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Sun August 26, 2007
ABC News Interesting Fossilized penis bone from an extinct walrus sells for $8,000 at auction. Fossilized bucket expected to sell for double that (13)
The Register Amusing Gorillas force zookeepers to reinstate satellite TV access. Your gorilla wants his Spongebob Squarepants (16)
Metacafe Cool Coolest ATV/Jet Ski evar (10)
Yahoo Interesting Your favorite beaches could soon be laced with crushed glass; Looks like someone's got glass in their vagina (98)
Breitbart.com Interesting The Canadian city of Fredericton is honoring a world renowned street light expert (13)
Slashdot Interesting New fossil records show that the divergence of man from ape occurred 20 million years before the Earth was created (29)
(Some Photon) Spiffy Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity (in words of four letters or less) (56)
(Some Guy) Cool Stop doing that or you'll go blind. Go outside Tuesday and stare at the eclipse instead (18)
(uberreview) Cool Top ten most effective/annoying alarm clocks (51)
Fox News Stupid That's a damn fine cup of coffee. Still no cure for cancer (22)

Sat August 25, 2007
(Some Guy) Cool We'll see your 1TB disc due out in 2-3 years and raise you a 50TB protein-based USB flash drive due out in 18 months. Yeah, what format war? (77)
Wired Scary Keyless entry codes cracked. Suck it Honda, Ford, GM, Mercedes and Jaguar owners (24)
(Some Guy) Cool Move over Blu-ray and HD DVD. Now there is something meatier. Say hello to the 1TB disc. Format war? What format war? (60)
(Ars Technica) Obvious Windows Genuine Advantage suffers worldwide outage. We're all pirates today (236)
Reuters Stupid Plastic 'Diet Forks' available in packs of ten for $8.95. "The uncomfortable grip compelling user to put fork down between bites, slowing the user's eating speed" (77)
(NewsObserver.com) Misc Loss of hemlock trees could devastate ecosystem, suicidal philosophers (39)
(Some Guy) Interesting If your children are born in the winter or fall, they will have better long-range eyesight throughout their lifetime and less chance of requiring thick corrective glasses (91)

Fri August 24, 2007
Yahoo Stupid China decides enough blasphemy is enough; Sues World of Warcraft for using character fonts (42)
Yahoo Hero Bush's Big Bang buddy bites bullet (37)
News.com.au Followup Australia's $84 million porn filter cracked by student in 30 minutes (120)
Sci Fi Interesting Toshiba unleashes 32 bit SD cards. That's a lot of po... um, data storage (44)
(Some Guy) Cool The rest of the world uses the metric system: a visual aide to understanding the definition of a "meter" (118)
Houston Chronicle Cool Texas's Board of Education, including the creationists, overwhelmingly reject teaching intelligent design. Kansas blames it on the shape of their skulls (61)
Wired Cool "It's not fair," Krahulik says. "They could be having sex. With women. Why do they want my hobby?" (51)
Fox News Cool 17-year-old Bergen County Academies student in New Jersey achieves the dream, hacks the iPhone (158)
(Ars Technica) Obvious The good news: PS3 sales up 60%. The bad news: The PS3 is *still* in last place behind the Wii and the Xbox360 (93)
Yahoo Unlikely Author manages entire article on "UFO believers seeking the truth" without making an X-Files reference (14)
(vnunet) Asinine Movie pirate whining like a little girl because state-mandated monitoring software requires that he switch from Linux to Windows (85)
(AC Media) Interesting Scientists discover a protein that blocks long-term memories, note that they will soon make the drug available to people who grew up in the 80s (44)
News.com.au Followup That story about the Australian Prime Minister's office modifying Wikipedia entries? Yeah, the reporters got the IP address wrong and the office never modified anything (21)
Yahoo Interesting Astronomers find "hole in universe." Voice of Ed Harris urges against exploring further (337)
Reuters Interesting Viagra makes men feel like cuddling. Yea, that's the ticket (95)
(Portfolio.com) Obvious Mark Cuban has had his fill of internet porn, wants us all to move on to high-definition porn (25)
News.com.au Interesting Taking cues from every 5th grade science project, Sony developing potato-powered Walkman (10)
(WWdN:iX) Wheaton In desperate effort to complete Wheaton trifecta, Wil submits: Klingons Crossing the Delaware (77)
(Comos Magazine) Silly Hippie researchers discover how many bong hits it takes to get to the center of an out of body experience (14)
(Some Guy) Cool The coolest new photoshopping technology you will see all month, with nerdy video (42)
Live Science Followup Old and busted: Soil on Mars may contain microbial life. The new hotness: Bullshiat (21)

