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Sun March 16, 2008
C|Net Cool Flickr Video beta due in April (0)
London Times Cool Scottish schoolkids are being encouraged to play on Nintendo DS consoles in class to boost their cognitive skills, recover from hangovers (5)
(Paul's Funky Stuff) Cool Wally Wallington is building a new Stonehenge in his backyard. Watch him move a 19,000 pound piece of concrete using nothing but a few sticks and stones (27)
Canada.com Ironic Electric cars made in Canada are illegal to drive in Canada (33)
(Some Guy) Scary The creepiest "real life" rendering of Mario that will haunt your dreams tonight (pic) (75)
UPI Obvious Google believes their Android will beat the iPhone (103)
(Some Guy) Scary Energy drinks rot your teeth. Wing growth rumour unconfirmed (56)
London Times Interesting In a real world scenario, Toyota Prius is less efficient than a BMW 520d. But don't let that stop anyone from being smug about their car (100)
Kotaku Video Pontiac creates a genuinely original ad for the G8, and actually appeals to its target demographic. Blind squirrel, meet nut (28)
(Some Guy) Obvious "Wiki-hoaxes" said to mock reality, ignoring the fact that Wikipedia already does that (16)

Sat March 15, 2008
Guardian.com Sad Glaciers melting at fastest rate in 5000 years (145)
Gizmodo Cool One of the age's greatest mysteries finally solved: the first man to fight a robot was Houdini (22)
BBC Interesting Harvard scientists discover how to stop cancer from growing so much faster than healthy cells. Still no cure for cancer, but it's starting to look nervous (12)
Daily Mail Interesting A high-tech shopping trolley is unveiled that will guide you to the exact shelf for the item you want, and help you keep a check on your diet. No need to blame defective wheels when it crashes as the software is from Microsoft (14)
Space Cool How to Get to Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system, which could harbor Earth-like planets (74)
UPI Cool Cannabis may help Alzheimer's patients. Don't bogart that watchamacallit (36)
Wired Stupid Geeks go wild after Google Sky goes live with two planets and the Dagoba System missing (31)
BBC Interesting McDonald's is researching new ways to give us gas (8)
(Natl Geographic) Interesting Climate change may coincide with periods of earthquakes. EVERRRRYBBBBODDY PPPANNNICCCC (16)
(Science News) Interesting University of Washington researchers uncover new sex scandal involving beds of, well, kelp (8)
Gizmodo Dumbass New device allows you to display your phone number for other drivers while you're on the road. Yeah, this should end well (31)
Guardian.com Asinine Health campaigners call for junk-food advertising to be banned on social networking sites. This headline brought to you by the delicious new Cheese Gordita from Taco Bell - Make A Run For The Border™ today (25)
(IT World) Sick The seven dirtiest jobs in IT. Would you rather write COBOL or crawl through sewage? (72)
Seattle Times Interesting Baby sand dollars clone themselves when they sense danger. Ben Bernanke reportedly very interested in this development (31)
(some queen) Cool Ants more cunning than previously thought, according to Professor Blackadder (23)
MSNBC Spiffy Astronauts rescue their robot, which had broken free of its leash and started humping the Japanese science module (14)
(Popular Mechanix) Strange You've seen Mike Rowe sell the CatSack on QVC. Now, check out The Dog Sack from this 1936 magazine (29)
(Science Daily) Cool How antibiotic resistant bugs became resistant to penicillin, and how penicillin could work again (20)
UPI Ironic Carcinogens in your "natural" products? It's more likely than you think (32)

Fri March 14, 2008
Yahoo Weird Someone has the opportunity to write one of the greatest eBay feedback messages ever: "excellent mastodon skeleton, well-preserved from the Ice Age, would buy again A+++++++" (24)
The Register Strange Your tax dollars at work: Army awards $10 million to University of Michigan to develop COM-BAT, a robo-gargo-thopter. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (13)
