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Sun July 08, 2007
(Airplane Junkie) PSA 787 Rollout will be webcast live at 3:30 PDT. Link goes to webcast. Thank you Airbus for increasing my bonus this year (57)
(Satisfaction... to the world) Unlikely Kansas researchers just sure you'll love a new, high-fiber Snickers. Hmmm, fiber (19)
(Linux Distro News) Spiffy Rev. Al Sharpton to start campaigning for Linux (93)
(Some virgin) Obvious Why the Death Star's trash compactor in Star Wars makes utterly no sense whatsoever (86)
Kansas.com Unlikely "If the mother is eating Cheetos and white bread, the fetus will be born with those taste buds. If the mother is eating carrots and oatmeal, the child will be born with those taste buds." (124)
CBC Interesting A panel of U.S. scientists suggest Saturn's moon Titan may be the best bet for life in the solar system outside Earth, Kurt Vonnegut smiles, nods approval and continues on his voyage beyond the stars (23)
News.com.au Obvious US National Academy Of Stating The Bleeding Obvious reports that aliens might not be like us (48)
Scientific American Cool We're number two: Canada has as good or better health care than the U.S., despite spending half what the U.S. does on health care. Here comes the science (80)
(Geek Army) Amusing Monty Python LEGO (11)

Sat July 07, 2007
Asia Times Interesting India's Tata Motors plans to start selling a car in the US that will cost $2,470 in direct competition with China's new US entry, the Chery QQ, that will cost $2,600 (60)
Network World Interesting The Department of Defense is offering one million dollars for the invention of a wearable power supply (25)
New Scientist Interesting The first known robot was programmed using rope. Here comes the science (11)
Philly Cool Nano robots play soccer on a field the size of a grain of rice (22)
(Some Hippie) Spiffy Now you can stick it to the man and build your own lava lamp (munchies not included) (13)
(Post-Gazette) Sad The only thing lamer than attending a furry convention is picketing a furry convention. In the rain (92)
Network World Interesting "The 7 Wonders of the Internet" ... because who really gives a crap about old buildings? (31)
CTV Interesting Dropped calls on your cellphone? The Sun is there (4)
(Some Guy) Weird WoW addicts, as in walking zombies, build a 47 PC setup (41)
Globe and Mail Boobies Breast self-exams have absolutely no statistical effect on the breast cancer mortality rate. Effect of exams by interested third parties not yet known (2)
Yahoo Obvious Huff Post columnist: "The New York Times' iPhone review was unprofessional." Translation: "I wish Apple had sent ME a free pre-release iPhone" (15)
YouTube Video Song made entirely from Counter Strike sounds. Shrieks from angry German kid mysteriously absent (21)
(Some Guy) Obvious "Sun Micro to revamp Solaris with Linux features." Somewhere geeks are creaming their Dockers with sheer ecstacy while using their Cheetos-stained fingers to report the news on Linux mailing lists, but submitter doesn't get it (10)
YouTube Video This stop motion animation would be so much cooler without house music (20)
FARK Sad Fark comment threads are beginning to look more and more like 4chan. What the fark happened to this place? (253)
ICNetwork Interesting Scientists announce breakthrough test that might be used for early detection of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, also known as Mad Cow DiseaMMOOOOOOOOOOOO (16)

Fri July 06, 2007
Gizmodo Cool Human "Pixels" perform HUGE real time animation in a stadium in Japan (with video of course). Amazing (63)
Reuters Obvious We might not realize it when the aliens invade if we're only looking for creatures that drink water (22)
New Scientist Interesting New study concludes that Earth is smaller than claimed, but still average (14)
(Some Guy) Scary Cambridge professor claims 50/50 chance all life on Earth will end in next century, names top eight PANIC-inducing scenarios (253)
Reuters Followup Sony CEO: You can't have a PS3 price drop. Not yours (100)
BBC Interesting New technology to alert drivers of imminent collisions. Hopefully it will be forwarding these warnings to their damn cell phones (22)
(The Steel Deal) Scary Let loose the robot dogs of war: here's what DARPA has in mind for the battlefield of the future (33)
Washington Post Obvious In the libertarian anarchy of the internet, "life tends to be nasty, brutish, short -- and furry," says the columnist chatting up a furry on Second Life. Um, it's "research." Yeah, that's it. Research (24)
New Scientist Obvious China's new ballistic-missile submarine spotted on Google Earth. You can find the damndest things while looking for naked chicks (41)
BBC Interesting World’s largest microscope can show how much your finger nail grows in one minute, but fails to find submitter's penis (16)
The Sun Obvious Here's photographic proof of why the world no longer needs payphones (139)
Globe and Mail Ironic Greenland was once a lush oasis filled with talking snakes and Adam & Eve (16)
ABC News Asinine Video gamers trying to break slacker image hire Jack Osbourne to represent them at the World Series of Video Games in Louisville, Ky (with pic) (13)
PCWorld Obvious Microsoft to release six security updates next week, acknowledge 7 additional vulnerabilities - suck it iPhone users (39)
Miami Herald Interesting Since there's no storm in the tropics, the staff at the National Hurricane Center decides to create its own (27)
ABC News Obvious In latest example of how it flushes money down the crapper, NASA buys $19 million toilet (24)

