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Sun January 25, 2009
(AP) Dumbass Media company files law suit to stop news aggregator linking to its stories. To find out more, click the link on the left (7)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Google to make PCs useless. Wait, what? (87)
(Some SF Fan) Interesting Multi-part video tour of the International Space Station, including the Kibo JEM, Harmony Node 2, and that place they make urine drinkable (14)
(Gizmodo) Weird Not news: car breathalyzer keeps man from driving. Fark: he only ate an Ice Cream Bar (25)
(Some Guy) Cool On Jan. 17, 2009, a meteoroid of unknown size hit Earth's atmosphere over Scandinavia and exploded with a thunderous, rumbling boom. The fireball was so bright it turned the nighttime sky blue as you can see in this awesome video (41)
(Some Guy) Scary Delicious frogs are being eaten to extinction. OM NOM NOM (22)
(Daily Mail) Unlikely Obesity is a virus, just like the common cold. So it's no coincidence you feed obesity like you would a cold. Here comes teh sammich (40)
(My San Antonio) Interesting Texas will no longer teach "the strengths and weaknesses" of evolution (154)
(Yahoo) Obvious Single brain cell found to hold a single memory, until you kill that little bastard holding the secret of you banging the chubby-but-cute-in-the-face chick who works at the gas station with whiskey (31)
(Some Guy) Interesting God's latest test of our faith: Lizards are adapting to fire-ant attacks by developing behaviors that enable them to escape from the ants, as well as by developing longer hind legs (43)
(The Daily Press) PSA All you fools who eat raw oysters: it's about to get a lot more dangerous (23)
(New Scientist) Cool Pentagon: These aren't the astromech droids you're looking for (8)
(Some Guy) Obvious Wikipedia ponders limiting user access after recognizing that only idiots contribute content to websites that allow it (72)
(Nature) Interesting Plutonium from 1946 found in old safe. Mr Burns unavailable for comment (37)

Sat January 24, 2009
(New Scientist) Cool Step aside, meatbags: machines are closing in on human abilities (48)
(The New York Times) Unlikely Viewers who watched a sitcom with commercials enjoyed it more than the same sitcom commercial-free. Here comes the science, right after this message from The New Zesty Taste Of Fark.com (45)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Help past versions of yourself in this Time Travel game, now with paradoxes (182)
(The Register) Interesting The five best and five worst Macs of all time, by a true Mactard (65)
(New Scientist) Interesting For those suffering with dyscalculia, 2 + 2 always makes up 5 (64)
(Washington Post) Interesting High-tech sensors help seniors live independently, find Sarah Connor (13)
(C|Net) Unlikely More Blu-Ray discs are being stolen, therefore the format is successful. Sony nods in approval, resumes PS3 talking points (81)
(Discovery) PSA Paul Mitchell's pert message: reducing shampoo usage allows suave consumers to stand head and shoulders above the crowd. Aussie what he did there, it's pantenely obvious (29)
(PhysOrg.com) Obvious "Plasmonic whispering gallery microcavity paves the way to future nanolasers". You heard me (27)
(Spiegel) Interesting Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. Better than he was before. Creepier, crawlier, better able to hide behind clocks in your dining room (39)
(BBC) Interesting Latest threat from compact flourescent bulbs? They'll turn you blind. Here comes the hysteria (52)
(Some Guy) Obvious Seven things Apple got disastrously wrong over the years (132)
(Philly) Scary Dreaded "White Nose Syndrome" is severely reducing northeast bat populations, Amy Winehouse's credibility (12)
(Daily Mail) Interesting I am the sweating robot. I test new clothing fibres. We are here to protect you from the terrible secret of space (12)
(London Times) Interesting British psychotherapist explains why women hate their fat, sagging, unattractive bodies (16)
(SeattlePI) Cool Seattle named "Most Wired City" in US. It's good to see all that coffee isn't going to waste (73)
(Wired) Interesting Air travel will not suck in 94 years (35)
(CNBC) Followup FINAL FOUR of the CNBC "As Seen on TV" bracket announced (63)

