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Geekolinks: 11/9
11 notable Doctor Who fans (Mental Floss) Cool tech from Bond (GeekSugar) Can teeth heal themselves? (Environmental Graffiti) Thief picks pockets with chopsticks (HyperVocal) Turn your TV into a...
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Is Going Free-To-Play Next Week
We knew it was coming, but now we know when. BioWare’s attempt at a Star Wars MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic, will be going free-to-play starting next week, Thursday, November 15. The game released...
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How Does a Zebrafish Regrow Its Brain? We’re One Step Closer To Understanding
Zebrafish are the guinea pigs of the undersea world, used by countless researchers across the world to study neuroscience, genomics, and just about everything in between. Though the fish are well...
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Editors’ Picks 11/9: Goodbye to the Return of Deap Vally
This week in Editors’ Picks: A goodbye, a return, and a correctly spelled Vally. James’ pick: Geekosystem After over two years working here, ascending from a lowly intern to the all-powerful Managing...
View ArticleYou Can Watch Two Episodes of Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome Right Now
Ladies and gentleman, it’s finally happened. Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome is here. Even better than just being here, Machinima Prime has released two episodes of the web series today. That’s...
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The Fix is in: Bookies Bet Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Will Be The Holiday...
Holiday shopping has become a bit of spectacle, hasn’t it? Between the rise of Black Friday sales and the mass hysteria that can ensue over “it-gifts”, it’s not hard to see how you could get a sort of...
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Found Krypton for Superman in Comics and For Us in Real Life
Everybody loves Neil DeGrasse Tyson. So it’s no surprise that when DC Comics decided that Superman would try to find Krypton in the night sky in an upcoming issue of ACTION COMICS, they thought Mr....
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Dad Reprograms a Zelda Game to Make “FemLink” a Female Role-Model for His...
Parents will do anything for their children. Case in point: When father/gamer Mike Hoye plays The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker with his daughter, he reads her the story. When he does, he changes all...
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SEAL Team Six Members Reprimanded for Making Medal of Honor: Warfighter a...
It doesn’t pay to be one of the most famous soldiers in the United States Armed Forces, apparently. Seven members of the U.S. Navy’s infamous SEAL Team Six are have been punished by the military for...
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Geekolinks: 11/10
Toy Story 3 screenwriter Michael Arndt will write Star Wars: Episode VII (The Mary Sue) Make your own LEGO Christmas ornaments (Buzzfeed) Those graphing calculators you used to use will be in color...
View ArticleWes Anderson’s Star Wars: Episode VII Doesn’t Need to Make Sense to Be Cool
As soon as the world found out that there would be a new trilogy of Star Wars films that would not be written, directed, or produced by George Lucas, the internet has been tossing and turning 24 hours...
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Apple and HTC End The Patent Lawsuit We Weren’t Paying Attention To
After two years of saber-rattling and a ever-increasing stakes, Apple and HTC have finally settled their patent disputes. Wait a second. There’s another melodramatic tech patent lawsuit and we didn’t...
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Gamers’ Lawsuit Goes After Blizzard Over Battle.Net Authenticator System
In the wake of a series of invasive hacks earlier this year, Battle.Net users are taking their anger and frustration out on Blizzard with a new class action lawsuit. While lawsuits are par for the...
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Guillermo Del Toro is Interested in Bringing Justice League Dark to The Big...
DC Comics isn’t nearly as organized about making movies as Marvel. They claim that they’re going to make a Justice League movie by 2015, but as far as we know Disney has made more progress on the new...
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Are Sex Robots the Key to a Longer Life?? Fans of Robot Sex Say So
I think we can all agree on something: Sex and finding ways to stay alive longer are two things that most people spend a lot of time thinking about. Doctors of all stripes have been finding ways of...
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Geekolinks (11/11)
2012 electoral math for alternate history scenarios (Buzzfeed) Yes, there is a japanese porn film based on Lollipop Chainsaw (Kotaku) Picking Film Crit Hulk's brain (The Verge) An R2-D2 engagement...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy XIV Ends With an Epic Final Cutscene
Final Fantasy XIV has had a tough life. Panned by critics and released at a time when the traditional subscription-based MMO is on the decline, Square Enix’s second online adaptation of the classic...
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Pics: DailyBooth Shutting Down, Gone by End...
It was bound to happen sooner or later. The sharing of photos is something that happens in a million different places across the web, and DailyBooth had long since ceased to be relevant. The kids...
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Apple Paid a Cool $21 Million to License the Clock Design They Stole
As some might recall, part of Apple‘s move to iOS 6 included a new clock design. Unfortunately for them, this clock design was suspiciously similar to the one used by Swiss national rail company SBB....
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Christmas Comes Early: Demonoid’s BitTorrent Tracker Returns, Potentially...
When Demonoid went down, there was little hope that it would return. Most former users were firmly entrenched in the doom and gloom camp, and considering the circumstances, they had every reason to...
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