Thu July 05, 2007
Kotaku Cool PS3 price drop confirmed for July 12. Too little to late? (108)
(Some Guy) Scary MPAA's Media Defender site, MiiVi.com, offers trojan disguised as P2P program (44)
MSNBC Obvious Microsoft will have to pay out $1 billion in Xbox repairs. Sony says their console is more reliable since the PS3 can sit indefinitely on the shelf without breaking (58)
NCBuy Obvious Certain therapies may hurt women's chances of getting pregnant, such as "self-esteem" and "responsible drinking" (15)
Independent Interesting 101 really useful websites (48)
(The Australian) Spiffy Turns out the weight of our galaxy is 42. That means three times 10 to the power of 42 kilograms. Almost exactly what 'The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy' said it was (79)
(Wireless Weblog) Amusing Rabidly fear-mongering UK councillor Emma Jones on the dangers of Wi-Fi: "I, quite frankly, think we are frying children's brains" (57)
London Times Cool Hyperion: Pumice stone of the Universe (25)
(Times of India) Cool New study finds daily glass of wine can prevent tooth decay. Research conducted by Italian scientists, natch (28)
(Some Guy) Cool Old and busted: Teflon. New hotness: Superhydrophobic coatings. Never wash your car or clean your toilet bowl again (42)
(ScienceDaily) Spiffy Faced with explosion in jellyfish population, Japanese scientists settle on the obvious solution: grind them up and use the extract to make designer mucous (16)

Wed July 04, 2007
(Some iCliche) Asinine IPhone sells for twice the cost of manufacturing, confirming the simple equation iPhone = iDiot (138)
Slashdot Cool "It's too good to be true but it is true. It will have such an impact on everything we do. The only analogy I can give is if you had absolute proof that God wasn't real." (75)
Yahoo Interesting Turtles being used to test wireless network, can usually outrun AT&T's data network (21)
BBC Obvious Introduction of Japanese snow monkeys into Scottish wildlife park stirs criticism, complaints that they aren't as comfortable as sheep (11)
Network World Interesting Ethernet inventor Metcalfe takes helm at algae-for-imported oil startup (11)
Network World Interesting Researchers try to figure out whether securing software and networks is even worth the money (16)
Slashdot Amusing Apparently, "dottie" is the root password to your brand new iPhone (only took 3 days), of course this won't be of any help to you since you are a Windoz sissy boy (92)
(Some Guy) Asinine 12 years too late, eBay takes on Craigslist (25)
Wired Spiffy The coolest evolution mural you'll see this Epoch (56)
Fox News Silly This great new invention allows a person to get a printed e-mail without needing a computer. If it sounds like a fax machine that's because it pretty much is (13)
Canada.com Obvious Google to become a telecom giant which is consistent with their overarching strategy, which is to control the advertising dollar. Google: You ain't seen nothin' yet (22)

