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Sun August 23, 2009
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(Reuters) Ironic Study shows atheists who pray have bigger brains  (blogs.reuters.com) (511)
(Electronics Talk) Cool Green light is green  (electronicstalk.com) (48)
(P=2*(I^2*R)) Fail Install "smart" electrical meters and earn back your investment in record time. That is, if you're the electrical company and your customers don't mind being billed for twice the electricity they're actually consuming  (forum.prisonplanet.com) (54)
(My Fox Orlando) Interesting Man invents computerized landing gear for heavy motorcycles that automatically deploy when you slow down and retract when you speed up. Still no cure for biker chicks  (myfoxorlando.com) (55)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Does sex actually sell? Well, it might, but with the number of ads under scrutiny here it might take a while to come to a conclusion. And even then, subsequent independent verification would be essential. (As Not safe for work as ads get)  (creativebits.org) (70)
(Wired) Obvious Problem: once sober, most people abandon their drunken resolutions. Solution: Never stop drinking  (wired.com) (19)
(Telegraph) Silly Researchers analyze millions of tweets, determine Wednesday - not Monday - is the most miserable day of the week. Oh Twitter, how did we ever survive without you?  (telegraph.co.uk) (20)
(WLBZ2.com) Interesting Maine just had it's 6th confirmed tornado in 2009, normally averaging only 2 per year  (wlbz2.com) (35)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Meet the identical twins with different astrological signs. That might not make sense, but remember, these "scientists" don't even know if a meteor is going to wipe us all out tomorrow  (dailymail.co.uk) (98)

Sat August 22, 2009
(Some Guy) Interesting :) :) :[ :) :) :)  (scienceblogs.com) (33)
(New Scientist) Cool What might have been -- Abandoned NASA projects. Suspiciously absent: coyote in gigantic slingshot  (newscientist.com) (91)
(Lifehacker) Unlikely Ten tricks MacGyver would be proud of  (lifehacker.com) (49)
(CNN) Asinine Twitter soon to waste more than just your time  (scitech.blogs.cnn.com) (28)
(Wordpress) Interesting Fact: People are living longer than ever. Fact: People are fatter than ever. Conclusion: ??????  (luysii.wordpress.com) (52)
(UPI) Scary NASA considers moving away from its "contract with the lowest bidder" system towards full outsourcing. At least business should be booming  (upi.com) (23)
(notebookreview) Amusing Say what you want about HP, but they really know how to protect your shipment  (forum.notebookreview.com) (43)
(Science Daily) Interesting Today: Darwin was wrong about uselessness of the appendix. Tomorrow: EVILUTION PROVEN WRONG  (sciencedaily.com) (162)
(Some Guy) Misc Internet Explorer 8 trounces Firefox, Chrome in security test. Immediately afterwards shoots an 18 under par including 4 holes-in-one  (blogs.channelinsider.com) (102)
(Google) Scary "Many countries could see swine flu cases double every three to four days for several months." Now would be a good time to hope that WHO is really bad at math  (google.com) (45)
(Yahoo) Interesting Nearly 95% of all Americans believe in God or a higher power. Except for those godless scientists out there - nearly half of them don't believe at all. Here comes the science  (news.yahoo.com) (213)
(Telegraph) Obvious If your music sucks, so do you. Here comes the science  (telegraph.co.uk) (120)
(BBC) Silly Scientist says Australia needs six season, suggests adding "sprummer" and "sprinter". What a fudiot  (news.bbc.co.uk) (22)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Not satisfied with the wave of fear over CERN, scientists begin devising new ways to create black holes  (physorg.com) (20)
(MSNBC) Fail According to Apple and AT&T, neither Apple nor AT&T rejected Google Voice. That's right, the App Store is now sentient  (msnbc.msn.com) (45)
(PC Magazine) Amusing Microsoft: Judge's verdict on Word case clearly flawed. New thought-checker in Word 2010 would have caught the problem immediately  (pcmag.com) (27)
(NASA) Cool New high-resolution LRO photo of the Apollo 14 soundstage  (lroc.sese.asu.edu) (28)

