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Flickr Looks to Snag Instagram Deserters With Free Pro Accounts
When Instagram announced some policy changes that made it look like they would be selling user photos to advertisers, a lot of people got upset. Some even jumped ship and deactivated their accounts....
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How Big is Too Big? Huawei Has a 6.1 Inch Smartphone to Show at CES
We can all agree size matters. For a while, phone manufacturers focused on making devices smaller, thinner, and lighter. No one wanted to be seen with a Zack Morris phone, but it seems like the Apple...
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Earliest Known Audio Recording of Christmas Found and Digitized
Recently discovered wax cylinders have been shown to contain what could be the earliest audio recordings of Christmas in the world. The Museum of London discovered 24 wax cylinders dating back to 1902...
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Geekolinks: 12/23
Neil deGrasse Tyson dances to Michael Jackson (The Mary Sue) 12 facts about the 12 days of Christmas (Mental Floss) Ben Affleck talks possible senate run (Mediaite) The Onion predicted the NRA’s...
View ArticleTurn Boiling Water to Snow in Seconds [Video]
It’s pretty cold in New York City today, but it isn’t negative 41 degrees cold. If I threw a pot of boiling water out the office window, there would just be angry people on the street below. What...
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Google vs. Bing: Which Santa Are You Following This Year?
For years, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has used Google Maps to operate its vaunted Santa-tracking software, a holiday tradition for nerds of all stripes, as well as their often...
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Grumpy Cat Goes Nyan, Destroys Earth, Everything You Ever Loved
Well, 12/21 passed without incident and, much to everyone’s shock, the world didn’t come to a fiery end, proving once again that you just can’t trust an ancient Mesoamerican culture. In fact, the Inca...
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Hawaii Is Slowly Dissolving, Sinking Into The Sea
We may have ducked the end of the world last week, but a new study by researchers from Brigham Young University reminds us, that in some small way or another, the world is always kind of ending. The...
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Space X Shows Off Their Grasshopper Test Flight
Since NASA retired its space shuttle program, there has been a big, rocket-sized hole in our hearts. Several private companies like Virgin Galactic are trying to fill that void, but Elon Musk’s Space...
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Try This Digital Yule Log For The 21st Century
No doubt plenty of us have spent many a holiday evening warming ourselves by the reassuring glow of a Yule log, perpetually burning away on some local cable access channel. As far as we’re concerned,...
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I Believe You Discounted My Stapler: Staples and Other Online Retailers...
Online shopping — among other things too numerous to mention — is perhaps one of the greatest gifts the internet has bestowed upon mankind, allowing us to indulge in the long-held fantasy of shopping...
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Make This Happen: Indiegogo Campaign to Create a Nikola Tesla Animated Series
Two animation and science enthusiasts are trying to make every geek’s dreams come true. The guys behind Wood Goblin Studios have an Indiegogo campaign to fund the pilot of a cartoon about Nikola...
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Leave Out a Plate of Brains and Milk for Zombie Santa Claus
Were you naughty or nice this year? You know something? It doesn’t really matter since Zombie Santa Claus fully intends to sate his ravenous hunger with your sweet, sweet flesh either way. Sculpted by...
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This TARDIS Model is Bigger on the Inside Thanks to Augmented Reality [Video]
Any Doctor Who fan can tell you that the TARDIS is “bigger on the inside,” but reproducing the dimensionally transcendental interior of the Doctor’s little blue box in a model or toy is a bit...
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Geekolinks: 12/24
The Mary Sue’s favorite video game holiday events… in verse (The Mary Sue) How did Santa show up on NORAD’s radar in the first place? (Mental Floss) The Jersey Shore cast wants to get into politics,...
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Grumpy Cat’s Out to Ruin Christmas? Not on the LOLCats’s Watch! [Video]
Is the very thought of having to sit through yet another Christmas special about some mutated reindeer with a case of low self-esteem making you sick to your stomach? Tired of being preached the true...
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Hubble Eyes Slivery, Razor-Thin Galaxy
As a special Christmas gift to those of us who are still watching the skies on federally mandated holidays, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped this great photo of galaxy IC 2233, one of the...
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Holiday Overeating Resets Your ‘Food Clock,’ Is Even Worse For You Than Once...
As I type this, holiday eating is unleashing sheer havoc on my poor, defenseless waistline, and I suspect I’m in good company on that front. A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
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Listen to “Jewel in the Night,” the First Song Recorded on the International...
If there’s one thing we here at Geekosystem like quite a bit, it’s anything that’s done in space. Okay, well, not anything, but certainly most things. Whenever these things also happen to be the first...
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Learn About Santa With Neil deGrasse Tyson
As a popular astrophysicist and television personality, people turn to Neil deGrasse Tyson for facts about a wide range of topics. He fields a fair number of space-related questions, but Tyson is a...
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