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I Can’t Look At These Warped Airport Photos Without Getting Dizzy

Relying on satellite imagery collected from the internet instead of a camera, artist Hubert Blanz created these mind-bending images of airports for his X-planation collection. I rarely get motion sick, but browsing through these images makes me want to puke. The photos are obviously a result of clever pixel pushing in Photoshop, but the nauseating…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 20

Hot for 2012: Facebook Ads in Your News Feed!

Ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads. We love ads. Ads ads ads ads. Facebook ads. Give us more ads! We want ads! What’s wrong with Facebook? Not enough ads! More ads? Phew! TechCrunch, citing an anonymous Facebook ad bro, says Zuckerberg’s Like empire will soon start dropping…

Social Media Sam Biddle Dec 20

Space Age Santa

From the December 24, 1968 Delaware County Daily Times (Chester, PA): SPACE AGE SANTA — Art students at Indian Lane Junior High School, Middletown, man a computer to help Santa Claus decide who’s been band and who’s been good. The eighth and ninth grade students and their instructor, Ronald Beasom, built the computer as part…

Tech News Matt Novak Dec 20

14 Best DIY Gadget Projects of 2011 and More from TreeHugger

This week on TreeHugger, top gadget projects for you to try, the world’s largest Google Earth display uses 48 screens, Reddit using crowd-sourcing to help animals, and more! 1. Reddit Will Now Harness Crowd-Sourcing to Help You ID Animal Species If you snap a photo of a bird on vacation that you can’t identify, post…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch - Treehugger Dec 20

Watch the first trailer for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit now!

Here it is! The first ever trailer for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey! Head back to Rivendell with Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and Gandalf (Sir Ian McKellen), complete with beautiful dwarf songs! Here’s the synopsis, in case you have no idea what’s going on! Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit, journeys to the Lonely Mountain…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Dec 20

Why Genetic Determinism Is Bad for Humans

Do you prefer to run in packs or operate as a loner? Your answer is determined by your genes, a new study claims. It’s a big shift in social behavior theory, since scientists previously thought the environment determined social behavior. For example, scientists thought that where food was sparsely spread around, primates would live in…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Dec 20

Stonehenge Experience: The School of Rock

Unravel the mysteries of Stonehenge. Did aliens build it? Was it built by Druids as a place to sacrifice virgins? Oh Stonehenge, how you taunt us with your gray boulders and alignment with the sun. Luckily I no longer have to fear what I don’t understand. The new Stonehenge Experience app will answer all my…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Dec 20

Report: Amazon Was Almost BlackBerry’s White Knight

As RIM continues to stumble down the long stairway to oblivion, Reuters reports that the company had an unlikely suitor this summer that could have saved them: Amazon. Wait, what? Or more importantly… why? The deal, obviously, didn’t go through; RIM is still RIM and Amazon still has those hundreds of millions of dollars in…

Commerce Brian Barrett Dec 20

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Tech News Roberto Baldwin Dec 20

Surgeons Extract Pen In Woman’s Stomach 25 Years After She Swallowed It

This woman swallowed a felt-tip pen in 1986. Back then, she told the doctor and her husband what happened, but they didn’t believe her. Now, 25 years later, she went to another doctor and they found the pen intact inside her stomach. In fact, the pen was still working after they surgically extracted it, using…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 20

Why You Should Never Share Your Twitter Password

This past Friday, I mentioned that I was trying to get the new Twitter web client. My colleague and noted internet deviant Mat Honan graciously offered to pop in the workaround for me if I’d send him my password. I was in a rush to get to a meeting, so unaccountably, I agreed. Big mistake.…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Dec 20

Fight Aliens, Take Pictures Like a Pro, and The Zen of Puzzles

Can you imagine a smartphone without a tower defense game? I’m pretty sure the genre got a huge boost once Apple opened the App Store. Well today’s build-a-turret to keep the baddies out is based on an alien world. That’ll teach those aliens to do whatever they did to piss us off. Plus, we get…

