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Sun June 14, 2009
Source     Fark Headline Comments
(NOVA) Interesting The story of two brilliant mathematicians, a unicorn, and a homemade supercomputer  (pbs.org) (25)
(Canada.com) Spiffy Quebecois shuttle astronaut to greet Vancouver ISS scientist, the first time 2 Canadians have been in space at once. Welcome to 1965, Canucks  (canada.com) (39)
(AFP) Dumbass Italy thinks Lithuanian wood pellets contain chemical from combustion in nuclear power plants. Subby thinks some reporters skipped physics and chemistry  (news.yahoo.com) (32)
(Fox News) Cool Apparently too young to remember "Simpsons Did It" episode, 14-year-old makes astronomical discovery  (foxnews.com) (41)
(Some retrogeek) Cool How invasive and ubiquitous is Twitter? Now your Commodore 64 has a client  (vandenbrande.com) (30)
(Slashdot) Silly Microsoft seeks Hot-or-Not patent  (yro.slashdot.org) (36)
(BBC) Unlikely "The Bible says God created the Earth in six days and we flat believe that. There are over 100 ways science is able to look at the Earth and 90 say it is thousands of years old - only 10 say it's real old."  (news.bbc.co.uk) (436)
(TechEBlog) Cool When you don't have a guitar amplifier, use tesla coils  (techeblog.com) (21)
(ABC News) Stupid Gov. Schwarzenegger pushes for digital textbooks, because we don't spend enough time in front of LCDs  (abcnews.go.com) (110)
(Washington Post) Followup U.S. emissions bill is criticized abroad. U.S. blames it on the dog  (washingtonpost.com) (46)

Sat June 13, 2009
(BBC) Interesting Scientists disprove "urban myth" that fingerprints improve grip  (news.bbc.co.uk) (54)
(Google) Dumbass 700,000 people called the FCC digital switch over hot line this week to find out why the Matlock box was not working  (google.com) (90)
(IGN) Spiffy In perhaps the greatest shock of the century, the Ghostbusters game does not suck  (ps3.ign.com) (145)
(Computerworld) PSA Moore's law is a prediction of circuit density, not CPU performance, Mr. Ignorant Whiny Computerworld Tech Writer Guy  (computerworld.com) (53)
(Some Guy) Obvious Jehovah's Witnesses more likely to die in childbirth. Also more likely to be standing in doorway in event of earthquake  T-Shirt  (sciencecentric.com) (83)
(New Scientist) Obvious In this section, we discuss existing research into red-black trees, vacuum tubes, and courseware  (newscientist.com) (20)
(CSMonitor) Scary Just how safe are new composite materials being used to replace traditional metal fuselages in older airplanes? Everyone would like to know, but one of the leading experiments is apparently lying at the bottom of the Atlantic  (csmonitor.com) (69)
(Scientific American) Spiffy In a groundbreaking new study of genetic and archaeological data, scientists have traced the evolution and origin of the "housecat" from "Felis silvestris lybica" all the way to LOLus CATus... just in time for Caturday  (scientificamerican.com) (425)
(Wired) Cool Video of the closest any of us will ever get to flying in a Blue Angel  (wired.com) (52)
(Science Daily) Obvious Study finds most Farkers doomed to dementia  (sciencedaily.com) (28)
(Dallas News) Interesting Texas shakes up California by creating their own earthquakes  (dallasnews.com) (13)
(Science Now) Interesting If you were wondering why, molecularly speaking, hair goes gray, today is your lucky day  (sciencenow.sciencemag.org) (25)
(Science Daily) Interesting Attention fatties: Vitamin D levels in the body at the start of a low-calorie diet predict weight loss success, a new study has found  (sciencedaily.com) (31)

