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Sun November 30, 2008
(Daily Mail) Interesting Keep your eye on the Mafioso-looking fella... he's not talking on that cell phone, he's targeting with it (pics) (34)
(College Humor) Cool Gamer mods Guitar Hero 3 to work with his homemade drum kit. The results are impressive (30)
(Gizmodo) Interesting RIM are about to run up against rule 234: "Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry" (31)
(UPI) Spiffy Another medical benefit of using Internet search engines, besides increasing muscle tone in the wrist, is the activation of regions in the brains of older people that control complex reasoning, which could ward off dementia (8)
(Some Guy) Interesting I'll take the IBM portable PC with 64K RAM for $19,975. Gift-wrapped, please (50)
(ABC News) Obvious NASA having trouble keeping public attention. Subby's suggestion to send up a porn star for a Pay-Per-View "performance" (which would fund at least two more missions) still being ignored by agency (36)
(YouTube) Cool Ever wanted to know what a Solid Rocket Booster has to go through after separating from the shuttle after launch? Wonder no more (with audio) (61)
(Ars Technica) Obvious Many US households will be in for a surprise when they stop receiving TV in February (95)
(YouTube) Amusing I see your french fry gun and raise you Brainiac's "making chips - the lazy man's way" (34)

Sat November 29, 2008
(PhysOrg.com) Unlikely IBMs list of top 5 inventions that will never ever, EVER be invented. EVER (53)
(shambles.net) Cool World Clock (88)
(Science Daily) Interesting A new observatory on a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean will provide researchers with new knowledge about a mysterious irregularity of the Earth's magnetic field. Updates expected every 108 minutes (38)
(Reuters) Strange Researchers have linked fast food consumption to Alzheimer's Disease. In Mice (20)
(CNN) Interesting Huge ice shelf in the Antarctic may break off. No, this is not a repeat from 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 etc (53)
(New Scientist) Strange Psychopaths have extraordinary ability to remember personal details which aid in victim selection, business success (43)
(BBC) Interesting Blueberries shown to help reduce memory loss; as opposed to blackberries, which are a leading cause of mental retardation (24)
(Gizmodo) Cool The Geek solution to not wanting to wait for your French fries (35)
(Kotaku) Strange Finally, just in time for Christmas, the true difference between the PS3 and Xbox 360 has been found: ladies underwear (34)
(Some Guy) Scary "Vegetation" blamed for killing innocent people. John Wyndham predicted this (22)
(Boston Globe) Obvious Social networking sites have made class reunions boring and obsolete because everyone already knows what everyone else is doing (92)
(Scientific American) Interesting Men may cheat on their spouses because they are jerks. Women may do it because of their birth control. Here comes the science (69)
(AOL) Hero After 12 days of incredible makeovers and getting into fantastic shape the well-lubed international space station has undocked with the space shuttle Endeavor and a poignant moment was had by all (11)
(Daily Mail) Scary "Deep in the Atlantic, a submarine waits on alert with nuclear missiles that will end the world." Sleep well, Farkers (259)

Fri November 28, 2008
(Some Guy) Interesting First samples of newly translated whale-speak: "I really like Krill." "Long pointy sticks suck" (56)
(CBC) Interesting Meteorite pieces found in Saskatchewan. Large gelatinous mass seen leaving the area attached to an old man (34)
(Some Chemical Guy) Interesting Want to make big bucks? Royal Society of Chemistry offering £1,000,000 for 100% chemical free material (80)
(Some Guy) Amusing Slowest printer EVAR (69)
(Cracked) Amusing Six ways World of Warcraft is worse than real life (103)
(Some Guy) Amusing Five sickening habits of mainstream websites. Details after the jump (70)
(Scientific American) Interesting ♫ With one look / With one flow / You will know / Patternicity ♫ (32)
(Wired) Cool Pentagon to develop guided bullet technology. Up next robotic spiders that inject acid into you (66)
(CNN) Asinine Just shoot me already: "I started to see an ugly side to Twitter...an incoherent, rumour-fueled mob operating in a mad echo chamber of tweets, re-tweets and re-re-tweets" (165)

Thu November 27, 2008
(Science Now) Interesting With the discovery of a mechanism by which some planets may be seeded with life the evidence in support of abiogenesis just got stronger (60)
(Kotaku) Cool Gamer uses 17,000 push pins to create art (27)
(IT World) Followup Two weeks ago authorities put a stake through the heart of the world's biggest spam botnet. Unfortunately it's a zombie, not a vampire (45)
(Den Of Geek) Interesting Nintendo's dominance in the handheld console war. And why Apple should be very, very worried (101)
(Gizmag) Silly Company creates a condom with a measuring ruler printed on the side that will accurately determine the size of the wearer's penis. It can also show how far you got in the backdoor before she elbowed you in ribs (80)