Fri January 23, 2009
(The New York Times) Interesting New Yorkers find out the hard way that biodiesel turns into biolard when it's cold. Where's global warming when you need it? (114)
(Some Guy) Dumbass "How many files can my laptop hold before it gets too heavy for me to carry?" (71)
(Engadget) Unlikely Not news: Microsoft reports $100M decline in sales in one division. News: Their Zune division. Fark.com: That means someone actually BOUGHT one last year (45)
(Wired) Dumbass Proof that you can get a scientific grant for just about anything these days... 2 academics wrote a paper saying they have proof that werewolves exist... and they found a werecow too (26)
(Discover) Stupid Doomsday in December 2012 spotted (36)
(The demo will last forever) Cool Friday afternoon game fun: Crayon Physics. It looks like your unwanted spawn's artwork and it will frustrate you just as much (37)
(BBC) Interesting First Mac appeared 25 years ago; today's models have 16,000 times as much RAM and are almost 50% more cool (82)
(Boston Globe) Spiffy Amazon deforestation drops sharply. The Kindle must be a great success (13)
(Australian Gamer) Cool Dad-to-be creates sweet Super Mario Bros theme mural for baby's room (34)
(Daily Mail) Silly Britain's oldest microwave turns 40, still good for heating puddings, Horlicks, and spotted dicks. Of course, it's Japanese (31)
(SFGate) Asinine Still no cure for cancer, AIDS or Global Warming, but we can all rest easy now that scientists have figured out the ending of the Italian Job (35)
(Yahoo) Amusing Just like palm reading and phlebotomy, you can tell a lot about a relationship by the text messages sent between people (40)
(Yahoo) Interesting With new expansion packs and versions on different gaming systems, the game "Spore" is evolving , hopefully into something that's not such a snoozer (57)
(Gizmodo) Interesting Japanese scientists grow living doll from skin cells. They understand that they have to do their best to please her (50)
(New Scientist) Interesting Darwin was wrong (427)
(Sun Sentinel) Florida Educators trying to tackle cyberbullying, citing extreme risks of cyberwedgies, uninhibited poking, wanton de-friending (85)
(Yahoo) Obvious For the past 50 years scientists have been baffled by the fact that they only ever find males of one species of fish and females of another, related species. See if you can solve the mystery in the time it takes you to click this link (55)
(Reuters) Interesting Japan launches satellite to monitor greenhouse gases, tentacles, schoolgirls (12)
(TVWeek) Stupid Senate Agrees to Delay DTV Transition until June 12. No, This is Not a Repeat from 2005. Bonus: Rockefeller Blames Bush (84)
(CBC) Amusing Eighth grader invents transparent window stickers only birds can see to keep them from slamming into windows. Still no cure for bird poop (167)
(MSNBC) Interesting It's a terrorist's dream: the personal aircraft. "You fly in non-complex airspace at relatively low speed." Help, Jane, stop this crazy thing (92)

