| (Techwhack.com) | Microsoft has now sold more than 2 million Zune players, only 148 million to go before they catch up with the iPod | (83) | |
| (Science Blogs) | Today's science experiment: Dissolving an avocado. Because who wants to cure cancer anyways? | (21) | |
| (Some Guy) | Google announces it's own social network, "Friend Connect." Well, Facebook, Myspace, you two had a good run | (49) | |
| (Some Guy) | Retired U.S. Air Force colonel writes a book about the time he chased a 2,000 mph street light which made impossible sudden 90 degree turns and then crashed in Mexico. Complete with unburnable, uncuttable metal debris | (65) | |
| (NASA) | One of the best astronomy pictures of the day in a while: Retrograde Mars - A time lapse picture of Mars' path through our field of vision (w/ bonus constellation overlay) | (12) | |
| (Coding the Wheel) | Think online poker bots are a figment of over-active imaginations? Think again | (16) | |
| (Popular Science) | The science of Scotch. Who would've guessed there are over 800 chemical compounds that affect its flavor? Well, besides Orson Welles | (24) | |
| (Some Guy) | Ever wondered what the sun would it sound like if you could hear it? Welcome to the exciting world of helioseismology | (23) | |
| There is now scientific support for sleeping late like a lazy farker on the weekends. So STFU and GBTS | (11) | ||
| (Some Hungover Guy) | Just in time for that weekend hangover: How do painkillers find and kill pain? | (3) | |
| VW, Sanyo to develop lithium-ion battery for use in hybrid and electric cars. Finally, Germany and Japan are working together again | (22) | ||
| Again and again | (59) | ||
| In honor of National Train Day, the world's first high-def train simulator is unveiled, allowing user to wait 3 hours in virtual reality for Amtrak to arrive | (10) |
| Every thirty minutes, Chinese internet surfers are reminded they are being watched by the happy manga police | (44) | ||
| Microsoft now blocking Youtube links in IM’s on MSN and Windows Live Messenger. Rest assured this is to protect you the user. Not because of the launch of Messenger TV. Pinky swear | (76) | ||
| Five science fiction movies that get the science right. So they do pop out of the chest like that | (133) | ||
| NASA answers questions about the "90 days in bed" thing | (43) | ||
| (Some Guy) | The latest Windows XP service pack is causing computers to reboot continuously, bringing back memories of the golden age of Windows 95 | (64) | |
| FBI tries to strong-arm the Internet Archive to reveal online activities of patron. The EFF biatch-slaps the FBI, and the FBI backs off, mumbling an apology of sorts out of a broken lip | (36) | ||
| Denver Zoo adds a shipwreck for polar bears. "The shipwreck is a great way to stimulate natural behaviors in the bears." Bears are anxious to get the main and mizzen masts repaired, go for the Horn | (25) | ||
| Scientists develop artificial mouth to study complexities of chewing, digesting. ONLY chewing and digesting | (14) | ||
| Hackers find new place to hide rootkits: Your computer's processor | (43) |
| Because it just works: Apple to pay up to $182 million to 2.3 million Apple customers for power supplies that were prone to sparking and melting | (28) | ||
| (ScienceDaily) | Virologist and cancer biologist Patrick Lee surpised on seeing "I Am Legend" on flight, as its premise exactly matches the real research he's doing now. Uh oh | (55) | |
| Woman who had her MacIntosh laptop stolen was able to connect to the computer, photograph two suspects and give the photos to police. Windows laptop still deciding whether to cancel or allow a rescue | (202) | ||
| (NASA) | Today's nifty astronomy picture of the day. Moon, meet Mercury. Mercury, meet Moon | (7) | |
| Today's "I feel old" moment comes courtesy of WTOP. "The computer was running an ancient operating system, DOS." | (61) | ||
| (BetaNews.com) | AT&T rethinks plan to give free WiFi hotspot access to all iPhone users after it's revealed they didn't think their cunning plan all the way through | (8) | |
| Finally deciding to listen to fans, EA removes craptastic validation from PC version of Mass Effect, even letting users play without the DVD in the drive | (60) | ||
| (TV Week) | Wilmington, North Carolina, you're the first in line to play "Where Are My TV Stations?" | (32) | |
