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Mon November 23, 2009
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(Wired) Cool Dr Who is 46 years old today, and he doesn't look a day over 2,432  (wired.com) (28)
(Some Guy) Cool Good news everyone, scientists at Cornell have developed an experimental "F-ray"  (gizmag.com) (29)
(Some Guy) Satire CDC Releases H1N1.6 Service Pack 2 (NSFWish ads)  (crystalair.com) (35)
(CBC) Interesting That cheap Xbox 360 you got off Ebay was probably banned from Xbox Live for being modified  (cbc.ca) (59)
(Planetary Society) Spiffy Coolest images of ice volcanoes you will see all day. Buckle up before clicking because the the second one will fly you into the plume  (planetary.org) (11)
(Spike) Amusing Top 8 video game bugs that made the game better  (spike.com) (129)
(Paste Magazine) Cool The 20 best gadgets of the decade (2000-2009)  (pastemagazine.com) (81)

Sun November 22, 2009
(Discover) Followup Security camera footage of the large meteor over Utah as it lights up the night sky, casting shadows and overexposes cameras  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (39)
(The New York Times) Ironic Scientists: science is great, except when it supports religion  (nytimes.com) (185)
(NASA) Cool Hubble picture of light echoes that makes 70's psychedelic posters look like XKCD  (antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov) (53)
(Telegraph) Interesting ClimateGate: How the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science  (blogs.telegraph.co.uk) (414)
(Some Guy) Scary The most staggering statistic of all is that just 16 of the world's largest ships can produce as much sulphur pollution as all the world's cars  (mailonsunday.co.uk) (88)
(ABC News) Amusing "Shuttle astronaut ... learns of the birth [of his daughter] ... while he orbited 200 feet above the earth." 200 feet? Nice work, ABC News  (abcnews.go.com) (52)
(TechEBlog) Amusing Need advice on breaking your own hard drive or eating a computer? There's a Yahoo Answer for that  (techeblog.com) (31)
(Smart Planet) Cool Good news, by 2020 your brain will control your computer. Bad news, you think porn pop-ups were frequent now  (smartplanet.com) (34)
(recombu.com) Obvious Ten things that mobile devices are making obsolete. 'Newspaper in the bathroom' is conspicuously absent  (recombu.com) (106)

Sat November 21, 2009
(YouTube) Spiffy Most awesome video of a cuttlefish hunting you'll see all day  (youtube.com) (52)
(New Scientist) Cool Just in case the LHC doesn't create a super massive black hole and ends the universe, here's what scientists are planning next  (newscientist.com) (48)
(Gamespot) Followup Stupid: User sues Sony for being banned from PSN. Obvious: Case is thrown out. Dumbass: User appeals. Asinine: Adds Nintendo and Microsoft to the suit. Which tag is most appropriate?  (gamespot.com) (43)
(London Times) Interesting Ancient Greek worshippers showed inclination towards the Sun. The Times is there  (timesonline.co.uk) (44)
(The Consumerist) Fail "Just because we put a beach mode on your camera does not mean we expect you to take your camera on a beach exposing it to the elements."  (consumerist.com) (83)
(CNN) Stupid Dumbass parents hate science  (www1.whdh.com) (107)
(BBC) Cool Coolest nature photos that you will see all day. Bonus: No summoning [he who will not be named] but rather summon Doritos (9th photo)  (news.bbc.co.uk) (32)
(Gaia Online) Dumbass Gaia Online removes all virtual game objects that refer to tobacco and cigarettes, because we hate it when our online avatars get virtual lung cancer  (gaiaonline.com) (30)
(TechEBlog) Amusing Dear spambots, please describe love in exactly 200-words  (techeblog.com) (35)
(The New York Times) Scary Xbox, just having lost thousands of customers through it's recent banning of modded consoles, turns to a new market. "You sound like a girl" no longer a valuable insult  (nytimes.com) (108)
(Boston Globe) Spiffy What nerd porn may look like  (boston.com) (48)
(cnet.uk) Interesting Some journalist calculates how much the internet weighs. Just in case you want to ship it, or something  (crave.cnet.co.uk) (38)
(Some Guy) Amusing Only in Movember: a gallery of video game mustaches  (gamepro.com.au) (16)
(The Big Money) Interesting Google does a non-evil thing: Bans white teeth, flat stomachs  (thebigmoney.com) (65)

