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Sun July 12, 2009
Source     Fark Headline Comments
(25 Years Ago) Interesting Give me 20 to life in a prison cell, and I too could be motivated to successfully build a shotgun from available materials  (marcsteinmetz.com) (46)
(Boing Boing) Video Living with "First Person Shooter Disease"  (boingboing.net) (81)
(Baltimore Sun) Cool Military tests heavily armored troop carrier 'Cougar.' Still trying to get the smell of vermouth and acryllic nails out of the cabin (w/ video)  (baltimoresun.com) (67)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Midwives: "labour agony is a 'rite of passage' and pain-relieving epidurals weaken mother's bond with baby"  (dailymail.co.uk) (97)
(Google) Interesting Iranian scientists discover Photoshop clone tool  (google.com) (26)
(News.com.au) Obvious Survey finds that butchers use their meat the most  (news.com.au) (18)
(Washington Examiner) Cool Cowardice? Yeah, there's an app for that  (washingtonexaminer.com) (261)
(Daily Mail) Unlikely Study shows swearing can reduce pain and the agony of defeat. Here comes the f*cking science  (dailymail.co.uk) (30)
(Boston Globe) Scary Beach sand is home to a multitude of minuscule, but harmless, creatures. Except for that one thing that crawls under your toenails and lays its eggs there  (boston.com) (15)
(NPR) Interesting "This is Bob Eubanks, and tonight we're at Delaware Bay for a night of whoopee."  (npr.org) (13)
(Toxel) Cool Dear Scientists: if you make this a reality, we'll forgive you about the flying cars  (toxel.com) (87)

Sat July 11, 2009
(Mercury News) Cool "The giant Palouse earthworm has taken on mythic qualities evoking the fictional sandworms from 'Dune.' The worm is said to secrete a lily-like smell when handled, spit at predators and live in burrows 15 feet deep"  (mercurynews.com) (52)
(MSNBC) Scary Methanol could power artificial muscles. It's like meth, but for robots  (msnbc.msn.com) (30)
(Some Guy) Obvious White men who love facial hair and Boba Fett feel threatened by new interlopers at this year's Comic-Con: Girls  (thisisbrandx.com) (139)
(Some Guy) Scary ImageShack hacked. Fark hotlinkers smugly vindicated  (mashable.com) (82)
(Yahoo) Followup Officials suspect North Korea was behind recent DoS attacks on American and South Korean websites. Shaken officals acknowledge this must mean North Korea now apparently has both electricty and computers  (fe2.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com) (77)
(Weather Underground) Cool Four bolts, one image - the coolest lightning photo you will see today  (wunderground.com) (34)
(New Scientist) Interesting By Jiminy. Pentagon scientists developing bionic crickets  (newscientist.com) (10)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Why, like global warming, economics is a religion and not a science  (guardian.co.uk) (180)
(MSN) Amusing 10 of the worst automotive fads to ever pimp your ride  (editorial.autos.msn.com) (146)
(KnoxNews) Misc Rosetta Stone Inc. sues Google for infringement. They called Google 'software pirates' in more than 30 different languages  (knoxnews.com) (95)

