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In 1996, the first teraflop computer was 2000 sq. ft., 10,000 processors, consuming 500,000 watts. Intel's newest: 1.01 teraflops on a single chip consuming 62 watts |
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People are more likely to listen to romantic, emotional content with their left ears. When submitter said his ex always had to be right, he had no idea how literally correct he was |
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Bush's secret internets |
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Glaciers on Peru's "White Mountain Range" are melting so fast the peaks are turning brown |
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MIT lab guy hates dishes, decides to make a machine that makes dishes on demand. Empty cabinet space will ensue |
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Sea sponge nicknamed "Bill Clinton" by scientists. Why would they do such a thing? |
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Make a coin sorter using rubber bands, paper clips, glue sticks, markers, and posterboard. MacGuyver not impressed |
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It was bound to happen sooner or later. Wii weights |
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Scientists discover underground water reservoir the size of the Arctic Ocean. Water, water underwhere, and not a drop to drink |
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“Breast augmentation is cosmetic but these cells have the potential to treat diseases ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's” |
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If the urinal is talking to you, it might not be all the longnecks you've consumed |
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And you thought you spent a lot of time on the internet: man loses connection after exceeding "unlimited" time |
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Cool pinball machines you won't find at your local arcade |
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Experts fear that the tubes are going to get clogged because of too many users |
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YouTube is doomed, DOOOOOMED |
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Cool pics of space shuttle Atlantis getting assembled for launch in March |
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Scientists say that cosmic rays play more of a role in global warming than all human activity combined. Now there's an inconvenient truth |
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The coolest picture of an erupting volcano you will see all day |
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Man installs zinc-coated lead sheets in his house to fight wireless piggybacking neighbors |
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Designers adapting iPod's familiar scrolling wheel to control other household products |
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Rejected iPod engravings. "The controls are on the other side, you stupid fark" |
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The coolest gadget you'll see today. 20,000 Watt speakers made of snow. Magic Hat not included |
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Wikimedia chairwoman claims that Wikipedia may close in 3-4 months due to money problems |
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This Sunday, millions of Christians will open up the good book, "The Origin of Species." Wait, what? |
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Researchers planning a trip to Mars' moon Phobos to bring back samples. Here comes the Cyberdemon |
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Microsoft, not satisfied with crushing the iPod into the dustbin of history, reveals its plans for the Zune Phone |
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A first look at Firefox 3 |
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Strange laptops you don't see everyday |
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At least three per cent of people in Britain have stopped taking commercial flights to fight global warming |
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Scientists discover that missing out on sleep means you don't make any new brain cells that you can then kill with alcohol. So don't scrimp on the sleep |
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Sex education for senior citizens could help halt the trend of rising rates of syphilis, gonorrhea, and HPV in that age group. Golf clap? |
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Breaking the myth of megapixels (or: Just how little people understand about digital photography) |
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The real problem with Linux, expressed in a single picture |
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Scientists unraveling anti-aging. Abe Vigoda unavailable for comment |
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Windows expert to Redmond: Buh-bye, I'm switching to Apple |
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R.I.P. Clippy: May you help all the office users in heaven |
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Study finds that British women, on average, have the largest breasts. The implications of this are clear: It's possible to make a living performing scientific studies on women's breasts |
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EMI to sell their music collection online without DRM. Suck it, RIAA |
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French planet-seeking satellite gets to work... just after it finishes its coffee break, until its two-hour lunch and before its four-week summer vacation |
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After more than a decade of searching, wildlife researcher spots rare white giraffe, which he calls Moby Neck |
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Mind-reading machine could make thought-controlled Firefox a reality - the internet porn implications alone are staggering |
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New Toyota Scions have iPod connectivity, so you can be unique just like everyone else |
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If you ever wanted to dress up like a squirrel and jump out of an airplane without a parachute, this could be your lucky year |
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Top 10 amazing facts about your heart |
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Environmentalists can now take their passion to the grave in recycled coffins |
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PC sales up in Vista's debut week. Suck it, libs |
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Steve Jobs to customers: "There is no way for Apple to make music playable on any system." Founder of MP3.com: "Is that a joke, or are you a moron?" |
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"There are an infinite number of places where George Bush came up with the general theory of relativity" |
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Soon every gadget you own will be operated by the sound of your voice, Dave |
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The scientists who, back in 1990, projected changes in sea level, temperatures and extreme weather were mostly right. In some cases they underestimated climate change |
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Scientists build powered exoskeleton controlled by wearer's nervous system. No mention of plans for blowtorch, front-end loader attachments |
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China's new fighter jet just jumped a couple of generations in technology to become one of the most advanced and capable. I wonder where they got this tech |
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The Doomsday Vault will be used to store enough seeds to re-seed the earth after global warming. Of course, since its carved into the melting ice of the Artic it might be hard to find under all the globally warmed water |
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Merle Haggard explores green energy. Not the kind that Willie Nelson has been exploring for 50 years, either |