Thu August 23, 2007
Valleywag Interesting Missing: Founder of the biggest free classifieds site ever. Answers to "Craig". Last seen bathing in a pool of hundred dollar bills, plzhlpthx (9)
Slashdot Ironic Video pirate forced to use MS Windows as punishment (35)
Slashdot Interesting No online gambling? Okay, we're copying your music, movies and software (30)
CNN Interesting Soil on Mars may contain microbial life. Marvin the Martian said to be extrememly displeased (42)
Network World Cool Open-source companies to watch (10)
(Tech Crunch) Obvious All of that work filling out your profile on Facebook? It's allowing Facebook to target you with offers and ads (23)
Fox News Strange "Study: Men With 'Cavemen' Faces Most Attractive to Women." Yeah, but can they buy car insurance? (31)
CNN Cool Four-billion-year-old diamonds reveal secrets of the Earth -- one of which is that the Earth is apparently not 6,000 years old (73)
Aint-It-Cool-News Unlikely Leaked footage from the upcoming "Halo" movie. Could this break the tragic "video game movie curse"? (87)
LA Times Interesting Despite conventional wisdom, many bloggers do real journalism. Examples include stories such as "Scientists Determine My Cat is World's Cutest" and "Asshat Boyfriend Fails to Remember Local Woman's Birthday" (65)
This Is Local London Cool Hayden Panattiere stars in "Got Milk?" campaign (with pic). In other news, millions of pasty basement dwellers just experienced a Level 6 nerdgasm (73)
Seattle Times Wheaton Wheaton to deliver keynote speech tomorrow at PAX. When was the last time a Wheaton trifecta was in play? When "Star Trek" was still good (188)
(The Local) Amusing Top Swedish politician accidentally comes out of the closet on Facebook. Daughter pushes him back in (40)
(Some Red Shirt Guy) Interesting Just how many people did Kirk kill? Inquiring geeks want to know (21)
MSNBC Obvious Game widows grieve for their lost spouses. "Before he got into this game... he was active, outdoorsy, he used to hang out with friends. Now he's agoraphobic and won't go out of the basement" (87)
(Some Guy) Followup Turns out almost everything Microsoft makes overheats. They are now recalling racing wheels for the 360 (16)
Stuff Interesting Researchers discover 10-million-year-old fossils of ape. No word if it was damned or dirty (15)
PCWorld Dumbass Bad: Stealing an unsecured wi-fi signal in a public place. Worse: Getting busted for it, and admitting to it. Fark: The guy that busted you and subsequently got your arrested for it had about as much authority as a mall cop (31)
(Some caveman) Interesting There but by the Grace of Darwin, go we (19)
Yahoo Unlikely YouTube fans rant, threaten to leave over new ads. They'll get over it (30)
(Some gal) Spiffy ...and finally, the latest in technology for your child: The Toddler Taser (72)
Network World Scary I.T. execs worry: How close is World War 3.0? (16)
Guardian.com Stupid Sony figures that since nobody is buying the PS3 for its games, they might as well turn the thing into a video camera (52)
AFP Interesting A moose warmed my climate once. No really, it was standing there belching and ... (163)
Network World Scary Storm worm spam nearly doubles in volume (10)
(some Opportunity fan) Cool The coolest Mars pic you'll see... ever (40)
BBSpot Wheaton Wil Wheaton indicted for running robot fighting ring (137)
Rotten Tomatoes Cool Paul Giamatti confirmed for "Bubba Nosferatu," but hey, what do I care? I've got a growth on my pecker (58)
Forbes Interesting Playboy launching college social networking site, expects us to believe those girls are really college students (11)
(Some Guy) Scary In an effort to continue its march towards a "V for Vendetta" future, the UK is now weighing the idea of putting tracking chips in school uniforms (40)
(Some Guy) Cool High school band plays classic NES tunes (13)
Reuters Asinine Nokia announces deal with Microsoft that will bring awesome cutting-edge features like Hotmail to company's cell phones (11)

