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Sun August 12, 2007
Yahoo Spiffy REMINDER: tonight is the Perseid meteor shower, and it's a new moon. Grab a cold one and stay up late with your hunny bunny (82)
Telegraph Interesting Experiment confirms Nobel prize winner's theory that egg white is highly resistant to bacteria, and it is not necessary to refrigerate eggs (with link to time-lapse video) (53)
(Believe or Not) Cool Monster 43-foot flying V guitar sets new Guinness World Record, and plays a note so deep it's inaudible to human ears (33)
London Times Cool How to lead a healthy lifestyle while at the same time drinking your face off (58)
(Some Astronaut) Followup ♫ This is Rick and Dave to ground control ♫ We're stepping through the door ♫ And we're floating in a most peculiar way ♫ And we're gonna fix the space station today ♫ (18)
Newsweek Amusing "Household chores are less predictable and repetitive, making them difficult to explain to a machine. One answer is to design robots that are flexible for specific tasks, such as looking for Sarah Connor..." (8)
BBC Obvious Trees that are eight million years old found in Hungary. Dick Clark fondly reminisces about planting them in the halcyon days of his boyhood (pic) (33)
(The Memory Hole) Interesting U.S. Army report on ESP in animals. Your dog knows you're thinking about getting him steak (19)

Sat August 11, 2007
Breitbart.com Spiffy Archaeologists determine that most of Ireland's ancient monuments were actually used for brewing beer (13)
USA Today Cool Amish businesses are now using green energy and modern technology. Because who knows more about electricity than the Amish? (92)
LA Times Scary Google fails at something (36)
Live Science Cool Quasars caught snacking on galaxies, let's hope none of them have sweet tooths (15)
(mmoabc.com) Cool Jet Beetle with a Booster (12)
(Some Guy) Interesting Will the last person to leave Second Life please turn off the lights? Thanks, the Mgt (148)

Fri August 10, 2007
Slashdot Cool SCO loses. Unwashed masses rejoice (63)
LA Times Scary U.S. Geological Survey scientists predicts massive earthquake in Southern California causing thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in damage. EVERYBODY PAN . . . Eh, what's the use (40)
Reuters Cool Space hotel to open for business in 2012. Three night stay for only $4 million. Book now before all the ocean-view rooms are taken (41)
(PonderAbout.com) Interesting What makes our moon unique amongst the solar system's other 150+ known moons? Let's just say that sometimes size does matter (41)
(Some Guy) Cool Apple fanboy builds iPhone from scratch, looks better than the real thing (26)
(Some Guy) Spiffy New Iron Man pic, versus its comic-book counterpart (35)
(Ars Technica) Strange BitTorrent protocol closed...and open, most likely ajar (26)
Space Cool The Perseid Meteor Shower is upon us, expected to be the best show in years (82)
C|Net Amusing "Many senior executives view virtual worlds as a waste of time." My level 47 elf mage takes umbrage with that comment (34)
Slashdot Obvious MySQL ends enterprise server source tarballs, purple monkey dishwasher mambos dogface to the banana patch (56)
Fox News Cool 8000 year old settlement found under English Channel. Suck it Atlantis (45)
Fox News Interesting Possible shuttle foam strike worries NASA, maybe they should build a shuttle that can withstand the powerful force of foam (215)
My Fox Kansas City Spiffy Aggie engineering at its finest: Rather than pay to fix his car's A/C, college grad uses duct tape and bungee cords to strap a window unit to his car (w/pics) (80)
UPI Interesting Scientists have found the loss of estrogen in older rats results in increased weight, blood glucose and blood pressure (14)
(North Denver News) Dumbass You know what they say about men with large hands. They need plastic surgery to use their iphone (43)
New Scientist Cool All your lunar base are belong to us (95)
(Some Guy) Unlikely According to immortality researchers, the first person to live to 1000 years old may be alive right now. Is it you? (114)

Thu August 09, 2007
Wired Spiffy Vista fix packs now official releases, SP1 expected to come later this year. Suck it, whiners, STFUGBTW, Vista FTW (123)
(Some Guy) Interesting HTML 5 is on the horizon and it promises some cool new functionality. How long will it take IE to catch up? See you next millenium (48)
Kotaku Amusing "Halo 3" preorders have passed the one million mark. Suck it, n00bs (86)
Network World Obvious Vonage nearly done deploying patent workarounds (19)
CNN Interesting Mass grave of dinosaurs discovered. Pol Potstone and Rocky Stalin wanted for questioning (28)
(Some Guy) Cool In 83 BC, give or take a few centuries, Comet Kiess swung by the sun and laid down a trail of dusty debris that has been drifting toward Earth's orbit ever since. On Sept. 1, 2007, the dusty trail and Earth will meet (52)
Network World Ironic Google mistakes own blog for spam, deletes it (13)
Yahoo Obvious "The fact of the matter is that this is simply the Mac's time." Submitter cuts and pastes, grabs an aisle seat (203)
Network World Interesting Porn company Perfect 10 sues Microsoft (108)
C|Net Interesting DUI defendant wins breathalyzer source code (362)
BBC Obvious BBC explores why women don't go into science and engineering. "No microscopes by the dishwasher" strangely absent (246)
(Some Guy) Amusing 360's sales plunge 60 percent in light of ridiculous failure rate. What was that about the PS3 sucking? (237)
Reuters Interesting Fatter people mean fatter corpses, which means morgues are spending more money on industrial cattle-hauling equipment to move your lifeless ass from Point A to Point B and eventually someone's gonna get hurt (18)
Gizmodo Interesting Thermal expert takes apart an Xbox 360 to find out what about it sucks. If you guessed everything, come forward and collect your prize (82)
The Register (USA) Asinine Step 1: Patent video compression. Step 2: Get it accepted as a standard. Step 3: Sue everyone who uses it. Step 4: Prof... wait, not so fast Qualcomm (25)

