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Sun November 15, 2009
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(American Thinker) Fail Global temperature rise by 2050, as predicted by computer models, if CO2 emissions are not curbed: 1.0C. Global temperature rise by 2050, by those same models, if CO2 emissions meet Kyoto Treaty targets: 0.94C  (americanthinker.com) (395)
(The New York Times) Interesting Doctors: Here, take these common prescription drugs proven to cut your chances of getting cancer in half. Public: No thanks, we prefer to take this snake oil peddled by the health supplement industry. Doctors: **FACEPALM**  (nytimes.com) (163)
(Reality Carnival) Cool Yeah, yeah, we've all seen pretty fractal pictures befo... HOLY THIRD DIMENSION, BATMAN  (skytopia.com) (122)
(SFGate) Unlikely Scientists fear that increased technology will lead to greater incidence of attention deficit dis- HEY LOOK A BIRD  (sfgate.com) (31)
(C|Net) Asinine NASA launches a website to dispel fears from Roland Emmerich's "2012". Your tax dollars at work  (news.cnet.com) (138)
(The New York Times) Unlikely "Could the evolutionary perspective on religion become the basis for some kind of detente between religion and science?"  (nytimes.com) (279)

Sat November 14, 2009
(YouTube) Video Coolest video of a giant stingray you'll see all weekend  (youtube.com) (50)
(Wired) Cool Meet your new desktop pic: The Earth as seen from the Rosetta spacecraft  (wired.com) (32)
(Gizmodo) Interesting Ever wonder how an earthquake propagates through the entire planet? Here comes the science  (gizmodo.com) (25)
(Breitbart.com) Stupid Climate change is rDING... The sheriff is a nDING... Look out-- the sky is fDING... Snape kills DumbleDING... We're all gonna die in a fDING... Soylent Green is pDING.... Imma let you finish, but BeyDING  (breitbart.com) (59)
(Vancouver Sun) Interesting Scientists probe possible human causes of earthquakes. Apparently yes, your mom IS that fat  (vancouversun.com) (30)
(TechEBlog) Spiffy Five things you shouldn't microwave (w/ videos)  (techeblog.com) (104)
(Telegraph) Unlikely During the last 3 periods of global cooling since 1850, carbon emissions increased. And during the current one too. Hmmmmm  (telegraph.co.uk) (90)
(MSNBC) Unlikely Experts promise flying cars within five years. Still no word on sexbot prototype  (msnbc.msn.com) (63)
(The Atlantic) Stupid Tom Bethel is not just a creationist, HIV denier, climate-change denier, and a relativity denier but he also thinks Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare's plays. Time to give that man a GED in Law  (theatlantic.com) (127)

Fri November 13, 2009
(VentureBeat) Cool YouTube to roll out 1080p video. Subby likes high definition turtles  (venturebeat.com) (57)
(Discover) Amusing In the days after Thanksgiving, researchers find traces of sage and thyme in the water supply. No word on why they didn't find evidence of the martinis you swilled to get through the day  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (18)
(Ars Technica) Strange Behold, the uncertain science of carpet bumps  (arstechnica.com) (10)
(CNN) Interesting Google to offer free cell phone service  (cnn.com) (43)
(NASA) Spiffy High-speed nanosensor-based chemical sensing... with a cell phone? NASA lab has an app for that  (nasa.gov) (12)
(Universe Today) Interesting Why did the HAL 9000 sing "Daisy, Daisy..." as it died? It was an homage  (universetoday.com) (84)
(Yahoo) Interesting Humans are evolving to become less intelligent. There goes the science  (news.yahoo.com) (151)
(Yahoo) Silly Six months later, and numerous scientific and engineering reports later, NASA is ready to try to get the Mars rover unstuck with this radically new, scientifically researched and engineeringly approved maneuver...backing up  (news.yahoo.com) (47)
(Fox News) Cool NASA's glass is more than half filled on whether there is water on the moon  (foxnews.com) (146)
(Space) Cool The coolest video of a meteorite you'll see before dinner  (space.com) (18)
(Discovery) Spiffy LHC doomed to fail in its nefarious mission to destroy Earth. But keep the crowbar handy, just in case  (news.discovery.com) (66)
(MSNBC) Fail NASA instructs astronauts to start saving their Mountain Dew bottles after ISCA (in-space-crapping-apparatus) goes on the fritz. Howard Wolowitz unavailable for comment  (msnbc.msn.com) (77)
(Navy Times) Scary High-tech WWII Japanese subs found off Hawaii. This is not a repeat from 1941  (navytimes.com) (120)
(Slashdot) Interesting Synthetic stone DVD claimed to last 1000 years. No word if you have to use a bird's beak to play them  (hardware.slashdot.org) (65)
(Popular Science) Interesting China's weather manipulation brings crippling snowstorm to Beijing. No, really  (popsci.com) (44)

