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Sun March 15, 2009
(Some Lazy Guy) Fail It's come to this: Just when you thought Western civilization couldn't get fatter or lazier, there comes the Motorized Ice Cream Cone (15)
(MetroWest Daily News) Spiffy Bio-engineered goats could save your life. And your sex life. But you already knew that (17)
(NPR) Cool Researchers may have found a way to eliminate peanut allergies, so now you only have to worry about the salmonella peanuts killing you (34)
(NASA) Interesting NASA has finished plugging the leak with gum and duct tape. Shuttle scheduled to launch tonight at 7:43pm Eastern (262)
(Independent) Fail Water scarcity now a bigger problem than the financial crisis. Luckily, we have beer (69)
(Telegraph) Interesting Giant sandworms. The spice must flow. Fear is the mind killer (47)
(Daily Star) Scary Taking Viagra might make your willy wonky and lead to flatulence, toothache and, worst of all, hiccups (23)
(London Times) Scary Soon, researchers at the NIF in California will fire 192 separate laser beams capable of generating 500 trillion watts at a pellet of hydrogen to mimic the reactions that take place in the sun. The Emperor seems pleased with their progress (64)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Scientists say old age "begins at 27" (83)
(YouTube) Cool Without a doubt, the most badass wall clock you will see today (64)

Sat March 14, 2009
(Science Daily) Interesting World's largest natural colony of single-cell organisms found in Texas, not Washington DC as first thought (21)
(Some Guy) Interesting Common skin creams may cause cancer which is cured by caffeine cream. New shops planned for every street corner (13)
(KWWL) Unlikely If your dog can't stop chasing its tail or licking things, it's not just being a dog, it has obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your dog wants Zoloft (101)
(YouTube) Amusing In 1992, baud was beginning. All your BBS are belong to us (127)
(Yahoo) Sad Game Over (56)
(RedOrbit) Interesting Physicists announce they are close to discovering God (101)
(InformationWeek) Audio Space junk tapes released, immediately rocket to number thirteen on Billboard's top 200 (6)
(Kotaku) Weird Saturday uber-timewaster: Tetoris. Took subby half an hour to clear a single line (38)
(NJ.com) Interesting An examination of Battlestar Galactica's penultimate episode, "Daybreak: Part I," complete with handy plot point resolution checklist (198)
(ABC News) Misc Navy to whale researchers: "blow it out your holes" (13)
(Wikipedia) Spiffy 15 years ago today, v1.0 of the Linux kernel was released. It is now used daily by almost 300 people worldwide (359)
(Daily Yomiuri) Weird Math and science cram guides plastered with large images of manga-style females become bestsellers in Japan. "In the book, attractive manga girls teach the periodic table by personifying the 118 chemical elements" (40)
(Discovery) Cool Scientists have discovered several species that are only found near the poles, just like your mom (42)
(Network World) Amusing Geordi La Forge channels Jackie Chiles to deny that Twittering with LaVar Burton sparked a kitchen fire (15)
(Telegraph) Interesting National effort to disprove existence of ghosts launched with online photo gallery where you can vote 'real', 'fake' or 'streetlight' (pics) (27)
(Some Guy) Interesting How to find out if extraterrestrials are spying on us. And not by following their trail of Reese's Pieces, that's too easy (10)
(Wired) Spiffy Neil Strauss shows you how to survive the zombie apocalypse, especially if all you have is a cigarette and you really need a knife. Guess all you non-smokers are dead (video) (58)

