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Sun August 17, 2008
(Telegraph) Amusing Spiffy: scientists investigate split ends, frizziness and say bad hair days may soon be a thing of the past. Amusing: Donald Trump photo used in article (16)
(The News & Observer (NC)) Dumbass 16 year old drops out of high school to focus on Guitar Hero career (45)
(AP) Obvious Then: America must embrace wind power to save the planet. Now: Big Wind is despoiling nature, ruining America's farms, splitting up families. Soon to come: America must embrace moonbeams and unicorn farts to save the planet (205)
(Washington Post) Sad Internet radio nears its end as record companies continue to insist that 100-300% of revenue is a fair price (81)
(LA Times) Amusing Christian researchers strive to prove that the Shroud of Turin is real. "The 'it's just that dude from the Doobie Brothers' theory is just that, a theory" claims head scientist (71)
(Fox News) Interesting NASA delays robotic moon mission after soundstage construction falls behind schedule (9)
(C|Net) Cool Physicists at Baylor say that faster than light travel could be possible through the use of "dark energy". Submitter doesn't really get the science here, he just hopes this means he might get to score with an alien chick someday (122)
(CBS Minneapolis) Interesting Moss can be used as an alternative to chlorine. The downside being it will complain about its job and then ask to be traded (23)

Sat August 16, 2008
(Irish Times) Amusing Politician presses for creationism to be taught alongside evolution in classrooms across Northern Ireland. Class will be held right after Inroduction to Leprechaun Biology (259)
(Sify) Cool India to witness partial lunar eclipse. The rest of it has been outsourced (9)
(Palo Alto Daily News) Obvious When your Bigfoot press conference is hijacked by a guy in a Chewbacca costume wielding a "We hide for a reason" sign, you might just have a credibility problem (85)
(Daily Kos) Cool California to build two solar plants with the ability to produce as much power in a single day as a coal plant (131)
(BBC) Interesting Is computer use changing children? (79)
(Yahoo) Interesting Jet trails spotted on Saturn moon. Cruise Missile? It's not a streetlight (22)
(NASA) Cool NASA solar eschatologist states 2008 will not see the second coming of the Maunder Minimum (with hot "you are here" graphic) (30)
(Boston Globe) Dumbass Tech-saavy columnist discovers Twitter and concludes it "can safely be ignored." The column surely was written in 2006, right? Nope (42)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Happy 10th birthday, iMac (91)
(Popular Mechanics) Interesting NASA declares war on the moon (55)
(Reuters) Interesting Archaeologists find the portal to the underworld in Mexico, which leads to an obstacle course instead of a stairway to heaven (36)
(New Scientist) Amusing Fark mascot being studied by scientists (96)

Fri August 15, 2008
(Reuters) Followup One of the two samples of DNA said to prove the existence of the Bigfoot came from a human and the other was 96 percent from an opossum. That is legal in north Georgia (157)
(Daily Express) Interesting Full moons cause people to have strokes. Werewolves most at risk, say scientists (15)
(TechEBlog) Cool What the Terminator skull would look like as a DVD player (13)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Red Bull gives you.... a stroke and increased risk of heart disease (48)
(USA Today) Obvious New 3G ... Iphone suff .... drop .... calls world-wide.... at Apple blame ..... hope they.... product recall (59)
(Jalopnik) Amusing Top Ten worst car names: How can you go wrong with "Nissan Homy Super Long" or "Isuzu Mysterious Utility Wizard"? (34)
(Some Guy) Weird Russia's latest tactic in the Cyberwar against Georgia: Trolling (87)
(ToplessRobot) Interesting Terrible villains, awful plotlines and that invisible plane: 10 reasons no one cares about a Wonder Woman movie (113)
(Some topless robot...) Cool 10 most blatant Star Wars Ripoffs. With trailer goodness. ..."The Black Hole"? (130)
(Boston Herald) Scary UMass professor discovers security hole in your heart (39)
(Some Guy) Silly It's bad enough that Star Trek geeks have spent years learning to speak Klingon; now they've invented a whole new language for Romulans. K'pekt (41)
(Onion AV Club) Sad George Lucas hired one of the top three living directors of animation and gave him full creative control, and the result was a masterpiece. Then he fired him and made a crappy kids movie on the cheap (110)
(EurekAlert) Interesting Big-brained animals evolve faster - at least until they can form the idea "Mmmmmm, boobies", then the focus moves away from brains (57)
(Atom) Amusing Would you sleep with Zelda from the Legend of Zelda? This guy really wants to (63)
(TechEBlog) Interesting Guy builds world's smallest Corvette V8 engine, includes spark ignition (51)
(Some Guy) Interesting IBM joins forces with the University of Toronto to build the worlds fastest supercomputer, figure out why moose are so attractive (15)
(UGO) Cool The 50 hottest sci-fi girls. Let the great nerd debate begin (209)
(Cracked) Interesting The 7 crappiest "Super Heroes" in comic book history. Sometimes it doesn't take that much to be super (123)