Fri July 10, 2009
(MSNBC) Interesting Archaeologists find proof that women have been filling up medicine cabinets with strange beauty crap for over 2000 years  (msnbc.msn.com) (36)
(SlashFilm) Amusing Older geeks fear teenage and pre-teen geeks will spill gooey Twilight all over their Comic-Con. Serious business  (slashfilm.com) (401)
(The Register) Unlikely Scientist claims Galileo discovered Neptune in 1613, but was persecuted for "heretical" research, as revealed in a hidden coded message yet to be discovered. No, this is not the storyline of Dan Brown's next book  (theregister.co.uk) (109)
(C|Net) Unlikely "Is Sony on the right track with its PS3?" Does a bear construct overpriced proprietary electronics in the woods?  (news.cnet.com) (194)
(McClatchy DC) Spiffy Microsoft says in 10 years, computers will know our intent before we express it, upload it in the background to Microsoft (all user-identifiable data removed, of course) to help them figure it out  (mcclatchydc.com) (63)
(AJC) Ironic Built to overcome cold war adversary, F-22 has met its match: Rain or other abrasion  (ajc.com) (155)
(C|Net) Unlikely As per Apple's standard modus operandi, the latest issue with their device is someone else's fault  (reviews.cnet.com) (73)
(YouTube) Cool There's no better way to celebrate Nikola Tesla's birthday than with this giant Tesla coil  (youtube.com) (41)
(Some Guy) Obvious Survey says most Americans think science is great. Survey also says most scientists think public are massively ignorant  (people-press.org) (137)
(Kotaku) Silly For the gamer who wants to walk outside but doesn't want to leave the house, Konami has the answer to your tubby prayers  (kotaku.com) (51)
(Slate) Followup "The Google OS Is Doomed"  (slate.com) (129)
(Science Daily) Unlikely Online computer games could encourage kids to eat healthy foods. I'm submitting this article as I'm eating a Big Mac  (sciencedaily.com) (25)
(Science Daily) Spiffy Researchers are treating lazy eyes with joysticks. If kids still played with Atari, this would not be a problem  (sciencedaily.com) (19)
(Computerworld) Misc By next week, Microsoft promises to give you a patch to smack down hackers  (computerworld.com) (39)

Thu July 09, 2009
(Guardian.com) Silly Science historians unearth 1970s-era academic theses and monographs on discotheques and disco dancing, indicating that all known scientific problems at that time had been solved by jive-talkin'  (guardian.co.uk) (25)
(Yahoo) Interesting Science, best known for inventing robots and dooming the earth, is now responsible for a new carbon wonder sheet that's only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond. Nice, science, way to do good for once  (news.yahoo.com) (118)
(BBC) Sad Not content with the possible extinction of some Whale species, some Asian countries are picking up the pace on wiping Rhinos off the face of the earth too  (news.bbc.co.uk) (45)
(Slashdot) Interesting In 1.2 miles, standalone GPS unit sales make a downward turn off a cliff. TomTom recalculating strategy to merge with iPods  (mobile.slashdot.org) (117)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Followup Script for "Facebook: The Movie" leaks. Apparently Mark Zuckerberg loses all his friends. So it's more like a documentary  (businessinsider.com) (79)
(Breitbart.com) Interesting El Nino is back. And this time it's personal  (breitbart.com) (168)
(Fox News) Cool Scientists stop screwing around with the small stuff, come up with drug that flat out adds 10 years to your life  (foxnews.com) (175)
(BBC) Obvious Seeds found in Yukon and claimed to be 10,000 years old debunked by scientists, who point out that would make them at least 4,000 years older than the Universe  (news.bbc.co.uk) (24)
(The Register) Scary DARPA developing EATR, an automous, steam-powered robotic platform that fuels itself by harvesting energy from biomass in the environment. What could possibly go wrong?  (theregister.co.uk) (55)
(The Sun) Interesting Ugly men found to produce more sperm during sex, which may explain why there are so many of them  (thesun.co.uk) (41)
(The Sun) Cool I'm a shark, I'm a shark, take my pic, I'm a shark  (thesun.co.uk) (32)
(IGN) Cool Mechwarrior 5 announced. Video game geeks salivate at the thought of controlling 75-ton monsters such as the Marauder, Timber Wolf, and Rosie O'Donnell. MechaStreisand to be included in the first patch  (pc.ign.com) (307)
(Discover) Cool Tweets... in... SPAAAAACE  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (26)
(Some Voice-to-Text) Stupid New software lets you send voice-activated text messages from your cell phone. Finally, a way to use your voice on your cell phone  T-Shirt  (fairfaxtimes.com) (27)
(Labspaces.net) Interesting Good language skills in your youth may stave off Alzheimer's later. Good news for us people who have a way with words, not so much for those of you who...um...not have way, I guess  T-Shirt  (labspaces.net) (43)

