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Day-Glo Fireworks, Dances With Apes, and a Plane Landing Goes Crunch

Roll that spliff phatly, pack some fresh ice into the binger, and set the Volcano to “toastify.” It’s time for tonight’s Stoner Channel. We’ve collected our best high-times material for the discerning pothead so sit back, relax, and pass that shit on the left, yo. Tonight’s “just the tip” OG come from an anonymous reader…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 24 '12

Everything You Need to Go All Out for the Mad Men Premiere

Mad Men Season 5 premieres this Sunday. The show’s been gone for basically two years, but its popularity hasn’t gone anywhere. Here’s everything you’ll need to nerd out on your favorite advertising renegades hard enough to make everyone else at your viewing party feel uncomfortable. Lucky Strike Cigarettes There are no consequences to anything in…

Television Kyle Wagner Mar 23 '12

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: The Hunger Games Game

What’s better than going to see The Hunger Games this weekend? Experience that same juvenile slaughterfest at home with friends! As far as board games go, think of The Hunger Games Game as a cross between Life, Monopoly, and a spear aimed directly at your larynx. Also, not for nothing, but the fact that this…

Tech News Splitsider Mar 23 '12

The Many Monuments to Russia’s Beloved MiG

The MiG-15 dominated the skies when made its debut in the Korean war. One of the USSR’s first successful swept-wing aircraft it has since become the most-built jet of all time. Our friends at Oobject have assembled the most soaring monuments to the Soviet’s favorite fighter. Be sure to also check out these less-than-original Soviet…

Tech News David Galbraith - Oobject.com Mar 23 '12

Radiohead: Sit Down, Stand Up

Have you had the pleasure of watching the wonderful BBC series, Life? You probably have. Beautiful HD nature docs provide the perfect visual background for any living room activity. And as many have discovered, they play even better when muted and paired with a soundtrack of your choosing. Tobi Totschlag has undertaken the task of…

Tech News Michael Hession Mar 23 '12

Awake is a great show with a broken format

Last night’s episode confirmed it: Awake’s format just won’t work. According to the show’s opening credits, there are two things that are supposed to happen in every episode: 1) Michael Britten visits two worlds, where either his wife or his son is dead. 2) In each of those two worlds, he starts investigating a case,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 23 '12

Tumblr Has the Only Likable Terms of Service We’ve Ever Seen

Tumblr, preeminent internet fount of animated GIFs, fleeting memes, and copyright infringement, has one terrific thing going for it: the only human-friendly, genuinely funny terms of service we’ve ever encountered on the internet. Tumblr “bs in the city” decided to actually read the TOS—we’re not sure why—but we’re glad they did. What’s lurking in there?…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 23 '12

A font worthy of M.C. Escher

If you don’t think a font can make you happy, then you haven’t seen Frustro, a font created by Hungarian designer Martzi Hegedűs. According to Hegedűs, it’s “inspired by an impossible object called the Penrose triangle.” See the font in its full glory over at Behance (Spotted by @stevesilberman)

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 23 '12

There’s a New Version of the Stuxnet-esque Duqu Trojan Floating Around and Nobody Knows What It Does

A newly surfaced version of the Duqu trojan indicates that the authors of one of the most sophisticated computer worms in recent memory are aggressively trying to figure out how to attack their next target. Researchers at Symantec have analyzed the mysterious new file, W32.Duqu, which is one of the components of the of the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 23 '12

This stunning moonrise is an optical illusion

Holy crap. This, everybody, is a Moonrise. The image was captured last week in Cape Sounion, Greece, by photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos, and it’s one of the most mindblowing images of the Moon we’ve seen in in quite some time. Just look at it looming there — it’s freaking enormous! So how did it get to…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 23 '12

Facebook Says: You Will Break Up on a Friday This Summer

If there’s one platform that knows our mating habits better than we do, it’s probably Facebook. So you should probably listen up when it rattles off a bunch of stats about relationships, and how yours is probably doomed this summer. Facebook pored over data from 2010 and 2011 tracking nameless changes to relationship statuses. Married…

Social Media Kyle Wagner Mar 23 '12

Why do cicadas know prime numbers?

Cicadas incubate underground for long years. They emerge every 13 or 17 years to mate and make annoying noises when people are trying to sleep. Both 13 and 17 are prime numbers. What is it that makes cicadas come out during these years? Cicadas spend so long underground that it hardly seems worth it for…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 23 '12

You can prevent old science fiction books from being forgotten!

