For the first time since the site’s takedown, MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom sat down for an exclusive interview with John Campbell of Campbell Live. In the 23 minute chat, the two address a wide variety of hotly debated topics, including the accuracy of the projected losses due to MegaUpload’s alleged encouragement of piracy, Dotcom’s status as a scapegoat, the causes of piracy, and the antiquated nature of current media distribution models. I strongly urge you not to consider a side of the argument as an arbiter of absolute truth, but it’s definitely worth seeing Dotcom’s take.

When Freddie Wong talks, he does it with the same frantic energy and humor that have made him famous. This is especially true when speaking about his decision to quit his old job, working on direct-to-DVD films and jump into working exclusively online.

When faced with the proposition of another feature-length project, Wong said that he and Brandon Laatsch, his partner in the video arts, asked themselves if they could do something new. It was clear to them that the Internet was changing how the film business was done, and that they should be a part of it. “At the time, it felt like if Apple computer had just come out and we were typewriter salesmen,” Wong said at the Blip.TV offices in Manhattan. “So, should we keep selling typewriters?”

In a time when Pharrell names his company after Star Trek, Soulja Boy equates having “swagger” with watching anime (we weep), and one of Hollywood’s primary cash cows is the comic industry, we can safely say that geek culture permeates our everyday media. Contrary to what Gil Scott-Heron believed, the revolution just may in fact be televised (not to mention blogged, Tweeted, and open sourced).

Only in such an era can we enjoy rap music from Eugene Ahn, a.k.a. Adam WarRock: comic geek, longtime gamer, ex-attorney, and now, emcee. His music name-drops everything from Inception to #donaldglover4spiderman, from the final Scott Pilgrim comic to Chicago Public Radio’s This American Life. Geekosystem recently chatted with Ahn about his career, the concept of being a “geek,” and rap music.

Games and alcohol are two of humankind’s oldest pastimes. When homo sapiens first emerged from the simian gene pool over 250 thousand years ago, we’d toss our spears around every so often, drunk on some derivative of fermented yeast. Today, the essentials remain the same. But there’s more than the occasional game of wasted dodgeball; now we’ve found ourselves also in a digital age of gaming. And in such a video game age, 21 year-old college students Mitch Hutts and Travis Broyles of The Drunken Moogle have arrived to curate the world of alcohol.

Their website, which regularly collects and invents alcoholic drink recipes based on video games, has been popularly received on Tumblr and beyond, recently serving such gems as the Starcraft II-themed “Zerg Rush” (six shots of Fernet Blanca, Hot n’ Sweet, Baileys Irish Cream, and Tabasco sauce in succession, because who attacks with just one Zergling?) and “The Kirby” (cherry jello shot with Malibu, pink lemonade, Bacardi, and blackberry brandy). Geekosystem had the opportunity to chat with Mitch and Travis about the origin of their idea, drunk gaming, and their favorite concoctions.

There’s a lot about the modern world that’s bad for your health, especially for the more technically inclined: Hours a day sitting in front of a computer; the temptations towards a worse diet and less quality sleep.

Fortunately, new developments in technology and information-gathering have given geeks the tools to fight back against bad health by turning their analytic obsessiveness towards the final, unhackable frontier: themselves.

In an interview with Geekosystem, Thomas Goetz, the executive editor of Wired and author of the new book The Decision Tree, fills us in on the health pros and cons of modern living, how we can turn ourselves into algorithms, and the health-monitoring technologies of the future, from sleep quality monitors to biomarker libraries:

You can find more information about The Decision Tree at the book’s official website: it’s available in hardcover and for Kindle at Amazon.com.

In the year since Imgur was founded by undergrad Alan Schaaf, the minimalist image hosting site has sprouted into a hotbed of online culture, with a dominant presence on social bookmarking sites like Reddit and Digg and almost 20 million pageviews this past month. This weekend, Schaaf announced that Imgur had added individual user accounts and paid pro accounts.
Recently, we swapped emails with Schaaf about the rise of Imgur, the impact that personal accounts will have on the site and its vibe, and — yes — his plans when he graduates from college in June: