Geekolinks

Geekolinks: 5/11

by James Plafke | 5:11 pm, May 11th

The man who ditched Google for a week (Slate)

A new challenger in the commercial space industry emerges (Ars Technica)

Inside Fremantle, the horrors of Australia’s creepy historic prison (Environmental Graffiti)

18 spring activities to get your geek on (GeekSugar)

Here’s what the USAF is doing to help F-22 pilots (U.S. Department of Defense)

Here’s a humanoid butt robot (TDW: Geeks)

11 obscure regional phrases we should all start using (Mental Floss)

(title pic via BuzzFeed)

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Geekolinks: 5/10

by James Plafke | 6:01 pm, May 10th

Way more than you ever wanted to know about Animaniacs (Mental Floss)

Fox picks up Mindy Kaling’s pilot, so she’ll be leaving The Office (The Hollywood Reporter)

Harry Potter is finally coming to Kindle (AllThingsD)

Have you seen TIME’s breastfeeding cover yet? (The Week)

The bloody spectacle of cockfighting in Peru (Environmental Graffiti)

6 pet products that prove rich people have gone insane (Cracked)

7 high-tech finds for your bike (GeekSugar)

(title pic via reddit)

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Geekolinks: 5/9

by James Plafke | 7:01 pm, May 9th

The man who started the hacker wars (The New Yorker)

19 amazing facts about stuff at Toys R Us (Mental Floss)

BioShock Infinite has been delayed until February 2013 (TDW: Geeks)

These dolphins unfortunately overdosed on heroin at a rave (The Week)

20 creative ideas for a superhero wedding (GeekSugar)

The 5 weirdest fashion trends in human history (All That Is Interesting)

24 video game plot twists that would’ve blown your mind (Cracked)

(title pic via 4chan)

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Geekolinks: 5/8

by James Plafke | 6:00 pm, May 8th

Would a $799 MacBook Air crush the ultrabook market? (The Week)

Teach your mom Instagram (GeekSugar)

At the Mountains of Madness movie won’t happen because of Prometheus (Coming Soon)

Could humans hibernate? (Mental Floss)

Carmageddon has a Kickstarter for more Carmageddon (The Daily What: Geeks)

India’s incredible color-soaked festival (Environmental Graffiti)

The next generation of UAV drones are already being tested (Guardian)

(title pic via Daily Picks and Flicks)

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Geekolinks: 5/7

by James Plafke | 5:51 pm, May 7th

163 really awesome Draw Something pictures (GeekSugar)

Speaking of, here are 3 theories regarding the game’s disastrous slump (The Week)

13 loneliest outhouses on Earth (Environmental Graffiti)

Your guide to retro console collecting (Eurogamer)

11 fabulous libraries in South America (Mental Floss)

This guy is good at impersonating annoying things (The Daily What: Geeks)

DocTrackr lets you see what other people are doing with your docs (Ars Technica)

(title pic via 4chan)

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Geekolinks: 5/6

by Rollin Bishop | 3:00 pm, May 6th

James Cameron says he’s in the Avatar business (The New York Times)

Iran blasts Google for leaving contested waters blank on Google Maps (The Next Web)

Your guide to retro console collecting (Eurogamer)

The Hunger Games are coming to China (ComingSoon)

The controversy around Yahoo’s CEO is nuts (AllThingsD)

Last night’s Super Moon was rad (BuzzFeed)

Tree hoppers are also rad (TYWKIWDBI)

(title pic via Reddit)

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Geekolinks: 5/5

by Rollin Bishop | 4:00 pm, May 5th

The secret origin of Brown Dwarf stars (Universe Today)

Microsoft finds new Mac malware (Slashdot)

Thoughts on the Wii U graphics (Eurogamer)

The animated history of Game of Thrones (io9)

Dirty text messages misinterpreted as threat (WXYZ)

Blizzard takes 15% cut of Diablo III auction house (Ars Technica)