Thu November 12, 2009
(Computerworld) Scary Security researchers find a way Flash can be used to attack most web sites and their users, and Adobe says it can't be patched. Subby is going back to using Lynx  (computerworld.com) (90)
(Discover) Fail Newt Gingrich was a role model. The divorce rate is 21% among couples where the woman has been diagnosed with cancer. When it's the man who's diagnosed, the rate is 3%  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (84)
(US News) Amusing Straw may be building material of the future, according to the big bad wolf  (usnews.com) (36)
(Some Guy) Interesting West African giraffes make surprising comeback; now face Lions in division play-offs  T-Shirt  (usnews.com) (20)
(Newsweek) Obvious The Internet has destroyed Western Civilization in just a few short years. Thanks a lot, Al Gore  (2010.newsweek.com) (109)
(Truth Hurts) Obvious Facebook for iPhone developer leaves team because Apple had the audacity to tell him how crappy his app is  (macrumors.com) (73)
(Kotaku) Obvious Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold 4.7 million units in its first day, making it "the biggest launch in history across all forms of entertainment." Expect it to be made into a Hollywood movie in 5...4...3...2  (kotaku.com) (320)
(BBC) Cool American scientists disarm previously-thought "undruggable" cancer protein  (news.bbc.co.uk) (31)
(The Consumerist) Followup Mark Pincus has asked for you to be part of a massive scam in Mafia Wars: Accept | Ignore  (consumerist.com) (56)
(CBC) Cool Canadians are smarter than they look, eh?  (cbc.ca) (40)
(Instructables.com) Cool Sometimes pelting someone with a couple hundred paintballs traveling at 300 feet per second just isn't enough. Introducing the DIY paintball landmine  (instructables.com) (95)
(Gizmodo) Strange On balance, it's probably a good thing that we don't have the technological capability to redesign the human body, at least if these suggestions are anything to go by  (gizmodo.com) (51)
(TechEBlog) Interesting After decades of research and hard work, scientists have finally developed a substance which sucks more than your mom  (techeblog.com) (20)
(New Scientist) Interesting What the LHC is really looking for, just in case you fancied reading a genuinely interesting piece of science writing today  (newscientist.com) (39)
(MSNBC) Spiffy The placebo effect works. So if you homeopathic nutbars think that a bottle of shaken distilled water can cure the flu, maybe it can  (msnbc.msn.com) (119)
(PCWorld) Obvious Actual Headline: "Bing Now a Serious Challenger to Google" Actual Memo on check to author: "Bing Now a Serious Challenger to Google"  (pcworld.com) (132)

