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Sun September 21, 2008
(London Times) Interesting Women allowed to store their eggs for free, in much the same way you've been saving your splooge in that sweatsock near your bed (16)
(MSNBC) Cool Shine on you crazy, near-flawless, 500 carat white diamond (134)
(AP) Sad Kodachrome, the rich color film beloved by professional photographers, family slide-show hosts, and presidential-assassination filmmakers, to bite the dust as soon as 2009 (63)
(Some Guy) Cool Mitsubishi's all electric car to debut in 2009. Still no cure for the Lancer (22)
(redOrbit) Cool Micro-sized DNA lab set to revolutionize daytime talk shows (5)
(NPR) Amusing What is the definition of a nerdgasm? Lenord Nimoy on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" (audio link) (25)
(Science Daily) Strange Scientists find naphthalene in interstellar space, still looking for the giant interstellar moths. (Bonus: cool pic and bizarre Google ads) (17)
(Globe and Mail) Interesting Scientists discover 700,000 year-old permafrost that is in danger of melting due to glob ... wait - no, it's not (24)
(PCWorld) Interesting "Hacktivists" hack Bill O'Reilly's website, subscribers' passwords and account information posted (119)
(Ars Technica) Fail Asus ships "recovery DVD's" with employee resumes, confidential Microsoft documents, and software cracks (33)
(MSNBC) Stupid It's not news, it's healthcare: "Be your own E.R. doctor" (24)
(London Times) Obvious Debating in school found to provide "lifelong skills." Now shut your ignorant mouth, everything that needs to be said on the topic has just been said. QED (52)
(Washington Post) Weird "In Japan, girls are crazy over virtual boyfriends" (63)
(NewsNet 5) Interesting Scientist is calling Lake Erie's algae "Green Kool-Aid". OH, YEAH (20)
(Guardian.com) Obvious Acupuncture 'helps women have babies.' So a little prick will do wonders for you, ladies (31)
(Chud) Cool Capcom releases images of the greatest limited edition box ever for Mega Man 9. Geekgasm to commence in 3..2..1 (51)

Sat September 20, 2008
(Guardian.com) Interesting "I was convinced that my spirit had left my body, and that is why I went on to become a parapsychologist, trying to prove this was true. I found it was not." (116)
(BBC) Cool New mountain discovered in Wales, was apparently hiding in a hill (32)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Can you solve the math problems the brightest teenagers in Britain couldn't? (Yeah, you were told there would be no math) (149)
(Computerworld) Obvious You know those new "I'm a PC" Microsoft ads? Yeah, they were done with a Macintosh (135)
(Some Guy) Sad McCain would freeze spending on research. There goes the science (385)
(AP) Followup The good news: we have a two-month reprieve on the complete annihilation of the planet, possibly the entire solar system (35)
(Telegraph) Interesting Scientists ponder the big questions surrounding Large Hadron Collider - like how long it would take it to defrost a pizza (30)
(TechEBlog) Cool Vending machine delivers freshly cooked pizzas in 90-seconds (61)
(BBC) Obvious Scientists claim to have detected record gamma-ray burst from distant star. Notice the word "claim", because it's not like you can see gamma rays and Jesus Christ never talked about them in the Bible. I just checked (38)
(Scientific American) Sad Google founder has genetic mutation linked to Parkinson's, not feeling lucky (22)
(C|Net) Interesting 10 website redesigns of 2008. Don't worry, they'll get over it (41)