This is my favorite new e-book project seeking funds on Kickstarter: Save the Scifi! A group called Singularity & Co. will scan and publish out-of-print science fiction novels in e-book form — but only after talking to the authors and getting their permission. It’s basically a version of what HiLo Books is doing with Radium…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 23 '12

Choose even more of the worst science fiction movies ever: The Happening Vs. Pluto Nash

Crown the very worst scifi movie ever made! It’s down to the sweet sixteen and it’s going to get ugly. The Happening goes up against Eddie Murphy’s Pluto Nash. What was the biggest upset from the last polling? Dreamcatcher losing to Catwoman! It’s horrible movie madness! Madness we tell you! VOTE NOW! You can find…

io9 Meredith Woerner and Alasdair Wilkins Mar 23 '12

Illinois Will Soon Sell Lottery Tickets Online

On Sunday at noon, residents of Illinois will be some of the first people in the United States who will be able to buy lottery tickets online. Is the Illinois Lottery Internet Pilot Program the potentially terrifying future of praying to lady luck? When the internet pilot program launches you’ll only be able to buy…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 23 '12

US Intelligence Agency Pays $250,000 For iPhone Security Hole

US intelligence agencies pay hackers as much as $250,000 for iOS security exploits or $200,000 for a Chrome or Explorer vulnerability. The agencies will not tell you about it: they would use that exploit to gain access to people’s devices. These secret backdoors that nobody knows about are called zero-day exploits. When hackers find one…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 23 '12

Dumpy, Deafy, and 40 other dwarves who didn’t make the cut for Disney’s Snow White

When Disney began drafting dwarf names for 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, they first compiled this short list of potential dwarven candidates. Doc was added to the roster later, and as you can see below, some of these names would’ve made Disney’s first theatrical animated release an unmitigated train wreck. If I were…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 23 '12

Me in My Place, Sparrow, Everplaces and More

Pretty ladies, pretty e-mails and pretty places to remember to go to. There probably hasn’t been a prettier iPhone apps of the week since like, well, ever. I would say this though, that’s mostly because of the lovely ladies of Me in My Place. Sparrow, you ain’t so bad yourself. Me in My Place: Me…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 23 '12

Makin’ Bacon, Streamin’ Madness and Listenin’ to Opera

This week’s best apps for iPad will totally make your weekend mo’ better: you can learn how to properly make bacon while watching March Madness (or DirecTV) and listening to Opera. Well, you can’t do all three at once but you get the point. Better Bacon Book: It’s a bacon recipe cookbook for the iPad…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 23 '12

NBA Jam, Angry Birds Space, Boid and More

It’s a bonanza of games hitting Android this week. Spend some time with your Android phone with NBA Jam, Fifa ’12 and Angry Birds Space. Or if gaming isn’t your thing, watch sports with March Madness. Or if sports aren’t you’re thing, well Tweet with Boid about how much it isn’t your thing. NBA Jam:…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 23 '12

Day-Glo Fireworks, Dances With Apes, and a Plane Landing Goes Crunch

Everything You Need to Go All Out for the Mad Men Premiere

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: The Hunger Games Game

The Many Monuments to Russia’s Beloved MiG

Radiohead: Sit Down, Stand Up

Awake is a great show with a broken format

Tumblr Has the Only Likable Terms of Service We’ve Ever Seen

A font worthy of M.C. Escher

There’s a New Version of the Stuxnet-esque Duqu Trojan Floating Around and Nobody Knows What It Does

This stunning moonrise is an optical illusion

Facebook Says: You Will Break Up on a Friday This Summer

Why do cicadas know prime numbers?

You can prevent old science fiction books from being forgotten!

Choose even more of the worst science fiction movies ever: The Happening Vs. Pluto Nash

Illinois Will Soon Sell Lottery Tickets Online

US Intelligence Agency Pays $250,000 For iPhone Security Hole

Dumpy, Deafy, and 40 other dwarves who didn’t make the cut for Disney’s Snow White

Me in My Place, Sparrow, Everplaces and More

Makin’ Bacon, Streamin’ Madness and Listenin’ to Opera

NBA Jam, Angry Birds Space, Boid and More

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