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Sun May 06, 2007
Yahoo Interesting Japan vows $100 Million to stem climate change, plans to finance it with proceeds from whale burger sales (11)
590 KLBJ Spiffy Scientists find virus that is deadly to fireants (135)
London Times Cool Coming soon: The walk-thru website (25)
590 KLBJ Weird England's top soccer league is suing Youtube (12)
Boston Globe Interesting "If you care about global warming and clean air, it is hard not to be for nuclear power." Is America entering a nuclear renaissance? (77)
AZCentral Cool Ever tried moonlight therapy? Werewolves, nightowls, and pasty-skinned basement dwellers need not apply (12)
Yahoo Interesting Climate change, ugly-ass sex partners doomed Neanderthals (6)
(Some Guy) Amusing How not to demo Windows Vista (57)
C|Net Strange Condoms for your phone (10)
Reuters Interesting Much like Mars, Mercury may have a soft, chewy center (7)

Sat May 05, 2007
(Central News Agency) Spiffy Nanotechnology will remove dust and odors from Taiwanese train restrooms, find Sarah Connor (10)
Scientific American Unlikely Mathmeticians create wormhole, Prophets, Kardassians unimpressed (38)
590 KLBJ Obvious Apparently Microsoft's takeover of Yahoo is DOA (26)
Reuters Silly The Red Lobster chain loses its title of "Oldest Lobster Fossil" to Chiapas, Mexico, who wins with 120 million year old specimen (9)
(Some Guy) Cool The "best thing to come from the Dot Com crash" (14)
(NASA) Cool NASA test fires methane powered engine intended for future exploration of solar system. Article with a lot of big, complicated words also contains cool video (39)
Daily Mail Ironic Taking painkillers for your headache could give you a headache (22)

Fri May 04, 2007
Yahoo Scary Another affect of global warming: vultures attacking living creatures (86)
USA Today Scary Great Idea: Gov't wants to use your cell phone to detect terror attacks. Just don't think about the implications of this and you'll be fine, citizen (41)
(If It's Movies) Asinine New "Transformers" images confirm lips on Optimus Prime (72)
ZDNet Obvious Vistaz in ur laptop consumin yer powerz (48)
(Some General) Followup "If the bids are real" General Lee sells for about $10 mill. Because no one ever puts fake bids on Ebay (82)
(Game Revolution) Cool Download and play the unfinished Fallout 3 that never was. With video goodness (29)
(Wizard Universe) Cool Sam Raimi explains why Sandman and Venom became Spider-Man 3's villains (47)
(Some Guy) Followup Sony issues an apology for its God of War II goat tease (22)
CTV Unlikely Citing pirates and illegal downloads, eh, Canada's CD sales plummet 35% in 1st quarter of 2007 (30)
Wired Unlikely Wired asks a difficult question: Is sexual assault in a virtual space possible? (51)
I-Mockery Amusing What's the worst Spider-Man creation ever? It might be Spider-Ham (209)
Yahoo Interesting Scientist unveil largest test of faith ever found in Australia (40)
Houston Chronicle Dumbass Today's student getting suspended for a picture on MySpace.com brought to you by Mansfield, Ohio (92)
Sci Fi Cool A 0-to-60 time of 3 seconds and a 200-mph top speed. The The Velozzi can run on just about any type of fuel, such as gasoline, ethanol, methanol, diesel, or biodiesel. 200 mph at 200 mpg? Cool tag takes Spiffy tag for a ride (29)
CBC Obvious "Clothes, not sunscreen, offer best sun protection" says dermatologist. "STFU" respond boobwatching men everywhere (14)
MSNBC Asinine Intrusive web ads on the rise, despite users' near-universal hatred of them. OH MY GOD No wayyyyy (38)
(PC Magazine) Cool 10 Amazing Spider-Man Gadgets (12)
CNN PSA Microsoft is contemplating taking over Yahoo. AskJeeves feels lonely (82)
Yahoo Interesting Top 25 Web Hoaxes. Yes, a famous Fark Photoshop is #20 (50)
Seattle Times Cool Man uncovers 15 million-year-old forest of petrified wood while bulldozing new driveway (pics) (114)
News.com.au Cool Australian scientists developing "super chocolate" with high melting point as a nutritious and long-lasting meal for soldiers in war against Oompa-Loompas (26)
