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The 1983 Punk Rock Record With a Digital Music Video For a B-Side

The B-side of Chris Sievey’s 1983 single “Camouflage” sounds like an unlistenable malestrom of noise. It’s not an avant-garde song; it’s a program for the ZX-81 computer, and if you could load it correctly, it gave you a (very rudimentary) computer-animated music video, coded in the grooves of a vinyl record. This neat little tidbit…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Jun 21 '14

Grab Pre-apocalyptic Anthology The End is Nigh Today For Just $1.99!

The End Is Nigh – a pre-apocalyptic anthology of never-before-published short stories by some seriously awesome authors (including io9’s own Charlie Jane Anders) – is Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal for Science Fiction and Fantasy! Edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howley, The End is Nigh is the first installment in the Apocalypse Tryptich, a…

Books & Comics Robbie Gonzalez Jun 21 '14

Is Continuum Preparing To Hit Another Reset Button?

Towards the end of last season, Continuum started rolling out lots of crazy plot twists — Carlos joins the Freelancers! Travis and Sonia die! — only to undo them when Alec went back in time. After last night’s frenetic episode, I’m wondering if we’re in store for the same trick a second time. Spoilers ahead……

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jun 21 '14

Here’s What Earth Looks Like From Space On The Summer Solstice

It’s the summer solstice! Today the Northern Hemisphere experiences its longest period of daylight of the year, marking the beginning of summer and an extreme point in Earth’s seasonality. The photo above, captured from Earth orbit by EUMETSTAT’s Meteosat-9, gives us a clue as to why this, but Ron Miller has the full details after…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jun 21 '14

Amazon Phone, Ikea Hacks, Electric Harley-Davidson, and More. Yo.

Happy solstice, friends! The longest day of the year is a fitting end to a week with Amazon’s new Fire Phone, the first electric Harley-Davidson, a scuffle between Ikea and its most popular unofficial fan site, and of course, Yo. Missed something? Here’s the best stuff we wrote this week. Don’t rush, you’ve got all…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Jun 21 '14

Intruders Gets A Release Date And A Creep-tastic New Trailer

Our first couple glimpses of Intruders, BBC America’s new series about a secret society that seeks to attain immortality by possessing other people’s bodies, were seriously spooky. This new, extended trailer continues the trend. Oh – and the show now has an official release date! The show, which is based on Michael Marshall Smith’s novel…

Television Robbie Gonzalez Jun 21 '14

It’s iPhone 6 Rumor Season: Here’s an Alleged Shot of a 5.5-Inch Screen

iPhone rumor time comes as predictably as moose mating season, and like pheromone-crazy moose, leak-hungry tech bloggers will mount just about anything that looks like it could possibly be iPhone related. Here’s the latest: a purported 5.5-inch (14cm) display, published by 9to5Mac earlier today. The images, provided to 9to5Mac by the generally reliable Sonny Dickson,…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Jun 21 '14

Train Strikes, Airbnb, Homogeneity: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

A train strike has paralyzed France, Airbnb has screwed San Francisco’s housing market, a lack of diversity has wrecked Austin, and two Southern California mayors fucked up, in two very different ways. It’s our joyously optimistic look at What’s Ruining Our Cities! A train strike is ruining France Called the worst strike in 13 years,…

Tech News Alissa Walker Jun 21 '14

A Massive Crop Circle Appeared Overnight In Italy

An intricate crop circle, pictured here, materialized last night in Poirino, Italy. This aerial view gives you a good sense of scale. See those cars in the upper left hand corner? Yeah. This thing’s a biggie. Created by crop circle artists Francesco Grassi and colleagues, the piece is called the “LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions)…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jun 21 '14

How to Print From Anywhere

Americans just aren’t printing as much as we used to. Where once we’d churn out driving directions, movie tickets, or school reports, these documents almost always stay in the digital domain. But for those occasions that you do need to print something, here’s how to make sure you can do it from anywhere, without a…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 21 '14

We’ll Miss The Excellent Young-Adult Imprint, Strange Chemistry

Angry Robot Books, which is owned by Osprey Publishing Group, has just announced that their YA imprint, Strange Chemistry is closing. Here’s why that’s terrible news. The closure of Strange Chemistry is effective immediately and all books on contract have been cancelled. Angry Robot will continue to publish books and will even increase their schedule…

Books & Comics Michael Ann Dobbs Jun 21 '14

Staring At A Computer All Day (Or Night) Totally Does Affect Your Eyes

Do you spend more than seven hours a day parked in front of a computer monitor? Results from a newly published study suggest you could be stripping your “tear film” of a component that helps keep your eyes clean, lubricated and healthy. Photo Credit: Carlos Martz via flickr | CC BY 2.0 Tears lubricate the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jun 21 '14

