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What Is Your First Internet Memory?

Two Gizmodo colleagues, one former and one current, are discussing their first Internet memories as I type out this sentence. Sam Biddle abused his father’s AOL screenname in the name of Valentine’s Day advice, while Jon Herrman rocked Hootie. The whole conversation, which I just creeped on Twitter and did not partake in, got me…

Tech News Jack Loftus Apr 10

Watch jarring footage of China’s massive ghost towns

In China, the development of residential and retail property in certain regions outstrips the government’s ability to keep these buildings occupied. An Australian film crew recently visited China’s vacant real estate and saw these strangely silent cities firsthand. Note the documentarians at Dateline: Vast new cities of apartments and shops are being built across China…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Apr 10

Gender Stereotypes Revealed Anew In Toy Commercials Word Cloud

This is one of those things that won’t surprise, but it’s still certainly interesting. What you’re seeing in the image below is a word cloud, modeled after commercials for boy’s and girl’s toys. Stark differences laid bare, and all that. I imagine many of the commercials that Crystal over at Boys, Masculinity, and Gender Stereotypes…

Tech News Jack Loftus Apr 10

Is this the strangest folk song ever written about intergalactic boinking?

The German-American singing sensation The Kelly Family have been making the internet rounds lately thanks to their jaunty paean to bed-wetting. Despite selling 20 million records worldwide, many of us are still discovering the Kellys’ unique vintage of borderline cultic vagabond pop, devoted to such topics as extraterrestrial amour. Yes, their somewhat deranged 1997 single…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Apr 10

9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes

Or, more succinctly, 9.57 zettabytes. That’s the amount of data the world’s “enterprise” servers blitz through every year. Most of that, I’m sad to report, involves kittens doing something adorable. Blech. I’m a dog person. Update: Changed “computers” to enterprise servers. [Techland]

Tech News Jack Loftus Apr 10

In the Mexican version of Child’s Play, Chucky is a pervy clown doll

In the 1994 no-budget Mexican horror flick Herencia Diabólica (a.k.a. Diabolical Inheritance), an evil clown doll known as Payasito terrorizes a family with knives, teleportation, and the power to induce erotic fantasies…starring him. In this trashy gem from director Alfredo Salazar, an old woman dies, and her son inherits her home and creepy clown moppet.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Apr 10

Is ET avoiding us out of a fear of human galactic conquest?

Has ET evolved to be discreet? An evolutionary tendency for inconspicuous aliens would solve a nagging paradox – and also suggest that we Earthlings should think twice before advertising our own existence. As physicist Enrico Fermi argued in 1950, unless the evolution of life is unique to Earth, there must be many intelligent species out…

io9 Mark Buchanan - New Scientist Apr 10

Praising Failure: James Dyson Talks Vacuum’s 5,127 Prototypes

Sir James Dyson, inventor of perhaps the most recognizable consumer vacuum on the market today, is completely comfortable with failure. He’s good at it—failure I mean—but most great inventors are. So it’s with that in mind that we turn to Dyson’s Wired column that was floating around this weekend. In it, Dyson breaks down the…

Tech News Jack Loftus Apr 10

An exclusive preview of zombies-on-robots comic book mayhem!

IDW Publishing has given us a sneak peek of their machines versus the undead miniseries Zombies vs Robots: UnderCity. When automatons square off against the living dead, the only people who can die are the fleshy humans. The issue, which picks up after the Transformers and Star Trek and Ghostbusters and G.I. Joe versus zombies…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Apr 10

Boy Scouts of America Dip Toe Into Robotics with Latest Geeky Merit Badge

The Boy Scouts, already no strangers to interesting, (if not controversial) modern-day badges like “video games,” have added what is an arguably more apt and useful skill to their badge-based repertoire: Robotics. https://gizmodo.com/cub-scouts-give-up-entirely-offer-video-game-badge-5526230 Gracing the face of the new badge is one of the NASA rovers currently stationed on Mars. Scouts will affix one of…

Tech News Jack Loftus Apr 10

You Should Break Up with Your Boyfriend If He Hacks Into Your E-Mail and Uses Your Sexual History Against You

Over at Slate, Dear Prudence got a question from a reader involving her creepy and insecure boyfriend. Why creepy? Because the girl recently discovered that her boyfriend had hacked into her E-mail account and sifted through 5-years worth of messages. Even worse, the prick filtered searches to find emails with “date” and “sex” in the…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan Apr 9