Fri November 20, 2009
(Some Guy) Misc Dammit.. addictive maize game. Can't get past level 4  (maniacworld.com) (104)
(Experience Project) Amusing The DROID doesn't do corn, and five other things  (experienceproject.com) (75)
(MIT) Interesting MIT invents liquid metal battery to power the electric grid, find Sarah Conner  (web.mit.edu) (34)
(PCWorld) Stupid As pretty much the entire tech industry does a collective facepalm over AT&T's Verizon rebuttal ad, AT&T continues insisting that their smartphones are "the most popular"  (pcworld.com) (75)
(Pen 15 club member) Weird Bangkok introduces disposable penis measuring device (measures non disposable penises as well)  (nationmultimedia.com) (33)
(Washington Post) Interesting Corn-based ethanol producer says it will soon compete with gasoline. This is a repeat from 1999, 1989,...1909  (washingtonpost.com) (43)
(The Register) Cool US defense spending may be out of control, but at least they're going to finally give us our flying cars  (theregister.co.uk) (52)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting In a surprise to environmentalists everywhere, the electric-car capital of the nation is the city with more oil than a New Jersey beach during spring break  (blogs.wsj.com) (37)
(LA Times) Obvious Mastodons probably died off because they were large, slow, and very tasty  (latimes.com) (36)
(Telegraph) Interesting Scientists could begin the first human trials for stem cell blindness therapy next year, provided that the FDA lens them a hand  (telegraph.co.uk) (51)
(Montreal gazette) Interesting Archeologists unearth skeletons at the steps of Montreal Basilica. Expect to learn about life in 1700s, plot to next Dan Brown novel  (montrealgazette.com) (18)
(The Times of India) Interesting Scientists invent a spray that can prevent premature ejaculation. Look out, it's coming soon  (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) (81)
(Kotaku) Interesting This is a test. This game system is conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test. If this had been an actual Koopa attack, you would have been instructed to find power-ups  (kotaku.com) (39)
(LiveLeak) Cool Surprising that no one has done this before, 'cause it's teh awesome: visualizing what it would look like from ground level if Earth had Saturn's rings  (liveleak.com) (170)
(Labspaces.net) Obvious Cigarettes contain bacteria that can cause serious disease in humans. So if you're thinking that the smoke you're inhaling is merely chock full of carcinogens and lung-annealing tars, think again, you dipshiat  (labspaces.net) (185)

Thu November 19, 2009
(PhysOrg.com) Cool Surfing, you officially have a final boss level: riding a solar tsunami  (physorg.com) (31)
(Ars Technica) Obvious Mac laptops ranked fourth in build quality behind Sony, Toshiba and Asus. Your daily Mac/PC flamewar to the right  (arstechnica.com) (352)
(Gizmodo) Cool Google unveils Chrome OS. Geekspasm time  (gizmodo.com) (96)
(The Register) Weird Canadian invents reversible paralysis-ray that turns its victims blue and flaccid. U.S. Defense Dept. counters with picture of Rosie O'Donnell  (theregister.co.uk) (22)
(Space) Cool "Hubble Spies Galaxy's Big Bulge." Bow chicka wow wow  (space.com) (17)
(IndyStar) Silly Scientists decide to answer the age old question, "Are caged chickens happy?"  (indystar.com) (78)
(Yahoo) Interesting "In Amazon, a frustrated search for cancer cures." They should try Borders or Barnes & Noble, then  (news.yahoo.com) (28)
(Boing Boing) Scary Britain launches War on Piracy, will create Pirate Finder General, target piracy sites, programs and alleged pirates with full force of the law and more. This is not a repeat from the 18th century  (torrentfreak.com) (78)
(AMC) Interesting Will better science education get rid of the bad science in sci-fi movies? Nope, because easy time travel, "red matter," and parsecs as a unit of time are just too much fun  (blogs.amctv.com) (145)
(Reuters) PSA "Call of Duty" sales at $550,000,000 in just five days. Hot Pocket, Mountain Dew sales figured expected to closely parallel  (reuters.com) (178)
(Kotaku) Amusing Not news: Sony launches a video game console in Brazil. News: It's the nine year old PS2. Fark: For $500  (kotaku.com) (64)
(Cracked) Interesting Six inventors who got jack shiat for changing the world  (cracked.com) (138)
(Some Guy) Interesting Skin-based "electronic tattoos" offer medical read-outs. And possibly, Quake III  (hplusmagazine.com) (29)
(New Scientist) Interesting Scientists come up with four ways to feed the ever increasing world population. Most of them are quite large schemes, we probably need to start with a more modest proposal  (newscientist.com) (122)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting "Hobbits", which were a new species of human, then were regular humans dwarfed by disease, now a new species again. Still tasty either way, says Goblin King  (physorg.com) (47)
(Boing Boing) Amusing Don't have time to go to church with your family? That's fine, there's a video game to take care of that  (boingboing.net) (40)
(Gizmodo) Amusing Need to instantly add cats to every photo you take? There's an app for that  (gizmodo.com) (26)
(Ars Technica) Spiffy First programmable quantum computer created. That was random  (arstechnica.com) (82)

