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Sun October 11, 2009
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(Game Spot) Stupid Remember when sports-based video games had a generic audience in the background? EA must be fondly remembering those days about now  (gamespot.com) (61)
(C|Net) Spiffy Japan invents dual-widescreen-display laptop, to let you use that long table at the coffeeshop to its fullest  (news.cnet.com) (30)
(Some Guy) Spiffy The most pretentious yet awesome resume you'll see today  (simplecomplexity.net) (73)
(Some Guy) Cool 50 years of space exploration (pic)  (stevey.com) (46)
(The New Yorker) Interesting Are you ready for some foo██████████████████ Where am I?  (newyorker.com) (56)
(Yahoo) Obvious Mayans wish whitey would just STFU about 2012  (news.yahoo.com) (124)
(PCWorld) Hero Perez Hilton says T-mobile Sidekick outage has "affected his ability to work"  (pcworld.com) (88)

Sat October 10, 2009
(Experience Project) Cool Smell that? That's the scent of pumpkins, knives and twisted minds in the air  (experienceproject.com) (15)
(Daily Mail) Obvious "There is something solitary and depressing about the internet. Cyberspace is the ideal place to order groceries, stalk an ex-lover or waste swathes of the day on soul-sucking stories about whether someone is considered too fat"  (dailymail.co.uk) (40)
(Giz Mag) Cool I for one welcome our new robot overlords (video goodness)  (gizmag.com) (25)
(Slate) Obvious Columnist wonders why AT&T isn't gouging its iPhone customers even more by ditching unlimited data  (slate.com) (55)
(NASA) Cool Take THAT I'll do it again, don't think I won't  (antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov) (27)
(Some Mac Fanboy) Obvious 25 things the iPhone has rendered useless. Smug sense of self-accomplishment conspiciously absent  (maclife.com) (194)
(Mac Rumors) Interesting Old and busted: Domain name squatting. New hotness: App name squatting  (macrumors.com) (15)

Fri October 09, 2009
(LA Times) Scary Oceanographers fear New Jersey-sized "dead zone" off Oregon-Washington coast may be irreversible, thanks to climate change altering global wind patterns. New Jersey always seems to show up in this type of article  (latimes.com) (32)
(Telegraph) Fail Scientists say their experiment to reduce global warming would have worked if it was warmer outside  (telegraph.co.uk) (17)
(National Geographic) Scary Cthulhu fhtagn  (news.nationalgeographic.com) (61)
(Some Comic Geek) Strange Debuting at #9 "The Book of Genesis" graphic novel features the first collaboration between God and Robert Crumb...Wait, what?  (icv2.com) (64)
(365 Tomorrows) Amusing Your daily dose of micro sci-fi reveals that some basement-dwelling Farker will make good late in life, and some Slashdot user won't be so lucky  (365tomorrows.com) (33)
(Some Guy) Scary "U.S. health officials have lost track of how many illnesses and deaths have been caused by the first global flu epidemic in 40 years. And they did it on purpose"  (adn.com) (78)
(NASA) Cool Ever want to know what it looks like flying through the Aurora Borealis in space? Wonder no more (pic)  (nasa.gov) (42)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting How quantum computing might actually be useful rather than just a concept that gets science nerds more excited than a new DVD of Red Dwarf outtakes and deleted scenes  (physorg.com) (62)
(Some Guy) Obvious Study finds chronic fatigue syndrome "an actual disease", albeit an incredibly specialized one that only affects attention-seeking middle-aged women who were never that excited about coming to work in the first place  (healthzone.ca) (68)
(BBC) Interesting Scots use sheep to keep warm in the winter - but not the way they've been using sheep to stay warm for the last 2,000 years or so  (news.bbc.co.uk) (12)
(NASA) Followup NASA to hit the moon this morning looking for subsurface water. New agers scoff, claiming their divining rods never point up  (nasa.gov) (225)
(Labspaces.net) Interesting In a discovery sure to shake the medical world, scientists discover the genes that control Parkinson's Disease. Researchers said it was slow going, with lots of stops and starts, but they got there  (labspaces.net) (21)