Fri June 12, 2009
(Some Guy) Interesting Warp-Speed Raindrops  (sciencenow.sciencemag.org) (18)
(Some Guy) Interesting Scientists discover how cells tell time. In related news, it takes a team of scientists to look at a phone display  (news-medical.net) (9)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting It's like the Hatfields and the McCoys of the Great Lakes, but better tasting with butter and garlic  (physorg.com) (12)
(The Register) Unlikely On June 16th, Opera are going to "reinvent the web". Either that or fire their marketing team, whatever  (theregister.co.uk) (62)
(ZDNet) Interesting "The Internet 'Absolutely' Will Become a 'Paid System'. Time Projection: Within 5 Years"  (blogs.zdnet.com) (97)
(Some Guy) Interesting Crocoduck discovered  (friendlyatheist.com) (67)
(Yahoo) Amusing Hi, we're scientists and we'd like to take this time to talk to you about the dangers of Summertime sex  (news.yahoo.com) (45)
(Wired) Interesting The US sucks at the internet, but help may be on the way  (wired.com) (46)
(New Scientist) Obvious Why we love Star Trek  (newscientist.com) (88)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Conference speaker skips middle school class to draw penises for attendees  (geekgirlsguide.com) (30)
(Some Guy) Strange "It is constructed of a soft, flesh-like gel ... when ignored, it lays limp, breathing softly, until a human hand approaches. It then stops breathing and grows rigid."  (geekologie.com) (52)
(BBC) Sad Gone Dasher, gone Dancer, gone Prancer, gone Vixen  (news.bbc.co.uk) (19)
(Wired) Interesting Irrigation system can grow crops with salt water, brawndo  (wired.co.uk) (56)
(SeattlePI) Interesting Defying its anti-commercial reputation, Craigslist is expected to rake in 100 million roses this year, the most ever for the classified advertising site  (seattlepi.com) (48)
(Slashdot) Cool After eight years of clearly incompetent doctors, sick high school student gets a microscope and solves the mystery herself  (science.slashdot.org) (111)
(PhysOrg.com) Fail Good: Microsoft giving free real time virus scanning to all its customers. Bad: By routing all user traffic through their datacenter  (physorg.com) (88)
(Wired) Cool The coolest story explaining how maple seeds ride a self-generated tornado vortex that you'll see today (with embedded youtube video)  (wired.com) (25)
(BBC) Obvious Every PC in China could be at risk of being taken over by "malicious hackers" because of "flaws" in compulsory government software  (news.bbc.co.uk) (33)
(Discovery) Fail Good news: Warp drives are theoretically possible. Bad news: Warp drives could easily compress the ship and Earth into a singularity  (dsc.discovery.com) (125)

Thu June 11, 2009
(Wired) Scary On the eve of the digital TV transition, millions still unprepared  (wired.com) (177)
(Wired) Cool Scientists create precursor to life. But did they do it in a jar of peanut butter?  (wired.com) (77)
(BBC) Interesting Good news: Scientists have found a way to mitigate earthquakes. Bad news: It's hurricanes  (news.bbc.co.uk) (20)
(London Times) Cool French court shoots down proposed new anti-piracy laws by deciding that internet access is a "basic human right"  (technology.timesonline.co.uk) (35)
(MSNBC) Interesting Orgasms, bad aim can make her nose stuffy  (msnbc.msn.com) (81)
(Cybernetics News) Cool Scientists at Walter Reed develop world's most advanced cybernetic knee. Here comes the Cylons  (cyberneticsnews.com) (27)
(Some Skeptic) Asinine British scientist sued by chiropractors for pointing out that chiropractic medicine won't cure childhood colic and sleeping problems  (senseaboutscience.org.uk) (63)
(Scientific American) Cool Pictures of the Kaguya probe crashing onto the moon  (scientificamerican.com) (67)
(Some Guy) Interesting American chestnut trees may mitigate climate change. Here comes the science  (eurekalert.org) (112)
(Gizmodo) Unlikely R2-D2 was found in Star Trek, all evidence shows that it was shopped  (gizmodo.com) (142)
(Computerworld) Interesting The Internet has created 1.2 million jobs, with a few of them not even related to porn  (computerworld.com) (18)
(KTVU) Cool In an unusual turn of events, a rare sea creature is captured and NOT immediately eaten by locals  (ktvu.com) (27)
(Engadget) Video The coolest lawnmower you will see, well forever  (engadget.com) (71)
(Science Daily) Interesting Scientists explain the origin of dog's "guilty look". Your dog ate your steak  (sciencedaily.com) (45)
(CNN) Interesting What are the most dangerous search terms on the Internet? The answers may surprise you  (cnn.com) (82)
(NPR) Cool Not turning off certain genes can cause a chicken to grow alligator teeth. Suck it creationists  (npr.org) (257)
(Fox News) Obvious Fox News accidentally gives itself away: "Human Intelligence Causes Cancer"  (foxnews.com) (52)
(The Register) Interesting Betelgeuse is just this star, ya know?  (theregister.co.uk) (95)
(Gizmodo) Cool Overclocked Orange. The coolest case mod you and your droogs will see all day  (i.gizmodo.com) (63)
(BBC) Interesting All that time learning the Periodic Table? Yeah that was wasted thanks to some Germans and "ununbium"  (news.bbc.co.uk) (72)
(New Scientist) Scary Mt. St. Helens may just have one last hurrah in her  (newscientist.com) (55)