Before and After the Southern California Fires

Last month, a drought, heat wave, and dry Santa Ana winds combined together to exacerbate fires in southern California. Here’s a pair of satellite images of the San Diego region in May, separated by just eight days and far too much fire. Southern California on May 9 and May 17, 2014. Image credit: NASA Up…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Jun 21 '14

This Could Be Our First Look at Mozilla’s Chromecast Competitor

Ever since Chromecast and Roku hit the market, rumor has said that Mozilla was working on a more open, tinkerer-friendly type of streaming dongle. This week, Mozilla developer Christian Heilmann tweeted a photo that sure looks like a nearly-finalized product, and GigaOM got to play with a prototype. Casting’s about to get open-sourcey. GigaOM’s Janko…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Jun 21 '14

Wristbands That Translate Sign Language Into Speech Would Be Awesome

A student team working with Google has come up with an ingenious way to translate signing into spoken word: electronic wristbands that measure the wearer’s muscle activity, recognizing sign language symbols and speaking them through an Android device. It could quite literally give signers a voice. Update: As it turns out, this concept is completely…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Jun 21 '14

A Bobcat Plays With Its Food

Who said you can’t play with your cake and eat it too? The cake, in this case, is probably a dusky-footed woodrat. The Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve is a field station affiliated with Stanford University, outfitted with dozens of camera traps. One trap recently caught a bobcat playing with its unfortunate next meal. [via @JRWildlife]

Biology Jason G. Goldman Jun 21 '14

These DIY Office Supply Weapons Definitely Won’t Get You Fired, Nope

You graduated from middle school and found your way to a desk job, but that doesn’t mean you have to leave rubber-band-powered projectile launchers behind. YouTube’s mist8k is here to show us how to build three weapons of mass distraction, using stuff you’ve already got at your desk. Now (goofing off at) work can be…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Jun 21 '14

Finally, Details From J. Michael Straczynski and the Wachowskis’ Sense8

We finally have a cast for the show, which is expected to be on Netflix next year. And there are a lot of familiar names on the list. Here’s the cast: People who’ve done science fiction before include Naveen Andrews, Daryl Hannah, Brian J. Smith (Stargate: Universe), Tuppence Middleton (Jupiter Ascending), Aml Ameen (The Maze…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jun 21 '14

Fandom Academia: Gender Influences Filk Far Less Than You’d Think

I love the highly-specific title of this academic paper by Melissa Tatum, Robert Spoo, and Banjamin Pope: “Does Gender Influence Attitudes Toward Copyright in the Filk Community?” It combines three hot-button issues: copyright, gender, and fandom. It’s a like a powder keg of things people have very strong opinions on. Tatum et. al.’s paper was…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jun 21 '14

Sesame Street‘s Parody of True Blood Treats Vampires As Grouches

If there’s one thing we know, it’s that True Blood is a show for adults. So we 100% hope that no child has ever seen the show that this Sesame Street parody is based on. But if you were wondering if it was possible to nail this show without using any sex or violence, the…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jun 21 '14

The 1983 Punk Rock Record With a Digital Music Video For a B-Side

Grab Pre-apocalyptic Anthology The End is Nigh Today For Just $1.99!

Is Continuum Preparing To Hit Another Reset Button?

Here’s What Earth Looks Like From Space On The Summer Solstice

Amazon Phone, Ikea Hacks, Electric Harley-Davidson, and More. Yo.

Intruders Gets A Release Date And A Creep-tastic New Trailer

It’s iPhone 6 Rumor Season: Here’s an Alleged Shot of a 5.5-Inch Screen

Train Strikes, Airbnb, Homogeneity: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

A Massive Crop Circle Appeared Overnight In Italy

How to Print From Anywhere

We’ll Miss The Excellent Young-Adult Imprint, Strange Chemistry

Staring At A Computer All Day (Or Night) Totally Does Affect Your Eyes

Before and After the Southern California Fires

This Could Be Our First Look at Mozilla’s Chromecast Competitor

Wristbands That Translate Sign Language Into Speech Would Be Awesome

A Bobcat Plays With Its Food

These DIY Office Supply Weapons Definitely Won’t Get You Fired, Nope

Finally, Details From J. Michael Straczynski and the Wachowskis’ Sense8

Fandom Academia: Gender Influences Filk Far Less Than You’d Think

Sesame Street‘s Parody of True Blood Treats Vampires As Grouches

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