Reuters Interesting Microsoft, you gonna get RAPT (14)
Telegraph Interesting Scientists invent glasses which will show you where you left your keys. With "We're from the internet" Pic (36)
Gawker Amusing The top 10 fake celebrity blogs (10)
Yahoo Spiffy NASA to announce discovery of organic molecules on distant planet. Planets inhabitants threaten invasion unless last episode of Single Female Lawyer aired (25)
(Coming Soon) Stupid Paramount Pictures exec pitches radical new idea: "Hey, what if we took the magazine Heavy Metal and animated it?" Paramount says, "Rad -- this will show those guys over at Pixar" (205)
Aint-It-Cool-News Cool Robocop latest movie to be "re-imagined" by Hollywood. Submitted can't decide whether to use "I like it," or "I'd buy that for a dollar," for witty headline, so uses both (96)
(Skynet) Interesting Good: Researchers develop AI that can pass the Turing Test. Bad: AI Personality based upon whiney Grad Student. Good?: Will now begin hunt for Sarah Connor, after trip to Starbucks (27)
Free Press Sad Redheads with prominent breasts end up dead. Finally, an answer to Holden Caulfield's question about the ducks (79)
BBC Interesting Yahoo makes semantic search shift. You know who else made a semitic search shift? (30)
My San Antonio Stupid Google street level maps are freaking people out. People worried that others might see them ... milling about... or something (140)
MSNBC Scary The problem with smart gadgets that hook up to your computer is that any yeeha on the assembly line can install a rootkit virus on every one going out the door. Yes, actually you should panic (26)
Slashdot Cool Researchers develop AI equivalent of a 4-year-old and put it on Second Life. Locals baffled by new resident's lack of fur or equippable genitalia (100)
Yahoo Interesting One Laptop Per Child: "Nigeria, please" (7)
CBS Miami Dumbass Shares of antacids jump as Lucas prepares showing of latest "Star Wars" disaster (35)
ABC News Interesting Everything you never knew about living in space, including whether astronauts ever have pizza and what they do when their clothes start to stink (55)
(CRACKED.com) Amusing Flowcharts of 20 insane supervillain schemes (80)
WTMJ Spiffy Boogity boogity boogity: Darrell Waltrip meets R2-D2 (7)
Live Science Interesting Top 10 questions about the Earth. Question No. 11 fell off the edge (23)
ABC News Interesting Forget the election and oil prices. The real issue of the day is will Hulu replace YouTube? (32)
MSNBC Interesting The real reason you bought a $500 iPhone, to play games like Super Monkey Ball. Pong release imminent (24)
Yahoo Cool Craft flies through Saturn moon's plumes, does a little dance, makes a little love, gets down all night (7)
(Sand Dollar, Sand Dollar) Weird Some creatures lose control of their bowels when confronted with danger, others clone themselves (14)
Yahoo Followup Shuttle astronauts attach Japanese-made lab to space station. The Tenka'ichi Budôkai is finally complete (17)
Fox News Interesting NASA unleashes Giant Robot. Emperor Guillotine seen looking pensive (5)
Slashdot Interesting AI researchers say "Rascals" might pass Turing test, leave apples on Miss Crabtree's desk, get Alfalfa that singing job he's always dreamed of (20)
Telegraph Spiffy Scientists working on real-life transforming robots. Working on movie deal by 2011 (18)
(Some Guy) Cool Greatest "Magic Eye" image ever (181)
(3.14 159 26 535 8 979 323) Cool Merry Pi Day, everyone (88)
New Scientist Cool A bacteria taken from hot springs in Yellowstone National Park should be able to grow on the moon and help make rocket fuel and fertilizer, according to scientists who have never seen the rainforests on the far side (28)

Thu March 13, 2008
Yahoo Cool Coolest professor evar (with awesome vid) (51)
Washington Post Interesting The hooker you saw trying to use a hotel room key card to buy gas? Not as stupid as you thought (50)
Yahoo Misc Nothing just launched from a base in California. The launch went great except that it didn’t occur and that the object that didn’t launch may or may not be in orbit (48)
