These defy awesomeness!

Mary Roach discusses this a bit in her book Packing for Mars. Another NASA innovation: Carnation Instant Breakfast!

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the current definition of "obesity" is pretty drastic. At 5' 3", I was considered "obese" when I weighed 160 pounds. Out of shape a bit? Certainly. Gut-hanging-over-my-waistband fat? Not even close.

"On a brighter note, once I got to pet a cheetah and make it purr and that was awesome."

In addition to purring while "under duress, such as during a visit to the veterinarian or when recovering from injury," cats have also been known to purr in their death throes as well.

There were more, but Heidi Klum got to them first.

Interesting. I wonder if he's being advised to do so on the advice of his lawyers or if there's more to the story than his side of it.

Any updates about Steve Mann's attack incident?

"We're watching the final ever episodes of True Blood with Alan Ball at the helm right now — Ball is stepping away for next season."

I tried the add-on for Firefox. It didn't work at all.

I was thinking that Nibbler was spot-on!

If you don't talk to your cats about murder, who will?

Beautiful work. It's funny: As soon as I saw "Deva," I immediately thought of MTG.

Was this article just an excuse for Annalee to practice her Photoshop cut-out skills?

Agreed. I never understood the appeal of Hackers. It was an OK movie, for sure, but not the Neuromancer of 90s hacker flicks. Give me Sneakers any day!

This article pretty much epitomizes why I love io9.

Awesome to see Sneakers included on this list. One of my favorite movies!

The dinner party in Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country.

These are fantastic. And having just watched the episode "Captain's Holiday" the other night, the Risan Mai-Tai is especially good.