| Earth has a magnetic tail that could prevent people from living on the moon 6 days out of the month | (23) | ||
| Growing bored with screwing Xbox owners with the "Red Ring of Death", Microsoft's latest tactic is to claim you stole your Xbox when sending it in for repair, and refuse to return it | (81) | ||
| (Xinhuanet) | Prime Minister Tan Dung applauds launch of Vietnam's first satellite. Bonus, satellite was built by Lockheed Martin. Who'd a thunk it in 1973? | (15) | |
| That massive DNS attack on CNN that never happened yesterday? That's because the Pro-Chinese hackers called it off at the last minute, yeah, that's the ticket, they uhh called it off | (25) | ||
| "The entire security of the internet is now dependent on some random-ass server run by some British company" | (41) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Richard Branson is going to marry a couple in outer space. Maybe men really are from Mars | (37) | |
| Deep thinkers see how things will be in 2058. Oddly, flying car not on list | (145) | ||
| Home dinosaur excavation kits becoming increasingly popular children's gift in Japan | (20) |
| (Science Daily) | Interpreters for the Deaf at higher risk of injury than assembly line workers. GARRETT MORRIS UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT | (86) | |
| Plants are green because the Earth orbits a G-class star. On a planet orbiting an F star they would be blue, orbiting a K they would be red. Orbiting Rosie O'Donnell they would be eaten | (38) | ||
| (Discovery Channel) | Top ten science hoaxes of all time. Moon landing strangely absent | (269) | |
| HypnoCube, a grid of 64 LEDs each capable of displaying 4,096 colors encased in acrylic, only sets you back $400 and impresses the hell out of anyone that sees it | (67) | ||
| "The solution to pollution is not eating spiders." Just in case you were wondering | (20) | ||
| Norway's multiplying møøse population raising fears about health of forests, sisters | (26) | ||
| Um... if a space capsule landed in your yard, the Russian Space Agency would really like it back | (50) | ||
| Coolest tech research projects cooking a university labs | (9) | ||
| At last, the bacon cover for your iPod that you have been waiting for all this time | (25) | ||
| New danger to moon astronauts: getting electrocuted. By the Earth | (16) | ||
| The aire in Buenos Aires is not so bueno (pic) | (30) |
| Kennedy Space Center worker finds Bahamian girl's message in a bottle. Lucky girl and her school are getting a package of space memorabilia in return | (50) | ||
| PayPal brands Safari "unsafe browser." Fourteen Mac fanbois close their PayPal accounts to protest | (92) | ||
| New study suggests cars don't pollute as much as people think, so go ahead America, get in your Hummers and drive someplace you could easily walk to | (48) | ||
| Saffron may ease PMS symptoms. Or you can always just leave her alone and spend some quality time at Hooters until it's passed | (41) | ||
| (LA Weekly) | Playing Donkey Kong on a nine foot tall ginormous Atari joystick on a 13 foor high screen. It's fun, but you'll probably not going to even get to the second level | (36) | |
| Chinese hackers poised for anti CNN attack on April 19 | (42) | ||
| (Silicon Alley Insider) | Net neutrality supporters get an unlikely friend: Bible thumpers | (30) | |
| Quebec wants its own domain | (75) | ||
| AT&T says the tubes of the intarwebs will be clogged with lolcats by 2010. EVERYBODY PANIC | (254) | ||
| The seven hidden dangers of video games that parents should be concerned about | (42) | ||
| Step 1) Remove the blood and gore from Mortal Kombat and replace it with Batman. Step 2) ????? Step 3) Profit | (40) | ||
| "Battlestar Galactica" head Ron D. Moore to write big-screen sci-fi trilogy for Tom Cruise. Time for a "Battlefield Earth" re-imagining? | (83) | ||
| British bobbies bait Facebook friends to rat out ax-wielding gang | (19) | ||
| EA wasn't always a hated corporate power. Here are 10 EA franchises that are in desperate need for a remake | (154) | ||
| (Silicon Alley Insider) | Microsoft's "big-ass table" computer Surface debuts in AT&T stores, gets fondled on camera | (35) | |
| Two teams of scientists and $250 million seek to grow skin and organs for wounded veterans | (26) | ||
| (Some Guy) | In 2 million years time, barring any anomalous behavior or target shooting practice by a malevolent extra-terrestrial species, we will arrive at the red star of Alderbarran. God speed, Pioneer 10 | (73) |
| Mediums, psychics, tarot card readers and spiritual healers are predicting problems over new EU legislation that would leave them open to lawsuits from disgruntled clients. And they know what the future holds | (44) | ||