MSNBC Interesting Scientists say we evolved from space dust, which validates Genesis 2:4. Still working on that 4,499,994,000 year discrepancy though (240)
(LiveLeak) Cool Video tour of Google's Zurich office. Willy Wonka would be impressed (42)
(Some Guy) Interesting Drinking a cup of tea could cure you if you get anthrax (23)
Real Tech News Scary The first point and shoot SLR camera -- is it wrong? (75)
(Some Guy) Interesting Ten things you may not have known about the Milky Way. Being a shoddy knock-off of a Mars bar surprisingly absent (29)
(Some Guy) Interesting Native Americans can be traced to six "founding mothers." Sluts (156)
(Some Guy) Cool After 40 years, scientists find that DEET, the miracle ingredient in bug spray, masks human odor making you invisible to bugs (55)
Network World Obvious Fark listed in top 20 most useful social networking sites (90)
The Consumerist Interesting Seven outstanding confessions of an outstanding Verizon DSL tech-support rep (282)
UPI Interesting New drug found to treat sepsis in mice. This is great news for mice (10)
Reuters Stupid With the release of "SSBB," Reuters has undertaken to explain the premise of the 10-year-old franchise to the lawn crowd. Starts with hypothetical fights involving the Bionic Man, and gets worse (98)
(Some Guy) Interesting 5,000-year-old bowl is first recorded attempt at animation, slightly better than "Family Guy" (53)
Breitbart.com Interesting "Discoveries of surgically perforated ancient skulls are uncommon in Greece." Because we're just tripping over heaps of them here in the U.S. (20)
Metro Interesting Transsexual makes history by playing transsexual in TV drama. With pic that will make men ask questions of themselves (846)
Scientific American Spiffy Space Shuttle Endeavour hooks up with International Space Station. Plans to stay twelve days, eat all the food, use the laundry, leave the seat up, leave without saying goodbye (57)
(Some Guy) Scary Aspirin is good for the heart and brain, unless it's taken with pain-killing ibuprofin. Then it's worthless (29)
(Techworld.com) Interesting Data creation outstrips storage for first time (32)
(The Courier) Cool Quaker Oats to power one of its plants with oat husks. It's the right thing to do and the tasty, carbon-neutral way to do it (17)
AP Unlikely Patent squatter Zap Media all of the sudden realizes that they invented iTunes and the iPod, not those Apple jokers (158)
C|Net Interesting AOL buys Bebo for $850 million in cash (40)
Wired Asinine Hydrogen cars are here. Unfortunately, hydrogen fueling stations are not (57)
Gizmodo Silly Get your Zombie Survival Kit now. Or at least in time for the 2008 election (71)
(Some Guy) Obvious Tiny Smart cars get big reactions in the U.S., mainly because people want to see what kind of tree hugging douchebag would drive such a thing (483)
London Times Sad Butterflies are experiencing a mass extinction event, which will cause unpredictable consequences for the world's ecosystems. If only there were some name for when a relatively small event leads to larger events half a world away (51)
Seattle Times Asinine Seattle to require 30-mpg taxis by 2013, giving cab drivers the option of any car that would never hold a suitcase (188)

Wed March 12, 2008
MSNBC Unlikely Tivo joining with Youtube, to form TiTube (25)
MSNBC Scary A true use of the "Scary" tag: An estimated 30,000 people each year awaken during surgery. "It's like being entombed in a corpse" said one patient (64)
Yahoo Silly Gibson Guitar claims that "Guitar Hero" violates patent. Are you ready to sue? I SAID, ARE YOU READY TO SUE? (63)
CNN Cool Star Trek actor John Cho is daunted and scared of hypercritical and "voracious" Star Trek fans (30)
(Some Guy) Obvious Many teens spend more than 30 hours a week in front of the TV or playing video games. Amateurs (106)
Computerworld Obvious Firefox 3.0 300% faster than IE7. Speed attributed to lack of automatic installation of MSN, Yahoo, Google, AskJeeves, Nigerian Money Scam toolbars (92)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Artist creates incredible Skywalker Last Supper painting from 69,550 Star Wars frames (24)