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with these dogs (BuzzFeed)

(title pic via Reddit)

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Geekolinks: 5/4

by James Plafke | 7:18 pm, May 4th

The first PC virus was written to punish pirates (Neatorama)

How big is C-3PO’s battery? (Wired)

Untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4 (Geek)

There are no easter eggs in The Avengers (Badass Digest)

The Elder Scrolls Online details begin to leak (Massively)

Converting a classic car to run on electric (Green Car Reports)

How to use paper towels (Mental Floss)

(title pic via 4chan)

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Geekolinks: 5/3

by James Plafke | 8:00 pm, May 3rd

Samsung announces the Galaxy S III (The Verge)

9 geeky toys from the ’90s (GeekSugar)

Insects glistening with droplets of dew (Environmental Graffiti)

Microsoft is dropping Windows Live branding with Windows 8 (CNET)

17 offbeat holidays you can celebrate in May (Mental Floss)

5 people who escaped death by being lazy (Cracked)

TimeSplitters dev says there’s no money in making FPS games (The Escapist)

(title pic via reddit)

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Geekolinks: 5/2

by James Plafke | 5:35 pm, May 2nd

Tech to steal from The Avengers (GeekSugar)

The strange subterranean landscape of Sicily’s salt mines (Environmental Graffiti)

Science attached lasers to sharks (Wired)

8 children’s book themes Dr. Seuss never tackled (Mental Floss)

This is a fun Rube Goldberg machine (The Verge)

Black holes cannot be stopped (Discover)

Draw Something isn’t doing too well ever since Zynga bought OMGPOP (Eurogamer)

(title pic via reddit)

A Beginner's Guide to Diablo III's Lore

Twelve years later, the third installment in the famous hack-and-slash franchise has finally released. Though the franchise is largely known for an inordinate amount of hacking and slashing, there's actually quite a bit of complex lore backing it up. Luckily for you, we have it summed up right here. Take a gander.

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Eric Limer If anyone is looking for some totally garbled, nigh-incomprehensible ad copy, I'm your man.
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Eric Limer What? None of my Facebook friends are on So.cl? How can this be?!
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Eric Limer "Does this mustache look creepy? Experts are blind; can't tell."
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Rollin Bishop Lin Beifong is suddenly one of the best things about Legend of Korra.
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James Plafke I just taught someone what TIL means. There's some kind of poetry to that.
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Max Preparing some mails.
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Eric Limer Walking my sister through the finer points of PS2 emulation as something of a birthday gift.
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Max Whoever just had The Strand pull a copy Of the Prose Edda: We should be Viking nerd friends.
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Eric Limer "That Spacex launch last Saturday was an absolute abortion."
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Max "lily_tomlin_explosion.gif"
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Eric Limer André 300 http://t.co/4HX40AEk
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Max Lowest rating for the Antz soundtrack on http://t.co/l4iFAqyD is three stars and is titled "It did not meet all of my criteria."
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Eric Limer Spotify is great for listening to soundtracks of games with licensed music. There's playlists for everything. Now playing: Guitar Hero 2.
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James Plafke I think the next Bond movie, Skyfall, should be 2 hours of Bond falling through the sky, doing action and spy movie things.
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Eric Limer I swear Xbox Live is never not offering me 2 months of gold for $2. At that price, I kind of don't even mind the dirty, auto-renew trick.
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Rollin Bishop Easily the strangest thing I've seen this weekend. http://t.co/AW7UGSQJ
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Max Pull up a loose tile in fifth avenue, discover a secret world populated by dogs that walk on hind legs and wear little waist coats.
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Max Legally changing my name to The Beachbummer
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James Plafke Just got home from a friend's, and now I'm eating Kix and reading about underwater phenomena on Wikipedia. #Saturday
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Eric Limer It's really a shame that writers spend so much of their time writing, which is -- coincidentally -- a very boring thing to write about.
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