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Sun August 30, 2009
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(The Tennessean) Sad New cell phones help parents pinpoint children's exact location at all times. When I was a kid, we just had to be home before dark  (tennessean.com) (148)
(MSNBC) Followup In the wake of Microsoft's 'ethnically cleansing' snafu, here are 10 more Photoshop disasters. Iran mysteriously absent  (msnbc.msn.com) (93)
(Geekologie) Cool Not news:The anti-legalization movement loses another excuse. News: Philips develops roadside drug test that gives results in 90 seconds. Fark: Potheads will be asked to spit at law enforcement  (geekologie.com) (107)
(Some Guy) Unlikely "People keep trying to explain what has become now pretty obvious: Linux is mainstream. It is high time companies and people interested in computing wake up to this simple reality"  (technewsworld.com) (408)
(Lansing State Journal) Sad Ford to phase out Crown Victoria police cruiser in 2011, replace with Taurus. Next time you see a police car on the roadside he's probably stalled, not a speed trap  (lansingstatejournal.com) (98)
(Stuff) Cool Let's all welcome New Zealand to 1999  (stuff.co.nz) (36)
(Panda's Thumb) Cool Coolest picture of a hummingbird terminating a yellow jacket that you will see all day  (pandasthumb.org) (73)

Sat August 29, 2009
(Seattle Times) Scary You know there's a problem with your beaches when the toxic green algae is strong enough to kill a horse in minutes  (seattletimes.nwsource.com) (61)
(News.com.au) Interesting India loses contact with an unmanned spacecraft conducting its first moon mission. Support techs ask Mission Control to confirm that the spacecraft is turned on and that it is currently plugged in  T-Shirt  (news.com.au) (141)
(Wired) Interesting Another example of irreducible complexity proven to be reducible by the tireless killjoys at Yale University. Next on the agenda? Publishing a children's book titled 'Unicorns never existed, and your parents will die someday'  (wired.com) (196)
(Nikola Tesla's smarter cousin) Interesting Old and bus ... ahh screw it: wireless electricity  (hackaday.com) (73)
(MSNBC) Interesting Dog hair may cure cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity  (msnbc.msn.com) (34)
(Reuters) Interesting The Godfather of all bronze Roman artifacts has been discovered in central Germany  (reuters.com) (34)
(Telegraph) Spiffy Dual screen laptop to be available by Christmas. Now Subby can be twice as annoying on airplanes, become alpha geek  (telegraph.co.uk) (48)
(C|Net) Weird Japan unveils 400-pound robot nurse that looks like a teddy bear and can lift women in its extended arms  (news.cnet.com) (44)
(Yahoo) Interesting Remember when people hooked up to the Internet with cables and cords? Cables and cords... how quaint  (news.yahoo.com) (55)
(GreenBiz) Interesting 18-24 year olds are most aware of environmental issues while simultaneously being the biggest wasters of energy and water. And mom said I'd never amount to anything  (greenbiz.com) (88)
(Not Much Choice) Interesting Hold me closer, Tianyuraptor  T-Shirt  (rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org) (21)
(Some R1200CL Guy) Cool New motorcycle sports a V10 Viper engine. It's like riding 500 ponies all at once, or as Carmen Electra calls it, Friday night  (mobilemag.com) (50)
(The Scotsman) Obvious Study finds women that went to all girl schools want to marry Zac Efron  (news.scotsman.com) (31)

