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Sun December 27, 2009
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(Engadget) Obvious I must tell everyone that you just bought a very naughty book, Dave  (engadget.com) (51)
(RedOrbit) Cool Phillipines' Mayon volcano may be ready to blow. Scientists are pretty sure, because it is being really flirty and it is the second date, and going "all the way" is more of a fifth date type thing  (redorbit.com) (18)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Study finds that airlines could save significant fuel by copying geese and flying in formation, heading south for the winter  (guardian.co.uk) (29)
(Discover) Scary Five years ago today, the Earth suffered a massive cosmic onslaught that farked satellites and partially ionized its atmosphere... from an object 50,000 light years away  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (67)
(The Consumerist) Asinine Not News: Best Buy offers free software with purchase. Fark: Software is already free  (consumerist.com) (65)
(ABC News) Scary Tuberculosis, now available in new ultra-strength. Ask your mortician if TB XXDR is right for you. Side effects may include coughing, darkened skin, and extermination of humanity  (abcnews.go.com) (105)
(Sphere) Cool Pentagon building a real-life flying car as part of a new military program dubbed Transformer. Star Wars defense system not impressed  (sphere.com) (75)
(Some Guy) Interesting Study finds tremors originating deep underground caused by gravity of sun and moon, giant subterranean worm-creatures  (myfoxphoenix.com) (30)
(National Geographic) Cool 10 best space pictures of 2009  (news.nationalgeographic.com) (22)
(PhysOrg.com) Obvious Voyager spacecraft discovers solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist in latest proof that 'scientists' are just making crap up  (physorg.com) (86)

Sat December 26, 2009
(Daily Mail) Obvious "Teenagers are using repeat abortions as a form of birth control, with some girls having four or more terminations by the age of 18"  (dailymail.co.uk) (535)
(Telegraph) Silly Alcohol substitute that avoids drunkenness, hangovers in development. No, no-one knows why  (telegraph.co.uk) (56)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Female PhD student gets sick of hearing complaints about women parking, decides to do scientific study to prove them wrong (with bonus feminist reaction in last paragraphs)  (dailymail.co.uk) (481)
(BBC) Interesting "Clearly the seas off southern Australia were a cradle for the evolution of a variety of tiny, weird whales that seem to have lived nowhere else" (w/pic of 25 million-year-old mud slurping dwarf whale)  (news.bbc.co.uk) (44)
(YouTube) Interesting Sweet  (youtube.com) (73)
(Some Guy) Cool For the geeks: A photographic periodic table  (periodictable.com) (60)

Fri December 25, 2009
(Some Guy) Scary As if having Muscular Dystrophy wasn't bad enough, the latest promising treatment involves being bitten repeatedly by tarantulas  (healthcanal.com) (23)
(PTI News) Spiffy Man gets eyesight restored after stem cell treatment. I SAID MAN GETS EYESIGHT RESTORED AFTER STEM CELL TREATMENT  (ptinews.com) (161)
(Daily Mail) Weird Inventor spends Christmas with the perfect woman - his custom-made fembot: "Aiko is always helpful and never complains. She is the perfect woman to have around at Christmas" (w/ pics that will creep you the hell out)  (dailymail.co.uk) (253)
(New Scientist) Stupid Starting in 2010, web aÐÐresses will have retarded characters and symbols that farkers will be able to use to spruce up their hædlines to look ¢øøl  (newscientist.com) (100)
(Some Guy) Obvious So, you say you've been organizing trips to Antarctica to save it from global warming?  (expressindia.com) (45)
(Some Guy) Interesting Finally a list of the top 10 best games of the decade that every geek/nerd will totally agree with  (bitrebels.com) (351)

