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Sun April 12, 2009
(VentureBeat) Interesting From the Book of Apple 4:11, "And on the following Sunday, when his followers went to pray beside his bed, they found he was not there, but had risen, and he said to them, 'Do not be afraid, for I know you need a netbook'" (55)
(London Times) Obvious Jeremy Clarkson: "If motorcyclists want people to spot them more easily, here's an idea. Buy a car" (217)
(Some Guy) Obvious YouTube realizes it faces its biggest crisis ever: user generated crap which dominates the system costs money to host and serve. Fark admins sneer at the n00bs and their "realizations" (57)
(London Times) Stupid Headline: "One in four at risk of cannabis psychosis." Article: Cannabis does not increase the risk of psychosis (49)
(Boston Globe) Obvious Is breathing car and diesel exhaust bad for your health? Stay tuned for a shocking new report from Tufts University researchers (19)
(C|Net) Interesting Original Skype owners who sold their company to Ebay four years ago for $2.6 billion are now looking to buy it back for a measly $2 billion. You submitted this over VOIP (23)
(Daily Star) Obvious New generation of stealth fighter jets don't work in hot climates. But that's OK, because so few of the world's wars are in hot places (69)
(The New York Times) Asinine "Major cable systems in the United States might be able to increase the speed of their broadband service by five to 10 times right away. They might not need to charge more for it than they do now and still make just as much money." (151)
(MSNBC) Scary Galapagos volcano may hurt wildlife. If only there were a theory on how they might adapt  T-Shirt (36)
(Some Wilted Banana) Interesting GPS equipped cell phones may help third world farmers identify crop diseases. Banana wilt (11)

Sat April 11, 2009
(Some Guy) Cool Tesla coils up and wins 241 mile race. Watt a charge (70)
(Wired) Unlikely New uses for old nuclear bombs? Demolition and natural gas production, among others. Can you say NIMBY? (43)
(Ars Technica) Spiffy Using donut lasers to create better chips. Mmmm, donut chips (8)
(Yahoo) Obvious Why is Linux losing ground to Windows XP in netbooks? Well, it might have something to do with the fact that users don't like being told to recompile code to get their wi-fi card to work (139)
(Telegraph) Obvious Average MySpace user? "It's Kris, a 16-year-old from Wisconsin with jet-black hair, long fingernails and a crush on Marilyn Manson. He never finished college, lives with his parents and goes by the screen name TorturedHeart77" (47)
(Nature) Cool Scientists learn to bend and shape laser beams... without the use of Pink Floyd music or psychedelics (21)
(Engadget) Stupid Japan plans to implement billboards with facial recognition that personalize advertisements. In related news, every billboard in Japan now features tentacle rapists wearing schoolgirl outfits (34)
(Kansas State University) Obvious Researchers prove speed limit signs are just a waste of money (40)
(Some coding nerd) Interesting Really cool animations illustrating how various sorting algorithms work with different initial conditions (51)
(C|Net) Interesting Microsoft cancels plans to build bar on campus due to severe recession. In other news, working at Microsoft must be so bad you have to get drunk on-site just to make it through the day (24)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting "Jerry Brand has spent the past decade lovingly tending the world's largest collection of pond scum" Sounds like a fungi (9)
(eCanada) Interesting Brown fat may help adults lose weight faster. Included in this article is a handy photo of a fat person in case you haven't been near a Wal-Mart recently (32)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Boy born with 'permanent hangover' finally cured by doctors. Drew intrigued, would like to subscribe to their newsletter (17)
(London Times) Obvious Thanks to eBay, it's now easier than ever to deal in stolen goods. A+++ would fence again (33)

Fri April 10, 2009
(Some Nerds) Weird You've mastered Guitar Hero. You've rocked out to Rock Band. You've squeezed one out to Accordion Hero II. Now get ready for the ultimate music experience: Oh-No Banjo (43)
(Boston Globe) Cool MIT makes a gardening robot that tends plants, finds terra fauna  T-Shirt (43)
(NASA) Cool Today's APOD shows pic of ISS taken from ground, complete with spacewalking astronaut (27)
(MSNBC) Asinine We have secretly replaced their SUV's with "hybrid" SUV's that cost a lot more and only get slightly better gas mileage... let's watch and see if anyone notices (155)
(UPI) Interesting Man trying to claim disability payments because he claims a car accident left him "too fatigued to work" ordered to turn over his computer so investigators can see how much time he spends on Facebook every day (132)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Asinine Microsoft: Silly Rabbit, Macs Are For Kids (490)
(eWeek) Asinine Step 1: Cap people's "flat rate" $30 internet to 100GB/month. Step 2: Offer "Unlimited" internet for $150/month. Step 3: Profit, lots and lots of profit (190)
(Telegraph) Cool We've all met people, mostly women, who say they can just inhale chocolate. Well, now they really can (82)
(Google) Unlikely The Twitter of Christ compels you (27)
(AP) Obvious Scientists start to unlock secrets of bird flight after observing previously unknown appendages tentatively titled "wings" (21)
(C|Net) Scary Just how insecure is the electric grid? Surprisingly, thanks to utility companies' insistence on providing Internet access to critical components, the answer is "disturbingly" (98)
(Boston Globe) Scary The Pentagon's latest superweapon: fluorescent rodent feces (8)
(News.com.au) Sad "Flamingos are exceptionally hard to sex" (45)
(Kotaku) Fail Gamestop's business plan of allowing employees to open new games, play them at home, and then sell them as new may be *GASP* illegal (132)
(Engadget) Amusing Nintendo of American president laughs off rumors of a price cut for the Wii, goes back to swimming in vault of gold doubloons (42)

