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Sun June 17, 2007
Space Spiffy The visible universe may contain a hundred billion trillion planets (21)
Scientific American Interesting What if humans just disappeared into mid-air? How the heck would Earth cope without us? (33)
(Some Guy) Obvious "There's nothing more arrogant than thinking you understand climate change. It's as irrational as creationism. More illogical is the belief that we can change it by harvesting cow farts and driving papier mache cars" (182)
(Some Guy) Amusing New theory advanced in mystery of America's vanished honeybees: Bee rapture (29)
Yahoo Cool US astronaut sets spaceflight record: longest spaceflight by a woman not wearing Depends (19)
(Some Guy) Cool Geeky umbrellas that can *almost* do-it-all (8)
Fox News Cool Why wait in line at the grocery store when you can just scan items as you put them in your cart and pay when you leave? But then who will buy tabloids if you don't have to wait in line? Has anyone thought of that? (35)
(Some Guy) Video Microsoft is working on making part of Minority Report a reality (29)
Discover Amusing Worst science article of the week goes to Associated Press for "The Good Side of Global Warming" (27)
(Some Scientist) Cool The coolest pictures you'll see today: The EFDA-JET Torus. The world's largest experimental fusion reactor (30)
(Tech.co.uk) Strange 84% of Brits get lost on the average road trip, prefer to get directions from Homer Simpson (46)
YouTube Amusing Bloopers from the origional Star Wars trilogy (30)

Sat June 16, 2007
(xoxotyshka) Cool The coolest case mods you will see today(some Not safe for work ads) (27)
MacWorld Dumbass Blogger claims OS X Leopard copied off of Vista, which copied off of OS X Tiger (26)
(Some Guy) Cool Pics from inside the Airbus A380. Airplanes go from flying sardine cans to luxury motels in the air. Do want (49)
(Some Guy) Cool Here comes the science: people who play video games are better at driving, surgery, killing hordes of lurching demons (82)
New Scientist Interesting ♫ Smoke on the liquid methane... ♪ (9)
(Some Guy) Interesting New military body armor to be made from silk. It should look fabulous with a set of pearls (34)
Canada.com Asinine Shatner on new art exhibit centered around him, "Every artist has their muse. Leonardo was inspired by the ceiling in the great chapel. Michelangelo found his art in the Italian marble." (24)
(Some Guy) Interesting An anonymous panel of doctors talks about mistakes they've made, deaths they've caused and why you have to wait so long at their office. The article's pretty funny if you're on Ritalin, otherwise it'll just piss you off (20)
(Some Guy) Cool Scientists discover a galaxy made up completely of dark matter and lost underwear (26)
(Some Guy) Cool Toronto proposes building giant vertical farms in the middle of the city. Pretty awesome if you like a little car exhaust with your tomatos (16)

Fri June 15, 2007
(Answerbag.com) Interesting Ever wondered what causes brain freeze? Find out here (20)
(Consumerist) Obvious Dell does something incredibly stupid... amazing, no? (87)
Yahoo Interesting No fix yet for space station computers. Astronauts starting to regret downloading that BRITNYSPRSNAKED.jpg (105)
Wired Cool Ph.D student appears in her underwear to present her thesis on how to play Pong using her breasts as paddles (video in link) (81)
ABC News Unlikely From the same people who gave us Intelligent Design: Global warming is all part of God's plan (304)
New Scientist Weird "Look up, I'm just going to drip oven cleaner into your eye." (13)
(Cool Tech) Cool Mitsubishi's robotic secretary answers phones, greets visitors, finds Sarah Connor (15)
CBS Salt Lake City Unlikely Scots get drug that could save sight, but Brits don't. You kin take ma freedom, but you kin'tt take MAH SIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHHT (42)
UPI Interesting Human impact on chimpanzees studied. Unfortunately, not by firing people out of helicopter-mounted air cannons at shrieking chimp herds (18)
News.com.au Interesting The world's most perfect balls (40)

