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Would You Like To Choose Your Flight Seat Mate Using Facebook?

This is what KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is doing: their incoming check-in system will allow passengers to choose seat mates based on their Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, so he or she would be someone who shares your interests. That’s not a bad idea. However, people will also be able to select seat mate based on…

Social Media Jesus Diaz Dec 16

NASA has launched its own internet radio station!

The aerospace agency is calling its new music and news outlet Third Rock Radio — a “space station” that NASA is hoping will register with tech-savvy young adults. According to a statement issued by NASA, the station will feature regular updates on NASA’s latest missions and discoveries, along with “a healthy dose of great New…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Dec 16

Heads Up with Cristiano Ronaldo Is A Kick

Look, I am not very good at Soccer, although I always wanted to be. Nor, do I imagine, would I be that effective were aliens to attack. But I’ve had a hell of a lot of fun getting to do both playing Heads Up with Cristiano Ronaldo. It’s a total kick, even if you’re using…

Tech News Mat Honan Dec 16

A Fond Farewell to Gizmodo Gallery: Virtual Tours, Pancake Records, and More

Wh-wh-who-whoa! What just happened? A couple of us at Giz just woke up from some Inception-like mind warp this week. Did we just overrun a Lower East Side gallery, fill it with the best, most coveted gear and exclusive exhibitions before clearing everything out, painting over the walls, and sweeping up mountains of broken glass,…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Dec 16

Great Trainwrecks of Science Fiction: Movies Where the Director Was Fired in the Middle

Everybody knows that the movies can be a messy business — oftentimes, what reaches the big screen is the result of a process akin to sticking your fingers in a Cuisinart. And sometimes the original director of a project gets dropped just before filming starts — as happened with The Wolfman. Or sometimes the director…

Movies MaryKate Jasper and Charlie Jane Anders Dec 16

This Holiday’s Hottest Tablet Isn’t What You Think

iPad 2. Kindle Fire. Android Tablet X. Popular gifts, all. In fact, odds are a bunch of you are stuffing stockings with them right now. But if we define popularity as how many casualties the war between supply and demand leaves behind, only one tablet stands out this month. It’s slow, it’s bulky, it has…

Tech News Brian Barrett Dec 16

Amazing New Images from Spider-Man, Avengers and More

Get a fresh glimpse at all the movies we can’t wait to see in 2012, via Empire Magazine. Check out an Avengers battle scene, a few Spider-Man pics with a very wet Dr. Connors, a new look at Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, and Michael Fassbender in Prometheus. The entire collection of images come from the…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 16

This DIY Solar Powered Robot Kit Is Your Creative Deal of the Day

I hate being sick. I hate being sick on a Friday. Of all days, right! I hate being sick when the sun is out. Why not pound my head on a rainy day? I pretty much hate everything when I’m sick. So my solution is to make these foolish pacts with myself that I’m going…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Dec 16

Apple Fanboys Were Douchebags in the ’80s Too

One could argue that everyone in the 80s dressed like total douchebags. That’s probably true. I’m guilty of that (thanks mom!). But you can also argue that Apple users wearing Apple gear looked extra-douchebaggy with vagina cleaning foam on top. I still have a few of those striped Apple pins myself. I also had one…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 16

Mysterious “white web” found growing on nuclear waste

This is as fascinating as it is unsettling. Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site — a nuclear reservation in South Carolina — have identified a strange, cob-web like “growth” (their word, not ours) on the racks of the facility’s spent nuclear fuel assemblies. According to a report filed by the Defense Nuclear…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Dec 16

Ewan McGregor attempts a crime against nature, in the first Salmon Fishing trailer

Paul Torday’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen was one of our favorite examples of a book that’s secretly science fiction — about a fisheries scientist who undertakes the mad, ambitious project of introducing salmon to the Yemen. Including all of the bioengineering (and regular engineering) that goes into that. Now it’s been made into a…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders Dec 16

Sweden Gives Full Control of Official Twitter Account to Candid Masturbator

You wouldn’t think Sweden, land of beauty and prosperity, would have trouble attracting visitors. But the tourism status quo wasn’t working, it appears, and the country is now letting ordinary folk run the Twitter account. It’s already a bad idea! Meet Jack. This week, he’s in control of @Sweden, the official Twitter handle of Sweden’s…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 16

