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Sun August 31, 2008
(Canada.com) Asinine Actual Headline: "Difference between men and women? About 100,000 years of evolution" (285)
(Telegraph) Interesting Arctic becomes an island as global warming continues to not happen (36)
(Orlando Sentinel) Interesting NASA studies space shuttles' ability to generate spectacular explosions beyond planned 2010 retirement date (94)
(BBC) Obvious You know there might be something to this whole global warming thing when people start kayaking to the North Pole (pic) (39)
(LA Times) Interesting IPhone App Store encourages new affliction: appiphilia. In other news, the LA Times has begun just making words up (18)
(BBC) Interesting MI5 planned to use pigeons to decieve Germans before D-Day. Shaftoe, Waterhouse unimpressed (35)
(AccessAtlanta) Obvious Parents bring their kids to DragonCon: "I can imagine this has warped her for life" (178)
(ZDNet) Cool Google to license new super hi-resolution imagery that will be updated once a month. For $10 extra, they'll point the satellite at your hot neighbor's bedroom window (34)
(Abc.net.au) Scary Fruit bats in Australia may be using biological warfare against humans (71)

Sat August 30, 2008
(Telegraph) Obvious Why climate change reports authored by the IPCC are greater works of fiction than the average Harry Potter novel, and an example of the sort of zealot-driven writing that hasn't been seen since the King James Bible was published (90)
(BBC) Cool Crashing galaxies make dark matter visible. Other galaxies blow horns, pass on shoulder (41)
(Fordaq) Interesting Scientists find a way to turn sawdust into biofuel. Announce that with a steady supply of porn suitable for Pinnochio, they could light up Manhattan for a week (36)
(Some hacker) Interesting MySpace's Tom is not your friend, but as a teen, he was Lord Flathead, a hacker raided by the FBI (26)
(Wired) Video Mythbusters' Adam Savage tells hacker audience about credit card companies bullying the Discovery Channel out of airing a segment on how crappy RFID security really is (88)
(MSNBC) Obvious Actual headline: "The Internet makes me feel fat" (32)
(CNN) Obvious Apple fanboys are blindly loyal (71)
(TechEBlog) Weird Modder builds giant SNES controller that actually works (26)
(Jalopnik) Obvious 10% Ethanol blend in your gas found to damage your engine. Thank you US gov't (71)
(Science Daily) Spiffy No one ever expects a large monkey population (25)
(Some Guy) Interesting Hey admin - you said yesterday that you were going to greenlight this story (46)

Fri August 29, 2008
(Wired) Interesting Top five gadgets that could get you arrested if the cops find you carrying them, and why (81)
(Washington Post) Interesting Your laziness and inattentiveness towards your personal hygiene may actually have benefits for your ears (51)
(London Times) Obvious Why men are better than women at dealing with pain (94)
(io9) Followup What the Arctic Ocean may look like someday, due to global warming and/or the natural warming of the Earth as part of a natural climate shift. Here come the charts and graphs (77)
(Telegraph) Cool French surgical team unveils new technique for fighting brain cancer, destroys tumor on conscious patient with high-precision laser through the skull. Suck it, Skywalker (80)
(ScienCentral) Amusing Physics nobel laureate patiently answers your crazy questions on a NYC street (32)
(ScienCentral) Spiffy Scientists reverse aging process in mouse livers. Mice celebrate with a three-day tequila bender (17)
(IIB) Interesting Indiana researchers build facebook for scientists. Now you, too, can be poked by Stephen Hawking (11)
(BBC) Spiffy Teen cancer survivor gets new shoulder made from an elbow. Operation a great success, according to surgeon Dr. N. Riviera (31)
(Mark's Technology News) Cool Sikorsky rolls out their little X2 helicopter, which just happens to have a top speed of 288mph and cannot be brought down by Wolverines (43)
(arXiv) Interesting Radioactive decay rates depend on the Earth-Sun distance..... wait... WHAT?? (76)
(Telegraph) Cool Blur for jeffness cow within bleach (97)
(BBC) Interesting Dog trained to sniff out colonies of endangered bumblebees. Phase two of project still on drawing board: get dog to shoot bees out of its mouth (12)
(Some Guy) Obvious Internet Explorer 8's new privacy feature? Isn't (22)
(Some Guy) Cool "More US consumers plan to buy a Mac in the next 90 days than any other brand" Suck it, Windows fanboys (186)
(Reuters) Stupid Reuters does a feature on news aggregators, forgets to mention someone. Article loses all credibility by putting the term RSS in euphemistic quotes (16)
(National Geographic) Strange Up next on National Geographic: Zombie Alligators...with your host, Baron Samedi (25)
(Some Guy) Obvious "Brazil's dead penguin mystery." There are no black-and-white answers here, folks (16)
(Science Blogs) Followup Winged cats explained. Here comes the hot science blogger (23)
(ABC News) Cool A bed with a treadmill. You know, for those people who dream about working out and stuff (19)
(Daily Express) Interesting Irish scientist leaves a jar open...and accidentally discovers new species of wasp (37)
(BBC) Unlikely New from the makers of "Totally Legitimate Long-Lost Amazon Tribe" comes "Totally Legitimate Long-Lost Amazon Town", complete with do-it-yourself fish farm, sea monkeys and kung-fu grip (11)

