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Please Do Not Print Large Jobs

I like when people see an office rule and they find creative ways to 1) break it and 2) make fun of it. I don’t know who made this but well played, sir/lady. Well played. [Thanks Karl!]

The Higgs Boson Discovery Is Now Real Science

In July, scientists announced that they’d discovered what they strongly suspected to be the Higgs Boson, a particle that’s believed to be the key to unifying the standard and quantum models of physics. In August more experiments made the finding more certain—and now, the results have been peer-reviewed and published, making them, for want of…

Days after a judge settled price fixing allegations, Amazon is slashing HarperCollins ebooks prices. Buy! [PaidContent]

World’s Largest QR Code Is Stupidly Pointless

This is officially the world’s largest QR code. Carved into a field of maize in Alberta, Canada, it measures 309,570 Square feet and links to the Kraay Family Farm website. It is also dumber than every other stupid QR code that exists. https://gizmodo.com/wtf-qr-codes-the-definitive-compendium-of-a-sad-and-ho-5890314 Photographs of it—all invariably taken at an angle unless the photographer happens…

Google Fights Back: Official YouTube for iOS Is Here

Last month, Apple yanked the YouTube app that’d been collecting mold on your iPhone since 2007. On the one hand, nobody will miss it in iOS 6, because it was terrible. On the other, YouTube. But fret not: it’s back. https://gizmodo.com/apple-is-removing-youtube-from-ios-6-5932215 But more important than simply being back, it’s back in a proper way, built…

Why Is All Food Packaging So Very Terrible?

This hilarious video made by Pleated Jeans pokes fun at the universal suckiness of all food packaging. From plastic wraps on a bread loaf to zip-loc cheese bags to even chips and soda and meat and everything in between, food packaging is terrible and impossible to open. Why can’t someone fix all these awful little…

Watch This Guy Build His Cat the Most Awesome Cat Clinging-Structure Ever

Every cat should be so lucky as Rufus, whose owner built him this incredible room-size climbing structure out of a whole bunch of storage boxes. Watch it materialize in the video above! [Neatorama]

iPads to Replace Paper Reference Manuals in All AA Cockpits

The FAA has approved American Airlines to be the first commercial airline to have its pilots use iPads in “all phases of flight,” rather than the 35lb paper reference manuals they’re used to. Based on current fuel prices, The Next Web estimates that this will save the airline some $1.2M annually, across all of its…

The Stoner Channel: Silly Scooter Stunts, Automat Monsters, Money for Nothin’ and the Duke for Free

Jimi Hendrix – Stockholm 1969 Jimi and the rest of the Experience get together for a Swedish jam session. I swear, Hendrix makes playing that guitar look about as difficult as breathing. Please Stop With the Stunt Scooters Yes, we get it, you you march to the beat of a different drum. Seriously though ,…

What’s Your Favorite Viral Video?

Twerking? Winston Bananas? Fry That Chicken? Everyone has a favorite Youtube video that they love to share. What’s yours?

A Gigantic Skull Made From VHS Tapes and CDs Is a Fitting After Life for Dead Media

I have a gigantic case full of CDs that I have no idea what to do with. Do I toss them out? Do I save them for my kids? I’m sure other people have the same questions with their dead physical media—CDs, video tapes, DVDs, soon to be Blu-Rays—what’s going to happen to all of…

The Heifer Pitcher Reminds You What You’re Pouring on Your Cereal—Cow Juice

Jugs! There, I got your attention. But, similar to the spate of twee tea infusers of late, a gimmicky milk jug is a great thing. This one, which features udders, will never let you forget what you’re actually pouring voer your cereal: 2% cow juice. This soy milk jug had the same idea—but it’s sad…

Watch Two Planes Collide, Get Stuck Together in Mid-Air and Somehow Separate Before Landing Safely

If I was a pilot and I saw a plane headed straight toward me, I’d figure I was doomed. If I was a pilot and I saw a plane stuck to my own plane, I’d figure we were both doomed. Luckily for these two pilots in Holland, who hit each other in mid-air and then…

A Below-Your-Clothes Vibration-Feedback System to Improve Your Posture

Chronic slouchers and hunchers, listen up. Risr is a new technology that uses safe vibration feedback to correct poor posture, a special vest made of a delicate network of wires and vibrating sensors. Already we’ve seen smart clothing that logs data to help with your posture, and a posture-correcting computer monitor, but this Risr can…

Picture of the Day: September 10, 2012

BETTER THAN TATTOOINE | Our own Ron Miller shares his artist’s impression of Kepler 47c, the first binary star system with more than one planet in it. Check out the full version below. https://gizmodo.com/the-first-binary-star-system-with-more-than-one-planet-5938253 Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check out our blog view Or watch the io9 show. Or visit…

That Y: The Last Man movie is not dead yet

It’s been so long since we’ve heard any news about the movie adaptation of the post-apocalyptic comic Y: The Last Man, we’d assumed it was dead. But now, Vulture is reporting from sources inside New Line Cinema the the studio is quite pleased with the latest draft from Jericho writers Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia.…

A Beautiful, Modern Chest to Store All Your Grown Up Toys In

Field Day’s gorgeous Envelope Chest borrows its design from the classic interoffice envelope. Made of smooth maple with a satin lacquer finish, this simple storage chest closes with a simple leather tie. The Envelope Chest ($1400) is the perfect place to store all your grown-up toys and gear and gadgets. (Width: 40″ Height: 20″ Depth:…

Do these Hobbit images reveal the very last scene in the first movie?

We’ve got a gaggle of amazing new images from The Hobbit, including some sultry images of both Fili and Kili looking hot with their dwarf selves. Here’s hoping the hot new dwarf sensation will rekindle the flame of Tolkien whip burlesque. But in other, much more spoilery news, the app that these images came from…

Behold a 1970s Italian comic depicting an orgy starring C-3PO and R2-D2

Artoo and Threepio were never saddled with smoldering romantic subplots, so it makes sense that they’d schedule their RAM jams off-screen. And indeed, the 1975-1979 Italian adult comic book Cappuccetto Rotto boasted this cover showing the droid duo in the midst of group amore. Lest we not forget, C-3PO is used to this kind of…

17 People Who Think They’ve Bought an iPhone 5 Already

As much as we talk about the iPhone 5 around here, it’s important to remember that it doesn’t actually exist yet. At least, Apple hasn’t announced its existence, much less made it available for preorder. All that doesn’t happen until Wednesday. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-5-the-complete-rumor-roundup-5930100 But, uh… some people didn’t get the message. Like these kind folks who…