Wed August 08, 2007
(wral.com) Interesting Are you a mosquito magnet? Here comes the science (53)
Time Interesting This week's excuse for "the obesity epidemic": diet foods. Everybody pork rinds (34)
Yahoo Interesting Study finds twist in human evolution. Chubby Checker unavailable for comment (386)
CNN Dumbass Amazon to open DRM-free MP3 store where the first downloaders get their song for free, then pricing increases based on demand. What could go wrong? (65)
(Some Hobbit) Amusing The power of The Googles proves that Frodo spent too much time wandering and not enough time saving Middle Earth (125)
Live Science Spiffy In the future, street lights may be designed to be eco-conscious. Will still look like UFOs, though (12)
Slate Interesting In the unlikely event of being expelled into outer space without a spacesuit: here is what will happen (52)
Sign On San Diego Strange Rare Tortoiseshell cat found in San Diego (w/pic) (290)
(Some Guy) Obvious What does NOAA do when you try to make sure their data-gathering sites comply with NOAA’s own rules and find most do not? Why, hide the list of locations of course. Silly question (151)
(Some Endrocine Soceity) Silly Watching Letterman and Leno cause you to get fat. If you watch Letterman, odds of overeating is slightly higher than Leno's. Here comes the science (18)
MTV Silly J.J. Abrams casts actual Russian as Pavel Chekov for "Star Trek XI." Wait till he finds out actual Russians don't really say "wessels" (93)
Discovery Spiffy Scientist working on geothermal energy by boiling water on rocks three miles underground and using the steam to power a turbine. Only downfall seems to be the crab people (29)
iWon Interesting Scientists discover largest ball of hot gas in universe, which was apparently disappointed not to get job hosting "The View" (10)
BBC Interesting Researchers discover tool to do what Fark photoshoppers have been doing for years (20)
(EFF) Unlikely Universal Music Group claims that stamping some words on a CD means that it belongs to them forever. We're pretty sure they licked it too (61)
Guardian.com Asinine A modern day Book of Revelations (16)
C|Net Spiffy The earthship: a great solution to get yourself off the power grid and be fully sustainable -- if you don't mind living in a reclaimed gravel pit (26)
(Some Scientist) Dumbass Why won't Al Gore debate his detractors? (127)
Network World Interesting Researchers find spammers' Achilles Heel (29)
(Malden Observer) Asinine Ever wonder where the extra uranium for the Manhattan Project went? It was dumped in the ocean of course. Your lobstah wants a lead apron (138)
Network World Interesting How far could cyber war go? (26)
Reuters Misc Apple unveils redesigned iMac. "I'm an elitist wannabe" sticker still an optional extra (273)
(Some Guy) Interesting New United States Air Force software will take over flight controls of jets and prevent crashes despite the best efforts of the monkey behind the stick (32)
(Some Guy) Obvious "The rise of widespread nutritional deficiencies in the western world correlates almost perfectly with the introduction of the microwave oven. This is no coincidence" (70)
Breitbart.com Dumbass Foot-and-mouth may have started in a lab been spread by human contact. Randall Flagg unavailable for comment (29)