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Bill Gates lied to Congress to get cheaper software developers from India? No way |
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Use Excel to rattle a coworker with musical code sneakiness |
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Richard Branson offers £25m prize to anyone who can come up with the best way to remove CO2 from atmosphere. Submitter suggests plants and wants the cash paid in small bills |
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Astronauts complete third spacewalk in nine days, don adult absorbent undergarments to search for love rivals |
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"Motorized bobhouse has all the comforts of home" |
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Nitroglycerin helps premature babies. Nobody make a noise or this'll get messy |
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Top 10 coolest video game characters of all-time (video) |
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Air Force creates camera that follows bullets in mid-flight |
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New brain scan allows scientists to read people's thoughts and intentions. Philip K. Dick predicted this |
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Vikings more badass than previously thought: sun was not necessary to navigate |
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Warships of the future will be made from carrots. No, really |
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Inventors develop pacemaker-like device designed specifically to regulate appetite, as opposed to regular pacemakers, which helped you control your weight by exploding if you got too close to a microwave |
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What CEOs really think of CIOs |
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Microsoft emails reveal company's lust for Apple |
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John McCain proposing bill forcing ISPs to watch you like a cat in the ceiling |
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Samsung unveils their "iPhone Killer" |
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Amazon and TiVo join Apple, Microsoft and Walmart in the race for mainstream downloadable TV content. This will end well |
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The 'goblin shark' fell out of the evolutionary ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down |
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The computer security may soon be about to hit the fan |
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Nerds wetting their Dockers as US government announces competition to develop cryptographic hash algorithms. Yeah, winning this'll get them laid |
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Geologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have located a huge chunk of Earth's lithosphere that went missing 15 million years ago. "Did you look under Tibet?" |
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U.S. cyber counterattack: Bomb 'em one way or the other |
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Google Maps takes 10.4 km to cross the road. Bonus: Add a $3 bridge toll. Fark: Destination is Google's Oz headquarters |
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Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives With Amazon Wishlists |
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Astronomers discover previously unknown star in Southern Cross, instantly making Australian national flag obsolete |
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Get some shiny nanobiochips inserted into your brain and join the cool neurotechnology wave |
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Kudzu, that bane of the south, being considered as a fuel source, sexual aid |
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Nine critters that owe their names to celebrities |
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Gmail to be made available to the remaining three people who don't already have an account |
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After military brass cannot create one, soldiers invent, build and ship a device to identify known insurgents |
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Are American women having too many C-sections? A clash has broken out between midwives and obstetricians, with insurance companies saying cut it out |
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Marijuana-like substance produced naturally in the brain may hold key to relieving Parkinson's. Actually it just makes you forget you have it, but whatever man. Just pass that thing over here. It's not a microphone |
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Crazy game-playing animals that might be smarter than you |
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In order to plan our five-year missions, we have to know where we're going. Meet Kepler the Terrestial Planet Finder |
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Three things you can do with your computer when you have no internet connection |
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Five out of 10 Americans don't believe that their country is performing well in science and math education. Damn, that's like, 90 percent |
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Fat chance of this working. First over-the-counter weight loss pill approved by the FDA |
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"It looks rather like black magic, but it is just quantum mechanics." And here I thought it would be something complicated |
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Review of a new seven-inc TV/DVD player built into a sun visor: "This is dangerous -- not good, not good" (with pic) |
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Skype reads your BIOS and motherboard serial number, here is the 411 |
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New contraption converts trash into energy, can be mounted on the hood of a DeLorean |
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Etching and copperplating Altoid containers at home |
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How marbles are made |
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How Yahoo blew it |
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360 degree panoramas of the Moon |
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IPhone vs. Windows Mobile (with video) |
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Orbiting junk is now a threat EVERYBODY PANIC |
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Toyota redsigns Highlander. It is now lightning resistant with room in back for katana |
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Two persons can watch two different channels at the same time using a two-way television |
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Glass. Parking. Lot |
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The science of spying |
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Scientists discover new "slut" gene, still no cure for cancer |
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Are your kids rotten little brats? Blame your parents. Scientists find genetic link for juvenile delinquency |
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"Where can I find an open-source alternative to...?" |
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"The device is able to scan the iris of the eye without the knowledge or consent of the person being scanned." But not if you're wearing a tinfoil hat, right? RIGHT? |
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Are you having problems connecting to your favorite sites today? It might be because a couple of punk-ass morans are trying to clog teh tubes |
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Ancient human skeleton sparks debate about evolution, if by "debate" we mean one group presenting factual evidence, and the other mumbling stuff about the Bible |
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Study shows that playing first-person shooters is good for your eyes. We still need a "Friggin' Awesome" tag |