Thu June 14, 2007
(Computer World) Obvious So eBay counters Google's party protesting eBay's objection to Google's Checkout online transaction system by pulling Google ads, which prompts Google to cancel said party. Which is so totally obvious (11)
(Some Guy) Interesting It's bad enough when you fall asleep with you hand on your buddy's junk, but to have your skeleton dug up thousands of years later with your hand still on his junk is just embarassing (26)
(Ars Technica) Interesting Problem: newer high-power lasers destroy the mirrors that are intended to guide them. Solution: plasma mirrors (19)
(CHUD) Amusing Marvel Studios president on new "Incredible Hulk" movie: "[It] will be different from the first one because this one will be good" (68)
CNN Cool New filter promises crisper photos, more unintentionally funny posts on Fark.com (36)
ABC News Obvious Human genome researchers reach startling conclusion: "Man, this stuff is way more complicated than we thought" (41)
Local6 Florida In a tribute to Macgyver, NASA repairs the shuttle using staples found in the shuttle's medical kit and pins that come from the shuttle's tile repair kit (156)
Fox News Cool ♫ Goodness gracious, great balls of fire... ♫ (14)
London Times Cool 205 mph. Aerodynamics so efficient you could drive it upside-down, and it's street legal (44)
NPR Amusing "All it takes is one geek to try something stupid..." (174)
(Some Guy) Scary While shuttle crew is outside trying to tape up ship's underside, space station crew crashes critical computers and loses all propulsive capability. HAL 9000 refuses comment (128)

Wed June 13, 2007
(The Steel Deal) Scary Forget Google 'Street View' - these guys can see INSIDE your house, car, office etc etc etc (75)
Yahoo Cool Meet Gigantoraptor, the dinosaur with the coolest name ever (19)
Space Interesting Europe unveils space plane. Passengers will have to be strapped in to endure The Final Countdown (20)
YouTube Interesting Macworld 1997: Apple reaches out to Microsoft, strokes the shaft. Oh how things change in 10 years (33)
Yahoo Cool Evidence of ancient Mars ocean shoreline found. Developers rush to find a way to start building on it right away (12)
Globe and Mail Interesting Fifth International Congress on Hair Research meets in Vancouver this week. In other news, there's an International Congress on Hair Research (11)
590 KLBJ Silly Google will test "video fingerprint" tool to prevent copyrighted vids from being posted. I'm sure no one will find a way around it (11)
CTV Cool College students' research project extends the 5-second rule by 25 more salmonella-free seconds. After that, certain death (52)
(Tech Digest) Obvious Social networking sites dominated by "white, middle-class males"... just like teenage chatrooms, then (28)
AFP Scary Fun Fact to remember the next time you're late for work: Lack of sleep can kill you (98)
(X) Plug [:] (47)
(National Geographic) Interesting Surprised scientists, expecting the worst, instead discover "thousands upon thousands" of animals in first glimpse of war-ravaged Sudan in decades (w/ pics) (28)
(News14) Cool New "GPS for prostate cancer" can detect where it is and where it taint (43)
BBC Obvious God messes with out heads yet again by planting skeleton of new dinosaur species in South Africa (30)
SMH Cool New jet being tested in Australia could make a Sydney to London flight in just two hours. That's barely enough time to get drunk (46)
(Maniac World) Spiffy Image technology - this breakthrough could change the way we view books, websites, maps - all of them in their entirety could be viewed, zoomed in on, and scrolled through on a single image file (70)
MSNBC Obvious NASA announces that an object may have hit the shuttle's wing. Missions soon to spend more time inspecting the shuttle than doing actual space work (29)

