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Sun June 22, 2008
(InventorSpot) Cool Japan invents cigarettes with balls you squeeze for a blast of flavor. Cough please (74)
(Lifehacker) Amusing Firefox 3 Easter Eggs - 'Robots have shiny metal posteriors which should not be bitten' (38)
(Some Guy) Scary Homeland Security may require airlines and cruise lines to fingerprint passengers (66)
(Newsweek) Amusing About 30 years ago when Microsoft moved to Seattle, they took a photo of their employees. With Bill Gates leaving, they decided to snap another photo (30)
(Republican American) Interesting Drivers are trading in their hybrids because its powerful electromagnetic field is making them sick. Which is unscientific hoo-hah, but a poke in the eye of tree huggers nonetheless (56)
(Inhabitat) Cool New type of wind turbines break $1/watt cost barrier and are small enough to put on your roof... if you've got the $250,000 to shell out for a 250KW system (106)
(Daily Tech) Cool MIT students develop world's most efficient parabolic collector, a dish that can focus sunlight into a beam hot enough to melt steel, warm the hearts of egomaniacal supervillains (69)
(Wikipedia) Spiffy The "Cosmos" marathon discussion thread (320)
(Telegraph) Interesting Since it's obviously not user error, if you can't get your GPS system to work right, you can blame the Northern Lights (18)
(Guardian.com) Obvious "The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans - and many others believe scientists are exaggerating the problem" (63)
(NewsBusters) Cool Global Cooling will cause the next great ice age. EVERYBODY PANIC (163)
(Telegraph) Interesting Blue Whales taking up Barry White songs (11)
(Some Guy) Followup Media finally gets around to speculating about the connection between Midwest flooding and global warming (21)
(Wired) Interesting Photographing the night sky might one day become illegal due to the Patriot Act (56)

Sat June 21, 2008
(Seattle Times) Interesting The "deer in headlights" look of fear is actually an evolutionary mechanism that heightens awareness, threat detection and the likelihood of becoming national news when you disappear on your wedding day (30)
(C|Net) Asinine The RIAA's asshattery is our fault (101)
(The Scotsman) Obvious Wikipedia blamed for students failing school as it is "littered with opinion and inaccurate information which could be taken as fact." Uh, citation needed (100)
(BBC) Cool Launched a week late, Jason-2 launched into orbit, expected to start slashing other satellites by Tuesday (17)
(The Earth Times) Obvious Cash-strapped Phillipines residents forced to sell their organs to strangers to make enough money on which to live, proving that a liberal arts degree isn't worth the paper it's photocopied on even there (31)
(Some Brickhead) Spiffy LEGO to release new Death Star kit consisting of 3,800 pieces, 150% awesome, lots of nerd love (61)

Fri June 20, 2008
(ZDNet UK) Cool By 2010 mobile handsets will be capable of projecting 3D images of films, games, jedi masters and, undoubtedly, porn. Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, I can't get off (38)
(InfoWorld) Amusing HR memo to Broadcom sales reps: We will no longer provide hookers and blow for sales kickoff meetings (24)
(Some Guy) Amusing A look back at the Great Archie Comics Experiment of 1989-90, including such failed titles as "Archie 3000" and "Jughead's Time Police" (51)
(Some Guy) Amusing Reporter takes "Segway Safari" through Baltimore and discovers that only thing worse than being laughed at is being laughed at while wearing a helmet (140)
(Guardian.com) Interesting YouTube responds to (buffering) getting its ass kicked by (buffering) Hu(buffering)lu(buffering).com (68)
(C|Net) Followup If it doesn't work, kill it. I mean, thats what should happen to YouTube anyway (37)
(Gawker) Interesting IPhone porn is a swelling industry that's getting bigger by the day: Now it's ready to penetrate the market and soon it will explode into record profits and wipe all its competitors off with a tissue or grey gym sock (42)