Telegraph Obvious Modern children being turned into "loners" as they spend too much time playing computer games and listening to MP3 players to learn how to make friends or develop any perceptible social skills (51)
(Some Guy) Obvious After months of research, scientists have come up with the following conclusion: Prayers will not cure AIDS (23)
This Is Local London Asinine Ireland is preventing a teenager from aborting a baby that will die as soon as it is born (63)
The Sun Interesting Survey finds that 43% of female office workers have slept with a male colleague. Suddenly, Dwight hooking up with Angela doesn't seem so surprising (32)

Thu May 03, 2007
(NBC6) Florida Diver discovers unknown ugly-ass 10-foot long sea worm (with pic/video) (12)
CNN Amusing Today's corporate email snooping software does more than just look for phrases like "Let's break the law tomorrow at 3:47" (11)
Yahoo Interesting The planet Mercury is a giant microwaved burrito (12)
(Some Wall Crawler) Cool The names Alfred Molina gave his tentacles and 24 other little known facts about the Spider-Man movie franchise (40)
SeattlePI Followup Applying Occam’s Razor to the puzzling mystery of why America’s honeybees are mysteriously disappearing from their hives leads to the obvious and inevitable conclusion: Bee rapture (42)
Denver Post Interesting IBM microchips now come with "speed holes." Suck it Flanders, AMD (19)
(Some Guy) Obvious "Spiderman 3" expected to break all box office recods. Soon to be broken by Vince Chase's "Aquaman" (39)
(Some Guy) Obvious Study: Ads influence kids' drinking, floor humping (5)
(Tech Crunch) Followup Pandora to ban non-U.S. listeners, starting tonight. AACS fist bumps RIAA and buys it a beer (23)
Sci Fi Spiffy SciFi reporting rumor a that "Jericho" will be renewed for next season (31)
(Wireless Weblog) Sad Bye bye, Sprint Nextel (42)
(Some Guy) Cool Yale Center wins $7.5 million grant for autism research. When asked for comment, awardees rocked uncontrollably and drew photorealistic horses (8)
(Centredaily) Ironic Archeologists -- looking for remains of George Washington's house in Philadelphia -- find the kitchen where the Father of Liberty's nine slaves worked (16)
(i watch stuff) Amusing Hermione's breasts accentuated for the IMAX version of the "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" poster. In other news, Chris Hansen and the Dateline NBC crew are on their way to your house (81)
(Some Guy) Scary Obama to MySpace Obama: Waaaah, you stole my MySpace name. Gimmie (58)
(Popular Mechanics) Interesting Popular Mechanics ask the question, "Could hackers take down the entire World Wide Web?" Planet-eating Demon Goat unavailable for comment, because he's fiction too (65)
Toronto Star Cool Chilean Navy may have found wreckage of Latin America's first submarine. Sonar images of dingle balls and chain steering wheel encouraging (80)
Live Science Cool Sorghum touted as next renewable fuel by scientists wearing gingham, whistling Dixie, catching mess o' catfish (13)
(1up.com) Amusing 1UP editor's Playstation 3 kills his Xbox 360. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE (33)
Network World Followup Network World wants to know what's the coolest network start-up you've seen lately? (9)
(MadAsHell) Asinine Phone companies now charging you for NOT making calls (203)
Canoe Cool The one male Galapagos tortoise still alive may be in luck -- a female might have been found on a neighboring island. I saw a turtle sex act (21)
Yahoo Interesting Brewer plans to recycle beer waste water, call it "Budweiser" (131)
Yahoo Cool Anytime I read about computer chips made of "nanoscale self assembling materials" I want to run to my garage and look for my flying car (9)
Telegraph Interesting Millions of emails are to be stored at the British Library in a unique project to preserve present day communications for future generations. Viagra and ween enlargement spam expected to make up 90% (31)
The Register Obvious Every time you turn on your iBook G4, it dies a little bit on the inside (67)
