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Sun July 26, 2009
Source     Fark Headline Comments
(Air & Space Mag) Cool Stunning HDR space shuttle pics  (airspacemag.com) (53)
(BBC) Interesting Planetologists propose building thousand-mile long shield wall to prevent the spread of deserts, sandworms  (news.bbc.co.uk) (125)
(Washington Times) Spiffy Former Apollo astronaut paints scenes from the moon missions. Art critics praise the works for his bold use of multiple light sources, and how he captured the movement of the flag waving in the lunar breeze  (washingtontimes.com) (24)
(Jerusalem Post) Obvious Catholics, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs join together to fight global warming -- but not atheists, who don't join any cause built on irrational thinking and a complete lack of data  (jpost.com) (46)
(UPI) Obvious White House bans Twitter. Fark still ok  (upi.com) (74)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Bill Gates says he quit Facebook because too many people wanted to be his friend: "All these tools of tech waste our time if we're not careful"  (physorg.com) (41)
(BusinessWeek) Obvious Scientists worry machines may outsmart man. Wait, I think I've seen this movie- isn't it the one where Keanu Reeves has to find that Connor woman before the replicants do?  (bx.businessweek.com) (52)
(Stuff) Interesting Smart people have fewer heart attacks, mullets  (stuff.co.nz) (17)
(Charlotte) Interesting Friend implants: The absurdity of the counter on Facebook  (atcharlotte.blogspot.com) (44)
(Some Guy) Cool The "computational social structure" of #iranelection, examining the spread and structure of the Iranian revolution via the internet (w/ pics)  (readwriteweb.com) (26)
(Some Timeless Guy) Interesting Young Earth Creationism vs Old Earth Creationism; Does religion inform science, or science inform religion?  (times-herald.com) (237)
(BBC) Interesting The green beetle's secret revealed: it isn't really green. Here comes the science  (news.bbc.co.uk) (23)
(NASA) Cool The coolest photo of the Sun's corona during an eclipse that you'll see today  (apod.nasa.gov) (30)

Sat July 25, 2009
(Fox News) Interesting Military considers 'pain ray' for aircraft, apparently unaware of seating in coach  (foxnews.com) (44)
(Reuters) Asinine Russia afraid of Skype destabilizing the country  (reuters.com) (24)
(BBC) Interesting Indians discover new species of lizard, immediately begin worshipping it  (news.bbc.co.uk) (26)
(OSNews) Obvious Linus Torvalds: "Microsoft hatred is a disease"  (osnews.com) (217)
(The Register) Asinine Bill Gates is still pissed that he can't import all his programmers and pay them 50 cents on the dollar  (theregister.co.uk) (184)
(National Review) Interesting Has global warming stopped?  (corner.nationalreview.com) (405)
(Dvice.com) Cool Lego Zombie Invasion  (dvice.com) (25)
(KTVU) Cool Japanese on track to create World's First Blernsball team  (ktvu.com) (46)
(Discover) Interesting Scientists make nanoyarn out of nanotubes. Expect your grandmother to knit you a nanoscarf for Christmas this year  (discovermagazine.com) (36)
(Reuters) Amusing NASA tells astronauts to stop running marathons around ISS while spacewalking  (reuters.com) (23)

Fri July 24, 2009
(Some Guy) Interesting Looking different is good for survival, say scientists who sound fat  (topnews.in) (23)
(The OSX Commandments?) Obvious Apple tablet to be brought down from the mountain by Steve himself in 2010, giving his Jobsness plenty of time to grow out a hefty beard, and pick out JUST the right flowing robe and sandal combination  (appleinsider.com) (68)
(Breitbart.com) Followup Jeff Bezos apologizes for deleting "1984" and "Animal Farm" from everyone's Kindles, notes we have always been at war with Oceania and two legs are bad  (breitbart.com) (67)
(Telegraph) Interesting NASA finds monster black hole sucking up all the gas and matter it can get, reminding submitter of that date with your mom last week  (telegraph.co.uk) (65)
(London Times) Obvious Scientists develop WiFi power, still haven't figured out that pesky cancer  (technology.timesonline.co.uk) (63)
(Den Of Geek) Interesting Ten videogames that would make great movies. Assuming Brett Ratner wasn't directing  (denofgeek.com) (292)
(Ars Technica) Interesting The anti-pirates who tried to sue Pirate Bay are sued for defamation. "The entire saga could only get stranger if Ewoks were somehow involved"  (arstechnica.com) (19)
(Toronto Star) Interesting Like an elephant's ears and subby's glistening mat of back hair, apparently the toucan's large beak is used to dissipate body heat  (thestar.com) (19)
(PhysOrg.com) Cool Finally, the wait is over. 256G flashdrive unveiled  (physorg.com) (194)

