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Sun July 27, 2008
(Gizmodo) Amusing Funniest DIY Iron Man suit you will see all day (warning, Not safe for work outline on pic #2) (6)
(Some Classic) Cool Twitter user to tweet all of Moby Dick. Follow me Ishmael (10)
(Kotaku) Cool Green Lantern and the Joker to join the "Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe" roster. Still no street cred for Aquaman (28)
(Some Scienticians) Interesting Wearable kidney could help millions look like they got sprayed in glue and rolled through a Home Depot (12)
(Livenews) Interesting The key to developing lightweight, bomb-proof armour? Why, it's the dinosaur eel, of course (12)
(Wired) Interesting Gallery of NASA's most embarrassing goof ups. No, visible soundstage microphone is not there (47)
(Wired) Scary ♫This is Maj. Rusty to ground control / NASA scientists are political whores / They hide facts in the most peculiar way / If we put nukes in space we're screwed. / And there's something smarter I can do. ♫ (14)
(Science Daily) Interesting A European research project has brought the demise of humanity closer to reality by creating a human-like arm and hand controlled by an electronic 'brain' modelled on the human cerebellum (13)
(PCWorld) Scary Cancer is a class of PENIS COCK ROFL in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth, invasion VAGINA LOLOL, and sometimes metastasis (spread to other locations in the body via lymph or ASS, HAHA AIDS) [citation needed] (31)
(C|Net) Stupid Today: Microsoft funds open source Apache. Tomorrow: Apache deemed unprofitable, promptly shut down (19)
(Forbes) Interesting The planet is now entering a 30-year cooling period, and India and China are going to build a new coal plant each week for the next 25 years. Where is your Prius now? (214)
(AFP) Cool Unknown insects found in 110 million year old amber. Jeff Goldblum twitches nervously (38)
(AP) Spiffy Space race heats up with unveiling of new spacecraft. Spiffy: private enterprise spacecraft (29)
(AP) Sad Mars lander has trouble getting sample in oven. Subby knows exactly how it feels (23)
(SFGate) Cool Total Eclipse coming August 1, but you have to pay $5 or else you only get to see Eclipse Lite (29)
(Sun Sentinel) Cool 1972-1991: Before Guitar Hero and GTA, there was P-O-N-G (warning: slideshow) (40)
(C|Net) Asinine AT&T files petition with FCC to prevent competitors from launching 4G wireless high-speed data service because it would be far faster than AT&T's present service and thus would be against the consumers' best interest (42)
(I Heart Chaos) Amusing According to this odd sex ed film from 1953, coaches kept charts of genitalia in their pocket for whenever questions about the birds and bees arose (40)
(Slashdot) Dumbass Free Software Foundation encourages people to DDoS Apple's Genius Bars over openness concerns, apparently because retail support guys have total control over company policy (38)
(International Herald Tribune) Interesting Problem solving: If you have a problem, ask everyone (13)

Sat July 26, 2008
(Ars Technica) Hero "This is Steve Jobs. You think I'm an arrogant [REDACTED] who thinks he's above the law, and I think you're a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong." (46)
(Some Guy) Obvious In a groundbreaking study, the New England Journal of Medicine reports that guns can be bad for your health (67)
(TechNewsWorld) Unlikely "Is the Web's infrastructure inching toward collapse?" (65)
(TechEBlog) Cool Foldable vehicles that might fit in your garage. Yes, that includes a personal airplane (25)
(Engadget) Silly Is that a solar-powered clip-on fan for your hat or are you just determined to never get laid? (25)
(PCWorld) Cool Google: One trillion strong... and growing (20)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Want to double your gas mileage? Here's how (150)

