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Sun October 14, 2007
Space Scary Stop me if you've heard this before: Space shuttle launch to go ahead despite safety committee recommendation against it (13)
Yahoo Strange And you thought the comments were the worst thing about Youtube (53)
Reuters Interesting If you want to get someone's attention, look really scared (6)
(Physorg.com) Interesting Much like a fat guy wearing a speedo, scientists create semiconductor which can bend light in very wrong ways (9)
(BizWare Magic) Interesting 21 Internet facts you should know. In fact, if you don't know them, you have no business here; turn off your computer and go outside (32)
(Some Guy) Cool Nintendo fan gets the baddest tattoo ever (29)
(Madcominist) Interesting Ten million-dollar ideas that shoudn't have worked, but did. Fark doesn't make the grade (72)
(India Daily) Cool While you were busy arguing over Star Trek trivia from your basement, this mathmetician found a simulator that can create an artificial wormhole (55)
Discovery Interesting People can now control their Second Life characters with their brainwaves. Their birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison (15)
(asahi.com) Weird Japanese man invents $70 alarm clock that runs and hides from its sleepy owners as they attempt to turn it off (28)
Canada.com Amusing Police annoyed by website that "combines Facebook-like social interaction with virtual drug deals and naked characters having sex" (76)
(Halifax Daily News) Cool Canadian company has developed a vaccine that eliminates cancer in mice. Still no cure for getting ketchup out of a new bottle without using a butterknife (111)
Independent Followup This week's global disaster brought to you by...[shakes Magic 8-Ball]...rampant obesity. That is until someone calculates the heat generated by all those fat people's thighs rubbing together in some Universal Disaster Theory (12)
(60 Years Ago Today) Hero There was a demon that lived in the air. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier (213)

Sat October 13, 2007
How Stuff Works Cool How quantum suicide works (61)
(Client56) Spiffy As it turns out, brewing beer may not only be good for us, but the byproducts of brewing may become our next fuel source (26)
SMH Hero World's foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works" (110)
(Some Guy) Interesting To monitor spread of avian flu, amateur birdwatchers keep an eye out for sick finches, lethargic gulls and sagging tits (10)
(Planet Daily) Unlikely Old & busted: global warming. New hotness: global cooling. It's all about the sunspots baby (37)
Kotaku Cool The babes from "Final Fantasy" vs. the femme fatales of "Dead or Alive." It's a nerdgasm of massive proportions (36)
ABC News Interesting "Smart Bra" allegedly finds breast cancer. Doctors hope claims aren't padded (7)
(Some Nerd) Silly The ten gadgets we could all do without. Well, this is Fark, so you know someone here will be buying all of them (29)
(EcoGeek) Cool Inventor creates cheaper, more efficient wind turbine. Oil companies locking and loading their lawyers as you read this (44)
(Auto Unleashed) Interesting Eight auto design concepts from the LA auto show contest "Robo-cars" (3)
(Digital Journal) Unlikely iPod named all time best gadget ever (44)
(Bradenton.com) Interesting New techniques can help people with ADHD concen (12)
(Some Guy) Cool Amazing portraits made with typewriter (17)
(Science Daily) Scary Scientists discover plant that bleeds acid. Game over man, game over (51)
Scientific American Strange Step 1. Have a surgeon implant a human ear into your left forearm. Step 2. Implant bluetooth microphone into ear. Step 3. ??? (34)

Fri October 12, 2007
(Ars Technica) Obvious RIAA admit they have no idea how much money they lose from filesharing, and that suing filesharers costs more than they gain from it. Where did these guys go to business school? (52)
ABC News Interesting Old & busted: geocaching souvenirs and knickknacks. New hotness: geocaching your dearly departed in an environmentally friendly way (9)
London Times Obvious Installing solar panels in your home will pay back their initial investment in lower energy costs. In just 200 years (42)
(National Geographic) Interesting 5000-year-old sculpture of Flying Spaghetti Monster found in Egypt. Archaeologists mistake it for ancient hair weave (19)
Network World Spiffy BEA rejects $6.6 billion Oracle buyout offer (19)
The Register Scary It turns out that MS can update files on your computer at will. Even if Auto updates is turned off (51)
(The Business) Unlikely Al Gore's Nobel prize proves global warming is not real because the award was the "peace" one, not the "science" one (42)
MSNBC Scary Pentagon study calls for a satellite system that collects gigawatts’ worth of solar power and beams it down to Earth. Fails to mention this is also known as a Death Ray (73)
BBC Spiffy To seek out new life and new civilizations by 2025 (60)
Yahoo Asinine Scientists discover that chocolate tastes good. Here comes the science (17)
(Some Guy) Cool It goes from 0-128 mph in just 3.5 seconds and the steel track goes 456 feet into the sky. Introducing the world's tallest and fastest steel roller coaster (55)
The Register Followup Microsoft Internet Explorer desperately needs another layer of security. Allow or deny? (35)
(Science Daily) Obvious New study finds that marriage lowers testosterone lev... yes dear, sorry (25)
(HDGameNews) Interesting HD-DVD players outsell Blu-ray players, four to one (98)
(MCPmag.com) Amusing Top six computer security lapses. Buying Windows ME too obvious for list (33)
(Some Guy) Cool iPhone hackers: 2, Apple: 1 (21)
Fox News Cool First high-definition picture of earth from orbit ever released to the public, video may be coming soon. Good to see NASA giving something back after all those tax dollars, oh wait (36)
(Some Guy) Obvious Chocolate milk is better than Gatorade (57)

