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Sun September 07, 2008
(Autoblog) Cool The VW microbus may be making a comeback; in other news, your dad stopped bathing and your mom's growing out her armpit hair in anticipation (50)
(C|Net) Interesting Government creating Facebook for intelligence agencies. If 100,000 spies join this group, Osama will release another video (19)
(The Age (Melbourne)) Cool Pregnant Australian women will soon know if they are at risk of a premature birth, using new computer technology being developed on a LAN down under (17)
(BBC) Asinine UN Climate "expert": Avoid meat to save Mother Gaia. With classic hippie mugshot (88)
(Wired) Obvious I love the smell of the USAF's Advanced Tactical Laser in the morning. It smells like victory (pic) (68)
(BBC) Interesting A universal flu vaccine which could mean an end to the annual jab and worries about a global pandemic is being tested (32)
(AP) Interesting Don't look now, but looks like the space race is back once again... complete with space walking cosmonauts and "Commies In Space" (13)
(io9) Hero British physics guy goes where Hawking's swear filter won't: "Anyone Who Thinks the LHC Will Destroy the World is a T***" (103)
(Guardian.com) Strange The latest cure for nasal congestion? Masturbation. Subby is breathing free and clear (53)
(Independent) Unlikely Pollution can make you fat, claims study by group of people who have never been to Los Angeles (24)
(Wired) Obvious Scientists discover that just the sound of expensive cars get women hotter than Texas asphalt in August (37)
(London Times) Strange Pigs to be bred with 6 human genes to prevent transplant patients from rejecting their organs. That'll do (41)
(Science Daily) Interesting ESA comet chasing spacecraft Rosetta stops to take closeup photos of asteroid. Looks a lot like Mickey Rourke's head (11)
(Reuters) Cool New satellite launched will provide the "highest-resolution commercial color satellite imagery on the market." The "I'm suing because Google Earth caught me scratching my ass" lawsuits to begin tomorrow (7)
(PCWorld) Cool The epic battle between pirates and ninjas will finally be settled by little kids (and their drunk fathers) flailing wildly in their living rooms (24)
(BBC) Interesting Epic Burn for Jules Verne (18)

Sat September 06, 2008
(IOL) Silly Japanese geeks increasingly rely on spiritual power of ancient Shinto ceremonies as antivirus protection (31)
(Seattle Times) Amusing Breaker-breaker, one-niner this is Rubber Duck. We got us a Bluuuuuuetoooth (24)
(Gizmodo) Cool Get the inside look into the toys Alton Brown brought with him to film "Feasting on Waves" (28)
(Computerworld) Obvious Somehow, a new ad in which Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates buy shoes and Bill Gates wiggles his ass doesn't really seem to be making anyone rush out to buy Vista (102)
(Some Guy) Obvious "Is peak oil the next Y2K?" Let's see: hysterical zealots screaming the world is going to end, entire forests wiped out to provide dire reports on the problem and in the end, nothing actually happening (60)
(Some Sasquatch) Cool Tennessee man finds fossilized footprint on his property: A 15-inch long, 11-inch wide bi-ped footprint estimated to be over a thousand years old (w/video) (41)
(GamesRadar) Interesting A brief history of every game console ever made (78)

Fri September 05, 2008
(Science Daily) Interesting Yale researchers find 'Junk DNA' may have triggered key evolutionary changes in human thumb and foot, led to hallowed social icons such as 'The Shocker' (154)
(Telegraph) Obvious British Antarctic Survey seeking a plumber and electrician to work at its Bird Island Research Station in Antarctica. Experience thawing out frozen pipes an asset (19)
(CBC) Scary Black-hole-creating supercollider to be flipped on next week. All your base are belong to Switzerland (76)
(Some Guy) Interesting Confessions Of A Banned Digger (85)
(Yahoo) Interesting Samsun to aquire Sandisk. New company to be named Samsan Sundisk (65)
(Some Guy) Scary Scientists invent donkey like robot, hail it as a breakthrough (57)
(Telegraph) Interesting Researcher determines 'The Simpsons' funnier than 'Seinfield' by examining brain stimulation. 'Friends' failed to register (204)
(Statesman) Obvious Climate change to shift patterns in disease, allergies. Is there anything it can't do? (71)
(Mark's Technology News) Cool Peugeot OXO concept vehicle finally targets the married man by giving him his own self-enclosed pod (32)
(UPI) Interesting Study by Scottish professors of "sexology" suggests that women with longer strides and 'greater vertebral rotation' are more prone to orgasm. Submitter takes a new interest in the WNBA (248)
(AFP) Interesting Gustav is in your extended network (12)
(National Geographic) Interesting Scientists have discovered that the last Siberian woolly mammoths originated in North America -- swam across to Russia wearing furry trunks (36)
(Telegraph) Spiffy End of the remote control in sight as new technology allows TV to be controlled by hand gestures. Submitter has been making hand gestures at his TV for years, especially during elections (46)
(BBC) Interesting How the music you like reveals your personality. For example, you like Coldplay, so you suck. Here comes the science (147)
(PC Advisor) Obvious Zombie plague sweeps the internet. Unfortunately, the one thing they crave is notably absent from the internet (35)
(C|Net) Interesting Intel announces new 6-core chip, code named Dunnington. AMD reportedly working on infinity-plus-one core chip, code named "I Win I Win I Win" (57)
(Labspaces.net) Interesting Astronomers discover "missing link" of comet origin. Intelligent design advocates disagree, claim that Jesus rode comets when he wasn't riding dinosaurs (48)