Wed November 11, 2009
(CNN) Fail Console players: We are superior because no one pirates like PC gamers do. Microsoft to 1 Million Xbox 360 owners: Enjoy your ban  (money.cnn.com) (490)
(Discover) Cool Bipolar stars eat lithium, but they didn't planet that way  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (21)
(LA Times) Obvious Today's secret ingredient is ....... BROWN PELICAN. Allez cuisine  (latimes.com) (28)
(Wired) Cool Giant Asteroid could have stirred entire ocean 2 billion years ago  (wired.com) (50)
(Kotaku) Scary Terrifying clown army invades Best Buy (w/pics)  (kotaku.com) (31)
(PCWorld) Obvious Just when you thought Google Latitude couldn't get any scarier, it's been updated to make it just that much creepier  (pcworld.com) (37)
(The Register) Cool Could the LHC open a portal to another reality leaving Earth prey to Hyperdimensional Super-Beings or Negentropic Void-Demons? Or does the writer just like making up silly names?  (theregister.co.uk) (128)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Michigan mathematician ends up in winner's circle, but finds it pointless  T-Shirt  (southbendtribune.com) (55)
(Computerworld) Obvious Microsoft: Just buy Windows 7 and nobody gets hurt by the security flaws in our old software that we're telling everybody about  (computerworld.com) (115)
(Daily Mail) Scary 23 foot wide asteroid almost hit Earth last week...and nobody saw it coming. Good night, sleep well, and know that an asteroid might kill you in the morning  (dailymail.co.uk) (71)
(Google) Fail Googles new programming language has already hit a hilarious snag  (code.google.com) (154)
(Sun Sentinel) Interesting First they came for the batshiat insane nuclear physicists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a batshiat insane nuclear physicist  (articles.sun-sentinel.com) (35)
(Some Guy) Strange NASA : An acorn-shaped object the size of a Volkswagen fell from the sky over 40 years ago?  (pittsburghlive.com) (50)
(The Scotsman) Strange Scottish archeologists on hunt for famous lost chessmen "after new research rocked long-held assumptions about when and where they were found"  (news.scotsman.com) (19)
(Some Comic Geek) Survey The Blackest Night rolls on and Deadpool visits Spidey. What are you picking up on new comic day this week?  (downtowncomics.ning.com) (86)
(Microsoft) Asinine Sudo make me a patent  (patft1.uspto.gov) (92)
(Wired) Cool 73 years ago today, Albert Einstein proved to the world that scientists can be cool  (wired.com) (13)
(The Register) Interesting Good: Firefox gains 44% market share. Bad: In security flaws  (theregister.co.uk) (88)
(TechEBlog) Cool It's Outrun, but not as you remember it  (techeblog.com) (24)
(The Local (Germany)) Cool German man becomes first European to control a vehicle with the power of his mind, but don't worry, Clint Eastwood has already been dispatched to steal it  (thelocal.de) (27)
(AOL) Stupid Catholic Church considers the possibility of life on other planets. Sure, why not believe in two things without any evidence?  (news.aol.com) (256)
(Planetary.org) Cool That's "Award-Winning Mars Rover," to you  (planetary.org) (24)

Tue November 10, 2009
(PhysOrg.com) Unlikely Ancient penguin DNA raises doubts about accuracy of genetic dating techniques. Linux still unusable  (physorg.com) (69)
(Discover) Cool The most jaw-droppingly intense picture of the Milky Way's core you will see, farkin' ever  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (112)
(Wired) Spiffy Ten geek laws that should exist. Number 11: Clever T-shirts won't get you laid  (wired.com) (127)
(Reuters) Scary LinkedIn and Twitter have joined forces to create an unnatural entity known as "TwinkedIn"  (reuters.com) (69)
(Breitbart.com) PSA NASA set to contradict 12/21/12 apocalypse rumors, probably by giving everyone the finger on 12/22/12  (breitbart.com) (97)
(Slate) Interesting Picky consumers first wanted organic vegetables, now they want the ones with the smallest "environmental footprint." In related news, some kid named Mobotu in Zimbabwe has offered to eat your carrot peelings if that's okay  T-Shirt  (slate.com) (152)
(Some Guy) Amusing Apple fixes non-existent security holes in Snow Leopard  (themoneytimes.com) (164)
(Boing Boing) Spiffy EFF successfully fights bogus federal subpoena for Web site's IP traffic. Which is cool, even if the site is the mega-douchey Indymedia  (boingboing.net) (24)
(PCWorld) Sad Depending on where you bought your copy of Modern Warfare 2, you might be Steamed today  (pcworld.com) (391)
(TechnologyReview) Followup Next generation of implantable medical devices might not have as many security holes as the last, disappointing hackers hoping to run a literal zombie botnet  (technologyreview.com) (14)
(Cracked) Obvious Six insane laws we'll need in the future. Still no cure for... oh wait, there will be  (cracked.com) (76)
(Yahoo) Scary "It sounds yucky, but it may be well worth doing if it's going to lead to a cure for something horrible," speculates Dr. Moreau  (news.yahoo.com) (36)
(Abc.net.au) Interesting Bunnies with penis implants. Hugh Hefner not amused  (abc.net.au) (71)

