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Sun August 24, 2008
(The Tennessean) Spiffy Odor sensor developed to find decomposing corpses. Search dogs want golden parachute (10)
(AP) PSA Farmers' Almanac predicts below-average temperatures for most of the U.S. this winter. Everybody Manac (32)
(The New York Times) Interesting "Ten questions to ask your biology teacher about evolution" are answered by scientists. No, you didn't come from an ape, and yes, we have found lots of "missing links" (293)
(Telegraph) Obvious Robot Olympics take place in Japan. Michael Phelps expected to sweep the medals there too after undergoing slight software upgrade (13)
(Some Guy) Stupid Researcher with nothing better to do gives parents another excuse as to why their precious snowflake is fat: earaches (24)
(London Times) Cool Chevrolet unveil their latest zero emissions vehicle. "You could back this car into your garage, shut the door and sit in it with the engine running and you'd starve to death before anything would happen to you" (64)
(Guardian.com) Amusing It was a sticky choice, but the Ig Nobel prize for Public Health was picked: The probing medical discovery that teenagers remove their boogers (22)
(LA Times) Hero Ray Bradbury just turned 88 years old. Here's hoping you still sing the body electric and enjoy the golden apples of the sun, and don't need a medicine for melancholy (67)
(C|Net) Asinine Joe Biden is a pro-RIAA, anti-privacy, free internet foe, and soon to be one mouse-click away from the Presidency (143)
(Some Guy) Obvious Warning the Amish about a product recall isn't easy (24)
(News.com.au) Cool World's fastest, most expensive car can reach 100km/h in 2.5 seconds, still can't go back to the future (60)
(Daily Mail) Strange In case you don't have time to boil an egg, you can now buy pre-boiled eggs. This from the company that brought you quick-peel oranges (32)

Sat August 23, 2008
(BBC) Obvious Solar powered plane flies at night - but it flies high, so it's closer to the Sun (19)
(C|Net) Interesting Space junkies ask "who owns the moon?": America quickly say "ours," plans to have rotating KFC chicken bucket appear on it's surface very soon (64)
(London Times) Cool Hubble Telescope solves another mystery. Neat pics. Still can't find Nicole Simpson's killer (35)
(Guardian.com) Obvious Users of the new 3G iPhone are pissed because the battery won't last for a full day's playing with all those exciting new functions (57)
(Yahoo) Interesting Air New Zealand to demo fuel-saving Pacific flight, but requests that scruffy-looking LA surgeon stop flying back and forth staring obsessively out the window at long empty stretches of ocean (35)
(MacRumors) Interesting Rumors of "holographic" application for iPhone surface. Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope (29)
(ABC2News Baltimore) Silly Lohan challenges Federline in a charity boxing match (18)
(Time) Asinine Time magazine poses most poignant question of the 21st century: Will the U.S. Develop a Death Ray? (92)
(Discover) Cool Coolest picture of an erupting volcano taken from the Space Shuttle that you will see all day (19)
(Boing Boing) Cool Spider Lamp, Spider Lamp, does whatev- you know what, forget the joke, just keep that damn thing away from me (39)
(Some Guy) Interesting A map of all the asteroids that could end your days (38)
(Wired) Cool Q: What vehicle is made by Lotus, has a bio-fueled engine, a pusher propeller, and zips over ice and snow on three skis? A: The Lotus CIV (22)

Fri August 22, 2008
(Slashdot) Asinine Didn't break the law? That's okay, the FBI is watching you anyway (100)
(Fox News) Sad This is the future of the American space program (77)
(MSNBC) Stupid Three words: Cadillac Escalade Hybrid (60)
(Telegraph) Spiffy British doctors complete world's first robot surgery. Terrible pain running down all the diodes on left side fixed, but can't do anything about the depression (15)
(Some Falcon) Stupid Creationist school director in Malta says Dinosaurs helped build the pyramids (358)
(Boing Boing) Interesting One of the biggest author's in Sci Fi land has got a new book coming out. KHAN (44)
(Gawker) Obvious In case you didn't know, your local public library's computers are mostly used for porn (49)
(Telegraph) Unlikely Experts conclude that "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is to blame for the decline of women attending the Church of England. Like, whatever (162)
(Chud) Stupid WB gives marching orders to the new slate of DC Comics films in THE DARK KNIGHT's wake: Superman? Dark. Green Lantern? Dark. Flash? Dark. Wonder Twins? Let's not get crazy here, guy... okay, Dark (192)
(The Virginian Pilot) Interesting Virginia, just because you want to be the next space port doesn't have to mean you copy everything Florida has done (14)
(Some Guy) Interesting The worst 'Captchas' of all time (132)
(Valleywag) Interesting The death of print: Five ways the newspapers botched the web (105)
(BBC) Interesting Poor people in developing countries increasingly turning to 'gold-farming' in online games to make ends meet (77)
(USA Today) Interesting Voice mail phishing, or "vishing" is all the rage with scammers (32)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Intel's wireless electricity system could eliminate need for cords (110)
(Kotaku) Stupid Just what we need, people walking around playing Myst on their cell phones (47)