Fri March 13, 2009
(The Local (Germany)) Obvious Bottled water as contaminated with hormones as tap (83)
(Some Guy) Interesting For the first time in history, MySpace gets someone OUT of jail (25)
(Canada.com) Obvious Best advice to avoid obesity? Go to bed early. Presumably because you can't eat while you sleep (41)
(Kotaku) Spiffy Step 1: Live in South Korea. Step 2: Play World of Warcraft a lot. Step 3: Profit, $470,000 contract profit (76)
(Science Daily) Fail "Only 53% of [American] adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the sun." Fail tag fills in for sad tag, who is too depressed to even get out of bed anymore (225)
(Wired) Wheaton It's Wheaton vs. Whedon in the Ultimate Battle of Geek Madness. Give Wil your vote today (115)
(Some Guy) Spiffy British "twitchhiker" travels to Wichita in 12 days, and it's all thanks to strangers on Twitter (84)
(C|Net) Cool Meet the next Shawn Fanning. Just think, he's going to be a million times richer than you, and he's only 15 years old (44)
(Telegraph) Interesting Roses are red / That much you knew / It's just their way / Of saying "fark you" (27)
(C|Net) Interesting The Internet turns 20, prompting Al Gore to wear a festive hat (54)
(Some Girl) PSA We know you want your Dr. Manhattan costume to be "screen accurate", but we need to have a chat about local indecency laws (107)
(SMH) Hero Trucking company owner builds 747-400 airliner simulator in his warehouse that rivals $60 million commerical versions. Wins Guinness world record for it, and donates all hire fees to charity (64)
(MSNBC) Spiffy Scientists uncover Mayan stucco panels that tell the story of a previously unknown myth. From the pictures, it apparently involves a guy getting at least a UFIA from midget robots (27)
(Spike) Cool Watches aren't cool anymore, except this one (86)
(Daily Mail) Cool Hottest toy of the year: a superpowered pogo stick that can jump a car (pics) (45)

Thu March 12, 2009
(MSNBC) Obvious The Wii is still a toy (136)
(London Times) Interesting Self-healing car paint makes scratches vanish (26)
(Wired) Interesting Programmer creates Android app that lets you scan a DVD's barcode and automatically launch a BitTorrent download of the film. Who could possibly object? (43)
(Examiner) Interesting George Harrison's kid helps others play Beatles tunes on Rock Band. Too bad no one helped Julian Lennon (14)
(Telegraph) Hero Global warming "will save millions of lives" (109)
(Mirror.co.uk) Obvious Apple to release iPhone 3.0, fresh wave of smug, next week (123)
(AP) Unlikely Old and busted: Global warming. New hotness: Global Dimming (69)
(Some Cathode Ray Tube) Interesting University of Iowa claims to have invented broadcast TV. So the next time you're forced to watch "Gary Unmarried," "Lost," "Grey's Anatomy," or "Two and a Half Men..." remember, you can blame Iowa (51)
(London Times) Interesting Scientists figure out how to read people's thoughts using brain scans. Submitter wants steak (25)
(Wired) Scary Department of Homeland Security appoints Microsoft exec to secure government computers. Well, I guess it's hard to hack into a bunch of BSOD's (65)
(PhysOrg.com) Obvious Sirius XM Radio planning to stream to iPhones and iPods. iSuck it, Zune owners (74)
(The Inquirer) Unlikely Internet Explorer 8 may be the last version of IE to be developed (62)
(BBC) Scary International Space Station evacuated in its moment of triumph (142)
(McClatchy) Interesting "Scientists harness anti-matter, ordinary matter's 'evil twin'." Anti-matter seen sly stroking it's goatee and giving scientists the finger (52)
(AMC) Obvious Why movies based on video games suck. First, the obvious: Because Uwe Boll directs them (166)
(Yahoo) Stupid Watchdog group claims Nintendo is no longer family-friendly and losing sight of its initial audience; initial audience clings to Zelda games, struggles to breathe underneath pile of family-friendly shovelware (119)
(C|Net) Scary New report reveals that ▓▓▓▓▓ on the internet is unfortunately still [REDACTED] and that a lot of governments still ▓▓▓▓▓▓ unfavorable content (24)
(Starpulse) Followup Stephen Colbert lobbies voters to vote for him so that NASA will name a room of the space station after him. Now for the good news: he's currently winning the contest (70)
(London Times) Interesting Scientists in the U.S. invent a battery that can recharge in seconds, improve Philadelphia fans' aim (45)
(SFGate) Asinine Attention San Francisco: You have 91 years to move everything five feet higher (95)
(ICNetwork) Weird Born under a bad sign: New species of tree named after the sign that the first known specimen bore for many years: No Parking (20)

