geekosystem

1. Misheard lyrics to "Fresh Prince" theme shut down PA schools (UPROXX)
2. 6 inventors who changed the world and then got screwed (Cracked)
3. 20 beautiful behind-the-scenes photos from art films (FlavorWire)
4. Dennis Rodman won't apologize for his pal Kim Jong Un (Mediaite)
5. Appropriately, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies rises from the dead (The Mary Sue)
6. Charlie Sheen wants to mentor Lindsay Lohan, what could go wrong? (Gossip Cop)
7. Dennis Rodman and King Jong Un talk about friendship on SNL (SportsGrid)

(Title pic via Reddit)

You probably figured our Today In Geek History series would cover only science events. You figured wrong! The gaming world has a colorful history, too. For example, on this day in 1990, armed Secret Service agents raided the Austin, Texas offices of Steve Jackson Games, the game company that published GURPS (Generic Universal RolePlaying System) but is perhaps best known in the community for the card game Munchkin. So why the raid? They were looking for a hacker. Sound familiar?

First there was The Office, then Being Human, then Sherlock, and with each successful BBC series, the Americans had to have their own version. But sometimes, like the dead rising from the grave, a long-established pattern goes in reverse. This time, the BBC is taking a cue from the success of AMC's The Walking Dead and trying their blood-spattered hands at a zombie-based television series. Called In the Flesh, it airs on March 17th on BBC Three. Far from an adaptation, though, In The Flesh offers a strange new take on the traditional zombie tale, turning it into a ruminative story of loss, guilt, and redemption -- though personally, we're hoping for a few cracked skulls, too.

Love them or hate them, you already know that flesh-eating zombies have been shambling roughshod through pop culture these days. Surely, the more we see them on the screen, the less we would believe in them -- except perhaps for those Great Falls, Montana residents who were spooked by yesterday's  TV-broadcast warning "that the dead of are rising from the grave."

Speaking from a purely hard science point of view, we don't get what makes that special someone so special... but we're getting closer to understanding it. AsapSCIENCE is back with its latest installment just in time for Valentine's Day, and they're taking a look at the science behind that crazy little thing called love. Sit back and enjoy it by yourself or with that special someone -- you might even learn a thing or two.

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 done that, though, what's left behind is a stronger, mineral model of the old cell's structure -- right down to its internal organs -- that could be the beginning of a new breed of high endurance nanomaterials.

Sometimes, the best way to find out how a thing works is to break it first. Now, these interesting brain tricks from the folks at AsapSCIENCE won't necessarily break your brain... but they will give you enough of a pause that you have to put in some real thought about how your mind works, and the occasionally competing forces at play in your head. If you're not one for introspection, though, that's okay, too -- you can put some of these to good use confusing your friends for fun and profit! Everyone's a winner!

This week in Editors' Picks: Rollin reminisces about home, Ian taps into his own nostalgia, Glen keeps watching television, and Steven picks up a strange one-shot.

Having a degree in film, I've been to a lot of film festivals, but I've never been able to make it out to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and this year is no exception. Right now, the festival is going on without me, and I'm missing out on a lot of great movies. Thankfully, YouTube is easing the pain for me, and you, by offering up a collection of festival shorts on their curated Screening Room channel.

1. 6 other famous people who did not exist (Mental Floss)
2. Curt Schilling will, in fact, auction off his bloody sock (SportsGrid)
3. How to fake like you know about art (Flavorwire)
4. Zombieland might be getting that TV show after all (The Mary Sue)
5. How to spot a fake verified Twitter account (The Daily Dot)
6. Jon Stewart trashes the NRA (Mediaite)
7. 20 gross misuses of "extreme" in video game titles (GamesRadar)

(Title pic via Reddit)

There's really no good way to say this, or even approach the topic, but here goes: Deep Silver, the folks publishing Techland's Dead Island: Riptide, decided it'd be a good idea to include a severed female torso as a statuette in the video game's "Zombie Bait" edition. Yeah. Including a statuette that's literally just a pair of tits and gore... That's too far, right? Surely we can all agree on that?

Rage Comics are a lot like that obscure, off-the-radar television series that offered you unadulterated bliss until it got swept up in the vicious current of the mainstream: The humor starts becoming lowbrow, practically everyone and your grandmother is watching it, and the thing you once cherished most is now an unrecognizable abomination catering to the masses instead of its once dedicated niche audience. The Internet community must be sharing this same animosity since a drastic decline in the number of visitors to Reddit's Rage Comics subreddit has been reported. Given the innumerable amount of poorly drawn comics that were being churned out on a regular basis, we're really not all that surprised.

AsapSCIENCE has taught us a lot of things with their YouTube videos, and we've shared many of them with you, because, generally speaking, they're awesome. Just in case you haven't had your mind blown by the science behind Spider-Man, learning how orgasms work, or exactly how pot affects our brains the brains of people who use it, AsapSCIENCE is back with another installment to blow your minds. What percentage of the world's population is drunk right now? How much data is contained in one sperm? Take two minutes and find out.

All these Internet-enabled phones and other gadgets that seem to hit the market on a daily basis really are a double-edged sword. While we're connected to more people and places than we ever could have imagined and have more entertainment options than we probably need, this technology can sometimes cause us to become withdrawn or rely on it for otherwise simple tasks that we can easily do ourselves. As a result of this dilemma, parents can be understandably hesitant to purchase smartphones and the like for their children. Not wanting her child to become an unsocial techie, a woman named Janell Burley Hofmann bought her 13-year-old son Gregory an iPhone as a Christmas present. "Gee, thanks, Mom," you can hear little Gregory delightfully say, but that was before Mrs. Hofmann went biblical and blindsided her son with a litany of 18 commandment-like responsibilities to be mindful of now that he has a new phone, possibly resulting in a not so jolly Christmas morning for either of them.

With the new year hours away, a lot of us are realizing how gross and out of shape we are after weeks of holiday eating. We're also realizing just how easy it would be for zombies to get us when the inevitable outbreak occurs. Whether you just want to work off some extra holiday weight, or want to stay in fighting shape to keep the shambling undead from munching on your brains, RunKeeper just released new version 3.0 to track your fitness progress and help you meet your goals. Cardio is rule #1 in Zombieland for a reason, people.