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Computers Can Read Your Dreams, Can’t Explain Your Clown Nightmares Just Yet
Machines may be replacing us slowly, one human at a time, but at least we’ve still got our dignity, right? We’ve still got our dreams. Well, maybe not! Sure, computers can’t take away your waking...
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BioShock Infinite Would Have Been Infinitely Better as an Isometric Video Game
Without spoiling even a single thing about BioShock Infinite, it should be pretty clear to everyone on the Internet that the game itself is gorgeous. Ken Levine, and everyone at at Irrational Games,...
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Guy Who Tried to Sneak Back Into Jail’s Going Back to Jail, Totally Fine With...
36-year-old Matthew Matagrano, pictured above, is a convicted sex offender. That’s not what got him in his latest legal trouble, though, as he was arrested last month for impersonating a corrections...
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Green Laser Pointers: With Great Power Comes Great Irresponsibility
What’s a good tool that can lead presentations, point out constellations, and occupy cats with perfect precision? Laser pointers, of course! And while they can be really useful, lately it seems like...
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Man Tries to Win Back Ex-Wife by Blowing Her Up, Perfects Art of Doing It Wrong
There’s an old rule of journalism that states, and I’m paraphrasing, “if a dog bites a man it’s not a story, but if a man bites a dog, it is.” This proverb may have found it’s perfect expression...
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Boston Dynamic’s PETMAN Gets a Head, Looks at You [Video]
It’s that time again, folks. Time to watch everyone’s favorite headless, suit-testing robot, PETMAN, strut his stuff into hypothetical peril. No, wait — this time our creepy friend has a head and a...
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Geekolinks: 4/5
Build your own Jurassic Park (GeekSugar) On Hollywood, violence, and accountability (Mediaite) 5 improvements that would make condoms awesome (Guy Code Blog) A review of BioShock Infinite (The Mary...
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Movie Studios Get Circular, Ask Google to Take Down Their Own DMCA Takedown...
Let’s say you’re a wealthy, seafaring merchant. You suspect a pirate is sneaking up the hull of your ship to steal your hard-earned doubloons in the hold, so you cry out to the Imperial Navy to arrest...
View ArticleStreets Ahead: Community’s Arguably a Postmodern Masterpiece [Video]
We here at Geekosystem love us some Community — yes, even the current season — so Mike Rugnetta‘s argument that Community‘s a postmodern masterpiece didn’t have to do much to make us into believers....
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Austin Just Might Be the Next City to Get Google Fiber
Austin, Texas is a pretty important place in the tech world. Companies like IBM, Intel, and Samsung, among others, have offices there, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Google Fiber, meanwhile,...
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Microsoft Issues Empty Statement on Employee’s Next-Gen Xbox Twitter Tirade
It’s still a bit premature to start complaining about the next-gen Xbox being “always-on” for one reason or another, seeing as there’s nothing official out just yet, but it hasn’t stopped folks from...
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French Intelligence Forces Volunteer Sysop to Delete Wikipedia Article
In what seems like something straight out of an updated version of 1984, the Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur, or DCRI, a French intelligence agency, apparently recently summoned and...
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New Skype Malware Makes Computers Mine Bitcoins
Bitcoin is all the rage right now, with the price hitting above $100 and people with a background in economics and finance taking it a bit more seriously, so it’s only natural that folks would look to...
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Geekolinks: 4/6
How Lex outshines the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park (GeekSugar) Maher rails against stupid Americans for being anti-science (Mediaite) The rapping weatherman returns! (HyperVocal) Celebrate its return...
View ArticleChris Hadfield Continues Being Awesome, Demonstrates How Tears Work in Space...
International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield isn’t done with informing us about everything we ever wondered about when it comes to living in space. The man’s basically made it his...
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Senator Announces NASA Project to Park Asteroid Near Our Moon
We first heard of the plan to capture a small asteroid and park it near our Moon, essentially giving our Moon a moon of its own, back in January, but now it seems all but official. Chairman of the...
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GameStick Hits Production Delays Due to Popularity
The GameStick micro console by PlayJam caught our attention with its wildly popular Kickstarter campaign that netted more than six times its goal of $100,000. It’s a clever idea — placing an entire...
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Cells Magnetically Attract Towards Wounds, Now We Know How
When a living thing is injured, its body needs to move the cells that help repair it to the site of the damage. It does this by having cells respond to a change in the electromagnetic field of the...
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NASA Administrator Says We Won’t Lead Any New Lunar Missions, But Might Catch...
NASA is known for its ambition and ability to inspire us to wonder what’s possible — usually. Sometimes NASA goes out of its way to point out what it says we shouldn’t bother with. That was the case...
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Geekolinks: 4/7
Here’s how to watch Doctor Who online without the BBC (GeekSugar) Val Kilmer appears on Warwick Davis’ Life’s Too Short (The Mary Sue) Anthony Weiner could run for NYC Mayor (HyperVocal) There’s a...
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