Thu August 21, 2008
(Some Guy) Interesting Remember that new "Alone In The Dark" video game that is supposed to be so terrible? Well it's not, and here's a well-written and well thought out article on why that is (63)
(Some Guy) Interesting 1996 article discussing why DVD will fail. Fast forward to 2008, search + replace DVD / Blu-Ray (123)
(Hartford Courant) Obvious Study says "gaydar" is real. Fabulous (222)
(PhysOrg.com) Spiffy Bag of french fries: $1.59. Turning french fry oil into biodiesel: less than $100 a barrel. Turning biodiesel leftovers into nutritional supplements: Priceless (13)
(Fox News) Interesting Apple takes complete responsibility for iPod Nano fires. Just kidding, they threw the battery manufacturer under the bus (69)
(Reuters) Obvious Parents who refuse to have their precious snowflakes vaccinated are causing measles outbreaks (208)
(Valleywag) Dumbass Class-action suit filed over iPhone 3G's failings, because that's way easier than just buying a Blackberry instead or something (113)
(Examiner) Cool Earth eclipses Moon at Olympics (22)
(Aint-It-Cool-News) Dumbass After cancelling Stargate, Atlantis, Farscape and BSG, Sci-Fi reassures fans that the pomised Mansquito sequel is forthcomming (246)
(Blizzard) Misc Cinematic trailer for latest World of Warcraft expansion released. Screams of excitement from basements heard worldwide (148)
(FHM) Silly Get "Hot for Teacher" then "Beat It"- Guitar Hero 4's set list is released (107)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Elephants can do math. EVERYBODY PANIC (102)
(CNBC) Fail Dumbass: Hacker breaks into FEMA's voicemail system and makes $12,000 worth of calls to the Middle East and Asia. FAIL: Using the vulnerability FEMA warned about in 2003 (24)
(Live Science) Interesting New analysis indicates Iceman likely was herdsman, F-14 pilot (30)
(Labspaces.net) Cool Scientists find that hundred year old stained glass windows are coated with gold nanoparticles that purify the air when hit with sun light. Conspiracy theorists will have a field day with this one (58)
(Some Knittette) Sappy Terry Pratchett receives spiffy handmade "Pratchgan" from fans. And yes, the tears in my eyes are caused by Ankh-Morpork's polluted air (60)
(MSNBC) Interesting Mmmmmmmmm.... calcium (30)
(Daily Mail) Interesting People with pacemakers to get their own personal firewall to stop pale faced basement dwellers hacking into them (15)
(Network World) Unlikely Today's iPhone 3G killer phone brougt you by the Palm Treo Pro (96)
(Wired) Interesting "One of the effects of weightlessness is reduced blood flow to the lower half of your body. The rumor in Star City is that many have tried in vain to get it up out there." (35)
(YouTube) Interesting Fascinating BBC documentary on the intersection of neurology and theology (127)
(SFGate) Interesting A massive mechanical mole that has spent the last five years burrowing through Southern California resurfaced Wednesday. Eeeew (86)
(3 Quarks Daily) Cool That's either a cool optical illusion or submitter drank more than he thought (65)