Thu August 28, 2008
(Live Science) Interesting Having to swerve a bit to avoid a piece of junk is no big deal. Except when it involves dodging a dead Russian Kosmos satellite and you're driving the ISS (36)
(MSNBC) Interesting Flies have got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.... senses working o-ver-time (30)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Emotional pain "hurts more than physical pain", claim scientists who have never taken a hard one to the nads (270)
(IGN) Interesting Top 10 athletes in video game history. How is Tecmo Bowl Bo Jackson NOT #1? (93)
(Some Guy) Obvious Experts warn that rising sea levels could create millions of "environmental refugees" - in New Orleans' case, possibly as early as Monday (155)
(Chud) Interesting Crisis on Infinite Starfleets: New TREK is a Sequel, Prequel and Reboot All In One (88)
(Some Guy) Interesting The good news is that wind energy is getting easier to produce. The bad news is that there's nowhere to put it (94)
(Reuters) Interesting Dead Sea Scrolls go digital. Christians everywhere confused why they're not in English like the Bible (124)
(Labspaces.net) Cool Scientists show that forward facing eyes evolved to provide humans and other mammals with X-ray vision (57)
(Google) Scary "A British Columbia health official says a spreading mumps outbreak began with a Fraser Valley religious group that shuns immunization" (84)
(Mark's Technology News) Interesting P2i ion-masking process makes any item 100% waterproof. We're on to your secret, Phelps (40)
(Telegraph) Amusing This just in: Steve Jobs has been eaten by wolves (220)
(Bloomberg) PSA A drug commonly used to prevent premature labor in pregnant women may also reduce the risk that their infants will develop cerebral palsy (23)
(Air Force Times) Cool New variant of the Air Force JDAM satellite-guided bomb now has a frickin' laser beam on it so it can hit moving targets such as a truck full of scared insurgents with soiled trousers (59)
(Spike) Fail The top 10 vicious rides for under $10k. Because when we think of vicious we think of crap (129)
(Yahoo) Followup The mysterious illness that killed millions of honeybees and threatened all the world's argiculture may be caused by a pesticide-whose manufacturer may have known this for the last ten years (116)
(Gizmodo) Stupid Concerned about Satanic messages when playing Guitar Hero backwards, Christians release Jesus-themed guitar game. Stryper mysteriously absent from playlist (277)
(BBC) Fail A++ great seller. fast ship, great database of secure bank info, would buy again (44)
(USA Today) Interesting Scientists find that some overweight people lack one of two genes that produce the appetite-suppressing chemical "putdowntheforkyoufatload-opamine" (45)
(SMH) Interesting Turns out parents really do have favourite children. If you're reading this from their basement, it's safe to say you're not it (211)

