Screenshots as a form of digital archaeology

With episode #67, Game of Thrones reaches the end of the first of its two planned shorter-run seasons. As each of these seasons is being filmed as one cohesive entity, sometimes plots that are hatched in earlier episodes don’t really make any kind of sense until the season finale airs: that the reason why Character X…

With episode #66, Game of Thrones begins to end Season 7 with the spectacle that its massive budget and production values demand. Some people (I raise my hand here) will give the show an attitude for indulging in spectacle over substance, but to be pragmatic the former pays the bills for the latter. And, to be 100%…

With episode #65, the second half of Season 7 of Game of Thrones begins to lumber forward on a combination of its own initiative and the inertia of the dozens of plots it must continue. A lot of the books of A Song of Ice and Fire and seasons of Game of Thrones follow fairly normal plot development sequences:…

Almost every Pink Floyd concert since 1979 (or 1985, depending on which member’s departure you want to count as “the end”) has had to answer one big question: can one (or two, or three) members of the band find okay replacements for the empty spaces? To which my response, after watching a concert tonight, is ... every…

Science communication is tough! You have to deal with complex situations and questions, distill them down to more simple pieces while not making anything wrong by distilling down too much, and then share those pieces with an unknown audience.

Biodiversity on Earth is not a static entity; the realization that life has changed over time was a big intellectual and ideological hurdle for (primarily) European proto-scientists to get over and it took them decades to clear the height. But by, say, the late 18^th century, most scientists (and increasing numbers of…

I’m still here, but yet I’m gone
I don’t play guitar or sing my songs
They never defined who I am
The man that loves you ‘til the end

With episode #64, the seventh season of Game of Thrones finally feels like a thing that is happening, instead of just being an event that its showrunners and its audience have to react to. There’s a few moments wherein this episode feels like it fully embraces the “bittersweet” nature of its main narratives; wherein…

With episode #63, Game of Thrones continues to follow the seventh season’s main directions: of reducing the cast down into a smaller, more manageable (and more affordable) size, and of making the factions “in the wars to come” less diverse in terms of their relative powers and sizes. Both of these factors are needed…

Shall we begin? With episode #62, Game of Thrones explores titles. “Stormborn” is a title that Daenerys Targaryen earned by surviving being born during a large storm at Dragonstone some 22 years earlier in the show’s chronology; her mother Rhaella did not survive this traumatic event. The other titles that Daenerys…

Hello again, welcome back to the great game. With episode #61, Game of Thrones moves strongly forward into the end game of its narratives; setting up some of the last conflicts that the show will concentrate on, and moving the characters forward towards their “final” destinations. Several characters make remarks about…

Writing or otherwise discussing the future climate of Earth is … not always easy.

The next (?) legal difficulty facing the Gizmodo Media Group is a lawsuit about an article published at Deadspin last year.

Yes, I know this got mentioned a week ago, but I still have something to say.

So I only saw this article mentioned at The Root and they didn’t really talk much about it, other than to mention that they got more traffic. Of course if one of us Kinja user community blogs talked about it I’m sorry I’m repeating content. Edited to add: Clashtalk had an article on it, I forgot to check, oops.

Two Fusion articles today asked a pretty good question: why do companies that say they are concerned about the environment give to politicians who don’t share that concern? In typical Gawker Gizmodo Media Group fashion, neither of these articles saw fit to look in the mirror.

Current Gizmodo Technology Editor Mr. Nuñez is on his way out of Gizmodo.

Zbigniew Brzezinski was one of the most prominent architects of US foreign policy during the 1960s and 1970s. With his death last evening, the world has lost one of its most active “fighters” for the end of Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe.

First episode aired last week. An episode airs tonight. Four more episodes after tonight. Here’s an informative press release from 3 weeks ago.