Thu October 11, 2007
(Some Guy) Sad EA buys Bioware and Pandemic game developers, thus insuring neither will ever make a quality game again (includes perfect pic) (101)
Computerworld Obvious MS's Ballmer finds out that Hell hath no fury like the mother who installed Vista on her daughter's PC. BONUS: gets the smackdown from her while he's on stage at an IT conference (92)
Wired Amusing Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Doc Brown tied in vote for best fictional scientist. Nobel committee that picked random german dude for chemistry prize unavailable for comment (31)
The Scotsman Sad Organism remains celibate for 40 million years. Now that's a dry spell (35)
(Some NASA Guy) Cool Giant atmospheric waves sighted over Iowa. EVERYBODY PANIC (with pics) (27)
Telegraph Interesting Wikipedia "being torn apart" by culture clash between new users and old timers (57)
Scientific American Strange Does chewing gum really take seven years to digest? (40)
(Radar Online) Cool Crazy billionaire Richard Branson is trying to create a plane that will take passengers from L.A. to Australia in half an hour by going up outside the Earth's atmosphere. He says it will take "a few years." (39)
Yahoo Cool X-Ray body scanners will soon replace metal detectors, just like in "Total Recall". No word on when three-breasted prostitutes available (44)
(Some Guy) Amusing "This computer is NEVER OBSOLETE" (64)
(Some Guy) Cool Two Chinese guys make a full sized 15-foot-tall Transformer from a Citroen C2 car (33)
MTV Interesting EA Games partners with British Petroleum to bring you SimCity Societies, an educational game... hey, where are you guys going? (23)
(Some Space Cadet) Cool Grab your diapers and find out when the international space station is flying overhead (34)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Dell delivers "streaming desktop computing" to enterprise laptop users. Still not delivering anything remotely resembling competent customer service (21)
(Damn Interesting) Interesting The most interesting article on amoebas and the evolution of altruism you'll read for a good couple of weeks (45)
The Register Cool Just in time for the much-delayed arrival of the future: "Fairly realistic flying car offered for 2009 delivery" (37)
News.com.au Followup Remember that kid who broke the Australian government's new $80m porn filter? It gets better (25)
Globe and Mail Scary It's not the heat, it's the humanity (51)
Yahoo Cool Internet2 gets speed boost to 100 Gbps. Oddly enough, it's not being driven by porn. Not yet, at least (22)
BBC Interesting Saddam Hussein's attack on the World Trade Centre blamed for spike in underweight babies immediately after 9/11 (123)
Guardian.com Cool Hottest Christmas toy this year is a full-face mask that lets wearer talk like a Dalek. You want one (pic) (62)