| (Some Guy) | From the "If you can't fix it, feature it" department: IBM servers run so hot, you can use them to heat your municipal swimming pool | (35) | |
| One of these quadruplets ain't like the others / One of these quadruplets doesn't belong | (111) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Popular Mechanics says that Vista runs better on a Mac, cheaper too. Smug | (72) | |
| Macintosh knockoff company Psystar that planned to fight Apple to the bitter end is just a warehouse in Miami. That's owned by someone else | (28) | ||
| Patent troll comes out from under the analog-to-digital TV bridge to collect millions from 14 mega-corporations, which means you'll be paying a lot more for TV next year | (32) | ||
| Meteorite strikes Kokomo, IN. Witnesses report that the celestial object was getting there fast, then but then took it slow. That's where it wanted to go. Way down to Kokomo | (55) | ||
| (Geekology) | Inform the Nobel prize committee, the greatest invention of this decade is here and it is full of awesome | (77) | |
| (ArsTechnica) | AT&T's new browser comes with spiffy new features, including automatically forwarding your browsing history to the NSA | (41) | |
| Six things in "Expelled" that Ben Stein would rather you didn't know | (905) | ||
| (Some Microsoft Guy) | Xbox Live video marketplace data posted for the week of April 7. Reaffirms fact that Pootie Tang is the best movie EVAR | (28) | |
| (LaCrosse Tribune) | Are your obsolete technology skills on this list? | (135) | |
| "Grand Theft Auto IV" review: So good, it's criminal | (150) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Sales of "The Sims" game hit 100 million mark since its release in 2000 | (41) | |
| Verily I say unto you: Thou Shalt Not Question the Holy Global Warming, and unto ye who break this commandment I send the scourge of my terrible Wikipedia Zealots | (601) | ||
| Samuel L. Jackson to be the voice of the lead character in new Afro Samurai game, which presumably is a new video game IN WHICH CHARACTERS YELL AT EACH OTHER to score points | (29) | ||
| Neanderthal man speaks after 30,000 years, with bonus recording: Apparently, he's Canadian | (45) | ||
| Samsung release a special limited-edition Armani 1080p TV, although the only difference with a regular TV appears to be the price | (36) | ||
| (Some Guy) | The seven habits of highly effective Linux users. Buying Mountain Dew and Cheetos from Costco strangely absent | (38) | |
| Killer whales begin to hunt on land. With pic of well Orcastrated attack | (39) | ||
| (MacRumors) | Not news: Apple's switcher ads may be working. News: A major corporation is investigating whether to jump on the switch wagon. Fark: It's IBM | (65) | |
| Drinking and smoking give you Alzheimer's, new research reveals. No one complains as 99 percent of the time they are drinking to forget anyway | (12) | ||
| Five-year-old is believed to be the youngest ever Briton to get a patent for his "improved broom" | (32) | ||
| Octopussy | (20) | ||
| Every wonder just what all those satellites and space junk orbiting the Earth looks like from a distance? Wonder no more | (31) | ||
| From today's "Sentences you thought you'd never read" files: "Drummers are natural intellectuals" | (66) |
| Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory, dead at age 90. A butterfly must have flapped its wings somewhere | (78) | ||
| While Apple is busy ignoring them, the people behind the software they are stealing have something to say to Psystar | (35) | ||
| Slate's William Saletan asks, "Is incest natural?" Presumably after slow-dancing with a hot cousin at a wedding | (188) | ||
| New X-Files movie to be titled "The X-Files: I Want to Believe (It Won't Suck)" | (79) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Why Windows Vista is failing: R&D budget went to Springsteen cover band | (56) | |
| APNIC says IP address shortage is a "crisis." EVERYBODY APNIC | (88) | ||
| Guess which side of the isle thinks that Google duped the FCC during the recent airwaves auction? | (131) | ||
| (Alley Insider) | What happens when Microsoft buys your company for $500 million? They bury you deep in org-chart hell, five levels below the boss | (32) | |
| Super-fast broadband could be delivered via underground sewerage pipes, according to scientists, and the content would be no different | (24) | ||
| (Helsinki Notes) | Octopus at Finnish aquarium learns to use tentacles to open jar with juicy prawn inside, now working at unscrewing skulls of delicious humans | (52) | |
| Apple suing computer company for "breach of contract." Apparently, it's illegal to run OS X on anything that costs less than a used Lexus | (232) | ||
| All those stories about that German kid correcting NASA's calculations? It turns out NASA was right all along | (57) | ||