Fri August 28, 2009
(SpaceVidCast) Followup Launch Attempt 3: Discovery launches to the ISS carrying COLBERT tonight at 11:59pm EDT. LGT HD feed  (spacevidcast.com) (289)
(Dallas News) Obvious Experts announce it is unsafe for pregnant women to be struck by lightning. Thank God for experts  (dallasnews.com) (20)
(AFP) Cool Tick spit may cure cancer. Quick, squeeze one over a spoooooooon  (news.yahoo.com) (38)
(diagrammr) Cool Draw diagrams with plain text; impress your imaginary girlfriend  (diagrammr.com) (65)
(C|Net) Scary Having learned from Iran, the US Senate has proposed a bill that would give the President the authority to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" and "turn off the internet." What could possibly go wro  (news.cnet.com) (344)
(eWeek) Spiffy Windows 7, come for the rock solid performance, stay for the hey the walls are melting into giant pools of marshmallows and my arms are really long man really  (eweek.com) (105)
(Canada.com) Interesting Without even asking if the corpses are being turned into bacon, doctors ask schools to stop killing pigs to teach medical students how to respond to patients suffering from acute trauma  (calgaryherald.com) (38)
(Canada.com) Interesting It's nearly September, which means it's time to debate whether college students' textbooks should be collecting dust in the closet or the My Documents folder  (edmontonjournal.com) (29)
(Some Guy) Hero Yes, you can now thank one single Canadian for changing how Facebook manages the personal information of millions  (ottawacitizen.com) (43)
(Wired) Interesting Remember the Conficker botnet? It's still out there, lurking, waiting, dreaming like Cthulhu  (wired.com) (52)
(Techtree.com) Interesting Soon, Xbox Live Gold members will be able to use Twitter and Facebook for free. In other words, to make paying for a service more attractive, they're adding access to services that are free everywhere  (techtree.com) (74)
(Some Guy) Cool 20 Outstanding Examples of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Origami  (thetoyzone.com) (26)
(News.com.au) Amusing "Hey, chances are you are far more advanced than us here on Earth. Our weaknesses are cake and ice cream. Please retro-fit your weapons to fire these things"  (blogs.news.com.au) (74)
(Computerworld) Obvious Another protocol cracked, another bit of plausible deniability next time somebody "hijacks" your wireless to visit hilaryis44  (blogs.computerworld.com) (31)
(Some Googler) Obvious Results 1 - 10 of about 25,600,000 for "fire escape" (0.54 seconds)  (news.bnonews.com) (37)
(BBC) Cool Scientists snap picture of a single molecule  (news.bbc.co.uk) (100)
(Labspaces.net) Scary Dirty, dark tunnels contain toxic material harmful to humans. This Paris Hilton update brought to you by LabSpaces. Oh, and those tunnels you drive through in cars? They'll kill you too  (labspaces.net) (9)
(io9) Scary Nitrous oxide is destroying the Earth. Stop laughing, dammit  T-Shirt  (io9.com) (26)
(New Scientist) Interesting New study suggests there's a reason spiders make girls scream like, well, girls  (newscientist.com) (38)
(Reuters) Interesting A cure for chocolatism is in the works  (reuters.com) (17)
(CNN) Obvious Having run out of steeples to stomp on, and American flags to burn, the ACLU takes on its next target: Facebook quizzes  (cnn.com) (41)

Thu August 27, 2009
(Some Guy) Cool The greatest set of Antarctica photos you'll see this year. Includes a link to amazing pics of a seagull-like bird killing a penguin  (komar.org) (42)
(Discover) Obvious Methane fog detected at Titan's south pole. Titan blames Pluto  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (23)
(Chicago Magazine) Stupid Man regrets eating a hamburger a day for 2 whole months because it made him stupid: "I've spaced my grandmother's 90th birthday, hit a parked car across the street from Jury's, and spent an entire workday with my fly open"  (chicagomag.com) (57)
(Yahoo) Stupid Old and busted: "Sunshine". New Hotness: "Death rays from space"  (news.yahoo.com) (17)
(New Scientist) Interesting Time to grab the bong again: New Scientist has put together a tour of fractals, hyperspace and more  (newscientist.com) (52)
(AMC) Amusing Having offended half of the geekosphere by noting the bad engineering in "Star Wars," science fiction author John Scalzi lobs a few spitballs at Trekkies  (blogs.amctv.com) (243)
(Wall Street Journal) Spiffy Xbox 360 just got $100 cheaper on the news that over half the systems brick within a few months of purchase  (online.wsj.com) (386)
(New Scientist) Interesting Cheap IVF offers hope to millions of childless Africans, because thousands more starving babies is clearly the solution that continent has been crying out for  (newscientist.com) (45)
(Abc.net.au) Strange Latest global-warming countermeasure: planting tons of fake trees which look like giant flyswatters. Here come the very, very drunk British scientists again  (abc.net.au) (64)
(Scientific American) Interesting Researchers design new breed of robotic fish to help with the search for Sarah Coddor  (scientificamerican.com) (17)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Big Brother's dreaded facial recognition software being used by the DMV to capture identity thieves. Orwelly?  (lasvegassun.com) (29)
(RedOrbit) Asinine "A major decline in the proportion of Canadians suffering hip fractures may be partly due to people weighing more and having bigger buttocks, researchers say"  (redorbit.com) (46)
(Some Guy) Spiffy The top 10 dogs in gaming. Number 10 will taunt you in your sleep  (gamespy.com) (97)
(Telegraph) Scary Begun, the jellyfish wars have  (telegraph.co.uk) (22)
(BBC) Sad Just another animal on the verge of extinctiWHAT THE fark IS THAT  (news.bbc.co.uk) (197)
(Some Meterologeek) Cool My god it's full of clouds: First full disk visible image from GOES 14. Thank you for spending my tax dollars well NOAA  (osei.noaa.gov) (59)
(Discovery) Interesting Upside: Watermelons may be used as fuel. Downside: Your muffler will have to be fitted with a seed spitter  (dsc.discovery.com) (23)
(Google) Cool Japan robotics experts unveil sci-fi wheelchair, demonstrate chair's cutting-edge blinking light  (google.com) (16)
(Some Guy) Interesting Robot legs can make a pogo stick jump 9 feet. So now its inventor wants to deploy it to the moon  (hplusmagazine.com) (14)