Wed July 08, 2009
(Yahoo) Interesting Fossils of a six-foot long armadillo-shaped crocodile found in Brazil. Your armadillosuchus wanted steak. Probably got it, too  (news.yahoo.com) (16)
(Some Guy) Obvious "$27 million has purchased the very best monument to an enormous load of horseshiat that you could possibly ever hope to see."  (homepagedaily.com) (109)
(The New York Times) Interesting Why has Hulu succeeded? "Hulu, in effect, is Amazon.com to YouTube's eBay"  (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) (114)
(WHO?) Scary Tamiflu resistant H1N1 spreading. Now in Hong Kong, Japan, Denmark and Madagascar  (who.int) (72)
(Bloomberg) Asinine Sony CEO refuses to consider reducing the price on PS3 even though Activision has threatened to stop making games for it. In related news the geniuses who drove the America auto industry into the ground apparently now work for Sony  (bloomberg.com) (272)
(The Larely Beagle) Satire Coors Light to release new shotgunnable can with second tab on side. Consider the gauntlet thrown down, Busch Light  (larelybeagle.com) (158)
(Scientific American) Interesting Yes Brain, but why would the humans want to listen to us singing? Narf, narf  (scientificamerican.com) (32)
(Science Daily) Obvious Study shows gun sale regulation reduces trafficking to criminals. Guess that's another NRA argument shot down  (sciencedaily.com) (249)
(Science Daily) Interesting Scientists solve mystery involving a bat with an unusually large proboscis. Oh nose (with creepy pic "goodness")  (sciencedaily.com) (7)
(C|Net) Cool After eight years of development, VLC finally releases 1.0 to the deafening applause of all five users  (news.cnet.com) (273)
(BBC) Interesting Google releasing operating system in order to "eliminate Microsoft". The OS wars have truly begun  (news.bbc.co.uk) (248)
(Some Nerds) Spiffy Fallout LARPing sounds incredibly lame, but at least in Russia they do it in real abandoned Cold War military bases with old military hardware and not in your mom's basement with nerf guns  (sdmobile.livejournal.com) (71)
(YouTube) Cool Xbox 360, after killing off the PS3, sets its sights on the Nintendo Wii. Introducing: Natal  (youtube.com) (321)
(TechnologyReview) Unlikely Goodbye, cold fusion. Hello, cold fission  (technologyreview.com) (56)
(Science Daily) Interesting Scientists now can control bits with Quantum computing, will get Ziggy with it  T-Shirt  (sciencedaily.com) (36)
(New Scientist) Interesting 'War is not a biological compulsion' claim scientists like Stephen Pinker, 'we wage it for specific reasons such as religious fundamentalism, dwindling resources and inflammatory headlines.'  (newscientist.com) (77)
(Gizmodo) Unlikely NASA to take photos of lunar landing sites to end the conspiracy theories. Photoshop theories in 3, 2  (gizmodo.com) (86)
(Google) Scary US government websites attacked on Fourth of July, Justin Long and Bruce Willis are on the case  (google.com) (69)
(Guardian.com) Cool Scientitsts claim sperm breakthrough, need for tissues  (guardian.co.uk) (23)
(Internet News) Amusing Google's Gmail finally exits beta. I have 100 Gmail invites to give away  (internetnews.com) (51)