(BBC) Interesting The modern computer is 60 years old today. Get off its 6c:61:77:6e (206)
(WTAM) Cool World's newest Roadrunner supercomputer is already setting records at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, according to Dr. Will E. Coyote, super genius (32)
(CBC) PSA Gadgets that claim to reduce emissions, improve fuel economy and be sanctioned by the government don't, don't and aren't (25)
(Jalopnik) Cool The coolest golf cart mods you'll see all day (42)
(Guardian.com) Amusing "I'm off to tend my alpacas" is the new "Talk to the hand" (18)
(Gizmodo) Spiffy Ever wanted your room to look like a nuclear power plant? Try these lightpipes on for size (30)
(News.com.au) Cool Frog that has existed undiscovered for more than five million years introduced to the public. ♫ Hello ma baby, hello ma honey, hello ma ragtime gal... ♫ (165)
(Science Daily) Interesting Greenland ice core analysis shows drastic climate change near end of last ice age, just around the time SUVs were introduced to Greenland. Coincidence? (60)

Thu June 19, 2008
(Science Daily) Obvious Today's Apples and Oranges headline: One liter of fuel would serve the UK for a year and oil reserves would last the lifetime of the solar system - if efficiency in the car industry had improved at the same rate as in the computer world (44)
(Reuters) Obvious 1 out of 3 IT staff members spies on the other 2 while they try to get greenlights on Fark all day (22)
(Wired) NewsFlash The Mars Lander just found ice (816)
(NBC San Diego) Spiffy Museum's Star Trek exhibit set to stun (31)
(Reuters) Obvious Fat people who become skinny have less risk of cancer. Skinny people who become fat have more chance of enjoying Naruto, sweatpants, and dated myspace pictures (27)
(Some Guy) PSA Yahoo adds two new domains for email service. Sign up now before p3n15@ymail.com is gone (19)
(Some Guy) Spiffy The City of Portland is lighting its own farts (9)
(The News & Observer (NC)) Amusing Duke professors think the automobile industry should use "gallons per mile" rather than "miles per gallon". This is supposed to help consumers to better judge how much gas their car sucks (71)
(AP) Interesting Mars lander loses some photos after power to the soundstage is turned off (13)
(Huffington Post) Interesting A first look at Peter Gabriel's new social media site/discovery service "The Filter". Pete still won't tell us what the hell a fruitcage is (14)
(Wired) Cool What kind of airplane does Tron guy fly? (with pics of pretty darn nice little airplane) (33)
(New Scientist) Interesting Scientists generate fastest ever flash of light - 80 attoseconds (billionths of a billion of a second) long, use it to capture images of oscillating light wave (with pic) (38)
(Science Daily) Scary The latest environmental threat: manmade water (32)
(London Times) Interesting How sci-fi leads to reality: H.G. Wells directly inspired the atom bomb, and the V2 rocket was based on pulp magazine art. Subby furiously penning yarn about Playboy bunnies serving him Infinity Beer in invisible sky castle (24)
(The Age (Melbourne)) Sad Second polar bear to travel to Iceland receives same welcome as the last one. Iceland removed from "Fodor's Top 10 Vacations for a Polar Bear" (25)
(Fox News) Boobies Here's a guaranteed ratings boost: Local TV station asks, "Are those hookers on Google Street View?" (242)
(Talking Points Memo) Sad Telecoms: "We want immunity to break the law" House Dems: "No problem" (171)
(Space) Dumbass Liam's teacher Rachel Kaplan said, "I was really sad when Pluto was declassified as a planet, because I've studied astrology for a number of years" (43)
(PhillyBurbs.com) Stupid Hey look, it's the "happiest day of the year" jackass from Drew's book, still getting free publicity from MSM like clockwork every six months with his whackjob science (97)
(Some Guy) Spiffy The official "post the abomination you made in the Spore Creature Creator" thread (336)
(Seacoastonline.com) Silly Environmental idealist says he hopes to replace regular trucks with ones powered by people pedaling bicycles. Yeeeeeeaabbadabbadooooooo (29)
