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Alien Vanilla Ice stars in a mind-boggling 27-minute Insane Clown Posse infomercial

Every year, clown rappers/noted magnet enthusiasts the Insane Clown Posse hold The Gathering of the Juggalos, a concert/bacchanalia/unruly mob slathered in grease paint and Faygo soda. For 2011, ICP recruited an extraterrestrial Vanilla Ice to pimp the Gathering’s roster. http://gawker.com/5612993/was-tila-tequila-attacked-with-poo-by-juggalos As with most things Juggalo, it’s borderline performance art, particularly the inspired choice of a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 5

iCloud Might Turn Time Capsule Into Your Own Personal Cloud of Awesome

Cult of Mac is reporting through a source that iCloud, Apple’s big and bright foray into the cloud, is going to be handled by your Time Capsule backer upper, putting the service directly in your home. This news, should it hold weight, is a little on the strange side. After all, why not host all…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 5

The ABC Bookcase Is Storage For Hipsters

Designers Eva Alessandrini and Roberto Saporiti crafted these modular storage cubes to form letters and numbers for typography buffs. Now your next bookcase can turn into words or messages for your less-than-hip friends. [if it’s hip it’s here via we love typography]

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 5

Meet the periodic table’s newest official elements

Elements 114 and 116 are now the heaviest elements that we know for a fact exist. They can only exist for less than a second, but they get us ever closer to the fabled island of stability. Researchers have been trying to produce definitive evidence for these elements for years, with the first announced discovery…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 5

The Roads Not Taken

Readers of the Wall Street Journal may have noticed a familiar byline in the May 23rd edition of the newspaper. For their special report on the future of transportation I looked at retrofuturistic visions of how we’d get from Point A to Point B. It was a fun spread to put together and I’m only…

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 5

What does the first review of A Dance With Dragons say?

Publisher’s Weekly has published the first (and slightly spoilerific) review of A Dance with Dragons. The general vibe of the review is positive, but it suggests that the novel has the same ‘feel’ as A Feast for Crows, despite more important events due to the book’s focus on more popular and plot-centric characters like Tyrion,…

Books & Comics Adam Whitehead - the Wertzone Jun 5

The ancient Earth should have frozen to death billions of years ago

The geological evidence suggests that there have been liquid oceans on Earth dating back at least 3.5 billion years, a fact that was crucial to the emergence of the very first lifeforms. The only problem is that that’s utterly impossible. Here’s the basic problem. In the first billion years or so of the Earth’s existence,…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 5

Watching the Clouds Go By in Spectacular Fashion

Australian cinematographer Murray Fredericks brings you this time-lapse, showcasing the lives of thunderclouds as they pass majestically overhead. It’s like watching mountains grown out of wisps of white smoke. [Brainiac]

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 5

NASA’s Cassini Mission, set to Nine Inch Nails

We’ve seen spectacular shots from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft previously, and now filmmaker Chris Abbas has set a collection of Cassini stills to a little Trent Reznor piano. It’s definitely a stirring look at Saturn and its surroundings. https://gizmodo.com/incredible-film-of-a-trip-to-saturn-made-entirely-from-5777938 Hat tip to Jonas!

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 5

Official Steve Jobs Biography Gets a Cover and Price Thanks to Amazon

Amazon is now taking pre-orders for the Walter Isaacson-penned Steve Jobs biography, iSteve: The Book of Jobs, slated for release March 2012. Along with the listing is what might be the final cover and price for the tome. https://gizmodo.com/official-steve-jobs-biography-finally-has-a-title-and-r-5790702 It’s a little generic, no? As though someone photoshopped it together for this express purpose. And…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 5

A horrifying Samuel Beckett short story…in 3D?

Grasping onto a torch I peer into a world of naked bodies. One grimaces at me and bangs his head against a wall. Others hardly stir: instead, they stare at the ground in despair. I am gazing at the virtual world of Unmakeablelove, a 3D interactive simulation based on Samuel Beckett’s short prose work The…

Books & Comics Wendy Zukerman - New Scientist Jun 5

Ninja uses car-crash-jutsu in a botched attempt to rob an Apple store

Another day, another distressing story of ninja crime. A new report of stealthy artifice comes out of Greensboro, North Carolina, when a would-be Shinobi attempted to purloin some iPads from an Apple Store last Friday. Notes My Fox 8: Greensboro police received a call around 4:43 a.m. after a dark gray or blue Honda crashed…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 5

