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Sun May 03, 2009
(Daily Mail) Obvious "There must surely a better way to pass the time than typing a message to a hundred or even a million anonymous followers to tell them you're bored." In related news, submitter is bored (37)
(Canada.com) Interesting A Canadian article about the ten most interesting plants in the world and not one mention of pot? Unpossible (25)
(Discover) Cool Historic space mission to reveal whether the big bang was a singular event, whether it's cyclical, whether it resulted from brane collision, or whether it was crafted by his noodly appendage (105)
(YouTube) Cool Time lapse HD video of ISS overtaking Space Shuttle in orbit (27)
(ABC News) Cool Wolves in Rockies upgraded from "endangered" to "good eatin'" (55)
(Slate) Interesting It's 2040, and a rogue nation starts geoengineering. Why it might work, and why it might be a bad idea (53)
(American Thinker) Interesting Thanks to Li-Ion batteries, electric cars could end up doing more environmental damage than their traditional combustion engine counterparts. So don't be Mad-a-Gas-Car (102)
(PCWorld) Interesting Apple to invent Netbooks (159)
(Yahoo) Asinine Maps of medieval Japan posted to Google Earth stir fears that they can easily be used to identify people who live in "burakumin" neighborhoods, whose residents still face prejudice and discrimination today (121)
(BBC) Interesting Ancient tsunami hit New York. This IS a repeat from 2,300 years ago (22)

Sat May 02, 2009
(New Scientist) PSA Eating a vulture won't clear a bad case of syphilis (50)
(UK Spectator) Unlikely "Creationism comes out of religion while Intelligent Design comes out of science." Yep. But it's a science in which unicorns fly and fart sparkles (379)
(Some Nerd) Interesting Linux market share hits 1% (131)
(Some Guy) Cool Voyeurs take note: Breathtaking gigapixel city skyline panoramas will keep you busy for hours. Hitchcock would approve. Just watch out if you see Raymond Burr staring back at you (96)
(IEEE Spectrum) Cool 25 microchips that changed the world, powered the hunt for Sarah Connor (47)
(3 News New Zealand) Interesting News: Someone still uses Hotmail. Fark: It's al-Qaeda (50)
(AdBlock Blog) Asinine Suck: NoScript hijacks Firefox upgrade tool to rack up page hits. Suck 3000: NoScript disables AdBlock to ensure maximize ad exposure (104)
(Kotaku) Cool Coolest X-rated quiz you'll take all night (44)

Fri May 01, 2009
(Gawker) Video The most illegal-looking iPhone app ever (80)
(Computerworld) Scary Cloud computing is wonderful. However, swamp computing is a security nightmare (20)
(New Scientist) Weird Scientists discover sun damage can affect color of asteroids, thereby concealing their true ages. From submitter's exhaustive research at the pizza parlor, I thought asteroids didn't have color (28)
(The News & Observer (NC)) Spiffy Then: "That's bullcrap; there's no way soft tissue could survive 68 million years." Now: "80 million years? Totally" (97)
(BBC) Strange Youtube video helps man deliver baby, commenters most likely tell him to shove it back in (55)
(Daily Express) Obvious Computers are breeding a new generation of dumbasses with no handwriting skills (290)
(BBC) Cool Japanese discover that lithium in drinking water decreases people's suicide rates, increases lighting candles in a daze cause they found God (74)
(Denver Channel) Stupid Pentagon using Facebook and Twitter to recruit new employees, because if there's one thing the military needs it's someone who posts every minute detail of their life on the web  T-Shirt (81)
(Telegraph) Asinine Rock spotted on Mars (174)
(UPI) Spiffy Researchers develop wheelchair that can be controlled by the power of thought. "Get Beer" appears to be the most common user command (16)
(NASA) Interesting A NASA spacecraft gliding over the surface of Mercury has revealed that the planet's atmosphere, magnetosphere, and its geological past display greater levels of activity than scientists first suspected, much like Uranus (45)
(Daily Mail) PSA Scientists confirm that 14 species of parrot and one species of elephant can dance. Dogs, cats, and chimpanzees appear to have no sense of rhythm. Still no cure for H1N1 (88)

Thu April 30, 2009
(Daily Mail) Cool World's largest cave discovered in Vietnam. w/pics (114)
(Wired) Cool Coolest illusion you'll see today (60)
(Washington Post) Amusing Want to avoid Swine Flu? There is an app for that (18)
(PCWorld) Interesting Apple plans to design its own chips. You'll have to pay $1 for every extra Mhz and they'll process all the 1's but only half the 0's (113)
(Fox News) Interesting Experts warn that the Internet is running out of bandw  T-Shirt (116)
(Discover) Interesting My God... it *is* full of stars (108)
(London Times) Stupid Like arguing about religion? Like arguing about video games? You're gonna love this (370)
(Discover) Cool Scientists invent camera that takes 6 million photos in one second. Your iPhoto wants a mumu and a rag on a stick (40)
(CNN) Strange Some Geek creates a song based on the components of the H1N1 virus. Still not as catchy as "Baby, Can You Dig Your Man?" (link to mp3 file in article)  T-Shirt (71)
(ABC News) Interesting Ice chunk larger than the state of Rhode Island breaking off of the Antarctic shelf. Yay, Rhode Island's back as a unit of measurement  T-Shirt (116)
(Gizmodo) Fail Microsoft's new Windows 7 benchmarks alongside Vista. (with subliminal Fark plug) (167)
(Live Science) Scary Military concludes it's not easy to make a super hero, but people are plentiful: 10 bizzarro experiments that were conducted on humans (134)