Fri July 25, 2008
(nasaimages.org) Cool New NASA image archive site catalogues thousands of stunning images. Images of alien life forms suspiciously absent (74)
(Gizmodo) Interesting Meet Rock Port, Missouri- the first American town to be powered exclusively by wind (30)
(Korea Times) Unlikely Korean scientists use next-generation nuclear fusion reactor to generate plasma, heralding future of limitless energy, cool new rayguns (53)
(Kotaku) Sad Sega can't find the source code for some of their old arcade games. Don't expect Out Run anytime soon (67)
(Salon) Obvious Research confirms what we already know: driving while using a cellphone, even with a headset, is dangerous because your mind can't process both activities at the same SORRY WHAT I'M IN A TUNNEL HERE MERGE YOU JACKASS (97)
(The New York Times) Stupid Comcast iz readin ur blog (52)
(Labspaces.net) Cool A dream come true: Brush your teeth with gummy bears (35)
(Canada.com) Cool Scientists working on safe-to-eat raw hamburger. Your dog is interested but prefers steak (40)
(Kotaku) Amusing MK x 9 = M (31)
(The New York Times) Interesting "The relevant hypothesis here is that saturated fat leads to more cholesterol. We do the test a half dozen times. Each time it fails to confirm our prediction. So maybe the hypothesis is wrong." (36)
(MSNBC) Interesting Seven real life science conspiracies\mysteries. Scully and Mulder are on the case (46)
(Telegraph) Scary Blood vessels, tendons and bladders from animals are to be used in humans for the first time after a breakthrough in transplant surgery. In related news, horses are predicted to become an endangered species within a few years (33)
(Engadget) Cool PlasmaBlade electrosurgery scalpel approved for use by FDA. Company has already received its first order from an L. McCoy (28)
(Slashdot) Interesting Microsoft engineers invent new blue screen (14)
(Telegraph) Interesting The idea that people have an innate mathematical ability has been questioned by a study of an Amazonian tribe that has no sense of numbers. Who knew there were sub-prime lenders in the rainforest? (57)
(London Times) Cool Readers of Esquire are soon to be exposed to the publishing industry's latest attempt at re-inventing itself -- a battery-powered magazine with a flashing cover (73)
(London Times) Spiffy Japan to begin giving acupuncture to tuna in attempt to improve their sushi (45)
(Yahoo) Ironic Boiling hot water found in frigid Arctic Sea (47)
(Lancashire Evening Post) Hero Miracle man claims to be able to turn water into fuel - not as tasty as wine but it could save us all a fortune (137)
(CNN) Obvious From the Department of Self-Interest: Utilities say grid can handle electric cars, add that the stuff coming out of smokestacks is just rainbows and dreams (60)

Thu July 24, 2008
(Kansas City) Scary Air Force missile silo crews caught sleeping on the job, will be replaced by WOPR (168)
(Ars Technica) Amusing Yahoo music shutting down. Customers to be locked out of their own DRM "protected" music collections (85)
(backpacker) Strange "There appeared to be a significant increase in pain tolerance after Red Bull consumption" (42)
(NASA) Cool Researchers have discovered what causes brilliant outbursts of Northern Lights: Gigantic plasma bullets launched toward Earth by explosions 1/3rd of the way to the Moon (29)
(Scientific American) Interesting Evolution has ensured that humans respond to anecdote, instead of science. Which explains the success of chiropracty as well as those urban legends your secretary forwards you (451)
(The Register) Obvious Google AdWords auctions have rules, just like Calvinball does (28)
(Some Flyin' High Guy) Amusing What to do with that old junked 727 that your dad left you (89)
(Some Guy) Cool Jet-powered wheelchair debuts for $387,568 (Experimental aircraft restrictions apply) (18)
(C|Net) Silly Microsoft fixes Vista - by telling people it's not Vista (74)
(AP) Stupid Watchmen prequel coming to video game consoles. Subby's hoping for "Watchmen Babies in 'V for Vacation'" (59)
(MSNBC) Sad ♫ Slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. ♫ Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just dash off a voice mail, and get some new tail ♫ (20)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Stupid Apple puts mafia-style clampdown on iPhone app books, nerd meetups (73)
(Eureka) Strange Old and Busted: Injecting weapons-grade neurotoxins into your face to smooth wrinkles. The New Hotness: Burning off a layer of your skin with friking lasers to smooth wrinkles (13)
(Telegraph) Cool Facebook forms major "roaming" deal with 24 major websites (18)
(LA Times) Amusing Comic Con's most coveted bag this year is the "Big Frakkin Bag from Battletar Galactica" (30)
(Some Guy) Interesting A great description of the new internet DNS flaw you've heard so much about (39)
(Breitbart.com) Interesting Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton, a Tarbosaurus. Also find partial skeleton of a dinosaur that died by running with scissors, a Tardosaurus (100)
(COD4 Farker) Weird Microsoft to drop fees on Windows Live, still going to be charging fees for Xbox Live. This would have been submitted earlier but I was on the Playstation network all night (66)
(Discovery) Misc Dinosaurs diversified over time. But even their portfolio wasn't enough to save them from the housing crash (32)
(Kotaku) Sad Grinch.... er... Nintendo president says he can't guarantee there will be enough Wii's available in the U.S. this Christmas. Then he jumped from a diving board into a warehouse full of money (260)
(TechEBlog) Amusing Geeky coffee table lets you periodically check for elements (32)
(Some Guy) Amusing And now, for today's naughty sounding headline for article that isn't: Beaver Lake Gets Stocking Of Stripers (7)
(Computerworld) Amusing Ubuntu founder talking smack to Apple, saying "on the desktop experience, we need to shoot beyond the Mac". CHOWNed (112)
(Fox News) Interesting Star explodes and no one notices. No, this has nothing to do with "The View" (27)