Wed August 20, 2008
(London Times) Interesting Illegal immigrants in England take 110 years to move 80 feet; may be considered for top civil service jobs (8)
(New Scientist) Interesting James Watson immune to codeine, common sense, race based medicine (35)
(BBC) Interesting Fruit juice could reduce effectiveness of certain drugs. But not orange juice, man (26)
(How Stuff Works) Amusing The Googleplex: apartment-style living for the socially-challenged (18)
(Cracked) Interesting 15 images that look like they were Photoshopped but weren't. Proof that some of you need to go out into the Big Blue Room now and then (83)
(Blueweeds) Obvious Not news: Local offical pulled over for speeding. News: Cop offers to let him off because he is driving a hydrogen car. Fark: Official insists on getting a ticket to illustrate the speed of the hydrogen car (96)
(BBC) Obvious Head of Nigerian government agency charged with stealing public money to hire a witch doctor to guarantee him career success. Turns out it was a scam, marking the first time "Nigerian" and "scam" occurred in the same headline (15)
(New Scientist) Interesting Scientist discover source of Flying Spaghetti Monster's infinite knowledge and power. Ramen (16)
(I Started Something) Cool Internet Exploder 8 may have "porn mode" (46)
(AFP) Cool Giving blood may soon go the way of winding your watch or changing your record needle, as scientists announce a new technique to create unlimited blood supplies from stem cells (182)
(Valleywag) Dumbass Gadget reviewer nearly kills self testing iPhone loaner while driving, then loses it (14)
(New Scientist) Interesting Planets with gooey centers more likely to harbor life, taste better (13)
(WBBM) Spiffy Please be sure your seats are in the upright and locked position. You are now free to surf the internet for porn (75)
(The Register) Amusing Microsoft's Adcenter has apparently been trolling FARK for keyword suggestions (17)
(Slashdot) Amusing Things Hackers can do. 1) Break into secure computer networks. 2) Steal credentials and credit cards off the internet for identity theft 3) Bust the underage Chinese gymansts by finding proof they are underage ... Wait. What? (86)
(Reuters) Cool Alex Proyas to adapt obscure Heinlein novella--which sounds suspiciously like a Philip K. Dick story--for the big screen. Proyas said he chose Heinlein because he doesn't know Dick (93)
(ABC News) Obvious Article asks, "If you had $147,000 to spend on scientific research, would you rather try to find a cure for cancer or see whether women get sexually aroused while watching pornography?" (172)
(TechEBlog) Weird Geeks use lasers to cut pizza, make coffee (33)
(China Daily) Interesting Scientists say we can see sound even without the help of LSD (48)

Tue August 19, 2008
(LA Times) Stupid Are you alienated by Google's racism because when you search for "Whitney" it returns the Whitney Museum of Art instead of Whitney Houston? Say hello to the Black Google (179)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Ironic Verizon to America: Don't blame us for your craptastic iPhone (64)
(AP) Hero Yet one more way stem cells could save lives if Republicans would just leave science the fark alone (140)
(Reuters) Scary Climate change a bunch of hooey, you say? The Kenai National Forest would like a few words with you (573)
(New Scientist) Unlikely Want to live a little longer? Get a second wife. New research suggests that men from polygamous cultures outlive those from monogamous ones. Penis (44)
(CNN) Interesting Google's plan for world domination is proceeding as scheduled as it starts to invest in drilling geothermal reserves (42)
(STLToday) Silly A new study suggests your dog is stupid because you are, too (24)
(CBS 46) Followup Step 1: Freeze a rubber suit and call it Bigfoot. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit. Step 4: Disappear (181)
(Game Politics) Amusing Parents crucify babysitter. Literally (53)
(Gizmodo) Cool Witness the power of this fully functional Death Sta -- I mean, skyscraper (108)
(YouTube) Cool Looks like someone over at Sega saw "Grindhouse" (39)
(Yahoo) Unlikely Researchers believe attending church may help student's GPAs through increased discipline, parental involvement. Have faith no one will try and distort the study by saying believing in God makes you smarter (45)
(Some Trekkie) Spiffy Jonathan Frakes turns 56 today. Enjoy some Riker bloopers (63)
(NJ.com) Asinine Reason No. 34,231 our schools are failing: Teachers need to take a course in how to use Google (47)
(Breitbart.com) Interesting The annual college mindset list is out: Incoming freshmen have never known a world without GPS, karaoke, and, until now, the Packers without Brett Favre (60)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Impact crater in Australia may be from comet that started all life on Earth, found by guy with way too much time on his hands (49)
(BBC) Cool Wild dolphin teaches other dolphins to tail-walk. Fifteen yards, still first down (84)
(London Times) Asinine A hundred computer-game sharers busted -- 100,000,000 still on the loose (37)
(Newslite.tv) Obvious Scientists that play WoW are better at science, say scientists that play WoW (34)
(Entertainment Weekly) Silly EW's 25 best sci-fi TV shows and movies in last 25 years (184)
(BBC) Interesting Study shows burning coal is primary source of heavy metal pollution in Greenland, followed closely by up-and-coming Swedish garage bands (9)
(Some Guy) Interesting Double your pleasure, double your fun... decrease your colon-surgery recovery time with Doublemint Gum (13)
(News.com.au) Amusing *ring ring* *ring ring* *ring ring* *ring ring* condomophone. Thank you, come again (17)
(Wall Street Journal) Scary Self-described "armchair physicists" and "amateur scientists" trying to build homemade fusion reactors using spare parts. Choose ending: "Macguyver unimpressed" or "This should end well" (49)
(Some Guy) Strange Mathematicians claim that if humans have free will, then the lowliest subatomic particle must have it as well. Subby wishes he would've published his 3:00 a.m. coffeeshop ramblings sooner (181)
(Telegraph) Obvious "We found that shorter, slimmer females with long slender legs, a curvy figure and larger breasts are more attractive." Ric Romero has a chubby (61)
(PCWorld) Stupid Eleven things we hate about iTunes (186)
(CBC) Scary Mutated fish alarm environmental activists in Northern Alberta. Complete with a photo of one of the mutants (143)
(Popular Science) Interesting Batman meets the Segway (34)

