MetaFilter posts tagged with io9

Look, you're getting very upset, and this is just the first scene.

davidjmcgee — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:27:18 -0800

io9: "After making a mere $84 million at the U.S. box office, Star Trek Into Darkness is considered by some to be a disappointment. Perhaps the problem is that it was a touch confusing. To help our readers better understand it, we've compiled and answered these Frequently Asked Questions about the movie." (Maximum Possible Spoiler Warning)

Best Science Fiction Related Metafilter Post

Artw — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:47:36 -0800

The finalists for the 2012 Nebula Awards have been announced (list with free fiction links here), but there's still another two weeks to get in nominations for the 2013 Hugo Awards. However, for those works not fiting the regular award categories Tim Pratt and other science fiction writers, fans and interested parties on Twitter have been suggesting #FakeHugoAwardCategories . io9 collects some of the best.

"Enjoy your 30 gold coins."

HostBryan — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:37:57 -0800

Malaria, a short "motion comic" that bends the boundaries of what that means. "Malaria" is a short film/motion comic by Edson Oda. It's unlike any motion comic you've ever seen, and you need to watch it without knowing what's coming.

Is the beard gray? Does he have a donut-shaped beard extremity? Does he look goofy?

Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:15:01 -0800

How to identify each Hobbit dwarf by their epic beards

WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?

Mezentian — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:53:06 -0800

For the past few years, Topless Robot has run a column called Fan Fiction Friday (NSFW text, criticising the worst of the worst in fan-fiction (probably NSFW), crack-fiction, vile fan-fic and bad grammar in a style similar to MST3K. Several weeks ago Topless Robot founder Rob Bricken made the leap to Gawker Media's science-fiction-and-science website io9, and announced to the surprise of many that FFF would continue. Two weeks in (NSFW) io9 editor Annalee Newitz announced that FFF would be cancelled claiming "it's not going to work on io9". FFF previously on the Blue.

Pictures of CATs

cthuljew — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:09:43 -0800

Scientists snap a picture of DNA’s double helix for the very first time

Paper Menagerie

Errant — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 04:06:21 -0800

Ken Liu's "Paper Menagerie", the first work of fiction to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards, is now available to read in full at io9.

Scroll Down for Shivers!

Renoroc — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:59:58 -0800

7 spooky web comics to enjoy via Io9.com

The Future of PRE-air travel

sendai sleep master — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:54:51 -0800

Kind of, sort of, "holograms" have been popping up on election night and (previously) have resurrected famous musicians. The next step may be the pre-boarding kiosk. The only questions that really remains is how close are we to having a time-traveling, Victorian era Guy Pearce in our midst?

Hook Up Your Slurry Tube And Chow Down

The Whelk — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:28:10 -0800

io9 asks the question: When and Why did Science Fiction drop the ubiquitous "Dinner in a pill" device?

I can has vintage lolcats?

desjardins — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:11:41 -0800

Even in the 1870s, humans were obsessed with ridiculous photos of cats

The Victorian Hugos

Lentrohamsanin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:20:15 -0800

The Victorian Hugos: "Over the next several months, in open imitation of Jo Walton's splendid "Revisiting the Hugos" series at Tor.com, I'll be reviewing science fiction and fantasy works from 1885 to 1930 and deciding which novels and short works would have received the Hugo had a Worldcon been held that year and which novels and short works should have received the Hugo–often not the same thing." 1885 1886 1887 1888

Two, not one, singularities

Brandon Blatcher — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:36:37 -0800

With everything rolling towards the abyss, our only hope for a bright future seems to be the Singularity, a technological transformation of what it means to be human. But in a talk for TEDx Brussels, science fiction and horror writer John Shirley argues that there are really two Singularities — and yes, everything will be terrible in the short term. So why is he optimistic about the future of the human race? Read on.

ROCKS FALL EVERYONE DIES

The Whelk — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:13:26 -0800

Ten Types Of Writer's Block And How To Overcome Them

Does it make me more money now?

Artw — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:04:27 -0800

Why Gawker Nick Denton is a genius - he can smell the page views!. The redesign he's championed (previously) is a convoluted nightmare which breaks the web and left blog posts unindexed Google. Page views are in the toilet. He may loose that bet. It doesn't matter, Nick Denton is a genius. Look, pictures of a naked man!

Bring It On.

Rhaomi — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:55:34 -0800

An anonymous hacking outfit called "Gnosis" has infiltrated Gawker Media, hijacking the front page and leaking the company's internal chat logs, source code, and content databases along with the usernames, email addresses, and passwords of over 1.3 million users (including Gawker staff). The attack, which was motivated by what the group describes as the "outright arrogance" with which the company's bloggers taunted anonymous imageboard 4chan (semi-previously), affects every site in the Gawker network, including Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Jalopnik, and io9. While most of the leaked passwords are encrypted, more than 200,000 of the simpler ones in the torrent file have been cracked, and the links between account names and email addresses are in plaintext for all to see. Since the integrity of Gawker's encryption methods remains in doubt, it is recommended that anyone who has ever registered an account on any Gawker property change their passwords immediately, especially if the same log-in information is used for other services.

"Once you cross the Hudson River, you transcend reality, much like H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands."

WCityMike — Sat, 29 May 2010 12:29:45 -0800

"Sex and the City 2: a science fiction flick replete with fictional cartographies, temporal recursion, and a wanton, metro-biological god-being that exists both within and without of time and space. Oh, and magic shoes."

Five Imaginary Movies About Your Favorite Childhood Games

WCityMike — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:50:09 -0800

Five imaginary movies about your favorite childhood games. In reaction to Ridley Scott's Monopoly and Peter Berg's Battleship (each a real-life film in development), io9 posits about the as-yet-imaginary movies-to-come, once the "board game movie" craze takes off, of Darren Aronofsky's Pac-Man, J.J. Abrams' Candy Land, Werner Herzog's Tic-Tac-Toe, Paul Verhoeven's Snakes and Ladders, and Joss Whedon's POGs. Unusually for a Gawker blog post, they bring a strong dose of the funny to this one.

Venus Of Utapau

The Whelk — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:26:26 -0800

A long time ago in an art gallery far far away: Star Wars as Classic Art via

Special-snowflake Bots: A List

taz — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:36:27 -0800

60+ One-Of-A-Kind Robots From Science Fiction. "You'd think a major advantage of robots is you can mass-produce them. They're just metal-and-circuit bodies. But science fiction is full of one-of-a-kind bots. Here are all the bots for whom they broke the mold."

science and futurism overlap

nickyskye — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:43:40 -0800

One Pill Makes You Autistic -- And One Pill Changes You Back. It might also lead to recreational autism, where people who want to take a break from having messy emotions about other people decide to unplug and enter a state where human relationships are no more important than inanimate objects. Other future oriented science and tech stories about innovations with the potential to impact culture and politics by the same author,Annalee Newitz, mentioned previously. Radio-Controlled, Implantable Sperm Valve is New Vasectomy The First Child to Have Three Genetic Parents A "Morning Before" Pill to Prevent HIV Infection And thrown in for fun, Scariest Special Effect Ever Created (NSFW)

Aren't all blogs science fiction?

anotherpanacea — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:09:05 -0800

io9 is a sci-fi blog that went live yesterday, edited by Annalee Newitz and friends. Newitz is an AlterNet Columnist and a founder of Bad Subjects, which is a major achievement considering she used to be afraid of blogs!