Wed June 10, 2009
(AFP) Scary Earth-Venus smash-up possible in 3.5 billion years. Typical women drivers  (news.yahoo.com) (39)
(New Scientist) Cool Seven things that don't make sense about gravity. Apparently the earth sucks  (newscientist.com) (86)
(C|Net) Interesting Crowning Quicken the winner, Microsoft to end their first "GREEN" initiative and LIGHTen their list of software products  (news.cnet.com) (21)
(Some Guy) Strange Japanese residents can expect cloudy skies today with a chance of tadpoles  (mdn.mainichi.jp) (12)
(Engadget) Fail "Obama makes a grave mistake" is it A) debt spending B) hookers c) a cell phone holster  (engadget.com) (73)
(YouTube) Cool Magnetic Tracking applied to Half Life 2? Yes please  (youtube.com) (73)
(Toronto Star) Spiffy City comes up with idea for alternate fuel source for vehicles. Turns out the idea is full of crap  (thestar.com) (26)
(C|Net) Fail Nokia fails to see what $700 cell phone might not be the best idea  (news.cnet.com) (77)
(Examiner) Cool For those about to rock, we solute you  (examiner.com) (24)
(AP) Interesting Global warming is breaking the wind  (hosted.ap.org) (39)
(Examiner) Amusing The Xbox 360's new motion-sensor technology "struggles with dark skinned people." Cue the Rev. Al Sharpton in 3, 2, 1  (examiner.com) (112)
(Engadget) Stupid Israeli military develops the most awkward military robot in recent memory that terrorists will notice from a mile away  (engadget.com) (55)
(Metro) Interesting Scientists discover that shining a really bright light in your eyes can combat impotence, sight  (metro.co.uk) (17)
(MSNBC) Interesting Firefly population going down faster than Heidi Montag on a tabloid reporter  (today.msnbc.msn.com) (64)
(New Scientist) Interesting Male hummingbirds break the speed record for fastest sex in the animal kingdom, a record which has stood since your conception  T-Shirt  (newscientist.com) (12)
(Slashdot) Interesting 15 km inflatable tower could carry people to edge of space, keep kids at birthday parties busy aaaaall day  (science.slashdot.org) (82)

