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Sun January 03, 2010
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(London Times) Cool Scientists say dolphins should be treated as "non-human persons", based upon their brain size, higher cognitive and communication skills, and empathy for others. Scientists say dolphins are essentially more advanced than Katie Holmes  (timesonline.co.uk) (106)
(CBS News) Cool Fin? Non  (cbsnews.com) (21)
(Washington Post) Interesting "Hotel Wi-Fi should be a right, not a luxury"  (washingtonpost.com) (127)
(the patent office) Stupid IBM patents LOL. ROFL -- IBM can EABOD and DIAF, IMHO  (patft.uspto.gov) (43)
(The Register) Cool Today marks the sixth anniversary of the landing of the Spirit rover on Mars, proving that NASA cannot even get a simple 90 day mission done on time  (theregister.co.uk) (27)
(MSNBC) Cool "Scientists have successfully tested a system that translates brain waves into speech, Im using it righ Oh wow shes got a great pair of.. oh shi..."  (msnbc.msn.com) (62)

Sat January 02, 2010
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Scientists measure the speed of evolution, find it can do a lot in 6,000 years  (physorg.com) (252)
(Some Guy) Obvious Reseachers discover that wearing jeans instead of shorts offers some protection from rattlesnake bites. Next up: What cools liquid faster, ice cubes or lava?  (reutershealth.com) (44)
(Washington Post) Interesting Ten technologies that will leave the biggest marks on 2010, or ten technologies that we will laugh about in five years  (washingtonpost.com) (67)
(RedOrbit) Obvious 2010: The Year We Tied Onions To Our Belts  (redorbit.com) (71)
(NPR) Audio Why today's music sounds like crap  (npr.org) (173)

Fri January 01, 2010
(Japan Times) Weird In electrifying discovery, Japanese scientists greatly increase shiitake mushroom production by zapping crops with high-voltage artificial lightning  (search.japantimes.co.jp) (46)
(WebMD) Obvious Study confirms your teenager would be less of a moody twit if he or she got more sleep. Still no cure for your texting bill  (webmd.com) (76)
(MSNBC) Obvious MSNBC doesn't quite know what a meme is  (msnbc.msn.com) (73)
(wtfiswrong.com) Interesting Happy Binary Day  (wtfiswrong.com) (54)
(Planetary Society) Cool Year 2009 for space exploration in pictures. Bonus: No fraking, gorram, smeghead slideshows  (planetary.org) (24)
(BBC) Spiffy Scientists identify the cause of Tazmanian Devil facial cancer. Still no word about rabid whirlwind attacks on talking rabbits  (news.bbc.co.uk) (37)
(ABC News) Scary Doctors at St. James's University Hospital in Leeds, England, have discovered why some pet owners see hairy wall clocks  (abcnews.go.com) (58)
(MSNBC) Cool Scientists find a hole in the moon that could shelter astronauts from asteroids and radiation, also serve as a biatchin' crash pad for some awesome lunar booty calls  T-Shirt  (msnbc.msn.com) (38)
(Lifehacker) Interesting Drop your phone in beer? Rice will fix that  (lifehacker.com) (38)
(Planetary Society) Sad Mars might finally have the upper hand against the rover Spirit as it seems that it will die next winter unable to get its solar panels pointed at the Sun. This makes Marvin the Martian very happy indeed  (planetary.org) (52)

Thu December 31, 2009
(Eurekalert.org) Interesting Scientists show 'lifeless' prions capable of evolutionary change and adaptation, conquering worlds  (eurekalert.org) (72)
(Galileoscope) Cool If you've ever wanted to get into astronomy, now is a good time: the International Astronomical Union has produced a telescope that you can buy for $20. May you have clear skies  (galileoscope.org) (71)
(Discover) Interesting Anal retentiveness? Nah, just decadence  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (23)
(Kotaku) Scary Not happy with just alienating their fan base, Blizzard have begun incarcerating their fan base  (kotaku.com) (147)
(Science Daily) Interesting Atmospheric carbon dioxide fraction hasn't risen in the past 150 years. Here comes the science  (sciencedaily.com) (88)
(Discover) Interesting Why did evolution skip over Boskop man, with its 150 IQ? Was it because of its penchant for pedomorphosis?  (discovermagazine.com) (100)
(LA Times) Interesting Women who play video games tend to game harder, and with more people  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (234)
(Xinhua) Cool Transparent goldfish produced in Japan to reduce the need for dissections in school. Tastes like chicken  (news.xinhuanet.com) (36)
(Space) Cool Smallest object in outer solar system found. Subby just glad they weren't looking for smallest object in inner solar system. That would have been embarassing  (space.com) (31)