Thu January 22, 2009
(Daily Mail) Spiffy Instead of hamsters and goldfish, classrooms of the future will have breakdancing robots (15)
(Some Guy) Video Who says electric cars are slow and weak? (53)
(Gizmodo) Amusing Apple fanboys get panties in a knot as Gizmodo declares Windows 7 better than Leopard (145)
(YouTube) Cool NASA video proves that God uses hex nuts (53)
(Gizmodo) Silly If you ever wanted to live in a futuristic era in which you can pop out one ice cube at a time from the ice tray, brace yourself, for the future is here (28)
(Yahoo) Cool God has decided to up the ante...testing our faith with a living armored catfish that climbs rock walls (33)
(MSNBC) Spiffy Galileo to get his eyes checked, 367 years after his death. And you thought your HMO sucked (29)
(Ars Technica) Interesting Two-thirds of Americans without broadband don't want it, cite lack of fixin's, barbeque flavor (56)
(PCWorld) Spiffy The second Android phone, the G2, being prepared for release. CPU reported to be a neural net processor, a learning computer. The more contact it has with humans, the more it learns (80)
(Science Daily) Interesting Because of global warming, all of Earth's seasons arrive two days earlier. Note: Does not apply to Arizona or South Florida, which have no seasons (75)
(TechFlash) Interesting Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams uses his strip to plug his new online storage venture, generating more controversy than his previous enterprise, crappy vegetarian burritos (82)
(MacWorld) Spiffy Global recession and Steve Jobs' health send Apple reeling. Just kidding; company posts record profits, jump in stock price, increased iPod sales and all-time levels of smug (95)
(All Things Digital) Interesting Microsoft feels economic pinch, will shed 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months so that Steve Ballmer can afford to blow his nose with $100 bills, not $20s (126)
(Some Guy) Cool Free BlackBerrys will be handed out as part of business studies at Canadian university that happens to be spitting distance away from RIM headquarters (21)
(CNN) Spiffy Obama to get "spy proof" smart phone, declined to use Bush's old shoe phone (67)
(Free Press) Interesting Kids race models powered by fuel cells; so THAT's how they survive without eating (7)
(The Register) Strange U.S. Army working on "exploding marmalade" missile propulsion. In addition to burning more smoothly, it jams enemy radar (37)
(Engadget) Cool Apparently Obama's inaugural suit was as bullet-proof as he is to the media (53)
(Absolute Gadget) Hero Most people think that computer games are bad for children - not this girl - she was in a wheelchair until she played Wii Fit (49)
(BBC) Obvious Dumbasses who deny global warming by saying Antarctica is staying cool are about to look like, well, dumbasses (152)
(Washington Post) Obvious Obama's staff says technology in the White House is "like going from an Xbox to an Atari" (99)
(Cosmos Magazine) Interesting Infidelity encourages faster sperm, empty promises to leave wife (7)
(TBO) Obvious Reducing air pollution over last decades has increased American life expectancies. Here comes the science (14)

Wed January 21, 2009
(Telegraph) Amusing Top 10 weird iPhone and iPod touch applications. Bonus: Not a slide show (27)
(NASA) Interesting A new NASA-funded study details what might happen to our modern, high-tech society in the event of a 'super solar flare' followed by an extreme geomagnetic storm. Some of the conclusions might make you PANIC (63)
(Atom) Silly Just like in real life, how many birds can you hit with a plane? (13)
(C|Net) Spiffy Some dork laser-etched the entire Super Mario Bros. game onto an eee PC. With pics (38)
(Some Guy) Dumbass What do you call your console when the second place console sold more than double what you sold at Xmas? If you're Sony you call it being the "industry leader" (193)
(Gizmodo) Interesting Crowd welcomes the new president with a sea of digital cameras. Lemmy misses plain ol' lighters (29)
(Yahoo) Stupid Young women are much better than men at spotting a cute baby, finds a new study from the Institute for What the Hell are You Doing and Where Are You Geting the Money for It (54)
(MSNBC) Interesting Games targeted for girls feature washing dishies, rocking babies, ironing shirts, making sammiches, shutting whore mouths (139)
(BBC) Obvious Dung beetles are giving up dung and turning carnivore (46)
(BusinessWeek) Obvious Wow Macs really are overpriced...Who knew? (247)
(Seattle Times) PSA UC Berkeley would like you to know that scientists aren't all boring, old, white, atheist men (51)
(Gizmodo) Obvious SEC investigating Apple for the way it handled news about Steve Jobs' health (79)
(Canada.com) PSA Compact flourescent bulbs may KILL YOU with UV radiation (78)
(Ars Technica) Hero Companies that promise not to abuse their power if Net Neutrality is removed are now going to be fined for abusing their power with cable television. Hero tag for the FCC (81)
(Network World) Cool Surgery of the future: How would you feel about dust-sized wireless devices being injected into you? (58)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Science advisor for the British government criticized by parliament for defending homeopathic medicines, which are basically distilled water mixed with 18th century gobbledygook (70)
(CTV) Scary Russian space agency says the nuclear satellite that has broken up in orbit poses no risk to Earthlings. Honestly (18)
(CTV) Spiffy Study finds that accupuncture works, even when it's not used (60)
(IGN) Asinine "Aren't publishers creating a Catch-22 situation with their refusal to release darker content on Wii?" Why yes, yes they are (205)
(Ars Technica) Amusing Google's Knol, meant to be Wikipedia killer, is utterly useless to everyone except wisdom (brain) coaches who knows all about horniness (33)