| Comcast wants "bill of rights" for file-sharers and ISPs. The company will move toward a system that treats all file types the same, but still treat you like total crap | (26) | ||
| Sensing a huge untapped market on the heels of "Guitar Hero," video-game maker creates "Conductor Hero." Because the only thing cooler than playing fake guitar is pretending to conduct an orchestra | (201) | ||
| Surprising absolutely no one, Harry Potter fan cries like a pansy while testifying during plagiarism trial | (206) | ||
| ISPs meddled with their customers' Web traffic, study finds | (18) | ||
| Next time Comcast blocks your driveway preventing you from parking, let it go man... cause it's not worth it | (41) | ||
| Nokia planning to roll out 4G wireless network, The Onion planning 5G satire piece | (8) | ||
| (financialpost) | Maker of Alzheimer's drug changes its name and hopes people will forget that the FDA said it was useless | (15) | |
| (thisisplymouth) | Lobster tries new survival technique -- looking like he's already cooked | (21) | |
| (MotorAuthority) | New BMW engine actually makes air cleaner. Laughs at zero-emissions electric cars | (41) | |
| (Some Zebra) | Old & busted: UPC barcodes. New hotness: Creative barcodes from Japan that look like Niagara Falls, Disneyland and some dude's bad combover (with pics) | (35) | |
| Quantities of red wine can destroy pancreatic cancer. Even more quantities can destroy pancreas | (10) |
| (PhysOrg) | NASA: Apophis asteroid has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting Earth. 13 year old kid: Not so fast, it's actually 1 in 450 and if it hits a satellite in 2029, we could all die in 2036 | (549) | |
| "The number of viruses, worms and trojans in circulation has topped the one million mark." Two-thirds created in 2007, Mac OS X still feeling left out | (41) | ||
| An exotic mushroom named Phellinus Linteus that stops blood vessels from growing and feeding tumours could cure cancer, according to scientists. Still no cure for the common cold | (18) | ||
| Sea levels could rise by up to five feet by the end of this century according to scientists, although the rest of the world should only face rises of one and a half meters EVERYBODY PADDLE | (50) | ||
| (Topless Robot) | Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition letter of protest (from orcs and gnomes) | (168) | |
| Anyone who paid extra for an iPhone may now facepalm themselves. iPod Touch makes and takes calls | (89) | ||
| AOL spends millions more trying to get back that 1995 Web buzz | (48) | ||
| Sure, the fish are happy now, but they're probably going to get cancer in a few years | (20) | ||
| (thedailywtf) | There was a problem with Oklahoma's sexual and violent offender registry. A) Every offender's SSN was available, and B) with a basic knowledge of SQL, anyone could add records | (158) | |
| (Some Mac Guy) | Stan Flack, veteran Mac journalist and the founder of MacCentral.com and MacMinute.com, dead at 43 | (52) | |
| Being a huge geek sometimes makes it hard to impress girls, but when you reprogram a videogame to propose to your girlfriend, it's not that difficult | (29) | ||
| European Space Agency releases CGI of Earth surrounded by obsolete satellites, fails to answer the question "whatcha gonna do with all that junk / all that space junk / in your trunk?" | (24) | ||
| BBC journalist says, in the future, he'll never get with a hot sex-bot, no matter how attractive they are because they just won't be philosophical enough for him | (130) | ||
| Jesus may have rode his dinosaur into the Grand Canyon | (132) | ||
| Triceratops skeleton to be auctioned in Paris, where they don't care how thin the runway models are | (7) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Wondering where on Earth you can buy a $30 plastic electrical outlet cover that will enhance your stereo's sound quality? Well, wonder no further than that Dumbass tag to the left, my friend. Your long search is over | (93) | |
| Horse stem-cell research in Canada could have human applications, such as genetically engineering the next Celine Dion | (18) | ||
| (Silicon Alley Insider) | New Google policy: It's okay to be evil sometimes | (36) | |
| If you want to be able to say, "I bought Google back when it was...." this may be your last chance | (15) | ||
| Titans of industry collaborate using the most advanced technology known to man to create the pinnacle of human achievement: A game in which you knock stuff down | (7) | ||
| (Some Guy) | High blood pressure can help cure your migraines, which is a lot like frostbite curing your sunburn | (9) | |
| Top 11 lines you don't want to see in a privacy policy | (27) | ||
| Problem: MTBE (a gasoline additive) is polluting the water. Solution: Replace MTBE with ethanol. Fail: Ethanol eats through the fiberglass fuel tanks commonly used on boats | (47) | ||