Thu September 04, 2008
(insidebayarea.com) Interesting Study finds that toddlers absorb more toxic chemicals than mothers, scouring pads (40)
(The Business Sheet) Followup Paging Joel Schumacher: Chris Nolan Not Interested In Another "Batman" Movie (138)
(AccuWeather) Strange Old & busted: UV index on AccuWeather. New hotness: "Frizz Index" on AccuWeather (21)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Cool Europeans still have better cheese, but Americans now have faster cellphones (33)
(Live Science) Interesting Why was the early Earth covered in liquid water and not ice? ZOMG GLOBAL WARMING (101)
(Ars Technica) Interesting New study shows that people who weave in and out of traffic or pass on the shoulder cause traffic jams. Suck it, lawless libertariantards (391)
(USA Today) Obvious Xbox price drop: Now it will only cost you $199 to see the Red Ring of Death (227)
(Some Guy) Ironic The high-tech crime unit of the British police have lost their website. They had it a day or two ago, so it can't have gone far (13)
(ABC News) Cool Tricycle-mounted film projector? VCR turned into an automated cat feeder? It's time to meet your Maker (16)
(Daily Mail) Unlikely Next Wednesday may be the end of the world so wear clean underwear (135)
(BusinessWeek) Weird First-generation iPhones, used, are now selling for more than they cost new (68)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Spy satellites could soon be able to identify someone from space by looking at their shadow. Scientists still trying to work out that pesky 'sun' problem (58)
(PC Magazine) Interesting After much screaming from basements, Google has backed down from its original end user license agreement for Chrome (32)
(Wired) Interesting Tobacco could offer the key to gene therapy. It gave researchers a lucky strike (16)
(Time) Obvious "Why disasters are getting worse." This is not a Sarah Palin thread. For once (34)
(News Daily) Cool NASA seeks out the next Carl Sagan, offers $60,000 annual stipends through the Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships (28)

Wed September 03, 2008
(BadScience) Asinine As the pace of medical innovation slows to a crawl, how do drug companies stay in profit? By "discovering" new illnesses to fit existing products (85)
(Labspaces.net) Dumbass Scientists find that an alien fly species introduced to control an invasive weed actually makes the weed more invasive (24)
(The Industry Standard) Interesting Sure-fire plan for dot-com success: 1) Launch Web startup. 2) Big IPO. 3) Sell off patent portfolio. 4) Reinvent company as manufacturer of steel counterweights for the construction industry (5)
(Some Guy) Interesting Court rules that "deep linking," linking to a page other than a website's main page, is illegal. Uh-oh (112)
(MSNBC) Obvious Study confirms what zombies have known for year: Brain protein is essential (14)
(NASA) Cool Earth from 31 million miles away. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives (71)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Good news: The city of the future will be self sufficient and carbon neutral with power being supplied by wind turbines. Bad news: It's enclosed and you have to share it with a million other people (137)
(Reuters) Interesting Scientists use particle accelerator to date wine. Well, at least they're dating something (26)
(MSNBC) Interesting DVRs save relationships. Whoa, back up. What did you just say? (63)
(Fox News) Silly Someone unplug me, it's time to go kick some Decepticon ass (22)
(Guardian.com) Cool A plan to build vast greenhouses that use seawater to grow crops combined with solar power plants to provide food, fresh water and clean energy in deserts has been unveiled. If only it was that easy (52)
(Boston Globe) Spiffy "Daydreaming is a fundamental feature of the human mind -- so fundamental, in fact, that it's often referred to as our 'default' mode of thought" (38)
(Forbes) Interesting Limitless energy exists off coast of South Carolina, as long as you don't mind not having a coast (64)
(Channel Web) Cool Apple invites media to attend big event on September 9 -- indisputable evidence that Apple is probably considering the possibility of definitely releasing new iPods that day (83)
(katu.com) Interesting Scientist discovers rednecks and the spotted owl have something in common (28)
(Time) Spiffy Kit converts Prius to plug-in electric. Doubles your mileage, smug (39)
(Some Science) Interesting Excuse me, I have something in my eye (video) (9)
(Daily Mail) Scary Why men and women choose partners who look like their parents. Ewwwww (56)
(ABC News) Scary OMFG. Canada is MELTINGGGGG (130)
(MSNBC) Video Little fluffy clouds. On Mars (63)
(Wired) Cool Finally. PEW PEW PEW (60)