Someone’s selling the laser rifle from Akira on Craigslist

Oh, the wonders of Craigslist. For a cool $1000, you can buy a steel replica of Kaneda’s laser rifle from Akira. It’s powered by voice, particularly the number of times you yell “TETSUOOO!” Says the ad: This life size Laser Rifle adapted from the AKIRA anime is a one of a kind collectible. The perfect…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 5

Bounce Houses and Summer Breezes Make For Terrifying Aerial Rides

Remember those carnivals growing up? Where you could go into those crazy bounce rides and do flips and twists for hours? Yeah, those times will never be the same, as one foul wind could send your and your family skyward. 13 people were injured yesterday at a Long Island soccer tournament after a strong gust…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 5

If Only iOS Could Do Even Half of These Magical Things

With WWDC upon us, there’s already been a lot of talk about what wonders iOS 5 will include. Suffice it to it will not include anything like the above features, which is kind of a shame. This isn’t the first example of iPad magic, but magician Simon Pierro does it with considerable finesse. Maybe he…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 5

Doctor Who lectures us for two episodes, then throws it all away

Okay, it’s time to talk about something really serious. Pull up a chair and put on your listening faces. It’s time to talk about discrimination. Because discrimination is wrong. Mmmkay? Especially when you’re discriminating against your own vat-grown goo duplicate. Sadly, last night’s Doctor Who sort of hit the sour spot, between preachiness and incoherence.…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jun 5

io9 Weekly Roundup

WEEKLY ROUNDUP: 5/29-6/4 | X-Muppets by Rahzzah. X-Men: First Class: Not Your Same Old Mutant Angst http://io9.com/5808167/x+men-first-class-not-your-same-old-mutant-angst Are superpowers a blessing or a curse? Are mutants more like ethnic minorities, or queer people? For too long, TV shows and movies have been asking these same old questions, without really finding any interesting answers. So it’s…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 4

Meet Arizona’s dilapidated roadside dinosaurs

In Holbrook, Arizona sits one of the American Southwest’s stranger tourist destinations, Stewart’s Petrified Wood, a petrified wood emporium/ostrich farm that boasts several creepy animatronic dinosaurs guarding its property. It’s like the Prehistoric Forest mixed with The Hills Have Eyes. https://gizmodo.com/michigans-abandoned-dinosaur-amusement-park-is-way-cree-5525873 Here’s the word-for-word sales pitch from Stewart’s website: Buy the most colorful petrified wood…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 4

One-Man Mini-Rocket Has Shaky Second Launch

As the one-man Heat-1X rocket started to veer off course and outside the designated launch area, mission controllers cut the engine and ended the test flight well short of the 15-kilometer goal. Also, the parachute did not fully open. Success! Indeed, the test was considered a success by designers at Copenhagen Suborbitals, who assembled the…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus Jun 4

Pool shark robot will take your money, blow it on oil and batteries

This pool-playing robot, which was built by Germany’s Technische Universität München, made an appearance at this year’s International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Watch as this bad boy uses cameras and robotic arms to own the felt. [TUM via IEEE Spectrum]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 4

Alien Vanilla Ice stars in a mind-boggling 27-minute Insane Clown Posse infomercial

iCloud Might Turn Time Capsule Into Your Own Personal Cloud of Awesome

The ABC Bookcase Is Storage For Hipsters

Meet the periodic table’s newest official elements

The Roads Not Taken

What does the first review of A Dance With Dragons say?

The ancient Earth should have frozen to death billions of years ago

Watching the Clouds Go By in Spectacular Fashion

NASA’s Cassini Mission, set to Nine Inch Nails

Official Steve Jobs Biography Gets a Cover and Price Thanks to Amazon

A horrifying Samuel Beckett short story…in 3D?

Ninja uses car-crash-jutsu in a botched attempt to rob an Apple store

Someone’s selling the laser rifle from Akira on Craigslist

Bounce Houses and Summer Breezes Make For Terrifying Aerial Rides

If Only iOS Could Do Even Half of These Magical Things

Doctor Who lectures us for two episodes, then throws it all away

io9 Weekly Roundup

Meet Arizona’s dilapidated roadside dinosaurs

One-Man Mini-Rocket Has Shaky Second Launch

Pool shark robot will take your money, blow it on oil and batteries

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