Thu August 14, 2008
(Fox News) Dumbass In other news: there are still morans who believe Earth is flat (322)
(Live Science) Scary Oceans running low on oxygen. Peak oxygen theorists starting to gain momentum (47)
(Live Science) Cool The lunar surface contains vast quantities of Helium-3, 40 tons of which could power the U.S. for a year as soon as we figure out the whole "controlled-fusion" thing (104)
(C|Net) Dumbass Researcher proves Internet attacks against Georgia aren't coming from the Russian government, but from kids. "Well, probably kids." "Well, it looks like just about every other attack, and they're usually by kids" (18)
(Popular Mechanics) Followup Wake Forrest researcher cures cancer, has funding pulled. Patients must pay $100,000 to fund their own clinical trial. ACS, NIH, and FDA too busy funding more boner pill trials (65)
(Some Guy) Interesting What Linux will look like in 2012: More compatible with your orbiting brain lasers (64)
(Digital Spy) Interesting George Lucas says "Star Wars" is not science fiction: "It's much more attuned to mythology, to psychology, to history than it is to science." He forgot "to suckitude" (148)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Scary AT&T to Congress: Google spies on Web surfing, so we will, too (11)
(BBSpot) Cool Google now mapping the insides of homes for navigation during parties (50)
(Canada.com) Interesting French Jews sue YouTube, presumably for perpetuating unfair stereotype that Jewish people are universally wealthy and educated (198)
(Wired) Spiffy Mama uses Squeezebox to stream music wirelessly to the stereo, Daddy never sleeps at night (38)
(AP) Obvious Swedish technical magazine publishes test results that show that the 3G iPhone's circuitry is not as sensitive to 3G signals as it should be, leading to the phone dropping signals it should be able to pick up (80)
(TampaBays10.com) Strange If you have $16,000, you can outshine everyone in this LED dress (41)
(AP) Florida Venomous lionfish escapes from Florida fish tank and wreaks havoc in Caribbean Sea. "This may very well become the most devastating marine invasion in history" (150)
(SMH) Interesting The goggles, they do something (77)
(KSDK) Interesting In 2024, White Americans will not be the majority in America. Everybody Hispanic (355)
(Jalopnik) Amusing Like the electric car, GM reveals the new El Camino, then kills it (37)
(YouTube) Video Two backyard mad scientists, one bottle under high internal pressure. See if you can guess which kid gets nailed, where he gets it, and how it happens (91)