Commerce Roberto Baldwin Dec 20

A Travel Guide to Prehistoric Places in North America

Want to vacation like a scientific explorer would? We’ve put together the ultimate travel guide for people who want to journey back to the earliest ages of the Earth. This guide to North American prehistory will take you to valleys full of fossils, mountains carved by ice ages, and petrified forests that are millions of…

io9 Sophie Bushwick and Annalee Newitz Dec 20

Lame Venture Capital Firm Made Its Companies Make This Lame Video

First Round Capital funds some of the best companies in tech. But this horrific video makes me lose all respect for them. Especially because First Round made its portfolio companies participate in this piece of crap. Are you guys trying to devalue your investments? Or just humiliate them so they’re more docile? Attention old dude…

Tech News Mat Honan Dec 20

Earth Has a Second Moon, Astronomers Say

In a research paper called “The population of natural Earth satellites”, astronomers say that Earth has a second moon at any given time. While these moons are small, the scientific implications of this discovery are phenomenal. Think about it: instead of having to send crews to asteroids, now we know that they come to us—they…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Dec 20

Postcolonialism and Science Fiction: An Introduction

Toronto scholar Jessica Langer has just published a fascinating book called Postcolonialism and Science Fiction. In this excerpt from the book’s introduction, she defines what that means, and explores some of the major themes in postcolonial SF. Langer currently works as an adjunct professor in the humanities, and has published widely on postcolonial theory and…

Books & Comics Jessica Langer Dec 20

Perfect Power-ups for Grown-Up Gamers

Getting the gamer in your life something was a heck of a lot easier when he was seven. A few Gameboy cartridges, a Nintendo Power shirt and—boom!—problem solved. But now he’s 24 and has more gaming gear than you’ve got power tools. So here’s what to get for your grown up gamer. 1. The Elder…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Dec 20

The Gizmodo Winter Survival Guide Will Keep You in Thaw

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Winter frost bites, we know. But unless you’re some sort of cold-impervious superhuman like red-blooded man-icicle Wim Hof (featured above), or willing to be an ex-pat in a hippy-filled, sub-tropic border town (ew), it’s a thing you’re going to have to deal with from time to time. Hence the Gizmodo Winter Survival…

Tech News Sponsored post Dec 20

Will the studio make Christopher Nolan change Bane’s voice in The Dark Knight Rises?

If you’ve seen the trailer and read our report of the The Dark Knight Rises prologue you know there’s one mumbly, bumbly problem: Bane. The Vader-faced villain is often very difficult to understand. So, does any of this have director Chris Nolan bothered? No, not really. According to The Hollywood Reporter the late reports have…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 20

Don’t Break the Internet

Two bills now pending in Congress—the PROTECT IP Act of 2011 (Protect IP) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House—represent the latest legislative attempts to address a serious global problem: large-scale online copyright and trademark infringement. Although the bills differ in certain respects, they share an underlying approach and…

Tech News Mark Lemley, David S. Levine, & David G. Post - Stanford Law Review Dec 20

I Can’t Look At These Warped Airport Photos Without Getting Dizzy

Hot for 2012: Facebook Ads in Your News Feed!

Space Age Santa

14 Best DIY Gadget Projects of 2011 and More from TreeHugger

Watch the first trailer for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit now!

Why Genetic Determinism Is Bad for Humans

Stonehenge Experience: The School of Rock

Report: Amazon Was Almost BlackBerry’s White Knight

Stonehenge Experience Gallery

Surgeons Extract Pen In Woman’s Stomach 25 Years After She Swallowed It

Why You Should Never Share Your Twitter Password

Fight Aliens, Take Pictures Like a Pro, and The Zen of Puzzles

A Travel Guide to Prehistoric Places in North America

Lame Venture Capital Firm Made Its Companies Make This Lame Video

Earth Has a Second Moon, Astronomers Say

Postcolonialism and Science Fiction: An Introduction

Perfect Power-ups for Grown-Up Gamers

The Gizmodo Winter Survival Guide Will Keep You in Thaw

Will the studio make Christopher Nolan change Bane’s voice in The Dark Knight Rises?

Don’t Break the Internet

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