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Sun September 13, 2009

Source	Fark Headline		Comments
		The top 10 X-rated games that basement-dwelling losers who play video games want to see - which would be 99.9 percent of the video-game market (SFW) (huffingtonpost.com)	(113)
(Some Guy)		Page 17, line 5, word 4. ▌▄▐◄█▬▌▀ (royal.pingdom.com)	(110)
(Some CO2 emitting bastard)		That whole thing about the solar cycle can't drive global warming? Turns out it does (theresilientearth.com)	(114)
(Some Guy)		Pac Man world record broken, now if only there were a cure for Pac Man Fever (ethiopianreview.com)	(42)
		Men found to tell six lies every day. Go ahead and complain that you submitted this with a better headline - that still leaves you with five for today (dailymail.co.uk)	(55)
(Telovation.com)		Finally a use for typewriters: Typewriter Sculptures (telovation.com)	(12)
		Women increasingly choosing not to go into IT because the field is "too boring." I'll avoid making the obvious pun about D-channel addressing (smh.com.au)	(122)
		$100 million stimulus question: Where's broadband in U.S.? (tech.yahoo.com)	(49)
		Warning issued over loophole in Internet money transfer system that could leave customers broke. For once, they're not talking about PayPal's TOS (dailymail.co.uk)	(26)
		Modern science discovers the old gym clothes at the back of your closet (wired.com)	(24)

Sat September 12, 2009

		As if there weren't enough things in the ocean to fear... Tongue Eating Parasites (with nightmare haunting photo goodness) (io9.com)	(108)
		Scientists say they can now create the Six Million Dollar Man for about $250,000 (dailymail.co.uk)	(77)
		Turbine-powered R/C F-22 does thrust vectoring (techeblog.com)	(83)
		Ballmer: "Nice iPhone you got there. It would be a shame if anything were to happen to it" (guardian.co.uk)	(112)
		Rare seabird that went missing for 130 years seen flying over Pacific island, and boy are its wings tired (news.bbc.co.uk)	(29)
		Shrinking Arctic ice has resulted in a shortcut between Asia and Europe. See, Global Warming can do something good (kansascity.com)	(129)

Fri September 11, 2009

	Your dog wants mutant bees to shoot from its mouth (physorg.com)	(27)
(The Merry Men of Nottingham U)	British professors are all up in Stradivarius' face with their new carbon fiber violin (communications.nottingham.ac.uk)	(31)
(Some OS-agnostic geek)	An obscure O/S originally made for an obscure platform by an obscure company claws its way back from obscurity... BeOS to be reborn as HaikuOS Alpha 1 on 09/14. Subby squints at sunlight, wonders when BeOS was supposed to have "died" (haiku-os.org)	(91)
(Some Guy)	After years of tireless work, the "Liquid Stone" study group at MIT has finally decoded the molecular structure of cement. Which has apparently been a closely guarded secret until now (web.mit.edu)	(41)
(Spaceflight Now)	Heads up, Cali - the space shuttle is diverting to Edwards AFB - Discovery landing scheduled for 5:53pm PST (spaceflightnow.com)	(514)
	UCSB Scientists target individual cancer cells with frickin' laser beams. Still no cure for....oh, right (popsci.com)	(17)
	Schrodinger's Flu (science.slashdot.org)	(36)
(Some Guy)	Meta shirt is meta (with pics) (joethepeacock.com)	(84)
	Want to boldly go where just a few men (and women) have gone before? Pony up $35m and hop aboard this ex-Soviet space warship (theregister.co.uk)	(42)
(NOAA)	This summer was the 34th coolest on record, which simultaneously prove and disproves global warming, depending on your preconceived notions (ncdc.noaa.gov)	(115)
	The future of NASA: Moon pie, Mars bar, or Diet Ares? (blogs.discovermagazine.com)	(21)
	IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Google offer newspapers suggestions on how to charge readers for online content. Thanks, you traitorous bastards (finance.yahoo.com)	(53)
	Canadian Air Transport Security Authority plans to buy seven controversial virtual strip search scanners, but declines the genital blurring option to go with them (cnews.canoe.ca)	(67)
	Alien Shadow Life may already live on earth. Vorlons up in arms (foxnews.com)	(127)
	The future of space travel lies in surfing, as long as you can keep one step ahead of Galactus (timesonline.co.uk)	(31)
	Just in case you were wondering, the Maori aren't "retarded borderline psychotics", and it's irresponsible for scientists to claim otherwise (news.com.au)	(80)
	Linux Foundation director Jim Zemlin contends that Microsoft is covertly attacking Linux, confusing everybody who knows what the word "covert" actually means (arstechnica.com)	(101)
	34,000 years ago, some woman asked her man whether these flax fibers made her butt look fat (physorg.com)	(29)

