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Sun September 28, 2008
(Wired) Followup SpaceX Falcon 1 successfully reaches orbit. Becomes first privately funded spacecraft to do so. Now we can retire the Shuttle and use these instead (101)
(Boing Boing) Fail Dear Consumer: To thank you for not pirating music. We would like to let you know that your music is now unplayable. Thanks-Wal*Mart (47)
(Cnet) Interesting The 50 most significant moments of Internet history: The appearance of a squirrel with ridiculously large nuts strangely missing (20)
(Some Rocket Scientist) Cool SpaceX Falcon 1 scheduled for launch today 4:00pm PDT/7:00pm EDT. Link goes to video feed (181)
(Slashdot) Cool One good reason to put up with all the strangeness of Japan, 1Gbps internet connection for under $60 a month (50)
(AZCentral) Weird The fuel of the future? Aquarium scum (15)
(Live Science) Stupid Need something to complain about? Well if you're human take your pick (29)
(C|Net) Followup Pandora's box to remain open (35)
(AP) Scary CERN rivals see melting magnets as "par for course". In other news, melting magnets would be a good name for a band (22)
(Some Guy) Cool The twenty most influential things to happen to the video game industry. Bonus: You use #1 everyday (59)
(Kotaku) Spiffy Nintendo to release new DS, equipped with camera, music playback, better wireless functions, and chocolate chip bacon (48)
(Guardian.com) Interesting 1 in 4 men look at online porn. In other news, studies show 3 out of 4 men lie in surveys (34)
(Guardian.com) Interesting The town of Egham has been named the junk email capital of Britain. Spam spam spam Egham spam (11)
(YouTube) Amusing The best science period video ever (45)

Sat September 27, 2008
(just-style.com) Cool Japan invents solar-powered bra that can generate enough energy to power mobile phone or iPod, or anything a woman would want to carry that requires electrical power (24)
(ABC News) Asinine Need an organization to save the Earth from asteroids? The UN of course (53)
(CNN) Interesting Wanted: Schoolteachers who are interested in becoming astronauts. Nothing could possibly go wrong with this idea (41)
(News.com.au) Weird "My eyes are closed for three days and then open for three days. Nobody knows why" (41)
(London Times) Interesting British naval sonar makes ships sound like the world's largest killer whales -- dolphins, seals and assorted other marine life not amused (9)
(AP) Interesting UCLA mathematicians find 13M-digit prime number, may win prize, get outside (61)
(Some Guy) Cool Winners of Science magazine's annual International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. Trippy (8)
(AP) Spiffy Chinese astronaut makes nation's first spacewok (59)
(AP) Spiffy New study reveals that burning wood in the winter can keep you warm (48)
(World-Science) Cool Imagine Daffy with teeth, and a 15 ft wingspan (22)
(MSNBC) Cool Apple to make iTunes accessible to people who can't use their i's (20)
(Some Guy) Florida Sociology grad student researches dissertation about what nude models are thinking. To be fair, no one ever wondered before (73)
(Mirror.co.uk) Strange A generic picture of a computer keyboard (76)
(Science Daily) Unlikely Physics professor claims electrical generator running off car battery power and attached to fuel line can increase mileage by 20%. And staring at the car gravely while intoning "Klatuu Barrada Nikto" will increase it another 15% (52)
(Kotaku) Amusing First, Activision developed "Guitar Hero" for video gamers who can't play guitars. Now, they will bring "Dance Hero" to gamers who have no business dancing (35)

