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Blood Bucket Lamp, Because There’s Still a Week to Christmas
It’s about a week to Christmas, and once again, you can’t figure out that perfect gift for a loved one. Luckily, we’ve found the item that will offend any member of your family equally. The $226 Blood Bucket Lamp (our name) celebrates the holidays with flowing crimson that’s in the perpetual state of just almost … Continued
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Larry Niven’s Iron-Clad Rules For Predicting Future Tech
How can you predict future technologies? You can’t, according to five great science fiction authors quoted in the new CIO Magazine. But at least you can predict what types of problems will crop up. You shouldn’t even bother trying to predict the future of technological progress, argues The Space Merchants author Frederick Pohl: No sensible … Continued
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Konami Releasing Silent Hill, DDR and Frogger for iPhone, Too
While Konami’s announcement of Metal Gear Solid for the iPhone is tough to be topped, the company will also be releasing a few of their other big franchises as well, including Silent Hill and DDR. https://kotaku.com/konami-confirms-iphone-metal-gear-5112011 Silent Hill: The Escape, DanceDanceRevolution S Lite and Frogger are all in the works for the iPhone/iPod touch platform. … Continued
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Punk-Rock Poet Is Japan’s Second Least Popular Robot
Science fiction poetry usually leaves me cold, but I would love it if it was more like the scarred, funny poetry of Bucky Sinister. One of his books totally earns its title, Whiskey And Robots. Sinister takes on Japanese movie monsters and his own past as an alcoholic punk-rock misfit with the same fuck-it attitude. … Continued
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True Blood Gets Two New Hot Blood Donors
True Blood has found a new Merlotte’s waitress, and cast the role of a Jesus juice drinking vampire hating wife of the Fellowship Of The Sun’s preacher man for season two. Anna Camp will be joining the True Blood gang as a series regular. She will be playing Sarah, the wife of Steve Newlin (Michael … Continued
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Portland 3G Data Test: AT&T, Sprint and Verizon
My in-laws live in Portland’s sorta twin city, Vancouver, WA. Over Thanksgiving weekend, I decided to check out the 3G situation. PGE Park (Saturday, 12 noon) Home of the Triple-A Beavers, among other minor league sports teams, it’s a centrally located venue for fun stuff in Portland. Surprisingly, there was a Starbucks conveniently located right … Continued
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The Definitive Coast-to-Coast 3G Data Test
After a grueling eight-city coast-to-coast test of the 3G networks run by AT&T, Sprint and Verizon, we’ve come up with some clear-cut test results. Think you know who has the best network? Think again. The Test 3G is more important now than ever before. Obviously, AT&T made a big push over the summer to augment … Continued
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Austin 3G Test: AT&T, Sprint and Verizon
Eric Sheline, one of our favorite former interns, gave us a hand in Austin. My Apartment in Austin (6:30pm) My apartment is on the northwest side of Austin, in a quiet neighborhood between the denser central part of the city and the outer suburban areas. Suburbia – Round Rock, TX (4:30pm) Round Rock may be … Continued
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Chicago 3G Test: AT&T, Sprint and Verizon
Giz Trivia: Did you know that Mark Wilson was our man in Illinois? That’s right, up until this year he was living in Urbana, but now he’s in Chicago, home of the very best and very worst of politics. For Gizmodo’s tour of Chicago, I tested the Southside, Northside and sort of Middleside of the … Continued
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Raleigh-Durham 3G Data Test: AT&T, Sprint and Verizon
Sean Fallon represents the Mid-Atlantic for Giz; he’s a resident of a small town in the Raleigh-Durham area, home to a lot of college basketball. Living near the capital of North Carolina made my location choices clear. Technology plays an important role in the lives of college students, and some of the biggest colleges in … Continued
By Sean Fallon - io9Movies
Pokemon Rip-Off To Ride Dragonball’s Anime Coattails
It’s a cynical mix of Transformers and Pokemon, it’s massive with kids and stoned students watching Cartoon Network and — barring a Christmas miracle — Bakugan Battle Brawlers will soon reach a theater near you. The Japanese cartoon series, which airs six times a week on Cartoon Network, ties in with a trading card game … Continued
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Boston 3G Data Test: AT&T, Sprint and Verizon
Weekend editor Jack Loftus tested his way around his hometown of Boston. There’s no picture of him doing it, which, after you read his comments, might be a good thing. Gov’t Center (5pm) Government Center is a hub of public affairs, adulterous affairs and current affairs. It’s also the home to one of the ugliest … Continued
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Seattle 3G Data Test: AT&T, Sprint and Verizon
As a recent transplant to the Pacific Northwest, I got a chance to test out 3G in both Seattle and Portland. As you can imagine, most of my stops were in coffee shops. Maple Leaf (Wednesday, 4pm) Dining room table at our lovely rental house in this mostly residential upper Seattle neighborhood. Redmond (Thursday, 4pm) … Continued
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SF and Bay Area 3G Data Test: AT&T, Sprint and Verizon
SF intern Andi Wang set out to test over three afternoons, covering a wider range than most testers by hitting not just SF but Marin and a good bit of Silicon Valley. Googleplex (Wednesday, 1pm) Having been born and raised in Silicon Valley, I like to brag that Google’s Headquarters is just 10 minutes away … Continued
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New York City 3G Data Test: AT&T, Sprint and Verizon
New York editor John Mahoney was all over this project, not only initiating testing in NYC but helping set up the program so that everyone else could follow suit. Bryant Park (Sunday, 7:25pm) Was in Bryant park on a nice warm Sunday night. Drank a coffee, tested 3G sticks. It’s in midtown, but midtown on … Continued
By John Mahoney - ScienceSpace & Spaceflight
Stunning Zenithal Shot of Space Shuttle Flying On Top of 747
Seeing the space shuttle flying on top of its modified 747 carrier is rare. This image of Endeavour riding it over the Mojave a few days ago, however, is absolutely awesome. Updated with 1600px-wide version. Click on the image above to get the 1600 x 1200 pixel version Space Shuttle mission STS-126-which brought the materials … Continued
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How Not to Treat People When Pitching Them Stories
Just when you think PR folks and bloggers got along semi-decently, you get a report of one such exchange where the PR person challenges the blogger to a fistfight. Updated 2:43 PM EST To set the scene, December is the season where all the PR companies are throwing out 50x the normal amount of emails … Continued
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Microsoft Responds to Xbox 360 Disc Scratching Allegations
While recently unsealed documents suggests that Microsoft knew about Xbox 360 disc scratching problems all along, Microsoft has finally stepped forward to respond to the allegations. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-allegedly-knew-xbox-360-was-scratching-discs-5110840 Speaking with Edge, a Microsoft spokesperson explained: While we have had some users contact us with concerns about scratched discs, it is much less than 1 percent of … Continued
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Macworld Expo Organizers IDG Have No Plans To Bail on 2010 Show
Even though Apple pulling out of Macworld after this year probably spells the end, IDG is going on record saying they’re barreling ahead with Macworld 2010. No, it’s not the most shocking announcement, since Macworld is arguably one of the brighter jewels in IDG’s portfolio of trade shows that includes everything from the DEMO conference … Continued
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