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Sun January 18, 2009
(BBC) Cool V-wing turbine gets study cash. Rebel alliance watching with interest (5)
(Gizmodo) Spiffy The $40,000 workstation -- aka the world's most expensive masturbatorium (65)
(Stuff) Scary Margarine turns your kids into morans who can't believe it's not butter (42)
(Politico) Sad Obama staff will have 2 say cu l8r 2 im (98)
(London Times) Cool Bauhaus architect creates a $5,000 cardboard machine for living in. Saturday night bonus: each one includes eight double beds (48)
(Gizmodo) Cool Homemade Scrabble Keyboard. Double Nerd Score (32)
(Daily Mail) Weird Alzheimer's sci-fi author Terry Pratchett testing anti-Alzheimer's helmet (w/ pic) (48)

Sat January 17, 2009
(Reuters) Amusing After seeing water-skiing squirrels and grainy concert clips on YouTube, you can now continue to waste time on their brand new Vatican City channel (20)
(Network World) Obvious Here we go again: Microsoft has taken Park Place, but the EU is gunning for Boardwalk. Opera sits in the corner, nuzzling B&O (106)
(Examiner) Fail Debunkers fail in $10,000 challenge of NASA photos (124)
(TechEBlog) Scary Creepy robot does push-ups until arm falls off (60)
(Breitbart.com) Spiffy Secret Service: "Mr. President-elect, you'll have to surrender your Blackberry." Obama: "Nope" (173)
(Yahoo) Interesting PS3 and Xbox 360 to cut prices. The Wii might consider this if people stopped buying them up as soon as they hit the shelves (136)
(Kitsap Sun) Weird Scientists baffled by Northwest snow worm mystery. "All I can tell you about these is that they are oligochaetes" (47)

Fri January 16, 2009
(Slate) Amusing "If you're reading this article, there's a good chance you already belong to Facebook. ... Indeed, there's a good chance you're no longer reading this article because you just switched over to Facebook" (76)
(NPR) Interesting Your word of the day is "snarge". Defined as "the bird goo which is wiped off the aircraft after a bird strike" (15)
(Contact Music) Unlikely Don't call it a comeback. WebTV's been here for years (39)
(Yahoo) Stupid Steve Jobs' cancer may have returned, say doctors using the Bill Frist pull-a-diagnosis-out-of-my-ass method (59)
(Newsweek) Followup "Imagine what it might be like if the Church of Scientology went into the consumer electronics business, and you'd have a pretty good picture of how Apple operates" (69)
(PhysOrg.com) Obvious From the University of Alberta: Kids who behave badly turn into adults who behave badly. Macauly Culkin and Gary Coleman reportedly feeling vindicated (30)
(Kotaku) Spiffy Ever wondered what old Obi-Wan Kenobi turned Sith would look like, check out these unbelievably kick-ass concept images for "Star Wars: Battlefront III" (96)
(Wired) Interesting Army 2-star general in Iraq starts a blog. Mood: surgy (25)
(Some Guy) Interesting Here's a list of all the stuff you can't see on Google Earth. Yeah, Dick Cheney's house is on there (44)
(Engadget) Interesting Engadget takes a long hard look at the LCD vs. Plasma battle, so you don't have to ask your brother in law what kind of TV you should buy (135)
(London Times) Hero The most annoying 8 year old ladyboy MCSE you'll see all year (86)
(Science Daily) Obvious Study finds gamers love the challenge, not the gore. BOOM. HEADSHOT (48)
(Fox News) Scary Some medical devices get a green light without any kind of review, just like this headline (14)
(Guardian.com) Silly It is colder in the midwest than in Barrow, Alaska, so it must be time to post a solution to global warming...paint everyone's house white (92)
(Some Guy) Interesting Article debates who would win in a battle between the Starship Enterprise and Battlestar Galactica. Hot Pocket and Mountain Dew resellers win regardless (154)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious Dan "Fake Steve Jobs" Lyons owns Jim Goldman on CNBC, ends up getting banned from the program for life (3:30 on accompanying video) (27)
(Some Guy) Scary Even though the domain is correct, the security certificate is valid, the DNS is accurate, the site hasn't been compromised, and you have no malware, don't assume that you're really on your bank's website (43)
(Guardian.com) Interesting A thousand years before we started getting emails for h3rb4l Vi4gra and buying Rolex watches from guys on street corners, Vikings had their own problems with knock-offs (42)
(Science Daily) Interesting Appendix? Out of my vagina? It's more likely than you think (130)
(C|Net) Obvious Hippies choke on their patchouli after hearing that solar panels aren't so enviromentally friendly as they thought (80)
(Discover) Interesting How far away is the horizon? (65)
(Gearlog) Cool Ford cars to have new auto-stop feature. Subby's confused because his Ford already does this (46)

