October 30, 2011 - November 5, 2011 Archives
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I know, the screencaps I so lovingly slapped together wound up looking like shit and offer little to no explanation of what's going on. That was my bad. Basically, photographers took a whole bunch of cameras, mounted them on a long horizontal pla... / Continue →
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Anatoly Moskvina, a 45-year old Russian man who can fluently speak 13 languages and considered by many an all around genius, was discovered to be sharing his apartment with the skeletal remains of 26 women he dug up and dressed like dolls. He was ... / Continue →
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This is a kid posing with his homemade Wolverine claws. He says he made them for $5 out of nothing but a couple old pairs of thrift store ice skates, a couple nails, a couple bolts, and access to an acetylene torch and bench grinder. Really -- an... / Continue →
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If you haven't already seen it, this is a video of a shitty high school science teacher dropping a goldfish in liquid nitrogen, then returning it to water where it "reanimates" itself. The goldfish survived due to the Leidenfrost Effect, which all... / Continue →
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This is a picture of Flickr user clickflashwhirr (links to all her portraits), who's taken a picture of herself in the exact same position for over 500 days. Then, artist/possible stalker Tiemen Rapati took those photos and combined them into a si... / Continue →
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The Lumi Nube is a conceptual pillow with integrated strips of LED tape that light up so you can...I dunno, do whatever the hell you'd do with a glowing pillow. "OMG, I'm gonna have my girlfriend sit on t--" Stop it right there, pervert. I don't... / Continue →
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Let's take another one -- this time with less eagle hands. An international team of mock astronauts emerged from their windowless trailer "spaceship" yesterday after being locked away for 520-days during a simulated flight to Mars and back. Damn,... / Continue →
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This is a short video of a girl on a surfboard watching whales feed off the coast of Santa Cruz, California when she almost becomes a snack herself. Wonderful news, really *adds whales to 'list to things to be afraid of in the ocean' between Spong... / Continue →
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Jetpacks: in the future our kids will fly them to school. Well, your kids anyways -- I'm not having any. You see, despite how bottom-of-the-barrel-roll dumb I might be, I'm still smart enough to know that, while there's no question I'd make the w... / Continue →
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Go to Google, type in 'do a barrel roll'. The page barrel rolls. This isn't rocket surgery, folks. Google and Google (this one should auto-roll for you) Thanks to Tarkin, Boogie Jon and bb, who don't use Google for anything but reading the auto... / Continue →
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Dammit Sauron, I already told you -- the Ring has been destroyed! This is a picture of Cordon del Caulle erupting in Chile. It's not the first time we've seen lightning in the ash clouds of volcanoes here on Geekologie, it's just the first one th... / Continue →
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This is a video of a kid's mom refusing to buy him more Pokemon cards at Toys R Us, and the kid losing his Pokemind in the middle of the store. At first I thought it was fake because why would you be film yourself talking at the checkout of a toy ... / Continue →
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"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." 30-year old Rickie La-Douche La-Touche suffocated his wife with a pillow after she destroyed the Star Wars toy collection he'd been collecting since childhood. He's been sentenc... / Continue →
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I have brown eyes. And they're romantic as f***. Men and women have actually gotten lost in these peepers for days. Kidding, they're like gazing into two twin @$$holes. And now a California doctor claims he could turn them blue with a quick 20-... / Continue →
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This is a robotic spider developed by the Fraunhofer Institute *adds to shit list* and designed to locate gas leaks *brap!* or provide recon in radiated areas unsafe for humans. Unsafe for humans?! There's nothing too unsafe for a human if you'r... / Continue →
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Napolean Dynamite deleted scenes. This is a video of a girl with a jian sword and her brother/lover from the same mother with a butterfly knife (plus sweet haircut!) "dancing" while their grandma sips a Budweiser and watches her grandchildren almo... / Continue →
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Lights -- camera -- plastic! This is series of photographs by 21-year old artist Alex Eylar who faithfully recreated scenes from 15 different movies using LEGO blocks and minifigs. Which movies? I'm not gonna tell you. Just kidding: Harry Potte... / Continue →
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This is a 16-foot Burmese python found in the Florida everglades that had recently eaten an 80-pound deer before being discovered and killed by the good ol' boys in the picture. The Burmese python is a non-native (it's name was a hint!) invasive s... / Continue →
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Seen here looking exactly like the kind of person you'd expect to shoot a neighbor after accusing them of telepathic threats, 53-year old batshit stupid Michael Selleneil stares down a police department camera for trying to steal his soul. The sus... / Continue →
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Ever wanted to be chopped to pieces atop of an exercise ball? Join my ninja yoga class. Ooooooooor strap yourself to this terrifying 16-blade multicopter. One slip and you're fertilizer. The German e-volo multicopter is the first manned electri... / Continue →
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Facedrink is an unfortunately real $3 energy drink that claims to provide "social" energy. WTF is social energy? SPOILER: Regular energy, dumbf*** with the Facedrink in your hand! Plus it gives you cancer.* Regardless, I just ordered a case wit... / Continue →