Tue June 12, 2007
WTOP Spiffy Ancient Rome rebuilt digitally. Like the original, it wasn't built in a day (23)
(EFF) Scary Released documents show the NSA had a secret room inside AT&T offices which allowed them direct access to the email and internet usage of AT&T customers (156)
(Some Carl Sagan Guy) Spiffy The "Cosmos"-less Science Channel Discussion Thread (208)
USA Today Asinine Hurricane satellite could fail at anytime. Plans to launch a replacement delayed until 2016. Yes, this is a government project. Why do you ask? (18)
(Some Guy) Obvious European Space Agency scientists prove quantum entanglement exists over distance of 90 miles. Yeah, submitter doesn't know what the hell it means either, but some people think this is a big deal (66)
(MaineToday.com) Hero Maine Senate passes first statewide Net Neutrality bill (91)
(Some Guy) Amusing Scientists invent cloaking device that renders objects invisible to microwaves. In case, you know, you need to... not microwave something (43)
Yahoo PSA The first drug for canine obesity hits the market today. Your dog wants three steaks, a baked potato, and a big bowl of ice cream for dessert (57)
USA Today Obvious FDA's consideration to approve drug that decreases people's drive to eat sure to be popular with fatties, stoners (73)
(Some Guy) Amusing How all employee training videos should be (25)
London Times Stupid YouTube tests radical new technology to make YouTube less fun (23)
Slashdot Amusing Hours after Safari is released, critical security flaws are found. Security by obscurity is gone. Hey scriptkiddies, it is time to code like adults (95)
(Some Guy) Cool Guy crams Mac Mini into Macintosh SE/30, complete with monochrome display (22)
Seattle Times Interesting Mount Kilamanjaro, Al Gore's symbol of global warming, is not a victim of global warming (290)
Wired Interesting Nerves might run on sound, not electricity. Which explains why you feel so bad when you listen to that old REO Speedwagon album, loser (27)
BBC Obvious Google Mail has infiltrated universities. Submitter is hoping Google Street View infiltrates the dorms (16)
UPI Cool Robot patrols Italy's art galleries, hunts for paintings of Sarah Connor (6)
(The Consumerist) Interesting Twenty-seven confessions of a former Circuit City employee (258)
BBC Interesting Hippies trying to halt bear farming. Wait, what? (37)
C|Net Obvious Sony to custom-build TVs for Target and Wal-Mart. Guess which chain gets the model with the "All Dukes Of Hazzard" channel on every memory preset (28)

Mon June 11, 2007
(Physorg.com) Interesting Scientists create artificial skin-like material capable of healing itself repeatedly. They were surprised, however, when it awoke and demanded a phased-plasma rifle in the 40-watt range (29)
CNN Cool ISS solar array installation now in progress after three-month wait. Comcast sneers at "somewhere between March and June" appointment window (5)
(News 8 Austin) Cool Finally, solar power is doing something meaningful -- making beer (41)
(Isle of Lakes) Amusing "Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island" (169)
(Some Switcher) Cool Apple preview page for the Leopard version of OS X. Looks like Vista just got kicked in the nads (270)
(Some useless widgets) Spiffy Safari web browser coming to Windows. Now you can act pretentious on the Internet while still making fun of Mac users (97)
(Some Guy) Amusing How not to cool a computer server (40)
IGN Cool Top 10 best co-op video games. Dude, I am so totally gonna press "Start" and steal one of your lives when you aren't looking (148)
(EcoGeek) Interesting Thomas Edison, 1931: "I hope we don't have to wait until coal and oil run out before we switch to solar power." America, 21st century: Mmmm oil good yum yum (35)
(Pocket Lint) Cool Acme unveils the triple-screen laptop, perfect for thwarting pesky road runners. Rocket pack not included (15)
(IHT) Scary Privacy group says no other Internet company comes close to Google in "achieving an endemic threat to privacy" (27)
(Some Guy) Cool Marijuana skin cream could help allergies, decimate a bag of Cheetos (20)
BBC Interesting Researchers claim the safety record for child epilepsy drugs is kinda shaky (5)
(Some Guy) Strange Poor farmers in Vietnam resort to stealing the Internets to make ends meet (25)
MSNBC Obvious Why some people are walking disaster areas (91)
Dayton Daily News Stupid Ohio discovers teenagers are using search engines instead of libraries to find information. The solution? Discourage the use of search engines (24)
This Is Local London Cool World's first twins that are born to two different women. Father seen ducking out of the room, sweating profusely (19)



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