July 1, 2012 - July 7, 2012 Archives
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Because what better way to lead us into the weekend than a feel-good story, special effects studio Spectral Motion and Hellboy actor Ron Perlman recently teamed up with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to grant a wish for a little boy named Zachary. Ooh -- oh no *copy/pasting quote ... / Continue →
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This is a video of one of Geekologie Reader Liz's coworkers at the LEGO Store in Minneapolis showing off his homemade LEGO Portal Gun. The gun took about a year to plan, three weeks to build, and is just under 2,000 pieces. It has a LEGO Mindstorm controller stuffed inside, s... / Continue →
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Despite clearly outsourcing their graphics to a 2nd grade art class, Z-World Detroit is a real concept developed by entrepreneur Mark Siwak, who's tired of watching the city crumble to pieces and wants to do something about it. The idea is to turn 200-acres of the city's aband... / Continue →
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This is a shot of a nuclear explosion less than a millisecond after detonation, taken using a magical camera. Well, it's not really magic, I just don't understand how it works so that MAKES it magic. Same goes for magnets and microwaves. It's all little wizards as far as I'm... / Continue →
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This is a video of 32-year old Jeremiah McDonald having a conversation with his 12-year old self via VHS tape thanks to the younger Jeremiah having the foresight to tape himself having a spazzy, open-ended conversation with a future version of himself. That...is pretty deep fo... / Continue →
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*pointing at self* This kind of zombie, that's who. You hear that, Chompy? Now we can be together FOREVER. This is Megan's zombie t-rex head tattoo. I plan on luring him to me with a bunch of brains piled under a big cardboard box. Then, pulling the stick that's holding t... / Continue →
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This is a talking urinal cake. They're going to be placed in bars around Michigan as a collaboration between urinal cake manufacturer Wizmark and the Michigan State Police to help curb drunk driving. After sensing movement they say stuff like, "Damn bro, nice peen" and "Try t... / Continue →
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Because there's absolutely nothing better to do in Bethel, Alaska (God, go fight a bear!), one of the town's 6,000 residents started posting flyers that a Taco Bell franchise was coming to the area (the nearest is 400 miles away in Anchorage). It was a lie, and that person has... / Continue →
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Scientists working in the field of titties (suck it, physics!) have officially located some of the human genes responsibly for a woman's breast size. My breast size? There weren't any genes responsible, only ice cream sundaes. Researchers have identified seven genetic mark... / Continue →
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This is a series of Avengers characters (plus Loki) imagined in a fantasy style by DeviantARTist theDURRRRIAN (and not theDURRRRPIAN, which some of my frienemies like to call me because THEY'RE SHITBAGS -- you know who you are!). As you can see, they definitely look like a cre... / Continue →
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This is a series of some of the Game of Thrones houses imagined as sports team logos by artist Yvan Degtyariov (which are available as prints and t-shirts). LET'S GO LANNISTERS, AMIRITE? I'm joking, I'm totally a Targaryan kind of man. Joking again, I'm barely a man at all, ... / Continue →
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So apparently "technical errors" caused San Diego's 'Big Bay Boom' fireworks display last night to be set off in 15-seconds instead of over the course of 15-minutes. I'm not sure if somebody accidentally typed "15" into the seconds window instead of the minutes one on the cont... / Continue →
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If you haven't already seen it, this is a video of weatherman Aaron Justus from Richmond, Virginia, running through a fake-ass forecast on-air, making light of the heatwave that's been sweeping the nation. Not sweeping the nation? A healthy diet and exercise. Just saying, I ... / Continue →
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This is the upcoming Thermaltake Black Element gaming mouse, Cyclone Edition. It has a detachable fan on the front to keep your hand cool and sweat-free during intense gaming sessions. Because, let's face it, there's nothing worse than gaming with sweaty palms. I'm kidding, ... / Continue →
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Picture related: another healthy pizza. Mike Lean is a scientist. One who knows what's up and isn't wasting his time smashing particles together hoping the world explodes. No, Mike is fighting the good fight and announced what he claims is the world's first nutritionally bal... / Continue →