| (Some Guy) | Interview with Ralph Baer, the father of video games | (16) | |
| RIAA channels Baghdad Bob, says DRM is not dead, there has never been DRM-free music. Never. It's not there | (37) | ||
| (ScienceDaily) | Eaking-spay ultiple-may anguages-lay revents-pay aging-ay. Ubmitter-say ill-way ive-lay orever-fay | (125) | |
| Apple to try and push the Mac as a gaming platform. Good luck with that | (107) | ||
| A nifty machine that can turn your leftover alcoholic drinks into fuel for your car. In other news, apparently some people have leftover alcoholic drinks | (43) | ||
| How the media companies can beat the pirates without resorting to a single lawsuit | (74) | ||
| (Some NASA Guy) | A NASA-supported sky survey set to begin in 2008 could dramatically increase the number of known planets outside our solar system | (17) | |
| First look at upcoming games from Sierra Studios. Cool: "Prototype," "Ghostbusters." Meh: "Bourne," "Spyro." Completely farking ridiculous: "50 Cent & the Quest for the Blingin' Skull" | (34) | ||
| (TXCN) | Just in time for May sweeps: Your granite countertops are radioactive and could increase your risk of cancer | (61) | |
| Looks like Soylent Green isn't people after all: It's freak-ass mystery meat from headless clones. Tasty | (34) | ||
| The six creepiest comic book characters of all time. Frank Miller underrepresented by this list | (73) | ||
| Video games don't make people killers. And I'll stab anyone who says otherwise | (31) | ||
| Top five hardest video game levels ever. Ocarina of Time surprisingly absent from list. Really | (919) |
| (NASA) | Your kickass astronomy picture of the day: The Dark Tower in Scorpius | (32) | |
| (Popular Mechanics) | Every time a space shuttle launches, an Air Force officer mans a control panel entrusted with the responsibility of asploding it if things go FUBAR (w/ pic of panel) | (67) | |
| "Microsoft should nuke Vista and keep XP alive." Well, it's either that or we nuke Microsoft and switch to Linux | (118) | ||
| (Daily Camera) | If every person in the world used a calculator and made one computation every second for nine days straight, the global population could help solve a problem that new supercomputer could solve in one second flat | (51) | |
| MySpace still walloping Facebook in traffic | (89) | ||
| IPhone, Xbox, and Blackberry are "sterile devices that stifle creativity." We're guessing that particular professor's home page has a lawn | (38) | ||
| 218 years ago today the French surrendered to a system of fake measurements | (79) | ||
| (Crni) | Computer mouse redesinged and made from stainless steal, took the creator nearly 8 months to make this thing | (106) | |
| Having kids can ruin a marriage. Here comes the science | (109) | ||
| Scientists discover that sexy orchids don't just embarass wasps, they also seduce them into wasting valuable sperm - much like Paris Hilton, if she were sexy | (20) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Collection of 85,000-year-old jewelry found in Morocco, proving that even cavemen were whipped | (9) | |
| I'm sorry, but if you don't want this even a little bit, you're dead inside | (63) | ||
| Barack Obama answers Google CEO's question on how to best sort one million 32-bit integers | (82) | ||
| Scientists map platypus genome, find evidence of reptiles, birds, mammals, and God's sense of humor | (52) | ||
| NASA offering $17,000 to anyone lazy enough to lie in bed for 90 days straight | (138) | ||
| (Retrothing) | The world's first digital camera. Made by Kodak in 1975 it took 23 seconds to record an image onto a cassette tape | (40) | |
| NASA seriously considering sending manned space mission to an asteroid, having Michael Bay direct | (24) | ||
| Hackers deface Epilepsy Foundation website - with flashing images | (83) |
| (CrunchGear) | Pope to text prayers to faithful. to: god n hvn: u r kool. we want kool & 4 earth 2b like hvn. giv us food 2day & 4giv r sinz like we 4giv sinz. lol save r souls, cuz we kno u r tight, u r strong & u r kool 4evs. werd | (104) | |
| AMD plans to kick Gillette's ass by going directly to six cores | (62) | ||
| Flight tests of a $4 million dollar spacecraft prove that at least fourteen people at NASA are not just sitting around sipping coffee while dreaming of Tang | (63) | ||