Thu April 09, 2009
(Reuters) Cool Honda unveils dog-friendly car with bed, fan, ramp. Steak dispenser option coming for 2010 model (67)
(Wired) Wheaton Wil's Twitter arguments with iTunes brought to life in the geekiest way imaginable (47)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Quantum physicist who became Anglican priest explains invisible sky beings, resurrection and how humans would shrivel up if they ever saw God (239)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Scientists unveil wearable robot allowing amputees to stand erect, hunt for Sarah Connor (pics) (56)
(Yahoo) Spiffy France does not surrender to music industry, killing a bill that would have cut off Internet access to anyone accused of illegal downloading (21)
(Wired) Sad Dungeons & Dragons Co-Creator Dave Arneson fails saving throw (151)
(Labspaces.net) Interesting Researcher records sound of erupting volcano, speeds it way up, identifies the sound of the Red October's caterpillar drive. Or something like that (41)
(CNN) Interesting Worried about global warming? How about making an oven that works on solar energy? Oh, and it's made out of a cardboard box (65)
(C|Net) Dumbass On the same day AP goes after news aggregators, they also send a letter accusing a country radio station of copyright violation for posting their official youtube channel's video on their website. Whoops (52)
(Engadget) Spiffy Sure, this cat door may look like a cool idea, but that's only until you realise that we're now one step away from cats producing their own LOLcats - and then what do they need us for? (32)
(CBC) Scary Anonymity is becoming a thing of the past, says this article submitted by GooberMcFly  T-Shirt (36)
(Gizmodo) Cool The case mod that all of you who have filthy desks need (53)
(TechEBlog) Cool If Sonic the Hedgehog was a first person shooter, this is what it would look like (40)
(Toronto Star) Spiffy Leader of zombie army says her zombies would be pleased to attack a Google streetview car (25)
(News.com.au) Weird Ikea to open new store on the moon (35)
(LA Times) Cool 50 years later, Project Oxcart has been declassified. True stories of Area 51 (114)
(Fox News) Scary Flux-compression generator could take out a commercial airliner, but only if it's traveling at 88 mph (150)
(Some Guy) Hero More and more people are rebelling against the social pressures of Facebook and Twitter. "I just don't think people need to know that much about my life" (93)
(Autoblog.com) Interesting Scion introduces new car at New York Auto Show that is so tiny it looks like a rejected Star Wars helmet (65)

Wed April 08, 2009
(USA Today) Cool "Ninja suit" helps turtle swim. Leonardo, Michaelangelo unavailable for comment (27)
(Live Science) Obvious Your little bundle of joy is actually a little bundle of dissatisfaction and depression. Here comes the science (39)
(AFP) Obvious Finally, doctors admit that heartburn medication is not effective for asthma. Tacos don't treat cancer. And hair weaves do not improve prostate health (14)
(CNN) Scary Old and busted: flash mobs. The new hotness: Twitter riots (19)
(New Scientist) Stupid Media: Global warming will kill your dog. That and youth culture (53)
(Tech Dirt) Interesting While everybody's breaking their heads trying to figure out a business plan for file-sharing, Frank Zappa already had an interesting suggestion back in 1983 (64)
(Slate) Obvious Are elevators ruining the environment? It's not a simple answer, but they do have their ups and downs (50)
(Labspaces.net) Interesting Quick, what's 1/3 of 1/8 of 3/4? Dumbass (168)
(USA Today) Cool FCC begins work on a national plan to extend adequate porn access to even the most remote and underfunded areas of the nation (65)
(C|Net) Interesting Your hand will likely be used as a TV remote in the future. Hopefully you can personalize the gestures so you won't just be giving American Idol the finger for no reason now (19)
(PhysOrg.com) Obvious Why nonsmokers cost society more than smokers, yet don't get taxed to the hilt for it (152)
(Some Guy) Obvious Researchers take long break from the cancer lab to produce a study proving that one-half of all women suffer from muffin-top (32)
(Telegraph) Cool Scientists unveil lawn-mower controlled by Wii remote. Your tortoise wants invincibility cheat code (17)
(Some Guy) Cool Man's heart comes to stop. Collaborate and listen, Ice saved his ass with a brand new invention  T-Shirt (65)
(Rochester D&C) Cool Well, I guess you can't say he's all thumbs (21)
(Reuters) Misc "Our results strongly suggest that wild chimpanzees exchange meat for sex, and do so on a long-term basis," Your chimpanzee wants steak (60)