Wed August 27, 2008
(Live Science) Interesting Why are 'mama' and 'dada' babies' first words? Here comes the science (69)
(National Hurricane Center) Scary It's still too early to buy tickets to Katrina II: Electric Boogaloo, but it appears to be deep into post-production (264)
(FanBolt) Amusing Sarah Michelle Gellar is being blamed for the rise of paganism (113)
(Science Daily) Followup Remember the archaeologist who found miniature skeletons providing evidence of a Hobbit-like race of humans? Turns out he was either incompetent or really, really high on pipe-weed (37)
(Space) Cool Cool: Mythbusters take on Apollo Moon landing tonight. Double cool bonus: A TF'er got to help (336)
(AP) Interesting Scientists transform one type of cell into another. Five-assed monkey will be achieved in our lifetimes (69)
(Deceiver) Followup Why did Rocketboom cost over $800,000 to launch? And isn't it weird that the money came from Rielle Hunter's best friend Fred Baron? (31)
(Ars Technica) Obvious French phone carrier Orange admits to throttling 3G download speeds. AT&T clears throat, looks the other way (26)
(C|Net) Misc "Lonelygirl15" creators unveling new web series that you won't give two shiats about (39)
(USA Today) Weird Neuroscientist 1 to Neuroscientist 2: "hai what are you researching?" "Nuthin. I'm just messing with this rubber hand." "ZOMG lets trick brains into thinking it is a real hand" "LOL" (38)
(Washington Post) Dumbass There is too much information on the intratubes. We need to tax and limit it (118)
(Daily Mail) Weird Looks like these will do as a substitute while we're waiting for scientists to finally deliver our army of flying monkeys (25)
(London Times) Amusing Why don't I want to swim with the other Arctic Seals? Because it's too farking COLD (12)
(Idiot Toys) Amusing Blondes print more photographs, and also carry their printers around like handbags (22)
(TechEBlog) Cool Hobbyists build mini cruise ship, functional tank at home (22)
(AlterNet) Interesting Louisiana law allows teachers to bring in "supplemental textbooks" about evolution, demonstrating Creationist tactics taking on subtle changes over time, improving their chances to survive in today's scholastic environment (777)
(Ars Technica) Cool "Have you ever killed multi-drug resistant bacteria.....on weed?" (53)
(ZDNet) Amusing Proving it's just like normal folks, Google sucks at math (29)
(Fox News) Interesting Bats take turns "shutting up" when flying in groups. Obviously the male ones (29)
(Some Guy) Interesting Stu dy points 2 potenshul new use 4 V14grA (11)
(Daily Mail) Spiffy Supercar capable of 200+ mph also goes 2,000 miles on a single tank of fuel (70)
(Washington Post) Spiffy NASA images from Milky Way reveal bursts of gamma rays, large angry green beings (15)
(PhysOrg.com) Cool Not News: Detecting cancer. News: From someone's breath. Fark: Using lasers (10)
(Daily Mail) Cool If Moby Dick and Jaws had sex, this would be the product of their love (91)