| The new "Incredible Hulk" poster is all emo | (94) | ||
| Physicist who originated the term "black hole" joins guys who named Big Mac and the hula hoop | (16) | ||
| Fewer U.S. teens getting pregnant thanks to abstinence-only education preventing them from knowing what sex is | (49) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Car gets 2,843 mpg. OPEC not shaking because car has no A/C, heater, stereo, cup holder, power brakes, padded seats, TV, VCR, CD-DVD player, power steering, power windows and only seats one | (27) | |
| (Some Guy) | Scientists discover viable DNA from 253 million years ago. Michael Crichton rapidly begins work on new bestseller, Permian Park | (53) |
| (ScienceDaily) | Scientists load new "programming" into bacteria to make them perform new functions. Such re-programmed bacteria could see a wide variety of applications in medicine, environmental cleanup, and destroying humanity | (27) | |
| (Some Guy) | Dotcom tries not paying users unless they do more work for free. Users object | (7) | |
| R2-D2 actor Kenny Baker feels a lot better since his hospitalization, credits his recovery to doctors scraping off all the carbon scoring | (12) | ||
| Users fight for Microsoft to keep XP OS alive until something something better than Pissta is released | (91) | ||
| (Tom's Guide) | Company attempting to bring back the Mac clone -- without Apple's blessing, that is | (54) | |
| How did Ticketmaster get 150,000 "friends" on Facebook overnight? Apparently they're all "Canadian girlfriends" | (71) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Everything I needed to know I learned watching the "Spiderman 3" DVD | (28) | |
| The Big One could hit the San Andreas fault tomorrow. Or sometime in the next 30 years. Just to be safe, EVERYBODY PANIC | (98) | ||
| Having trouble obtaining three-digit security codes on credit cards, fraudsters resort to calling cardholders directly | (70) | ||
| Virgin Media CEO says net neutrality is "bollocks" and that if you don't cough up the cash he'll put you in the "bus lane" with the file sharers and the furry porn sites | (30) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Nine great historically accurate medieval movies | (123) | |
| The coolest pictures of people taking their revenge on non-functional gadgets you'll see before you head to the gym in about 26 minutes | (48) | ||
| Yahoo's attempt to form an alliance with Google to stave off Microsoft could run into more trouble with antitrust regulators than Microsoft's takeover bid | (18) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Guy builds the world's first and only slammed eight-wheeled Isuzu pickup | (40) | |
| Drinking may raise risk of breast cancer, pregnancy | (14) | ||
| Russia now preparing to send monkeys to Mars, because it would be too cruel to send dogs or even lawyers | (11) | ||
| Japan mines for natural gas in previously untapped Arctic methane-hydrate ice, not realizing that's where Gamera is frozen | (17) | ||
| (TVsquad.com) | "Heavens to Mergatroid!" A history of Hanna-Barbera, and some cartoons too | (34) | |
| (Some Guy) | No need to worry, but scientists have found 170 impact craters from large meteorites, and the number keeps on growing. We may need both Robert Duvall and Bruce Willis on this one | (22) | |
| Scottish man proposes 80 square mile "wilderness reserve" with natural ecosystem. European Union rejects proposal because it is cruel to let animals eat each other | (60) | ||
| (sec.gov) | EA offers to buy out all remaining shares of Take-Two, cites G4's takeover of Tech TV as inspiration for the proposition | (55) | |
| You may not realise it, but you made the decision to click this link at least 10 seconds ago | (43) | ||
| Scientists invent miniature operating table so they can carry out surgery on a worm | (11) | ||
| We've come a long way. Isn't that right Jar Jar, Gollum and Woody? | (53) | ||
| (Independent.ie) | Soaring cost of food will cause "starvation and unrest," not to mention growing market share for Soylent products | (36) | |
| China unblocks CBC websites, letting the average Chinese person again hear about Celine Dion, backbacon, hockey and poutine. And there was much rejoicing | (82) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Firefighting beetle robots may help humans fight forest fires, search for Sarah Connor | (8) | |
| Wild moose roam free in Scotland for first time in 1,000 years. Locals look forward to "Och, it's braw" sexy time with the new visitors, seen buying hip waders instead of wellies | (10) | ||
| Boston Globe, obviously unaware of Romero's groundbreaking research, tells readers what blogs are, who can create them, what they're good for, and where you can find them | (13) |