Thu September 10, 2009

	"It's not a bug in the game's code, it's a bug in your moral code." (kotaku.com)	(164)
	Scientists discover why old people suddenly like things like beets, lima beans and liver and onions (livescience.com)	(63)
	The story of Little Red Riding Hood may have first been told in 600 AD, except with more rape (telegraph.co.uk)	(87)
	The Velociraptor is 20m away from the bottom of the tree when you begin to climb, and can run at 10 m/s. How long will you survive? (newscientist.com)	(132)
	Leonardo Da Vinci's Atlantic Codex goes on display. Can a poorly written Dan Brown novel be far behind? (hosted.ap.org)	(29)
(Science News)	Transgenic monkeys give birth to babies that glow green under UV light. Article notes that their sperm will as well. Thanks, article writing guy (sciencenews.org)	(24)
(Frederik Pohl)	Science fiction writer Frederik Pohl shares thoughts on L. Ron Hubbard: "There is one thing about Ron that I do remember. He was a chick magnet" (thewaythefutureblogs.com)	(51)
(Miller-McCune Magazine)	It's closer than you think: 2 BD, 1 Bath, nice view of Earth (miller-mccune.com)	(42)
	Government computers may soon have iPhone-like apps, such as CoffeeBreakHunter 3D, Redtape Rally, and iBlameshifter 2009 (thehill.com)	(12)
	Problem: Influenza constantly shifts strains, making vaccines hard. Solution: Alter influenza's genetic code to outwit Mother Nature. Yeah, this will end well (forbes.com)	(113)
(Some Guy)	FDA approves more autism for boys (webmd.com)	(111)
	"Using your head is a lot of fun". And when that fails, just use Adam's (newscientist.com)	(13)
	A good article on protecting yourself from identity theft. Definitely worth a read --Drew (arstechnica.com)	(45)
	Top 10 best video games that no one bought (telegraph.co.uk)	(384)
	Sending message 80km by carrier pigeon: 2 hours, six minutes. In South Africa, that's actually faster than sending an email (news.com.au)	(37)
	Google is so awesome it needs to invent a new mirror for its awesomeness (reuters.com)	(15)

Wed September 09, 2009

(Some Guy)	NIMBY problem? Just float the damn wind turbines out to sea like they're doing in Norway (crispgreen.com)	(82)
	Swine Flu strikes Penny Arcade Expo infecting countless gaming nerds with a contagious debilitating virus. Hakkar the Soulflayer nods approvingly (eurogamer.net)	(83)
	Bed sharing is "bad for health", especially if it's with you (news.bbc.co.uk)	(87)
	Just-released images from the recently refurbished hubble. So real, it's like actually being in the universe (nasa.gov)	(91)
	Scientists discover how to make mice levitate. Are you pondering what I'm pondering? (livescience.com)	(115)
	Behold, the skull that is rewriting the history of mankind (independent.co.uk)	(355)
(Wired.co.uk)	Interesting: $35 solar panel is powered by hair. More interesting: A pound of human hair costs 25 cents in Nepal (wired.co.uk)	(50)
	Holy comic book cover remixes, Batman (wired.com)	(83)
	Noisier hybrid cars to help the blind. Who could have seen that coming? (online.wsj.com)	(176)
	"Great tits have been discovered killing and eating bats by pecking their heads open" (newscientist.com)	(201)
	Yawning is so contagious that chimpanzees can "catch" it from cartoons, according to research (with cartoon that will haunt your dreams) (news.bbc.co.uk)	(25)
(C. Montgomery Burns)	Residents near nuclear power plants to receive anti-radiation pills for free. We're not saying there's a problem or anything. We just think it's a good idea (southbendtribune.com)	(57)
	Legendary NY restaurant guidebook publisher Zagat too cautious in entering online world, getting its four-star lunch eaten by Yelp and Chowhound (nypost.com)	(57)