Fri September 26, 2008
(Yahoo) Interesting One, two, three: Three bees that can count. Ah-ah-ah-ah (39)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Car porn alert....New sportscar with twin turbo, over 450 horsepower engine, and now with hydrogen fuel injected hybrid goodness. Bonus, made in USA (39)
(Wall Street Journal) Fail Microahol? (26)
(Ars Technica) Scary New browser exploit forces you to click a link. Bonus: it affects almost all browsers, and disabling Javascript does nada. Oh, and no one knows how to stop it (133)
(Science Daily) Cool Scientists develop antiviral treatment effective in ANY animal against ANY type A influenza. That includes bird flu and the last three pandemic varieties. Common cold starts to look nervous (22)
(Live Science) Interesting My wife told me to submit this article (184)
(Discovery) Scary Carbon dioxide emissions rose higher in 2007 than worst case scenario predictions. Everyone learn to swim (89)
(Atari) Cool Spend your Friday afternoon playing old school Missile Command. You weren't working, anyway (25)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Sixty percent of the human race will have a cellphone by the end of the year. Still no cure for brain cancer (27)
(National Geographic) Cool Coolest picture (via electron microscope) of a squid's tentacle you will see today. Cue "Little Shop of Horrors" music (61)
(Wired) Cool Not news: Going 82.3 mph. Hot Damn: On a bicycle. On level ground (42)
(Gizmodo) Scary US Army gets its most lethal gun ever: the XM25 carbine kills people behind walls, beyond hills, and below trenches. Now they have to find the hill where Osama is hidden (67)
(BBC) Obvious If you have a Facebook profile, you are an attention whore (51)
(Daily Tech) Scary RIAA, MPAA, Activision. Which of these 3 does not belong together? If you said Activision click link to the left (14)
(Daily Wildcat .com) Obvious Poll shows atheists are much more likely to believe in haunted houses, palm reading, alien visits, astrology and communicating with the dead than religious nuts. Reason, logic, smug, surrender (472)
(Some Guy) Cool Photoshop on MY mobile phone? Its more likely than you think (20)
(Telegraph) Interesting Surgeon's checklist for successful transplant: 1) a functioning liver. 2) scissors. 3) operating table. 4) ping pong balls? (28)

Thu September 25, 2008
(The New York Times) Cool Company launches bone-conduction headphones that leave the ear canal unblocked. WAIT, WHAT? (49)
(Globe and Mail) Interesting 6,000-year old rocks found in Quebec (64)
(Jalopnik) Cool Top ten best cars in video game history (122)
(Wired) Interesting Hulu survives year of ridicule from Google fanboys, Hollywood-loathing geeks, and haters of The Man to become a Top 10 online video site that can compete with YouTube (81)
(WebUrbanist) Spiffy Geek cakes: May the forks be with you (173)
(PCWorld) Cool T-Mobile lifts 1gb limit on Android phone, still not an iPhone killer (26)
(The Register) Unlikely Miracle airship tech sustained by DARPA pork. Mmmm, pork airships (30)
(USA Today) Weird Utah government is on Twitter. So now you can keep updated on moment to moment changes in......uh....how long lines are at the DMV. Or something (7)
(WSRZ) Cool Coolest science teacher ever: teaches middle school students physics by helping them build their own pumpkin catapult (31)
(Scientific American) Cool Scientists working on using tide as a source of energy; soon sharks with lasers will affect your electricity bill (21)
(Kotaku) Interesting The good news: Jack Thompson has been permanently disbarred. The bad news? Someone competent could take over the war against video games in his place (105)
(io9) Cool There's nothing in the fan boy universe much cooler than a poster of Princess Leia in the style of Patrick Nagel (pic) (50)
(Post Bulletin) Spiffy Judge to RIAA: Maybe we should prove there was an actual crime before we let you punish someone (50)
(London Times) Misc We're running out of tubes (23)
(Engadget) Interesting China to build infinite improbablity dri--hey, what's this roaring sound, whooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. Hello Ground (106)
(Mark's Technology News) Interesting Toshiba announces world's first 250gb 1.8-inch hard disk, which means you could store your entire porn collection in a space the size of a shoebox (34)
(CSMonitor) Interesting Ground control to Major Tong . . . commencing countdown engines on (18)
(Network World) Strange Why won't Google take the training wheels off half of its products? (44)
(AP) Spiffy Hurricane Ike traveled over Cuba, through the Gulf of Mexico, came ashore at Galveston, then reached escape velocity and took out the Hubble Space Telescope. Tada (11)
(Wired) Spiffy Sci-fi and the future of sex. "Don't have sex with your fembot in a puddle of water, but do have a ménage a trois with two Cylons" (41)
(SFGate) Stupid The San Francisco Chronicle, in the latest in a series of poignant questions, asks, "Is Google evil?" (42)
(Independent) Amusing Not to put too fine a point on it, say I'm the only bee in your bonnet. Make a little birdhouse in your nudist beach (163)
(The Earth Times) Asinine Retro trend reaches all the way into high-end bicycle design, where people with more money than sense are buying bikes with everything but banana seats pretending they're 12 again (35)
(Independent) Scary Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn (73)

