Patton Oswalt’s Star Wars Filibuster is the Best Thing You’ll See Today
If you weren’t already a fan of Patton Oswalt, this should likely bring you into the fold: Oswalt performed an improvised eight-minute rant/filibuster for an episode of Parks and Recreation. What was...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Legislator Calls Women “vagina’s” in Email, Doesn’t Know How...
New Hampshire State Representative Peter Hansen feels strongly about a law in his state allowing homeowners to use deadly force remaining unchanged. He feels so passionately about not changing the...
View ArticleEvernote Teases “New and Magical” Hardware Devices, But Gives No Details
Evernote is a very popular cross-platform note-taking app, though personally I prefer Google Keep. It seems, though, that they’re not quite content being an app on someone else’s device. Evernote CEO...
View ArticleGeekolinks: 4/17
Book hard drive? Book hard drive (GeekSugar) Please, please, please don’t bring back Heroes, Microsoft (The Mary Sue) Man tries to steal Porsche, can’t drive stick (Guy Code Blog) Fox pulls Boston...
View ArticleIn Times of Tragedy, “Look For The Helpers,” Says Mr. Rogers [Video]
Normally we try to bring you the latest Internet video trend at the end of the day, but given the tragic events of this week, we’d rather pull out a classic. It’s easy to see frightening things...
View ArticleGoogle Fiber Comes To Provo With a Head Start
Well, Google didn’t exactly give Austin a whole lot of time to bask in the afterglow of being the next city with Google Fiber. Yesterday afternoon, Google announced on its official blog that Provo,...
View ArticleAmazon’s Zombieland Series Pilot Arrives to Prevent You From Getting Any Work...
If you’ve been waiting to get a look at Amazon’s newly minted Zombieland series, consider your long wait over — the pilot has arrived, and Amazon Prime subscribers can get their first taste of the...
View ArticleNew York Subway Project May Be Threatened By Electric Eels… Wait, What?
Between traffic, crowds, and inane drive time DJs, you might think nothing could make your commute worse. Think again. According to an officer of the New York subway system, a planned train line...
View ArticleRumor Mill: Windows 8 Might Be Dropping Windows 8
Before you get too excited, let me reiterate that this is almost pure rumor at this point, and even if it’s true right now, it could change before the next version is released, but Microsoft is...
View ArticleFruit Flies Taught to Be Helpless and Depressed for Science
Don’t take this wrong, but in a lot of ways, you’re not so different from a fruit fly. At least, the same sort of things that can make you depressed, like feeling helpless to change or bad situations...
View ArticleDon’t Do That: Man Stabs Girlfriend and Her Father in Argument Over PlayStation
Gamers are a passionate group of people, but that’s no excuse to go stabbing anybody. We guess nobody told Jose O. Cruz of Allentown Pennsylvania that though. He was arrested yesterday afternoon for...
View ArticleTwitter Launches Music Service That Sort of Works, Ignores Android Completely
Twitter launched it’s recently rumored music service today! Twitter #Music was announced this morning on Good Morning America, and comes in the form of an iOS app and web service. Notably absent is an...
View ArticleTrailer for Leviathan: Warships is Perhaps the Smoothest Game Trailer Out...
Just to be clear, I’m not usually much of a Paradox Interactive fan. Their video games often need a little more time in the over or too granular for me. That said, their latest trailer from Leviathan:...
View ArticleGood News, Everyone! The House Passed CISPA!
They say every cloud has a silver lining. If that’s true, then there has to be something good about the fact that 288 members of Congress just voted to pass CISPA, right? The bill essentially strips...
View ArticleMinutePhysics Dives Deeper Into Alternate Universes, Explains Many Worlds Theory
On the last episode of MinutePhysics, the whiteboard-wielding science educators aimed to explain the principles behind parallel universes — at least, they did in this reality. This week, they take a...
View ArticleWatch Harrison Ford Dodge Star Wars Questions and Confront Chewbacca on Kimmel
It has to be hard when you’re an actor trying to promote something, but all anyone wants to talk about is another project. When Harrison Ford appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, he took...
View ArticleGoogle+ Blogger Comment Integration Shows Google’s Attempting to Catch Up to...
In case you have a blog on Blogger, not that I’m saying you should, Google’s rolled out a new feature where you can active Google+ comments on your Blogger blog. These work in much the same way as...
View ArticleNASA’s Kepler Mission Finds Three New Planets in the Habitable Zone
Thanks to NASA’s Kepler mission, we now know about three new super-Earth-sized planets that fall in the “Goldilocks” zone of a star’s orbit,where the surface temperature of a planet could hold liquid...
View ArticleGeekolinks: 4/18
How to pick a safe online password (GeekSugar) FBI releases video and photos of Boston Marathon suspects (Mediaite) The 7 dumbest things you can share online (Guy Code Blog) Ugh, Weird Science remake...
View ArticleThe Science Behind Crying Might Make You Tear Up [Video]
There are a bunch of reasons why we cry, but there are basically just three kinds of tears. Of these, little is understand about the kind of tears we shed when we’re emotional. Even so, AsapSCIENCE...
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