Wed March 11, 2009
(Some Guy) Interesting Apple orders 10-inch touch screens for mystery product. Fanbois rejoicing from deep within their Mom's basement (164)
(AP) Followup Shuttle Discovery launch delayed due to gas leak. NASA scientists seen carrying large amounts of duct tape (66)
(Kotaku) Amusing Old School and Busted: Guitar Hero. New School Hotness: DJ Hero. Yeaaaaaaaahhhhhh boyyyyyyyyy (81)
(Some Guy) Cool Twittering encouraged in church. Submitter still afraid of being text-communicated (61)
(Oregon Live) Weird Obsessed professor and his wife claim to have discovered that one of Leonardo da Vinci's famous anatomical drawings hides startling portrait of (a) Jesus (b) MLK (c) da Vinci himself (148)
(Science Daily) Cool Cheaper than Paxil and tastes better crushed up and sprinkled on peanuts: Salt may be nature's antidepressant (53)
(MSNBC) Spiffy Mars Phoenix lander may have photographed liquid water (70)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Dumbass A man breaks into your home. What's the first thing to do? Twitter about it, of course (61)
(Engadget) Cool Apple fanboys rejoice as a new piece of techno-jewelry is on the market. And this one talks to you, because lord knows girls won't (204)
(TechEBlog) Cool Lewis Hamilton uses iPhone to control real Formula 1 car (30)
(Cleveland) Interesting Testers needed for new gel that boosts the libido of post-menopausal women after it is rubbed into their arm. Male version that is rubbed in elsewhere has been available for years under the generic names Jergens and Vaseline Intensive Care (51)
(C|Net) Obvious Once upon a time, Nokia was the unquestioned #1 player in the cell phone world. Now they're trying to figure out how to stay relevant even though Apple and Crackberry addicts are purchasing their competitor's phones (99)
(Spaceflight Now) Cool Space shuttle launch discussion thread; Discovery scheduled for 9:20pm ET launch (47)
(BBC) Cool I for one welcome our new vampire fish overlords. Fangs for not eating me (16)
(Space) Interesting China plans to launch manned space station in 2010 to study pollution's effect on environment. Just kidding, it's a military outpost (55)
(Breitbart.com) Fail Google adds a new feature to their Docs app, a bug that makes them accessable to everyone (13)
(CNN) Scary When Glaciers Attack (video) (32)
(CNN) Interesting Scientists proposing "floating city"; Andrew Ryan says they're doing it wrong (62)
(C|Net) Interesting The hottest music player on the download circuit was made by a 14 year-old and his father (28)
(Washington Post) Asinine Advanced Creation Studies class from Liberty University visits Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, whines "There's nothing balanced here. It's completely, 100 percent evolution-based." (1247)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Scientists is learning that how we be using verbs, are essential to memory and behavior (25)

