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Sesame Street’s YouTube Account Got Hacked with Porn Videos

Sesame Street’s YouTube was hacked earlier today by people who replaced Muppet clips with graphic porn. It apparently took Google more than 20 minutes to react to the hack, which means porn was floating around on the iconic children’s TV show channel. PBS and Google haven’t said anything but according to CNN, a message posted…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 16 '11

Cops Using Crime Prediction Software to Stop Crimes Before They Happen

It’s not quite Minority Report but Santa Cruz police are field testing a new crime prediction program that’ll help stop crime before they even happen. It doesn’t predict exactly who will commit the crime but will try and predict where crimes will happen. It’s pretty smart, the program, designed by George Mohler at Santa Clara…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 16 '11

Watch the trailer for Justice League: Doom, the next DC animated movie

After debuting at NYCC, the trailer for DC’s latest animated series has hit the web. Check out a snippet of Justice League: Doom, a new animated movie based loosely on Mark Waid’s classic Batman-screws-up-royally storyline “Tower of Babel.” The direct-to-video movie is due in early 2012. [Via iFanboy]

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar Oct 16 '11

io9 Roundup: October 16, 2011

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: 10/15-10/16 | Wolverine versus alien by Mikhail Rakhmatullin. Bruce Banner gets irked: a spoilery synopsis of the New York Comic Con Avengers footage! https://gizmodo.com/bruce-banner-gets-irked-a-spoilery-synopsis-of-the-new-5850188 Several of the Avengers assembled onstage at the New York Comic Con to premiere some brand new Hulkcentric footage! Here are the details More » On Adult Swim’s China, IL,…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 16 '11

How a pair of astrologers helped invent modern medical record-keeping

Even by the standards of the 1500s, Simon Forman was a horrendous doctor. A known quack in an era when respected physicians barely knew what they were doing, Forman even spent time in jail for his dangerous practices. And yet, for all that, it’s Forman and his equally disreputable protege Richard Napier who have left…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 16 '11

Your Dreams Should Be Displayed on Your Bed Like This

Photographer Jan von Holleben came up with a clever way to re-create his famous “Dreams of Flying” series by photographing a girl sleeping on her bed and having the girl’s dreams fully displayed around her. I love it. The whole series represents one girl’s full night’s worth of dreams, there’s her sleeping on couds, her…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 16 '11

New Total Recall footage shows off its big bad, Bryan Cranston

How different will the new Total Recall reboot be from Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s classic Mars mystery? The answer is “entirely.” At least that’s what we got from the few glimpses of new footage screened at New York Comic Con. Director Len Wiseman popped by the New York Comic Con (via pre-recorded video) to…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 16 '11

You Can Buy One of the Super Rare DeLorean Time Machines Used in Back to the Future

Profiles in History is auctioning off over a 100 Back to the Future props but the one that’s got me—and about the entire rest of the world—shaking in my boots is the DeLorean used in BTTF III. It’s one of only seven DeLoreans used throughout the entire series. The DeLorean being auctioned off is the…

Movies Casey Chan Oct 16 '11

On the TV show Once Upon a Time, all of your favorite fairy tale characters are trapped in Maine

At the New York Comic Con screening for ABC’s Once Upon a Time, we were shown an intriguing fantasy comprised of equal parts promise and problems. But the panel with creators Adam Horowitz and Eddie Kitsis, late of Lost, convinced us that the show will be worth sticking with, post-shaky pilot. These guys are masters…

Television Kaila Hale-Stern Oct 16 '11

The bizarre toad that’s part clone, part lover, and all hybrid

Reproductive arrangements don’t get much stranger than those of the Batura toad of Pakistan. The entire species is the result of two unknown species interbreeding, and each toad carries three sets of genes…which makes passing on its genome extremely tricky. The batura toad is a rare example of a triploid animal, referring to their three…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 16 '11

The Situation Got Kicked Out of the Apple Store for Trying to Cut in Line

The Situation, from the MTV hit freak show Jersey Shore, was apparently trying to get an iPhone 4S from the Apple Store but got kicked out instead. Was the fake tan and hair gel combo smell unbearable? Nope! Sitch foolishly tried to cut the line. When an Apple Store employee saw Mike up to no…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 16 '11

Watch Bugs Unbelievably Charge a Smartphone

This ad by Qualcomm is more impressive and less gross than I thought it would be—it uses bugs on miniature circus equipment to charge an Android phone with a Snapdragon processor. I’m guessing it’s an attempt to show off how low-powered the Snapdragon processor can be? Whatever, complex bugs are cool. [Bug Circus Generator via…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 16 '11