Wed August 26, 2009
(Maximum PC) Silly Microsoft to use CAPTCHAs to serve ads. Because if you don't enjoy the crisp, clean, refreshing taste of Dr. Pepper, you're obviously not human  (maximumpc.com) (57)
(Yahoo) Stupid Yahoo presents 12 outdated tech terms you can never say in the office. "Yahoo" conspicuously missing  (finance.yahoo.com) (143)
(Some Guy) Amusing The top reason for people not upgrading to Firefox 3 was their extensive porn browsing habits. Submitter prefers Chrome for that  (pcpro.co.uk) (100)
(Yahoo) Amusing Microsoft apologizes for ethnically cleansing its European ads  (softsailor.com) (76)
(Network World) Interesting Researchers get $2 million to screw up weather reports in space  (networkworld.com) (16)
(Slate) Interesting Whatever happened to acid rain?  (slate.com) (154)
(Some Guy) Cool Britain reveals plans for high-speed rail link that could get people the hell out of Scotland and into the civilized world in less than two hours  (channel4.com) (22)
(Experience Project) Amusing Classic comic books and meth circles are amateur hour: Five comics that guarantee a score  (experienceproject.com) (26)
(ABC2News Baltimore) Amusing Scientists have photographed "upwards lightning," a rarely-seen phenomenon where electricity flows into the upper atmosphere. If you'd like to see what the experience is like, just rotate the included stock photo 180 degrees  (abc2news.com) (38)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Every cloud has a silver lining: Alzheimers patients don't remember who Britney Spears is  (news.yahoo.com) (26)
(Scientific American) Interesting Depression may not be a malfunction, but rather an adaptation which brings certain cognitive advantages. You probably submitted this with a better headline, but it's never going to be approved, so you might as well just cut yourself now  (scientificamerican.com) (154)
(Telegraph) Cool To the surprise of absolutely nobody, it turns out kids quite enjoy learning about science through the medium of blowing stuff up  (telegraph.co.uk) (37)
(The Register) Cool Zero to tea in 1.3 seconds  (theregister.co.uk) (27)
(Wired.co.uk) Weird Now you too can smell like a Trekkie  (wired.co.uk) (111)
(Some Guy) Hero Photos of helicopter static-electric phenomenon resulting in beautiful rings of light. Halo effect named after two lost soldiers who already earned their own  (michaelyon-online.com) (71)
(News.com.au) Interesting Paleontologist plans to manipulate chicken embryos to create a dinosaur. Worst case scenario, we all get killed by dinosaurs. Best case scenario, Dino McNuggets for everyone  T-Shirt  (news.com.au) (55)
(Some Guy) Interesting NASA hopes to find moon water...by crashing into the moon  (hplusmagazine.com) (31)
(Cracked) Spiffy How to slander online now that Google won't protect you  (cracked.com) (32)
(MSNBC) Interesting Prehistoric mammal swung tail much like a baseball bat, discoverers unsure whether primary use was for prehistoric baseball or prehistoric spousal abuse  (msnbc.msn.com) (37)