Wed October 10, 2007
Yahoo Obvious Nonexistent global warming is causing a mythical rise in theoretical humidity levels in imaginary parts of the world (370)
ABC News Cool High-tech grocery carts will soon be screaming at fatties to put down the Twinkies (117)
Independent Obvious "Genetically modified crops do not harm human health." Suck it, lefties (80)
Reuters Obvious NASA is considering delaying space shuttle Discovery's planned October 23 explosion to replace three possibly defective heat shield panels on the ship's wing (19)
MTV Cool New Line CEO says "there's more than hope" for "The Hobbit", and it's in their future. Fans cast +3 excitement (47)
CNN Cool Telescope looks to the sky for history of universe, all 6,000 years of it (37)
(Bloomberg) Spiffy Ertl wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studying surface reactions and heterogeneous catalysis whatever the hell that is (80)
Wired Cool Winamp: 10 years of playing back your pir8 mp3z (80)
MSNBC Sad Boeing delays the first delivery of the 787 Dreamliner by 6 months (30)
Valleywag Interesting Microsoft's sex change: Will geeks work for a girl? (36)
Live Science Interesting New theory proposes that walking upright is a primitive ape trait, and that knuckle-walking is a later adaptation by our sister species. In other news, Sylvester Stallone may represent the next step in human evolution (13)
Denver Post Spiffy Nintendo to increase interent support so wii users can nunchuck to wii-wiis and boobies (23)
(Times Argus) Interesting DNA tests on large canine shot in Vermont show it's the first wolf spotted there in more than a century. Or rather, was (55)
(Beaver County Times) Interesting Comic book dude becomes the envy of nerds worldwide, after dropping 1/4 million on original Batman comic someone found in an attic. W/ complimentary nerd quotes and pic (25)
Guardian.com Obvious Chris Pine is in talks to star as Captain Kirk in new Star Trek movie. Who? (31)
Kotaku Cool Remember when you and your best friend used to argue about who would win in a fight, Mario or Sonic? Now is the time to settle that arguement (83)
Fox News Stupid Positive feedback has never been more important. eBay to launch its own social networking service (14)
(LiveLeak) Obvious Sandia National Lab geeks accelerate a plate from zero to 76,000 MPH in less than a second. The really fat guy in line in front of you at the Sizzler is unimpressed (39)
BBC Interesting Dino print could be T. Rex mark. Said to be shaped like a hubcap diamond-star halo (31)
UPI Interesting The British health minister has given scientists permission to create embryos that mix human and animal genetic material. Dr Moreau unavailable for comment but considering adding a plush stuffed snake to the mix (97)
London Times Interesting Positively the most thought-provoking article on our post-human future you'll read, like..EVAR. Guaranteed (52)
SMH Sad Uber Geek who helped create the first firewall, internet forums, early word processors and Alta Vista search engine, fired from Google for being too old (77)
(National Geographic) Misc King Tut's bare face to be displayed to public for first time (w/spoiler photo) (35)
SMH Asinine Environmentalists now want to ban plasma and LCD TVs because they use more energy than CRT models. Bad hippie – no widescreen. Not yours (90)

Tue October 09, 2007
SMH Asinine Fashion designers offering customers their own brand of cellphones, ways to quickly tell the world that they're a douchebag (63)
Fox News Interesting First it was the honeybees, now it is the bumblebees. AUTOBOTS, PANIC (24)
AP Scary Greenhouse gas levels already "beyond the worst-case scenario." Everybody panic, here comes the science, I have no idea what you're talking about so here's a bunny with a pancake on its head (340)
Guardian.com Obvious Government wants 1,000 irradiation machines in unsecured locations such as hospitals shut down because terrorists could use their radioactive contents to build dirty bombs. And what better way to advertise it than raising the fear in the media? (35)
Yahoo Obvious Google records over 37 billion searches worldwide in August alone. In related news, Ask.com got a few hits from people who incorrectly typed their address while searching for porn (85)
Discovery Interesting Researchers figure out why amber makes for such a good insect coffin, and the report is “grim as an Edward Gorey story.” Here comes the science (9)
New Scientist Weird For some people with anorexia, starvation feels like taking ecstasy. No word on whether it makes them like trance music. Subby would like to take some aspiring models on a date. No need to pay for dinner or drugs (30)
(Some Physics Guy) Interesting "[The] Universe’s signature might be about to flip from Lorentzian to Euclidean." EVERYBODY PANIC (156)
ESPN Dumbass "There's a lot of girls around. I honestly find them annoying. Because I'm not here to talk to you. I'm here to play Halo." (86)
Yahoo Interesting Next generation telescopes excite astronomers. No word yet on DS9 telescopes (17)
Yahoo Cool GM introducing a new Onstar feature in 2009 that'll make the car undriveable if it's reported stolen (57)
BBC Hero Your vast library of porn and cat pictures owes its existence to these two guys (75)
YouTube Spiffy The first trailer for the last season of Battlestar Galactica. Your daggit wants mushies (57)
Washington Post Stupid Intel had secret back door into Al-Qeada comm network. Gave WH limited access to it on condition they tell no one else. Three hours later, 30 intel agencies and 3 news networks had acessed the site; and the door was closed (361)
Reuters Interesting Japan sending lander to survey surface of moon, pick up Aldrin and Armstrong's empties (9)
CBS 46 Obvious Scientists say a crappy marriage can be bad for your heart, penis (71)
The Register Cool New Lucent - Alcatel routers for BT come with a nifty new feature: remote access without a password (5)
Snopes Followup Baking Soda + Hydrogen Peroxide + Mountain Dew = A page at Snopes (40)
Network World Cool Full ‘Internet census’ needed 3 billion pings, 2 months and one comic strip (5)
Yahoo Cool Studies say treating mini-strokes fast prevents later strokes. Different strokes still only treatable by Gary Coleman (9)
Sci Fi Cool Is "beep...beep...beep" not enough to wake you in the morning? Try the shockingly effective Lightning Alarm Clock with mini Tesla coil (37)
Canada.com Interesting Before you start cramming Ritalin down your bratty kid's throat, maybe you should take them to the eye doctor first (32)
Yahoo Silly Americans spend more time with their computers than with with their significant others, still likely to get a virus (76)
Telegraph Interesting Climate change about to claim a new victim – the fashion industry (14)
Network World Cool Pimp my wireless: T-Shirt displays Wi-Fi signal status (22)
Fox News Stupid Nissan Unveils "DO NOT WANT" Futuristic Electric Car. Submitter wanders off mumbling "just build a flying car already" (69)