Fri August 21, 2009
(LA Times) Cool There's even an easy "rule of thumb:" clitoris-vagina distances less than 2.5 cm -- that's roughly from the tip of your thumb to your first knuckle -- tend to yield reliable orgasms during sex  (latimes.com) (128)
(The Obvious Tag) Asinine A: Why, you sue Apple, of course. Q: What do you do when a third-party developer uses your photo without permission?  (appleinsider.com) (22)
(yomiuri.co.jp) Weird Researchers discover rare photos of puppet shows in WWII Japan, with pro-war puppets dressed in military uniforms and wearing steel helmets  (yomiuri.co.jp) (25)
(C|Net) Cool Flat-screen TVs are so Aughts. Coming soon: Roll-up TVs  (news.cnet.com) (36)
(New Scientist) Scary Global warming could alter the world's tilt, leading to the very real possibility of us all falling off  (newscientist.com) (85)
(ABC News) Interesting Scientists make stunning breakthrough after removing the nail affixing participant's right foot to the ground  (abcnews.go.com) (51)
(New Scientist) Interesting Sex as you've never seen it before: the first video of a couple getting it on together in an MRI scanner, may be Not safe for work for some  (newscientist.com) (124)
(CNN) Amusing The 12 most annoying types of Facebookers. If you're on Facebook, you're on this list  (cnn.com) (177)
(News.com.au) Interesting Analysis shows that Hobbits simply walked out of Africa, into Mordor  (theaustralian.news.com.au) (66)
(BBC) Cool Scientists one step closer to wiping out humanity  (news.bbc.co.uk) (65)

Thu August 20, 2009
(Some Sony Guy) Followup Sony's response to the slim PS3 not having backwards compatibility: Buy PS3 games, citizen  (gossipgamers.com) (264)
(NPR) Interesting African Hammerhead bats share same mating habits as New Jersey men  (npr.org) (33)
(Some Guy) Spiffy 1500-year-old pr0n stash found in Israel  (haaretz.com) (20)
(MSNBC) Interesting AI researchers say Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are obsolete  (msnbc.msn.com) (87)
(Slashdot) Cool NASA beams 461 gigabytes of data back from the moon daily, the equivalent of last week's download volume on your mom's new porno  T-Shirt  (science.slashdot.org) (51)
(AMC) Amusing A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the designers and engineers were dumber than a bag of whomp rats  (blogs.amctv.com) (204)
(Nature) Scary Modern biology research being twisted into superweapons. For some reason, someone has a problem with this  (nature.com) (36)
(Capital Times) Scary Each minute a stroke is left untreated, a brain loses 1.9 million neurons, 14 billion synapses, and 7.5 miles of myelinated fibers  (madison.com) (65)
(Wikipedia) Cool Today is the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Burgess Shale, one of the most important scientific discoveries of the century. The fossil bed conclusively showed the truth of evolution and the beauty of the prehistoric world  (en.wikipedia.org) (380)
(CNN) Spiffy Seven good reasons to switch to Windows 7: "4. Piracy. Windows 7 is an OS practically made for pirates."  (cnn.com) (292)
(Metro) Spiffy Coolest pics of a diver with a humpback whale you will see today  (metro.co.uk) (114)
(BBC) Wheaton History celebrates 25 years of Powerpoint. Obvious tag missed his flight and Dumbass didn't review the slide deck, so Wheaton gets stuck doing the presentation  T-Shirt  (news.bbc.co.uk) (65)

Wed August 19, 2009
(NPR) Interesting Inuit hunters help scientists track narwhals, offer tech support on Quicken, TurboTax  T-Shirt  (npr.org) (39)
(TechnologyReview) Scary Skynet has learned how to lie  (technologyreview.com) (56)
(Yahoo) Cool Evidence of "prehistoric runway" found in France. Prehistoric luggage, missing for eons, uncovered nearby  (news.yahoo.com) (42)
(Live Science) Strange Tazmanian Devils being wiped out by cancer spread through social networking. Bugs Bunny looks up from his Facebook page, grins evilly  (livescience.com) (50)
(The Register) Interesting Hackers use Richard Dawkins' forums to send out spam, proving that his security wasn't intelligently designed  (theregister.co.uk) (41)
(Some Guy) Cool 20 awesome computer desks  (thetoyzone.com) (78)
(CNN) Scary Hurricane Bill reaches Category 4. It's not clear yet if it will hit NC, Bermuda or New England, but if Jim Cantore comes to town...stock up on EVERYTHING  (cnn.com) (80)
(WBBM) Cool Suck at karaoke? It's not your fault. Here's the science  (wbbm780.com) (114)
(Time) Interesting Long after you die, do you want people to know how much of a trolly douchebag you were online?  (time.com) (83)
(Abc.net.au) Scary Astronomers find Death Star, summon droids for schematic information  (abc.net.au) (61)

