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Sun November 29, 2009
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(AFP) Unlikely Today's "miraculous cure for cancer" that you'll never hear about again is... *shakes magic 8-ball* ... tiny magnetic discs  (news.yahoo.com) (22)
(The Times of India) Cool Scientists perfect vodak in easy-to-carry pill form. Is this a great time to be alive or what?  (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) (84)
(London Times) Dumbass Scientists admit that they dump...that the dog ate much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based  (timesonline.co.uk) (382)
(Some Guy) Interesting Remember those melting glaciers? Yeah, not so much melting  (dawn.com) (287)
(American Medical Association) PSA Levels might be elevated by hormones  (ama-assn.org) (20)
(Houston Chronicle) Interesting Reasearch scientists warming to African rats that never seem to get cancer, are acid resistant, and live ten times as long as most common 'Old World' rats. Still no cure for the icky-ick-ick ooo-ooo-oos  (chron.com) (40)
(The Earth Times) Interesting Yahoo improves its search engine. In other news, Yahoo still has a search engine  (earthtimes.org) (39)
(Core77) Weird Japan unveils self-healing paint for cell phones, based on similar technology for cars  (core77.com) (20)

Sat November 28, 2009
(Time) Spiffy The top 50 inventions of this year. No, your flying car still isn't on it  (time.com) (59)
(Daily Yomiuri) Spiffy Ant scientists discover "lazy" workers are critical in providing stable labor power to maintain colony. In other words, slacking is evolutionarily beneficial  (yomiuri.co.jp) (44)
(Gizmodo) Hero And now, confirmation the Droid really is the iPhone killer: Porn Apps  (gizmodo.com) (103)
(IOL) Obvious Australians gratefully accept gift of pair of giant pandas from China, saying they are thrilled to finally have an couple of animals in Australia that can't kill people with its venom  (iol.co.za) (27)
(The Register) Scary Scientists use rat brain to fly F-22. Still no cure for cancer  (theregister.co.uk) (81)
(New Scientist) Interesting New hypothesis to explain Earth's atmospheric CO2 values posits that planet's geomorphology shifted from an iceball to a mudball nearly 6,000 years ago  (newscientist.com) (40)
(Science Daily) Interesting Scientists discover how small hairy balls can be used to package enzymic fluids for transfer to the stomach without the fluids having to be tasted. Here comes the science  (sciencedaily.com) (18)
(Some Guy) Cool Meet the multi-colored rainbow spider, which produces a spectacular array of colors to attract a mate. People who get the heebie-jeebies from spiders need to stay the hell out of this one (pic)  (mailonsunday.co.uk) (49)
(NASA) Cool The trippiest star trails you'll see today  (antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov) (14)
(Telegraph) Obvious Muslims and Christians find common ground  (telegraph.co.uk) (292)
(Some Guy) Cool ☼ ∞  (baszottbanda.blogspot.com) (78)
(London Times) Cool "Cross a seahorse with the starship Enterprise and you get the SeaOrbiter - the world's first vertical ship, which drifts through the sea allowing man a closer view of the ocean"  (timesonline.co.uk) (41)

Fri November 27, 2009
(London Times) Cool NASA: Evidence of life on Mars  (timesonline.co.uk) (333)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Holy crap: Is this a trip on a luxury cruise ship? Or an Emirates Airbus A380? (pics)  (englishrussia.com) (77)
(Ars Technica) Interesting That recent bump in PlayStation 3 sales that put them in first? Fleet sales  (arstechnica.com) (89)
(Some Guy) Obvious Developed nations come up with a plan to improve their climate change performance - throw Canada out of the club so its "appalling" environmental record isn't lumped in with theirs  (theecologist.org) (119)
(BBC) Interesting How the Loch Ness monster has been rebranded from a terrifying glimpse of what creatures might live in hell into a benign, family-friendly amusement, just like Times Square  (news.bbc.co.uk) (37)
(New Scientist) Obvious Scientists develop device to catch rainbows, potentially leading to the world's first functional leprechaun trap  (newscientist.com) (43)

