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Sun April 20, 2008
ZDNet PSA Earth has a magnetic tail that could prevent people from living on the moon 6 days out of the month (23)
The Consumerist Sad 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) Interesting 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)
AP Unlikely 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)
Wired Scary "The entire security of the internet is now dependent on some random-ass server run by some British company" (41)
(Some Guy) Strange Richard Branson is going to marry a couple in outer space. Maybe men really are from Mars (37)
MSNBC Interesting Deep thinkers see how things will be in 2058. Oddly, flying car not on list (145)
MDN Spiffy Home dinosaur excavation kits becoming increasingly popular children's gift in Japan (20)

Sat April 19, 2008
(Science Daily) Interesting Interpreters for the Deaf at higher risk of injury than assembly line workers. GARRETT MORRIS UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT (86)
Scientific American Cool 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) Interesting Top ten science hoaxes of all time. Moon landing strangely absent (269)
Seattle Times Cool 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)
AP Strange "The solution to pollution is not eating spiders." Just in case you were wondering (20)
Aftenposten.no Amusing Norway's multiplying møøse population raising fears about health of forests, sisters (26)
UPI Amusing Um... if a space capsule landed in your yard, the Russian Space Agency would really like it back (50)
Network World Cool Coolest tech research projects cooking a university labs (9)
Engadget Cool At last, the bacon cover for your iPod that you have been waiting for all this time (25)
Space Interesting New danger to moon astronauts: getting electrocuted. By the Earth (16)
BBC Scary The aire in Buenos Aires is not so bueno (pic) (30)

Fri April 18, 2008
Local6 Florida 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)
The Industry Standard Interesting PayPal brands Safari "unsafe browser." Fourteen Mac fanbois close their PayPal accounts to protest (92)
Wired Interesting 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)
Reuters Misc 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) Cool 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)
Network World Interesting Chinese hackers poised for anti CNN attack on April 19 (42)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Interesting Net neutrality supporters get an unlikely friend: Bible thumpers (30)
CBC Obvious Quebec wants its own domain (75)
ZDNet Interesting AT&T says the tubes of the intarwebs will be clogged with lolcats by 2010. EVERYBODY PANIC (254)
BBSpot Amusing The seven hidden dangers of video games that parents should be concerned about (42)
Kotaku Dumbass Step 1) Remove the blood and gore from Mortal Kombat and replace it with Batman. Step 2) ????? Step 3) Profit (40)
Entertainment Weekly Interesting "Battlestar Galactica" head Ron D. Moore to write big-screen sci-fi trilogy for Tom Cruise. Time for a "Battlefield Earth" re-imagining? (83)
Network World Interesting British bobbies bait Facebook friends to rat out ax-wielding gang (19)
IGN Interesting 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) Cool Microsoft's "big-ass table" computer Surface debuts in AT&T stores, gets fondled on camera (35)
Yahoo Hero Two teams of scientists and $250 million seek to grow skin and organs for wounded veterans (26)
(Some Guy) Cool 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)

Thu April 17, 2008
Telegraph Obvious 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) Obvious 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)
AP Interesting One of these quadruplets ain't like the others / One of these quadruplets doesn't belong (111)
(Some Guy) Interesting Popular Mechanics says that Vista runs better on a Mac, cheaper too. Smug (72)
Gizmodo Florida 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)
Wired Interesting 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)
IndyStar Cool 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) Spiffy Inform the Nobel prize committee, the greatest invention of this decade is here and it is full of awesome (77)
(ArsTechnica) Scary AT&T's new browser comes with spiffy new features, including automatically forwarding your browsing history to the NSA (41)
Scientific American Obvious Six things in "Expelled" that Ben Stein would rather you didn't know (905)
(Some Microsoft Guy) Interesting 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) Interesting Are your obsolete technology skills on this list? (135)
Telegraph Interesting "Grand Theft Auto IV" review: So good, it's criminal (150)
(Some Guy) Interesting Sales of "The Sims" game hit 100 million mark since its release in 2000 (41)
National Post Asinine 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)
IGN Cool 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)
New Scientist Amusing Neanderthal man speaks after 30,000 years, with bonus recording: Apparently, he's Canadian (45)
Gizmodo Obvious 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) Interesting The seven habits of highly effective Linux users. Buying Mountain Dew and Cheetos from Costco strangely absent (38)
Stuff Interesting Killer whales begin to hunt on land. With pic of well Orcastrated attack (39)
(MacRumors) Cool 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)
Daily Mail Interesting 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)
BBC Cool Five-year-old is believed to be the youngest ever Briton to get a patent for his "improved broom" (32)
SFGate Interesting Octopussy (20)
Pravda Interesting Every wonder just what all those satellites and space junk orbiting the Earth looks like from a distance? Wonder no more (31)
Telegraph Unlikely From today's "Sentences you thought you'd never read" files: "Drummers are natural intellectuals" (66)