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Ezio Auditore called -- he said you better forward the schematics to da Vinci for him. This is a professional looking wrist-mounted crossbow entirely homemade by A+ shop student Patrick Priebe. Entirely homemade by the Geekologie Writer? This la... / Continue →
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Smog: the breakfast of broken dreams. This is the trailer for Grand Theft Auto 5, hot off the press. It looks pretty promising and takes place here in (a fictional) Los Angeles, so chances are high Rockstar will make me a non-playable character. ... / Continue →
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This is a rap song and music video about The Legend of Zelda called 'I'm Questing'. It's...actually not that bad. They could have found a better looking Link though. Me, I'm talking about me. I'm actually a dead ringer for the Link from the ori... / Continue →
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Haha -- I bet you didn't think you'd be staring at nuts before noon, did you?! Seen here looking straight out of 4chan, the imagine of a screaming face was found after doctors performed an ultrasound on a man's nuts after numerous complaints of di... / Continue →
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According to astronomers, next Tuesday an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier (~1,300-feet for those of you who don't like your measurements in naval vessels) will pass closer to earth than the moon's orbit, hopefully polishing off humanity li... / Continue →
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This is a series of superhero posters by French artist Greg Guillemin (of minimalistic pop culture characters fame) highlighting different artistic movements of the 20th centuries. My favorite artistic movement? Chubby nudes. "That wasn't a mov... / Continue →
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According to a study by people who study stuff and try to pretend it's a job (like blogging!), the zombie industry is worth almost $6-billion. My life? My life is worth nothing. "I'll take it." Haha -- nice try, Lucifer! Regardless of the reas... / Continue →
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This is a conceptual chalkboard eraser that sucks in the dust from the board and makes new pieces of chalk with it. No clue how much dust it takes to actually create a fresh stick, but my guess is at least twice what it'd collect in a lifetime. A... / Continue →
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Inb4 cash for gonads. India, in an attempt to halt the country's exploding population, is offering cars, motorcycles, cash, televisions and blenders to men willing to have vasectomies. No word if the men receiving blenders will have to perform th... / Continue →
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This is a video of a Boeing 767 making an emergency landing in Warsaw after its landing gear failed to deploy. There were 230 people on board, but nobody was injured. Soaked in shit and piss, yes. It appears the Polish Lot aircraft, en route fro... / Continue →
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Your barrel's saggin', bro. God, if I had a nickel for every time somebody told me my barrel was droopy I'd be pounding an Egg McMuffin right now. This is Nick Jensen and his 1:1 scale replica Halo: Reach LEGO sniper rifle. I...wouldn't want to ... / Continue →
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This is a video of Battlefield 3 being played in real life from the same guys that brought us Team Fortress 2 in real life. This one focuses on the role of the medic and the power of the defibrillator. The production value is pretty high. I mean... / Continue →
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This is a tree knot that looks like a ninja turtle face. Somewhere in the woods right now Shredder is trying to set a pile of pine needles on fire with a magnifying glass and Smokey the Bear is all, "AAAAAAAH, WHAT'RE YOU DOING?!" Me? I'm regrett... / Continue →
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BO is right -- slap some Old Spice up in them pits! Seen here looking eerily human, Boston Dynamics' bipedal humanoid robot PETMAN has been upgraded with arms (capable of pushups!) and a smoother gait. Well thank God! If there's one thing I can'... / Continue →
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This is a $720 rotisserie in a briefcase. You can carry it around handcuffed to your wrist like a spy, then break it out and cook some meat. Just sayin', I'd slap my meat on your grill. Gentlemen? The Carson Rotisseries, Inc., rotisserie grill... / Continue →
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Google is going to start offering businesses the opportunity to have the interiors of their stores photographed and available on Google Street View. That way a user can...see the inside of a store? WHAT THE -- A COMIC BOOK STORE WITH COMICS INSID... / Continue →
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JK Rowling, best known for her initials being the same as the acronym for just kidding (jk jk!), considered offing redheaded stepchild Ron Weasley in the middle of the Harry Potter franchise because she's sick she was in a "dark place", despite the... / Continue →
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Seen here looking exactly how I'd imagine the homemade guillotine constructed by a homeless man in the woods would look like, the bum-built guillotine responsible for severing its maker's arm pauses for a photo op. *holding up camera* Over here, ... / Continue →
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Geekologie Reader Monta lives out in the boonies and doesn't decorate his house for Halloween because nobody would see it (plus houses out in the sticks are usually scary enough). So what did he do? Constructed a mechanical monster that hides in ... / Continue →
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This is Geekologie Reader Owain's killer robot Halloween costume. He's particularly proud of it because he found a way to still drink while wearing a mask. Clever, Owain. I mean I'm still gonna kill you, but clever. Picture... / Continue →
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"I'm f***in' faded bro -- I'm talkin' Dagobah drunk." A 42-year old German man dressed as Yoda struck a pedestrian with his car and decided to try using the Force to make a quick getaway. Buuuuuuuuuuut he probably couldn't reach the peddles or so... / Continue →
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These is a robotic Venus flytrap. It attracts and traps flies using technology and NOT yellow sticky tape (although that does work too and I do let my nephew pick the flies out and play with them). You know the saying, "you can't kill flies with ... / Continue →