Thu December 24, 2009
(I-Mockery) Amusing I-Mockery releases Santa Fu - a Christmas parody of the NES classic "Kung Fu"  (i-mockery.com) (11)
(Slashdot) Interesting Panasonic announces plans to invent home battery which can last for a week, or as it is known to the rest of us: the Ike Turner  (hardware.slashdot.org) (35)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Bank CEOS take heed as this is how it is done: Steve Jobs takes his $1 yearly salary and no bonus for the sake of the company  (katu.com) (90)
(io9) Interesting The 10 most remarkable monsters discovered in the last 10 years  (io9.com) (40)
(Phone News) Amusing Motorola to release Android-based PDA for use on Nextel's aging iDen network, which is a little like buying a Bugatti to tow wet hay through a mudbog  (phonenews.com) (20)
(Some Guy) Interesting Here is your Oregon tsunami evacuation map. Basically, residents should flee to anywhere that isn't Oregon, like the smart people did years ago  (geology.com) (56)
(Daily Mail) Spiffy What do you get when you add 50 feet of aluminum flashing and 6,000 hours of labor? One mind-blowing model Mustang. The P-51 kind  (dailymail.co.uk) (140)
(Some Guy) Interesting What treats Parkinson's Disease and can also give you a cocaine high that never ends?  (hplusmagazine.com) (37)
(National Geographic) Interesting National Geographic digs up the top ten examples of Satan's trickery discovered during 2009  (news.nationalgeographic.com) (69)
(BBC) Interesting Good news: Researchers identify factor that reduces cancer risk. Bad news: It's Alzheimer's. Good news: Researchers identify factor that reduces Alzheimer's risk. Bad news: It's cancer  (news.bbc.co.uk) (66)
(io9) Interesting The 20 most powerful people in Science Fiction (one pic NSFW)  (io9.com) (169)

Wed December 23, 2009
(NASA) Interesting Giant fluff cloud currently affecting Solar System, consists mainly of articles from the Daily Mail  (science.nasa.gov) (38)
(MSNBC) Interesting Astronomers theorize on how decrepit, ancient stars manage to look far younger than their actual age. Joan Rivers and Dick Clark beg the astronomers to quit staring at them  (msnbc.msn.com) (6)
(GameTab) Asinine Group finds link between increase of school shootings and...*shakes 8ball*...Modern Warfare 2  (gametab.com) (56)
(Wired) Obvious Duke Nukem (1996-2009) autopsy report finally released. Alien bastards elect George Broussard as Supreme Ruler of the Universe  (wired.com) (86)
(Wired) Silly Los Alamos researchers damage building firing cannon. Adam Savage seen smirking knowingly from a distance  (wired.com) (17)
(Discover) Cool Stunning Hubble pic of a star cluster. Vampire, thrillseeking, and zombie stars thrown in just to make it SCIENCE  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (22)
(The New York Times) Obvious New discoveries in biology show vegans are just as blood thirsty and amoral as people with taste buds  (nytimes.com) (61)
(BBR) Fail After suing Verizon, losing, hiring Luke Wilson, bragging about being popular, blaming users, blaming Apple, and generally doing everything but improve their network, AT&T now to consider moving to WiFi  (broadbandreports.com) (61)
(ABC News) Interesting Scientists discover link between the mother's occupation and specific birth defects. Risks higher for custodians, lower for teachers. In the case of your mom, it explains the dimpling in the top of your head  (abcnews.go.com) (50)
(CBS New York) Silly Useless facts: It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open....yet an orgasm stimulates the same area and can be eye-opening  (wcbstv.com) (64)
(Some Comic Geek) Survey New comics December 23rd. Santa has lots of good stuff for us comic geeks. What's he bringing you today?  (downtowncomics.com) (66)
(Some Guy) Interesting All it requires is a surgical incision into your skull and a sheet of electrodes on your brain - and it's finally possible to type by just thinking about the letters  (hplusmagazine.com) (44)
(TampaBays10.com) Dumbass NY court tells Trekkie there's no way in the universe he deserves millions in damages for spending over $11,000 on Data's uniform, which turns out to be fake. Comic Book Guy surrenders  (wtsp.com) (163)
(New Scientist) Strange "The group managed to get male ducks to unfurl their penises into glass tubes"  (newscientist.com) (51)
(BBC) Interesting To track the melting of Greenland's ice sheet, scientists want to dip their balls in it  (news.bbc.co.uk) (30)
(Wired) Cool Probably the coolest radio controlled USS Enterprise you'll see this year  (wired.com) (61)
(TechEBlog) Amusing Once in a while you come across an invention which will completely change the way you live your life. While you're waiting for that, why not try out this hamburger holder  (techeblog.com) (36)
(PhysOrg.com) Fail Turns out the Peace Prize wasn't the only prize the Nobel committee awarded by mistake this year  (physorg.com) (42)
(Discover) Cool Just some clouds forming on volcanoes... on Mars. From 74 million miles away. With a small telescope. And did I mention it was animated?  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (28)