Wed November 26, 2008
(Daily Mail) Obvious Phase 1: Build big de-humidifier. Phase 2: Sell to places lacking fresh drinking water. Phase 3: Profit (61)
(Tech Crunch) Cool *beatbox* 1.5 terabytes, stack the memory to the sky (42)
(Fox News) Stupid Now that only nitwits and lunatics believe in global warming, the UN sets it's sights on a new doomsday scenario for scientists to use to obtain fat grants (239)
(Gizmodo) Interesting The size of International Space Station compared to the USS Enterprise, Battlestar Galactica. Millennium Falcon snubbed (56)
(YouTube) Cool The next Mars rover, set for launch in 2010, is the size of a dump truck and is powered by a nuclear reactor and the blood of the innocent (67)
(CNN) Interesting Woman who inspired the movie "Contact" still listening for aliens, liable for criminal prosecution for inspiring the movie "Contact." (76)
(WTVN) Obvious Study reveals email is sent randomly, but there are non-random intervals during which people don't send e-mail, like when they are sleeping. Obvious tag beams with pride (10)
(Media Morgue) Sad Still no cure for cancer, but we can now imbed advertising directly into YouTube videos. So we at least got that goin for us (14)
(IGN) Amusing Top 10 games that could lead to whacking your friend in the nuts. Protective cup optional (33)
(CNN) Misc Like a delicious vindaloo, Indian probe overheats orbiting moon/Uranus (23)
(The New York Times) Interesting Georgia Tech computer scientists are fine tuning their robotic software for battlefield engagement, finding Sarah Connor (16)
(Wired) Cool Today's image from the Hubble Space Telescope that will take your breath away (68)
(C|Net) Interesting The Japanese say that they have the first robot that can act on stage. America disagrees, unveils Keanu Reeves (132)
(Network World) Fail No Kindles for Christmas? "Amazon sure screwed up here." (And don't go blaming Oprah.) (96)
(Wired) Interesting How science has supersized your Thanksgiving dinner (25)
(The Register) Hero HP manages to break world record for useless packaging (pics) (62)

Tue November 25, 2008
(Canada.com) Stupid Canada's most PC campus declares cystic fibrosis racist. Stay tuned for their declaration that testicular cancer is sexist (219)
(Canada.com) Interesting Scientists say rocks evolve too. You're telling me that clay just became shale without any divine guidance? (80)
(Some non-basement dweller) Scary This is what happens when you become too obsessed with video games (66)
(Canoe) Unlikely "In five to seven years, all movies will be made in 3D." This is not a repeat from 1957 (108)
(Reuters) Scary New software model means you'll never be able to trust a Facebook picture again (28)
(Kotaku) Dumbass Gamer lives the dream: Gets out of basement, finds a girl, gets married, orders her a boob job and gets gastric bypass for himself, losing a ton of weight in the process. Too bad he only made one teensy, tiny mistake (26)
(Sci Fi) Unlikely Boobies named biggest irritation of video gamers who claim to have knowledge of the subject (46)
(io9) Interesting Is the Cloverfield monster in the new Star Trek movie? This and other questions pondered by people who can't get laid (57)
(Some Guy) Spiffy The taste tester for the urine-to-water recycling system aboard the International Space Station confirms it works (78)
(MSNBC) Unlikely Biologists whose video of treadmill-running shrimp became YouTube sensation tell "Today Show" their research isn't silly junk science intended to make them famous  T-Shirt (73)
(Ars Technica) Cool Go blow, SCO (33)
(MSNBC) Scary Survey reveals Wikipedia drug articles have many interaction omissions, presenting a danger to people who it as their sole information source. In other news, people use Wikipedia for their sole source of information on pharmaceuticals (45)
(Telegraph) Sad Goddamn Batman to be killed off. Goddamn (309)
(Slashdot) Cool New nanotech fabric cannot get wet. Stays dry even after 2 months underwater (58)
(Some Guy) Asinine Defense in cyberbullying suicide case argues that since "nobody reads" the end-user agreements on websites, they shouldn't be held accountable for violating them. Worth noting that Congress approaches laws the same way (339)
(News.com.au) Sad The price of dissent. What happens when a green environmentalist that campaigns against the destruction of the Earth's biodiversity questions global warming (565)
(MSN) Fail Headline: "Nine free downloads promise to help you get the most out of your iPod -- without iTunes." Reality: Four of them require you to eventually buy the full version. Fark: They say so in the article (26)
(AP) Unlikely "In future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom." Mexican Tortilla Crisis? (90)
(ZDNet) Obvious Someone finally admits that Twitter sucks (64)
(Forbes) Silly 40-somethings take Facebook more personally and seriously than 20-somethings. 46-year old subby will BRB, has a zombie to deal with (104)
(NASA) Cool NASA plans mission to study Jupiter using quirky actors, indie rock (28)
(TechEBlog) Cool They call this the "ultimate web surfers chair", but I can't see a flush handle anywhere (35)
(Bloomberg) Asinine Biannual mammograms may actually increase cancer risk, according to certain parties losing money on biannual mammograms (11)
(Wired) Interesting Astronomers discover adolescent galaxies, characterized by a high number of moons (16)
(Google) Followup Jet pack pilot successfully flies across 1,500-foot-wide canyon. Paris Hilton not impressed (71)
(The Register) Spiffy Scientists solve Gray's Paradox, learn how dolphins can swim so quickly for so long: It turns out dolphins are just really, really strong. Unless they're from Miami, of course (39)
(Some Guy) Interesting First ever horse born with the diabeetus, should have had more Quaker oats (21)
(The Age (Melbourne)) Scary Ze goggles, zey may be permanent (12)
(NASA) Cool Venus and Jupiter are converging for a spectacular ménage à trois with the crescent Moon, a rare gathering some astronomers are calling 'the sky show of the year.' Nerds (29)