Tue August 07, 2007
MSNBC Cool Six new species found that Noah saved from the flood (16)
(Some Banana) PSA How to fix your scratched CDs/DVDs with a banana. Yes, this actually works (69)
(Some Guy) Amusing Internet addicts being sent to reboot camp (10)
(Some Guy) Sad So long, and thanks for all the fish (183)
Reuters Obvious New study finds U.S. residents will spend more time on the Internet than reading papers for first time. Some guy swilling beer in Kentucky believed to be somewhat responsible (6)
BBC Interesting An international team of astronomers has discovered a giant planet orbiting another star. Approximately 70 percent bigger than Jupiter, it is the largest known "gas giant," narrowly beating previous title holder Bill O'Reilly (23)
ABC Action News Scary Man builds "plugin" which allows furries in "Second Life" to simulate sex (42)
(iF Magazine) Stupid World of Warcraft The Movie Coming (83)
(FMQB) Sad Webcast royalty bill talks lose steam in Congress. Internet radio countdown to extinction clock starts ticking once again (15)
(Some Guy) Obvious ABC's "Masters of Science Fiction" pulls in half the viewing audience of usual "America's Funniest Home Videos" rerun (88)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Shuttle Endeavour like new after upgrades, equipped with a new cockpit, modern satellite navigation gear, mini bar, advanced main engine sensors and diaper changing station (34)
(Capcom) Cool With an entire mall at his disposal, Frank didn't go for the women's lingerie. Instead he decided to kill Zombies. (Sponsored Link) (126)
The Onion Satire Sousaphone Hero not selling well despite two dozen public-domain marches, 27 customizable fat-guy avatars, and 135 player co-op marching band mode (36)
(Some Poor Guy) Interesting In its lastest attempt to control everything, Google will start to pay users for confirming business information. Google monopoly trifecta in play (14)
Yahoo Misc Only about 40 percent of space shuttles launch on time. NASA proud to have better record than American Airlines (63)
(The Oil Drum) Interesting Mythbusters: Ethanol and foreign-oil displacement (132)
(Mental Floss) Cool What would you do with 66,000 business cards? If your first thought was "Menger Sponge," you get a gold star (22)
Marketwatch Cool Microsoft cuts prices for X-Box 360. Still includes random stop working forever feature (93)
CNN Obvious Turns out Google may just be your garden-variety monopoly after all (176)
Yahoo Obvious Scientists have determined that adult binge drinkers prefer beer. Sweet, lovable, nutritious, wonderful, life-giving beer (25)
(Register-Guard) Spiffy Special email service helps mentally disabled communicate. Of course, we've all heard of AOL by now (30)
(Physorg) Amusing Corollary to the McDonald's label test: Adults enjoy food more when the wine served has a fancy label (25)
BBC Cool Three-million-year-old fossil to tour U.S. -- and for once it's not Keith Richards (13)
Yahoo Amusing Coffee may slow decline of memory in women. Men doomed to forget their anniversary every year regardless of their coffee intake (49)
YouTube Amusing Long ago, a Mario anime was made, and Farkers unanimously exclaimed "wtf?" (15)
Yahoo Obvious Fungus sex is a threat to frogs. You heard it here first (9)
Yahoo Interesting Scientists, who have apparently never watched "the X-Files," successfully revive microbes which have been frozen in the Antarctic ice for the last eight million years (18)
CBS 2 Lost Angeles Cool Attention underage California farkers: You can now buy any video game you want, no matter how bloody (31)
AFP Cool Scientists reveal secret of levitation - Can a brother get a "Holodeck" now? (28)

Mon August 06, 2007
(Some Guy) Strange Suspicious similarities between Blizzard's Lich King and EA's Witch King. Sauron called, he wants his outfit back (55)
UGO Interesting Worst video game sequels in history. Halo 2 strangely absent (114)
Discover Interesting Inside the mysterious disorder of "sleep eating," in which the sleepwalker is driven to eat buttered cigarettes, salt sandwiches, Brillo pads--but never vegetables (12)
MSNBC Hero Scientist: Galaxies to enter into four-way, massive cameras everywhere prepare for Big Bang (23)
TechnologyReview Interesting New flashlight to emit series of disorienting and nausea-inducing images. Device will be available to anybody except Courtney Love, because you can't cross the streams (17)
(Tech Digest) Silly An internet campaign is underway to replace Tom as everyone's first MySpace friend. We're surprised he hasn't already hopped it to Facebook like the rest of us (14)
Wired PSA How to disable the RFID chip in your passport - Stop... Hammertime (59)
(kgw.com) Strange Male fish gives birth at Oregon aquarium (75)
CNN Obvious Actual headline: "Digital technology is everywhere". Insert Ric Romero joke here (74)
Wired Ironic RIAA collection agency SoundExchange discovering there are restrictions placed on where and how they can spend their money. Subby playing them DRM version of 'Cry Me a River' (32)
How Stuff Works Followup How crack cocaine works (110)
Sky.com Interesting Zoo sets up Facebook page to find new partner for black-necked swan whose mate was killed by a fox. Go on - have a gander (29)
Fox News Interesting Researchers find breast implants increase suicide risk. Or maybe suicidal types are more likely to go for implants. These researchers don't really get the whole correlation ≠ causation thing (154)
Network World Amusing Newspaper outs "Fake Steve Jobs," who takes it like a man-god (11)
(Some Guy) Spiffy "Cockroach-2000 reporting for search and rescue duty, sir" (11)
(Grand Rapids Press) Cool Nissan to begin offering a car that will decelerate itself if it senses that a crash is imminent (39)
Yahoo Scary Waiting to have elective surgery is not that extreme, unless it's surgery to remove a pencil stuck in your head 55 years ago (53)
CBS News Obvious "From the user's point of view, they wouldn't know if it was IPv6 or V8 juice. They just want their MTV" (20)
Arizona Star Interesting Curing ADHD in children may be as simple as removing their tonsils (79)
(CEO Smack) Interesting Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says he refuses to bow to Chinese officials like Google and Yahoo - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [Edit] (49)
News.com.au Interesting Terrorists could exploit security flaws in SCADA systems and gain control of oil refineries and power stations. You may panic… now (13)
London Times Interesting Technology used in filming Harry Potter movies being reused to help British military spy planes locate bad guys (16)



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