Fri September 19, 2008
(Slate) Scary Robots that can see through walls. This should end well (22)
(Some Guy) Obvious Party @ Λ Λ Λ, 8pm (10)
(BBC) Scary Large hadron collider breaks down. Again. Yeah, these people can be trusted not to drag us into a black hole (40)
(Gamernode) Spiffy Large Hadron Collider renamed "Halo" by public vote. UNSC Marine Corps begins accepting children into top secret super-soldier project in response (36)
(The Register) Cool Let's all welcome our 5th dwarf planet: Haumea. Astronomers still looking for its twin dwarf Helpew (61)
(Fox News) Amusing Scientists doubtful of cougar sightings in Virginia. They obviously aren't hanging out in the right bars (21)
(Some EE) Cool Scientists all charged up over new basic circuit element said to have the capacity to electrify the electronics world. Inductor (14)
(MSNBC) Scary Behold: Chronophage, devourer of time and man. We're farked for sure now (39)
(Cracked) Interesting Five concepts for space travel that might actually work, despite sounding retarded (25)
(Some Guy) Cool Pop balloons with a cd burner, make a single-use camcorder multi-use, spy on your neighbors with a Mr. Microphone, and othe fun, interesting hacks (11)
(WoW Insider) Ironic Video gamer burns off 90 pounds by playing World of Warcraft (26)
(Discovery) Obvious The hordes of Viking invaders who ravaged Europe for centuries? Just cruising for chicks (21)
(Techcrunch) Fail Remember Cuil, that search engine that was supposed to kill Google? Well, it's killing some parts of the web, at least (45)
(Kotaku) Obvious 50 Cent survived being shot nine times. His new video game, however, is not so good at surviving (25)
(MSNBC) Interesting Full moon energizes birds, agitates werewolves (14)
(BBC) Interesting "People with dementia have right-to-die", says respected ethicist. Respected esthetician says everyone has the right-to-dye (78)
(London Times) Interesting In latest proof that global warming is continuing to not happen, caterpillars native to Africa now showing up in Britain (pic) (305)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Interesting Yahoo's market TV show now has bigger audience than CNBC (18)
(The Industry Standard) Amusing Wikipedia considers deleting Deletionpedia entry, threatens space-time continuum (27)
(BLORGE) Interesting Paris Hilton no longer most infectious celebrity (7)
(NBC5.com) Interesting They reduce CO2, you reduce CH4. They introduce hybrids, you use electric cars -- that's the Chicago way (20)
(Telegraph) Scary FDA opens door to genetically-engineered animals. Chicken heart escapes through door, threatens New York City (57)
(Guardian.com) Obvious China taps emergency water supply for Beijing. Locals note that it tastes like chlorine and Phelps (39)
(TechEBlog) Cool College students use gumballs to create functional music sequencer (18)
(The Sun) Amusing If you get a cryptic text message that says "EAT ME," it's not what you think (25)
(Science Blogs) PSA Scientists predicted global cooling in the 1970s. Oh really? (97)
(Some Guy) Cool Casimir effect may allow faster than light travel. Houses of the Holy effect still unknown (44)
(Reuters) Obvious Txtng drvrs m0r dngrs thn drnk 1ns (30)
(USA Today) Fail Anxiety-detecting machines could be used to spot terrorists in airports, since as we all know, only terrorists are anxious in airports (75)
(Some Guy) Obvious Oral sex study finds that people only read the first two words of web headlines (70)
(CNN) Interesting "We believe that these devices are used because we consider them very safe, but it could cause harmful effects due to the proximity of the phones and the exposure that they are causing to the gonads." (60)

Thu September 18, 2008
(AP) Strange Apparently plants do feel pain. PETA surrenders (92)
(London Times) Interesting Australian scientists discover 500 new species living just off their coast, current estimates suggest that around 495 of them could kill you (38)
(CNN) Amusing Transformer halts Large Hadron Collider test. Unknown at this time if it was Autobot or Decepticon (119)
(Gizmodo) Weird If you masochistically subscribe to the da Vinci sleep schedule of taking a 30 minute nap every three and a half hours, this alarm clock will be of great use to you (55)
(Metro) Obvious YouTube bans videos showing guns or knives, leaving less reason than ever to go there (169)
(Yahoo) Asinine Australian company launches tool to turn any website into a three dimensional environment so that they can spend half an hour getting at the information it should only take them two minutes to find (43)
(The Register) Obvious The Pope is indeed under the protection of a watchful eye from above during his official visits (20)
(BBC) Obvious Merged bank names are being cyber-squatted. Owner of www.wellsbarclaycitilynch.com expected to make millions (22)
(The New York Times) Silly I'm a shaaark, I'm a shaaaark, suck it Mac, I'm a shaaark (167)
(National Geographic) Strange Scientists construct model of a female Neanderthal. Fark.com: She looks like a guy (87)
(TechEBlog) Amusing The washable mouse, just in case any of you ever do anything which might make your mice sticky (22)

