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You Can Help This Library Buy a 9-Foot-Tall Hulk Statue
If there’s a better use of crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo than getting the Northlake Public Library a nine-foot-tall statue of The Hulk, we don’t know what that use is. The librarians of Northlake...
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Judge Suggests Lawsuit Against Sega Over Aliens: Colonial Marines Move to...
We’ve all probably seen some pretty sweet game trailers and thought, “no way is the actual game going to look that good.” There’s a lawsuit claiming that in the case of Sega and Gearbox’s Aliens:...
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Geekolinks: 5/2
7 awesome outer space moments from NASA JPL (GeekSugar) Megyn Kelly’s Google Glass demo went awry when she tried to get the German word for hot dog (Mediaite) Perverts crash through ladies’ room...
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Instagram Gets Even More Social, Updates With Tagging Feature
Instagram rolled out an update today that finally allows users to tag one another in photos. The update is available now for both iOS and Android platforms. Before everyone gets all crazy about...
View ArticleEarth’s Mightiest Broadcasters Team Up for This PBS: The Movie Avengers...
We’ve shown you some of the videos by Gritty Reboots before, but PBS: TheMovie stands out for a few reasons. The first being that we love us some PBS, but it also stands out because we can’t imagine...
View ArticleDIY Mjolnir Packs 80,000 Volts of Awesomeness Inside
If you were going to make a replica of Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, you might stop short of installing a Tesla coil capable of generating over 80,000 volts of electricity inside it, because gee, that...
View ArticleSwordfish Caught By Fishermen, Attacked By Shark Is Having Just The Worst Day...
Happy Friday, everyone! I know we’re all going to have some moments today where it seems like we’re just not quite going to make it through this week. But take heart, brothers and sisters! The weekend...
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Chinese “Spy” Had A Laptop Full Of Porn And Pirated Movies, Not NASA Secrets
A Chinese national the government suspected of trying to smuggle NASA secrets out of the United States and back to his home country has been brought up on charges, and it’s looking like things are...
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Go on Epic Quests and Gather Delicious Candies in ASCII Art Browser Game...
Have you ever had the desire to gather and then eat delicious candies? If not, maybe you’ve wanted to throw some candies on the ground? Not real candies, mind you, but virtual ones. No? Huh. Well,...
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Why I Unfriended Everyone on Facebook
Last night I had 369 Facebook friends, and today I have zero. I thought about quitting Facebook a few weeks ago, but realized that Facebook itself wasn’t the problem. The problem was my friends....
View ArticleCarl Zimmer Explains Where Feathers Come From in Latest TED-Ed Animation [Video]
Folks, can we talk about these TED-Ed videos? Because they are becoming some of my favorite things. In this magnificently animated piece, science writer Carl Zimmer waxes poetic on the aesthetic and...
View ArticleDARPA Robot Hand Can Lift A Ball Bearing, A Kettle Bell, Get Hit With A Bat...
Today in ‘Things That Will One Day Squeeze The Life Out Of You After You Smart Off One Time Too Many To Our Coming Robot Overlords’ news: this new robotic hand from DARPA. The mechanical limb can grip...
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Say Hello to the Liberator, Supposedly the Word’s First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun
3D printing has come a long way in a relatively short time. You don’t have to look far to find people people scoffing at the technology even today. That’s not to say it doesn’t still have many issues...
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Tomorrow’s Free Comic Book Day! What’s on Your Pull List?
Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day, which means…exactly what it sounds like! A chance to go down to your friendly neighborhood comics retailer and pick up some new books for the low price of absolutely...
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Geekolinks: 5/3
We can get behind these iPad cases that look like book covers (GeekSugar) Dude catches fly ball in hat while holding baby (SportsGrid) These awesome posters chart the colors in famous novels...
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Precursor Games Wants to Take Your Eternal Darkness Nostalgia All the Way to...
Look, we’re fans of crowdfunding here at Geekosystem. We’re not opposed to tossing money at people in order to achieve really, really awesome things that we’d very much like to see come to fruition....
View ArticleA Denial of Service Attack Might Be a Weapon [Video]
Is a denial of service attack, or distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), a weapon? That’s the question Mike Rugnetta and PBS Idea Channel set out to discuss this week. Sure, the rhetoric is...
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It’s May 4th, Brace Yourself for an Obnoxious Amount of “May the Fourth Be...
I’m as big a fan of Star Wars as the next geek, though not as much as Glen, so the idea of celebrating the franchise on a specific day sounds great. I’m not opposed to having special days for stuff...
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Hyundai Attempts to Scrub Their Terrible Suicide Ad From the Internet, Fails...
The Streisand effect is a powerful, powerful thing. When you attempt to purge the Internet of some kind of media that’s gone public, all you’re going to do is draw even more attention to said media....
View ArticleThe Only Thing Better Than a 3D Chalk Art Iron Man Helmet is Three 3D Chalk...
Chris Carlson is pretty good at creating 3D chalk art. Okay, less “pretty” and more “really.” The videos of him doodling up things like the diamond sword from Minecraft are quite impressive, but his...
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