Tue July 03, 2007
(Some autoblog) Unlikely Kids from Philly build a 300hp hybrid, which is sure to be locked in a box next to the Ark of the Covenant (32)
Wired Interesting Study shows that babies learn to lie to parents at six months old. Now to find the effectiveness of sodium pentothal and polygraphs. They'll never get away with hiding the veggies again (5)
Yahoo Interesting Hey identical twins: You're here because your embryo collapsed. Excuse me while I inform my brother of this news telepathically (11)
Real Tech News Amusing Sony patents liquid airbag for hard drives - what could possibly go wrong? (15)
(Some Guy) Sad Ever wonder about the miraculous uses humans would put embedded computers to when they were perfected? Yeah, turns out it's an automated toilet that will wipe, wash and dry your ass for you (22)
Yahoo Interesting Scientists think gut bacteria 'may have evolved' from deep-sea ancestors. Then again, didn't we all? (18)
Yahoo Dumbass Release of third kind of high-def DVD format - "Total HD" - delayed until next year, by which time it can safely be completely ignored (32)
(Some Recycling Farker) Silly That hack which hurl'd from nostalgia's reign / Consoles of mighty brands untimely slain / Whose decks unwanted at the Goodwill store / Devouring drills and hungry dremels tore (18)
MSNBC Cool Scientists begin "dissecting" a giant pulsating star in the final stages of life. Kirstie Alley tells them to knock it off, it is starting to hurt (16)
Fox News Amusing Don't look down upon the technologically clueless (128)
Daily Mail Interesting Scientists have discovered the reason we yawn. Still no cure for cancer (27)
(Some vertebrate) Interesting Wait - Don't squish that bug. Identify it with this handy chart, THEN squish it (32)
New Scientist Amusing Sex makes your brain grow. Hey, want to boost your GPA? (105)
YouTube Interesting Buzz Aldrin talks about UFO's during his Apollo 11 mission (61)
Yahoo Unlikely Universal Music refuses to sign long-term deal with Apple Music Store, opening possibility they could license their songs exclusively to rival services like...umm, let's see...well, I'm sure they can do just as well somewhere else (47)
(Some Guy) Interesting "Global warming is based much more on fear, political agendas, and computer models that don’t agree with each other or the climate, rather than hard-nosed evidence and science" (255)
Scientific American Obvious Shocking study from the Romero Institute reveals that video games cut into children's reading and homework time. "We need to look deeper into what is going on" (10)
London Times Cool Fossil fragments of giant gliding bird--big as a Cessna 152--that could cruise at 41 mph, found in South America. Search still on for that hot Tarna chick from Heavy Metal (30)

Mon July 02, 2007
(Robert Krampf) Cool "I'll bet you my entire bar tab I can cut a hole in an index card and climb through it." "You're on, man. You can't possibly... oh hell..." (74)
Yahoo Obvious Sony goes "Wii, Wii, Wii" all the way home (88)
(Daily Tech) Dumbass SECTION 3: WORD PROBLEMS. Microsoft sells an XBox360 for $500 at a 20% profit margin. However, they must also replace every third XBox360 as defective. How many XBox360s must they sell to break even? (71)
Gizmodo Spiffy ... So I said, "You don't think I wished for a 12 inch pianist, do you?" (13)
YouTube Cool Coolest Nebula zoom you'll see all day (43)
Yahoo Obvious Scientists are less religious than the general population, and the reason has little to do with their study of science or academic pressures, but that they weren't brainwashed as kids (103)
Reuters Interesting Shots may help you lose that beer gut. No, not that kind, you lush (15)
(Some iPhoney) Cool Step one: Buy iPhone.com in 1995. Step two: Wait. Step three: Profit (17)
Slashdot Amusing IPwnd: half of those who bough an iPhone had problems activating it, and 38% of those problems are still unresolved (52)
PCWorld Amusing The top 20 worst Windows features of all time (119)
(Review Journal) Interesting The global warming hysteria will be remembered as one of those episodes of "the madness of crowds" (80)
Yahoo Strange Physcists believe it is possible to "see" the universe back before the Big Bang-which created the universe. Note to physicists: You might want to cut back on the sticky green during late night "research" sessions (268)
The Register Scary Harry Potter, in your computer? It's more likely than you think (11)
(Some Guy) Cool Creating a working solar system: harder than you might think (36)
Reuters Cool Sixteen teams with a total of fifty robots competed in the Robo-one Soccer Cup final this Sunday. Surprisingly, it was held in Japan. w/pics (14)
Wired Spiffy New-fangled mechanical fingers might help amputees regain their strength and speed, magically restore their ability to administer 'the Shocker' (19)
Miami Herald Florida Good news: Government has a hard time tracking cell calls. Bad news: When you call 911 (3)
CBS News Cool NASA fails to make their monthly payment on the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Boeing repos it in spectacular fashion. (pic) (31)
Breitbart.com Spiffy 39 automobiles, all older than 100 years, set to race in a reenactment of the first motorcar race in history that saw petrol-powered cars defeat steam-powered cars (15)
(Some Guy) Interesting A new mathematical model on the origins of the universe proposes that this universe has a "cosmic forgetfulness", think it's won the Readers Digest lottery and may yell at you to get off its lawn (13)
News.com.au Ironic Capitalism bad for man - too much fun and freedom shortens mens lives by 6 years (15)
Breitbart.com Interesting Researchers say Type 2 diabetes could be avoided if people would simply eat a 'stone age diet'. Geico and bad teeth optional (except in Great Britain) (88)
(Some Guy) Strange Strange pianos you don't see everyday (6)
SFGate Sad Bigfoot researcher dies on 37th anniversary of meeting him. Sasquatch never misses the 2nd time (43)



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