Wed September 17, 2008
(Daily Express) Asinine By the age of one babies can help their parents find missing objects, complete crosswords and even do the weekly shopping, scientists claim (71)
(Sports by Brooks) Amusing Sports Illustrated's website deemed too "provocative" for Denver Airport WiFi users - even though the swimsuit issues are in full display at the gift shops (22)
(Some Guy) Sad The incestual raping of a great sci-fi work continues. "Paul of Dune" released (98)
(Orlando Sentinel) Interesting HBO's vampire series, "True Blood," will get another season to suck...blood (114)
(Kotaku) Followup Valve willing to sell out to Google - or any other company right now. But no talks are happening. yet (49)
(Sci Fi) Amusing 7 cliches always seen in horror movies. No mere mortal can resist the evil of the Thriller (105)
(Kotaku) Interesting Google to enter the game industry by buying Valve? What the hell, go ahead and buy St. Louis and Cleveland while you're at it (38)
(The Industry Standard) Interesting Deletionpedia: Where Wikipedia entries go to die (40)
(Science Daily) Cool For the first time ever, scientists hear whale sounds in New York City waters. Translate them into English: "Hey, you jerk, I'm swimming here" (60)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Interesting J.J. Abrams' mind-control experiment is working: The second episode of Fox's "Fringe" jumps 68% in the ratings (121)
(Ad Age) Silly Lose $15 billion in the second quarter? Check. Call your brand the brand of the future? Check. Profit? ??? (31)
(Popular Mechanics) Obvious Duh alert: real scientists say Fox's Fringe gets its own junk science dead wrong again (92)
(Sify) Unlikely Txtng mssgng nt coruptng Engsh (131)
(680news.com) Obvious New study finds Blackberry addictive, sky blue (50)
(London Times) Cool The science behind terrorism, global warming and UFOs - but this time from a guy who actually knows what he's talking about (14)
(BBC) Spiffy The Art of Mathematics - the most beautiful math-boffin-art-mashup pictures you'll see today. Probably (27)
(TechEBlog) Interesting Guy turns 250,000 volt Tesla Coil into functional guitar amp (35)
(Reuters) Interesting A new report says the U.S. is not ready for the digital TV switch. Of course, you can't read this because you still have dial-up (61)
(PCWorld) Unlikely Survey suggests gaming improves civic and political life, decreases chances of touching boobies (26)
(LA Times) Cool Researchers have found that feelings of social exclusion may make us perceive the ambient temperature as cooler than it actually is in your mom's basement (14)

Tue September 16, 2008
(Scientific American) Cool Thirteen million digit long prime number revealed, is submitter's new password (76)
(Some Guy) Scary There is a creature so secretive that no photographic evidence exists. Locals know it's there, always waiting in silence for its prey, waiting to strike - the Mongolian Death Worm (96)
(Reuters) Interesting Japanese scientist teach Beluga whales to perform tasks using sounds, hopes one day to teach them to express feelings with same sounds. And after that, he will stab them to death with harpoons and sell the meat to the sushi market (14)
(Yahoo) Interesting How profitable is World of Warcraft? Blizzard says that in the 4 years it has been around, they've spent $200 million on it -- or, roughly, what they get in subscription fees every 2 months (122)
(Reuters) Cool Scientists discover an ant species so old, it actually predates the Earth (74)
(Aint-It-Cool-News) Interesting Spiffy: "Y the last Man" movie. Fail: Shia LaBeouf as the main character. Compromise tag: Interesting (99)
(Cracked) Interesting How long was Luke Skywalker stranded on Dagobah and how come no one remembers Marty McFly the minute he leaves? Eight classic movies that got away with gaping plot holes (554)
(Boston Globe) Amusing Old and busted: Al Gore created the Internet. New hotness: John McCain created the Blackberry (160)
(The Inquirer) Unlikely Social networking now topping porn as No. 1 attraction on the Web (162)
(Some Guy) Interesting Would Publius be a spammer today? (14)
(SeattlePI) Interesting Company says that brain fingerprinting is a viable and preferable option to lie detector tests, although getting the ink off the brain afterwards is a pain (30)
(Yahoo) Strange Scientists discover fluorescent-red glowing fish. Surprisingly, they didn't find it at Spencer's Gifts (24)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Sad Microsoft asks lonely Zune owners to gather at McDonald's for crummy food, free wifi (82)
(Wired) Asinine The new Mercedes Benz hybrid gets a whopping 30 mpg and it will only cost you $100,000 (54)
(Komo) Spiffy Twelve-year-old studies nuclear fusion and nanotechnology, solves energy crisis (71)
(Wired) Strange The Pentagon has just upgraded the threat to fifth-level female human paladin (93)