Wed August 22, 2007
BBC Obvious After a global bird flu epidemic failed to materialize, World Health Organization now grabbing at straws to protect its funding and warning that a new SARS, ebola or cooties outbreak has got to be just around the corner (25)
BBC Obvious Apparently, mobile phones are replacing something called a "landline" whatever that is (25)
(Some Guy) Sad You know the Selberg trace formula, the Selberg sieve, the Selberg integral, the Selberg class, the Rankin-Selberg L-function, the Selberg eigenvalue conjecture and the Selberg zeta function? Selberg died at 90 (21)
MSNBC Interesting Longest Mars simulation mission ever ends as all seven crew members leave island (6)
Flickr Amusing An inside joke for you software developerment and support Farkers (29)
Yahoo Obvious Green light? Please, c'mon, I'll change. C'mon, green light. This is the last one, I swear. Green light, pleeeeease (29)
(Some Guy) Interesting Free will does not exist. Maybe I should not have typed that. I think I'll just go buy some athletic shoes (56)
Yahoo Cool Small Internet broadcasters offered discount royalty deal that could keep them in business through 2010 (6)
(YNet News) Interesting Israeli porn websites report up to 10 percent of their clicks are from Muslim countries. Favorite galleries: "Miss Rachel disciplines the very naughty Arab serving girl" (279)
AFP Scary Public image of bats will not be particularly improved by the revelation that they are the source of the Marburg virus (21)
(Some Guy) Cool "Heroes" season 2 promo (56)
PCWorld Interesting Apple signs deal with three mobile phone companies to sell iPhone in Europe. Enjoying your mandatory AT&T, American iPhone owners? (43)
(Some Guy) Amusing Drunken Shatner rants to Trekkies about confronting road-rage driver on way to convention by shouting "I am Captain Kirk" (35)
Reuters Obvious Google Earth unveils new "virtual telescope," showing the sky for people too damn lazy to get off their asses and walk outside (36)
Valleywag Followup How a (now former?) Fox employee failed to hack Fark. Subpoenas on deck, BTW (480)
(PonderAbout.com) Interesting The original development and the continued survival of terrestrial life has rested upon a particular aspect of the Moon's gravitational effect on the Earth (24)
(Some Guy) Followup Superman joins Batman in Justice League boycott. Replacement scabs can forward resume to Aquaman next week (52)
Live Science Interesting Scientists rethink how bubbles form. Probably while sitting around drinking buttloads of beer (11)
Live Science Interesting Strange asteroids baffle scientists who plan to fire twice then hit hyperspace (8)
MSNBC Spiffy Texas company to resume limited production of the DeLorean. Insert lame "Back to the Future" reference here (34)
(Some Guy) Interesting Fat on chest and upper back increase risk of insulin resistance. In related news, phat chest and baby got back may increase risk of being in a rap video (7)
Kotaku Dumbass Your Xbox 360 gets too hot -- what do you do? A) Turn it off? B) Point a fan at it? Or C) Set in it a pan of water? (108)
Slashdot Interesting Japan to replace the internet by 2020 (28)
ABC News Scary New DNA mapping test allows you to identify what diseases you'll get 30 years from now. You might as well know about it - your insurance company sure as hell does (65)
Yahoo Interesting Chemists take time out of their busy schedules to figure out why dark-roasted coffee tastes like ass. Still no cure for... oh, nevermind (65)

