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OTR Chrome Extension’s SnapChat for Work, Hopefully With Fewer Genitals

We’ve talked about SnapChat before. It’s a photo-sharing app that deletes the pictures you send after a few seconds, so people use it mostly for pictures of their genitals. That’s not very appropriate...

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Gillette Teams Up With Geek Celebs to Wonder About Superman’s Shaving...

It might not have occurred to you while watching the Man of Steel trailer that since Clark Kent is depicted as having a beard in one shot, at some point he had to learn how to shave — which would...

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Blizzard Scraps Development Team On ‘Titan’ MMO

Blizzard’s upcoming MMO project — known only by its codename ‘Titan’ — has been the subject of plenty of speculation and anticipation. Gamers may want to tamp down their anticipation, though, as it...

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Plucked Directly From Your Dreams, Here’s Soda Shaq, Shaq’s New Line of Soft...

It probably won’t surprise regular readers to learn that we’re not huge sports fans here at Geekosystem — I mean, I am, but I’m barely bringing the average up — so for us to write with any regularity...

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These Minimalist Prints of Sci-Fi Weapons Can Turn Any Room Into an Armory

Etsy user Harshness has a pretty great set of prints up at his online store, treating a wide array of nerdy subjects — X-Men, Game of Thrones, and Star Wars are all represented heavily — with...

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Ohio Courts Ban Internet Cafes Because the Internet is One Big Casino

Nobody’s going to deny that Internet cafes are pretty awful. You’re usually stuck paying 50¢ a minute to wait for Internet Explorer to load on Windows 98 just to view something that most people can...

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Sonic Lost World Trailer’s Basically Super Mario Galaxy, But Sonic [Video]

The Internet may have collectively chuckled a bit when Nintendo said they were going to bring a new Sonic the Hedgehog game to market, but it turns out Nintendo may have been on to something. The...

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Canadian Zombie Plants Return to Life After 400 Years

In a story that is basically Encino Man but with Canadian plants, scientists have revived some once-frozen 400-year-old plants from the Canadian arctic. Bringing these plants back to life shows that...

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Joss Whedon’s Uplifting Commencement Address Notes “You Are All Going to Die”

Leave it to actual God of Death Joss Whedon to open his commencement speech to Wesleyan College with the phrase “You are all going to die.” It gets more uplifting and inspirational from there, of...

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New Google Glass App Hopes to Be Being John Malkovich for Porn

Google Glass has raised some interesting questions of etiquette. When is it rude to wear a camera on your face? What are acceptable uses for the wearable technology in public? One thing I think...

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Liquid Blood Recovered From Long-Frozen Woolly Mammoth Remains

A team of Russian mammoth researchers working in Siberia have discovered an unexpected and unprecedented find — a mammoth carcass preserved in ice for thousands of years that is still so fresh they...

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Charles Ramsey Doesn’t Want Your Charity Burgers

Remember how a number of restaurants in the Cleveland area, where Charles Ramsey helped three women escape from their alleged kidnapper, wanted to offer the everyman hero free burgers for life? Well,...

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Tonight is Manhattanhenge! Non-New Yorkers Should Probably Follow Some New...

Tonight, as the Sun sets over New York City, it will actually be setting in perfect alignment with the streets in what Neil deGrasse Tyson calls Manhattanhenge. Throughout the year the Sun moves along...

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Geekolinks: 5/29

Tim Cook calls wrist tech “interesting” (GeekSugar) The latest Japanese fashion trend is… kind of hard to explain, but basically Snooki? (Styleite) In praise of the TV talent show weirdo (Flavorwire)...

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Ice and Fire Encyclopedia Delayed Because George R.R. Martin Can’t Stop Writing

Fans of the long-running A Song of Ice and Fire series (those are the books that Game of Thrones is based on, if you didn’t know) were probably a little miffed when they heard that George R.R. Martin...

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Endangered Whales Turned Into Ingredients for High-End Japanese Dog Treats

Japan, we need to have a talk about your luxury dog snack market, because “endangered fin whale” is not an acceptable ingredient for dog treats. That’s what one Japanese specialty pet food company has...

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The Influence of Dancing on Mating Chances Explains a Lot [Video]

Look, folks — I know we humans like to think there’s a lot more than just the bars on the cage separating us from our more primitive ancestors, but that’s just not the case sometimes. Case in point?...

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Patrick Stewart’s Recent Speech Confirms I Want to Be Patrick Stewart When I...

Good morning, everyone. Today, we’re delighted to bring you this video of nerd icon Patrick Stewart being exactly the person you want him to be in real life this weekend at Comicapalooza in Houston....

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Monkey Feet May Be More Common in Humans Than Once Thought

Have you ever felt like walking on the ground is a fine way to get from point A to point B, but not really your thing? Can you identify a good climbing tree from a hundred paces? If so, you may have a...

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Exclusive: Adam WarRock Arrested Development Season 4 Rap Up

If you’ve been on the Internet lately, it’s more than probable that you haven’t been able to escape the wild emotions of everyone that’s been waiting for, and binge-watching, Arrested Development. If...

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