Wed December 30, 2009
(Labspaces.net) Obvious Schools should close for a minimum of eight weeks to lessen flu pandemics, according to a study endorsed by every student in the United States  T-Shirt  (labspaces.net) (51)
(Space) Cool Map of local anomalies in the Earth's gravity. Your mom appears to spend a lot of time in Indonesia and Turkey  (space.com) (87)
(C|Net) Fail Proving their relevance in today's world, McAfee releases results of in-house study concluding that 2010 will see continuing phishing and virus attacks  (news.cnet.com) (81)
(Some Guy) Stupid Google just barely makes the deadline for worst idea of the decade  (gamenewshq.com) (107)
(BusinessWeek) Asinine Five years from now this will be the cause of the next anti-trust ruling against Microsoft  (businessweek.com) (58)
(Yahoo) Interesting Big fan of sea urchin sushi? Scientists have discovered you're really eating a giant eyeball  (news.yahoo.com) (73)
(Wired) Interesting Like the iPhone, the Nexus One will be expensive at launch. Unlike the iPhone, the Nexus One won't have features locked down, won't require expensive data plans, won't force you to stick with one carrier, and will actually work  (wired.com) (84)
(Science Daily) Obvious Of girls and geeks: Your Cheeto-laden, Picard-papered, Assassin's Creed-themed office may explain why women don't like computer science  (sciencedaily.com) (87)
(FARK) Survey Fark's 2009 Headline of the Year contest: Geek  (fark.com) (99)
(Discover) Interesting Pound for pound, humans are shinier than the Sun. With pic of what blackbody radiation does NOT look like  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (48)
(SMH) Interesting Russian scientists meet in secret to plan how to save Earth from the asteroid Apophis in 2036, promise not to blow it up. The asteroid, that is. They might still blow up Earth  (news.smh.com.au) (70)
(The Consumerist) Asinine We might as well start filling our printers with human blood. It's cheaper  (consumerist.com) (107)

Tue December 29, 2009
(io9) Spiffy One hundred of the most amazing comic book covers of the last ten years. Bonus: In thumbnail form  (io9.com) (83)
(USA Today) Obvious Study: Herbal medicine is still a load of crap  (usatoday.com) (88)
(Some Guy) Interesting Science is not a democracy: when the wisdom of crowds isn't wise  (scienceblogs.com) (292)
(C|Net) Obvious The most popular price point for Kindle books is "free"  (news.cnet.com) (103)
(Telegraph) Interesting Most exciting scientific discoveries of the decade according to, um, some really, really smart people  (telegraph.co.uk) (42)
(I Heart Chaos) Cool When hideous and cute collide: Stunning photography of baby animals in the womb  (iheartchaos.com) (22)
(Discover) Cool While the Shuttle program winds down and NASA sees an uncertain future, a small half-ton probe crosses the halfway point to Pluto on its way to interstellar space  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (56)
(MSNBC) Scary Good: Antibiotics in animal feed create healthier livestock. Bad: Also creates drug-resistent virulent germs. Fark: Dateline - Frankenstein, Missouri  (msnbc.msn.com) (51)
(Wired) Interesting Where does a pack of artic wolves go when it's dark all winter and 70 degrees below zero? c) anywhere it wants with GPS maps to prove it. Bonus: they walk across the fjords  (wired.com) (151)
(Live Science) Interesting The nine most controversial scientific finds of 2009. Well, controversial if you're a creationist  (livescience.com) (123)
(National Geographic) Interesting Magnetic North Pole's movement has accelerated without explanation. Al Gore quick to point ou-- oh, nevermind  (news.nationalgeographic.com) (87)
(CNN) Cool Inside the Boeing 787 Dreamliner: progressive LED, 65% larger windows, serrated engine nacelles, and motherfarkin' automated snake catcher  (edition.cnn.com) (97)

Mon December 28, 2009
(Wired) Interesting For 20 years in San Francisco, sea lions have hauled out on wooden docks next to Pier 39. And now they are all gone, and no one knows why, or where they've gone  (wired.com) (114)
(Telegraph) Interesting Scientists successfully resurrect extinct species of goat, plan to open remote island theme park. This could end baaaaaaadly  (telegraph.co.uk) (36)
(The Consumerist) PSA Steam does not offer refunds, not even on Myst  (consumerist.com) (108)
(Engadget) Video Best unboxing ever. Includes magic smoke, a plastic fox, and a box you need a password to open  (engadget.com) (51)
(YouTube) Cool The evolution of a game engine, built by a 17 year old  (youtube.com) (75)
(ABC News) Spiffy Archaeologists go coo-coo for Cao Cao tomb  (abcnews.go.com) (48)
(USA Today) Cool Coming (back) in 2011: a 5.0 liter Ford Mustang, with 412 horses that still get 25 mpg. It's good to see you again, baby  (usatoday.com) (314)
(Wired) Interesting Top 15 games of the past decade. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction  (wired.com) (413)

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