Tue August 21, 2007
BBC Obvious Did you know that a T-Rex could outrun a professional football player? You can thank the University of Manchester for this relevant information (25)
(Scienc Blogs) Scary What would it take to artificially make a male pregnant? Here comes the science (28)
Google Weird The "Cosmos"-less Science Channel Discussion Thread (208)
(Monkey Trials) Hero Meet the guy who has done more damage to the creationists in the last decade than anyone else -- quite literally (56)
(BoyGenius Report) Amusing "'Laptop computers' and 'professional quality audio reproduction' go together like 'Michael Vick' and 'innocent.'" In lieu of Technology tag, Amusing makes an appearance (8)
Fox News Interesting A Uganda study has found that uncircumcised men who washed soon after sex increased their chances of getting HIV. In other news, Uganda conducts scientific studies (40)
Jalopnik Cool Dodge Caliber SRT-4 pricing and specs announced. How about 285 hp for $23,000? Suck it, Hondakidz (85)
Network World Interesting TiVo Las Vegas (9)
(nbc11.com) Interesting Which is more newsworthy? The fact that Steve Wozniak got busted for driving 104 mph, or that he reached that speed in a Prius? (133)
Yahoo Interesting There's some manioc, manioc in Mayan lore. And it's preserved like it's never been preserved before (23)
(Science Daily) Scary Meet Acrylamide, the next naturally occuring chemical in your food to panic about (52)
CNN Followup Unlike that first car you ever owned, space shuttle makes it home intact, again (129)
C|Net Stupid MTV and RealNetwork join forces against Apple. Wonder Twin powers, activate! Form of: Black hole of suck! (40)
(The Australian) Scary It's back to the drawing board as scientists discover the opposite of the cure for cancer. Still no cure for science (10)
(Some Guy) Cool First it's "rocket powered" prosthetic arms, next thing you know SkyNet's gone self-aware (18)
Wired Amusing FPS "Bioshock" owes more to Ayn Rand than to "Doom." So instead of shooting demons, you're talking people to death on Internet forums? (115)
BBC Interesting The average person's inability to set up a home network is "the elephant in the room that no-one wants to talk about." Plus it doesn't help when you can't retrieve the elephant's network address (67)
New Scientist Cool Porn will never be the same again (26)
BBC Cool Massive dead star found near Earth, and it's not Anna Nicole Smith (35)
Live Science Unlikely New concept for a time machine could possibly enable distant future generations to travel into the past and give us the damned thing so we don't have to wait for the technology to make it a reality (69)

Mon August 20, 2007
BBC Cool Prestigious medical journal publishes article on 2005 'World of Warcraft' epidemic (35)
Fox News Cool New DeLorean production now official (34)
Space Interesting We now know how sunshine is made (27)
Yahoo Asinine Researchers discover that girls really do prefer pink. Submitter seeking funds to study blueness of sky, wetness of water (144)
BBC Obvious Stereotypes of gamers persist because they are accurate. Farkers laugh at those pale-skinned, virgins dwelling in Mom's basement. Oh, wait (36)
CNN Obvious Study reviews that the more times a surgeon has performed prostate surgery, the better the odds are for the patient. Obvious tag finally decides to schedule its prostate exam (5)
(Some Feline) Interesting When a cat steps over an obstacle with its front legs, how do its hind legs know what to do? Caturday-like theme brought you by the University of Alberta, Canada (31)
Network World Cool Voyager spacecraft celebrates 30-years out of this world (31)
Denver Post Interesting Famous phone hacker "Joybubbles" dies, he whistled while he worked (22)
(wtfiswrong.com) Obvious E^(pi * i) = -1, but how? (112)
Washington Post Amusing Dreamworks, Paramount drop Blu Ray, go HD DVD only. PS3 in bioshock (161)
(Mobile Choice Blog) Interesting Hey cellphone manufacturers: those whizzy features in your cutting-edge handsets? Users don't want 'em. New research says they want "a more basic phone that's easier to use and more affordable" (79)
LinuxWorld Interesting Open source developers face H1-B visa puzzle (27)
Yahoo Amusing Scientists trying to inventory universe find majority is missing, blame wives for moving molecules from counter where they had left them (280)
C|Net Cool Shipping soon: 64-core chips that can pass up to 32 terabits a second between cores. "Dual Core"? Hey, good luck with that (27)
Gizmodo Cool New Canon camera fires 6.5 frames-per-second at 10.1 megapixels. Your sorry-ass cell phone last seen quietly leaving the room (104)
(Times of India) Cool Forgot your cell phone charger? No worries, just charge the phone with your body (13)
(Some Guy) Amusing Points to ponder while calling tech support (63)
SMH Followup As if it wasn't bad enough that the CIA, FOX News, and the New York Times did it, now the Vatican is hacking Wikipedia pages. In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti (28)
St. Pete Times Interesting Interactive report on hurricane hunters and their aircraft (7)
Philly Silly College freshmen meeting their roomies ahead of time on Facebook (34)
ABC News Obvious Artificial wet life called "likely" in three to 10 years. "We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways; in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict." EVERYBODY PANIC (67)



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