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How John Hodgman Learned to Love George R.R. Martin

Speaking to DCist, John Hodgman explains that he felt embarrassed to be reading George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire at first, but then he got over it. For good reasons: I read the Lord of the Rings and stuff, but I really only turned to the George R.R. Martin serial because I…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 3 '12

Apple Censors: Kinky Sex and G-Spots Fine for 12 Year Olds, But Penis Bad

Compare these two covers. On the left, Spanish science magazine Muy Interesante has an article titled “Myths and Truths About the Penis”. On the right, your typical Cosmopolitan smut, from “50 Kinky Sex Moves” to “Your Other G-Spot.” Both magazines are rated “12+” (12 years old or older) in Apple’s Newsstand. Yet only the one…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 3 '12

What Star Trek really looks like through Geordi’s visor

This adorable Star Trek webcomic by Caldwell Tanner and Patrick Cassels — titled “Unforeseen Consequences” — reveals exactly what the Enterprise looks like through Geordi La Forge’s visor. What is seen can’t be unseen! [Via College Humor]

Television Meredith Woerner Feb 3 '12

Sharing with “Friends of Friends” on Facebook Exposes You to 150,000 People

Well this is mildly terrifying: according to a new Pew study, the Facebook privacy mode a lot of us rely on for photos and status updates is, on average, anything but private. Time to reconsider your settings, everyone. The finding is staggering—Friends of Friends can hit as many as over seven million people: Facebook users…

Social Media Sam Biddle Feb 3 '12

Chronicle is a superhero origin story done right

Chronicle cost approximately 1/20th as much to make as last year’s Green Lantern — and it looks way cooler. This movie about teenagers who get superpowers has some of the coolest depictions of superpowers we’ve seen in ages. Whether they’re flying or tossing shit around, the teenagers in Chronicle always feel like they’re really doing…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Feb 3 '12

The Legend of La Llorona, the Crying Child Murderess

Countless threats exist deep in the jungle. But it’s not just poisonous, candy-colored frogs or fish with rows of razor teeth that trouble intrepid explorers—the jungle is home to a host of wild, unexplained happenings and folklore that all carry real, bone-chilling consequences. So, to celebrate the series premiere of The River, ABC’s new documentary-style…

io9 Sponsored post Feb 3 '12

For the Love of Sweatpants, Get Off the Couch Already

This winter has been one of the warmest in history, so, no, you can’t use crappy weather as the reason you’ve gained 15 pounds and now have a pet name for your living room sofa. Just admit it. You’re lazy. However, if you can summon the energy to take this short survey, you could win…

Tech News Sponsored post Feb 3 '12

Tiny algae uses World War I chemical agents to kill competitors

The microalgae Nitzschia cf pellucida is only a couple of micrometers across, yet this tiny organism has the ability to wage deadly biochemical war to strip its surroundings of competition. Researchers have discovered that every morning when sunlight hits the microalgae, it begins a morning cleansing ritual, wrapping itself and its surroundings in incredibly toxic…

io9 Tim Barribeau Feb 3 '12

The Mini Crab Bot Will Crawl Down Your Throat to Cure Your Cancer

The famous Chili Crab dish from Singapore inspires more than just drooling. A pair of researchers have developed a robot with two tiny crab-like pincers that attacks stomach cancer via your mouth. Lawrence Ho, an enterologist at Singapore’s National University Hospital, and Louis Phee, associate professor at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological Institute, co-designed the robot to…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 3 '12

How much caffeine are you eating every day, without realizing it?

90% of North Americans consume caffeine on a daily basis. When ingested by itself, caffeine is extremely bitter — not the type a flavor many of us want lingering on our taste buds. But some foods offer substantial amounts of caffeine, while others are packed with it synthetically. How many cups of coffee are you…

io9 Keith Veronese Feb 3 '12

The Super Bowl’s Love Affair With Jetpacks

Sports writer Michael MacCambridge wrote, “The Super Bowl contains multitudes; it has always exemplified America at its best, America at its worst, and more than anything else, America at its most.” So it’s no surprise that the largest televised spectacle in the world has a history of using jetpacks. It doesn’t get much more spectacular…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 3 '12

Don’t Be Dumb Like a Newspaper and Forget to Renew Your Domain Name

If you own a website, it’s probably a good idea to renew your domain name right now. In fact, it’s probably a good idea to renew your domain name for as long as is fiscally responsible for you. 3 years? 5 years? Whatever, go do it! We don’t want your website ending up like the…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 3 '12