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Seen here cheesin' his physics-loving face off during an interview with the BBC, Stephen Hawking reacts to CERN's confirmation that the Higgs Boson particle has likely been found, and how he's out $100. Per ol' robot-voice himself: This is an important result, and should be r... / Continue →
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I dunno, I kind of like the fireworks "you should never turn your back on." Happy Fourth of July everyone. Not to brag about how patriotic I am or anything, but I went out and celebrated the 3rd of July as well. Today I'm going to a pool party to work on my tan (I'm whitish-... / Continue →
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This is a series of photographs of Lake Retba in Senegal. It's pink. The lake has an unusually high salt concentration (like the Dead Sea), in which Dunaliella salina micro-algae thrive, giving it its pink hue. Neato. You know what would be even cooler though? If the Lost ... / Continue →
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Please, no crane-ception jokes. This is a video from Germany of a heavy equipment manufacturer demonstrating their cranes' abilities to pick up other cranes. The tiniest one is just a model crane, but the biggest one is HUUUUGE. No clue what you'd use a crane that big to bui... / Continue →
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Nobody's gonna stop playing WoW to play WoW Monopoly, I'm just saying. I posted the announcement of a World of Warcraft edition Monopoly game back in February, but you know what? I forgot about that until my intern just reminded me so I had to add these sentences up here so I... / Continue →
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This is a series of licensed Star Wars apparel by Tokyo/Paris based Comme des Garçon. Please, just look at this shirt for a moment and take it all in. Who would wear that? SPOILER: Not even your dad. And it's $350. That's $350 to look like a f***ing idiot. Granted a lot o... / Continue →
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This is GoVacuum's $1,000,000 24k gold-plated vacuum. It doesn't work better than a regular vacuum, it's just gold. Why? Because if you sell vacuums for a million dollars, you only have to sell one. It's a real product you can buy (although I'll kill you if you do), but was... / Continue →
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This is a video of two Mirage 2000 jets going supersonic as they pass over Brazil's Supreme Federal Court building during a low fly-by and, WOOPSIE, blowing all the windows out in the process. Now I'm not saying I could have seen that coming, but come on, I've seen Top Gun. B... / Continue →
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This is the heavily modified 'Black Knight' Hummer H2. It has a shit-ton of weapons attached to it like guns, rocket launchers, flame throwers and SWORDS. Aaaaaaaand now it's for sale on eBay for the low, low price of $55,000. Did I mention it has Lambo doors? Because it doe... / Continue →
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This is a video of some lunatic smashing his way through a T-Mobile store in England, tearing all the posters off the wall, then giving it a good hose-down with the fire extinguisher (presumably because he was seeing so much red he though the store was ablaze). No clue what st... / Continue →
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Sometime on Wednesday, while I'm BBQ-ing my corn on the cob loving face off, scientists working with CERN's Large Hadron Collider are excepted to announce the existence of the Higgs Boson particle and NOT that the collider is pregnant having a girl (although Optimus Prime has b... / Continue →
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This is a tip FROM MY DAD (super cool dude) of professional drivers (me? I'm a student driver) Tanner Foust and Greg Tracy in "real life" Hot Wheels doing a loopty-loop one right after the other at the recent X-Games. Impressive, but you know what the stunt really could have ... / Continue →
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This is a three-person chess set. It's not the first 3-person chess set I've posted on Geekologie, but it is the first one that doesn't look like it was made by a novice carpenter. Who knows, maybe you've owned a three-person chess set forever. How do you even play? Is it a... / Continue →
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Note: I cut the thread to prevent the homepage from being a mile long, click the jump to see the whole, worthwhile thing. This is a /b/ thread from 4chan documenting a user's discovery of a grenade in the forest. It's amazing. I love how nobody gives a shit what happens to th... / Continue →
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Somebody at the bootleg toy factory really isn't doing their research. Spotted by Geekologie reader (and knockoff toy scavenger) LUCAS in Argentina, Marvel Hero Batman is ready to fight crime with the rest of his crew, presumably including Captain Planet and the Powderpuff Gir... / Continue →
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This is a digital painting by artist Alex Ruiz (links to prints for sale) imagining one of the nights Vincent Van Gogh worked on his iconic The Starry Night. Clearly, Alex has the skills to pay the bills and won't be cutting an ear off anytime soon. Who pays a hooker in ears ... / Continue →