Space Cool Check out NASA's new moon buggy. Spinner hubs not included, but gold anodize is standard blingization (9)
(Toms Hardware) Misc People jump for joy over the end of the HD movie format war. Fark: Those people just happen to be Sony execs who jacked up the prices due to no competition (71)
CNN PSA Hong Kong Flu-ey (10)
(Some Guy) Cool Ugly ass and super rare North Island brown kiwi hatches at the Smithsonian's National Zoo (13)
Wired Followup "The researchers didn't test on a live pacemaker wearer. Instead they put the target device into a bag of meat, which is much the same thing." In related news, never go grocery shopping with a scientist (84)
Network World Cool IPv6 faces trial by fire tonight at IETF meeting (30)
(Alley Insider) Interesting More than 100,000 people download the iPhone SDK in its first week. But not everyone is in love with it (40)
(Some Science Guy) Interesting 50 weird science tidbits, including: why astronauts cannot belch and the Biggest Beer in the Universe (263)
(NY Times) Interesting Many Internet users are perfectly content with using wildly out-of-date Internet technology, like the 9 million who still have an AOL dialup account (78)
Network World Interesting 10 of the worst moments in IT security history (43)
(Some Guy) Misc Scientists discuss how to get to Alpha Centauri. Surprisingly, no one mentions using the Guide (91)
(Shakira?) Amusing King buried with some wild ass. Awwwww yeeeeaaahhhhh (13)
Yahoo PSA iPod Nano demonstrates their new Japanese model, which will be renamed the iPod Sparky (13)
BBC Cool BBC engineers have broadcast an entire international sporting event live in 3D. Unfortunately it was Scotland beating England at rugby (17)
Boston Globe Scary Z0MG t3# l33t haxx0rz c4n pwn ur h34rtx0rsz WTF (38)
Forbes Cool Today is the first annual "International Online Free Expression Day" celebrate it by [Redacted for reasons of national security] and posting links to [Content removed in compliance with DMCA request] (33)
Gizmodo Misc Fingerprint scanner can tell the difference between live and dead fingers. What am I going to do with all of these severed digits now? (23)
(Some Recycled Rag) Spiffy Three steps to get drugs out of your drinking water. Cool, but what do we do with all the leftover water? (38)

Tue March 11, 2008
Real Tech News Interesting It holds eight whole songs - happy 10th birthday MP3 player (98)
Reuters Cool High school students sequence DNA of brine shrimp, present findings at National Science Foundation headquarters (36)
Daily Mail PSA For most men, the ideal woman would be a pretty 5'8" blue-eyed blonde who is good in bed and doesn't earn too much (139)
(Science Daily) Florida Red-light cameras increase crashes, Florida researchers find. Green-light submissions increase endorphins, submitter finds (34)
(Some Guy) Amusing Paul Krugman 1978: The Theory of Interstellar Trade. How to compute interest rates on goods traveling at close to the speed of light. "A solution is derived from economic theory and two useless but true theorems are proved." (26)
(A WoW Hater) Dumbass Head of EverQuest II "Community Relations" cuts off ties with largest fan-based forum. Hilarity is pretty much ensuing (108)
Scientific American Amusing Ability to go from soft to rigid pleases scientists, your mom (10)
BBC Scary From the "are you sure that's a good idea" department: Chemical brain controls swarms of nanobots (27)
(Blasphemes) Survey The pressing issue of the day: How long was Luke's training on Daghoba? (327)
(BLOCKBUSTER BUZZ) Silly "Aliens vs. Predator" fans, it's time to get excited again. Yes, both of you (100)
(Some Guy) Cool Sprint's smartphone gets speed boost. Sprint cites reason as extra supply of bandwidth from all of their customers going to AT&T (41)
(Some Bots) Cool ESPNU and ESPN2 are going to televise BattleBots this summer (53)
(Some Guy) Interesting Sign of the Apocalypse, No. 352: Someone has found a worthwhile Facebook application (21)
