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For decades, JFK conspiracy theorists have claimed this photo of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle and a Marxist newspaper was a fake. Dartmouth College digital forensics expert Hany Farid built a 3-D model of Oswald's head and proved otherwise. Actually, Farid says you can't prove a photo is ...
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Epic Mickey 's stylized concept art is a mecha-filled vision of the Disney apocalypse, but Alexis Rockman 's paintings take a more natural view of a post-human Disney World — and imagines other cities and monuments long after we're gone. [ Alexis Rockman via {feuilleton} ] Disney ...
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Have all Marvel's comics for the last five years been leading up to one massive event? If so, is said event an Avengers reunion, or dropping a mythical city on a real-life American one? A new trailer teases both outcomes. Marvel's latest teaser for their December-launching Siege storyline ...
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Earlier this year, Dogwitch creator Dan Schaffer and Razorblade Smile director Jake West teamed up for Brit horror flick Doghouse . We talked to them to find out more about the indie movie that satirizes British lad culture. io9 caught up with West and Schaffer at the Groucho Club in London's ...
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Dan Simmons
You're not new to comics, but you've read all the big names and you're not sure where to go next. Luckily, we're here with five suggestions to make your November bookshelf that little bit heavier. Magical Realism Air What It's About: At its heart, Air is a love story between Blythe - a ...
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Stephen King
Brandon Sanderson
Even though V 's very own Monica Baccarin is denying it , there are still those who think that ABC's new alien drama is little more than a thinly veiled attack on President Obama . But what, exactly, is the White House reaction? Surprisingly, the issue was raised with White House Press ...
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Wondering what Space Invaders would look like in the real world? This Threadless t-shirt by Jean Salamin reveals all. We're surprised that they're spaceships and not just weirdly shaped aliens, but we kind of like it. They're Real [Threadless] ( Via )
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Are asteroids responsible for the creation of life on Earth? Recent experiments back up a theory that the basic ingredients for life came from beyond the stars... which makes us all aliens. Battlestar Galactica was right! Scientists have long thought that the Earth wasn't formed with a lot of ...
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The permanently troubled Spider-Man musical took a couple of steps in the right direction towards being able to open yesterday; not only did the show get a new lead producer, but an actor was finally announced to play Peter Parker. With a budget estimated to be somewhere in the region of $50 ...
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A month after we ask Hollywood to consider the potential of a movie based on 1970s toyline Micronauts , news comes from an unlikely source that they've heard us, and are talking to JJ Abrams to make it happen. The news broke in The Wall Street Journal, of all places, in a story about toy lines ...
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Lost
This week, Supernatural took us into the dark heart of darkest evil. The brothers are trapped . . . in an episode of Gray's Anatomy ! And a bad sitcom. And a bad CSI spinoff. And yes, it was awesome. Thursday night's "Changing Channels" was a tip of the hat to the culty 90s John Ritter movie ...
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Supernatural
Inventors rolled out this prototype of a solar-powered aircraft today. The Solar Impulse will fly for the first time in December and make a 36-hour flight in 2010. And in 2012, a larger verison will fly around the world. Solar Impulse is the Swiss bid to make the first Solar-powered flight ...
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The Fly
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NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of a massive smog bank blanketing huge portions of China today. This blanket of pollution has been hovering over the country for over a week now, exacerbated by cool air and smoke from fires. According to NASA, whose researchers first wrote about ...
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China Miéville
Richard Kelly , director of Donnie Darko , has manufactured another dream of paranoid moral confusion with his latest film The Box . An uneasy tale of alien technology and human greed, The Box is science fiction done the emo way. Spoilers ahead. Based on 70s short story by Richard Matheson, ...
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Richard Kelly
Director Roland Emmerich knows how to blow humanity to smithereens. He did it in Independence Day , Day After Tomorrow and now 2012 . We talked to the apocalypse-master himself, who explained that there are 8 simple rules for ending the world. Make It Impossible The first rule to come from ...
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Roland Emmerich
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Roland Emmerich certainly knows how to blow up our homes. He's done it three times now: in Independence Day , Day After Tomorrow and now 2012 . We found out directly from the apocalypse-master what the rules were for ending the world. Make It Impossible The first rule to come from the ...
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Roland Emmerich
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Coolhunter Cayce Pollard, from William Gibson 's Pattern Recognition , is the strangest kind of fashion icon, writes Kat at NoGoodForMe.com : invisible, allergic to brands, impenetrable. "She stands for the ultimate rejection of the Fashion Industrial Complex," but she also defines style.
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William Gibson
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The Men Who Stare At Goats is about warrior-monks with psychic powers, who call themselves Jedis over and over again. But the movie's structure also echoes the original Star Wars trilogy, and it's full of fun Lucas riffs. Spoilers below... In Men Who Stare At Goats , Ewan McGregor plays Bob ...
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Imagine a place filled with giant robot pizza boys, cardboard time machines, hideously mutated crime-fighting mole rats, and apocalyptic destruction. That place is the Perry Bible Fellowship , and now you can visit it with The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack. The man behind the Perry Bible ...