Telegraph Interesting Maggots have been successfully used to treat patients with the superbug MRSA (16)
EITB24 Interesting Google, Belgian newspapers agree on copyright case (3)
BBC Cool Solar power station generates 11 MW of electricity - almost enough to power Al Gore's home (53)
The Register Stupid 68-year-old grandmother comes second in "ultimate SMS love poem" competition with this moving entry: "O hart tht sorz, My luv adorz, He mAks me liv, He mAks me giv, Myslf 2 him, As my luv porz." (38)
(Fotowoosh) Cool Coolest thing you'll see this year. Hands down. 3-D computer models from a single 2-d image. No boobie examples yet (28)
Reuters Cool Yahoo puts instant-messaging inside Web browsers (25)
Yahoo Interesting Scientists look to filthy paw gestures of damn dirty apes for language origin clues (6)

Wed May 02, 2007
(Some Guy) Cool How geeks make waffles (32)
BBC Spiffy Up to half of Mars may have lethal, psycho creating, baby killing dihydrogen monoxide (45)
(TTAC) Unlikely Chrysler announced their hybrid Hemi will get 25% better gas mileage than the regular one. Unfortunately, no one told them that 25% of nothing is still nothing (22)
CBC Spiffy Aussie scientists create electricity, clean water from brewery waste. Behold the power of Fosters (14)
(FMQB) Followup The Copyright Royalty Board has pushed back the due date for royalty payments to kick in, from May 15 to July 15, giving web radio stations two more months to convince Congress to come kicking and screaming into the 21st century (67)
Network World Cool The Top 15 most colorful, controversial Microsoft statements ever (31)
Kotaku Asinine Kid arrested for making a counter strike map. EVERYBODY ah the hell with this. Go back to what you were doing (192)
(SYFY Portal) Cool "Dead Like Me" stocks up on post-its, to be resurrected for a DVD movie (35)
The Register Obvious Jesus, Gandalf or a late-model Jim Morrison appears in a 4GB Samsung flash memory chip (29)
TechnologyReview Cool Robot can climb walls, spy on deaf people (12)
(FirstShowing.net) Cool The Final Iron Man Mark III Armor Revealed (41)
Wired Cool Navy invents weapon which destroys through the use of sound, looks to partner with producers of American Idol (113)
(myfoxal.com) Obvious Train carrying rockets for upcoming NASA launch assplodes off a bridge in Alabama ahead of schedule (49)
Network World Amusing Can Microsoft cause kidney stones? (7)
(Gallivanter) Spiffy My Nokia 6300 reviewed (22)
(Dueling Analogs) Amusing Gamers having reservations about GameStop reservations (52)
Yahoo Stupid Polar ice caps melting 30 years ahead of experts' predictions. Which either means that global warming is getting worse, or the experts don't know what they're talking about and are making numbers up as if their jobs depend on it (68)
Slashdot Unlikely AMD processors may soon become overpriced symbols of being hip (17)
(WUSA) Sappy Actual headline: "Duck In Danger." Since this duck is in Southeast D.C., they are probably afraid it will be shot, stabbed, carjacked or all of the above (56)
Mercury News Interesting Old Navy to move its plus sizes out of stores and sell them exclusively online, claiming Internet tubes are more springy than floorboards. And I thought Old Navy's entire line was plus-sized (33)
Wired Asinine Army squeezes soldiers balls... I mean blogs. Yes, blogs (10)
(Some Guy) Interesting Al Gore killed the Neanderthal (7)
(Some Guy) Interesting Scientists discover clues as to why the Fibonacci is so common in nature. Maximillian Cohen unavailable for comment (30)
(Some Wii) Interesting Working off weight with Wii, fat gamers everywhere rejoice (15)
(engadget) Interesting Moving away from GATTACA (10)
Yahoo Misc Heart-attack death rate declining, report says. Overall death rate holding steady at 100 percent (5)
USA Today Amusing Prince Charles godwins climate change. (You know who else hated the climate?) (8)
Wired Asinine If it walks, talks and smells like a federal ID card, well then, it must be a federal ID card (140)
Network World Cool DHL delivers the gold in the wild, wacky Great Package Race (10)
