IFC’s Maron Premieres Friday… Or You Can Just Watch It Right Now
Marc Maron hosts one of the best podcasts on the Internet, WTF with Marc Maron, and now he’s hoping to parlay some of that success into the world of television with a new show on IFC. It premieres...
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Sensitive “Skin” Gives Robot Feeling in Whole Arm, Lets It Reach Through...
Georgia Tech researchers have taken one big step towards building a robot will be able to get that jar of mustard from the back of the refrigerator without making an ungodly mess of the place. They’ve...
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Uplifting Study Confirms Sexiness of Beards, General Magnificence of Men Who...
A new study from the University of South Wales confirms what plenty of us have known for years — everything is better with a beard. At least, ladies seem to think so, as the study showed that women...
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New Grand Theft Auto V Trailer Shows Off the Game’s Three Protagonists [Video]
It’s finally here, folks. The trailer for Grand Theft Auto V that Rockstar has been teasing with the tagline “Michael. Trevor. Franklin.” It’s been released to the public, and if you’re a fan of the...
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Too Beautiful for This Universe: Herschel Space Telescope Shuts Down for Good
As a journalist, I strive to keep a pretty open mind and not be too rigid in my thinking on a lot of things. Like anyone, though, I have a few things I believe in very strongly, and one of those...
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Dinner and a Movie: Make Arc Reactor Pasta Before Seeing Iron Man 3
Iron Man 3 opens this weekend, and sure, you could just go see the movie, or you could make a night out of it by preparing Tony Stark’s Seductively Good Arc Reactor Pasta. That’s right, in Kitchen...
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CERN Relaunched the First Web Page to Remind You How Cool the World Wide Web...
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a big deal as far as Internet fame goes since he invented the world wide web. He was working for CERN when he created the first web page, so now CERN is preserving his effort....
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Trailer for Rocky Musical is Exactly What You’d Expect, Regardless of What...
If you asked me to draw a Venn diagram between fans of Broadway musicals and fans of the Rocky franchise, I would just draw two circles that were very far away from each other. Sylvester Stallone and...
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The Pirate Bay Continues Domain Name Hot Potato, Moves to Sint Maarten
In their attempts to stay one step ahead and whatever legal organizations are currently actively trying to shut them down, the Pirate Bay has a habit of cycling through top-level domains. For example,...
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Man Loses Life Savings Playing Carnival Game, Has Giant Stuffed Banana to...
Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming New Hampshire’s own Mr. Henry Gribbohm, Jr., to the dictionary. Not as a definition, per se, but as a note perfect illustration. If there is any...
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Folks Behind Leviathan: Warships Understand the Internet, Release Second...
When the original jazzy trailer for Leviathan: Warships from Paradox Interactive dropped, I assumed that someone had convinced the marketing department to go along with what was surely a drug-fueled...
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The Nerdist Himself, Chris Hardwick, is Getting a Late-Night Show on Comedy...
Staying up an extra half hour after The Colbert Report is getting a little easier. Comedy Central is adding a nightly show hosted by Chris Hardwick to its late-night lineup. If that’s not enough to...
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Geekolinks: 4/30
Outlook just got a lot more Skype (GeekSugar) Jason Collins asked Lance Bass for advice on coming out (SportsGrid) Man shaves whole body to avoid drug test (Guy Code Blog) Jon Stewart slams Congress...
View ArticleTalk Show Host Duke Fightmaster’s Real Close to Kickstarting His Movie
If you’re a frequent listener to This American Life, you might already be familiar with the story of Duke Fightmaster, a guy who started a talk show out of his bedroom because he wanted to take over...
View ArticleThis “Welcome Home 619″ Real Estate Rap is Awkward Gold [Video]
If you live in San Diego, are thinking about moving, or just love awkward raps, then you should definitely watch this video by real estate agent Rafael A. Perez. He’d like to sell you some property,...
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The Streampocalypse is Upon Us: Netflix Loses Nearly 1,800 Instant Watch...
I hope you weren’t planning on watching Goldfinger anytime soon. The Bond classic is just one of a mind-boggling 1,794 titles vanishing from Netflix Instant Watch as of today. I mean, you probably...
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The New Canadian Five Dollar Bill Has Space Robots on It, Makes Presidents...
It looks like if Canada has just decided if they have anything interesting to announce, they’re just going to let Chris Hadfield do it from space. I’m prepared to say this is the right call, because...
View ArticleHere’s a Stop-Motion Film Made Entirely From Shifting Atoms Around
Here’s a fun fact about IBM’s research on storing data atom by atom — sometimes, it gets really boring. Our latest evidence for this phenomenon is that the folks working on the project feel like...
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Good News, Poker Fans! You Can Play Real Poker Online in the U.S. Again
Remember when you could stay home and lose all your money online instead of having to physically go somewhere to lose it? Well that golden age of online gambling could be making a comeback. Ultimate...
View ArticleNew Google Glass Video Shows What It’s Like Actually Using Glass
We’ve done a lot of stories on Google Glass, because we think it’s interesting. For as much as we’ve written about it on the site, we’ve never actually had the opportunity to try it ourselves, so it...
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