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Imagine being able to shoot RPGs and mortars out of the air before they get to you. Imagine no more. Video destruction goodness |
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The coolest pictures of fluid polygons and polyhedra you will see today |
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If you're the climatologist at a university, you'd be wise to keep your AGW doubts to yourself |
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As problems with Vista pile up, Microsoft raises tech-support prices. Beelzebub reportedly impressed |
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Cases of malnutrition on the rise in Scotland. Guess deep-fried Mars bars aren't that good for you |
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The 10 worst iPod accessories (Warning: Pic of sex toys among them) |
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The internets are under attack |
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"Well Jim, I think asking that genie for a kayak as our third wish was a bad idea -- the Sahara really is too big to paddle out of." (Video) |
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Ready to crap your pants? $30 million steel-and-glass walkway over the Grand Canyon opens next week |
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Top five Windows Vista myths |
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Chicago Auto Show sues parody site over trademark they don't even own |
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Steve Jobs calls on record companies to remove DRM from digital music |
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Fark Tech Forum: Only the last seven days of comments listed |
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Some guy figures out there are 1.9 trillion ways to tie a pair of shoelaces, then figures out which way is fastest |
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What's the difference between cloned meat and non-cloned meat? I'm sorry, that's not a hair question |
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The 10 worst things about Apple. This is not art! I told you I wanted art! |
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Telus Mobility forecasts $14.5 billion U.S. in portable adult-content sales over the next five years. Coincidently, it's suddenly impossible to find an unoccupied washroom stall in Canada |
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YouTube copyright warnings expected soon. That ought to stop the rampant disregard for international copyright law |
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Anna, Anna, Anna Nicole and TrimSpa are getting sued by fat people too farking lazy to exercise and eat right |
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Medical columnist reassures 64-year-old triple-bypass patient that there's no need to fear CPR or paddles. Fails to address larger question of why 64-year-old is pledging a fraternity |
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UK government may force sex offenders to register their chatroom names. Sex offenders everywhere immediately quit sex-offending at the prospect of having to think up another variation of "Justinrulez1992" |
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From the "Why didn't I think of that?" file: Upside-down mobile phone |
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Attractive, muscular, well-endowed Farker scoffs at article about online dating honesty |
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Test drive of world's first hydrogen-powered motorcycle. Bonus: It's completely silent, proving loud pipes don't save lives, particularly if those lives belong to pedestrians |
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Romania built its technology industry with pirated Microsoft software, and the president of Romania is willing to admit it to Bill Gates' face |
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Arkansas may stop sending report cards home on student's obesity. Now considering quarterly reports on kid's tooth count |
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Scientists find average human's skin colonized by 182 species of bacteria. Maybe Howie Mandel has the right idea about never shaking hands with anyone |
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Scientists discover that the terracotta warriors buried with the Chinese emperor went through their own "troop surge," as half apparently came from a separate quarry |
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Ant species has jaws that can be snapped closed at 145 mph. With creepy video goodness |
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Former Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, MCI WorldCom, New York Times, Lexis-Nexis, Excite@Home, Google hacker wants you to feel safe trusting him with your personal info, pocketbook. Bonus points for guessing his Fark login, because he actually has one |
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Not to be outdone by Texas, who anounced HPV vaccines to prevent cervical cancer in girls, Iowa announces program to vaccinate deer for contraception. Because of the wild nature of the targets, both states may need drugged darts |
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School offers online-gaming scholarship. Officials say gaming would not involve any graphic sex, which is just fine seeing as most applicants would likely be unfamiliar with that anyway |
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"Mac owners often sneer that kind of defence back at you when you mock their silly, posturing contraptions, because in doing so, you have inadvertently put your finger on the dark fear haunting their feeble, quivering soul" |
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Greedy PS3 speculators wait too long to sell. Now nobody cares about PS3 and it's too late to return them to the store |
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Bugatti Veyron hits 253 mph, doesn't travel back in time |
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Yet another scientist jumps off the Man-Made Global Warming© ship. Will soon be hauled off to re-education camp |
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Your music library is a mess and what to do about it |
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Columnist takes a serious look at a major issue facing today's society: Is playing the Wii a reasonable substitute to exercise? |
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New develoments in personal security, including randomising credit-card numbers, DNA fingerprinting of food, not wearing a Colts shirt in Chicago |
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IBM has a crapload of unsold P4 servers that are "aging as well as a car boot full of snails that died from the plague" |
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Windows Live OneCare, the thing you pay Microsoft $50 a year to protect Microsoft's insecure operating system, fails security test |
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The coolest photo of Saturn that you'll see today |
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Thanks to global warming, this February will be the coldest in 30 years |
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Six things you never knew your cellphone could do |
(27) |
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Strange cameras you don't see everyday |
(8) |
| (Some Guy) |
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Seven crazy robots that could take over the world, but aren't for sale |
(7) |
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Drug dealers vs. geeks |
(15) |
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How to install Vista without upgrading |
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Ahmadinejad shows off his nukes |
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British urged to embrace ethanol as an alternative to petrol, gin |
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A comet, fireworks and lightning all in one photo makes for more flash than Britney Spears |
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Web 2.0: The machine is us/ing us |
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