Mon September 15, 2008
(Fox News) Cool First ever NASA staged photo of a planet circling another star (55)
(eWeek) Followup Comcast claims FCC overstepped its boundaries in ruling that Comcast can't throttle (63)
(Some Law Student) Interesting Crazy AP's Fair Use Lot: Their prices are so low, they must be insane (20)
(Ars Technica) Obvious Everyone but Apple joins new "buy once, play anywhere" group (70)
(The New York Times) Obvious "Radical" WSJ.com overhaul praised for including cutting edge Web 2.0 features like allowing users to comment on news stories and create profiles that other people can click on. Take a moment to try to get your head around all that (77)
(Circuit City) Unlikely Circuit City offering Rock Band 2 at $9810.00 off the retail price (129)
(BBC) Interesting Creator of the World Wide Web says internet needs a way to separate truth and science from unreliable rumors and lies. He said this while baking kittens in a souffle and rogering Barack Obama with a Pontiac (92)
(SMH) Misc Not news: Chef Gordon Ramsay has a video game. Fark: It's only rated PG (19)
(Valleywag) Weird First "Temple of Science" to open in Berkeley as soon as the founders can get an unexploded nuclear bomb to worship (130)
(Reason Magazine) Scary Indian woman convicted of murder on the basis of a brain scan. Bob Arctor unavailable for comment (110)
(Wired) Obvious "The Force Unleashed" reviewed: We find your lack of fun disturbing (102)
(Network World) Cool Father of the Web Berners-Lee's second act: make the World Wide Web even wider (9)
(Slate) Cool Attacks on Taliban in Pakistan by Predator drones has picked up thanks to a secret new technology that can track its victims like a stalker on an ex-girlfriend (42)
(BBC) Interesting Whales want you to get off their lawn (13)
(BBC) Interesting According to Aberdeen's Face Research Lab, women with high testosterone tend to be attracted to men like Daniel Craig, with men favoring women like Natalie Portman. In other news, Aberdeen has a face research lab (22)
(MSNBC) Interesting Eight natural pain relievers. Bottle of Jack mysteriously absent (49)
(BBC) Spiffy There may be a breast cancer vaccine in the near future. Still no cure for motorboating (24)
(BBC) Interesting According to a recent study only Japan has the broadband quality to cope with next-generation internet applications and on-demand high-definition tentacle rape movies (20)
(CBS San Francisco) Cool EA abandons plans for Take 2 takeover, cancels GTA '09 (60)
(AFP) Strange ZOMG, Y4#00 R0115 0(_)7 T3# R3D C4RP37 F0R T3# 1337 #4XX0rz (31)
(TechEBlog) Strange Guy builds strange pyramid-shaped car, is battery-powered (33)
(YouTube) Cool Ivan Sutherland's Amazing Sketchpad From 1963 (18)
(Fox News) Interesting Despite the fact that you can't remember your password and will have to call the help desk to get it reset, your memory's much better than you think (22)
(The Sun) Cool Scientists discover world was ruled one million years ago by prehistoric giant pigs. Mmmm ... Jurassic pork (49)

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