Wed September 24, 2008
(Some Guy) Interesting Cows that milk themselves - the robotic dairy that allow the cows to choose their own milking time (56)
(Abc.net.au) Scary Catholic archbishop threatens closure of maternity wards in Catholic hospitals if abortion law passes (253)
(UGO) Amusing The Spidey clone saga wasn't the only thing that made people cry "What the fark?" when reading comics (46)
(MDN) Obvious Japanese researchers find and capture adult eels in open sea for first time in recorded history, deem them "mouthwateringly delicious" (13)
(The Age (Melbourne)) Amusing "Can you reset the internet for me?" And other hilarious tech support questions (111)
(Cracked) Interesting Five insane devices from kids cartoons that actually exist... And still seem like bad ideas (42)
(CBC) Cool Dr. Seussasaurus discovered (13)
(Telegraph) Interesting Five things the Google phone will need to beat the iPhone. How hard can it be? (79)
(Slate) Interesting Why can't journalists discuss particle physics without sounding like priests? (25)
(TechEBlog) Video New shirt boasts integrated drumkit you can actually play (28)
(Newsday) Amusing Microsoft laughs like a giddy girl as Google Transit tells riders they can't get from JFK Airport to Huntington, LI via mass transit, despite a LIRR station in Huntington and a direct connection to the LIRR from the airport (48)
(Boing Boing) Cool Old and busted: skull bong. New disturbing hotness: skull pinhole camera (13)
(Some Guy) Cool World's fastest production car to unveil an electric model capable of going several years between charges (71)
(The Age (Melbourne)) Interesting Astronomers witness an interplanetary collision, say God was driving like a maniac (42)
(Yahoo) Weird Mysterious new 'dark flow' discovered in space, scientists note that it seems to be preceded by some jerk on a metal surfboard (63)
(Kotaku) Spiffy "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" is the fastest selling "Star Wars" game of all time and far more profitable than that "Clone Wars" movie (87)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Diet of soy beans and chick peas could help stroke patients recover - or weep bitter tears that the blood clot didn't kill them (24)
(Fox News) Scary Nothing to see here, citizens. Better try not to THINK about anything, either (108)