Mon November 09, 2009
(Topless Robot) Amusing The worst Atari 2600 games, acccording to people who have never played "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" (with vids)  (toplessrobot.com) (150)
(BBC) Ironic Liquid metal core inside Mercury found not to be mercury  (news.bbc.co.uk) (96)
(IGN) Cool Live in the Northeast? Modern Warfare 2 can be yours a day ahead of schedule  (xbox360.ign.com) (124)
(CNN) Obvious Apple iTablet could cement Steve Jobs' legacy. Oh and it might also be a useful device, and possibly create sales for the company. But mostly the legacy thing  (cnn.com) (164)
(Live Science) Interesting What do the photos you post on social media sites say about your attention-whoreaility?  (livescience.com) (58)
(Discover) Hero Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan, 1934 - 1996  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (110)
(Gizmodo) Cool Finally, a real reason to own a Roomba  (gizmodo.com) (56)
(Science Daily) Interesting Turns out planetary families are just as dysfunctional as yours  (sciencedaily.com) (6)
(TechnologyReview) Cool Adult woman still enjoys playing with Shrinky-Dinks  (technologyreview.com) (47)
(Guardian.com) Interesting As long as that bee pollen isn't poison, government shouldn't regulate herbal remedies, homeopathy and other nonsense. After all, adults have the right to believe very silly things if they like  (guardian.co.uk) (50)
(Some Guy) Interesting To produce 100,000 barrels of oil a day from shale sources, you would have to spend 1.21 gigawatts of energy. 1.21 GIGAWATTS?  (doi.gov) (102)
(Kansas.com) Weird When is a tree that acts like a tree not a tree at all?  (kansas.com) (36)
(Boston Globe) Interesting Our ancestors drove chipmanzees out of their native habitat, but the chimps got their revenge  (boston.com) (10)
(Wired) Spiffy "Oh, you have such nice skin" "Yeah, it's due to my brand new Renault Spa Car"  (wired.com) (24)
(TechEBlog) Amusing If you've always wanted a V8-powered car, but never could afford one, don't get the SoundRacer  (techeblog.com) (44)
(National Geographic) Cool What involves helium, a white dwarf, and one hell of a blast? It might have been your weekend, but it's also a new kind of supernova  (news.nationalgeographic.com) (25)
(Some Guy) Interesting How 7,000 Vermont residents were almost encased in a mile-long plastic dome  (hplusmagazine.com) (124)
(Some Guy) Cool Wallace and Gromit comics on your iPhone. As the iconic duo reach their 20th anniversary, it's only fitting that the characters responsible for the BunVac 6000 and Techno Trousers should become pioneers of an exciting new technology  (wallaceandgromitcomics.com) (13)
(Abc.net.au) Obvious Sure, Australians are all g'dayers, shrimp-on-the-barbie throwers and all about "no worries"...until he creates an iPhone virus that gives you Rick Astley wallpaper and a "Never Gonna Give You Up" ringtone  (abc.net.au) (39)
(Gizmodo) Amusing In response to being sued by AT&T over their 3G commercial, Verizon launches three new commercials. Translation: "Suck it AT&T"  (gizmodo.com) (120)

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