lot of times you just can’t groove to them. Enter “Atlas” by Battles. It’s groovetastic. Off their 2007 debut Mirrors “Atlas” was Battles’ lead single with an addictively primal beat, crazy instrumentation, and some…

Tech News Eric Limer Oct 27 '12

Why penis worm anuses are getting evolutionary biologists all hot and bothered

This is a priapulid, otherwise known as a “penis worm,” and if you click the video, you’ll understand how it earned that phallic moniker. These creatures are currently shaking the branches of the animal taxonomy tree thanks to a mystery surrounding their mouths and anuses. Priapulids have long been classed as protostomes (“mouth first”), a…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 27 '12

Fake Your Own Death this Halloween With an Air Compressor Blood Cannon

Halloween presents a wonderful excuse for a lot of things, one of the best probably being the simulation of murder and suicide for the purpose of terrifying innocent children. It’s a bit difficult to pull it off live, but if you’re into the idea of making a festively gory flick, an air compressor blood cannon…

Tech News Eric Limer Oct 27 '12

Fast food workers get a scare when a zombie shows up at the drive-thru window

One hazard of working the drive-thru window in late October is that you risk running into goofballs like this. Ed Bassmaster decided to spend an evening pranking fast food employees with his zombie makeup. One ten-piece order of brains, please. [via The Daily What]

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 27 '12

Space Dresses, All-Wood Clock, and More

Do you need a distraction from the fact that a freak storm might kill you by the end of the weekend? Here we are to your mental rescue with light up roads, a giant sewing box that’s actually a cabinet, and much more in this round of the most beautiful items of the week. How…

Tech News Leslie Horn Oct 27 '12

Haven finally identifies the Colorado Kid—and takes a page from the Buffy playbook

Dr. Claire spent most of this episode of Haven dressed as the Kristy Swanson version of Buffy Summers. It’s quite appropriate since our Troubleshooters were trapped in a very Buffy-esque situation, stuck inside a sentient haunted house. This claustrophobic tale is served up with a side of Game of Thrones’ Jorah Mormont. Plus, Audrey finally…

Television Lauren Davis Oct 27 '12

Meet Nestle’s Squadron of Internet Comment Warriors

Every company has to deal with people who talk about it on the Internet, and different ones handle it differently. Nestle for instance, maintains an elite team of Digital Accelerators that, as an article by Reuters reveals, watches the wide world of Internet comments like a hawk. The Digital Acceleration Team, comprised of over two…

Tech News Eric Limer Oct 27 '12

It’s Full of Stars: 84 Million Stars of the Milky Way in 9 Billion Pixels

It’s impossible to capture the scale of our galaxy on your computer screen, but darned if the European Southern Observatory isn’t going to try. The observatory has released a 108500×81500 pixel mosaic of the central parts of the Milky Way. You weren’t planning on doing anything else with your weekend, right? Thousands of images from…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 27 '12

These adorable steampunk illustrations make us want a pet octopus of our own

Everything You Need To Ride Out a Serious Storm

The Audience Effect explains how fans can screw up a franchise

The Death Star makes everything cooler, even a dog’s Cone of Shame

This Is Steve Jobs’ Yacht

Russell T. Davies pitched a Doctor Who graphic novel, was turned down

Physics PhD students make a zombie movie at the Large Hadron Collider facility

These Crazy Light Patterns Stretch On to Infinity

5 horror movies so gruesome, the makers were investigated for cruelty and murder

Here’s a Maddeningly Short Video of the Purported Nexus 10 Tablet

The Artist: Turns Out Silence Is Golden

Embryonic bats see no evil, speak no evil, and lie there looking adorable

Battles: Atlas

Why penis worm anuses are getting evolutionary biologists all hot and bothered

Fake Your Own Death this Halloween With an Air Compressor Blood Cannon

Fast food workers get a scare when a zombie shows up at the drive-thru window

Space Dresses, All-Wood Clock, and More

Haven finally identifies the Colorado Kid—and takes a page from the Buffy playbook

Meet Nestle’s Squadron of Internet Comment Warriors

It’s Full of Stars: 84 Million Stars of the Milky Way in 9 Billion Pixels

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