Wed July 23, 2008
(AP) Dumbass The head of a prominent cancer research institute says it takes too long to get answers from science, so we should all stop using cell phones right now before any evidence that they're harmful is found (44)
(Some Jedi) Cool Remember the steampunk Star Wars figures? Here is the Empire Strikes Back edition. Cool tag beats Followup tag with a Force choke (148)
(alertnet) Scary Israel is going to bomb Iran. Click here to find out when (47)
(Craig Caboodle) Spiffy Cool: Building your dream house. Cooler: Building your dream house on a private lake. Farking wicked: Putting in your own indoor tube slide for the grandkids. (Okay, for the adult kids too) (36)
(Some Guy) Silly Sony's "Wipeout" game delayed because it "failed epilepsy tests." Or in 1980s terms, "was too awesome" (53)
(Dallas News) Asinine Nintendo apparently doesn't own the patents to its own controllers, and the company that does is conveniently located in Texas's Eastern District (29)
(The New York Times) Interesting Top chefs are trying to "improve" soft-serve ice cream with boysenberry, balsamic Bing cherry, spiced cantaloupe (26)
(Daily Mail) Spiffy Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell comes clean, says Roswell was real and that sophisticated aliens continue to visit this planet. But don't worry, "if they were hostile, we'd all be gone by now" (59)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Spiffy New study suggests Viagra may help women. Well, women who aren't Liddy Dole (14)
(The Industry Standard) Interesting Old-school geek running a 90s-style email list is killing PR Newswire's web-based cash cow (10)
(Kotaku) Obvious Sony publishes a game titled 'Fat Princess'. You feed her to make rescue harder. Obviously, someone has a problem with that (76)
(C|Net) Asinine "Nice ISP you've got here. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it" (42)
(Scientific American) Spiffy In Bizarro world, tobacco is used to cure cancer. Wait? For real? (29)
(Labspaces.net) Cool Go ahead, lick your wounds: Scientists isolate a compound in human saliva that dramatically speeds wound healing (31)
(The Local (Sweden)) Spiffy Swedish researcher claims to have cracked the secrets of intuition, just like submitter had a feeling he would (15)
(CBC) Obvious University of Michigan team wins solar car race for the fifth time (42)
(The Register) Followup Not to be outdone by Amazon, Sony decides to introduce one of the most idiotic tech devices ever conceived. (This message brought to you by last year) (114)
(Network World) Scary Bank websites using swiss cheese for security, university researchers find (59)
(Fox News) Interesting U.S. Navy bails on the stealth destroyer, will limit fleet to the two currently under construction. Research will instead be directed to more-promising Romulan cloaking technology (77)
(AppleInsider) Dumbass Microsoft offers first hints at anti-Apple marketing blitz for Vista... FOR VISTA (240)
(Some Guy) Interesting Louis Letterier spills "Iron Man 2" details, and "Avengers" movie casting thoughts (63)
(CNN) Asinine AT&T not happy enough to overcharge you a little bit, now planning to hire some tough guys to shake you down even more for net access (19)
(PCWorld) Interesting With DNS flaw now public, attack is only days away. Enjoy your Internet now because soon you will have to hold paper signs over real cats in order to caption them (80)
(The New York Times) Obvious Microsoft tries to polish a turd (98)
(NASA) Cool Coolest image of a four-kilometer-high cliff face that you will see all day (27)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious YouTube: 97 percent of our videos are worth less than squat to advertisers (36)

