Officer Down At MIT, Shooter At Large, Explosive Devices Used Against Police
Police are sweeping the campus in relation to the shooting at Building 32/76 (Stata/Koch), continue to stay indoors until further notice. — MIT (@MITnews) April 19, 2013 Things are still becoming...
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MIT Shooters Appear To Be Connected With Boston Marathon Bombings, One Still...
After last night’s shooting at MIT and the ongoing manhunt that followed, the entire city of Boston and the surrounding area are on lockdown this morning. Moments ago, Governor Deval Patrick spoke to...
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Entertainment Weekly Made The Poster For Patton Oswalt’s Star Wars Episode VII
Okay, folks, we officially need something to brighten our day, and we suspect you’re right there with us. So big thanks to Entertainment Weekly’s Jef Castro for bringing us this poster of Patton...
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In These Dark Times, Let Us Remember That Ryan Lochte is Still a Thing That...
This week, the anchors of Good Morning, Philly had the unenviable task of interviewing barely sentient Olympian Ryan Lochte, who according to this amazing interview is “a man at night and a man in the...
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Daft Punk Officially Releases “Get Lucky” Single, Causes So Many Feels
After much anticipation, and a ridiculous number of fake leaks, Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” has finally officially released. It’s the first single off their album, Random Access Memories, which should be...
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British Batman Goes Rogue, Is Arrested For Burglary
Feel like some news that doesn’t involve a chain of human misery that seems to stretch out past the horizon and into the infinite? Yeah, us too. In the interest of that, Batman got arrested for...
View ArticleThe Whole Story of Social Media Last Night in One Futurama Clip
A great many things were said on Twitter last night as the Boston-area manhunt wore on into the night. Lots of them were interesting. Many of them were true, and lots of folks on social media did kind...
View ArticleCongratulations, Nate Bell, for Redefining the Concept of “Too Soon”
Hey, Twitter, since this is still a developing story in which people’s lives are in danger, no one has said anything tasteless and regrettable about events in Boston today? What? An Arkansas politician...
View ArticleLet’s Just All Watch Some Kittens for a Little While, Okay? Okay [Video]
Since everyone here could really use it, this is a minute and a half of kittens stretching. There is also some footage of kittens snuggling in there for good measure, and it’s all set to some rather...
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Dead Boston Marathon Suspect’s Supposed Amazon Wish List Offers Some Odd...
One of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects happens to be named Tamerlan Tsarnaev. He and the other suspect, his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, happen to be “from a Russian region near Chechnya,” as...
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Sony Reveals BEYOND: Two Souls Box Art, Captures Our Imaginations
Video game box art tends to be a bland, boring affair. It’s either toned down to meaninglessness to appeal to one demographic or the other, or it looks like it came out of what must have been some...
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Geekolinks: 4/19
Vintage camera apps beyond Instagram (GeekSugar) What if all Disney princesses were sloths? (The Mary Sue) Animal Crossing: New Leaf actually looks pretty good (GamesRadar) 50 haunting photos of...
View ArticleWatch Chris Hadfield Wring Out a Washcloth in Space [Video]
It should come as no surprise to learn that we here at Geekosystem quite enjoy Chris Hadfield and his antics on the International Space Station. Sometimes he does really amazing things, and sometimes...
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Czech Republic Issues Statement Clarifying That They Are Not Chechnya,...
The Boston Marathon suspects have been connected to Chechnya by pretty much every major news outlet at this point, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that a good number of Americans have no idea...
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The Evil Within, From the Creator of Resident Evil, Officially Revealed
The latest video game from Shinji Mikami of Resident Evil fame has been officially announced as The Evil Within, not that we really need more horror news this week. As everyone everywhere likely...
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For Real This Time: Watch the Antares Rocket Launch Live Stream
Some technical issues prevented the launch of Orbital Sciences’ first Antares rocket on Wednesday, but it looks like things are all set to go today. Assuming everything actually goes according to...
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Cory Doctorow’s Homeland Falls Victim to Fox’s DMCA Dragnet
Homeland is a show about a potentially turned prisoner of war starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis that’s produced by Fox for Showtime. Homeland is also a book by Cory Doctorow about…well, it’s...
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Geekolinks: 4/20
Helping Boston: How to avoid scams and send support online (GeekSugar) David Ortiz lets Boston know how he really feels (SportsGrid) Joint Facebook accounts for couples are just the worst (Guy Code...
View ArticleEarthquake Interrupts Chinese Reporter’s Marriage So She Covers It in Her...
In case you weren’t already aware, a 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit a rural area of China’s Sichuan province at 8AM local time on Saturday. The exact number of dead and injured isn’t clear just yet, but...
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Nintendo Can Use The Fan Translation of Mother 3 For Free, If They Want To
EarthBound is making its way to the Wii U console later this year, which has fans excited, but what of it lesser-known sequel Mother 3? The game was never released in the U.S. but a group of fans...
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