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Sun August 03, 2008
(Science Daily) Interesting Researchers show that climate rapidly cooled 12,500 years ago, in only one year. With no human intervention. EVERYONE PONTIFICATE (27)
(Some Akira Nut) Cool The coolest Akira tattoo you'll likely ever see (at least today) (46)
(Boing Boing) Cool Not News: Researchers develop new lensless digital camera. News: It's also a microscope, and is the size of a dime. Revolutionary: Only costs $10 to make (17)
(Some Guy) Amusing Oxygen bar provides many "facts," including this actual statement: Less than 200 years ago the earth's atmosphere comprised of 40% oxygen; today we breathe only 21%. Founding fathers nod heads in approval of oxygen-rich environment (78)
(Daily Mail) Obvious That creation museum in Kentucky? It's actually a cover for Muslim fundamentalists (73)
(Gizmodo) Cool For when an ordinary Leatherman tool doesn't make the cut (36)
(Space Flight Now) Sad SpaceX couldn't get it up (50)
(Live Science) Interesting 101 facts about the earth. Here comes the (live)science (22)
(Gizmodo) Dumbass Brit hacks military system with 56k modem. This would have been even more amazing if the military had actually decided to use passwords (29)
(Washington Post) Asinine Maryland State Police use license plate scanning technology to scan thousands of vehicles a day for serious offenses such as emmissions violations and that guy dating their daughter (29)
(SFGate) Interesting Depending on who you listen to, it will either take food for 36 billion people just to make enough ethanol for all of America's cars, or plants growing on just 1% of the earth's surface can supply the entire world (26)
(The Morning Call) Spiffy The life stories of John McCain and Barack Obama to receive the comic book treatment (34)
(Slashdot) Asinine Looks like someone forgot the fourth iCommandment: Remember the Marketing and keep it Holy (15)
(Some Guy) Cool Top 10 quirkiest early flying machines (13)
(CSMonitor) Spiffy My god, it's full of big-ass stars (25)

Sat August 02, 2008
(WJT) Silly For the record, more than 88% of Japanese citizens have NOT dropped expensive electrical items into the sea. Yet (11)
(Some Rocket Scientist) Followup SpaceX Falcon 1 scheduled for launch today 4:00pm PDT/7:00pm EDT. Link goes to video feed (596)
(Wired) Interesting ♫ Falcon 1 is on its way up, who cares where it comes down? That's not my department, says Elon von Braun♫ (41)
(BBC) PSA After Brazilians trim away ridiculous amounts of wild jungle, it's time to start preserving the bush (52)
(AFP) Interesting One of Austria's last privately owned lakes is up for sale. Great place for a barby (58)
(Gizmodo) Cool "Large Hadron Collider might annihilate humanity, but it sure is pretty" (107)
(Dallas News) Dumbass Forgot your iPod? New airport Best Buy vending machines have you covered (88)
(Space Ref) Spiffy The White House has been alerted by NASA about plans to make an announcement soon on major new Phoenix lander discoveries concerning the "potential for life" on Mars (80)