Thu January 15, 2009
(Reuters) Cool Whoopi Goldberg boldly comes out of retirement for sci-fi role (36)
(Weblog Awards) Wheaton Congratulations to Wil Wheaton, winner of the 2008 Best Celebrity Blogger Weblog Award (72)
(Discovery) Cool Advanced "invisibility" cloak nearing completion but critical flaw continues to prevents journalists from writing about it without referencing Harry Potter (49)
(BBC) Cool Earliest dinosaur feathers were only for display, mostly to frighten the other animals on The Ark (174)
(AFP) Interesting Drinking coffee reduces risk of Alzheimer's. Also, drinking coffee reduces risk of Alzheimer's (54)
(New Scientist) Cool We and everything we know may be nothing but a hologram. Seriously (178)
(Boston Globe) Cool Close-up pics of the Earth, from space. Number 4 is not Mars, and number 22 makes Vegas 'burbs look as soulless as they probably are (208)
(C|Net) Misc Sega Robo-cat solves many of the problems people claim to have with cats. Specs say nothing about lipstick (62)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting The internet is expected to double in size every 5.32 years. That's a lot of tubes (24)
(Wired) Interesting Extra-terrestrial life in my solar system? It's more likely than you think (52)
(Business Times) Spiffy Ask.com becomes the "Official Search Engine of NASCAR". Top 3 search results expected to be "Making a right turn", "Car go boom", and "Natty on tap" (18)
(Apple Insider) Dumbass Apple 2008: We don't need to make a pointless netbook. Apple 2009: Our marketshare has dropped to 8% because of Acer and its netbooks (139)
(Ars Technica) Obvious Teens outnumber adults on social networking sites 2 to 1, barring exceptions like "freecandyinmyvan.com" and "noreallyimadoctor.org" (13)
(Scientific American) Interesting Why does your recorded voice make you sound like such a douche bag? (92)
(Vator.tv) Obvious From the desk of Captain Obvious. On social networks, adults socialize (11)
(Gizmodo) Cool Obama becomes the first president to have his official portrait taken with a digital camera, Facebook has notified his friends of the new picture (108)
(Telegraph) Scary Old and busted: "Forward this mail to 10 people and you'll have a good day." New hotness: "Forward this mail to 24 people or I'll visit you and kill you" (27)
(Gizmodo) Cool Your daily WTF moment comes courtesy of Cadillac's new concept car (114)
(The Age (Melbourne)) Interesting Second richest man in the world is finally the master of his domain after winning it back from Indonesian squatter, who demanded $55 million or he'd route his connect requests to Pornville (14)
(The Sun) Stupid Headline and first paragraph: "NASA finds life on Mars." Twelfth paragraph: "We have no proof of anything but we'd like to look more" (27)