Thu November 26, 2009
(The Register) Obvious "The Bulgarian National Space Research Institute has stated that not only are alien spies living among us, but that they object strongly to 'immoral behaviour' by humanity - such as causing global warming or using cosmetics"  (theregister.co.uk) (66)
(3 News New Zealand) Unlikely Historic explorer tweets from beyond the grave. MAGGOTS COMING OUT  (3news.co.nz) (38)
(Cosmos) Amusing Solar activity isn't a significant cause of global warming, we have thousands of years of tree-ring data to prove it. Oh wait  (cosmosmagazine.com) (354)
(Computerworld) Obvious Only one month in: Windows 7 passes Mac OS X(All Versions) in market share. No word on how many minutes it took to surpass the market share for Linux  (computerworld.com) (214)
(Gizmag) Cool Italian doctor may have found a cure for MS - cleaning out buildups of iron in the brain. Still no cure for metalheads  (gizmag.com) (53)
(Gizmodo) Fail How to quit your job and ensure no future company will hire you  (gizmodo.com) (53)
(TechEBlog) Interesting I think the Bugatti Veyron is a bit too cheap, but the iPhone 3GS Supreme on the other hand . . .  (techeblog.com) (21)
(Gizmodo) Stupid You will never find a more wretched hive of dumb and gullibility than an audiophile's house  (gizmodo.com) (75)
(Boston Globe) Interesting The letter coldly outlined the parents' choices: start paying rent or we throw your children in the trash or use them for medical experiments  (boston.com) (99)
(NPR) Amusing The best animation summarizing a new science theory you'll see today  (npr.org) (31)
(Some Guy) Cool NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-129) zips along at about 18000 MPH high above Earth's rugged and rough terrain after undocking from the International Space Station on 25 Nov 2009. The huge 4288x2846-pixel photo is even more impressive  (chamorrobible.org) (29)
(Xinhua) Interesting Scientists discover primitive emotion-like behavior in fruit flies. Next week's news: PETA demands rights for fruit flies  (news.xinhuanet.com) (14)

Wed November 25, 2009
(Kotaku) Dumbass Suing Activision over World of Warcraft? Don't forget to subpoena Depeche Mode and Winona Rider, since she can "explain the significance of alienation in Catcher in the Rye." Makes sense  (kotaku.com) (274)
(Media Matters) Obvious Hannity: This is one of the coldest years on record, so global warming is a hoax. Science: This is one of the warmest years on record, so Hannity is a douche  (feeds.mediamatters.org) (∞)
(Discover) Cool Our zombie galaxy feasts on cannibalized corpses. And you thought astronomy was for dorks  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (24)
(asahi.com) Scary Deadly Australian redback spider thought to have invaded Japan, with tangled web of bureaucracy allowing it to enter major cities. Crikey  (asahi.com) (58)
(London Times) Interesting Economic downturn forces Japanese robot makers to concentrate on utilitarian machines that will take your job years ahead of schedule (pics)  (timesonline.co.uk) (19)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Another reason China is kicking our ass: Push button boob jobs with instant D-liscious results  (weirdasianews.com) (1554)
(Some Guy) Followup All those 'off the cuff' remarks that you should ignore in the ClimateGate emails found their way into "off the cuff" computer code. FORTRAN (shudder) code labled 'fudge factor'  (bishophill.squarespace.com) (375)
(Some Guy) Obvious Danish media claim that swine flu is just another plot created by multinational corporations to contol people's minds, like 9/11 or Kentucky Fried Chicken  (russiatoday.com) (39)
(Science Daily) Sad Motherlode of gorillas remains vulnerable, much to the delight of one deranged Italian plumber addicted to shrooms  (sciencedaily.com) (8)
(Some Comic Geek) Survey Just in time for a long holiday weekend: New comics shipping November 25th. What are you picking up for the drive/flight?  (downtowncomics.ning.com) (44)
(The Register) Followup The economy is so bad that billionaires are now building their yachts out of crap they picked out of the ocean  (theregister.co.uk) (7)
(Some Chick) Asinine Ten secret text message codes parents need to pay special attention to. NALOPKT  (wbtv.com) (631)
(I Heart Chaos) Cool The absolute best Bioshock cosplay you'll see... ever. No, really, it doesn't get any better than this  (iheartchaos.com) (58)
(News.com.au) Interesting Power plant in Norway uses salt to generate electricity. The excitement that scientists are feeling is a white-NaCl ride  T-Shirt  (news.com.au) (34)
(USA Today) Cool Royal Caribbean unveils first child tracking system that lets parents avoid...errr, I mean, track their children  (usatoday.com) (16)
(NASA) Cool Data from NASA's STEREO spacecraft have confirmed the stunning reality of MONSTER WAVES ON THE SUN  (science.nasa.gov) (9)
(YouTube) Video The coolest xbox that can't play Xbox games  (youtube.com) (94)