Fri August 01, 2008
(FunnyOrDie) Video Blu-ray vs. standard DVD, with split-screen comparisons. You can really see the difference (69)
(Washington Post) Asinine County sets up mosquito traps to help fight West Nile disease. Locals steal the batteries and open traps to "liberate the mosquitoes" (42)
(Fox News) Cool Scientists uncover baby Tyranosaurus relative in Mongolia. Fortunately, no mosquitos preserved in tree sap found nearby. Phew (9)
(BBC) Interesting Bees are a lot like serial killers. Well, the serial killers who like honey anyway (17)
(insidebayarea.com) Cool Bald men of the world, allow me to introduce you to a little molecule by the name of laminin-511, or as we like to call it, "The Rogaine Killer" (23)
(The Industry Standard) Scary A photo that can steal your Facebook account (41)
(The New York Times) Cool Pictures of today's solar eclipse (5)
(The Inquirer) Interesting By "can of whoop-@$$" we meant "please support our product because we can't make chipsets" (19)
(LiveLeak) Cool At an altitude of 27,000 feet, total eclipse of the sun looks like the cover of Dark Side of the Moon (101)
(HottestGadgets) Cool 15 awesome DIY gadgets you wish you made: Your vertipod one-man hoverflyer has finally arrived (12)
(eWeek) Cool The FCC finds Comcast guilty of net neutrality violations for secretly throttling BitTorrent bandwidth (40)
(New Scientist) Obvious Scientists plan to coat all bullets with unique pollens to identify criminals who use guns. You can have my pistil when you pry it from my cold dead hands (125)
(Some H2 Guy) Obvious Spy shots of the 2010 Prius are leaked, featuring a sleeker... ah... a more aggressive... um... a sort of heightened... yeah, it still blows (167)
(Ars Technica) Asinine RIAA puts colleges on double-super-secret-P2Probation (61)
(Gizmodo) Amusing Douche: Trying to look important with an open laptop in your car. Totaldouche: A full desk, desktop computer and 17" monitor -- in your convertible (144)
(IGN) Video "I can hit these balls and I can hit these balls. I can hit them hard. And I can hit them softly. They're all coming at once now. Whack." (1:58) (28)
(Gizmodo) Interesting Honeycomb skyscraper big, yeah yeah yeah, has no internal support structure, no no no (43)
(Abc.net.au) Ironic UFO researcher says that there's just no evidence to support the claims made by a former NASA astronaut that aliens and UFOs exist (168)
(Some Reprogrammed Cell) Cool Researchers announce breakthrough after successfully transforming skin cells into motor neurons to treat ALS. Patient says that she's happy to be a part of the research and notes that the inside of her skull feels totally awesome (10)
(Engadget) Obvious Microsoft has released plans for a future without Windows. Ironically so are 87.46% of current Windows Vista users [citation required] (55)
(Discovery) Cool First images of the total eclipse seen from arctic Canada. The sun is not there (25)
(Gizmodo) Obvious Toyota introduces its own Segway killer, which begs the question, how do you kill that which is already dead? (37)
(AP) Amusing If you think you're going to have a shiatty day today, you could always be Jerry Yang, having to explain to shareholders why Yahoo has lost $20 billion in value since he turned down Microsoft's buyout offer (40)
(Yahoo) Strange "It's likely there will be some banging on pots and other creative tactics employed to drive the 'evil spirits' away" (11)
(TechEBlog) Hero Wake up to the smell and taste of bacon with this innovative alarm clock (30)
(Some Guy) Followup Some guy actually crunches the numbers and realizes Obama's right: Proper tire inflation could indeed save as much oil as we could get with new drilling. In a mere 11,308 years (173)
(Daily Mail) Cool Hot, sexy pics of what the Earth looks like naked (not safe for worlds) (134)
(likecool.com) Cool The coolest concept bicycle you will see this week (52)
(Some Skeptical Guy) Cool MIT researchers develop method of extracting hydrogen from water with almost 100 percent efficiency... using just 10 percent of the power of current methods (240)

Thu July 31, 2008
(The New York Times) Obvious The New York Times uncovers the startling fact that there are complete assholes on the internet whose sole purpose is to make fun of others in online discussion forums (104)
(NASA) Cool The coolest video from Mars you'll see today (13)
(The Consumerist) Interesting Top ten secrets of Norton/Symantec. That their products don't work mysteriously ab- Oh wait, that's #5 (89)
(Inhabitat) Spiffy Ewok-like retreat in the trees is the most awesome eco-sphere hanging treehouse you have ever seen (67)
(The Register) Spiffy While the Space Shuttle is retiring, the USAF has developed its own version, but it's smaller and will only kill robots and mackerel when it inevitably explodes and falls into the Atlantic (image) (29)
(io9) Spiffy First-ever "Star Trek" video game from 1971 is now available to play online. Supply your own whooshy sound effects (53)
(Tacoma News-Tribune) Strange Horde of tiny Western toads on move at local wildlife park, baffling scientists. "The whole lawn wiggles, and then they disappear off in the woods somewhere" (15)
(Guardian.com) Cool And on the third day, God commanded the waters to be split up a hundred million miles apart (123)
(PC Magazine) Obvious Death of Usenet predicted (69)
(Salon) Interesting Science is becoming a religion for some. After all, believing in Big Bang, evolution, quantum mechanics, electricity or gravity requires at least a little bit of faith (364)
(Pocket Gamer Biz) Interesting Former EA execs Bing Gordon and Neil Young have teamed up to work for a new iPhone games publisher. No news on what games they're making, but rest assured they'll be refreshed once a year with minor improvements (20)
(Information Week) Stupid Microsoft to create an in-car search engine for Internet-enabled cars. Because the GPS, radio, cell phone, newspaper and makeup weren't enough distractions (16)
(Fox News) Interesting With its soundstage construction running behind schedule, NASA uses Washington sand dunes as lunar stand-in (17)
(CNN) Amusing Buried among the more wholesome attempts were two-legged dancing testicles, a "giant breast monster" and a four-legged "phallic fornication machine," for starters (40)
(Science Daily) Interesting Scientists develop a vaccine against the Black Plague, reassure everybody that they're still working on vaccines against ague, bloody flux, ergotism and witch's curse (37)
(UPI) Interesting Scientists have created a nanoelectromechanical scale system sensitive enough to measure mass of single gold atom. Here comes the tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny science (22)
(Newsweek) Obvious Having no other news to report on, Newsweek asks why young people don't like to own land-line phones (72)
(Popular Science) Interesting Are you happy to see me, or is that a serial port communicator, knee bend piezo sensor, heel strike sensor and ankle accelerometer in your pocket? (18)
(Amazon) Followup £.K. Rowling d€cides to release that $pecial limited edition Harr¥ Potter book to the public after all (210)
(NASA) Cool That's no sunspot... that's a space station (44)
(Denver Post) Stupid Fortunately, the researchers did not eat the plutonium. They made just about every other possible mistake, though (68)
(USA Today) Followup On the next episode of "Where in the World is Carmen Salmonella," ACME tracks her down to a farm in Mexico (58)
(Reuters) Obvious Study shows that a ban on public smoking can keep you from having a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack. You oughta know by now (106)
(USA Today) Interesting 2,100-year-old "computer" tracked dates of the ancient Olympic games and functioned as an astronomical calculator. To absolutely no one's surprise, it still runs smoother than a computer with Windows Vista (78)
(LA Times) Cool Why are Van Gogh paintings worth so much? You sometimes get two for the price of one (15)
(Science Daily) Obvious Cambridge University researchers have found that birds such as the Cirl Bunting, Dartford Warbler and Upperclass Twit are becoming more common in Britain as temperatures rise (23)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Houston, we may have a solution (51)