Tue April 07, 2009
(Treehugger) Scary NASA releases a ton of animations and video showing the current melting of sea ice in hopes that anyone will pay attention (281)
(BBC) Spiffy British future ambulance concepts include interchangeable pods and ejection sEEEAAAYOWWWW (15)
(YouTube) Cool Remember those spiderbots from that crappy 80's Tom Selleck movie, "Runaway"? Yeah, they're real (63)
(Metro) Obvious New "super-fast" web will create 25,000 jobs, presumably in the porn industry (32)
(Metro) Obvious Woman develops "phantom third arm" after stroke that she uses just like a real one. Three-legged submitter doesn't see what the big deal is (50)
(Washington Post) Stupid Not news: High school girl takes her birth control pill at lunch. News: Gets suspended as a result. Fark: For five days longer than if she had been high on LSD (184)
(Discover) Cool Hubble spots a streetlight (16)
(The Raw Story) Obvious @Astro_Mike on Twitter: "Re-entry going really well, very excited to be coming back to earth and OMFG IT BURNS IT BUR" (23)
(NPR) Cool Hidden ingredient in new, greener battery: a virus (22)
(Google) Unlikely Windmills off the east coast of the US could replace the electricity currently provided by coal-fired plants, also get rid of those damn seagulls that snatch your ice cream cone (141)
(Yahoo) Cool NASA publishes new high energy x-ray photo of dying stars that look identical to a hand reaching throughout space. Snopes better go ahead and knock this one out before it even starts (105)
(PhysOrg.com) Obvious Scientists trace the cause of the grapeflower scent to the male parts of the flowers, presumably because the female parts wash frequently (7)
(Telegraph) Spiffy Bacon sandwiches cure hangovers. Here comes the delicious science (57)
(The New York Times) Followup GM announces the Dork mobile (OK they call it PUMA), just in case there was still some small chance of you ever getting laid (118)
(Daily Mail) Amusing Google Street View cars film everything, including a Street View car being pulled over by police for driving in a bus lane. Owned (28)
(BBC) Obvious "Women may be better at sniffing out biologically relevant information from underarm sweat, a US study suggests." This is bad news for you, stinkpot (23)
(Global Security.org) Cool Satellite image of North Korea's missile before its successful Pacific Ocean landing (44)
(USA Today) Interesting C.o.m.i.n.g s.o.o.n t.o a.n i.n.t.e.r.n.e.t. n.e.a.r. y.o.u.: m.o.r.e. d.o.t.s (80)
(Google) Spiffy French hospital performs face, hand transplant, making facepalms a whole lot easier (50)
(Guardian.com) Unlikely Finally the question is asked: "Does YouTube actually make any money?" (44)
(Engadget) Interesting Ninety-six percent of netbooks run Windows, leaving the remaining four percent running without problems (141)

Mon April 06, 2009
(Jalopnik) Cool GM, Segway to unveil new two-wheeled urban vehicle tomorrow. Seriously (81)
(Yahoo) Obvious The EU is now requiring that every email in its domain to be cached (126)
(BBC) Cool Facebook, a girl in Maryland, the White House, the British Embassy and local police work together to stop an attempted suicide in the UK (104)
(Engadget) Fail Michael Bay at an LG Transformers 2 promotion: "I don't know anything about mobile phones. In fact, look at my phone -- it's a thirty-nine dollar Samsung." (72)
(ZDNet) Obvious It's Official: Vista is the new Windows ME (156)
(Legacy.com) Sad Richard Petnel, maintainer of Ad Block Plus, dead at 57. He was YOU'VE WON, CLICK HERE  T-Shirt (54)
(Gawker) Obvious Facebook users are revolting (60)
(Science Daily) Cool 1/30th of an ounce of new nano material has the surface area of 30 football fields, may speed the production of ultra-clean fuel cell vehicles powered by hydrogen (49)
(MSNBC) Dumbass Pregnant columnist gets parenting advice from Facebook. Quiz says that baby has 85% chance of going into therapy (74)
(MSNBC) Spiffy Scientists discover why scratching relieves an itch. Still no cure for, oh, a little lower, ahhhhhh (25)
(Yahoo) Interesting Single parenting is an aberration inconsistent with evolutionary theory and nature's intent. So, please think about that when you consider divorce (265)
(Vator.tv) Obvious Twitter is for old people (46)
(Chicago Tribune) Obvious Environmentalists hate the Tata Nano micro-car because it's cheap and will soon be common in India, filling the air with more than the fumes of curry (130)
(Gizmodo) Scary Chinese now have a super missile that is undetectable, has a random flight path, and can sink a Supercarrier in one hit. Its name "The Dong" (122)
(Wired) Interesting Science fiction terms that passed into public use. A short article that can be read in less than twelve parsecs (82)
(Toronto Star) Fail Dubai. A lesson in how not to build a city (252)
(Google) Scary Japanese child robot mimicks infant lear..HOLY CRAP THAT THING IS FREAKY (101)
(Washington Post) Sad Poor people become brain damaged. Here comes the science (128)

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