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Actual headline: New Nintendo Strap-on Pentrating Europe |
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New Solar Cell Breaks the “40 Percent Efficient” Sunlight-to-Electricity Barrier. That’s right, 40%. Suck it big oil. Suck it coal. That’s right, suck it hard |
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Top 5 high-tech keyboards that geeks drool over |
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Tech idiots tired of baselessly speculating about an Apple phone begin baselessly speculating about a Google phone |
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"Liars, use Skype at your peril" |
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Custom-built Lego machine gun shoots 96 rounds per minute |
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Are you moral? Take the test |
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Make Your Own Rocket Engines |
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Inventor improves "The Clapper" by adding remote control, because clapping is hard, and remotes never get lost |
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Incredible Japanese case mod makes your house look ugly |
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Recent article in "DUH" Journal of Science reports on Canadian funded study that finds people act differently when money is involved |
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Canadians cure diabetes in mice |
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Best Buy receipt sells for $451 on eBay |
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Just like every other gadget, light bulbs go flat |
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Study finds if watch an Adam Sandler in a movie theater you're more likely to laugh more than at home |
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Lazy casting agents ask auditioning actors to post tapes on YouTube, then gauge reactions |
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Scientists create robot that can be controlled by human throught; unless Paris Hilton owns it. Then it's just a big paperweight |
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Coolest full-sized remote-controlled battle tank you will see today. With video deadliness |
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Telcos and cablecos think broadband access is a basic necessity for Americans and are drooling over the prospect of being the supplier |
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Microsoft releases XNA Game Studio Express for public use, you can now legally make your own games and applications for the Xbox 360 |
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The first man to photograph the Chernobyl disaster |
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Realizing that AOL sucks, AOL Europe CEO leaves after six weeks to take another job |
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Scientists discover how to make a warm can of Coke cold in under 2 minutes. Still no cure for RC Cola |
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U.S. Navy would like to test a "blood substitute" on civilian trauma victims, but says it is "too risky" to use in military |
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All those trees that have been planted to combat global warming? All the ones that weren't planted in the tropics were just a waste of time |
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Growing body of scientific research links marijuana use to mental problems, munchies |
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Bill Gates doesn't like DRM and says you should just "buy a CD and rip it". In other news, Gates has lost control of Microsoft or hasn't seen a copy of Vista or used a Zune recently |
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If you are tempted to use phrases like "that creates a Venturi effect" or "I could almost accept it as an alien vagina" to describe your sex life, you might be doing something wrong |
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Scientists all giggly over some awesome dust |
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How much is that rapist in the window? Second Life players seeking to be violated for a price now have accomodations. Can I get a pile of ball torture with that? |
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We're whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon, but there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales of mining Helium-3 for use in fusion reactors |
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IBM develops technology to verify drug authenticity. Reportedly, it will also separate buds from seeds |
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F-35 fighter safety completes first test flight - at only 6.9125 billion per minute |
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'I run gmake and gcc / and i ain't never called malloc without calling free' |
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Company attempts to develop neural network for water management, it comes out... somewhat confused. "The pig go. Go is to the fountain. The pig put foot. Grunt. Foot in what? ketchup." |
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Another day, another step closer to total domination of everything Internet-related: Google unveils online service for buying domain names |
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Photoshop CS3 first look. Verdict: Submitter starting to visit the plasma donor center daily for extra cash to fund the purchase |
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Annoy people at dinner with open source |
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Top ten junk science moments for 2006 that you might not have heard about. Suck it, liberal media |
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Dancing makes patients breathe better, makes people click to lower their mortgage |
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Intelligence linked to vegetarianism. Submitter would wow you with my statistical analysis and quick wit on this matter, but is feeling a little tired |
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Realizing that Cheetos powder and sweat stains are damn near impossible to remove, Nintendo nixes Wiistrap recall |
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Nintendo recalls 3.2M Wii straps, says users too dumb, threat to themselves |
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God tests our faith by creating simultaneous evidence of evolution and global climate change. That God; what a joker |
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Gizmodo "guarantees" that the iPhone will be announced on Monday |
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Scientists find invisible mountains in Greenland. They would have been better off painting it pink and using the NMP field |
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Gore tells scientists to be "more vocal" on climate change. Including, presumably, those who question it, but he didn't actually mention them |
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How to get a job in the video game industry |
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You know the whole dark matter thing? Well yeah, maybe not so much. A group of physicists is arguing that our theory of gravity is simply wrong. Supporters of Intelligent Falling all a twitter |
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Forbes writer confesses to Warcraft addiction |
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Warm weather leads grey seals to more grrr stampa stampa |
