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To Avoid Draconian Apple Porn Policy, Vine Changes Rating to 17+, Still Has Porn
Twitter’s new Vine service lets people post six-second-long videos to the Internet, so people are obviously using it for porn. Apple goes out of its way to make it look like they keep porn off their...
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Celebrate Chris Pratt’s Guardians of the Galaxy Casting With Some of the Best...
Entertainment news keeps on rolling in today, and it looks like Parks and Recreation’s Chris Pratt, as in the actor behind Andy Dwyer, will be taking on the role of Star-Lord in Marvel’s Guardians of...
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Geekolinks: 2/6
CISPA is coming (HyperVocal) There's UFC knockouts, and then there's this vicious roundhouse kick (SportsGrid) The 6 dumbest mistakes of supposedly smart movie characters (Cracked) Sandy Hook choir to...
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J.J. Abrams in Talks With Valve About Half-Life and Portal Films
In his continued attempts to control everything we love, today J.J. Abrams said he’s in talks with Valve co-founder Gabe Newell about bringing Portal and Half-Life to the big screen. These talks are in...
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Knock it Off: Patent Trolls Now Targeting Podcasters
Patent trolls have been a problem in the tech industry for years, but now they’re branching out and trying to ruin more things. A company called Personal Audio is waving around an incredibly vague...
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Applebee’s And the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
Well, it’s Wednesday evening, so chances are, by this point, you have a pretty good idea how this week is going. We hope it’s going well for you! If it’s not, though, take a moment to consider this —...
View ArticleHere’s a LEGO Loom Looming If You’ve Ever Wanted to Know How a Loom Looms...
I’m not going to pretend that I’ve ever — and I do mean ever — been interested in learning how a loom looms. It’s one of those things that’s best described as one of life’s smallest mysteries that...
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College Credit Recommended For Some Free Online Courses, Probably Not Making...
The American Council on Education (ACE) offered a significant boost to the reputation of a handful of free online courses today, recommending that 5 massive open online courses (MOOCs) be made...
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Raccoons Take Over Tower Crane, Delay Construction Of Apartment Complex
There’s always been something I didn’t trust about raccoons. Maybe it’s the fact that they’re scavengers who have knocked over more of my garbage cans than I care to recall. Or maybe it’s just their...
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Watch William Shatner Phone the International Space Station to Talk With...
Reality is set to become a bit more like fiction this morning. William Shatner, as in Captain James Tiberius Kirk of Star Trek fame, will be calling the International Space Station to speak with...
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Saudi Researchers Want Clinical Trials For Camel Urine Cancer Cure
A research team from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz University is clamoring for more government support for their work — which isn’t exactly surprising, as most research teams are pretty much...
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Kickstarter Jumps the Shark, Offers Campaign to Fund a Death Star
Fifty years from now, when we all look back at what once was, and we fondly remember how Kickstarter used to be a great way for artists and inventors to fund projects that might not otherwise be...
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OUYA to Avoid Becoming Outdated by Releasing New Model Every Year
One of the biggest reasons that people spoke out against the OUYA, the Android console that came from Kickstarter, is the fact that it would become so quickly outdated. The traditional Android market,...
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Researchers Craft Model ‘Zombie’ Cells To Withstand High Heat And Pressure
We’re always at work making humans better, faster, and stronger, but what about individual cells? Well, we can make them stronger, too. The problem is, we… kind of have to kill them first. Once we’ve...
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Watch Community’s Joel McHale Talk About Chevy Chase’s Abrupt Departure
Community is finally back on the air as of tonight! We’re super excited to see how the new season shapes up, but a number of black marks have accumulated against the show since we last saw the sunny...
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This Can’t Be True: Next Xbox Games Will Only Work for First Owner
The rumor that Microsoft will eliminate the second-hand market for games on its next Xbox console has popped up before, but we dismissed it as sheer lunacy. New details point to that rumor possibly...
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Geekolinks: 2/7
18 complicated scientific ideas explained simply (Mental Floss) She-Hulk and Rogue to star in Marvel novels this summer (The Mary Sue) Drug dealing prank confuses mall cop (HyperVocal) Russia's...
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World-Class Pianist Brought in to Romance Tortoises [Video]
The London Zoo has a 70-year-old giant tortoise named Dirk. He even has three much younger tortoise lady friends. Their species is endangered, so it’s probably best for everyone, particularly Dirk, if...
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Stop Eating Vegetables! CDC Says They’re the Biggest Cause of Food-Borne Illness
Good news for anyone who hates vegetables, or just wants to shut up their smug vegan friends! A new study by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) found that the majority of food-borne illnesses come...
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Activision Got YouTube to Pull North Korea’s Propoganda Video Over Modern...
I saw a propaganda video released by North Korea the other day, and did the obvious thing — I made fun of its terrible production value. It was really bad. The highlight of the video from purely a...
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