At NYCC, urban fantasy authors explained why supernatural cities are weird and wonderful

Urban fantasy is famous for taking real cities and recreating them as paranormal landscapes. At the New York Comic Con panel “Demonic Hotspots, Infernal Pit Stops and the Badlands,” six writers explained why and how. This panel gathered urban fantasy writers Kim Harrison, Rachel Caine, Patricia Briggs, Anton Strout, Edward Lazellari and Christina Henry to…

Books & Comics Kelly Faircloth Oct 16 '11

Take a vacation to Arrakis with Dune travel posters

DrFaustusAU — who you may remember from the Cthulhu children’s book — has now drafted vintage travel placards for destinations in Frank Herbert’s Dune series. Tan with the Shai Hulud on Arrakis, shop for the finest whale fur on Caladan, and have a pugnacious day on Giedi Prime. https://gizmodo.com/what-if-dr-seuss-wrote-the-call-of-cthulhu-updated-5847879 [Via Super Punch]

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Oct 16 '11

The Black Death is surprisingly similar to modern bacteria

The plague that wiped out over a third of Europe’s population in the 14th century came from a bacteria known as Yersinia pestis. Now we’ve sequenced its genome…and it’s weirdly, almost worryingly identical to its modern descendants. Bubonic plague is still around, but these days it’s exceedingly rare and quite treatable. It’s hard to believe…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 16 '11

Every Baseball Is Rubbed with This Special Mud Before It Gets Used

Baseball, America’s past past time, is a pretty quirky game with quirkier players and quirkiest traditions. Chew tobacco! Sunflower seeds! Rally caps! Seventh Inning Stretch! And even a “special mud” that gets rubbed onto every single baseball in the major and minor leagues. Huh? The mud is called Lena Blackburne Original Baseball Rubbing Mud and…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 16 '11

The Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of All Time

TorrentFreak recently published a list of the most pirated movies over BitTorrent of all time and apparently, what we watch in theaters is what we like to pirate off the Internet. All of the most popular movies have been illegally downloaded a gazillion times. Here’s the list, which dates back to early 2006: 1. Avatar…

Movies Casey Chan Oct 16 '11

Carnotaurus had the most ridiculously powerful dinosaur tail ever

Here’s a nice counterbalance for our previous report on Carnotaurus’s wimpy arms – it turns out any shortcomings in its arms were more than made up for with its super-strong tail, which made it one of the fastest hunters around. https://gizmodo.com/carnotaurus-had-the-most-ridiculously-weak-dinosaur-arm-5843614 Native to South America in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, Carnotaurus was a fearsome…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 16 '11

Beer Can Freezes Time in Northern Heavens

Taken with a beer can that has been converted into a pinhole camera, this image compresses three months into one instant. The glowing paths show how, from our point of view, our closest star’s travels across the sky change with the seasons. Variations in cloud cover cause the gaps in the silvery trails that form…

Tech News Roger Highfield - New Scientist Oct 16 '11

An average water tower, transformed into a Cyclopean walker

For the Nuit Blanche: Bring to Light on October 1, artist Marcos Zota projected a giant eyeball onto the bottom of the Milton Street water tower in Brooklyn. Conceived as a commentary of gentrification in the neighborhood, the piece also makes for a serviceable stand-in for a Martian invader. Explains Zota of the projection: CCTV/Creative…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 16 '11

Sesame Street’s YouTube Account Got Hacked with Porn Videos

Cops Using Crime Prediction Software to Stop Crimes Before They Happen

Watch the trailer for Justice League: Doom, the next DC animated movie

io9 Roundup: October 16, 2011

How a pair of astrologers helped invent modern medical record-keeping

Your Dreams Should Be Displayed on Your Bed Like This

New Total Recall footage shows off its big bad, Bryan Cranston

You Can Buy One of the Super Rare DeLorean Time Machines Used in Back to the Future

On the TV show Once Upon a Time, all of your favorite fairy tale characters are trapped in Maine

The bizarre toad that’s part clone, part lover, and all hybrid

The Situation Got Kicked Out of the Apple Store for Trying to Cut in Line

Watch Bugs Unbelievably Charge a Smartphone

At NYCC, urban fantasy authors explained why supernatural cities are weird and wonderful

Take a vacation to Arrakis with Dune travel posters

The Black Death is surprisingly similar to modern bacteria

Every Baseball Is Rubbed with This Special Mud Before It Gets Used

The Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of All Time

Carnotaurus had the most ridiculously powerful dinosaur tail ever

Beer Can Freezes Time in Northern Heavens

An average water tower, transformed into a Cyclopean walker

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