Tue August 25, 2009
(BBC) Spiffy 'Stress' is shrinking polar bears, w/ awwwwww pics  (news.bbc.co.uk) (57)
(Some Gasbag) Scary Thousands at risk from toxic gas trapped beneath lake in the Congo. Subby had no idea his dad was into African scuba diving  (qualityhealth.com) (40)
(The Daily Beast) Obvious The Kindle will succeed because it lets people enjoy smutty romance novels and vapid "Twilight"-style adolescent fare in public places without anyone knowing  (thedailybeast.com) (76)
(Wired) Interesting Scientists theorize that it is impossible to make babies in outer space. Farkers eagerly await request for volunteers in what will be the most awesome proof-of-principle study ever  (wired.com) (35)
(CBC) Scary HPV may cause half of all cases of penis cancer. Now see how quickly the authorities approve shots for all our kids  (cbc.ca) (58)
(Joystiq) Sad New video game features a sexy dominatrix wearing a skin-tight catsuit. Also has one-handed controls, in case you need to do something with your other hand while playing  (joystiq.com) (58)
(Some Reader) Cool The new wireless version of the Sony Reader will allow you to check books out of the library without having to go there and risk seeing a homeless dude jacking it as he surfs porn on their computers  (mashable.com) (47)
(USA Today) Interesting Varying Internet speeds across the nation are leading to a new digital divide in the US, which had previously consisted of "AOL Users" and "Everyone Else"  (usatoday.com) (131)
(Kotaku) Weird Nintendo submits patent for motion-sensitive football controller to be used with NFL games. What could possibly go wrong? (pics)  (kotaku.com) (75)
(Network World) Cool NASA and the Air Force develop green rocket fuel that can be manufactured in exotic locations like the moon or Mars  (networkworld.com) (26)
(Network World) Cool Judge decides that all Novell base are belong to SCO  (networkworld.com) (51)
(UPI) Amusing Scientists find romantic bats sing love songs. Depressed bats sing My Chemical Romance tunes  (upi.com) (15)
(Atom) Video Felicia Day singing a naughty version of "A few of my favorite things". Boing  (atom.com) (98)
(Daily Mail) Interesting How 'digital overload' is making us all more easily distra --- oooh, look, a cat doing something funny  (dailymail.co.uk) (23)
(YouTube) Cool Robotic hands like never before  (youtube.com) (56)
(Guardian.com) Cool On this day 400 years ago, Galileo Galilei revolutionized the field of voyeurism  (guardian.co.uk) (34)
(WCPO) Florida Strange unseen aquatic creature "filmed," dubbed the elusive "Muck Monster" by the locals. Jinkies, it sounds like we've got a mystery on our hands, gang  (wcpo.com) (38)
(BBC) Scary Government decides illegal file sharers will have their internet discon ++NO CARRIER++  (news.bbc.co.uk) (42)
(Wired.co.uk) Cool 650 million years of history in 90 seconds. Still no cure for tectonic shift  (wired.co.uk) (80)
(YouTube) Amusing Top Gear explains how a BMW M3 is more economical than a Prius. Wait, what?  (youtube.com) (240)
(Wired) Interesting printf("Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Linux, Happy Birthday to you");  (wired.com) (125)
(New Scientist) Obvious Good news everybody ... warming seas means more food for fish and a bigger risk of the food web collapsing. Here comes the marine science  (newscientist.com) (20)
(C|Net) Sad Yet again, Wikipedia becomes less free: All edits to entries about living people will have to be approved by "experienced editors"  (news.cnet.com) (108)

Mon August 24, 2009
(Some Guy) Obvious The latest from The Romero Institute. Women with higher testosterone levels behave like men  (kvoa.com) (29)
(London Times) Hero Richard Dawkins ~ People who reject the theory of evolution should be placed on a level with Holocaust deniers  (entertainment.timesonline.co.uk) (672)
(NPR) Obvious Research just released by the University of Well-Duh reveals that humans have always wrecked their environments  (npr.org) (37)
(SpaceVidCast) Spiffy Thunderstorms are in the area, but that's not stopping NASA from gassing up the tanks. Watch HD coverage of the launch of STS-128, Space Shuttle Discovery's 10th mission to the ISS scheduled for 1:36am ET  (spacevidcast.com) (169)
(CNN) Interesting Apple to release Snow Leopard. You have no idea how hard it is to get those things in a box  (cnn.com) (296)
(CNN) Silly The IAU reports that Americans are still feeling icy about Pluto not being a planet  (cnn.com) (73)
(Wired) Cool Each year they gather in formation, ready to thwart pilots and baffle scientists  (wired.com) (40)
(New Scientist) Spiffy Despite the warnings, landing sites on Europa have been identified  (newscientist.com) (71)
(LA Times) Obvious When is Photoshopping too much Photoshopping? When you can tell by some of the pixels  (latimes.com) (51)
(Some Boobie Supporter) Interesting Bra remediation to end global energy crisis  (ecofriend.org) (32)
(YouTube) Cool ASIMO can play Frogger  (youtube.com) (46)
(Wall Street Journal) Strange The "Third Man Factor." No, it's not a British homosexual spy, but a ghostly presence that some people feel is near them during exceptionally stressful situations  (online.wsj.com) (63)
(Tulsa World) Spiffy It is Lupus. But, now there's finally a drug to treat it  (tulsaworld.com) (45)
(TechEBlog) Cool Homemade backyard rollercoaster? Yes, please  (techeblog.com) (36)
(Network World) Interesting Hypothetical death match: E-mail vs. the Web  (networkworld.com) (38)
(Yahoo) Cool Nerds and hot chicks playing dress-up - Blizzcon 2009  (videogames.yahoo.com) (149)
(Science Daily) Interesting Much like your Uncle Bob after a night of beer and tacos, new microchip technology can perform 1,000 chemical reactions at once  (sciencedaily.com) (7)
(Some Guy) Scary The eighth largest oil field in the world will be dried up by the end of the year, but go right ahead and hop into your F-650 and drive 30 miles to grab a jug of milk  (seekingalpha.com) (260)

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