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$500 Million NASA Ares 1 Rocket Launcher Needs One (1) Rocket

If anyone has an Ares 1 rocket they need launching, NASA has a brand new, never-been-used $500 million mobile launching pad that’s just itching to hurl something rocket-sized into space. In case you don’t get the humor, dry and subtle as it is, here’s a quick primer: Just last month, the Obama Administration—how to put…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus Mar 28

YouTube Caption Service Turns Shirtless Man’s Razor Tips Into Rambling Manifesto

Unfortunately, the razor-saving video tip I wanted to show you today was “old news” from February. But! As I sat there this morning, dejected, I decided to click Google’s very experimental “Transcribe Audio” feature…and nearly crapped my pants with fear. You see, Terry, in the video below, is just your average shirtless man with a…

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 28

Giant Forest Head Is A Real-Life Zardoz

Need a place to store all your shotguns to eradicate the evil penis? Simparch’s Celtic-inspired Silvas Capitalis building will fit the bill just right. If you’re looking for head-inspired real estate in England’s Kielder forest, here’s your dream house. Here’s the background on Silvas Capitalis from Simparch’s site: SIMPARCH situated an iconic head, on the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 28

Nokia N8-00 XML Entry Details Symbian^3, nHD Display

The leaked Nokia N8-00 hardware we spied just days ago got a bit more official today thanks to some intrepid XML file sniffing over at Nokia.com. https://gizmodo.com/this-may-be-nokias-new-top-phone-the-n8-00-5499803 Details gleaned from the code include the model number, N8-00, and “Symbian/3”, which would all but confirm the presence of a Symbian^3 OS on this phone. Resolution is…

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 28

Mother Brain

Hamster wheel PC power, you have been replaced! And yes, observant reader, this does indeed look like someone took an old picture of a switchboard operator and shoved her into a PC case. Or maybe there really was a tiny, time traveling woman from the past who came to the present day to work her…

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 28

Smallville’s Lex Luthor To Play Washed-Up SciFi Star

Michael Rosenbaum (a.k.a. the ex-Lex Luthor from Smallville) is slated to star in Saved By Zeroes, a 30-minute Syfy comedy about two faded scifi TV stars who must turn to the convention circuit to make a living. Rosenbaum will star in the series with Jonathan Silverman from Weekend at Bernie’s. They’ll play actors who squandered…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Mar 28

Windows Phone 7 Series ROM Spied Running On HTC HD2?

That luscious HTC HD2, the near-perfect mobile that had it going on in all the right places, save the WinMo 6.5 OS, is seen here doing the impossible: Running a Windows Phone 7 Series ROM. Updated. https://gizmodo.com/htc-touch-hd2-review-a-tragedy-5400593 I say impossible because the hardware just doesn’t support Microsoft’s chassis requirements for a Windows Phone 7 Series…phone…

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 28

Yahoo! iPad App Looks Better Than the Web Site, but Is it “Magical?”

As iPad launch day draws ever closer, we’ll inevitably start to see more and more dedicated apps for the thing that explain the “magic” and “revolution” (Apple’s words, not mine), it will supposedly deliver. Yahoo! here is a good start. Now, obviously these are just screens shots (or possibly bullshots as we used to call…

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 28

The Month’s Best Android Apps

Android apps keep getting better, and—well let’s just cut to it. You need this month’s apps: better Twitter, neato new ways to search your phone, and a super awesome platform game for diehard Android fans. Updated. To see everything on one page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/months-best-android-apps-5503651/ Other Android News • PayPal Bumping Is Coming to Android…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 28

Month’s Best Android Apps

Touiteur: Dumb Francophile name that you’re bound to misspell looking for it in the market, but a really nice Twitter app for Android. Not quite as full-featured as Twidroid, but the interface might be the best yet on Android. Slickest move? The pulldown menu to tweet, which works just like Android’s window shade for notifications.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 28

What Would Miles And Sawyer’s Buddy Cop Drama Look Like?