Tue September 08, 2009

	Nigel Tufnel turns physical scientist: Mohs scale to go to 11 (newscientist.com)	(45)
	"It seems unwise to de-orbit the International Space Station after 25 years of assembly and only five years of operational life" (washingtonpost.com)	(90)
	Plan to send astronauts to the Moon by 2020 "just won't fly," according to space panel (hosted.ap.org)	(99)
(Some Guy)	Windows 7 will ship with remote BSOD feature enabled, letting users reboot like it's 1999 (electronista.com)	(132)
	Unlike the Kyoto Accord, which passed and then failed, it would appear that the Copenhagen Accord is going to fail and then not pass (news.bbc.co.uk)	(35)
	Nintendo and Showtime team to make Dexter video game for Wii. I'm feeling stabby all of a sudden (bbspot.com)	(87)
	Scientists find evidence crying may improve relationships, jewelry collections (sciencedaily.com)	(31)
	Scientists are one step closer to producing a vaccine against prostate cancer. Subby gives this story a big thumbs up (timesonline.co.uk)	(54)
	Man's new generator cost him $24,000, but the feeling of superiority it brings is priceless (metrowestdailynews.com)	(73)
	Tyler sold his stem cells to universities at $20 a tube. Lord knows what they charged. It was beautiful. We were selling sick people their own fat asses back to them (mercurynews.com)	(33)
	Attention students, you cannot ask astronauts if they work naked in space (upi.com)	(46)
(Some Guy)	10 technologies we stole from the animal kingdom. Cat-like typing not detected (ethiopianreview.com)	(62)

Mon September 07, 2009

(NRL)	Naval Research Lab puts us one step closer to sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads (nrl.navy.mil)	(6)
	Halo 3: ODST PROTIP: When transporting the SRS99D Sniper Rifle (replica) in public, use a carrying case (kotaku.com)	(67)
	New processor computes with hot air. Rush Limbaugh's performance can now be measured in Gigaflops (newscientist.com)	(26)
	Good news: you don't have to eat your greens for good night vision. Bad News: You have to put them in your eyes (discovermagazine.com)	(38)
	Newly discovered spider named after David Bowie, presumably because it looks like it's from Mars (telegraph.co.uk)	(42)
	Scientists show the human brain is hard-wired by evolution to believe in God. Tinfoil hats optional (telegraph.co.uk)	(332)
	Scientists go into Myanmar, brave round-the-clock torrential rains and bands of leeches before rediscovering extinct forest turtle, known locally as "turtle that eats rhinoceros feces" (sg.news.yahoo.com)	(23)
	Scientists call on religious leaders to tackle climate change, recognizing there are some problems so big that only God can solve them (guardian.co.uk)	(81)
	Facebook enhances intelligence, while Twitter diminishes it (telegraph.co.uk)	(26)
	Team of engineers from Northern Ireland build racing car from cashew shells. That's just nuts (news.bbc.co.uk)	(13)
	Biologist exploring a lost world discover rats the size of cats, frogs with fangs, and fish that grunt. Pleasant dreams (dailymail.co.uk)	(64)
(Some Guy)	Restaurants in Madrid and put bottles of alcohol-based hand sanitizer on their tables to combat swine flu after years of fearing that customers would accidentally drink them and find the gel more palatable than Spanish white wine (kuwaittimes.net)	(39)
	For the low, low, price of $100 an hour, British scientists will say whatever you want them to (dailymail.co.uk)	(29)
	Scientists figure out why Easter Island statues are wearing giant red hats, hope to solve that pesky cancer thing now that the important stuff is out of the way (news.bbc.co.uk)	(43)