Wed July 30, 2008
(Daily Star) Sad New survey finds iPod generation doesn't know the words to songs because they've never held a CD insert with the lyrics on it. In related news, we built this city on the wrong damn road (170)
(Some Guy) Interesting First it was chlorine, to make our water safe. Next, it was flouride, for our children's teeth. Let's just hope they never hear about this new chemical (17)
(Wired) Cool Bush declares war on Titan (86)
(The Smoking Gun) Asinine Trespassing. Illegal? Correct. Unless you're Google (256)
(The Onion) Scary Al Gore places infant son in rocket to escape dying planet (67)
(Telegraph) Amusing Google Street View van pulled over by police for driving in a bus lane (31)
(MTV) Followup Shot-by-shot analysis of new "Harry Potter 6" trailer, including four scenes that magically don't seem to be in the book (122)
(EFF) Asinine Having solved the problems of global terrorism, a global banking crisis, and the global oil crisis the Senate assigns the attorney general to the important task of nailing kids for illegally downloading songs (37)
(Yahoo) Amusing Video game company to put gamers' DNA in space. It's not like their DNA was going to end up anywhere else remotely useful (31)
(Internet News) Followup Did Hacker get hacked with his own hack? Nope dumb ass journalist just got it wrong (8)
(Labspaces.net) Followup False alarm, that dino tissue scientists found a few years ago was actually a bacteria slime mold (47)
(Time) Interesting Is there a gene for laziness? Meh, who cares? (37)
(National Post) Obvious Batons more dangerous than Tasers according to researchers missing several teeth (118)
(MSNBC) Obvious Instead of putting more time and effort into making Vista better, Microsoft launches another ad campaign (70)
(MSNBC) Stupid Article headline: glowing gadgets really mess up your sleep. Second to last sentence in the article: Researchers don't think so (29)
(Gizmodo) Sad Garmin's Nuvifone loses its way, gets delayed (18)
(Reuters) Stupid AP Headline: Dell reportedly testing new music player to compete with the iPod. Fark Headline simply adds "...again" (50)
(The New York Times) Interesting Well-respected, internationally read newspaper calls for closer monitoring of UFOs. Surely, this will lead to greater awareness of... oh, a newspaper? Nevermind (29)
(Network World) Ironic DNS attack writer a victim of his own creation (17)
(MSNBC) Cool Cars in a parking lot could soon keep track of each other and, like sheep, complain if one of their numbers is stolen or meets a bad end (19)
(Wired) Silly Dear Sir: Thank you for your short story submission "In the Year 2008" to our sci-fi magazine, but it's just too ridiculous to print (61)
(MSNBC) Cool A real, honest to god jetpack. A really, really large jetpack- using similar scales, a Volkswagen would qualify as a carpack (68)
(Science Daily) Interesting Findings on bladder-brain link may point to better treatments for problems in sleep, attention, pissing the bed (4)

