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io9 Roundup: May 27, 2012 [Roundup]

THE TRAGEDY OF SCIENCE FICTION | Cartoonist Tom Gauld launched a new blog this week filled with his funny pictures. While we know science fiction is proper literature, it never hurts to remember that we get the coolest toys. [via CBR]Now here's a revamping ... [ Published 1 hour ago by Io9 ]

Entities: Voyager Company, Tom Gauld, Earthshine, Titanoboa

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This colossal prehistoric turtle could snap other turtles in half [Paleontology]

For a brief period after the dinosaurs vanished, truly gigantic reptiles like the 50-foot snake Titanoboa and twenty-foot crocodiles dominated the swamps of ancient Colombia. Now we've discovered another, much gentler giant - the humongous 60-million-year-old ... [ Published 6 hours ago by Io9 ]

Entities: Paleontology, Species, Reptile, Crocodile, Colombia

First Reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 Documents

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How much does it cost to be an unbeatable evil overlord? [This Is Awesome]

Peter Anspach's "The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord" is required reading for anyone hoping to enter the growing field of supervillainry. But how much does it cost to be a successful and rational evil overlord?The speculative bean ... [ Published 3 hours ago by Io9 ]

Entities: Bounty Hunter, Prince William, Heroes, Kidnapping

First Reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 Documents

These vintage photos of early car wrecks will make you grateful for crumple zones [Engineering]

The automobile gave individuals a means of traversing great distances quickly and easily, but that convenience sometimes came at a dangerous price. These photographs hit home just how fragile early cars were, and will make you want to thank an automotive ... [ Published 4 hours ago by Io9 ]

Entities: Zoning, Boston (Massachusetts, United States)

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The earliest known panda-like fossils have been found - in Spain!? [Biology]

This little feller is Agriarctos beatrix, which roamed the forests of Spain some eleven million years ago. It represents the earliest known member of the giant panda's evolutionary subfamily, and it was pretty much just ridiculously adorable.Agriarctos ... [ Published 5 hours ago by Io9 ]

Entities: Fossil, Biology, Spain, Species

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What if Jack Kirby made My Little Pony comics? [Goofballery]

Not a dream! Not an imagined story! Well, okay, an entirely imagined story. ComicsAlliance unleashes a battle-ready Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie upon the Internet.CA's ongoing "Great Comics That Never Happened" series envisions all sorts of alternate-universe ... [ Published 7 hours ago by Io9 ]

Entities: Jack Kirby, Tom Scioli, Christine Smith

First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 Documents

Miyazaki's films reimagined as dog-eared Penguin book covers [Concept Art]

Hayao Miyazaki's films are marked by rich landscapes and innovative character designs, but these illustrations reduce those films to their most basic components, imagining them as minimalist Penguin book covers. More » ... [ Published 7 hours ago by Io9 ]

Entities: Illustrator

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Take out your Game of Thrones aggression on this King Joffrey practice target [Game Of Thrones]

When watching tonight's Game of Thrones episode, you can try smacking King Joffrey every time he says something petulant, but replacing your TV screen gets expensive after awhile. Instead, fire off a few spit balls at this King Joffrey target.The target, ... [ Published 8 hours ago by Io9 ]

Entities: Game of Thrones, fire

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How the zombie apocalypse starts: Naked attacker found eating man's face [Holy Crap Wtf]

A scary bit of news is coming out of Miami this weekend after the city police shot a naked man found eating another man's face. And several circumstances of the story have some people crying zombie.The police were called in yesterday after the attacker ... [ Published 9 hours ago by Io9 ]

Entities: Miami (Florida, United States), Psychosis, Cocaine, Police

First Reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 Documents

Crowdfund human-powered flight, a whale on stilts, and pork-eating cartoonist vampires [Crowdfund This]

Looking for more worthy projects to support this long weekend? We have an interactive story about a whale walking on stilts, a graphic novel following a young vampire who just wants to make comics, a human-powered helicopter looking to break records, ... [ Published 8 hours ago by Io9 ]

Entities: Lea Hernandez, Animator, Helicopter, Illustrator

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Glowing text messages spill out into the real world [Photography]

In Lee Jung's lovely photographs, text messages have escaped the confines of the phone screen and scattered across the real world, illuminating various landscapes with their questions and declarations of love.Creating neon letters, photographing them, ... [ Published 9 hours ago by Io9 ]

Entities: Lee Jung, artnet AG, Neon

First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 Documents

Douglas Adams' animated history of the book, from rocks to e-readers [Video]

In the early 1990s, the Voyager Company looked into creating "Expanded Books," digital books that would offer an enhanced onscreen reading experience. Appropriately, one of the titles they converted into an expanded books was a series that revolves around ... [ Published 10 hours ago by Io9 ]

Entities: Douglas Adams, E-Reader, Voyager Company

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Peter Anspach's "The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord" is required reading for anyone hoping to enter the growing field of supervillainry...

How much does it cost to be an unbeatable evil overlord? [This Is Awesome] [Io9 - 3 hours ago]

"This bear species was small, even smaller than the Sun bear — currently the smallest bear species. It would not have weighed more than 60 kilos. This fur pattern is considered primitive for bears, such as that of the giant panda whose white spots are so big that it actually seems to be white with black spots. Its diet would have been similar to that of the sun bear or the spectacled bear that only eat vegetables and fruit and sometimes vertebrates, insects, honey and dead animals."

The earliest known panda-like fossils have been found - in Spain!? [Biology] [Io9 - 5 hours ago]

"It's like having one big snapping turtle living in the middle of a lake. That turtle survives because it has eaten all of the major competitors for resources. We found many bite-marked shells at this site that show crocodilians preyed on side-necked turtles. None would have bothered an adult Carbonemys, though — in fact smaller crocs would have been easy prey for this behemoth."

This colossal prehistoric turtle could snap other turtles in half [Paleontology] [Io9 - 6 hours ago]

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How the zombie apocalypse starts: Naked attacke... [ Published 9 hours ago by Io9 ]
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