(The Local (Germany)) Cool Scientists develop helmet to control toy cars directly through brain waves, proving once again that scientists have way too much free time on their hands (16)
(Guardian.com) Cool A patient whose skin cancer had spread to his groin has been given the all-clear after being injected with billions of his own cloned immune cells. Still no cure for lung cancer (27)
(New Scientist) Interesting Oh, why does God test us with evolving... er... intelligently changing bacteria? (241)
(MSNBC) Sad Ironically, you probably inherited that narrow urethra from your dad (36)
(LiveLeak) Spiffy Actual car that runs on unicorn tears, tea or any water source (video) (96)
(DVLabs) Obvious Well that didn't take long -- critical security vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0 (62)
(Telegraph) Interesting Lower testosterone in men can lead to earlier death, seven consecutive Tour de France victories (15)

Wed June 18, 2008
(The Sun) Amusing Experts devote 12 years to create the perfect RC flying saucer, and my friends it looks, it looks...it looks like a farking Big Mac (photo) (107)
(Science Daily) Interesting Why soccer parents rage. WTF REF. DIDN'T YOU SEE THAT I'M LIVING VICARIOUSLY THROUGH MY CHILD? (24)
(AP) Interesting FDA okays breathing device used by Christopher Reeve. Which is nice, since he's not using it anymore (46)
(Stuff) Scary "Parents should be able to choose child's sex" and so it begins (55)
(Telegraph) Spiffy On top of being able to make you speak in tongues, feel like you're invisible, and vomit profusely, tequila can also make diamonds (14)
(Telegraph) Amusing Scientists discover that walking up to every woman in sight and asking her to sleep with you will get you laid like James Bond. Good luck with that professor (64)
(Telegraph) Obvious "Obsessive Internet use" to be recognized as a clinical disorder by psychiatrists. Yeah, I can F5 quit any F5 time I F5 want F5 (24)
(AP) Spiffy House adds extra shuttle flight in NASA budget by a vote of 409-15. Bush protests vote anyway. Quick, how many days does he have left in office? (Tag is for Congress) (74)
(G4TV) Amusing G4TV asks Domo-kun the hard-hitting questions in an exclusive interview: "You first started being noticed on the internet like ten years ago on Fark.com. What's the worst part about being famous on the internet?" (23)
(Yahoo) Strange Japanese firm makes a robot that hates your friends and short circuits once a month (22)
(Google) Asinine Today's sign we are destroying earth: too many jellyfish. Next week's sign we're killing the earth: too few jellyfish (35)
(io9) Misc Head of floundering DC Comics heads into his final crisis (36)
(Houston Chronicle) Interesting Scientist may have the cure for diarrhea. No shiat (54)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Cool Coming soon to YouTube: dog-on-skateboard, the 2-hour version (37)
(CNSNews) Followup The "400 billion barrels of oil under Montana" story is a myth. The oil field exists, but it's about 1/100th as large. In related news, CNSnews.com sometimes contains actual facts (328)
(Live Science) Interesting Scientists unveil the top 10 new species of 2007. It's sort of like The Smoking Gun weekly round up for the animal kingdom: some are old, some flamboyant, a few look crazy, and the rest are just boring (26)
(Slashdot) Obvious News: Buggy software lets hackers take control of your computer. Fark: And your coffee maker (16)
(PCWorld) Asinine RIAA refiles contested piracy case involving single mother that was already dropped, refiling it under "John Doe" so it can forum-shop a better judge who will understand their "making available" clauses. Stay classy, RIAA (46)
(AP) Spiffy Four of Japan's leading robot startups join forces to form Voltron Incorporated (33)
(Yahoo) Interesting Scientists announce "major" dinosaur find in Utah. Officials there believe that the dinosaurs represent a lost tribe of middle eastern dinosaurs who migrated to North America and settled in Utah (36)
