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Geekolinks: 10/21
Stephen Colbert may have a cameo The Hobbit trilogy (The Hollywood Reporter) Dragon Age III: Inquisition concept art (Bioware) Study suggests gaming before bed is a bad idea (Medical Express) 9...
View ArticleWhen Was The Last Time You Saw a New Bioshock Infinite Trailer?
It’s been six whole months since fans have gotten new any information about Bioshock Infinite. Earlier this year, Irrational Games creative director Ken Levine announced that, after months of...
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Amazon Wipes Woman’s Kindle, Closes Her Account, Won’t Explain Why When Asked
Digital rights management, often referred to as simply DRM, is the all-encompassing term used for just about anything that’s meant to combat online piracy. Part of the greater DRM schema is the...
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The Pirate Bay Uses About the Same Amount of Energy as a Standard Vacuum...
In case you missed it, The Pirate Bay shifted to the cloud last week in order to better serve their users and avoid any further legal enforcement. Whether the latter will come to fruition remains to...
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Because Everybody Loves Bacon: Watch Sea Lice Consume A Pig From The Inside Out
Have you ever wondered what a pig would look like if you turned it into a centimeters thick living carpet of writhing underwater scavengers? Wonder no more, thanks to the latest work from forensic...
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Dish Network Buries the Hatchet With Voom HD, Now Folks Can Return to...
Unfortunately for everyone caught in the crossfire, Dish Network and AMC have been duking it out over what the former referred to as a distribution problem and the latter said was a legal dispute with...
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Better, Faster, Stronger: Evolution of New Genes Seen in Lab for First Time
An international team of scientists has achieved one of the holy grails of evolutionary biology, documenting the creation of new genes in a living organism for the first time. After introducing a gene...
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4 Gorgeous Starry Night Vehicles
It’s no secret that we find various iterations and renditions of Van Gogh’s Starry Night both impressive and amusing. We’ve seen it recreated in bacon, and made out of doorknobs, but if you’ve never...
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Italian Scientists Found Guilty of Failing to Predict Earthquake, Given...
In general, scientists tend to gather as much data as they can before making their predictions. Often as not, these include caveats. When predicting natural phenomenon and disasters, this is pretty...
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Win a Free Ingersoll Watch, Here’s How!
Winter is on its way, and if you’re looking for something to keep one of your wrists warm — since you obviously suffer from a very specific medical condition in which only one of your wrists gets cold...
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Idiocracy Later: Minnesota Drops Controversial Online Education Stance
As you may recall, Minnesota took a bold stance against free online education last week. The gist of the situation was that the state wanted to somehow curtail free online education outlets because...
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Get Ready for Tonight’s Debate With the Presidential Debates So Far, as Told...
Presidential debates can be fairly predictable exercises, occasionally bordering on tedium. This year’s debates, though, have given the internet plenty of ammunition for a seemingly never ending...
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Meet the Disney Voltron-Like Robot You Didn’t Know You Wanted
If someone were to pitch us an action figure that’s essentially robotic versions of Disney’s popular characters mashed together to form some kind of Voltron, we would have probably turned them down....
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Geekolinks: 10/22
10 things you didn't know about teeth (Mental Floss) Some must-have DIY apps (GeekSugar) Ship carcasses are eerie (Environmental Graffiti) The best under-the-radar film fests in America (Flavorwire) 5...
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Physicists Invent (Tiny) Working Tractor Beam, World Becomes Instantly More...
You guys, hold the phone. Drop whatever you’re doing right now. Is it dropped? Yes? Good. We have tractor beams now! Like where you zap a thing with a laser and pull it toward you with beam power?...
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Superman is a Blogger Now, Time of Death for Print Media Now Official
Good news and bad news, everyone. The bad news? Marvel and DC are continuing their frankly troubling and stupid streak of revealing what’s happening in next week’s comics before those books actually...
View ArticleThe 13.5 Billion Year Life of a Disk Galaxy [Video]
You’ve worked all day to earn a paycheck so you can provide for yourself and the ones you love. Unless you’re incredibly lucky, you’ll most likely be doing this kind of thing for a very, very long...
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U.S. Patent Office Invalidates Apple Patent Used in Samsung Trial, Puts Jury...
These days, patents are used more in legal posturing than just about anything else. It goes to show just how ludicrous the system is, however, that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has...
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Study Finds 88% of Sexual Content Posted by Young Folks Online Stolen by Porn...
Anyone that’s been around the Internet for any amount of time is probably well aware that uploading images and videos to it effectively means losing control of those images and videos. Unfortunately,...
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Square Enix Becomes First to Officially License Unreal Engine 4, Maybe...
Square Enix has been in something of a rut as of late. The reception for their last couple of flagship video game titles has been mixed leaning toward negative. While both Final Fantasy XIII and Final...
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