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What Knives You Can Carry Where In The United States

Knives! Either pointy and scary or practical and useful, depending on who you ask. And that’s reflected in our bizarre hodgepodge of unclearly written knife laws. Let’s make them easy to understand. Above: Alan Ladd plays a heavily fictionalized Jim Bowie in The Iron Mistress. But Aren’t Knives Weapons? A knife is a tool. As…

Tech News Wes Siler Apr 10 '15

Sinister 2 Trailer Packs Double The Creepy Kids Doing Terrible Things

Sinister was one of those odd ball horror movies that was all things wonderful and slightly disappointing. It was gorgeous, very scary, but the bottom fell out in the end. But the sequel looks like more of the good stuff, creepy home videos of family’s getting murdered. Looks like all new characters and an all…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Apr 10 '15

We’re Getting More Fantastic Worlds From Ann Leckie

We’re already eagerly awaiting the third book in Ann Leckie’s Ancillary trilogy, Ancillary Mercy, due this October. But meanwhile, the award-winning space opera author is already working on her next books after that. Top image: Ancillary Mercy, via Barnes & Noble. According to a press release from Orbit Books, Leckie just sold them a new…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Apr 10 '15

These Knotted Cords Are A Sophisticated Ancient Counting Tool

This looped and knotted section of cords is not only beautiful, it’s also a 500-year old mathematical tool. “I’d love to know what the deal was with the Incan knot counting system,” commenter Sajanas1 recently wrote us. “It was probably just some complex abacus like system, but it seems pretty unique.” The knot counting system…

io9 Ria Misra Apr 10 '15

Vapium Summit Review: A Sweet Vape That Doesn’t Break the Bank

Portable vaporizers these days are all about compromises. Frequently they don’t last long on a charge, they don’t hold enough herb, they’re unwieldy, and more often than not, they taste like shit. So, it’s rather refreshing when a little vape comes along as solves most of those problems while staying well under the $200 barrier…

Reviews Mary Jane McWeedy Apr 10 '15

Awesome photo of the V-22 Osprey at night makes it look so eerie

Man, this is such a cool shot of the awesome tilt-rotor aircraft, the V-22 Osprey. The crazy flying machine is on a US Navy ship at night and the way it’s illuminated and glowing in the dark makes me think it’s about to dive into some sort of dark underworld mission inspired from The Grid…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 10 '15

Will The Umpteeth Attempt To Film King’s Dark Tower Finally Succeed?

Hollywood has been promising-threatening to adapt Stephen King’s epic novel series The Dark Tower for years. In 2011, it was gonna happen at HBO. In 2013, it was all about Ron Howard’s version. Now comes news that a “totally reconceived” take will become a film franchise, with tie-in TV series. Lower your raised eyebrows; this…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Apr 10 '15

Nearly 200 Years Ago, Awful Crimes Were Committed In This Lovely House

New Orleans visitors interested in macabre history are required to pass by the LaLaurie Mansion, located at 1140 Royal Street. Its genteel exterior masks its horrifying history, revealed 181 years ago today when a fateful fire broke out and the secrets within its walls were unleashed. As the History Channel reports, the source of the…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy Apr 10 '15

The First Photo Was Faked 150 Years Before Photoshop Existed

Not gonna lie, I rejoice in demonizing Photoshop for its role in spreading visual lies and viral fakeage. But pinning the blame solely on Photoshop is misplaced: Manipulating photos didn’t start with the digital era; the first faked photo dates back to the mid-1800s. New Statesman chronicles the history of fake or tampered images, which…

Tech News Meg Neal Apr 10 '15

This Death Star Soccer Ball Is Now the Ultimate Power On the Playground

Who cares about playing with a regulation or Fifa-approved ball when you can now play soccer with a tiny version of the Death Star? It can’t destroy planets (a minor trade-off) but this Star Wars Celebration-exclusive collectible could be yours if you’re heading to the festivities in Anaheim, California, next week. Just remember that it’s…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 10 '15

The “Great Cannon”: How China Turns Its Websites Into Cyberweapons

When anti-Chinese censorship services got hit with a crippling distributed-denial-of-service attack last month, researchers quickly pegged China as the culprit. Now, Citizen Lab has pinpointed the Chinese tool that made this attack happen. They’re calling it the Great Cannon. Separate from but located within China’s Great Firewall, this “Great Cannon” injects malicious codeas a way…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs Apr 10 '15

Why the Hell Can’t I Watch Murphy Brown Online?