Tue March 10, 2009
(Daily Mail) Interesting Scientists can now make a woman 'glow' instead of 'sweat.' Next up: making farts smell like roses (198)
(C|Net) Dumbass Apple refuses latest Twitter client for iPhone because people are using profanity on Twitter. No, really (42)
(Science Daily) Cool Scientists move a step closer to artificial life with the creation of synthetic ribosomes. Stock prices just shot up for the Tyrell Corporation (93)
(Some Sadist) Sick Rubik's Cube? Child's play. Rubik's Revenge? For idiots. Rubik 5x5? Throw it in your baby's crib. Meet Petaminx, a 12-sided Rubik puzzle with 975 parts and 1,212 individual squares (68)
(The Register) Ironic The same government that wants to collect every citizen's DNA is worried about the privacy implications of Google's Latitude (38)
(Discover) Cool But can it do the fandango? Bismillach no (37)
(AP) Obvious Scientists now say that sea levels will rise twice as fast as previously thought. It must be Tuesday (99)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Strange Rabbi says playing 'Call of Duty' helped him conquer his fear of Nazis. Wants 'Jewish mother' game next (175)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Prince Charles accused of selling a quack "detox" treatment to gullible Brits who believe in such nonsense as homeopathy and dentistry (229)
(Science Daily) Spiffy Researchers use "quantum doughnuts" to freeze and release light at will (50)
(I Heart Chaos) Cool Whether you're studying chemistry or trying to out-geek your friends, it's always handy to have a periodic table of video game characters (47)
(C|Net) Interesting Computer analyst says Microsoft should have Windows 7 complete by this summer. This means you can expect to see it in stores sometime around 2017 (116)
(NYPost) Interesting Pharmaceutical researcher to appear on "Good Morning America" this week to warn about the dangers of not drinking. "A lot of research shows that people who drink moderately flat-out live longer than those who don't" (138)
(Den Of Geek) Scary UK government launches ad campaign to raise awareness of rising obesity levels. By basically telling all gamers that they're going to die (26)
(Reuters) Cool BMW researching a way to incorporate rocket science into cars. It's not as cool as you think, but cool nonetheless (20)

Mon March 09, 2009
(Yahoo) Interesting The average cell phone call costs $3.02 per minute (125)
(MSNBC) Dumbass "I do worry about the health risks and the older I get, the more I worry about wrinkles. But then I'll see a sign with a place that advertises $19 a month for unlimited tanning and I'll think, 'Wow, what a bargain'" (44)
(Vator.tv) Scary Wikioogle (23)
(Daily Mail) Spiffy New search engine will, "answer factual questions accurately, like the ship's computer in Star Trek." Coloured with an unintelligible British dialect (56)
(Vator.tv) Obvious 66% of people are on social networks. 100% of people still on porn (38)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting NASA researchers design hydrokinetic energy transfer system, look forward to 25 hour day (29)
(TC Palm) Dumbass Just what the filthy rich need -- a place to super-poke their filthy rich friends (137)
(New Scientist) Interesting Men may not notice a woman's new haircut because they suffer from "hair blindness." Either that or they're staring at her knockers (113)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Archaeologists unearth grave of Italian woman buried with a brick in her mouth, meaning she was either a vampire or someone's mother-in-law (55)
(Chicago Tribune) Misc Yelp website accused of PLACING POSITIVE REVIEWS in the forefront, and (negative reviews in the back) (52)
(Telegraph) Scary Expert warns the UK is in danger of becoming an "ecological desert", presumably in addition to a "culinary" and "dental-care" desert (76)
(Some Guy) Interesting Forget the mousetrap, someone invented a better homeless shopping cart (76)
(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Interesting Professor who served as an adviser on the "Watchmen" film explains superhero physics, what the sticky substance that shoots out of Spider-man is really made of (46)
(New Scientist) Interesting Scientists to isolate 6 people for 105 days to test endurance for trip to Mars. Apparently they have never met a World of Warcraft fan or they'd save a lot of time  T-Shirt (84)
(Canada.com) Amusing Ford unveils futuristic MAV (Multi-Activity Vehicle), a concept minivan designed to help soccer moms/replicants transport new life to games in offworld colonies (33)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Behold the first practical, Web-based, secure, verifiable voting system. It's so good, I gave it 5 stars twice (29)
(Some Guy) Interesting If browsers were women. Subby likes I.E. (67)
(PhysOrg.com) Cool Scientists discover a novel way to rearrange the molecular structure of ice, making it more stable to seed clouds. If you read Cat's Cradle, you know what this means (87)

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