Geekster Eggs: 13 Wonderfully Geeky Easter Eggs

Geekster Eggs: 13 Wonderfully Geeky Easter Eggs
by Geekosystem on Mashable

1. Mass Effect

Who needs a new ending when you have these oblong wonders?

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2. Finn, Jake, and Lumpy Space Princess

Oh my glob you guys: Adventure Time Easter Eggs.

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3. Super Heroes

What, no Aquaman?

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4. Pantone Color Eggs

For the graphic designers in the audience.

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5. Storm Trooper

While there are quite a few storm trooper eggs, this is definitely the most striking.

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6. Chewbacca, Darth Maul, and an Ewok

Why these particular Star Wars characters were chosen to be portrayed in egg form, we don’t know. However, we do know that Darth Maul’s head spikes look fantastic.

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7. Dalek

Please note the lack of “egg-terminate” jokes. That’s just part of the quality work we bring you here at Geekosystem.

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8. Tardis

No doubt the hardest egg to find, as it has the powers to transcend space and time.

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9. The Cast of Futurama

Remember that time when the gang got turned into babies? It’s like that. Except with eggs.

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10. All Your Mario Favorites

Now imagine a Mario game where everything is made out of eggs and equally fragile.

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11. Pokémon

That Diglet. It is perfect.

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12. Portal Turret

Nothing makes your breakfast quite as threatening as this turret Easter Egg.

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13. Zombie Egg

Whether your a good egg or a bad egg, you all end up the same: As an undead egg.

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While most geeks are probably more involved with digital Easter eggs, decorated chicken ova are still popular forms of nerdy expression. We’ve rounded up 13 of the best Easter eggs we could find, and present them here for you, our gentle readers.

Amongst them you’ll see familiar faces and homages to Mass Effect, Star Wars, Mario, and Doctor Who. If you’ve got some geeky eggs you’d like us to see, be sure to leave a message in the comments.

This article originally published at Geekosystem here.









Source: http://mashable.com/2012/04/08/geeky-easter-eggs/#view_as_one_page-gallery_box5051

5 Charged After Chinese Teen Sells Kidney for iPhone, iPad

5 Charged After Chinese Teen Sells Kidney for iPhone, iPad
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When people say something costs “an arm and a leg,” they usually aren’t serious. After all, doesn’t it make more sense to do business in internal organs? You might say no, but others say yes, like the five people who are in trouble with the law after they assisted  a Chinese teenager who sold one of his kidneys to raise the money for a new iPhone and an iPad 2.

The recently charged include the doctor, staff, and other accomplices who  paid the boy $3,500 for the organ, and  kept the other $35,000 profit from its sale for themselves.

The teenager in question, a 17-year-old named Wang, is now one kidney short and a bit worse for the wear. He sold the kidney in April of 2011, and now he’s suffering from progressively worsening kidney failure. He did get his iDevices though, so the ploy worked. He even managed to keep it a secret from his mother until she asked how he’d paid. Apparently he’s not a very good liar.

Criminal charges are being brought against the surgical staff considering that the sale of human organs is illegal in China and has been since 2007. Yes, 2007. In 2006, this whole thing might have been shifty, in poor taste, and more than a little unfair, but also legal.

Meanwhile, Wang must really be hurting between the progressive kidney failure, the the release of the new iPad and iPhone 4S.

[via Wired]

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, TommL

This article originally published at Geekosystem here.