Thu July 23, 2009
(New Scientist) Spiffy Ion engine ships may power quick trips to Mars. Formations may look something like this: |-o-| [-o-] |-o-|  T-Shirt  (newscientist.com) (144)
(UPI) Followup Those killer squids with razor-sharp teeth that were terrorizing the San Diego coast? Yeah, they're harmless  (upi.com) (49)
(LA Times) Interesting Chinese researchers discover way to grow Shakey's Pizzas without using fetuses  (latimes.com) (30)
(BetaNews) Interesting Apple controls 91% of the computer market among hipsters raiding their trust fund  (betanews.com) (350)
(Slashdot) Stupid 2010 Transformers Special Edition Camaro unveiled. For only $995, you get Transformer badges, Transformer racing stripes, and a bilingual co-star  (tech.slashdot.org) (207)
(Live Science) Spiffy Scientists discover new species of horny toad in California, which is weird since Britney isn't dating anyone right now  (livescience.com) (20)
(The Register) Interesting Astronauts on the ISS forced to cut short a spacewalk to repair the Kibo module, presumably because James Parry turned up to say something nonsensical  (theregister.co.uk) (78)
(Telegraph) Interesting Research shows adults forget three things a day, such as where they put their house keys, charging their mobile phones, and something else  T-Shirt  (telegraph.co.uk) (102)
(Metro) Cool If you can think of a better picture to illustrate a story about women experimenting with chocolate, let's see it  (metro.co.uk) (171)
(ABC2News Baltimore) Misc Top 10 greatest games released on Nintendo Entertainment System. Submitter believes The Angry Video Game Nerd would disagree with #3  (abc2news.com) (401)
(Discover) Obvious Med schools using Second Life to train doctors. So if you're ever attacked by a swarm of flying penises, today's MDs will know just what to do  T-Shirt  (discovermagazine.com) (28)
(Fox News) Interesting Scientists say humans naturally glow in the dark, even those who didn't live near Chernobyl  (foxnews.com) (34)
(Telegraph) Interesting Taller men earn more than shorter colleagues. Begun, the height wars have  (telegraph.co.uk) (227)