Wed August 13, 2008
(National Geographic) Silly "Giant, prehistoric kangaroos killed off by humans." With illustration of something that looks nothing like a kangaroo -- and speculation that humans had nothing to do with their extinction (31)
(AOL) Interesting Girl successfully has half of her brain removed, is now eligible to run for Congress (58)
(Mark's Technology News) Video Video: Amazing fountain creates images with water (40)
(Discover) Interesting To prove once and for all that we landed on the moon, why don't we just point our telescopes there and show the pictures of our landers? Unfortunately, basic math and science will keep the tin foil had industry afloat for a while longer (106)
(The Industry Standard) Interesting Good news for music industry: Kids' first choice for online music is the iTunes store. Bad news: Limewire and other file-sharing P2P networks are second, and "growing aggressively" (71)
(AZCentral) Interesting Honda to release new hybrid model with lower base price than the Prius. Begun, the hybrid wars have (83)
(PhysOrg.com) Scary Meet Gordon, the first robot controlled by living brain tissue. And be afraid, very, very afraid (96)
(Valleywag) Interesting Apple is now worth more than Google, with a stable and easy-to-understand market capitalization of $159 billion (18)
(PhysOrg.com) Obvious This just in: You can recognize a face better if you look directly at it than looking at it peripherally, according to Finnish reseachers at the Scientific Center for Avoiding Stalker Convictions (6)
(Wall Street Journal) Cool NBC uses a low-tech gravity camera to drop viewers into the pool along with Olympic divers (45)
(Science Daily) Interesting The fire ant Garden of Eden has been found in Mobile, Alabama (30)
(CBS New York) Scary NYPD's "Operation Sentinel" will use radiation screening and surveillance cameras to track your movements and see into your soul (14)
(Yahoo) Unlikely Scientists want to, like, wrap a starship in a space-time bubble, so it can, like, surf on a wave of dark energy....dude I'm starvin', man (42)
(AP) Scary "What percentage of steel tanks leak? 100 percent" (24)
(io9) Cool Neal Stephenson explains the name of his new novel, Anathem, in a video of the rarely-seen author (43)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Followup YouTube isn't getting into the lifecasting business, not matter what Steve Chen says (12)
(Network World) Obvious Why is fooling Google News as easy as s-p-o-o-f? Because software has no sense of humor (12)
(TechEBlog) Weird Giant mechanical spider weighs six tons, is powered by V8 engine (68)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Misc An iFire damages buildings at Apple's headquarters; 2.0 people escaped without injury (123)
(Reuters) Interesting Study finds that the more time you spend outdoors as a kid, the less likely you'll need Magnifier to read Fark as an adult (55)
(Reuters) Interesting Over 33,000 buyers have signed up for the Chevy Volt (118)
(The Scotsman) Unlikely In what is surely a well-informed, scientifically-based opinion, Prince Charles says genetically modified crops will create a catastrophic environmental disaster (89)
(Telegraph) Interesting Study from the Researches For Pointless Things finds that an octopus has 2 legs and 6 arms (84)
(Telegraph) Interesting New forensic evidence shows that Captain Cook was not the first white to "discover" New Zealand, he was just the first to do so without being eaten (32)

Tue August 12, 2008
(Discovery) Asinine Scientists create most pointless pill ever (63)
(C|Net) Obvious Twitter finally realizes that accounts following 350,000 other users may possibly be spammers (19)
(City Pages) Weird Last month: Tron Guy buys an airplane. This month: Tron Guy is a gay man who hates the government, owns an AK-47, and lives with a furry named "Orven the Ox" (635)
(Cryptomundo.com) Unlikely Apparently, someone has found a bigfoot body and evidence of its existence will be revealed to the world on Friday (210)
(News.com.au) Cool Drug found to kill common cold, 50 percent effective in adults and almost 100 percent in children. Still not as good as grandpa's old cough medicine (33)
(Some Drunk) Amusing Another awesome moment brought to you by Google Street View (29)
(MSNBC) Sad NASA has been given up, let down, run around and deserted by Congress (66)
(Great Falls Tribune) Obvious A l a s k a . . . h a s . . . t h e . . . s l o w e s t . . . I n t e r n e t . . . d o w n l o a d . . . s p e e d s (60)
(National Journal) Interesting Americans' concern over global warming cools as a result of less media hot air (87)
(Denver Post) Obvious Step 1: Get utility customers to reduce energy consumption. Step 2. Charge customers more for "green." Step 3: Profit (13)
(eurogamer .net) Obvious Atheists outraged that "Spore" has religion in it. Then again, is there anything that doesn't outrage atheists? (863)
(Fox Sports) Amusing The 10 greatest sport video games not named Madden. "Paperboy" noticeably absent (215)
(Some Guy) PSA You can now use your iPhone to tell some foreigner that your hovercraft is full of eels (32)
(Wired) Misc Today in 1981 IBM unveiled the 5150 PC, which blew away the competition. The follow-up OU812 PC did not sell as well, and soon Sammy Hagar left to resume his solo career (43)
(Independent) Scary Awesome global warming side effect: Epic shark vs. polar bear fights (182)
(Marketwatch) Stupid iPhone 3G connection issues could be linked to a faulty chipset. Your local fanboy's reaction: "It just works... some of the time" (106)
(AFP) Spiffy Archeologists find bones of ancient scimitar cat of flesh rearing +5 in South America (31)
(Newsweek) Florida In about 30 percent of children the DNA carries a glitch lowering the number of dopamine receptors. Thus, no matter how many times Floridians are apprehended coked-out, butt-naked and fighting cars on the highway, they won't get the lesson (27)
(BBC) Ironic Running can slow the aging process while making you feel like a 90-year-old emphysema sufferer (216)
(Discover) Interesting How do karate black-belts break bricks and boards with their bare hands? Here comes the physics (73)
(Some Corpse) Interesting Colorado Springs considering allowing "green" funerals, in which the deceased would be buried in a bag, an egg-carton box or a wicker basket. "Frozen in carbonite" option strangely absent (132)
(Reuters) Interesting Liberty Media to discuss taking over AOL's dial-up Internet access business. Also looking to invest in punch-card terminals, adding machines, electric typewriters (22)
(TechEBlog) Cool Torch Flashnight is ultra bright, cooks eggs (33)
(SMH) Amusing Creating a spectacular opening ceremony: $40 million. Creating the biggest ever Blue Screen Of Death: Priceless (33)
(KTKA) Scary Vet shortage may hamper food supply. Soylent green is people (15)
(MSNBC) Cool The Hubble telescope has orbited Earth 100,000 times since its launch in 1990, traveling 2.72 billion miles (23)
(Some Guy) Scary Ice at the North Pole melted at an unprecedented rate last week, with leading scientists warning that the Arctic could be ice-free in summer by 2013 (125)