Mon October 08, 2007
Reuters Silly Researchers conclude sound of angry bees can frighten elephants. No word on 'Dogs with bees in their mouths so when they bark they shoot bees at you' (12)
(Some Vardos) Interesting It looks like Rose won't be the only past companion making a return in the 2008 series of Doctor Who. Plus more confirmation on a returning villain rumour. Link contains major spoilers(as well as some slightly Not safe for work ads) (63)
New Scientist Interesting Saturn, the solar system's token sullen emo planet, continues to blame the sun for all its problems; refuses to move out of Jupiter's basement; get a respectable job like his brothers Uranus and Neptune (16)
(Some Guy) Cool Amateur astronomer in NJ takes a picture though his telescope of the International Space Station overflying him . Picture looks exactly like a tie fighter from "Star Wars" (40)
(Lohud.com) Interesting The most exhauastively researched article on roadkill compost you'll see all week (4)
Wall Street Journal Spiffy You know those Lego videos you love to watch on YouTube? Here's how they make 'em (14)
(military-heat.com) Spiffy Forget the X-Wing. What you really want is the recently declassified Boeing Bird of Prey (pics) (49)
(AutoBlog) Cool Yamaha to build ugly-ass Transformer-type motorcycle (25)
(Some Guy) Stupid Left Behind Games HQ: We're about to release an expansion for a game that everybody said sucked. How to generate publicity? I know -- let's sue everyone who said bad things about it (58)
C|Net Followup Minnesota woman, who initially said she would not accept charity and would pay a $220,000 RIAA judgement out of pocket, gets off her soapbox and will now appeal the verdict (191)
IGN Sad "Halo" movie downgraded from "development hell" to "entirely dead" (55)
Reason Magazine Interesting Global warming will save lives. Quick, go buy an SUV. It's for the children (247)
C|Net Interesting Rube Goldberg meets Aquaman, and as a result you may soon be able to swim 150 percent faster. Here comes the science (15)
Wall Street Journal Obvious Restauranteurs make startling discovery that unemployed bloggers like free food (6)
(GameIndustry) Dumbass Sony managing director on whether PS3 early adopters should feel cheated: "I think it's natural to feel that way, of course it is" (44)
(Some Guy) Stupid Watered-down "Manhunt 2" still deemed too upsetting for British gamers to handle. They have boobies on TV, though, so we're even (158)
(VGB) Cool Your Wii is now a NEOGEO too (90)
(Microsoft KB) Amusing Error message: Your password must be at least 18,770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30,689 passwords (69)
BBC Spiffy Australia to host world's largest wind farm and migratory bird destructor (31)
(Some Guy) Obvious MSNBC buys Newsvine, a Seattle startup that allows users to post and comment on news stories. What a dumb concept (19)
The Register Cool Your odds of getting sued by the RIAA are less than the chance of getting hit by lightning, but they double if you actually own a computer. Party on, Garth (16)
(Universe Today) Interesting NASA is building the third largest roller coaster in the world (22)
(Electronic House) Interesting Forget the remote, new TV responds to hand gestures. What's the gesture for this show sucks? (22)
(Some Guy) Asinine Bling-bling company creates 24-carat gold MacBook Pro (31)
Newsday Cool Microsoft Office getting competition from open-source alternatives. They'll still find a way to blame the pirates, though (36)
Yahoo Cool Now you can walk along an ancient path, following 6,000-year-old Italian fossilized footprints. Wine and spaghetti not included (9)
Guardian.com Interesting Why Fark.se has been down so much lately, and not because someone spilled lutefisk on the servers again (23)
(TGDaily) Spiffy Scientist gets whacked in head with shovel to demonstrate new super foam (45)



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