Tue July 29, 2008
(Some Carl Sagan Guy) Cool The Tuesday Night Science Channel Discussion Thread (formerly "Cosmos"-less) (164)
(Wired) Cool ABA journal for federal judges to include essay by RIAA critic Ray Beckerman detailing the tactics the RIAA uses in lawsuits against downloaders. Subby hopes someone who can actually understand it reads and summarizes for the rest of us (37)
(Gizmodo) Cool Vortex Fountain: Want (33)
(VGB) Cool Mortal Kombat 9 will be the true mature return to form. But does this mean in MK vs DC, Scorpion will ask Batman to "Please come over here" before they beat the crap out of each other? (31)
(Reason Magazine) Interesting Al Gore wants US electricity to be 100 percent renewable in 10 years. In capital costs alone, that's: $3 trillion for thousands of solar plants, $6 trillion for a gazillion wind turbines, and $2.5 trillion for many geothermal whatevers (201)
(Time) Followup "Why Cuil is no threat to Google." Obvious tag surfs over to yesterday's fail boat thread and agrees (75)
(BuzzPirates.com) Satire The Origin of Cuil and other dumbass web names (38)
(PhysOrg.com) Spiffy Scientists make compelling case that those crazy-ass Pacific-sailing ancient Polynesians beat the Spaniards to South America by showing they left their chickens behind. Bonus: they proved it by searching for the "KFC" gene (23)
(BBSpot) Amusing Top 11 signs Steve Jobs is dead (43)
(Some Guy) Obvious Why that Indiana Jones ending is all George Lucas' fault (154)
(The Sun) Interesting Sharks found to be "scared" of magnets (34)
(Rian.Ru) Spiffy Russian sub reaches bottom of world's deepest lake after Capt. Ramius pulls a few Crazy Ivans and kills Captain Tupolev with one of his own torpedos (45)
(IGN) Interesting Good news, everyone An interview with Futurama's David X. Cohen (39)
(Reuters) Interesting The spark that ignited the Renaissance was brought to Venice from... China? (58)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious Facebook caves in to Hasbro, pulls plug on Scrabulous (27)
(Wired) Obvious Apparently when Dr. Scully injects syringe full of pinkish goo labeled "Stem Cells" into dying child's brains during "X-Files 2," that wasn't exactly scientifically accurate. Not that you saw the flick anyway (79)
(TechEBlog) Cool Guy builds movie-perfect Iron Man suit, includes Arc Reactor (42)
(Independent) Cool Happy 50th NASA. Here are 50 ways NASA has changed our lives in the last half century (79)
(Pharyngula) Unlikely Man finds dinosaur footprint alongside a human footprint. Apparently, dinosaurs had weird duck feet, and ancient humans had really weird big toes (108)
(Bangor Daily News) Amusing A recent survey in Great Britain found that one in 10 Britons had suffered some kind of injury from walking into something while they "texted." (52)

Mon July 28, 2008
(Silicon Alley Insider) Amusing Apparently "Cuil" the new "Google Killer" has an killer feature that Google doesn't have: 99% downtime. Even Geocities sites have a better uptime (63)
(London Times) Interesting Meet the heaviest-drinking creature in the world. It's not Drew. For once (pic) (22)
(Metro) Spiffy Coolest gallery of soap bubbles you'll see in the next 26 minutes. My God, they're full of stars (16)
(SFGate) Stupid Officials at the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) upset that the Department of Energy wants to change their name to the Energetic Ray Emission Collision Transporter (21)
(Discovery) Interesting Warp drive engine would travel faster than light: Damn you, Trekkies (162)
(Yahoo) PSA You are mentally ill (227)
(Forbes) Dumbass There is a video game god, and he is tired of the same Madden for the last 15 years too (125)
(New West) Obvious Montanans receive the least spam email. Which is not surprising, since their Internet has to be hauled in once a month by covered wagon (117)
(BBC) Interesting China now has the most people on the Web of any nation, all of them mining gold on "World of Warcraft" or sending out viruses to corrupt your mom's computer (62)
(Daily Express) Interesting Frank Sinatra heals sick seals. Say that five times fast (pic) (24)
(USA Today) Obvious "We have heard about the many bugs and problems with our latest iPhone, and we here at Apple want you to know we feel your pain." Off camera: "How was that? Dude, I could barely keep a straight face reading that" (82)
(TechEBlog) Weird USB cooler keyboard keeps hands dry, might electrocute you (19)
(Guardian.com) Interesting "Can the free-content genie of the Internet really be forced back into the bottle?" (50)
(BBC) Strange Elite athletes may fall into a coma if they accidently drink a cup of decaf (21)
(cuil) Cool Google is so last year (206)
(Telegraph) Interesting Mystery hairs recovered from the foothills of the Himalayas have not yeti been linked to any known animal species (110)
(The Atlantic) Interesting As people live longer, we will see more intergenerational warfare. I love the smell of Depends in the morning (36)

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