Now You Can Tweet in Morse Code

Martin Kaltenbrunner, Professor at the Interface Culture Lab in Linz, and all-around innovator of anachronisms, has designed a device capable of translating Morse code into a twitter post. He has dubbed his creation the Tworse Key. And guess what? You can out-vintage your friends and build one yourself by downloading the schematics posted on Martin’s…

Tech News Michael Hession Feb 3 '12

Further evidence that Twitter will not liberate the world

Though optimistic pundits have declared Twitter largely responsible for social uprisings like Arab Spring, the microblogging network is hardly going to usher in a more liberated future. It’s a business, after all, and it bends to the law like every other business does. Over at Foreign Policy’s Passport, Uri Friedman counts the ways that Twitter…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 3 '12

Anonymous Leaks an Entire Secret FBI International Conference Call (Updated)

Usually the FBI is the one doing the wiretapping, but Anonymous has turned the tables on the feds, intercepting an entire phone conversation between American and British cops. The investigation? Anonymous and LulzSec. Irony! The cops talk elite arrested members of the hacking squads, referring to their “Project Mayhem or whatever the hell that was,”…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 3 '12

How Earth would look to aliens who see in infrared

The CERES Experiment is a NASA project that measures Earth’s incoming and outgoing energy. The picture above is a look at Earth’s reflected heat energy, as it would be seen from space. CERES stand for “Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System.” The project began in 1997, when a satellite started monitoring rainfall data throughout…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 3 '12

Anonymous Smashes Boston Police Department’s Website (Updated)

Anonymous has had a nice breather after last month’s Megaupload blitzkrieg, so it’s apparently time for more vengeance: the Boston Police Department’s site is defaced to hell. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-goes-on-megaupload-revenge-spree-doj-riaa-5877679 Anonymous claims the attack is a response to Occupy Boston police brutality, in addition to their general fuck the police ethos: Is that it? Hell no, there…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 3 '12

NASA releases another impossibly beautiful photo of Earth, detailing the Eastern hemisphere

Last week, NASA unveiled the highest-resolution photograph of Earth ever taken… or, rather, the highest-resolution photograph of half the Earth. https://gizmodo.com/nasas-latest-image-of-earth-is-impossibly-beautiful-5879221 Here, in response to an outpouring of public demand, is the most detailed image ever released of the planet’s oft-neglected Eastern Hemisphere — a high-resolution companion-image that completes the update to the original “Blue…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 3 '12

J.J. Abrams teams up with Supernatural creator for NBC apocalypse drama

J.J. Abrams’ next big TV series sounds like Fievel Mousekewitz and the American Apocalypse! NBC has just picked up Abrams’ new pilot Revolution, which happens to be about a separated family after the end of the world. Entertainment Weekly has the official log line for the project: In this epic adventure thriller, a family struggles…

Television Meredith Woerner Feb 3 '12

Gorgeous Shot of the Olympus OM-D Leaks

Camera nerds have been aflutter for weeks about a new Olympus mirrorless camera that’s supposedly set for announcement any day now. The latest rumor is a nearly full-body view of the retro-styled OM-D. If the rumor is true, the camera is going to be beautiful. The new shot, courtesy of 43 Rumors, gives us the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Feb 3 '12

How John Hodgman Learned to Love George R.R. Martin

Apple Censors: Kinky Sex and G-Spots Fine for 12 Year Olds, But Penis Bad

What Star Trek really looks like through Geordi’s visor

Sharing with “Friends of Friends” on Facebook Exposes You to 150,000 People

Chronicle is a superhero origin story done right

The Legend of La Llorona, the Crying Child Murderess

For the Love of Sweatpants, Get Off the Couch Already

Tiny algae uses World War I chemical agents to kill competitors

The Mini Crab Bot Will Crawl Down Your Throat to Cure Your Cancer

How much caffeine are you eating every day, without realizing it?

The Super Bowl’s Love Affair With Jetpacks

Don’t Be Dumb Like a Newspaper and Forget to Renew Your Domain Name

Now You Can Tweet in Morse Code

Further evidence that Twitter will not liberate the world

Anonymous Leaks an Entire Secret FBI International Conference Call (Updated)

How Earth would look to aliens who see in infrared

Anonymous Smashes Boston Police Department’s Website (Updated)

NASA releases another impossibly beautiful photo of Earth, detailing the Eastern hemisphere

J.J. Abrams teams up with Supernatural creator for NBC apocalypse drama

Gorgeous Shot of the Olympus OM-D Leaks

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