This practical joke could have turned into tragedy: watch as some "friends" throw a guy out of a boat after seeing a shark in the distance. As they approach it, the animal turns around and goes straight to get him, just a fraction of a second before he gets back into the boat.

Did you make any new years resolutions? It looks like Steve Jobs sure did, he marked down very reachable goals for 2011 on a napkin. Sounds like it'll be a good year for him! [Scoopertino via TiPb]

Making friends? No, no way it's that innocent. Think harder...

Did you know there was a very secret payload on board the Dragon spacecraft, the first private spaceship to reach orbit and return safely to Earth? SpaceX didn't reveal what it was until today. The answer is deliciously funny.

This is a clever video that only your mom might believe, but it makes me excited for the future where videos and pictures can be displayed as holograms. I can already imagine Jobs giving it a snooty name, like Magic Vision.

Do you often pretend you're a pale and freckled middle-aged man, throwing out one-liners before someone yells YEEEEEAAAAHHH!!! and a guitar riff plays? This app is the only thing you need to complete the experience.

You know, for my mythical iPhone. At an April Fool's Day price of only £90 ($135), the converter makes your inserted iPhone magnify to the size of an iPad. A far better investment, if you ask me. [IWantOneOfThose.com]

Wondering where to find more The Dark Knight-style Joker now that we're years away from a sequel (and Heath Ledger is... unavailable)? Crime writer Brian Azzarello would like to draw your attention to a little graphic novel he's been working on that he promises is "so ugly - in a good way."The book, Joker was…

The picture is all we have to go on, so what we can tell is this; it looks like an iPhone, but that probably isn't a real touchscreen. Sadly, we doubt it will be making any calls either. You know what they say; if it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck, chances are it is a duck. Well, in light of that…

College Humor is running a parody of Steve in Keynote mode, we know it isn't the first or won't be the last, but it has some of the Steve's actions, crowd reactions and the overall atmosphere pretty much down to perfection. On top of all that, it does a good job at making us laugh—just look at the damn product…

In what appears to be the endless spread of Firefox, a new addition to the unofficial Firefox catalog has been spotted—in India. On the back of a bus. We're guessing the bus doesn't have on board Wi-Fi to make use of its web browser of choice, but we admire the support. Also, if that text in yellow above the artwork…

We know you can find an occasional bargain on Craigslist, but this takes the biscuit: documents actually detailing a merger between Apple and Nintendo. We knew Nintendo and Apple were up to something—has no one else noticed all the plastic white styled similarities? C'mon you guys, it's just makes sense! Now, we're…

Blond, leopard print bikini, splashing water, iPhone, video—what else do you need to know? Take the NSFW jump for the naughtiest iPhone cleaning you have ever seen.

Everybody thought comic book creator and Lost scribe Brian K. Vaughan was so creative when he came up with the premise for post-apocalyptic comic book Y the Last Man. In it, a mysterious force wipes out the entire male population of all species except for the main character, Yorick, and his male monkey. But we didn't…

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a pretty serious organization, and every year they have a very serious conference devoted to things like helping people in the developing world, saving the environment, curing cancer, and solving the global energy crisis. We at io9, however, are not…

Here's what we know: 1) There is a car. 2) It has a freaking rocket attached to it. 3) If this is not the product of PS mastery, we would like to volunteer weekend intern Eric to test it out. Benny, as you probably all know, is still busy growing his hair back from last year's self-imposed torture back, sack and crack…

So it turns out that the huge HTC Magnum actually is, of course, a prank cooked up by the guys at Pocketpt in Portugal as a Carnival stunt. Built from an HTC X7500 and a boring old HP monitor, it seems it got a lot more attention on the intertubes than originally intended. [Pocketlint]

There has been a lot of Apple talk recently; new iPods, movie rentals and general iTunes updates. Who's showing the Microsoft guys'n'gals any love? We are! Check out this absolutely, insanely great homage to Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Windows Really Good Edition, as it is dubbed, makes some much needed improvements…