Geekolinks: 8/1
Simon Pegg is drunk Ron Weasley (Flavorwire) Tomb Raider video game getting a sequel (The Mary Sue) How good dating advice goes bad (Guy Code Blog) Did the government investigate a journalist for...
View ArticleDeep Down is an Actual Thing, Will be Playable at TGS
Remember that all-gameplay video Capcom showed off at the PS4 reveal earlier this year? The one that kind of looked like Dragon’s Dogma, but super beautiful? Well, it turns out that wasn’t just a tech...
View ArticleSci-Fi and Fantasy Website Tor Offers Free Download of Over 150 Stories
Science fiction and fantasy site Tor.com is celebrating their five years of bringing fantasy books — and some pretty great blog posts as well — to the Internet by making all of their original fiction...
View ArticleJedi Use the Power of the Force to Jump Hella High in This Parkour Video
Listen, this video of Star Wars themed parkour is pretty great and all — it’s clear that free runners Jeremy Carpenter and Sinjin Cooper, stunt coordinator Ronnie Shalvis, and director Cameron...
View ArticleThe Many Ways Jurassic Park is a Commentary on Capitalism [Video]
One of the greatest films of the past two decades (yeah, two. We are all getting older, let’s move on), Jurassic Park has been analyzed through every critical lens there is, most notably Marxist. For...
View ArticleUsain Bolt Now Playable in Temple Run 2, So Fast He’s Probably Hard Mode
Celebrity cameos in games are always fun to see — remember Space Michael Jackson in Space Channel 5 Part 2, or Ricky Gervais performing standup in GTA IV? Well, there’s another great example now:...
View ArticleWarner Bros. Refuses to Let Akira Adaptation Die, Brings Back Director
There was once a time when the world seemed more just. Kids played outside, the streets were clean, and the Akira live-action adaptation that Warner Bros. has been trying to force down our throats...
View ArticleMan Tries to Sneak Pet Turtle on Plane Inside KFC Hamburger
A Chinese man was stopped while boarding his flight at China’s Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport earlier this week after officials noted an irregularity in his luggage — a sandwich containing a...
View ArticleTumblr Web Traffic Reportedly Just Hit a Real Steep Decline
More bad news from the blogging platform that everybody loves to hate to love: according to measurements taken by Quantcast, traffic to Tumblr’s desktop and mobile websites appear to be going downhill...
View ArticleFind ALL OF THE THINGS With These Tiny GPS Enabled Chips From Tile
If you are gifted with the same talent I have for losing anything important the instant it comes into your possession, help may be on the way. Tile is bringing tiny, GPS enabled tags and an app to...
View ArticleWatch the Crab Nebula Expand at 1500 Kilometers per Second
The Crab Nebula is one of those things that NASA made kind of famous, giving the remnants of a massive star instant recognizability. But this cloud isn’t static — it’s been expanding since its...
View ArticleHere’s What the Queen of England Would Have Said if WWIII Had Begun in 1983
While we now remember the 1980s through the lens of Internet nostalgia pieces and Cheers reruns, it was actually a pretty harrowing time to be alive — but it could have been a lot worse, apparently....
View ArticleRumor Mill Declares Peter Capaldi New Frontrunner for 12th Doctor in Doctor Who
Okay, guys, we know, no one really has any idea who will the new face of Doctor Who will be until BBC airs that announcement on Sunday, but of course we’re still going to keep wildly speculating....
View ArticleWatch This Awesome Short Film About Evil Action Figures Getting Their...
Vimeo user Paul Constantakis has released a new short film, Villainous, and it’s a must-see. More a suggestive glimpse into the secret lives of our crime-fighting heroes — and their dastardly foes —...
View ArticleOh Dear God No: Toilets Can Be Hacked
High tech toilets have always fascinated us as a civilization. Well, maybe not always — toilets didn’t even used to exist for a while there — but there’s something oddly appealing about a crapper that...
View ArticleThe Dark Knight Rises… Again… Then Beats Up Superman
Needless to say, we’re all pretty damn excited about the upcoming movie starring Batman and Superman. But what do the two heroes think about it? Watch the video to see two opposite superheroes engage...
View ArticleGeekolinks: 8/2
These tiny models of crime scenes are as creepy as they are meticulous. (Flavorwire) Oh, nerdy cross-stitch, you make our house a home. (The Mary Sue) If you can’t open the dumpster, just walk away...
View ArticleDid Yahoo! Answers Predict the Coming of Sharknado?
Yahoo Answers is where people go to get answers from people who know even less than they do. It’s main purpose is to provide fodder for the podcast My Brother, My Brother, and Me, but months ago...
View Article12-Year-Old Robs Lemonade Stand With BB Gun in Real Life Little Rascals Story
Crime is no joke, but sometimes it’s at least a little bit adorable. A lemonade stand run by a 10-year-old was robbed on Monday by a 12-year-old with a BB gun. The li’l thug made off with the till...
View ArticleNew Sherlock Teaser Gives Us Just Enough to Get Pumped for Sherlock [Video]
Here’s your first look at season 3 of Sherlock. The trailer tells us almost nothing besides the fact that Martin Freeman looks a bit silly with a mustache. Still, just the fact that there is a third...
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