(Some Boneheads) Ironic Business 2.0 magazine, which has repeatedly harped on the necessity of backups, loses its entire June issue after one of their editorial systems crashed, with no backup (9)
Yahoo Interesting "B-b-but...China" excuse from global-warming apologists falters as research shows developing countries have sharply reduced emissions (239)
(DefenceTalk) Cool Exploring caves from 30 feet in the air (3)
News.com.au Cool The power of beer drinking: Turning beer wastewater into electricity (5)
Discovery Interesting NASA trying to decide what to do with dead bodies on missions to Mars. Soylent Green? (45)

Tue May 01, 2007
Newsweek Cool Science will soon make it possible to revive the dead hours after their souls travel through the tunnel into the afterlife. Here comes the science (34)
CNN Scary A new camcorder is being branded as a "YouTube for soccer moms" (17)
(Some lazy helpdesk jockey) Obvious Government claims IT workers are lazy. Pot and kettle laugh their asses off (341)
ZDNet PSA "Highly critical" Trillian, Winamp flaws flagged. EVERYBODY PANIC (if you use IRC in Trillian or MP4 in WinAmp) (39)
NYPost Hero Masturbating in public? On a subway train? To a techie chick with a camera phone? Not smart, guy, not smart (148)
Yahoo Spiffy Reversing Alzheimer's memory loss may be possible. In fact, reversing Alzheimer's memory loss may be possible (24)
Forbes Interesting Tonight your webpage dines in GOOGLE HELL (31)
MacWorld Weird Vista more secure than Mac OS (98)
Globe and Mail Obvious Parents turning blind eye to kid's net use because they don't want to find out their daughter has a webcam and a devoted fanbase. Article includes an amusing list of hip "webspeak" terms (213)
Real Tech News Cool A scientist has proposed a type of suit using technology based on geckos to allow people to climb walls, save big on car insurance (8)
Jalopnik Amusing This is our country, this is our Autobot? Chevrolet launches "Build Your Own Autobot" web site for Transformers Movie (60)
(NBC) Interesting Number of female video-game players increases. Here's a story about both of them (49)
(Some Guy) Cool Astronomers map out planetary danger zone around "blast radius" of O-stars (4)
Network World Unlikely Repeal of online-gambling prohibition deserves passage in Congress … but don't bet on it happening (16)
AFP Sad New study claims that over half of Spainerds are overweight. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my waistline, prepare to diet (20)
(Some Guy) Cool Students invited to bring robots to White House, find Sandra Day O'Connor (5)
(1UP) Stupid Fool me once, shame on me. Let Uwe Boll make another "Bloodrayne" movie, shame on you (34)
Yahoo Asinine SCO is not experiencing the lawsuitlarity they thought they would (12)
Live Science Cool Brazilian spider delivers more than a painful bite that sends most victims to the hospital. Its venom stimulates an hours-long erection (35)
C|Net Cool Dell to offer Ubuntu Linux on select desktop and laptop machines (77)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Microsoft says they can't find a single person who doesn't want to pay them $50 for something they can get for free (44)
MSNBC Amusing Everything you never wanted to know about ducks' elaborate genitals (19)
Wired Cool Company shareholders, acting in the best interests of others rather the bottom line, formally request that Google challenge censorship in authoritarian countries (12)
(Some Guy) Spiffy The average person spends over eight hours a day on the Internet. It's not like that porn is going to download itself (23)
Yahoo Cool Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well... until he went down into his mother's basement to play video games and never came out (63)
Yahoo Amusing So that's why my brother gives the open-hand gesture to his wife (4)
Stuff Silly Can't keep up with your email inbox? You may be eligible to declare email bankruptcy (20)
Yahoo Cool Rubik's "speed cubing nerds" earning celebrity status (53)
Live Science Strange If you thought your sex life was twisted, try being a duck (with pic) (14)
