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The Best Apps For Following Tonight’s Polls
Earlier today we offered readers who are tired of the election a brief respite with a rundown of some of our favorite fictional presidents. Some of you, though, will be following the elections to...
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No One Knows When The Last Guardian Will Ever Release
We all shed a tear when game design genius Fumito Ueda left Team ICO, and it was even worse that it happened in the middle of the development of their next game, The Last Guardian. We’ve been waiting...
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Geekolinks: 11/6
Will video games impact voter turnout? (Mediaite) Political insiders to follow on Twitter today on election day (GeekSugar) Awesome election day stickers on Canvas (The Daily Dot) 25 presidential...
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You’re Doing It Wrong: Doctors Have Been Using Implantable Defibrillators On...
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that implantable defibrillators have been operating on the wrong settings for almost twenty years. According to a two year study of...
View ArticleThe Battlestar Galactica Web Series, Blood and Chrome Premieres Friday
It’s been a very long time coming, but if you’re a Battlestar Galactica fan, you’ve known about the web series, Blood and Chrome, for quite some time. The series follows William Adama during the first...
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Hackers and Gabon Burst Dotcom’s Bubble, MegaUpload Successor Won’t Use...
Not to be confused with Gaben, which refers to Valve head Gabe Newell, Gabon is a sovereign state located in Africa which just so happens to control the .ga top-level domain. Because Kim Dotcom is...
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In Case You Didn’t Already Think Print’s Dying: PlayStation: The Official...
It was only just this past August that we learned that Future Publishing would be shutting down Nintendo Power, but it looks like that’s not the only publication the editorial giant will be bringing...
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President Barack Obama’s Re-Election Victory Tweet Now Most Popular of All Time
Welcome to the day after the United States presidential election, folks. In case you weren’t already aware, President Barack Obama will be returning to the White House for four more years of whatever...
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Quarantined: Finches Avoid Sick Members Of Their Flock
We’ve all found ourselves ducking friends, loved ones, significant others, and co-workers when they develop a sniffle or two. We’re not the only species to show that rather mercenary brand of common...
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Internet Declares NYT Pollster Nate Silver Most Likely A Witch, Further Tests...
NYT poll-meister and knower of dark secrets Nate Silver took some flack last week for making bets on the outcome of the presidential election with Fox News personality Joe Scarborough. Silver was...
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Steam for Linux Beta Available Now
It almost seems too good to be true, but Steam for Linux is finally in a tangible form, and the beta is available now. The service only provides a couple dozen games at the moment, but it does offer...
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The Civil Wars Conducting Own Private Civil War, Ain’t That Fresh
The Civil Wars, the band made famous thanks to their Barton Hollow album, has apparently been undergoing some hardships. We here at Geekosystem typically don’t report on the music industry coming and...
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Decades Old Method For Turning Sugar Into Diesel Fuel Gets New Lease On Life
In 1916, Chaim Weizmann — then a professor of chemistry at the University of Manchester, and eventually the first president of Israel — discovered a method for turning simple sugars into diesel fuel...
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Geekolinks: 11/7
The space-faring rubber chicken (GeekSugar) When Victoria’s Secret rescued the National Guard (Mental Floss) Top 10 GIFs from election night (The Daily Dot) Pacemaker powered by heartbeat (The Week) 5...
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Apple Commercial Features Piano App, All Piano Apps Profit Accordingly
Apple tends to feature various apps that their products can run in their commercials. Since this is pretty much the only function these devices provide, it’s a common occurrence. Developers love it...
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Guinea Pig Turned Into Living Battery, The Matrix One Step Closer To Just...
You may think of guinea pigs as just furry little machines designed to process alfalfa into poop, but they are so much more than that! They are furry little poop machines that also make convenient...
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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm to Miss 2012, but Did You Expect Anything Else?
In an Activision earnings call earlier today, Blizzard honcho Mike Morhaime crushed all of our hopes and dreams and noted that the second third of StarCraft II, Heart of the Swarm, will miss 2012 and...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like to Quaff Too Many Heals [Video]
If you’ve ever played a JRPG, you might’ve noticed that your characters have stomachs that work similarly to the Doctor’s TARDIS — bigger on the inside. With their usual inventory with infinite space,...
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Running the United Kingdom? There’s an App for That
Being the head of any government isn’t exactly an easy job. When it comes down to it, leaders have to make decisions based on the best information they have available to them at the time. If that data...
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JAM With Chrome Lets You Start a Wicked Internet Band, Pretend to be Skrillex
Starting a band is usually a lot of work, especially if you have no musical aptitude. It’s surprisingly difficult to convince folks to let you be their drummer if you don’t know how to drum....
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