Wed November 18, 2009
(io9) Interesting One of Jupiter's moons may be teeming with fish. Keep an eye on our dolphins; you never know when they might make a break for it  (io9.com) (158)
(MSNBC) Strange One more reason to hate asparagus: it's covered with beetle egg super glue  (msnbc.msn.com) (30)
(Toronto Star) Scary Toronto is being invaded by big, long, slimy pumpkin-colored beasts. "Like slow-moving lions in the vegetable world."  (thestar.com) (45)
(PhysOrg.com) Strange If you've lost a box approximately 50,000 light years in size, astronomers are happy to report that they have located it in galaxy NGC 4710  (physorg.com) (73)
(Wired) Unlikely There's a rounding-error bug in the Droid camera autofocus that causes it to behave poorly on a 24.5-day cycle. That is, it'll work for 24.5 days, then have poor performance for 24.5 days, then work again. iPhone killer, indeed  (wired.com) (120)
(KSTU FOX 13) Cool Meteor streaking across Utah sky turns night into day, with cool links to video of the event  (fox13now.com) (46)
(Yahoo) Cool IBM creates supercomputer that simulates a cat's brain. Programmers currently perfecting "napping" and "running around frantically for no apparent reason" subroutines  (tech.yahoo.com) (118)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting New approach to TV: You get free cable, "as long as you agree to surrender large amounts of personal data about your viewing, surfing and purchasing habits" through your set-top box  (online.wsj.com) (101)
(The Register) Dumbass Call Of Duty: Modern Rage 2  (theregister.co.uk) (188)
(Some Guy) Fail Researchers create entangled photons from quantum dots. Or so they claim, - it's not like they can whip these things out at a news conference and show people  (eurekalert.org) (41)
(AT&T) Strange It's like watching a flamewar, only with multi-billion-dollar conglomerates: AT&T responds to Verizon Wireless, claims their lawsuit is valid because their smartphones are "more popular"  (att.com) (120)
(Some Comic Geek) Spiffy A Dr. Horrible one-shot, Blackest Night stuff, and Dark Reign galore. New comic releases November 18th. What's in your sub-box?  (downtowncomics.ning.com) (35)
(Telegraph) Interesting Scientists to probe the mysteries of the rolling stones, but they're being optimistic if they expect any satisfaction  (telegraph.co.uk) (32)
(BBC) Stupid Social networking sites "need help buttons" to protect from bullies, UK official says, apparently missing the giant "X" in the corner of his browser  (news.bbc.co.uk) (47)
(The Register) Hero Computer hackers got into Holocaust-denier David Irving's email and sites, hackers claim it never happened  (theregister.co.uk) (65)
(MSNBC) Spiffy Streetlight captures amazing pictures of the surface of the sun  (msnbc.msn.com) (24)
(io9) Cool Seven great comic book arcs that are too epic for cinema  (io9.com) (154)