Mon August 11, 2008
(Some Guy) Cool Scientists dig up frozen Alaska corpses, subtract 1918 flu virus from them, and confirm that old surviving coots still carry antibodies (3)
(Guardian.com) Obvious Will "Star Trek Online" be the geekiest game of all time? (147)
(Newsweek) Obvious Cleaning up pollution causes global warming (22)
(Space) Spiffy Stay up a little late tonight and don't forget to look up: Annual Perseid meteor shower peaks after midnight (30)
(Internet News) Followup Is Dan Kaminsky the Saviour or the Judas of the Internet? Or is he just a prick with cookies? (16)
(Chicago Tribune) Interesting Archaeological find shows Jews and pagans lived together in ancient city in Israel. Also find that there was human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria (102)
(MTV) Obvious George Lucas explains why only the good actors are doing voice-overs in "The Clone Wars" (52)
(Yahoo) Amusing "Let me sleep on it" not exactly the best decision making process. Still ranks above "let me sleep WITH it," eh, Senator Edwards? (17)
(MacWorld) Interesting Like the Enterprise, the iPhone comes with a self-destruct (29)
(Valleywag) Amusing Google Street View catches house on fire (43)
(Science Daily) Spiffy Scientists find new a bacterial species in your mouth: "The healthy human mouth is home to a tremendous variety of microbes including viruses, fungi, protozoa and bacteria," according to the Institute for Grossing You Out (28)
(Yahoo) Asinine Apple: There's nothing wrong with the iPhone 3G, ask AT&T why you can't connect to the 3G network. AT&T: There's nothing wrong with our 3G network, ask Apple why you can't connect to it (97)
(Gizmodo) Interesting Thinking of stealing a PlayStation 3? Think again (64)
(TechRepublic) Obvious Windows Vista's recommended system requirements not realistic (153)
(The London Paper) Weird Scientists researching human blindness have a new tool in their arsenal: Sausage dogs in designer sunglasses (16)
(Boston Herald) Dumbass MIT students: "We found a problem with the new transit card for Boston's subways -- let us show you how to fix it." Boston Transit Authority: "Here's a court order to STFU -- now scram, nerds" (83)
(BBC) Sick Village overrun with flies. Villagers say this isn't some little chicken-shiat problem. Investigators beg to differ (7)
(London Times) Obvious Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the $100 laptop (93)
(Engadget) Cool MIT working on "6D" images that will respond to the lighting in the environment around them, creating "ultra realistic" images. Early investors in project include Vivid Video (22)
(Reuters) Stupid Today's headline: Doctoral student trying to keep rattlesnakes from being run over in Canada. Tomorrow's headline: Doctoral student bit by ungrateful rattlesnake (22)

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