Why You Shouldn’t Buy Anyone a French Press

Like a lot of folks, you might be considering buying a loved one some fancy coffee gear to make fancy coffee as a Christmas gift. By which I mean, you’re probably thinking about buying somebody a French Press. Please don’t. It looks classy. Neatly sculpted glass or metal or both. It sounds classy. It has…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 16

Kid Gets a New Ear Made from His Own Rib

That’s Sean Wingrove-Smith from Walderslade, England, up above, and doctors were able to give him a new ear thanks to a procedure that sounds like a verse out of Genesis. The procedure involves grafting cartilage from his ribcage and carving it into the shape of an ear. It’s not as fleshy as an actual ear,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Dec 16

Use Math to Cheat People out of Holiday Treats!

It’s the skeeball prize wall of adulthood – a jar filled with candy, coins, or some other tiny trinket. A person at the front of the room compels you to guess the amount in the jar for free, or for a small donation to charity. You could throw a number out off the top of…

io9 Keith Veronese Dec 16

Watch Comet Lovejoy Playing With Fire and Surviving

Rejoice, for comet Lovejoy has survived its close encounter with the Sun! NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has recorded the exact moment it went close behind the Sun, then out again on the other side, surprisingly more or less intact.

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 16

The Rejected Green Goblin Make-Up Tests from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man

What if Sam Raimi wanted his Green Goblin to look more like an actual monster, and less a man in a mask? Then Willem Dafoe would have looked a lot like this. These clips of the rejected make-up tests for Raimi’s Spider-Man are scary… but not necessarily in a good way. Released by Amalgamated Dynamics,…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 16

Air Force Blames Pilot in Suspicious Stealth-Jet Crash

When an F-22 Raptor malfunctioned in mid-flight, leading to a crash that killed its pilot, the Air Force went into damage-control mode. Gen. Norton Schwartz, the chief of staff, insisted there was no way that the oxygen generator on his prized stealth jet – a system widely suspected of being dangerously flawed – caused the…

Tech News David Axe Dec 16

Make a penny disappear with water

Wanna watch a pyrex dish and some water make a penny disappear? How about a little more water (in an unusual place) making it come back? Take a look at a confusing physics demonstration that you can do at home, whenever you want to frustrate your guests. Light knows that the vast majority of the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Dec 16

Expensive Gear to Shower Upon Mark Zuckerberg

Unlike Tom from MySpace, Mark Zuckerberg is not your friend. But fuck it. Think about all the time you’ve spent on Facebook—for free! You should get him something nice. But what do you get an autistic savant who slaughters and butchers his own meat, happens to be the world’s youngest billionaire, and is a practicing…

Social Media Mat Honan Dec 16

Would You Like To Choose Your Flight Seat Mate Using Facebook?

NASA has launched its own internet radio station!

Heads Up with Cristiano Ronaldo Is A Kick

A Fond Farewell to Gizmodo Gallery: Virtual Tours, Pancake Records, and More

Great Trainwrecks of Science Fiction: Movies Where the Director Was Fired in the Middle

This Holiday’s Hottest Tablet Isn’t What You Think

Amazing New Images from Spider-Man, Avengers and More

This DIY Solar Powered Robot Kit Is Your Creative Deal of the Day

Apple Fanboys Were Douchebags in the ’80s Too

Mysterious “white web” found growing on nuclear waste

Ewan McGregor attempts a crime against nature, in the first Salmon Fishing trailer

Sweden Gives Full Control of Official Twitter Account to Candid Masturbator

Why You Shouldn’t Buy Anyone a French Press

Kid Gets a New Ear Made from His Own Rib

Use Math to Cheat People out of Holiday Treats!

Watch Comet Lovejoy Playing With Fire and Surviving

The Rejected Green Goblin Make-Up Tests from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man

Air Force Blames Pilot in Suspicious Stealth-Jet Crash

Make a penny disappear with water

Expensive Gear to Shower Upon Mark Zuckerberg

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