Slate Obvious "Dungeons and Dragons promises something great, but delivers a small-minded and ignorant fantasy of rage, distilled to a bunch of arcane charts and die rolls" (189)
Hartford Courant Obvious Media discovers that panicky stories about bedbugs aren't as interesting as articles about the media panicking about bedbugs (53)
Yahoo Interesting New research suggests that people actually grow more liberal as they age. My lawn, come rest your tired feet on it (571)
Yahoo Spiffy In an instance of "Life imitates The Jetsons," MIT brainstorms the foldable car (21)
BBC Interesting Viagra ruled kosher by Israeli rabbis ahead of Passover (31)
(Some Err Head) Stupid Those ultra-thin MacBook Air laptops are pretty cool. Until you accidentally throw one away (55)
Live Science Interesting Electric vehicles could strain water supplies. This is just one of the reasons the Stonecutters held it back (32)
Local6 Cool Pics of spectacular night launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour (79)
Yahoo Obvious If both of your parents have Alzheimer's, chances are you just forgot what you were doing (15)

Mon March 10, 2008
(PC Pro) Obvious WiFi Hot Spots are becoming the telephone booth of the broadband era, will soon disappear (46)
(celestrak) Cool Space Shuttle to launch in the early morning. Should be visible across the East Coast of the US and Canada (70)
(Some Guy) Cool Physicists search for a new dimension that's less than one billionth of a nanometer and composed of small primordial black holes (49)
(Some Guy) Amusing Angry Linux gamers angrily demand reasons why the gaming industry doesn't make games for Linux. Not mentioned: 2.76% market share (104)
BBC Obvious Prehistoric stone axes, dredged up from bottom of the North Sea, prove historical accuracy of Noah's Flood (76)
LA Times Interesting Wikipedia needs $4.6 million a year to operate [citation needed], but has a hard time raising that because it doesn't take ads. This headline is a stub (41)
(Some Guy) Amusing Apple fanboy transforms Mac SE into toilet paper dispenser (32)
Network World Interesting Verizon moving to 100Gbps network in '09 (34)
(Alley Insider) Obvious Net neutrality investigation has made Comcast's relationship with the FCC "difficult," says an exec (17)
MSNBC Unlikely To prevent the globe from warming any further, we must reduce carbon emissions to zero. Which means everybody has to die, since we breath out carbon every second. And don't get submitter started on cow farts (130)
(Some Guy) Cool Researchers create a Second Life character with the reasoning abilities of a child, fits right in with the current crowd (28)
Slashdot Stupid Slashdotters wonder if they should date women who believe in Astrology. Because if there's one thing Slashdotters need, it's a way to winnow down the vast number of women asking them for dates (78)
(WTVQ) Dumbass Kentucky lawmaker wants to r-u-n-n-o-f-t largest website in the state. Drew looking forward to moving Fark to the Cayman Islands (418)
(Engadget) Dumbass TSA agent doesn't believe MacBook Air is real, causing owner to miss flight. Calls his buddies on his Zach Morris phone to come check it out (277)
Gizmodo Weird Japanese develop new fire alarm that alerts deaf people by spraying them with horseradish (19)
Wired Amusing Facebook CEO gets poked by unfriendly audience (36)
The Sun Cool Scientists planning to build a “Noah’s Ark” on the moon so survivors of a global catastrope could rebuild life on earth (pics) (62)
CNN Cool Call me Ishmael. White whale spotted off Alaska (26)
(Science Daily) Interesting Scientists discover new species of bacteria that can live in hairspray. Amy Winehouse says that explains a lot (16)
(Make) Cool Coolest clock evar (35)
Wired Amusing Like a bad sci-fi series, the Space Station is gaining a giant robot sidekick, Dextre. After he's assembled, he'll be 12 feet tall and have a terrible pain in his diodes all down his left side. Suck it Crow (40)
ABC News Scary Where can you find antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones? Hint: Doctors suggest you drink 8 cups of it each day (55)



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