Tue January 20, 2009
(Some Guy) Asinine Mississippi wants to join Alabama by putting disclaimers on evolution textbooks; "No one was present when life first appeared on earth. Therefore, any statement about life's origins should be considered a theory," (897)
(Scientific American) Unlikely NASA could halt global warming with the same technology it used to fake the moon landings (70)
(Some Guy) Unlikely 95% of music downloads are illegal, according to the US Department of Pulling Figures Out of Our Ass (136)
(Yahoo) Interesting Doctors capture rare picture of democrats in action (35)
(UPI) Spiffy Bruce Springsteen makes his video game debut with two Boss-level tracks for "Guitar Hero World Tour" (63)
(KCRA) Sad Teen teen who who used used echolocation echolocation to to get get around around dies dies of of cancer cancer (68)
(Daily Mail) Unlikely In another effort to scare parents, computers used to show how their precious snowflakes could turn into monstrous eating machines if they dont maintain healthy diet. (with current and future OMG - KILL IT *GRAHHHH* pic of future fattie) (69)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Researchers find that drinking wine can turn men into werewolves, women into cougars (40)
(Telegraph) Cool The iPhone finally gets its killer app (54)
(Haaretz) Stupid Israel recruits 'army of bloggers' to combat anti-Zionist blogs. Troops divided into Cheetos Cavalry, Bacon Battalion and various Squads of Internet Tough Guys (147)
(InformationWeek) Fail Wanted: People to write fake reviews for our crappy products on Amazon. Must be able to mark others' negative reviews as "unhelpful". Apply at Belkin International (78)
(AP) Strange Can't make it to the funeral? No problem, for $300 more the grieving can be webcast anywhere in the world (8)
(BBC) Obvious Men can fight food urges better. Women can fight sex urges better. Can't we compromise? (38)
(Reuters) Interesting Move over Three Gorges Dam, China's got a bigger water project: the Guizhou project (40)
(BBC) Weird America plans to rid itself of vampires with synthetic sex hormones, rather than the more traditional Hot Topic burnings  T-Shirt (39)
(The Morning Call) Obvious Apple's new iTunes pricing won't save music lovers money, but it will put more cash in record companies pockets (54)
(Great Falls Tribune) Misc Triceratops skull fetches $251,000 at auction. That's nearly $84,000 a ceratops (32)
(The Register) Weird AMD's dual-core "Neo" set for 2009 release. Woah (44)
(London Times) Spiffy British rocket scientist working on a supersonic car, entering moustache competitions (19)

Mon January 19, 2009
(Telegraph) Interesting Coming soon: a memory pill. Still no cure for cancer. In other news, coming soon: a memory pill (51)
(Discover) Stupid Martians? In *my* newspaper? It's more likely than you think (27)
(Washington Post) Interesting Positive outlook reduces chances of the purple monkey dishwasher from dancing in the moonlight with the toaster (22)
(MSNBC) Spiffy Bad news for humans as Skynet perfects snakebots able to climb up to get you. With pic (23)
(London Times) Ironic Scientists finally figure out what's causing climate change: The giant supercomputer used to monitor climate change (37)
(Jalopnik) Cool Old And Busted: Obama's new Presidential limo. New Hotness: The Gatling gun-equipped Suburban behind it (202)
(Wired) Asinine Self-proclaimed "GeekDad" won't teach Star Wars in the home. Kids forced to learn about it on the playground, the way I had to learn about sex. Just like me, they got it ALL wrong (139)
(Boston Globe) Cool Trash-to-energy generator capable of making 1.21 gigawatts from household rubbish, roughly equal to that of a lightning strike and making plutonium unnecessary. Mr Fusion home version expected soon. That's heavy (87)
(Guardian.com) Unlikely Hysterical scientist claims Obama has only four years to solve Global Warming. How does he know Obama won't be re-elected? (318)
(TechEBlog) Amusing You've seen the stretch mini and the stretch hummer, now behold: the stretch Formula 1 car (18)
(PhysOrg.com) Ironic European environmentalists, 1978: "Reduce emissions to prevent acid rain, or we'll all die". 2009, "Reduced emissions are adding to global warming, were all going to die" (162)

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