Tue September 23, 2008
(MSNBC) Fail Magnet repairs and the onset of winter will shut the LHC down until spring. Man, with all those buttons and gizmos, you'd think someone would've thought to install a heater (63)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Asinine T-Mobile to customers: Hey, check out our awesome new Android phone from Google. But don't use it too much, or we'll turn it into a worthless brick (51)
(Network World) Interesting Windows 7: Seven developments you should know about (118)
(Herald-Leader) Scary In an effort to crack down on Internet gambling, Kentucky commandeers domain names of 141 gambling sites (211)
(Discovery) Cool Cool: Scientists extract dormant yeast culture from a weevil preserved in amber 45 million years ago. Fark: Use it to make beer (273)
(AP) Interesting Nerdgasm: Google debuts its much-anticipated phone for $179 on Oct. 22. Sweet: Features touch screen, trackball, slide-out keyboard. FAIL: Available only with T-Mobile service (85)
(Live Science) Interesting Neanderthals' seafood was not dolphin safe (22)
(Daily Mail) Scary Four university researchers killed by 100-year-old radiation experiment started by Sir Ernest Rutherford. Still no cure for curium (108)
(Science Daily) Interesting Like Joan Collins, Saturn's rings may be older and heavier than previously thought (11)
(io9) Cool The Japanese plan to turn Arthur C. Clarke's space penis vision into $10 billion reality (54)
(Toronto Star) Interesting Having sex before a stressful event -- such as giving a speech, going on an interview, before an operation -- can greatly reduce anxiety, even if you have to take matters into your own hands (70)
(Reuters) Cool The Mars Rover Opportunity is about to start a new two-year mission. In other news: A Mars rover lasts longer than your average Ford (38)
(Hartford Courant) Interesting Could Howard Hughes, Michael Jackson and Donald Trump be right? (130)
(TechEBlog) Interesting Eco-pioneer builds artificial island, lives there for 7 years (14)
(MSNBC) Interesting Workers at Ground Zero discover 20,000-year-old pothole (31)
(Discover) Dumbass List of Einstein's 23 biggest mistakes. What a moran (57)

Mon September 22, 2008
(Fox News) Interesting Blinding them with Science (30)
(The Industry Standard) Fail Bank of America's online banking not online anymore. Don't worry, nothing to see behind the curtain (48)
(Network World) Scary Internet users easily fooled by bogus popup warnings. [Obvious] tag can't make it, busy uninstalling spyware (55)
(io9) Stupid M. Night Shyamalan officially drained of all creativity, considers "Unbreakable 2" (132)
(Valleywag) Amusing Microsoft's agency, spokespeople love their Apple products (38)
(Some free roaming vapor) Stupid Ghost-hunting class being taught at LSU. Dr.s Venkman, Stantz and Spengler unavailable for comment (151)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Stupid What's worse than an album on a flash memory card for $15? An album on a flash memory card for $39.99 (17)
(Fox News) Followup Evidence that people may have once healed the sick and injured is hewn into the living rock... of Stonehenge (30)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Scary Roger Ebert supports Creationism...with the most entertaining Q&A ever (638)
(Aint-It-Cool-News) Fail Bad: Another video game to be adapted into a movie. Worse: The Sims, a game with no story, is chosen. Fark: Dumbest. Plot. Ever (83)
(Jalopnik) Amusing Lamborghini names new four-door "Urus," German for "Big Cow" (114)
(Election Geek) Spiffy Love technology? Probably won't like changes to Obama-Biden technology plan (176)
(TechEBlog) Cool A flame-throwing car you don't want to tailgate (24)
(Excite) Cool Old and busted: music CD's. New hotness: slotMusic albums will be sold on 1 gigabyte microSD cards (116)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Prison inmates becoming among the most eco-conscious people on the planet as they save rare birds, protect vital natural habitats and enjoy organic tossed salads with hand-made honey or jelly (72)
(News.com.au) Weird Now you can wash your suit at the same time as you wash your hair, with this new clothing range from an Australian company (41)
(LA Times) Interesting Candidate's positions on science. Come for the basic research, stay for the innovation (57)
(Telegraph) Interesting Fish fingers, the missing link between an empty plate and a kiddy's meal (18)
(News.com.au) Amusing Motoring writer shares his 15 top examples of poor car design. Includes pointless spoilers and new cars fitted with cassette players. Voting enabled, suggest your own (114)
(MSNBC) Obvious Comcast reports no customer complaints from their new bandwidth management system. Says their customer service policy of "Go fark yourself" has worked quite well in reducing the number of complaints (54)
(IGN) Cool First impression of the "Duke Nukem 3D" multiplayer mode. In other news: Hitler is sipping on ice water (78)

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