Tue August 18, 2009
(Science Daily) Cool Planck space telescope has begun to collect light from six thousand years ago  (sciencedaily.com) (108)
(Reuters) Interesting Amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, found on a comet 242 million miles from Earth  (reuters.com) (253)
(Burlington Free Press) Sappy Supplier's Tip top taps suck sap smoother from trees than ever before. Just like your mom  (burlingtonfreepress.com) (15)
(NASA) Cool Already sharp geological features + illumination from nearly same point as camera = spectacular night photo of badlands that makes landscape look paper-thin  (antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov) (44)
(Engadget) Cool Unlike pretty much everyone who has one, the Playstation 3 is getting slimmer  (engadget.com) (210)
(Wordpress) Sappy Two Thousand Martian Sunrises  (astropoetry.wordpress.com) (23)
(Sciencebolgs) Interesting Coolest video on DNA replication you've seen all morning  (scienceblogs.com) (50)
(New Scientist) Interesting Smokeless tobacco found to contain almost two dozen substances that will kill you where you stand and then burn down your house and plow your fields with salt  (newscientist.com) (95)
(SMH) Amusing Before you start boasting about how your police force have taken down a hacker's forum, remind them to set passwords on their own machines  (smh.com.au) (34)
(Some Guy) Interesting The world's first 3D-Photo camera to cost $700 bucks, $500 bucks for special monitor, no 3D output to computer, prints cost $10 bucks and they have to be processed in Japan. But hey, 3D  (vancouversun.com) (79)
(Daily Mail) Scary Carnivorous plant named after David Attenborough grows more than 4ft long and feasts on rats, sings showtunes  (dailymail.co.uk) (39)
(Tacoma News Tribune) Scary Tectonic plates quiver below Puget Sound, foreshadowing 9.0 earthquake in Pacific Northwest. EVERYBODY PANIC  (thenewstribune.com) (132)
(Stuff) Spiffy A "tourism furturist" sees a world with an aging population, global warming, food and water supply problems, and expensive electricity. But it's not all bad: we'll also have robot hookers  (stuff.co.nz) (64)

Mon August 17, 2009
(IGN) Stupid Xbox 360 failure rates now surpass 50%  (xbox360.ign.com) (277)
(Network World) Scary Why you should always shred your boarding pass  (networkworld.com) (37)
(PCWorld) Cool 16 must-have gadgets for back to school. Reverse dormroom peephole camera mysteriously absent  (pcworld.com) (50)
(Washington Post) Cool In unprovoked attack, Illinois blasts Minnesota with high powered neutrino cannon  (washingtonpost.com) (86)
(Miami Herald) Interesting For now, Floridians can rest easy; Hurricane Bill is still far from land, and Jim Cantore is still far from Miami  (miamiherald.com) (20)
(Houston Press) Amusing What do your iPhone apps say about you? Other than that you're an insecure control freak, of course?  (blogs.houstonpress.com) (49)
(Science Daily) Spiffy "Blame the cavemen" is the latest trend in Global Warming theory  (sciencedaily.com) (44)
(LA Times) Obvious Study finds alcoholics have a tendency to misread emotional cues, taking offense when none was intended  (latimes.com) (86)
(Some Guy) Interesting New chips from IBM may not only become self-aware, but also able to reproduce and have offspring  (crn.com) (45)
(Cracked) Interesting Seven awesome acts of nature that science cannot explain  (cracked.com) (90)
(PhysOrg.com) Sad Future generations of Chinese will have to find a substitute for panda penis in their soup  (physorg.com) (51)
(Some Pyro Geek) Cool If you ever dreamed of building a flame thrower that can shoot fireballs of every color in the rainbow, today is your lucky day  (inventgeek.com) (21)
(BBC) Obvious 40% of messages sent via Twitter are "pointless babble", according to vastly underestimated figures gathered by scientists from the Ric Romero Institute  (news.bbc.co.uk) (46)
(Utah Daily Herald) Interesting New battery technology could lower your electric bill to 3 cents/kilowatt and reduce national dependence on fossil fuels. Utilities and petroleum industry lobbyists seen igniting torches, gathering pitchforks  (heraldextra.com) (254)
(3 News New Zealand) Obvious Study shows UFO sightings increase whenever a movie about UFOs is released  (3news.co.nz) (68)

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