Tue July 22, 2008
(space weather) Cool The Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS) was thrown overboard from the International Space Station on July 23, 2007. Since then, its orbit has decayed and it has become a naked eye visible object (pic) (30)
(Tech-On) Misc JVC headphones are the first to put the speaker drivers inside your ear. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? (44)
(Lifehacker) Misc Google Maps adds walking directions. Walking? What's that? (74)
(Sci Fi) Cool The trailer for the Battlestar Galactica prequel movie, "Caprica" (91)
(Wired) Cool Undead bacteria discovered. Time to buy a really, really tiny chainsaw (83)
(ClusterStock) Obvious As Apple's stock tanks, Wall Street bestows its vast wisdom on the world: When stocks go down, they are cheaper (86)
(The Industry Standard) Obvious Owners of "Internet currency" company in the West Indies: "What makes you think our customers are laundering money?" (25)
(Wall Street Journal) Followup Icahn calls truce in Yahoo war, agrees to return France's sovereignty (15)
(London Times) Scary "Tomorrow, popular software applications like Skype or even Firefox might be declared illegal" (101)
(Telegraph) Obvious Given half a chance, most men would even sleep with a frumpy plain Jane if she had a pair of breasts (138)
(Wordpress) Interesting If history is any guide, a recent shift in a Pacific climate indicator points to two to three decades of global cooling. There goes subby's beach investment in Canada (102)

Mon July 21, 2008
(Some Guy) Interesting Long list of weird science facts. Ilan Mitchell-Smith available for comment... or anything, anything at all, Please, call (84)
(Bellingham Herald) Interesting Here's something you might not think about: Who owns rain? (94)
(VNUnet.com) Interesting Confirming that the Japanese make everything better, NASA considering using Japanese spacecraft in future mission. With unrelated "Millenium Falcon" pic (28)
(Network World) Ironic Slow move to new Internet technology is giving an old Internet technology new life that no one wanted to see (58)
(PhysOrg.com) Cool ♪ ♫ You put the lime in the sea water, you stop the global warming - put the lime in the sea water, the planet feels better ♫♪ (71)
(Sci Fi) Spiffy Sci-Fi Channel to release 36 original movies in 2009, including such future classics as "Phantom Racer," starring Greg "BJ and the Bear" Evigan as a ghostly race-car driver (135)
(Mark's Technology News) Interesting BRB Evolution folding car looks like a Dyson vacuum. This time an upright (28)
(Daily Mail) Scary If you're on Facebook, you could be a porn star. Without even knowing it (55)
(Independent) Obvious Great Britain panel criticizes WHO and warns that a flu pandemic is coming. EVERYBODY PANIC... with grace and poise (23)
(Houston Chronicle) Interesting Massachusetts patient tested for mad cow disease. So, be sure not to eat meat from any Massachusetts patients (31)
(Reuters) Scary Wetlands could unleash "carbon bomb" due to development and dehydration. Submitter unleashed one of his own this morning due to beer and tacos (47)
(PC Magazine) Interesting Twenty-one great technologies that failed. Subby is taking notes on his Newton while surfing the WebTV (141)
(PC Authority) Unlikely That little thing in your right hand? It'll be gone in five years (136)
(News.com.au) Strange Australian donkeys could soon help increase sex drives of Chinese women. Seriously (68)
(Stuff) Interesting Scientists to drill into Australian-Pacific Plate fault in the hopes of catching a magnitude 8.0 earthquake in a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-act-t-t-t-t-tion (16)

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