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Astronauts rewire space station. If its anything like how your uncle rewires the Christmas lights, they're screwed |
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Sorry, no flying cars yet. You'll have to settle for a personal blimp |
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Magnetic storm hits the Earth tonight. EVERYBODY PANIC |
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In study sure to confuse fundamentalists and scientists alike, virgin birth produces stem cells |
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Wireless battery chargers. Hunh...whoda thunk? |
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Scientists looking at developing solid state refrigerator which uses magnets instead of refrigerant. Here comes the science |
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"Sony is pretty lucky to have a mass shortage of PlayStation 3s this holiday season. It must be a lot more comforting to hear 'I want one' instead of 'I paid $600 for this?'" |
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Too much exercise found to be bad for you, so logically no exercise must be best for you. At least submitter hopes so |
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Audi aims for another LeMans win with the R10 Diesel, this time using biofuel |
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Apple iPhone to ship H1 2007 |
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Analyst firm expects Microsoft anti-piracy efforts to backfire, send people to Linux. Some people even think that this is bad news |
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2006 highs and lows in gaming |
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Sony: Two million PS3s by the end of the year. Submitter: Shenanigans |
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New study shows that laughter really is contagious: They're coming to take me away, hee hee... they're coming to take me away, ho ho... won't you join me? |
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Attention all global-warming alarmists: 2006 was not the warmest year on record. In fact, it's not even in the top five. Okay, so it's sixth, but that doesn't mean anything, right? |
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Online shoppers have access to 26,000 websites but most only buy from 10, study finds. This story brought to you by TotalFark and $5 a month |
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Lawsuit may determine whether compulsive Internet use should be recognized as an addiction |
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In celebration of Google offering patent searches, here are the 17 patents for Perpetual Motion Machines |
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Special heat-sensitive flash cameras deep in jungle destroyed by rare Sumatran tiger, or to use its scientific name, "Felis Russellius Croweus." |
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Couple turns to Internet sperm after trying to conceive for seven years. Picture of couple proves Darwin knows what the hell he's doing |
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Scientists finally detect the top quark, by listening for it calling the other quarks its biatches |
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Four-thousand-year-old Seahenge to rise again in 2008. Spongehenge remains undiscovered |
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People claiming that their aching joints, heart palpitations and nausea are due to wi-fi networks |
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Sony admits to blog bust, trying to be too clever = old business people trying to sound hip |
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Research company predicts blogging will peak, level off around 100 million by first half of 2007. Rumors that same company thought cellphone use would peak by 1994 unconfirmed |
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Online bank fraud has increased by 8,000 percent, which is probably yet another case of too many zeros being added to a bank figure |
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AMD seeks efficiency in making 45-nanometer chips |
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Vista will increase cost of average computer by 20 percent, study says. But hey, that's the price to pay for all that eye candy you'll have to turn off to make Office start in under four minutes |
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City of Berkeley, California regulates nanotechnology, treats it like hazardous wastes, seeks the tiniest hazmat team to wear the cutest little biohazard outfits they bought |
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Friends and family help a man buy a new prosthetic leg with a built-in computer that helps him keep his balance. Family unaware that a leg actually cost an arm and leg |
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Cuba has the fewest cellphones in Western Hemisphere, probably because you can't build a raft out of them -- or perhaps because you can |
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Germany's autobahn police have a new toy: The world's fastest police cruiser, with a top speed of 225 mph. Cup and doughnut holders optional |
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New gel senses semen and devours it on contact. This gel, known as "Your Mom," is going to be useful in the fight against AIDS |
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Study on male circumcision cut off early |
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People with rare genetic mutation don't feel pain, can't be reasoned with, never stop searching for Sarah Connor |
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Technology munching fungus found in South America. Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure |
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Magic mushrooms cure obsessive compulsive disorder. You submitted this headline over and over and over again |
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This shuttle crew just can't get a break: Giant solar storm headed towards Earth |
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Never has the submitter ever thought to see a news headline containing the phrase "cave snot" |
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AOL releases stripped down version of AIM, names it LAIM |
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Mammals may have flown before birds. Suck it, Tweety |
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Microsoft building army of killer robots that will never be able to find Sarah Conner |
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If the USB Humping Dog did not excite you, how about a USB Pole Dancer |
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Elderly may soon get 'electronic pets' capable of holding conversations, telling jokes and performing important stair-pushing functions |
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Astronauts doze while solar flares hit space station. Awful Fantastic Four sequel now fast tracked |
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Merchants: eBay express sucks, nobody browses or buys our crap. eBay: Working as intended |
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Interplay developing MMORPG based on the Fallout Games. Hopefully, developers will pretend "Fallout Tactics" never existed |
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Apple Computer announces iFlood at their Cupertino,CA headquarters |
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A first look at Firefox 3 Alpha, the future of rock 'n roll |
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Put your old USB flash drives to use. No, collecting dust, stuffing a drawer and choking landfills are not useful |