Wed April 16, 2008
Reuters Obvious Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory, dead at age 90. A butterfly must have flapped its wings somewhere (78)
Engadget Followup While Apple is busy ignoring them, the people behind the software they are stealing have something to say to Psystar (35)
Slate Unlikely Slate's William Saletan asks, "Is incest natural?" Presumably after slow-dancing with a hot cousin at a wedding (188)
AP Interesting New X-Files movie to be titled "The X-Files: I Want to Believe (It Won't Suck)" (79)
(Some Guy) Scary Why Windows Vista is failing: R&D budget went to Springsteen cover band (56)
Network World Scary APNIC says IP address shortage is a "crisis." EVERYBODY APNIC (88)
Mercury News Obvious Guess which side of the isle thinks that Google duped the FCC during the recent airwaves auction? (131)
(Alley Insider) Ironic What happens when Microsoft buys your company for $500 million? They bury you deep in org-chart hell, five levels below the boss (32)
BBC Interesting Super-fast broadband could be delivered via underground sewerage pipes, according to scientists, and the content would be no different (24)
(Helsinki Notes) Interesting Octopus at Finnish aquarium learns to use tentacles to open jar with juicy prawn inside, now working at unscrewing skulls of delicious humans (52)
Wired Asinine 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)
The Register Followup All those stories about that German kid correcting NASA's calculations? It turns out NASA was right all along (57)
AP Obvious 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)
USA Today Stupid 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)
AP Followup Surprising absolutely no one, Harry Potter fan cries like a pansy while testifying during plagiarism trial (206)
Network World Asinine ISPs meddled with their customers' Web traffic, study finds (18)
The Consumerist Asinine Next time Comcast blocks your driveway preventing you from parking, let it go man... cause it's not worth it (41)
BBC Interesting Nokia planning to roll out 4G wireless network, The Onion planning 5G satire piece (8)
(financialpost) Obvious Maker of Alzheimer's drug changes its name and hopes people will forget that the FDA said it was useless (15)
(thisisplymouth) Weird Lobster tries new survival technique -- looking like he's already cooked (21)
(MotorAuthority) Cool New BMW engine actually makes air cleaner. Laughs at zero-emissions electric cars (41)
(Some Zebra) Cool 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)
Yahoo Obvious Quantities of red wine can destroy pancreatic cancer. Even more quantities can destroy pancreas (10)