Mon August 18, 2008
(Telegraph) Spiffy Tossup between "creepy" and "spiffy:" South Korean artist creates skeletons of cartoon characters with archeological precision (87)
(Gizmodo) Cool Students develop "Spacetime Fusion Technique", a technology to fill or remove objects from video footage (92)
(Canada.com) Spiffy I'm in ur abdominal cavity, scoping mah tubes (4)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious "The environmental movement has morphed into the most authoritarian philosophy in America" (88)
(Canada.com) Interesting A newly discovered "minor planet" with an elongated orbit around the Sun may help explain the origin of comets, buy alcohol in a few years (10)
(London Times) Cool Emily, the creepy videogame RealDoll that has leapt across 'Uncanny valley' (96)
(Breitbart.com) Scary Old and busted: H5N1, New Hotness: H9N2 - almost twice as bad? (103)
(Gizmodo) Cool Up Up Left Right Left Right B A Start (57)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Cool Feds out of Google's way: FCC signs off on HTC Dream a.k.a. GPhone (32)
(Mark's Technology News) Interesting NASA concept car: A decapitation machine that can drive sideways (32)
(BLOCKBUSTER BUZZ) Hero Watchmen creator Dave Gibbons on the new "very sexy, very violent" movie (146)
(Science Daily) Interesting Why an exciting book is just as thrilling as a hair-raising movie (with pic of woman presumably watching any Uwe Boll film) (12)
(UGO) Spiffy Bruce Campbell on "Evil Dead 4": "When [Sam Raimi's] ready, I'm ready" (82)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious Microsoft: of course we spy on our web users. But not as much as the other guys (11)
(Fox News) Unlikely Giant windshield may stop glacial melt. Yeah, sure it will (16)
(Labspaces.net) Obvious Contrary to popular opinion, science finds that video games are great for the brain (27)
(Guardian.com) Obvious If you thought the internet was cool, wait until it goes big time (21)
(Reuters) Spiffy Robot bartender weighing 500 pounds can serve a quick drink. Isaac-Tron has 500 vocal effects and answers questions, like what the lady at the end of bar is putting in her gear box tonight (39)
(Some Moran) Dumbass Not News: ZTE releases new phone. News: It can receive analog TV broadcasts. Fark: U.S. analog TV broadcasts to be shut down Feb '09 (29)
(Daily Mail) Cool Butt of jokes, stunt doubles for children, porn, cure for cancer - dwarfs; is there anything they can't do? (66)
(AP) Stupid Toshiba: Ok Ok so our HD DVD thing tanked. But we are really excited about our new endeavor ... the DVD player (69)
(USA Today) Cool The coolest Jetson's - flying - car - that - looks - like - floppy - bunny - ears you will see today (26)
(MSNBC) Interesting State fairs are going green, and we're not talking about the deep-fried asparagus (32)
(Wired) Ironic AT&T accuses Google of privacy weaknesses, kettle of being black (9)

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