| (Some Guy With the Fire) | Scientists using nanotubes to figure out how hot chili sauce is. Apparently, working on flying cars, house-cleaning robots, or cures for cancer got too boring | (32) | |
| CNN advises people with mental problems to forgo expensive professional treatment in favor of blogging. What could possibly go wrong? | (52) | ||
| Not news: Government spends millions of dollars trying to solve the Flu virus. Fark: 15 year old kid may have just solved the puzzle; demands an Xbox for her work | (40) | ||
| Flogos — floating logos made from soap bubbles — allow corporate logos and other images to drift overhead like clouds. In other news, Drew scrambles to trademark "Floobies" | (35) | ||
| (Joystiq) | Id Software announces DOOM 4 development proceeding | (85) | |
| (NASA) | Before-and-after NASA satellite images of the typhoon flooding in Burma | (35) | |
| Comcast wants to put bandwidth hogs on a diet: Considering 250-gig monthly cap | (89) | ||
| Bee-ocaust | (57) | ||
| What makes for an appealing workspace? The envelopes they leave in your mailbox every two weeks. But after that, it comes down to design and amenities. Here are the top ten workplaces in tech | (30) | ||
| "Sneak peek at the new Prius shows it will be sportier and more fuel efficient." Problem: It looks exactly like the current model | (49) | ||
| Original iMac review from 10 years ago: "It has no floppy drive, which might be forgivable if there were a Zip drive...it has no SCSI port, no standard serial ports, and no ADB ports." Yeah, that SCSI port thing is a total deal-breaker | (85) | ||
| (PhysOrg.com) | MIT researcher is working on a way to make all of the links on the internet contain porn, at least until you click them. The only downside is that none of the links on the internet will contain porn | (19) | |
| Counterclaims for extortion, conspiracy, trespass, consumer fraud & abuse, abuse of process upheld against RIAA. You know who else did all those things? | (25) | ||
| Global warming and intelligent design team up to create the dreaded Grolar Bear. And so it begins | (80) | ||
| That's a lot of dead hookers: Grand Theft Auto IV sells $500 million in its first week | (165) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Morgan Sparks, pioneer of the world's first bipolar junction transistor, moves on to the great depletion region in the sky | (40) | |
| In case you hadn't already figured this out for yourself, here are five psychological experiments that have proven the human race is doomed | (164) | ||
| (Environmental Graffiti) | Five bionic exoskeleton suits of the future. Will be used by troops, for moving heavy objects, and of course Sarah Connor is screwed | (36) | |
| Child virus spreading through China. And here we always thought children were sexually transmitted | (83) | ||
| Greenhouse gases effect on eucalyptus threatens koala population, Qantas logo | (12) | ||
| Not news: Science data recovered from damaged hard drive. News: Hard drive was dropped from a few miles up. Fark: It was on the Space Shuttle Columbia when it was destroyed | (35) | ||
| (ScienceDaily) | Crispy noodles to reduce carbon emissions, proving there is a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Ramen | (5) | |
| I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate; and the lemur mice singing in the rainforest | (27) | ||
| After the death of HD DVD, Sony enjoying skyrocketing Blu-ray sales. Just kidding; sales down 40% in January and February | (73) | ||
| (Bad Astronomy) | Some amateur astronomer takes picture of the Moon five minutes before it became new -- a world record. w/cool photo goodness | (22) | |
| Monster.com founder starts social networking site... for the dead | (12) |
| Study links shorter arms and legs with memory loss, inability to get free snacks from vending machines | (40) | ||
| (Some NASA Guy) | In September 1859, the sun unleashed a solar flare so intense it was visible to the unaided human eye. A ferocious geomagnetic storm ensued in which Northern Lights descended as far south as Cuba. Could it happen again? | (55) | |
| (Some Carl Sagan Guy) | The "Cosmos"-less Science Channel Discussion Thread | (77) | |
| (Some Guy) | For those of you who miss the good ole days, a TRS-80 BASIC simulator | (81) | |
| How to get the campiness out of science fiction. With pic of Sting as a gay bathhouse attendant of the future | (75) | ||