Tue September 02, 2008
(Guardian.com) Obvious Schoolswarnstudentsaredrinking. Toomanycaffeineloadedenergydrinks. EVERYBODYPANIC. PANICPANICPANIC (30)
(London Times) Obvious A look at what you can buy for 10 cents on the Internet, besides one-fiftieth of a month of TotalFark (21)
(Independent) Followup Not even a day after it was released, Google facing anti-trust suit over Chome browser (61)
(NASA) Cool Using backyard telescopes and off-the-shelf video cameras, amateur astronomers watching the Perseid meteor shower last month recorded meteoroids hitting not only Earth but also the Moon (20)
(London Times) Spiffy Download all the music you want for free. It's not the Internet, it's Nokia.com (20)
(C|Net) Interesting After installing Chrome, make sure to read the fine print (104)
(The Industry Standard) Obvious Drudge gets 20 million page views per day, beating the NY Times and most other news sites. Which is the same amount of views Fark gets per day when matching his absurd auto-refresh rate (73)
(AP) Asinine Conservative Islamic lawmaker defends teenage honor killings as "centuries old tradition". Bonus, familiar-sounding quote: "only those who indulge in immoral acts should be afraid." (213)
(Wall Street Journal) Amusing Google to provide YouTube-like service for corporate clients, due to high demand from America's employees for company training videos, Powerpoint slide readthrus, and sales department trip reports (6)
(Mark's Technology News) Cool You call that a flash drive: Transcend unleashes 64GB monster (34)
(Sci Fi) Followup So you're going to see the end of "Battlestar Galactica" starting in January. It's more likely than you think (58)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious Why Google's new web browser doesn't matter: 25 percent of people still using Internet Explorer 6 (230)
(Yahoo) Interesting Strange blue clouds appear at the boundary of the Earth's atmosphere. In other news, Emilio Estevez finds work as a dishwasher at a NC truck stop (24)
(Wired) Cool Turns out there's a pretty cool use for those old obsolete typewriters after all (pics) (69)
(Some Proxy) Obvious New research confirms that the Northern Hemisphere is warmer now than it has been in at least 1,300 years. Looks like the rumors of the "hockey stick" demise were greatly exaggerated (145)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Unlikely How to make a YouTube hit: Lots of cleavage, sex tips, net neutrality (23)
(Live Science) Interesting The evolutionary tradeoff between becoming a bigger fighter or a lover could lead to a new species of dung beetle. A hard-fightin', dung lovin' beetle (16)
(PC Magazine) Obvious Google's open-source Chrome browser drops today. Odds on Google enslaving humanity by 2015 improve to 1:4 (325)
(Some Guy) Cool Ron Gilbert, the man who brought you "Monkey Island," is proud to present his new game: "Deathspank." With videos (26)
(Science Daily) Spiffy Scientists will use "whale-friendly sonar" in Caribbean. "You're a nice whale" (31)
(Yahoo) Sappy Computer nerd reprograms girlfriend's video game to propose to her. Fark: The wedding cake was shaped like a video game console (172)

Mon September 01, 2008
(Washington Post) Interesting If you can't keep it in your jeans, it might be in your genes (28)
(Science Daily) Misc Something else to blame on anthropogenic climate change (23)
(Telegraph) Interesting Seven-year-old girl, much like John McCain, being kept alive by regular doses of Viagra (28)
(IEEE) Interesting World's most powerful magnet under construction. Scientists puzzled as to why their credit cards no longer work (33)
(StormTrack) Florida Tropical Depression Nine -- Ike? -- forms in the Atlantic. Better cancel that trip to the Bahamas (101)
(Some Guy) Interesting For the first time in over a century, the sun has been spotless for a month. Sting shakes his head disapprovingly (68)
(BBC) Interesting Schoolgirls in Scotland will be first in the UK to get a vaccine that will turn them into little sluts (62)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Taking the stairs at work instead of the lift could save your life, according to researchers who don't work in 50-story towers (27)
(Some Guy) Sad Alien researchers from the 24th century to abandon their Las Vegas Time Station today as temporal rift has become unstable. Translation: "Star Trek: The Experience" is shutting down today (64)
(TechEBlog) Cool Wearable dinosaur suits that look and move realistically (36)
(Washington Post) Cool Real-life "Jurassic Park" scientist revivifies millions-year-old DNA, decides against dinosaur theme park after thinking, "Gee whiz--this is pretty nifty. Maybe we could use it to make beer" (44)
(Gizmodo) Strange We might not have jetpacks or flying cars, but we sure as hell have refrigerators, washing machines, and ovens that can be controlled by iPods (13)
(Some Automaton) Scary Skynet is here, thanks to the good folks at Stanford. Sarah Connor inconsolable (26)

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