Photo: FOX Simpsons episodes are written. Yes, every episode of every show that has ever aired has been written. But with scripts nearly double the length of those of sitcom standards, The Simpsons is different and the show's writing staff aspires to squeeze as many jokes, character moments, and…

A Brief History of the Loch Ness Monster by Katie Heaney (Photo: biodivlibrary/Flickr) One of the weirdest and most easily forgotten things about the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster is that it first finds the creature not in its namesake lake, but on land. (There is a non-modern version of…

The Best Time I Thought I Was Going To Die In The Italian Woods “You don’t have to speak Italian, it’s completely fine. Non ti preoccupare .” The fact that my boss couldn’t get through the entire reassurance in English should have been a tip off. But it wasn’t. I accepted the job, an offer almost…

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Sleepy Hollow opened up the archives and invited us in to poke around their set. There I got first-hand experience in a small, but pivotal, role as an extra—plus a ton of on-set photos of Ichabod's haunts and creepy supernatural world. Earlier this summer, io9 was invited to the Sleepy Hollow set to…

Getty Images / Justine Zwiebel / BuzzFeed I don’t mind talking on the phone, and I’m not even that friendly. Everyone who is my age, plus or minus 10 years, loves to talk about how much they hate their phones. Or, well, everyone who is around my age loves to talk about hating to use their phones for…

As Reddit trips over itself trying to contain its stolen nude photo problem, CEO Yishan Wong finally addressed the controversy on Saturday by releasing a remarkably clueless manifesto. Reddit, he wrote, is "not just a company running a website where one can post links and discuss them, but the…

If you had a working internet connection and the capacity to Google before yesterday, you'd already seen the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in full detail. The details of the Apple Watch, though, remained a mystery until the end. How'd Apple keep the secret? By sacrificing a small part of its magic. And by…