Tue November 24, 2009
(Utne) Unlikely Men suddenly claim to be more religious when they're trying to get laid, proving that there truly are no atheists in fox holes  T-Shirt  (utne.com) (79)
(Gizmodo) Strange "Shockwaves to the Crotch Treat Erectile Dysfunction." Scientists say it's like having your crotch stepped on by a women in stiletto heels, but not at all painful. With SFW but terrifying photo goodness  (gizmodo.com) (31)
(Gizmodo) Interesting This car will run at 1,000 MPH, generate twice as many Fark headlines with a Dumbass tag  (gizmodo.com) (34)
(Scientific American) Unlikely Physicists: You know that whole space-time duality thing? Uh, we may have gotten it wrong  (scientificamerican.com) (109)
(Some Guy) Interesting How scientists are building better wind turbines by studying Lance Armstrong. Apparently, windmills are also a lot more efficient when they use just one nut  (sciencenow.sciencemag.org) (15)
(Discovery) Ironic Kirk Cameron asks for a crocoduck. Science provides one: the Anatosuchus Minor found by paleontologists  (news.discovery.com) (102)
(yomiuri.co.jp) Strange Small Tokyo factories pool resources to build deep-sea research robot to search for oil and minerals. In other news, small American factories struggle to find workers who understand English and can add two numbers  (yomiuri.co.jp) (34)
(Area Man) Interesting Helicopter blades generate lift, lightning bolts  (scienceblogs.com) (25)
(BBC) Strange Scientists witness grandma macaques intervening to take care of grandchildren in place of incompetent or missing parents, primate behavior never before seen outside of Homo sapiens trailerparkensis  (news.bbc.co.uk) (19)
(Google) Weird 77-year-old Japanese man who lost his Guinness World Record as oldest Everest climber to 78-year-old Nepalese man pretty damn piqued, vows he will climb Everest again at age 80  (google.com) (14)
(Discovery) Interesting "Smart" body armor learns more with every bullet - Ok, who wants to be first in a test series?  (news.discovery.com) (52)
(Some Guy) Cool Google: F*ck it, let's just give away computers  (linuxjournal.com) (119)
(Gizmodo) Cool The coolest slow-shutter shots you'll see today  (gizmodo.com) (62)
(The New York Times) Interesting Right-handed snails easier for right-handed snakes to eat  (nytimes.com) (20)
(Live Science) Spiffy Scientists find new species of chameleon, say it lay undiscovered for so long because it tends to come and go, come and go-oh-oh-oh  (livescience.com) (12)
(Spaceweather) Cool The coolest photo of an icy sunrise you'll see all day  (spaceweather.com) (11)
(Apple Insider) Asinine 50% of all mobile data traffic worldwide eaten up by people downloading fart apps and 911 dialers for $0.99  (appleinsider.com) (23)
(Wired) Cool Man vs Electricity. Introducing Dr Megavolt  (wired.co.uk) (29)
(Yahoo) Scary Cases of drug-resistant bacterial infection have risen by 90 percent since 1999, at least partially because it's no longer being diagnosed as lupus  (news.yahoo.com) (56)
(Telegraph) Sappy Happy 5th Birthday, World of Warcraft  (telegraph.co.uk) (442)

Mon November 23, 2009
(YouTube) Cool What pictures sound like  (youtube.com) (72)
(Some Large Hadron Collider) Cool Future LHC unsuccessful in sabotaging present LHC  (press.web.cern.ch) (52)
(YouTube) Cool New Symphony of Science Video: "Our Place in the Cosmos" (ft. Sagan, Dawkins, Kaku, Jastrow)  (youtube.com) (36)
(Discover) Cool Obama unleashes massive scheme to turn children into nerds. D10 manufacturers rejoice  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (92)
(BusinessWeek) Amusing Apparently forgetting that AT&T has disabled tethering on the iPhone, Apple launches ad campaign bragging about simultaneous tethering and voice  (businessweek.com) (91)
(SlashFilm) Cool Back to the Future Crysis mod includes ability to time travel. Sadly you can't go back in time and stop the actual Back to the Future games from being made  (slashfilm.com) (45)
(Telegraph) Obvious In a fantastic leap of logic, scientists propose that some sort of 'flowing air' might someday be used to generate electricity. If only this 'flowing air' phenomenon occurred naturally outside of a laboratory  (telegraph.co.uk) (31)
(Some Sputnik) Cool The burning question: "Where Is My Flying Car?,"... Answer: "It was shot down by the flying tank"  (aroundglobe.net) (37)
(AllAfrica) Sad Three hajj pilgrims die of some funky cold in Medina  T-Shirt  (allafrica.com) (43)
(Yahoo) Interesting Crack open your neighbor's skull and feast on the goo inside: Since the Kyoto treaty in 1997, "climate change has worsened and accelerated beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then"  (malaysia.news.yahoo.com) (134)
(Some Guy) Cool Good news everyone, scientists at Cornell have developed an experimental "F-ray"  (gizmag.com) (44)
(Some Guy) Satire CDC Releases H1N1.6 Service Pack 2 (NSFWish ads)  (crystalair.com) (39)
(CBC) Interesting That cheap Xbox 360 you got off Ebay was probably banned from Xbox Live for being modified  (cbc.ca) (151)
(Planetary Society) Spiffy Coolest images of ice volcanoes you will see all day. Buckle up before clicking because the second one will fly you into the plume  (planetary.org) (15)
(Spike) Amusing Top 8 video game bugs that made the game better  (spike.com) (202)
(Paste Magazine) Cool The 20 best gadgets of the decade (2000-2009)  (pastemagazine.com) (115)

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