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It’s Officially Official: Austin’s Getting Google Fiber
Austin is a pretty great town, with loads of great grub, good music, and awesome people doing cool, artsy, nerdy stuff. If you need another reason to live there, though, Google just gave you one: A...
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Jurassic Park’s Animatronic T-Rex...
It goes without saying that we here at Geekosystem 1) enjoy Jurassic Park and 2) love us some animatronics. With these two facts in mind, it should then come as no surprise that the series of videos...
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Here’s How to Make Your Breakfast Look Like Captain America’s Shield
Huevos rancheros is a delicious breakfast, but it’s never made me feel like taking down Red Skull. Thankfully, Chris-Rachel Oseland from The Kitchen Overlord worked up a recipe for “Captain America’s...
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Stop What You’re Doing and Watch Sean Nelson’s New Music Video for “Make Good...
I know we don’t normally cover a lot of music here on Geekosystem, but I’m too thrilled about this to not tell as many people about it as possible. Sean Nelson has a new video of his single “Make Good...
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Survey Says: American TV Watchers Can’t Handle Only One Screen at a Time
You might think you’re happy just watching TV, but if you’re American, you might also suddenly feel the need to figure out where else you’ve seen that actor — you know, What’s-His-Face — while you’re...
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Let’s All Congratulate EA on Winning Worst Company in America Two Years Running
Every year Consumerist asks the Internet to participate in a survey to find the worst companies in America, and this year it’s video game maker Electronic Arts. They “won” last year’s survey too,...
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Geekolinks: 4/9
5 apps to track your carbon footprint (GeekSugar) Former politician arrested for masturbating out car window at 90 MPH (Mediaite) 9 companies that are less evil than Electronic Arts (BuzzFeed) Apple...
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This Software Looks At Your Face, Knows Your Name
My brother John just has that John look about him. He’s just got that…you know, weird John look. Could you tell looking at him? I don’t know, probably not. (And I wouldn’t recommend it.) But you know...
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And the Nominees Are… 2013 Webby Nominees Announced
The Internet needs more things centered around patting itself on the back, and thus The Webby Awards were born. The Internet-themed awards look to praise the best the web has to offer in categories...
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Florida Mayoral Candidate Plagued by Voodoo Curse, Because Florida
I grew up near Chicago, and thus have an abiding respect for dirty, low-down, mudslinging politics. Every once in a while, though, the rest of the world proves that they can still teach the City of...
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Engineer Stops Train Just Short Of Hitting Puppy Tied To Tracks
A train engineer in California is my new hero — and hopefully yours — for pulling the emergency brake on the train he was conducting earlier this month in time to avoid hitting a puppy that had been...
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“Fatbergs” in London Sewer to Become World’s Grossest Alternative Energy Source
While fossil fuels drive the economy, they’re not going to last forever, which is why we’re looking pretty much everywhere for new sources of energy. Now solar power, wind power, biodiesel fuel,...
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Batman: Arkham Origins Revealed, Coming This Fall
It comes as no surprise that Warner Bros. would want to continue cashing in on the breakout success of 2009′s Batman: Arkham Asylum from Rocksteady Studios. We already knew there’d be more games in...
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Facebook Makes Telling Everyone You’re Drinking Orange Juice a Little Easier
Get ready to hear everyone complain. Facebook appears to be slowly rolling out a new feature that lets you attach specific actions to your status updates. The feature lets you select from a very...
View ArticleThis is Clearly the Best Way to Throw Out a Box of Candy [Video]
Creating a domino-style chain reaction from candy boxes is the least efficient way we can think of to throw something in the trash, but it also has the virtue of being the most efficient way we can...
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Community is Officially Desperate, Wants You to Post GIFs for Puppet Episode
NBC is reaching out to an ever-shrinking demographic, Community fans, and asking them to post their favorite puppet-related GIFS to Tumblr for tomorrow night’s episode “Introduction to Felt Surrogacy”...
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Shadowrun Returns Set to Release in June
In case you haven’t been following along, the excitement for the release of Kickstarter success story Shadowrun Returns is palpable in the Geekosystem office. There’s something about an advanced...
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A Brief Guide to the Beginning of the Universe [Video]
The Big Bang is pretty complicated stuff, especially if you’re trying to explain it in less than four minutes. It happened billions of years ago, so there’s no direct record of it. It created...
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Arguing Could Lead to Better Science Education
Sometimes it seems that no matter how well an idea is accepted by the scientific community, there’s someone out there not willing to believe it. That’s why Jonathan Osborne, professor of education at...
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Geekolinks: 4/10
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 vs. iPad mini (GeekSugar) Arnold Palmer tees off into crowd to start Par 3 (SportsGrid) If Storyboard was such a success, why'd Tumblr shutter it? (The Daily Dot) Comixology was...
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