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Leonid Meteors Peak This Weekend, Watchers Can Make Up to 20 Wishes per Hour
Set your alarms, because this is something for which it is worth waking up early. The Leonid Meteor Shower is making its annual return appearance this weekend. The shower has actually already started,...
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At Least It Will Be Pretty: A Gallery of Art Inspired By The Robot Apocalypse
Here at Geekosystem, we don’t know art, but we know what we like, and it will come as no surprise to regular readers that we like robots. So when Genome Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina announced...
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Everything Here’s Trash: Honey Boo Boo Child Portrait
Six-year-old Internet and reality television sensation Alana Thompson is better known to her fans as Honey Boo Boo. Her and her family’s antics have captivated audiences in much the same way as a...
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Progeny’s Piracy Not Problem of Parents, Preteen Pirates Probably Pleased
Pirates that also happen to be children might have just been given a free pass. After a 2007 case saw the parents of a then 13-year-old pirate get stuck with a bill of 5,380 euros for lack of parental...
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Twinkie the Kid Is Alive and Well and Living in Canada
Today, just when the plight of snack cake lovers across the United States looked most bleak, a beacon of light shone down upon us from the North, where Canada has become the surprising savoir of all...
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Google Takes Over the World With Augmented Reality MMORPG for Android
Google is launching an augmented reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game on its Android operating system. The game is called Ingress, which is a word that essentially mean “an...
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The Gang’s All Here: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Livestream
We here at Geekosystem are set to stream our Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 experience tonight from 6PM to 8PM EST. We’re even looking at giving away our copy of the game to someone paying attention to the...
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Editors’ Picks 11/16: Eating Fresh Birds of Prey in the Target
This week in Editors’ Picks: Rollin forms a habit, Ian falls for a book, and a podcast wins Glen’s heart. Rollin’s pick: Subway For whatever reason, I form habits that I find it hard to break. I tend...
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All-Female Species Survives by Stealing DNA of Other Animals
When a class of animal is made up of only one gender, those animals tend to go extinct. That’s not the case with the bdelloid rotifers, which have been exclusively female for around 80 million years....
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Gene That Determines If You’re A Night Owl Or An Early Bird Also Makes A...
Do you have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning? Good news — it’s probably not your fault. Researchers are offering more insight into a gene that seems to govern people’s sleep cycles —...
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Chris Christie Refuses to Talk About Twinkies By Saying Twinkies Four Times...
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie held a press conference today about the news that Hostess was closing, and that it meant the world was ending because there would be no more Twinkies, but he refused...
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Leaked Taliban Mailing List Reveals Media Contacts, but No Cat GIFs
Sending an inappropriately revealing email to the wrong person is the working adult equivalent of that high school nightmare where you show up to school naked: It’s something you’re pretty sure you’ll...
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Get Ready for Riots: Toys R’ Us Says Wii U Pre-Order Shipments May Be Delayed
Black friday may not be until next week, but tomorrow may be the most intense shopping day of the year for gamers. The Wii U will be available starting at midnight, tonight, kicking off a new...
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“Singing” Shower Head Makes Sure No One Can Tell When You Sing Off-Key
Singing in the shower, like complaining about things on the internet and watching reality TV, is one America’s secret pastimes. It’s not a secret because no one knows you do it — trust me, they do —...
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We Can Still Send Master Chief to The White House… As a Statue
The 2012 presidential election is over, and despite a valiant campaign, Halo series hero Master Chief will not be bringing his personal brand of interstellar diplomacy to the White House any time...
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Geekolinks (10/17)
8 frustratingly bad tie-in video games ever (io9) The 100 most depressing death scenes (Movie Miscellany) Windows 8 isn’t easy to use when you’re drunk (Mashable) Upcoming Mass Effect 3 DLC won’t be...
View Article“Gotham High” Would be The Angstiest Comic Book Movie Ever [Video]
Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy complete may have only just reached its epic conclusion a few months ago, but you can bet that DC Comics and Warner Bros. are already hard at work figuring out an...
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Wii U Launch Day Resource Round-Up
A new era of video game consoles kicked off at midnight with the launch of the Nintendo’s dual-screen wielding platform, the Wii U. Whether you’ve already run to the store and picked one up, or still...
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The Newest Version of Android Dislikes The Holidays, Doesn’t Include December
The end of the year can a be a very lonely time for a smartphone. When the holidays roll around, people tend to get together with their families and speak to each other in person, so the phones just...
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Marijuana Vending Machine Maker’s Stock Skyrockets and Everybody Freaks Out
Based on this month’s election, the idea legalizing marijuana seems more popular than ever. Two states, Washington and Colorado, have legalized pot at the state level. With the legal marijuana market...
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