| (Some Guy) | 30 years after blowing it with GUIs, and 20 years after blowing it with Ethernet and laser printers, Xerox demos brand-new technology to compete with Google, Amazon, and Microsoft | (31) | |
| Sled dogs change their metabolism when they start pulling. This study funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which, coincidently, will soon unveil a 2,000-pound GPS-guided steak bomb | (17) | ||
| Canadian Armed Forces looking to build Iron Man-type suits. No word on whether they'd take off, or if that would be a beauty way to go | (77) | ||
| Scientists may have come up with the first fully functional plasma-powered streetlight | (45) | ||
| Baldness can now be blamed on pollution. Sure, because there were never any bald men before industrialization | (17) | ||
| Restaurant smoking bans may persuade teens not to smoke, say researchers who actually believe that teens care about what is "frowned upon by the community" | (58) | ||
| "Google's unhealthy dominance of the Internet will end" | (43) | ||
| You will soon be able to get the Blue Screen Of Death in your Hyundai | (17) | ||
| "Fertile" women have sexier voices, bigger racks | (42) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Study finds both men and cats drawn in by the same scent, also suffer the same effects after being trapped, caged, neutered | (66) | |
| NBC has moved its video suckage from the festering suck of iTunes to the moldering suck of Zune | (47) | ||
| Yahoo adding virus detection technology to its search engine to protect the 17 people who still use Yahoo's search engine | (23) | ||
| Remember all that talk from the FCC about an open access requirement for Verizon's new wireless spectrum? Neither do they | (8) | ||
| Engineers are currently building a swimming pool larger than Manhattan in the middle of the Florida swampland | (13) | ||
| Study shows apples may prevent hardening of the arteries. The tough part is getting the apple in the artery in the first place | (10) | ||
| Folding your arms can help your brain, activating an unconscious desire to succeed. *Folds arms, clicks submit* | (19) | ||
| Drivers in China are beating those pesky traffic tickets by using a remote-control device that changes their licence plate in seconds | (28) | ||
| (ScienceDaily) | Scientists determine that birds don't like it when you stare at them. Better experiment: Find something that does like to be stared at. Cause I'm pretty sure even amoebas get creeped out by the old paramecium eye | (18) | |
| (APOD) | The coolest picture of an Antarctic total solar eclipse you'll see today | (22) | |
| Propeller clock | (22) | ||
| It looks like we are killing it with fire | (25) | ||
| Bald eagle whose face was shot off will get a prosthetic beak. (With ugly-ass pics) | (21) |
| (Some Guy) | $11.5k can buy you a hard drive destroying machine... or you can do it with a $45 sledge hammer | (53) | |
| (Nature) | Texas Higher Education Board rejects application by the Institute for Creation Research, preventing it from bestowing master's degrees in science | (193) | |
| Sprint might ditch Nextel, which it spent $35 billion for and now says is worthless | (81) | ||
| Eight things Grand Theft Auto IV gets wrong about New York City, including bagels | (164) | ||
| Global-warming enthusiasts rush to invent new theories that can make new climate data conform to their world view. Preview: Cooler = Warmer | (√-1) | ||
| (military.com) | The Israel Air Force's stunning, undetected flight through Syria's air defenses late last year bears | (70) | |
| (Some Guy) | If you missed the scene after the credits of "Iron Man," you can watch it here | (95) | |
| Deutsche Telekom, the German owner of T-Mobile, now officially in unofficial talks to officially buy Sprint (unofficially) | (34) | ||
| "Grand Theft Auto IV": The biggest video game of all time will make less than a crappy Nicolas Cage movie | (141) | ||
| (GrownManAgenda) | Right off of successful weekend of "Iron Man," Marvel Studios announces its plans through 2011 | (169) | |
| A lightbulb remains lit continuously for the past 107 years at a Livermore firehouse, tells Menorahs to get off its lawn | (60) | ||
| (Some Guy) | First look at new "Star Wars" video game, in which you finally get to play as Darth Vader and slice up a bunch of pansy Jedis | (90) | |
| Wireless carriers give location to police without a warrant. Don't trace me bro? | (63) |