Mon November 24, 2008
(Daily Mail) Scary In case you didn't have enough to worry about, scientists have discovered a new black plague for the 21st century that jumps from rats to humans (140)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Why there's no Google Streetview on the iPod Touch. Long story short, it's another Cupertino Conspiracy™ (31)
(Some Guy) Obvious A video montage of the faces of kids playing video games. This one will haunt your dreams. Seriously (137)
(St. Petersburg Times) Florida Meteorologist attempts to explain bizarre hole in the clouds with sciency mumbo-jumbo, ignores obvious UFO explanation (w/ pic) (19)
(Some Guy) Interesting It's bad enough to pay $1.2million for a car, worst to have it delivered in Chorme. (yes, there's pics) (69)
(Slate) Interesting Failing to realize from ABC's mistake, scientists consider producing cavemen (52)
(CNN) Scary Indonesian province introduces plan to implant HIV patients with tracking microchips. In other news, new "Google AIDS (beta)" mapping application soon to be rolled out in Asia (83)
(Some Guy) Silly Joysticks go flacid after FDA pulls Viagra game (10)
(Yahoo) Asinine Real estate developer sues Apple, claming patent infringement in its browser. Oh, by the way, he got the patent last month. And the company that holds it has one employee. And he's not suing any other "smartphone" maker (31)
(eBay) Followup Don't bother looking to the sky to see the Astronauts lost toolbag, it landed on a golf course in Minnesota and is up for sale on eBay. Would fraud again A++++++ (115)
(Aint-It-Cool-News) Asinine Subby doesn't know how they're doing it, but apparently there is going to be an I am Legend sequel, not prequel, with Will Smith (100)
(Flame of Udûn) Obvious "Do Balrogs have wings? It's a question that divides Tolkien's more avid readers into two distinct camps - those who believe in Balrog wings, and those who deny their existence." (137)
(MacWorld) Amusing "Apple approves soft porn app by mistake" Available for 8 or 16 Giggety (14)
(Cracked) Stupid 7 kickass possible cures for cancer. Still no cure for Cracked lists (75)
(Gamegrep.com) Cool Memorable and accurate sci-fi vehicle recreations from Spore including the Sulaco, Death Star and Borg cube (37)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious Finally: Proof of a correlation between MySpace usage and illiteracy (119)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Scientists build a case for banning Viagra from sports. Why do they have to be so hard on athletes? (35)
(BBC) Interesting UK funding body to assess possibility of British space missions, still hoping to put a man on the surface of the Earth (41)
(Some Finch) Interesting Today in 1859 a guy named Darwin first published a book about how species can change over time. Has anyone ever heard anything else about this? (730)
(BBC) Stupid Internet security company digs deep and pulls huge number out of its ass, says credit card fraudsters have stolen $5.3 billion. If only there were somewhere one could purchase Internet security products (40)
(New Scientist) Obvious New Scientist magazine polls readers to find out what they think is the best work of science fiction ever, besides Earth In The Balance (43)
(Daily Express) Followup Keep an eye out on the sky at 6:22 pm this Friday; if you're lucky you'll see a floating toolkit (85)
(EurekAlert) Spiffy Scripps research team defines new painkilling chemical pathway, a discovery that could lead to new pain treatments. Oh, and it's based on marijuana, so you know the FDA will love them (27)
(Discovery) Interesting Just another girl that sees right through your shiat (107)

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