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Mathematician figures out how to divide by zero by inventing the number "nullity." It's naught news, it's Fark.com |
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Florida sues AOL for lousy customer service. AOL counters with "O YEAH well ur stupid" uppercut. Cripple fight |
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Microsoft has no plans to release a Vista application compatibility chart, mostly because Notepad is the only thing that runs correctly |
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By 2050, $1,000 worth of computing will equal the processing power of all human brains on earth. But all this submitter can think of is creating a real life copy of Angelina Jolie for his own... ahem... personal use |
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IBM and Yahoo teaming up to take on Google, immediately commence mission of pissing into the wind |
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In an effort to solidify themselves as the cream of the crop of the online music world, Apple announces iTunes sales declined by over 58 percent since last January |
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Google changes stock options, allows employees to sell options directly, avoiding IRS craziness. Analysts call it "revolutionary." IRS just calls Cornwallis |
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Utah scientists invent molecular anti-AIDS condom, available in jumbo-sized 10-wife economy packs |
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Study finds people who can write with both their right and left hands also tend to swing both ways |
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A simple sea creature could solve the world's global warming problem. If you guessed "great white shark to eat all the Americans, Indians and Chinese," please read on |
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Scientists at Cornell that got their ass beat on a daily basis in high school finds that teens do stupid things not because they think they're invulnerable but because they want to look cool |
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Group of Brits rescue a steam engine from Bosnia and plan to ship it back to the UK. Fail to have sex with girls ever |
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Fox sites (myspace.com) bigger than Jesu -- er -- Yahoo |
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Solar tsunami causing radiation wave, disrupting satellites. EVERYBODY PANIC |
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Just when you thought Apple computers couldn't get any worse looking |
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We can split the atom, send men to the moon, discover planets unfathomably far away... yet scientists are still baffled by the Great Question of "How the heck do raindrops form, anyway?" |
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Geminid meteor shower to peak Wednesday night. Shuttle is in orbit. What could possibly go wrong? |
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More Wii-tards: A roundup of personal and property damage inflicted by new Wii owners (pics) |
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New study finds that if you hear someone laughing at a joke, you automatically laugh at it too. Finally, the reason Dane Cook and his stupid, grating laugh are so popular has been discovered |
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Six reasons why Google sucks. When I did this search on Google, it only gave me three reasons |
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A Washington State family that has lost nine members to pancreatic cancer is helping scientist understand the disease and maybe the reason God hates that family so much |
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Just not natural: How to run Windows and Mac apps side-by-side with Parallels |
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How to clean your Mighty Mouse without taking it apart. Intricate tag needed |
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Why online should be off limits in the bedroom |
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LCD makers probed for price fixing |
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What device was just spotted on this shuttle mission that has 400 times the CPU power and 80 times the memory of the avionics computers and can even survive a year date rollover? With pics |
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Teens are making taser-like weapons out of disposable cameras. And you thought science wasn't useful |
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Gamespot gives us a side by side graphics comparrison of the PS3 and the XBOX 360. your favorite console sucks |
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Germans drafting a law that will consider acts of cruelty against "human-looking videogame characters" as reason enough to fine, imprison |
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75% of internet users now on broadband tubes. Other 25% still on dial-up tubes |
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Man lost his sexual inhibition after a workplace accident. Subby's wife lost hers after a couple of beers |
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Reestablishing himself as the World's Dumbest Fanboy, MSNBC's Gary Krakow gets all hot and bothered over the Macbook's "bells and whistles," such as a screen, USB ports, Ethernet port, and headphone jack |
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The goggles, they do something |
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Ontario to open infectious disease centre, touted to your one-stop-shop for infectious diseases this Christmas |
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Note to Google: When "acquiring" Yahoo's IE7 template, don't forget to get rid of the Yahoo Toolbar screenshot. Just sayin' |
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NASA won't put a price tag on moon base budget...mostly because they are waiting to see if Spielberg is avaliable to direct or if they will have to go with an unknown |
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Citing the 'What could possibly go wrong?' engineering tenet, NASA experts don't think any further inspection of the shuttle's heat shield is needed |
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Turtles may well be immortal. I for one welcome.. well you get the idea |
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Microsoft finally admits pro--b-l-l-lems with wirePSSSHHHHless headse--DISCONNECTED |
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The best meteor shower of the year peaks this week on Thursday, Dec. 14th: The 2006 Geminid Meteor Shower, caused by something but no one knows what |
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Fable 2 announced. This time it will be the greatest RPG ever |
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Txt mssgng 2 dbl in 5 yrs. OMFG |
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A gene discovered six years ago is linked to pancreatic cancer |
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New 512-core computer chip created. Will be capable of generating up to 7 frames a second in Duke Nukem Forever |
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New study suggests that snails may help make your pain escargot away |
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9 out of 10 IT decision makers love the Microsoft/Novell Linux deal ... according to a survey by (you guessed it) Microsoft and Novell |
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