Tue July 07, 2009
(Reuters) Interesting Brazillian monkeys discovered for the first time. How the heck did we miss that many?  (reuters.com) (18)
(Some Guy) Interesting According to this article, although dioxins are naturally produced by forest fires and volcanoes, it's still your fault the grocery store is always out of mouse milk, you filthy consumer. Or something like that  (nationalacademies.org) (8)
(Yahoo) Interesting Satellite nags Earth about it's thinning, receding covering at it's cap. Earth still in denial  (fe9.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com) (39)
(Network World) Amusing Company that designed phone no one uses has designed a car no one will drive  (networkworld.com) (52)
(Science Daily) Spiffy String Theory gets a boost from new study of Electrons. If only we had a CERN project to verify some of string theories predictions instead of rap videos we would be all set  (sciencedaily.com) (97)
(DVice) Cool Not news: Going 161 moh in a car. Fark: Going 161mph in an RC car  (dvice.com) (56)
(Network World) Interesting Yahoo bases data center design on chicken coop, bans Firefox  (networkworld.com) (13)
(Labspaces.net) Interesting Male seahorses like big butts and they can not lie, those pregnant brothers can't deny  (labspaces.net) (20)
(CNN) Stupid Best Buy is selling a Compaq netbook for 99 cents. OK, that and about $1,440 for the required 2 year contract on a wireless data plan from Sprint  (scitech.blogs.cnn.com) (57)
(Yahoo) Scary Giant mideast dust storm visible from space. See it here, or wait a week for your aunt to fwd it to you in an email about how the US is testing giant chemical weapons in Iraq  (news.yahoo.com) (151)
(CBC) Spiffy U.S. stem cell funding rules finalized. Hunting season on pregnant women is the first three weeks of November, adding the last two weeks of October if you use a cross-bow  (cbc.ca) (60)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious Barry Diller just can't get enough online dating sites. You will now see the same five fat chicks no matter where you sign up  (businessinsider.com) (47)
(My Fox DC) Cool List of International Space Station flyby times and locations. Or a cheat sheet for the cities alphabet drinking game, whichever way you wanna look at it  (myfoxdc.com) (36)
(UPI) Interesting Scientists discover genes responsible for perfect pitch, explaining why Chinese pop music sounds like cats drowning  (upi.com) (71)
(Telegraph) Spiffy Magnetic caps could soon be boosting your brain power, although possibly at the expense of attracting more alien mind control rays  (telegraph.co.uk) (50)
(bizjournals.com) Interesting Twitter suggested for Nobel prize. Acceptance speech to be in 140 characters or less  (sanjose.bizjournals.com) (53)
(UPI) Interesting Swiss scientists say there are 970 million chemicals that could be new drugs. Huey Lewis puts The News on speed dial  (upi.com) (15)
(Reuters) Scary It would appear that your wallet isn't the only thing feeling pressure during long travels  (reuters.com) (21)
(Seattle Times) Cool Scientists ribbited by prison inmates' success raising endangered frogs  (seattletimes.nwsource.com) (15)
(Popular Mechanics) Cool Five awesome theme park rides that pushed the edge of common sense and the lawyers got involved  (popularmechanics.com) (245)

Mon July 06, 2009
(The Consumerist) Interesting Blu-ray disc durability is not all it's cracked up to be  (consumerist.com) (68)
(Live Science) Spiffy Young engineers make Lego underwater submersibles, test them out in swimming pool competition (video)  (livescience.com) (33)
(Space) Spiffy Astronomers record first sunspots after longest period of solar inactivity in modern times. The Sun is there  (space.com) (61)
(Google) Strange Ubisoft getting paid $263 million to bring 800 jobs to Toronto. That sounds about right  (google.com) (40)
(C|Net) Amusing Apple bans "me so holy app" that insert your face on Jesus' body  (news.cnet.com) (61)
(Yahoo) Cool Inch-thick TV sets debut, hoping to replace 3"-4" thick versions. If your house is that cramped for space, perhaps moving is the more economical choice  (tech.yahoo.com) (106)
(Sky News) Stupid Swine Flu confirmed as Killer* (* as long as you have 'serious underlying health problems')  (news.sky.com) (53)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Are you going blind? Then why not shine this laser into your eye, what's the worst that could happen?  (guardian.co.uk) (18)
(CrunchGear) Stupid New device monitors your heart rate and posts it on Twitter. If only they had these when Abe Vigoda was alive  T-Shirt  (crunchgear.com) (24)
(BBC) Cool Spider builds life-sized models of itself to distract predators. Scientists have named it Cyclosa Blazingsaddlesis  (news.bbc.co.uk) (47)
(Kotaku) Cool Nintendo creates glucose meter DS plug-in attachment for diabetic kids. Now when Link drinks a red potion his heart meter goes to 200 mg/dl  (kotaku.com) (35)
(Boston Globe) Interesting "Come here, sweetie," he said as he positioned the bug on the quail carcass. He gave it a loving smile. "It certainly has personality."  (boston.com) (14)
(BBC) Spiffy Scientists find that giving mice the caffeine equivalent of 5 cups of coffee restores memory loss resulting from Alzheimer's, and is hilarious to watch  (news.bbc.co.uk) (38)
(The Local (Sweden)) Interesting Study shows that having freckles increases your chance of getting cancer, winning Miss South Carolina  (thelocal.se) (64)
(BBC) Cool Pages from 1,600-year-old Bible put online. Written on dinosaur hide  (news.bbc.co.uk) (213)
(YouTube) Scary Lightning strikes storm chaser's car while driving down highway  (youtube.com) (57)

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