In the Lost episode “Recon,” we received the most tantalizing flash-sideways yet – the two sassiest castaways, Miles and Sawyer, are partners in the LAPD. What would their spin-off series look like? Let us imagine…Ghost Voice and Prime Rib. Even if Lost’s flash-sideways haven’t been your cup of tea, it’s hard to resist the notion…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Mar 27

Best Buy Selling iPads on Launch Day

We-hell-hell, what have we here? It seems as though those placeholder SKUs that popped up in Best Buy’s database a few weeks ago were for iPads after all. Both TUAW and Engadget have some shots of Best Buy’s confidential “Apple iPad Launch Playbook”—their term, not ours—and the documents suggest that some 675 Best Buy locations…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 27

With This Immortal, Roger Zelazny Brings the Gods Down to Earth

One of two Hugo-winning novels from 1966, This Immortal laid the groundwork for later divine masterpieces and turned action on an epic scale into something new and intimate, without sacrificing the sense of wonder. I had this theory awhile ago, that when it comes to what we call “classic” works of art, they tend to…

Books & Comics Josh Wimmer Mar 27

The Paint and the Pendulum

This is Tom Shannon creating one of his latest paintings. His process—swinging a giant pendulum rigged with six remote control paint guns over a canvas—is a marriage of chaos and control. His finished pieces…well, they’re incredible. On his unique process, the artist explained, “the pendulum lets me step outside to observe nature as it produces…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 27

I Really Liked This Story – Where Can I Find More Like That?

Sometimes you see a movie or read a book that is just perfect, and you want more. But where to find it? Ask your fellow io9ers for recommendations in this evening’s “more like that” discussion on the Observation Deck. If I could find more of any type of movie, it would be great SF indie…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 27

This Is What Cars Might Look Like On Your Next Kindle

Exactly what Amazon has in store for the next generation of Kindle is unclear. But if they stick with E-Ink, this clip of a color, video-playing E-Ink display from Kindle screen-manufacturer PVI could be sneak peek. We’ve known for a while that Amazon has a color, multitouch mega-Kindle in the works, and their recent iPad…

Commerce Kyle VanHemert Mar 27

Nothing Makes A Statement Like A Nude Upside-Down Man In A Party Hat

FlashForward is about people trying to divine meaning from a bunch of random images. Similarly, FlashForward’s a show in which audiences attempt to divine plot from a bunch of random images. Just what the heck did we watch last Thursday? First off, I enjoy FlashForward. I dig its premise, think John Cho and Gabrielle Union…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Mar 27

The Gear That Keeps London’s Pirate Radio Hidden

Untraceable infrared links. Backpacks full of back-up transmitters. Cloak and dagger secrecy. Hundreds of pirate radio stations broadcast in London every day, but this 20 minute documentary shows that only the tech-savviest stay a step ahead of the police. Homemade antennas, hidden in plain sight on the tops of apartment complexes and abandoned buildings, broadcast…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 27

DC Comics Superstar Dick Giordano Is Dead At 77

Venerable creator Dick Giordano has passed away at 77. A longtime inker, editor, and illustrator for DC Comics, Giordano worked on such projects as Neal Adams’ Batman and helmed DC editorial initiatives such as Watchmen and Crisis on Infinite Earths. Giordano began working for DC in the 1960s and became the Executive Editor of DC…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 27

Bubble Bath Oceans Could Beat Global Warming

A physicist at Harvard has an idea for fighting climate change that’s radical in every sense of the word. He wants to pump massive amounts of microbubbles into the world’s oceans, increasing their reflectivity and cooling their waters. Professor Russell Seitz proposed his idea at a recent geoengineering conference. The tiny bubbles essentially act as…

Climate Change Kyle VanHemert Mar 27

$500 Million NASA Ares 1 Rocket Launcher Needs One (1) Rocket

YouTube Caption Service Turns Shirtless Man’s Razor Tips Into Rambling Manifesto

Giant Forest Head Is A Real-Life Zardoz

Nokia N8-00 XML Entry Details Symbian^3, nHD Display

Mother Brain

Smallville’s Lex Luthor To Play Washed-Up SciFi Star

Windows Phone 7 Series ROM Spied Running On HTC HD2?

Yahoo! iPad App Looks Better Than the Web Site, but Is it “Magical?”

The Month’s Best Android Apps

Month’s Best Android Apps

What Would Miles And Sawyer’s Buddy Cop Drama Look Like?

Best Buy Selling iPads on Launch Day

With This Immortal, Roger Zelazny Brings the Gods Down to Earth

The Paint and the Pendulum

I Really Liked This Story – Where Can I Find More Like That?

This Is What Cars Might Look Like On Your Next Kindle

Nothing Makes A Statement Like A Nude Upside-Down Man In A Party Hat

The Gear That Keeps London’s Pirate Radio Hidden

DC Comics Superstar Dick Giordano Is Dead At 77

Bubble Bath Oceans Could Beat Global Warming

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