Wed July 22, 2009
(BBC) Interesting Scientists claim artificial brain "10 years away." Are you pondering what I'm pondering?  (news.bbc.co.uk) (106)
(Internet News) Interesting Windows 7 is done. Vista is really done and good riddance. Memorial services to be held to the right  (internetnews.com) (234)
(The Local (Germany)) Amusing Vodafone tries to sell to the Web 2.0 crowd, achieves massive Vodafail  (thelocal.de) (22)
(Network World) Amusing Coke machine runs Windows, connects to network. What could possibly go wrong?  (networkworld.com) (58)
(TechnologyReview) Cool Scientists copy your girlfriend's ability to cut into your brain with high pitched sound  (technologyreview.com) (44)
(GameTrailers) Amusing "Don't you have better things to do than going online killing people?"  (gametrailers.com) (24)
(PC Magazine) Obvious 33% of people who haven't purchased an iPhone yet based their decision on AT&T  (pcmag.com) (134)
(The Daily Show) Followup The Fart Wars have begun  (thedailyshow.com) (86)
(BBC) Followup Massive earthquake earlier this month was strong enough to move Australia and Australia Jr. closer together  (news.bbc.co.uk) (94)
(Wired) Sappy 100 things your kid may never know about. Yes, blowing dust out of a NES cartridge to get it to load made the list  (wired.com) (364)
(Wired) Interesting Proper punctuation is the difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse and being forced to blow up several million dollars worth of space probe  (wired.com) (190)
(Fox News) Strange Thanks to their inborn language abilities, babies can learn to speak dog, request steaks that they cannot chew  (foxnews.com) (18)
(Network World) Interesting America's Most Wanted... botnets?  (networkworld.com) (14)
(USA Today) Sad Worker junps to his death over lost iPhone prototype which is sad becau - OH MY GOD THERE'S A NEW iPHONE  (usatoday.com) (64)
(Rochester D&C) Misc EBaum wants steak?  (democratandchronicle.com) (128)
(ABC News) Obvious NASA says we will get to Mars (as soon as construction of the sound studio is finished)  (abcnews.go.com) (143)
(Canoe) Followup Millions view solar eclipse, nothing ever again  (cnews.canoe.ca) (45)
(CTV) Scary Swine flu has adapted. Resistance is futile. Why are you breaking your little ships?  (ctv.ca) (114)
(The New York Times) Sad Within three months of Neil Armstrong's landing on the moon, NASA laid off their top engineers. Here's why  (nytimes.com) (183)
(Engadget) Followup "Large Hadron Collider restart, end of the world pushed back to mid-November"  (engadget.com) (52)
(PhysOrg.com) Cool Snow-covered mountains no longer a safe haven for Sarah Connor  (physorg.com) (17)
(Some Guy) Interesting 15 beautiful microscopic images from inside the human body  (environmentalgraffiti.com) (11)
(Some Guy) Misc What Facebook looked like its first week in operation  (web.archive.org) (50)
(YouTube) Cool STS-127 solid rocket booster cam - liftoff to ocean splashdown, real time, with audio  (youtube.com) (34)
(BBC) Cool World's oldest TV found in Britain. 73 years old , and it still works. Still nothing on the telly to watch, though  (news.bbc.co.uk) (38)

Tue July 21, 2009
(Some Guy) Silly Rationalists battle astrologers in debate whether upcoming eclipse means doom or not. This is not a repeat from 1200 B.C  (indiatoday.intoday.in) (70)
(Some Carl Sagan Guy) Interesting The Tuesday Night Science Channel Discussion Thread  (faildogs.com) (135)
(C|Net) Amusing MSN Soapbox, Microsoft's YouTube killer, to be shut down. Customers expected to lose access to literally megabytes of irreplaceable videos  T-Shirt  (news.cnet.com) (37)
(SG) Followup Microsoft drops OMGIGP ad because it made people say, "OMGIGP" IRL. SRLSY  (ethiopianreview.com) (57)
(apple.com) Obvious Apple reports record earnings quarter on news that their primary demographics (college students and hipsters) never had jobs in the first place  (apple.com) (142)
(G4TV) Stupid User gets banned from Playstation Network, sues Sony. "PSN is the only way the plaintiff can truly socialize with other people."  (g4tv.com) (78)
(Media Post) Unlikely Study finds Twitter's new coverage is worth approximately :shakes magic 8 ball: $48 million  (mediapost.com) (10)
(Bloomberg) Scary Quebec hit by 4.1-magnitude earthquake. TOUT LE MONDE PANIQUE  (bloomberg.com) (113)
(Rasmussen Reports) Interesting Only 29 percent of Americans support a mission to Mars. Twenty-one percent aren't sure, and 51 percent think the movie sucked  (rasmussenreports.com) (184)
(TGDaily) Interesting Could Google's Chrome OS be the first step on the road to ruin?  (tgdaily.com) (67)
(Independent) Interesting Finalists for 'Seven Wonders Of Nature' named. Bea Arthur inexplicably not on shortlist  (independent.co.uk) (50)
(Daily Mail) Unlikely British scientist claims "giant leap for mankind" speech was his idea, says he thought of it while partying with JFK and Marilyn Monroe in their secret undersea base. Yeah, that's the ticket  (dailymail.co.uk) (24)
(CNN) Obvious How the male brain is wired. Sex, food, beer, TV, sleep, go away, sleep, sports, food. repeat  (cnn.com) (109)
(Some Guy) Obvious "Life here began out there," concludes a new major scientific paper, Battlestar Galactica  (scienceblog.com) (83)
(Yahoo) Strange Half-brain girl sees all in one eye, which explains Sarah Palin's winking  (uk.news.yahoo.com) (53)
(New Zealand Herald) Strange Japanese scientists develop brain-powered wheelchair. Unclear who has been assigned mutant-tracking computer, titanium bone-coating sequence  (nzherald.co.nz) (36)
(New Scientist) Interesting Scientists develop screen which switches itself off when ignored. Now, if subby could only work out some way of applying this technology to his wife  (newscientist.com) (15)
(BBC) Cool Everything looks cooler in slow-motion, episode 27: The Raindrop  (news.bbc.co.uk) (12)
(Space) Spiffy Exactly 15 years after Shoemaker-Levy 9, another comet has hit Jupiter  (space.com) (117)