(Some BSG nerd) Amusing John McCain is a cylon (83)
(Boston Globe) Cool The coolest pictures of Saturn and its moons you'll see today (64)
(Network World) Cool 10 "Get Smart" phones you can actually get (38)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Grand Tetons get $160 million expansion, now closing the gap with Dolly Parton (15)
(Real Tech News) Cool Four words: Open Source Guitar Hero (79)
(Some Guy) Interesting If people who own hybrids are stuck up pricks, what does that make someone who owns a hybrid of a hybrid? (67)
(Space Ref) Interesting Study finds the ebb and flow of the sea to be the primary cause of the world's mass extinctions over the past 500 million years (34)
(Yahoo) Dumbass Yahoo News elaborates that apes and chimpanzees are planning for the recession and higher gas prices (6)
(C|Net) Unlikely AT&T, Verizon defend Early Termination Fees as "reasonable", "necessary to ensure competition" (57)
(BBC) Interesting World's earliest known recording of computer music unveiled - dates back to 1951, or about when Cher had her first Farewell Tour (13)
(Gizmodo) Spiffy Microsoft sends Mozilla a cake for the Firefox 3 release party. Open source movement still full of sullen whiny self important douchebags (86)

Tue June 17, 2008
(An Underpaid Geek) Ironic Compared to Google and Microsoft, Apple's engineers work for sweatshop wages to produce the smugness people crave (36)
(CNN) Interesting FDA cracks down on 'cancer cures', favorite cliche (71)
(Computerworld) Cool Are you a weakling who gets tired by lugging around your three pound MacBook Air? Well, Toshiba has some good news for you (35)
(SeattlePI) Asinine Man gets Windows Vista to work with printer. The Onion expected to sue P-I blogger for stealing its headline (38)
(Wired) Cool Neil Gaiman's best-selling children's book "Coraline" coming soon to a gaming system near you (34)
(Engadget) Strange Segway sales have hit an all-time high thanks to high gas prices, endorsement by former member of The Magician's Alliance (51)
(International Herald Tribune) Interesting Some Belgian guy invented "a Steampunk version of hypertext" in 1934. Bonus: Guess whose army destroyed much of this work while invading? (87)
(MTV) PSA Director thinks The Hulk should be the main villian in upcoming "Avengers" movie (79)
(Aint-It-Cool-News) Cool "Battlestar Galactica" nerd to be the head KNIGHT Industries nerd in the relaunched version of the failed re-launching of "Knight Rider" (25)
(Kotaku) Interesting Atari brings "Deer Hunter" online, so you may now play a Russian roulette tournament with gamers from around the world (39)
(The New York Times) Cool Your appendix may actually have a purpose: Providing a storm shelter for helpful gut bacteria once you start feeling the results of eating Taco Bell (54)
(CBS News) Obvious Having solved all other problems, researchers determine that chimps are consoled by a hug, and science journalists can fill 16 paragraphs by repeating the same information in different ways (6)
(The New York Times) Asinine Nearly 70 percent of male prisoners found to be physically fit. Duh, consider the alternatives (28)
(Wee!) Cool Wii of Warcraft (42)
(Some disgruntled coder) Interesting Anatomy of a runaway I.T. project. Submitter laughs at first, then quietly cries as he realizes history is repeating itself, where he works (77)
(Kotaku) Dumbass Jack Thompson learns a lesson. If you end a letter to a judge with "I guess my 'mistake' was not killing 3000 people to make my point..." you just might get visited by U.S. Marshals (114)
(Breitbart.com) Interesting Chinese company invents "UFO," though the article seems to identify it pretty well (24)
(ABC News) Silly Will GPS devices make Americans dumb? No more than "American Idol" has (147)
(Scientist Live) Interesting Candid discussion with the first scientist to see HIV assembling piece by piece inside a cell and budding (12)
(The Register) Interesting Scientists blame human female insanity on their symmetrical brain layout. Except for lesbians (21)
