Geekosystem » About Geekosystem http://www.geekosystem.com Let Yr Geek Flag Fly Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:00:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=2012.06 Introducing: Geekosystem’s Random Button http://www.geekosystem.com/geekosystem-random-button/ http://www.geekosystem.com/geekosystem-random-button/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:11:38 +0000 Robert Quigley http://www.geekosystem.com/?p=25910

We are thrilled to tell you about a new feature on our site that we think you will like. As of this afternoon, Geekosystem has added a random button to all of our posts. It's pretty self-explanatory:

  • 1. Click on the 20-sided die at the top-right corner of any post
  • 2. ???
  • 3. Profit [by experiencing a random Geekosystem post from the past, present, or future]
What makes the random button work is that it only cycles you through stories that we think will still be fresh and interesting whenever you read them.]]>

We are thrilled to tell you about a new feature on our site that we think you will like. As of this afternoon, Geekosystem has added a random button to all of our posts. It’s pretty self-explanatory:

  • 1. Click on the 20-sided die at the top-right corner of any post
  • 2. ???
  • 3. Profit [by experiencing a random Geekosystem post from the past, present, or future]

What makes the random button work is that it only cycles you through stories that we think will still be fresh and interesting whenever you read them.We recognize that stories like early April’s “Rumor: Joss Whedon to Direct The Avengers?!?” (answer: yes) don’t have the best of shelf lives, which is why they’re not in the random mix. Instead, we’ve selected and will continue to select hundreds of timeless posts from our dwarven vaults.

Note that the random button doesn’t appear on the front page of the site, only when you’re reading individual stories.

Who doesn’t want to learn about the hidden connections between Batman and BioShock, learn how to replace YouTube trolls with Richard Feynman quotes, or look at adorable pictures of pandas playing in the snow, whatever the season? Get randoming.

*Yes, nitpickers, it’s technically pseudorandom.

]]> http://www.geekosystem.com/geekosystem-random-button/feed/ 1 Enter the Geekosystem: An Introduction http://www.geekosystem.com/about-geekosystem/ http://www.geekosystem.com/about-geekosystem/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:16:00 +0000 Robert Quigley http://www.geekosystem.com/?p=446 As of this morning, Geekosystem is live. The servers are serving, the URLs are uniforming locating their resources, the arcology is under its neat little dome and stocked with birds, fish, and fresh water, and there are a bunch of well-oiled, steampunk-looking gears and clocks spinning around and doing something cool. But what does this machine do? Our goal is nothing less than to unite all of the tribes of geekdom under one common banner.]]> As of this morning, Geekosystem is live. The servers are serving, the URLs are uniformly locating their resources, the arcology is under its neat little dome and stocked with birds, fish, and fresh water, and there are a bunch of well-oiled, steampunky gears and clocks spinning around and doing something cool. But what does this machine do?

Our goal is nothing less than to unite all of the tribes of geekdom under one common banner. The truth of the matter is, there’s a lot of overlap between the different families of geekery. The geeks who are into gadgets and computers are often the same as the geeks who are into comics and sci-fi are often the same as the geeks who are fueling the culture of the Web, one forum or imageboard at a time. As the site’s name suggests, Geekosystem recognizes and celebrates these interconnections and the often-overlooked personalities who hold it all together. Live together, die alone!

If you’re like us, you probably already have a go-to gadget site. You might get your social news fix at a Reddit or a Digg or a Hacker News. You certainly know where you can find lulz-inducing videos and pictures and flowcharts. Geekosystem is not here to disrupt your diet of information, though we think you will find us a worthy and nutritious supplement.

In addition to our spiffy weekly Power Grid, which you can read more about via this FAQ, Geekosystem seeks to give you a unique kind of home and refuge. But we’ll need your help. Above all, we want this to be a discussion and not a talking-down-to, and we want you to talk back, share your expertise, call us out when you think we are being dumb. We will be in the trenches of the comment sections with you. This is the stuff we love and obsess about, and we hope you will come along for the journey.

The Skynet’s the limit.

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