Wed January 14, 2009
(The Register) Dumbass Dell secretly replaces Windows with Ubuntu on woman's laptop, boy does she notice (313)
(UPI) Amusing Researchers preparing university conference focusing on link between blond hair and sexual desire. Will be followed by conferences focusing on links between dark hair and sexual desire and red hair and sexual desire (27)
(So Good) Followup Facebook disables Whopper Sacrifice application after Facebook users cut 233,906 people from their friend lists in pursuit of a free Whopper (65)
(Gizmodo) Strange If you're thinking of installing Windows 7 Beta, you might want to read the fine print first (74)
(CQ Politics) Followup House votes to keep February 17 as the date idiots descend on electronics stores nationwide screaming "BUT I DIDN'T KNOOOOW" (71)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting New research shows that stars get fat by eating other stars. But this is astronomy, so unfortunately this doesn't explain Oprah's weight gain and the sudden disappearance of Tara Reid (11)
(Gizmodo) Interesting iLeave (119)
(NASA) Interesting Rocket scientists poised to build rockets large enough to launch 17 school buses to the moon. Fill those buses with lawyers and there's a joke in there somewhere (74)
(Reuters) Interesting Scientists make astounding discovery: Ancient Bird Turds. With bonus pic of scientist admiring a specimen (22)
(BBC) Obvious Head of the World Meteorological Organisation offers comprehensive explanation why more snow means global warming is true. Here comes the science? (424)
(iSome iGuy) Silly The number one application on iTunes may soon be iSteam, recreating a mirror after a hot shower and earning its creators over $100,000. iDrink, iBoobies and iFart reportedly inconsolable (33)
(ABC News) Asinine I used to cry because I had no shoes, until I met a woman with no legs ... whose insurance company will only spring for cheapass peg-legs instead of the fancy computer controlled-legs she really wants (415)
(The Register) Asinine After blocking Wikipedia for showing an old album cover, Nanny State porn filter now cuts off access to the Wayback Machine, presumably because Peabody never wore any pants (44)
(ZDNet) Spiffy Hell freezes over: Apple allows third party browsers on iPhone. Bonus: use of phrase "flatulence applications" in article (25)
(Gizmodo) Interesting Pioneer to cease production of new laserdisc players. In other news Pioneer was still making laserdisc players, and people were buying them (65)
(News.com.au) Unlikely Marilyn Monroe hormone discovered. Or should it be called Norma Gene?  T-Shirt (118)
(Jalopnik) Obvious Jalopnik's top ten 2009 Detroit Auto Show cars. #8 pretty much guarantees you'll never get laid, ever (61)
(News.com.au) Sappy Man proposes to girlfriend by hacking her favorite game (with pic of the geeky couple). NERDS (61)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Click here if you want to see who falls for Nigerian Email Scams. 100% Guaranteed (192)

Tue January 13, 2009
(C|Net) Spiffy Intel demonstrates how USB 3.0 will dwarf eSATA and Firewire (57)
(CBC) Spiffy A Net Neutrality proponent as head of the FCC? "Yes, we can" (450)
(Reuters) Obvious Cell phones, which once caused cancer, then didn't cause cancer, then did cause cancer, then didn't cause cancer, then did cause cancer, now found not to cause cancer (115)
(PhysOrg.com) Cool IBM invents MRI machine with 100 million times higher resolution than current MRIs, making it possible for the first time to see things as tiny as Cheney's heart, Hugo Chavez' brain (57)
(Wired) Cool Italian woman is living out her fantasy as a prostitute in Second Life. With "I'd pay for it" avatar pic (78)
(Yahoo) Interesting Humans causing rapid evolution in animals. So that explains why horses are starting to look like Sarah Jessica Parker (83)
(Kotaku) Amusing The problem isnt the kids playing Wii music, its them actually taking the time to learn a fake instrument instead of a real one. This is not a repeat from Guitar Hero (82)
(The Register) Amusing If you're settling down for a night of gaming, make sure to turn your volume down lest your neighbours decide to call in the SWAT team (160)
(PCWorld) Scary Bug found in all major browsers could allow phishing without e-mail, just some string and a bent pin (56)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Spending $30 billion of the stimulus plan on new electric and broadband infrastructure will transform the US economy, not just prop it up for a while by cutting everybody a $500 check to spend on crap made in China (85)
(PCWorld) Strange Could World of Warcraft be a college class? Academic economist who teaches at law school hopes so (74)
(SFGate) Scary Another sign of the pending economic apocalypse: Consumer Electronics Show attendance down 23% from last year (32)
(Fox News) Followup Delaying the turnoff of analog TV broadcasts beyond the scheduled date will confuse consumers who are too stupid to get their TVs fixed in the first place (69)
(The Register) Interesting Computer experts compile list of 25 most dangerous programming errors, divided into insecure interfaces, risky resource management, and porous defenses - which presumably includes spilling beer on the servers (40)
(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Spiffy Fishremen hlep plul carp form Minnseota's lkaes (48)
(News.com.au) Cool Australia may start making buildings out of marijuana oil. All fire engines to be equipped with microwave ovens and freezers full of Hot Pockets (26)
(TechEBlog) Cool Photographer takes construction pictures of Trump Tower Chicago for four years, puts them into two-minute time lapse clip (49)
(NW Arkansas Times) Cool Retired man doesn't sell homebuilt ham radio on eBay. Gets email from interested party in Calif, builds up rapport, offers man chance to come learn how to build radios, man accepts. Straight to awesome: it's Joe Walsh of the Eagles (194)
(The Local (Sweden)) Stupid Official study concludes that cows make lousy earthquake detectors. Next up; can rabbits sense hurricanes? (29)
(Engadget) Interesting Crappiest gadgets at CES. Bonus: Its not a crappy slideshow. Double bonus: VOTING (45)
(Gizmodo) Cool Never mind the Legos, here's the Sex Pixels (slightly Not safe for work) (23)
(Gizmodo) Obvious Windows 7 found to contain the cornerstone of all Microsoft products: The BSOD (139)
(Motorweek) Fail A soon-to-be-former Honda engineer explains that Honda's new hybrid doesn't get as good mileage as the older Civic model, because they weren't going for that 'label' (82)