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer saysthat without the 1990s TV series Murphy Brown to inspire her, she wouldn’t have gotten where she is today. The show was so influential that Vice President Dan Quayle turned the main character, played by Candice Bergen, into a political meme. And yet this series isn’t available anywhere online. In her…

Television Annalee Newitz Apr 10 '15

The Most Terrifying Natural Disasters Ever Captured On Video

When the destructive forces of nature are unleashed, the results can be horrifying. The world turns violent and unstable, with huge loss of life and massive devastation. It’s rare to be able to capture these disturbing events when they occur, but some videographers have managed it. Here are some hair-raising videos of natural disasters. The…

io9 Vincze Miklós Apr 10 '15

Watch this sorcerous liquid substance start swirling in crazy patterns

I don’t know what’s happening here but it’s a visual trip show and we can thank science for it. It’s the recrystallization of impure 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde being dunked into ice water. You can see the compound inside the flask transform from a liquid at room temperature to a flurry, swirly, milky substance as it cools in…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 10 '15

.Sucks Seller Accused of Ripping Off Poor Helpless Celebrities

The company selling off .SUCKS domains is making celebrities and brands pay premium prices to snatch up their .SUCKS addresses before their enemies do first. This is pissing off ICANN, the group tasked with regulating domains, which sees the scheme as a coercive shakedown. Vox Populi, the company selling off the new .SUCKS domains, is…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Apr 10 '15

Russia Is Outlawing Celebrity Memes

Russia likes outlawing things. Last year, they gotrid of cussing in all forms of media, and even did away with any film that “threatened national unity.” With such unchecked restrictions on freedom of expression, it was only a matter of time before they came for our memes. According to Roskomnadzor and spotted by Global Voices,…

Tech News Darren Orf Apr 10 '15

A Sock Monkey Wookiee Will Scare Away Bedtime Monsters Across the Galaxy

The official Star Wars site has posted another collection of the exclusive merchandise that will be available at the Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California, next week, including a sock monkey that instead looks like a cuddly version of everyone’s favorite Wookiee: Chewbacca. What child could possibly be afraid of the dark—or the Empire—with a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 10 '15

The Predator Gets Medieval On A Group Of Knights In This Fan Film

I’ve seen trailers for hundreds of fan-made trailers during my years as a nerd journalist, but I’ll put this one for Predator: Dark Ages among the best. It’s a fun, clever idea that appears to be well-executed (no pun intended). The full film will premiere the MCM London Comic-con on May 22nd-24th next month. [Via…

io9 Rob Bricken Apr 10 '15

What Is Liquid Cremation and Why Is It Illegal?

Excuse the bluntness, but once we shuffle off this mortal coil, our bodies are nothing but bags of live bacteria and dead cells. We can attempt to slow our decay (embalming), or we can preempt it with a destructive blaze (cremation). We can also dissolve our bodies with lye, using an increasingly popular procedure called…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Apr 10 '15

Why Isn’t Netflix’s New Daredevil Series Available For The Blind?

Joshua Loevy is an attorney in Kansas City, MO, who happens to be blind. For years, people have compared him to blind attorney Matt Murdock, whose alter ego is the superhero Daredevil. So Loevy was excited to check out the new Daredevil series… but he can’t. Netflix isn’t making Daredevil available in audio description, which…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Apr 10 '15

What Knives You Can Carry Where In The United States

Sinister 2 Trailer Packs Double The Creepy Kids Doing Terrible Things

We’re Getting More Fantastic Worlds From Ann Leckie

These Knotted Cords Are A Sophisticated Ancient Counting Tool

Vapium Summit Review: A Sweet Vape That Doesn’t Break the Bank

Awesome photo of the V-22 Osprey at night makes it look so eerie

Will The Umpteeth Attempt To Film King’s Dark Tower Finally Succeed?

Nearly 200 Years Ago, Awful Crimes Were Committed In This Lovely House

The First Photo Was Faked 150 Years Before Photoshop Existed

This Death Star Soccer Ball Is Now the Ultimate Power On the Playground

The “Great Cannon”: How China Turns Its Websites Into Cyberweapons

Why the Hell Can’t I Watch Murphy Brown Online?

The Most Terrifying Natural Disasters Ever Captured On Video

Watch this sorcerous liquid substance start swirling in crazy patterns

.Sucks Seller Accused of Ripping Off Poor Helpless Celebrities

Russia Is Outlawing Celebrity Memes

A Sock Monkey Wookiee Will Scare Away Bedtime Monsters Across the Galaxy

The Predator Gets Medieval On A Group Of Knights In This Fan Film

What Is Liquid Cremation and Why Is It Illegal?

Why Isn’t Netflix’s New Daredevil Series Available For The Blind?

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