Tue November 17, 2009
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Egyptian mummies suffered from hardening of the arteries, according to new research from the I Thought That Was The Whole Farking Point Institute of Egyptology  (online.wsj.com) (16)
(Some Guy) Asinine Cool: Modern Warfare 2 is the fastest selling entertainment of all time. Asinine: No dedicated server support for PC version. Cool: Dedicated server hack 7 days after release. Asinine: It's for grenade spam and superjump  (tomshardware.com) (211)
(Herald-Leader) Interesting Kentucky researchers have developed a chewing gum that can replace a toothbrush and toothpaste. Will this finally convince that 1 out of 5 dentists who can't decide if chewing gum helps?  (kentucky.com) (21)
(Labspaces.net) Interesting Accidental discovery produces a nearly perfect blue pigment. Smurf fetishists overjoyed  (labspaces.net) (84)
(NPR) Scary Your next Windows security update will come from the NSA  (npr.org) (120)
(Discover) Cool Finally, a New Moon true geeks can squee over  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (42)
(Mars Today) Interesting NASA team prepares to uplink commands to stuck Spirit rover. Commands said to include 'load extra bag of salt into trunk' and 'powershift directly from first gear to reverse at high RPM'  (marstoday.com) (29)
(Some Guy) Cool Newest contestant in the New Space Race is: New Zealand?  (spacefellowship.com) (48)
(Gizmodo) Interesting What happens when you bring a 25 year-old Mac to the Apple Store in the Meatpacking District in NYC? No, you turn into a massive douchebag, isn't the correct answer. Well it is, but it isn't  (gizmodo.com) (106)
(Gizmodo) Amusing Verizon Wireless files their formal response to AT&T's lawsuit: "AT&T has admitted the the maps are accurate ... they sued because the truth hurts"  (gizmodo.com) (208)
(Wired) Cool Toshiba sends chair into space for new advertisement. Still not as impressive as the Chesterfield Sofa which showed up in the middle of a cricket match  (wired.co.uk) (49)
(Wired) Interesting Developers worried by Android's rapid growth, especially as nobody thought to program in three laws  (wired.com) (81)
(BBC) Spiffy Failing to develop antidepressant medicine, scientists instead develop cure for female headaches  (news.bbc.co.uk) (43)
(LA Times) Spiffy Brown pelican no longer endangered species, despite efforts of Bugatti Veyron owners  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (27)
(Mirror.co.uk) Interesting Young inventor spends many a sleepless night to invent a gadget to fight insomnia  (mirror.co.uk) (33)
(PetaPixel) Scary National Geographic Photographer comes face to face with one of the Arctic's most vicious predators. With video scaryness (including graphic nature scenes)  (petapixel.com) (106)

Mon November 16, 2009
(Gawker) Interesting Slate spins off Double X as a new, stand-alone website for women. Six months later, Double X sees a big hairy spider and runs back to Slate  (gawker.com) (44)
(CNN) Cool NASA official says Mars will be shooting Leonids at us. Or something like that  (cnn.com) (51)
(New Scientist) Interesting There's a mysterious "dark flow" extending toward the edge of the universe. Scientists think it could be due to gravity, a parallel universe, or the smooth raps of 80s hip-hop star Rakim  (newscientist.com) (88)
(Boing Boing) Asinine Apple patents a gadget that will freeze your computer if you don't respond to an advertisement, comrade  (boingboing.net) (251)
(Yahoo) Cool Just like the U.S. Congress, Dutch homes are to be powered by bullshiat  (news.yahoo.com) (17)
(Huffington Post) Amusing Deepak Chopra points out that you can't put time in a marmalade jar and that quantum physics means anything can happen at any time for no reason  (huffingtonpost.com) (121)
(LA Times) Scary Do not taunt happy fun hypermuscular monkey  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (51)
(Some Randall) Amusing If you wish to create a superhero from scratch, you must first invent the universe  (xkcd.com) (32)
(Some Guy) Interesting Insurance + cryonics = you are your own insurance beneficiary  (hplusmagazine.com) (31)
(Network World) Interesting Cray supercomputer blows by IBM Roadrunner faster than a coyote wearing Acme rocket-powered skates  (networkworld.com) (106)
(BBC) Spiffy Hypnosis shows up in brain scans say verrrry sleeeepy researchers  (news.bbc.co.uk) (15)

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