Thu October 08, 2009
(Yahoo) Cool Scientists design a prototype underground city for the Nevada desert that would capture, recycle and store all its own water without being fed by an outside source. And yes, they are calling it Sietch Nevada  (news.yahoo.com) (107)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Scientists claim little metal rings have electrical currents that perpetually flow, ignoring the edict that in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics  (physorg.com) (54)
(Popular Science) Cool In 2020 when your laptop battery catches on fire and explodes, it will take out a whole city block  (popsci.com) (59)
(News.com.au) Ironic Belief in the supernatural and the occult is rising as atheism replaces religion  (news.com.au) (482)
(National Geographic) Cool Best micro-photography of 2009. And the winner is: Plant phallus  (news.nationalgeographic.com) (23)
(Canoe) Weird Researcher uncovers evidence of a Dinosaur Donner Party  (cnews.canoe.ca) (35)
(Computerworld) Interesting Ever wondered what would happen if you took your cell phone to a tropical jungle and had an elephant in stiletto heels dance on it in the rain? Stop eating spicy food before bedtime, and ask these guys  (computerworld.com) (15)
(PhysOrg.com) Strange Nissan unveils new 'Land Glider' concept car that makes drivers feel like they're flying, Maximas look cool by comparison (pic)  (physorg.com) (53)
(Network World) Scary How dangerous could a hacked robot possibly be?  (networkworld.com) (61)
(Science Daily) Interesting World's first sustainable racing car runs on chocolate, flowers, expensive jewelry  (sciencedaily.com) (22)
(Boston Globe) Interesting U.S. develops plan to control massive wild horse population in western states. We won't get into the details, but hope you enjoy your next My Little McPony Happy Meal  T-Shirt  (boston.com) (54)
(Some Guy) Obvious Scientists plan to use LHC to test hyperdrive propulsion system for interplanetary spaceships, reasoning that they'll need to get the hell off Earth fast before the LHC destroys the whole thing  (news.softpedia.com) (54)
(USA Today) Cool NASA's aiming for the wet spot  (usatoday.com) (33)
(Yahoo) Cool Scientists report the discovery of the largest dinosaur footprints ever found-nearly 5ft in diameter; say they are still looking for Jesus' saddle and bridle  (news.yahoo.com) (126)
(Some Guy) Silly Super-hero super Facebook status updates  (comicsalliance.com) (62)
(CBS Sacramento) Strange Feds commission $150,000 study on the forensic value of duct tape. "This time... the evidence... will stick." YEAAAAAAAAAAH  (cbs13.com) (72)
(Some Guy) Asinine What costs $8,000 per gallon? In a completely unrelated story, where do 50% of HP's profits come from?  (zmogo.com) (94)
(Some Bor Coded Guy) Spiffy The barcode was patented today in 1952. The phrase "price check in aisle two" invented June 26, 1974  (techcrunch.com) (39)

Wed October 07, 2009
(PCWorld) Amusing 4 out of every 5 Mac users also own a Windows PC  (pcworld.com) (320)
(Seattle Times) Amusing Microsoft launches new Windows Phones, touts them as serious iPhone competitors. Reviewers respond with "It still sucks" and "There's no excuse for this"  (seattletimes.nwsource.com) (76)
(Some Guy) Cool Scientists discover 'quantum fingerprints' of chaos  (eurekalert.org) (73)
(Discovery) Interesting Build your own hydrogen fuel cell  (planetgreen.discovery.com) (41)
(Wired) Interesting Your password sucks, and phishers know that it's either "password" or "123456," you lazy dumbass  (wired.com) (202)
(Gizmodo) Obvious Is a bike with collapsing wheels really a good idea?  (gizmodo.com) (25)
(TechnologyReview) Interesting Ever wonder how a tiny fly can precisely execute a high speed turn to lodge in your ear or eye?  (technologyreview.com) (26)
(New Scientist) Spiffy For the first time outside of a Star Trek convention, scientists see females choosing inferior males over their more fit competitors  (newscientist.com) (49)
(SeattlePI) Strange Microsoft launches site to help those with H1N1. No help for those with Windows 7  (blog.seattlepi.com) (135)
(Telegraph) Interesting Blackbirds found to have better understanding of physics than chimpanzees, liberal arts majors  T-Shirt  (telegraph.co.uk) (67)
(IT PRO) Amusing Time to drop the horns and BSDM wear, your avatar needs a suit and tie  (itpro.co.uk) (43)
(London Times) Interesting "In this brave new world of customised corneas, a radical change of lifestyle or career may soon precipitate a decision to have one's eyeballs resculpted"  (timesonline.co.uk) (20)
(Wired) Cool The making of a mind-blowing space photo  (wired.com) (42)
(nobelprize.org) Spiffy Three guys win Nobel Prize for enabling you to see their pictures on the Nobel Prize website  (nobelprize.org) (19)
(CNN) Unlikely The good news: you might be able to leave your shoes and jacket on going through airport security soon. The bad news: you'll have to take off your face  (cnn.com) (51)
(Discovery) Interesting Debunked by science, the Near-Death Experience heads into tunnel of light  (dsc.discovery.com) (480)
(SFGate) Interesting NASA announces discovery of ring around Saturn. No, this is not a repeat from 1610  (sfgate.com) (40)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Children as young as five found to be using the Internet without parental supervision. All of a sudden the Politics tab makes sense  T-Shirt  (dailymail.co.uk) (55)