Tue April 15, 2008
(PhysOrg) Scary 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)
BBC Obvious "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)
Daily Mail Interesting 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)
BBC Obvious 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) Amusing Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition letter of protest (from orcs and gnomes) (168)
Lifehacker Cool Anyone who paid extra for an iPhone may now facepalm themselves. iPod Touch makes and takes calls (89)
The Industry Standard Obvious AOL spends millions more trying to get back that 1995 Web buzz (48)
Yahoo Spiffy Sure, the fish are happy now, but they're probably going to get cancer in a few years (20)
(thedailywtf) Scary 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) Sad Stan Flack, veteran Mac journalist and the founder of MacCentral.com and MacMinute.com, dead at 43 (52)
Chicago Tribune Cool 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)
Telegraph Interesting 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 Unlikely 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)
Live Science Interesting Jesus may have rode his dinosaur into the Grand Canyon (132)
Yahoo Interesting Triceratops skeleton to be auctioned in Paris, where they don't care how thin the runway models are (7)
(Some Guy) Dumbass 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)
CBC Obvious Horse stem-cell research in Canada could have human applications, such as genetically engineering the next Celine Dion (18)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Amusing New Google policy: It's okay to be evil sometimes (36)
CNN Obvious If you want to be able to say, "I bought Google back when it was...." this may be your last chance (15)
Kotaku Cool 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) Interesting High blood pressure can help cure your migraines, which is a lot like frostbite curing your sunburn (9)
BBSpot Amusing Top 11 lines you don't want to see in a privacy policy (27)
LA Times Stupid 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)
IGN Sad The new "Incredible Hulk" poster is all emo (94)
AP Sad Physicist who originated the term "black hole" joins guys who named Big Mac and the hula hoop (16)
MSNBC Spiffy Fewer U.S. teens getting pregnant thanks to abstinence-only education preventing them from knowing what sex is (49)
(Some Guy) Interesting 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) Interesting Scientists discover viable DNA from 253 million years ago. Michael Crichton rapidly begins work on new bestseller, Permian Park (53)

Mon April 14, 2008
(ScienceDaily) Scary 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) Dumbass Dotcom tries not paying users unless they do more work for free. Users object (7)
Starpulse Followup R2-D2 actor Kenny Baker feels a lot better since his hospitalization, credits his recovery to doctors scraping off all the carbon scoring (12)
Yahoo Obvious Users fight for Microsoft to keep XP OS alive until something something better than Pissta is released (91)
(Tom's Guide) Interesting Company attempting to bring back the Mac clone -- without Apple's blessing, that is (54)
Network World Asinine How did Ticketmaster get 150,000 "friends" on Facebook overnight? Apparently they're all "Canadian girlfriends" (71)
(Some Guy) Amusing Everything I needed to know I learned watching the "Spiderman 3" DVD (28)
Chicago Tribune Stupid The Big One could hit the San Andreas fault tomorrow. Or sometime in the next 30 years. Just to be safe, EVERYBODY PANIC (98)
CBC Amusing Having trouble obtaining three-digit security codes on credit cards, fraudsters resort to calling cardholders directly (70)
Slashdot Obvious 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) Interesting Nine great historically accurate medieval movies (123)
Wired Cool 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)
CNBC Ironic 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) Strange Guy builds the world's first and only slammed eight-wheeled Isuzu pickup (40)
ABC News Interesting Drinking may raise risk of breast cancer, pregnancy (14)
BBC Interesting Russia now preparing to send monkeys to Mars, because it would be too cruel to send dogs or even lawyers (11)
London Times Interesting Japan mines for natural gas in previously untapped Arctic methane-hydrate ice, not realizing that's where Gamera is frozen (17)
(TVsquad.com) Cool "Heavens to Mergatroid!" A history of Hanna-Barbera, and some cartoons too (34)
(Some Guy) Misc 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)
Telegraph Stupid 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) Scary EA offers to buy out all remaining shares of Take-Two, cites G4's takeover of Tech TV as inspiration for the proposition (55)
Wired Interesting You may not realise it, but you made the decision to click this link at least 10 seconds ago (43)
Telegraph Interesting Scientists invent miniature operating table so they can carry out surgery on a worm (11)
YouTube Cool We've come a long way. Isn't that right Jar Jar, Gollum and Woody? (53)
(Independent.ie) Scary Soaring cost of food will cause "starvation and unrest," not to mention growing market share for Soylent products (36)
CBC Hero 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) Interesting Firefighting beetle robots may help humans fight forest fires, search for Sarah Connor (8)
Telegraph Obvious 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 Obvious 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)



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