Saudi Arabia To Be Permanent Member of Mile-High Club

Saudi Arabia has just given the OK to start construction on the Kingdom Tower, the world’s first mile-high skyscraper. The tower will be built in the coastal city of Jeddah and is set to cost a whopping cost $30 billion. Housed in the structure will be space for offices, residences, and a hotel. It’s hard…

Tech News Kwame Opam Apr 9

Portable Korg Wavedrum Mini Turns Random Surfaces Into a Drum Kits

The Korg Wavedrum Mini is exactly what it looks like: A portable synthetic drum machine that plays the usual litany of percussion sounds and beats on the go. What’s interesting beyond that is the tiny clip. According to Korg, the clip can be attached to a variety of surfaces (e.g. table tops), at which point…

Tech News Jack Loftus Apr 9

Industry in Kazakhstan Looks Like Armageddon

In the city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan, hellfire begets progress. What you’re looking at is metallurgical grade silicon, or raw molten silicon ready to be used in the auto industry for things like electrical steel. Or, you know, Terminators. [English Russia]

Tech News Kwame Opam Apr 9

News of the World Grants “Unreserved Apology” to Victims of Voicemail Hacking Scandal

Eight victims of the News of the World’s “phone hacking” scandal have received an unprecedented apology from that publication this week. The apology marks a 180-degree reversal for NotW, which had maintained for several years that the job was the work of one reporter. It was not, the paper officially admitted this week, and the…

Tech News Jack Loftus Apr 9

In the 1970s, cosplay wasn’t all that different from everyday clothing

The best thing about cosplay in the 1970s was that everyone alive was secretly cosplaying — they just didn’t know it. Here’s an assortment of retro cosplay radness that wouldn’t be entirely out of place in Studio 54. I’m seriously of the mind that Rollerball cosplay needs to come back huge. You can see more…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Apr 9

Hollywood User Interface Fakery at Its Finest

Most of the time the computer interfaces we see in Hollywood flicks are all sorts of ridiculous. They mix glam with hints of what we might expect in the future. Sometimes that’s Minority Report (real, see MIT), sometimes it’s this: Access Main Computer File. Which is a Tumblr collection of the never-realized in the real…

Movies Jack Loftus Apr 9

In 2033, all marriages will be controlled by dystopian government bureaucrats

In the year 1933 physician Ira S. Wile made some wild predictions about what marriage would look like 100 years in the future. And although it’s not yet 2033, we can still be thankful that his predictions for our world just 22 years from now were wildly off the mark. Dr. Wile imagined a bureau…

io9 Matt Novak - Paleofuture Blog Apr 9

Prepare for the Worst by Deploying the Best

Members of the U.S. Marines Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) are in country, ready and willing to help the Japanese respond to the still-critical nuclear disaster that threatens their nation. Seen here is a decontamination exercise, currently underway. [SFGate]

Tech News Jack Loftus Apr 9

Cessna Begins Research On “Magic Skin” Condom for Future Airplanes

Sometime in the future, perhaps 2030-2035, you or your spawn will be spirited across the skies in airplanes that are wrapped in a magic, protective condom. The reason for this sensitive sheath will be to better protect the craft from lightning strikes and electromagnetic interference, the latter of which will be handy for all the…

Privacy & Security Jack Loftus Apr 9

What Is Your First Internet Memory?

Watch jarring footage of China’s massive ghost towns

Gender Stereotypes Revealed Anew In Toy Commercials Word Cloud

Is this the strangest folk song ever written about intergalactic boinking?

9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes

In the Mexican version of Child’s Play, Chucky is a pervy clown doll

Is ET avoiding us out of a fear of human galactic conquest?

Praising Failure: James Dyson Talks Vacuum’s 5,127 Prototypes

An exclusive preview of zombies-on-robots comic book mayhem!

Boy Scouts of America Dip Toe Into Robotics with Latest Geeky Merit Badge

You Should Break Up with Your Boyfriend If He Hacks Into Your E-Mail and Uses Your Sexual History Against You

Saudi Arabia To Be Permanent Member of Mile-High Club

Portable Korg Wavedrum Mini Turns Random Surfaces Into a Drum Kits

Industry in Kazakhstan Looks Like Armageddon

News of the World Grants “Unreserved Apology” to Victims of Voicemail Hacking Scandal

In the 1970s, cosplay wasn’t all that different from everyday clothing

Hollywood User Interface Fakery at Its Finest

In 2033, all marriages will be controlled by dystopian government bureaucrats

Prepare for the Worst by Deploying the Best

Cessna Begins Research On “Magic Skin” Condom for Future Airplanes

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