News.com.au Unlikely Super amazing fat-burning pill that will make you melt off pounds without exercise on the horizon (64)

Mon April 30, 2007
(PhysOrg) Interesting Artificial snot improves electronic nose, boogers to flick at Sarah Connor (7)
Yahoo Interesting Children with asthma more likely to have emotional problems, glasses stolen by hunters (13)
News.com.au Interesting Today: Australian scientist announces ocean currents, not man, causing global warming. Tomorrow: Al Gore demands that we outlaw ocean currents (35)
CNN Cool A semi Hemi (12)
Network World Interesting Like there aren't enough lawyers in First Life? (8)
(Bit-Tech.Net) Cool Kiss your separate processors goodbye. Intel developing General Purpose Processing Units (9)
Discovery Scary Scientists discover a state between life and death. Zombies, Cthulhu, Anne Coulter shrug and wonder what took them so long (28)
(Some Guy) Interesting Glow sticks may lure sea turtles to death, ecstasy (10)
Reuters Spiffy Science has finally turned its attention to something we can all appreciate- bong research (7)
(The Augusta Chronicle) Cool Regenerating, blast-to-bits resistant, radiation-proof organism discovered in South Carolina nuclear facility. And so it begins (41)
The Register Interesting Supreme Court rules it is OK to steal stuff from somebody in the US and profit from selling it overseas, as long as you send it over in pieces and it is then reassembled over there by somebody else (15)
News.com.au Dumbass Atheism causes anorexia. Evidently, Jesus likes the fatties (45)
(Some Guy) Ironic Good: Cure for cancer found. Bad: It's HIV. Figures (23)
InfoWorld Amusing In bid to become the TGIFriday's of the software world, Sun Microsystems unveils "Project Flair" (10)
BBC Obvious British study shows Marijuana is the flame, Heroin is the fuse and LSD is the bomb that blows your mind (184)
Network World Asinine Microsoft's Balmer: Apple iPhone isn't going to get any market share (110)
(Some Pirate) Ironic Anti-piracy group pirates anti-piracy report. Ninjas apparently unimpressed (7)
Yahoo Obvious Study shows that exercising helps people lose weight. Researchers moving on to controversial question of "In what direction does the sun rise in the morning?" (155)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Uncensor the Internet with this Firefox plug-in. It puts the "hi" back in "bulls**t." (29)
Yahoo Stupid Hong Kong film producers may be forced to make their movies boring and dull to gain release on the mainland of China (6)
(Some Guy) Amusing What if Mario was in World of Warcraft? (20)
(Some Ruski) Cool In Russia, coolest aircraft pictures you’ll see all day watch you (16)
Yahoo Cool Old and busted: The Wii's Motion sensitive controllers. The new Hotness: Brainwave activated game machines (109)
London Times Amusing Apple reports faulty batteries prone to swelling. Cautions that if swelling persists for more than two hours to see a service technician (14)
Reuters Interesting A day in the life of an Antarctic scientist. "8-11 a.m. -- look at ice; 12-3 p.m. -- look at ice; 5-8 p.m. -- penguin orgy; 9-11 p.m. -- look at ice" (51)
Kotaku Followup Sony admits to using dead goat at a party, denies letting guests eat from it (73)
(Eweek) Sad Iran 2 cnsr txt msg. WTF (11)
MSNBC Followup Last week's news: migranes may make you live longer. This week's news: migranes may give you brain damage. Next week they'll probably be good for you again (63)
Network World Interesting Lots of bloggers are doing it today … or not doing it, to be more precise: "One-day Blog Silience" in progress to honor VT victims. And, of course, there's bellyaching (10)
MSNBC Scary That bullfight blocking the road a mile ahead of you? Engineered by bored hackers who have now found a way to manipulate GPS (15)
Chicago Sun-Times Interesting 3,775 men get wrangled, hog-tied, and intimately examined at the big free Chicago prostate-examination rodeo (17)
Yahoo Scary New fairly non-invasive surgery technique allows surgeons to remove your organs through existing orifices (20)