(Cracked) Cool Five superpowers that science will give us in our lifetimes (unless you're really farking old) (50)
(Reuters) Interesting Kazakhstan's sole communications satellite runs out of goats (23)
(News.com.au) Scary Interweb addresses to be used up by 2010. Remaining web addresses now selling for over $4 per gallon (37)
(Washington Post) Interesting You can drink up to six cups of coffee a day without shortening your lifespan, if you survive biting your tongue off (33)
(UK.gov) Spiffy Scotland moving to wind farms to power homes, abandoning traditional energy sources of scotch and tears (22)
(AP) Spiffy Santa Fe to WiFi allergists: Suck it (60)
(Scientific American) Interesting A fearful scowl is good for survival (24)
(Yahoo) Interesting Frogamander fills evolutionary gap between frogs and salamanders. Intelligent Design proponents demand evidence linking frogs to frogamanders and frogamanders to salamanders (95)

Mon June 16, 2008
(Telegraph) Interesting Using the TV as a babysitter increases your child's chance of asthma, becoming a creepy cable repairman (15)
(C|Net) Obvious There are more developers writing applications for Linux than Vista (56)
(Washington Post) Interesting Scientists discover gay women and straight men have very similar brains when it comes to size, symmetry, Angelina Jolie fantasies (44)
(Philly) Interesting Pennsylvania, which has a state-run liquor system designed by Vladimir Lenin himself, is considering selling wine via high-tech kiosk. With pic (45)
(Newsweek) Stupid History Channel plans to air though-provoking documentary about Egypt's "Lost Pyramid" of Giza. Difficulty: it's not a pyramid, it was never lost, and it's not in Giza. But it does have some nifty CG (48)
(Labspaces.net) Cool This Wednesday, the Moon is gonna look freakin' ginormous as it comes up in the east (27)
(Gawker) Strange A new video game allows you to design video games. Subby is patiently waiting for a video game where you can design video games that allow you to design video games (36)
(Some Guy) Cool Astronomers discover the planet Krypton, all three of them (14)
(Ars Technica) Interesting Evolution Museum to be built across the street from Creation Museum..... OH SYNAPSE (545)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Interesting "Battlestar Galactica" gets big ratings for the midseason finale. High ratings are not expected next season since all the viewers are killing themselves (186)
(Guardian.com) Spiffy Hollywood finally greenlights soon-to-be-epic "Cowboys and Aliens," starring Robert Downey Jr (57)
(Entertainment Weekly) Followup Entertainment Weekly writer defends himself against angry readers after he included "Jurassic Park" and "Blade Runner" on his list of sci-fi misfires (153)
(CNN) Interesting "I just whacked off a whole bunch" Surprisingly, this story is about dinosaurs (83)
(Gizmodo) Obvious Your new 3G iPhone will only go about one-third of the speed AT&T's HSDPA is capable of. Turns out smugness uses lots of battery life (85)
(BBSpot) Cool Microsoft abandons IE8 in favor of Firefox 3. "Could be the only way we salvage Vista," says Ballmer (77)
(Reuters) Cool "Robotech" coming to the big screen for those in need of a little protoculture (121)
(Abc.net.au) Cool Honda makes first hydrogen powered car, but will it fly? (55)
(The Sun) Dumbass "Grand Theft Auto IV" has a hidden cheat which shows players a spoof paedophile site (94)
(Chicago Tribune) Obvious YouTube becoming "'world's biggest focus group'" by tracking age, gender, geographic location, number of times rickrolled (19)
(Mercury News) Spiffy Britannica opens its online pages. Citation needed (20)
(Some Guy) Cool AMD released the first Stream Processor to break 1 Teraflop barrier (51)
(Shut It Down!) Dumbass Science fiction convention cancelled by organizers. The day after it starts (53)
(InventorSpot) Spiffy 'Tokyo Sky Tree' winning entry in contest to name Japan's tallest man-made structure. Presumed runners-up included National Compensator, Super Mega Chopstick and Godzilla's Scratching Post (27)



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