Mon July 20, 2009
(YouTube) Dumbass Remember that 14 year old kid who abused a remote control while flipping out over his mommy disabling his WoW account? Here's a prequel with much more anger management fail. "I will kill you and eat your first born child"  (youtube.com) (116)
(SMH) Obvious Scientists discover babies and toddlers have twice the risk of head injuries than children of any other age, presumably because they fall over a lot  (smh.com.au) (66)
(Some non-Powerpoint Ranger) Obvious • Powerpoint is actively hostile to thoughtful decision-making. • It reduces complex ideas to bullet points. • Decision makers are given less time to think. • The Pentagon has made a cult of the PowerPoint presentation  (armedforcesjournal.com) (160)
(Yahoo) Interesting Astronauts perform spacewalk on Apollo 11 anniversary, since moonwalk would have been tacky, too soon  T-Shirt  (news.yahoo.com) (77)
(Discover) Interesting Farker reminisces about when NASA didn't Fark things up  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (51)
(JFK Library) Hero Watch the moon landing as it happened and listen to all the radio transmissions as they happened 40 years ago today. Landing at 4:15 EDT  (wechoosethemoon.org) (84)
(Telegraph) Obvious 'Dog translator' turns barks into English, even though every statement turns out to be a variation on 'want steak'  (telegraph.co.uk) (47)
(Science Daily) Interesting What's brown and sounds like a bell? Dung. What's 30 million years old and reveals evidence of complex ecological interactions?  (sciencedaily.com) (19)
(Daily Yomiuri) Weird Two Japanese traffic lights simultaneously flashed green at T-intersection for 30 years due to programming error. No one noticed until June accident brought it to police attention  (yomiuri.co.jp) (63)
(Den Of Geek) Amusing Craziest uses of historial figures in videogames  (denofgeek.com) (91)
(TechEBlog) Cool If you've been waiting with bated breath for an actual flying car, you might want to click this link  (techeblog.com) (59)
(The Local (Sweden)) Obvious Groundbreaking Swedish study reveals that broken bones heal faster if treated  (thelocal.se) (27)
(Network World) Unlikely Patent No. 5,819,372: Microsoft butt hinge with butt straps  (networkworld.com) (22)
(IFAS) Strange A large jet-black spot has suddenly appeared near the south pole of Jupiter. This is not a repeat from 2010  T-Shirt  (irishastronomy.org) (99)
(Washington Post) Sad The first man on the moon is tired of being recognized as the first man on the moon  (washingtonpost.com) (107)
(Palm Beach Post) Florida High-rise developer claims his building's glass walls can withstand wind gusts of 327 mph. Because 331 mph would be a ludicrous speed  (palmbeachpost.com) (40)
(Omaha World Herald) Interesting Nebraska is one of the toughest places in the nation to predict the weather. Fortunately, no one lives there, so if the weather service is wrong no one notices  (omaha.com) (49)
(Some Guy) Cool Supercomputer to compete on Jeopardy. No word on what it thinks of Trebek's mother  (cio.com) (72)

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