Mon January 12, 2009
(BBC) Obvious Team from Carnegie Mellon reaches startling conclusion that lack of sleep increases the risk of catching a cold. Still no cure for cancer, but at least you have an excuse to sleep in (11)
(Yahoo) Obvious Why tiny predators in the Antarctic will have you slaving an ice mine some day. Blame Al Gore (21)
(CNN) Fail Segway creator wonders why people aren't spending $6,000 on something their legs can do for free. Will next dream up $8,000 gloves that help grab things (238)
(CTV) Obvious Study reveals epidurals much safer than previously reported. Pay no mind to fact that research was conducted by groups that make lavish income giving epidurals (83)
(Guardian.com) Scary OK, so there were these cats which were brought to control the rabbits, which ate all the plants, but then the rabbits died so the cats ate the birds so they shot the cats but now the rabbits are back and eating everything in their path (41)
(Ars Technica) Unlikely The start of a new year means it is time to dust off the old "IRS may start taxing online economies" news article (23)
(Daily Mail) Unlikely The iPosture helps you stop slouching, which in turn makes men more successful, women thinner and more attractive, and if the pic is any indication, turns you into a busty peroxide blonde with very large teeth (29)
(Canoe) Spiffy Some good news to slake thirst of drought-afflicted regions: two trillion tons of land-ice has melted since 2003 (37)
(MSNBC) Interesting Three years ago in a tiny cluster of galaxies, a bright light flashed then disappeared. Scientists still aren't sure what it was. *cough* Gamilon *cough* (100)
(Village Voice) Amusing 1980 "Fantastic Films" Magazine speculates about how awesome "Revenge of the Jedi" is gonna be. Highlight: bounty hunter Boba Fett's name is a clear clue that he's a clone of a woman named "Roberta" (NSFW) (66)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Asinine Windows 7 coming to a kitchen near you. Someone's trying to use butter: Allow / Deny? (45)
(C|Net) Interesting Mac User finds pigs flying around his house, prefers Windows 7 to OS X. Is it Apple Death Knell #53? (159)
(CBC) Fail This year's flu shot doesn't protect against this year's flu strain. Again (166)
(AP) Scary "Geologist says the odds of a cataclysmic eruption at Yellowstone...are astonishingly remote - about the same as a large meteorite hitting the Earth." Crap, now we're all going to die in a super volcano AND meteorite hit (194)
(Some Geek) Cool Quite possibly the coolest cake you will ever see (79)
(Daily Mail) Cool British firm introduces foot-controlled mouse, for those browsing sessions when even one hand is too many (22)
(Some Guy) Interesting Six truths about creativity. The hard part is writing the headline for Fark because you start thinking about it and then run out of headline charac (31)
(Jalopnik) Cool Every reveal from the first day of the Detroit Auto Show. Wait, there's still a Detroit Auto Show? (65)
(CBC) Spiffy US carmakers unveil new lineup of cars which are very, very fuel efficient when they sit at the dealership waiting for repairs (43)
(Some Guy) Obvious Convention fans toting 12-foot long swords and realistic looking prop guns don't understand what all the fuss is about (50)
(AP) Weird Japan launches "Smell Club" to categorize and map over 160 odors from around the world (18)
(MSN) Amusing China solves web addiction with boot camp. Go for the article, stay for the pic (33)
(Wired) Cool The top ten most evil computers ever. I'm sorry Sarah Connor, I'm afraid I can't do that, do you want to play a game instead? (64)
(RedOrbit) Cool Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads (79)

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