Wed April 29, 2009
(New Scientist) Unlikely "If the effort that has gone into developing social networking sites goes into developing internet consciousness, it could happen within a decade " (53)
(NPR) Amusing Queen can help you wash your hands (42)
(BBC) Obvious America's cyber-security described as "childlike" and "embarassing" by security experts (92)
(Washington Post) Cool Google offers tool to search government websites for public data. That van outside your door is just Google Streetview (31)
(RedOrbit) Interesting Fargo, N.D., named "America's Cleanest City." Yah? Yah (49)
(Gizmodo) Fail "Best Buy Sells Customer a Large Brick In Place of a MacBook Pro. Literally." And there is a pic (319)
(SMH) Hero Game developer creates Mario Bros. clone to tell boss he is quiting, trying to lose virginity (55)
(Abc.net.au) Interesting Turns out humans aren't the only species in which the female will feign death to avoid having to have sex (43)

Tue April 28, 2009
(Yahoo) Interesting Apple and Verizon may be in talks to produce a device that might "shake up the tech industry." Insiders say it will be called the iPerbole  T-Shirt (84)
(Auto 123) Spiffy Ford takes a 2010 Fusion Hybrid and gets 1445 miles out of a tank of gas and averages 81.5 mpg. Other hybrids seen wetting themselves (129)
(ABC News) Interesting Researchers show genetic link to autism, which will be quickly refuted by Dr. Jennifer Ann McCarthy (79)
(io9) Stupid There is no such thing as a gay Jedi, according to "Star Wars: Old Republic" community manager: "thread closed" (179)
(Some Guy) Sad The Definitive Collection Of Awesomely Bad Wolverine Costumes (79)
(MSNBC) Dumbass 'Many hundreds' of kids may have swine flu, says New York City Health Commissioner. He also went on to yell "Fire" during this afternoon's matinee of Spam-a-lot (181)
(C|Net) Dumbass Apple 1984: Down with the man. Apple 2009: Obey (84)
(Space) Cool Behold, pictures of the oldest explosion ever recorded. Scientists estimate its age at some 13 billion years (130)
(The Consumerist) Cool With Circuit City dead, Monster Cable is now in trouble. And if they do file for bankruptcy, it will be the most overpriced bankruptcy ever (275)
(Guardian.com) Obvious "People need to weigh up the probabilities and make decisions for themselves. You are probably more likely to be hit by a UFO than to get swine flu" (87)
(Guardian.com) Sad Britain's only wind turbine plant to close. That blows (43)
(Wired) Interesting On this day in history, Schrödinger invented wave mechanics, or didn't, depending on whether you read the letter (114)
(Some Guy) Interesting Surgical masks won't protect you against swine flu, help you keep your dignity (107)
(AJC) Strange Old and busted: destroy the village in order to save it. New hotness: eat the chickens in order to save them from extinction (14)

Mon April 27, 2009
(Daily Mail) Cool British firefighters abandon old yellow helmets for futuristic Stormtrooper-like thermoplastic headgears (85)
(CBC) Obvious Researchers suggest MP3 player manufacturers limit the maximum volume. I said "MP3 PLAYER MANUFACTURERS SHOULD LIMIT THEIR DEVICES' MAXIMUM VOLUME (92)
(Google) Amusing Best... code comment... ever (204)
(New Scientist) Interesting Theory predicts lots of anti-matter in the universe. But where is it? After all, in a couple hundred years we're gonna need it for the Enterprise (42)
(Telegraph) Scary Cars with external hood airbags: Science: could save lives. Fark: could bounce pedestrians into trees (57)
(ZDNet) Cool GE develops DVD that can hold 500 gigabites, half your Not safe for work folder (88)
(WOWT) Fail If you're going to advertise "The Ultimate House Party" on Facebook, don't put in the caveat "Don't worry about the cops, because I have a police scanner so I will have the heads-up if they come." (99)
(BBC) Interesting Saving the planet, by the numbers - which household strategies work and which don't. Farkers dissapointed to learn that drinking beer and then burning your own methane is not listed (45)
(Engadget) Cool Looks like if the robots ever catch up with Sarah Connor, they may spontaneously break into jazz improv (20)
(Some Guy) Strange "There's no reason to stop interacting online simply because you're dead." Wait, what? (89)
(BBC) Interesting Researchers discover that childhood eczema can be treated with bleach baths, something they are tentatively calling the "Michael Jackson treatment" (32)
(Slashdot) Obvious I would have TOTALLY submitted this with a better headline if I had access to some Adderall or Provigil (60)
(Telegraph) Cool Viagra rival can be rubbed directly into skin...porn stocks skyrocket (60)
(Fox News) Cool Army double laser could take out bombs, trucks, be mounted on heads of sharks (42)
(Some Guy) Interesting After failing to find Sarah Connor, Skynet is setting its sights on an easier target: Alex Trebek (45)

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