Tue June 09, 2009
(Yahoo) Scary Biggest Black Hole ever Found in Nearby Galaxy. EVERYBODY PAN..I....................C  T-Shirt  (news.yahoo.com) (79)
(Some Serious Eater) Interesting Heinz unveils world's smallest microwave oven. It's USB-powered, so now you can burn popcorn right at your desk  (seriouseats.com) (81)
(Slashdot) Asinine All your DNS queries are belong to Comcast  (tech.slashdot.org) (64)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Skynet sleeper agent proposes terminating textbooks and replacing them with digital media  (guardian.co.uk) (38)
(CNN) Stupid Having resolved the rest of the planet's issues, CNN contemplate whether Myspace can make a comeback  (cnn.com) (46)
(TechCrunch.com) Plug Tech Crunch has a few Bing stickers left and will send you one. It's not a Guinness bar towel but you might actually get this one  (techcrunch.com) (59)
(New Scientist) Interesting If I'm reading this article right, scientists have finally figured out how to stop ladybugs from teabagging your wine  T-Shirt  (newscientist.com) (27)
(Big Storm Picture) Cool Farker is chasing with tornado research project "Vortex 2". With pics  (bigstormpicture.blogspot.com) (102)
(Yahoo) Interesting Watching TV before bedtime may lead to sleep deprivation. So that's why I'm submitting this at 5:15 AM  (news.yahoo.com) (29)
(UPI) Scary I ♥ ☠  (upi.com) (35)
(Some Guy) Amusing Fifteen of the most awful video games ever. With bonus video and slideshow-free goodness  (gunaxin.com) (238)
(Some Guy) Interesting SkyNet 1.0: Scientists building "brain bots" with artificial neurons that learn, retain memory, and develop individual personalities  (hplusmagazine.com) (28)
(MSNBC) Interesting Not news: moving gnus. News: rooted gnus  (msnbc.msn.com) (21)
(Google) Sad AT&T shutting down their Usenet servers effective July 15. Subby shakes tiny fist in geeky rage  (groups.google.com) (117)

Mon June 08, 2009
(Wired) Cool Begun, the OS wars have  (wired.com) (220)
(Fox News) Cool Remember a while back when people sued because Apple dropped the 8 GB iPhone price from $599 to $399? Those people are about to be $300 angrier  (foxnews.com) (84)
(Gizmodo) Obvious HA HA, you wasted your money on that 1080p you bought for Christmas  (i.gizmodo.com) (121)
(Gizmodo) Fail New iPhone software: MMS? Check. Tethering? Check. Available to AT&T customers? Well... about that  (i.gizmodo.com) (101)
(Boston Globe) Interesting New autism research tests reflexes by "banging" a patient's brain with a magnetic field. Plus, it's a great stress-releaser for the scientists  (boston.com) (33)
(News.com.au) Interesting Scientists develop GPS shoes to keep Alzheimers patients from wandering off and getting lost. Because Alzheimers patients never, ever take off their shoes  (news.com.au) (28)
(Flying Rubbers) Weird World's most awesome rubber band gun is... well, not that awesome  (disintegrator.co.uk) (18)
(Wired) Cool Pentagon scientists successfully develop shape-shifting material, according to Hexagon scientists  (wired.com) (44)
(Slate) Obvious The biggest breakthrough in the evolution of man? Barbecue  (slate.com) (69)
(Environmental Graffiti) Sappy Adorable baby animals, and one that will haunt your dreams  (environmentalgraffiti.com) (58)
(Atom) Weird Five terrifying robot animals made by people with entirely too much time on their hands  (community.atom.com) (22)
(Examiner) Interesting Top 20 websites every scientist or engineer ought to know  (examiner.com) (81)
(Baltimore Sun) Strange "People from New York are always asking me to send pieces of Baltimore rats to them. I think, 'You're in New York, you have your own rats.' "  (baltimoresun.com) (37)
(Gizmodo) Spiffy Behold - the Death Star Barbecue Grill. Star Wars geeks confused on how they'll use it, since you're not supposed to grill in the basement  (i.gizmodo.com) (121)
(Some Guy) Strange In an effort to corner the Asian market on Buffalo wings, Indian scientists clone another buffalo  (hinduonnet.com) (15)

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