Tue October 06, 2009
(Slashdot) Scary Those super-massive black holes scientists found? Yeah, they mean the Universe is a lot closer to heat death than previously thought  (science.slashdot.org) (99)
(Denver Channel) Obvious Study shows some women prefer their cell phones to sex, especially in vibrate mode  (thedenverchannel.com) (39)
(Guardian.com) Cool Second Stonehenge found buried a mile from the original  (guardian.co.uk) (181)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Anti-oxidants found to cause diabetes. To all those people why try to live healthy lifestyles, 'HA HA'  (physorg.com) (39)
(Canada.com) Obvious Calgary researchers make "incredibly exciting" find of 250g meteorite fragment near Saskatchewan border. With pic of "incredibly exciting" find  (www2.canada.com) (33)
(Wall Street Journal) Amusing What better way for an FCC chairman to describe Internet policy than through Bruce Springsteen song titles?  (blogs.wsj.com) (15)
(PhysOrg.com) Cool Plasma rocket. It's not quite a nuclear lightbulb, but it'll probably get us to Mars first  (physorg.com) (87)
(C|Net) Interesting Sorry Mac users, but the upcoming Ion-based nettops blow away the Mac mini in both appearance and performance, and they cost about 1/3rd as much  (asia.cnet.com) (407)
(smart planet) Cool IBM comes out with fully homomorphic encryption, will be awhile before it leaves the closet  (smartplanet.com) (21)
(Network World) Stupid A 500-word essay is too taxing? Does the 'T' in MIT stand for Tweet?  (networkworld.com) (60)
(Wired) Interesting Now you can get laser tattoos for your fruit, just in case you thought those oranges were just too conformist  (wired.co.uk) (27)
(Some Guy) Interesting What if the artificial brain you create decides it doesn't want to participate in your experiment?  (hplusmagazine.com) (79)
(RedOrbit) Interesting Scientists solve 150-year-old evolutionary puzzle of why some offspring stay in their parent's homes to spend their lives as non-reproducing drones. We draw this to your attention for no reason whatsoever  (redorbit.com) (49)
(BBC) Spiffy Vaccine could cut cocaine use and can be injected, snorted, or freebased  (news.bbc.co.uk) (33)
(Gizmodo) Cool New software creates Photoshop-like montages based solely upon crudely drawn scenes and keywords. SHARK, HELICOPTER among first tests... really  (gizmodo.com) (87)
(CBC) Interesting Bell to roll out Canada-wide wifi. So now Canucks can be denied access to iTunes Store everywhere  (cbc.ca) (52)

Mon October 05, 2009
(NASA) Spiffy On Friday morning, Oct. 9th, you can watch a pair of spacecraft crash into the Moon with your own eyes. Here's a viewer's guide  (science.nasa.gov) (84)
(MSNBC) Cool Scientists discover glow-in-the-dark mushrooms. This is not a repeat from the 1960's, man  (msnbc.msn.com) (22)
(PRB) Interesting 5.8% of all people ever born are alive today. The rest are dead, or working for US Congress  (prb.org) (54)
(Yahoo) Interesting Scientist reproduces the Shroud of Turin in his lab, proving once and for all Jesus was a skilled forensic scientist capable of faking his own death, just like the Bible says  (news.yahoo.com) (105)
(Joystiq) Weird Sony announces new video game accessory codenamed "Sphere", apparently targeting lonely women and your mom  (joystiq.com) (60)
(Ars Technica) Interesting Exploring a universe where nothing isn't empty, scientists still baffled by Hilton sisters  (arstechnica.com) (28)
(Live Science) Obvious Scientists finally discover why most women are miserable. Still no cure for cancer  (livescience.com) (75)
(BBC) Spiffy Bats discover what homeless people have known for years - bridges under the freeway are great places to make your home  (news.bbc.co.uk) (20)
(BBC) Interesting Britain puts out call for citizens willing to be 'extreme squirrellers'  (news.bbc.co.uk) (19)
(AP) Florida Rare flamingo photographed in Florida that's not made of plastic  (hosted.ap.org) (29)
(PCWorld) Obvious We have googled the enemy, and it is us  (pcworld.com) (74)
(C|Net) Obvious HTML5 is nice, but for cutting-edge web annoyances, there will never be a replacement for Flash  (news.cnet.com) (182)
(The Earth Times) Cool German scientists create 'steel Velcro'  (earthtimes.org) (47)

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