Tue December 22, 2009
(TechEBlog) Interesting Leaked video shows Google's Nexus One phone running Android 2.1  (techeblog.com) (49)
(Wired) Cool Who is the best Batman of all time? Batman, of course  (wired.com) (111)
(Lifehacker) Cool Firefox 3.5 edges past IE 7 to become the most popular web browser in the world. biatching about how it sucks now that it's popular and (Chrome/Opera/Safari/Lynx) is really where it's at to the right  (lifehacker.com) (142)
(Slate) Strange ... and in news you don't care about, are America's prisoners getting too much soy?  (thebigmoney.com) (19)
(Some Guy) Unlikely "I can stop global warming. All I need is a really long hose and $250 million worth of farts"  (associatedcontent.com) (78)
(ABC News) Interesting No Word from Microsoft on court ruling  (abcnews.go.com) (244)
(The New York Times) Interesting Plants want to live, too, so eating them is as murderous as ripping apart a live lamb with your teeth and tossing gobbets of its still-twitching flesh down your ravenous gullet  (nytimes.com) (148)
(PC Magazine) Interesting Nintendo Wii, already in use by police worldwide, allows you to detect lies at home with 99% accuracy  (pcmag.com) (36)
(Telegraph) Silly Angels would never be able to fly, says Professor N.S. Sherlock from the institute of the bleeding obvious  (telegraph.co.uk) (105)
(C|Net) Cool Next from Ford - turn your car into a Wi-Fi hot spot  (news.cnet.com) (52)
(TechEBlog) Cool Unexpected uses for a Tesla Coil number 273: The Christmas Tree  (techeblog.com) (17)
(New Scientist) Interesting Engaging the X-Drive: Ten ways to traverse deep space. Dr. Richard Seaton unavailable for comment  (newscientist.com) (98)
(Yahoo) Obvious Drivers who text are six times more likely to crash. Hah. Smug drivemitter submitted this headline while dr  (news.yahoo.com) (308)
(Telegraph) Interesting ♫ ♪ This monkey's goin' to the heavens ♫ ♪  (telegraph.co.uk) (31)
(Yahoo) Misc White House picks new cyber czar. a/s/l?  (news.yahoo.com) (67)
(Science Daily) Interesting Island of Vanatu was populated 3,000 years by people without heads, making them the root genetic ancestors of... members of Congress? Dancing with the Stars viewers? Sports fans in Philadelphia? So many jokes, so little headline  (sciencedaily.com) (37)
(3 News New Zealand) Dumbass Like those weirdos who prefer scratched vinyl records to CDs and gas-guzzling Hummers to hybrids, some people prefer the old-style trip-the-fuse-every-10-minutes Christmas lights  (3news.co.nz) (89)
(Science Magazine) Cool President Obama will ask Congress to give NASA an additional $1 Billion next year for its manned spaceflight program  (blogs.sciencemag.org) (158)

Mon December 21, 2009
(SFGate) Scary According to scientific analysis of millions of years of data, Earth is doomed to see its sixth epic mass extinction thanks to habitat destruction, pollution and global warming  (sfgate.com) (189)
(Live Science) Interesting In case you'd gotten all "meh" about dinosaurs, here's a venomous turkey-sized raptor that would pounce from above and bring death with nasty, big, pointed teeth  (livescience.com) (65)
(Bloomberg) Misc Hewlett-Packard's facial tracking software is racist  (bloomberg.com) (66)
(BBC) Strange "Sewers are only meant to take away water, toilet tissue and poo. Turkey fat is a big 'no no' because it blocks drains and results in sewage flooding into people's homes which is just horrible" (w/ music video)  (news.bbc.co.uk) (33)
(Live Science) Scary Chimps are starting to master fire. Everybody, you know what to do  (livescience.com) (90)
(Kotaku) Strange Mortal Kombat is "likely the first and most tranny-relevant video game," and the "hands-down gayest video game of all time"  (kotaku.com) (98)
(The New York Times) Silly Nerd and Geek should be banned, says geeky nerd professor. Bonus: compares both to racial epithets  (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) (99)
(Discover) Cool Nerdgasm alert: An in-depth analysis of that video showing Earth with Saturn's rings  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (31)
(The Sun) Interesting Facebook now being blamed for breakdown of thousands of marriages each year: "The site was named in at least 20 per cent of divorce petitions in America this year"  (thesun.co.uk) (168)
(NYPost) Cool Archaeologists discover the remains of a house from Jesus' era, complete with a kennel in the back for the pet dinosaur  (nypost.com) (30)
(TechEBlog) Interesting A selection of detox stories guaranteed to make you go WoW  (techeblog.com) (281)
(BBC) Interesting British Army gets first new camouflage in more than 60 years, with uniforms combining Desert Tan with British Dental Green to provide maximum concealment in a variety of terrain (pics)  (news.bbc.co.uk) (77)
(Wired) Interesting Dec. 21, 1898: The Curies discover Radium. In a related event, radiation discovered the Curies  (wired.com) (36)

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