Tue August 26, 2008
(Fox News) Interesting Forget wind, solar or nuclear -- the newest renewable energy source is bubble wrap. Wait, what? (25)
(Wired) Interesting Astronauts on board the International Space Station are surfing for pr0n again (30)
(Reuters) Spiffy France uses high-tech satellite imaging technology to battle California and Australia in wine wars. Luckily for them, Germany doesn't make any good wine (44)
(International Herald Tribune) Hero Forget the trollbaiting - in the war between evolution and creationism, this guy is doing his little part, and doing it right. Fark: you'll never guess where he's from (323)
(Some Guy) Amusing One of these things does not belong (49)
(MSNBC) Obvious Apple's ambitious plans for the iPhone. List should include "complete a call" (79)
(The Industry Standard) Sad Waiting for Google's Android phones to rescue you from iPhone's half-ass Bluetooth? Bad news (30)
(Mirror.co.uk) Interesting Eating a traditional English breakfast every day increases the average Briton's chance of dying of colon cancer before dying of alcoholism (47)
(Seattle Times) Amusing University biologist decides to test whether birds can identify threatening humans, dons caveman and Dick Cheney masks to disguise his identity. It works (18)
(Computerworld) Unlikely Google has lost its mojo. At least someone thinks so, and explains why (53)
(via Buzzfeed) Cool New Firefox extension, YouTube Comment Snob, filters out inane comments on the video sharing website. Proposed Fark version would just leave the screen blank (53)
(CBS News) Scary "Cancer cluster" confirmed in northeastern PA region that is home to Superfund sites and a power plant fired by waste coal. But nobody is sure if there's a connection, and the Senate refuses to fund research. America, fark yeah (196)
(BusinessWeek) Weird Marvel Comics is redesigning its superheros for Japanese anime, because market research says comic nerds want Spidey and Iron Man to be more involved with doe-eyed, giggling, pre-pubescent girls (164)
(London Times) Interesting And the Lord said: "Let there be less light in order to improve the church's carbon footprint" (15)
(Telegraph) Weird Google Earth has allowed researchers to determine that cows tend to stand facing north. Is there anything Google Earth can't do? (74)
(ABC News) Cool Here's the bright side of $100-per-barrel oil: It could turn garbage dumps into plastic mines. Here comes the petrochemical science (34)
(Independent) Cool Neanderthals really were smarter than those GEICO commercials make them out to be (71)
(Some Guy) Scary Unknown virus in India has killed 160 people. Madagascar closes ports (273)
(Telegraph) Obvious Animals can be altruistic, according to a study that has found monkeys enjoy sharing stuff -- like their poop with zoo visitors who wander within range (50)
(Wired) Interesting Think Usain Bolt is fast? He's nowhere near as fast as his ancestors were. Here comes the evolutionary science (46)

Mon August 25, 2008
(Some Guy) Obvious Researchers find that the risk of cancer, being alive, decreases after age 80 (37)
(Newsweek) Silly These are hard times for Bigfoot believers, so Newsweek throws them an unidentified hominid bone (40)
(Valleywag) Asinine Steve Jobs's car parked in a handicap spot (74)
(Some Guy) Cool Why a '1930s' Superman movie makes sense (145)
(Gizmodo) Misc 3G reception problems with the iPhone 3g are this week being blamed on *Shakes Magic Eight Ball* AT&T's crap ass network (208)
(Valleywag) Interesting Google employees will have to go home at night and eat mac and cheese like the rest of us: They lose their free dinners, but still have free breakfast and lunch available to them (47)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious Amazon Kindle already in the "free toaster" category of bank giveaways (63)
(Reuters) Cool Paralyzed man can walk again thanks to mechanical exoskeleton, plans to start fighting cime next week. Go science (42)
(Network World) Cool Techiest Celebrity Endorsements of all time -- from Seinfeld to Aguilera to Cosby to Shatner (19)
(Boston Globe) Hero The man who was smart enough to cure Polio, but couldn't get out from under Salk's shadow, is dead at 93 (48)
(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Scary Minneapolis Star-Tribune turns its op-ed section into an online blog, because opinions expressed by anonymous Internet posters are invariably rational, well-thought out and impeccably informed (72)
(RM Global Health) Spiffy Forget cancer, scientists say they may have found a cure for butterface (224)
(TechEBlog) Cool Is this the future of aviation? (51)
(NWAnews) Spiffy Thirteen, ah ah ah, fourteen, ah ah ah, fifteen vampire bats at zoo after bat baby boom (44)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious The tech graveyard: Here lies Amiga, Atari, Commodore, Compuserve and 21 more once-great, now-dead brands (112)
(Yorkshire Evening Post) Interesting Wind turbine erected near sports facility in Britain causes "extreme aerodynamic changes" that make rugby impossible, track and field "chaotic" and soccer players writhing and holding their knees as a precaution (39)
(C|Net) Misc Humboldt County, CA residents are pissed Google Maps photogs are not paying attention to private property signs, taking photos that might show their pot stash (16)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Want to entice people to steal your USB drive? Here's 13 of them that are sure to get it stolen (34)
(Some Guy) Asinine Eight of the dumbest fake emails that millions of people have fallen for (55)

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