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Sun January 17, 2010
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(Gawker) Silly Website that offered reward for proof of Apple Tablet and got cease-and-desist letter from Apple says the letter proves the tablet exists  (gawker.com) (86)
(Washington Post) Interesting The hidden brain of humans. Or, why you care more about a lost dog than genocide  (washingtonpost.com) (125)
(Cracked) Scary 6 bizarre Global Warming side effects. Even if you deniers disbelieve Global Warming, are you really willing to risk disrupting our beer supply?  (cracked.com) (85)
(Some Guy) Interesting In this corner, it is the "your dog wants" meme. In the other corner, it's the lol cat. In which corner do you stand?  (pawnation.com) (392)
(Google) Cool For sale: Used space shuttle; asking price: $28.8 million. Marked down for quick sale  (google.com) (58)
(Recursivity) Asinine Old: Over-zealous copyright owners issuing DMCA takedown notices. New hotness: Creationists issue notices on critics for showing their logo. As a wise man once said, "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."  (recursed.blogspot.com) (64)
(Engadget) Amusing High end electronics manufacurer Lexicon takes a $500 Oppo dvd player and puts their name on it and charges $3,500  (hd.engadget.com) (144)

Sat January 16, 2010
(Space Weather) Cool The coolest photo of yesterday's solar eclipse you will see this year  (spaceweather.com) (25)
(Wired) Obvious After 10 years of companies exporting every computer job they can to India, DARPA is worried about a shortage of U.S. geeks  (wired.com) (125)
(Computerworld) Dumbass You don't need to 'know' Linux to use Linux, from some guy who doesn't need to 'know' how to find the clitoritis  (blogs.computerworld.com) (208)
(Some Guy) Sad New findings about smoking. From Professor N.S. Sherlock, Department of Duh, at the University of No Kidding  (sciencecentric.com) (20)
(The Straight Dope) Unlikely Pop quiz, hero: Is mass transit a waste of energy?  (straightdope.com) (62)
(Motive Mag) Cool Twelve digital dashboards from 1980's automobiles (w/video of dashboards)  (motivemag.com) (40)
(Skeptical Science) PSA 2009 was the 2nd hottest year in history. In other news, the continental United States is not the entire world  (skepticalscience.com) (129)
(Slashdot) Cool First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a communist. Then they came for Internet Explorer, and I cheered  (tech.slashdot.org) (83)
(Abc.net.au) Amusing "Blazing ring wows millions across the globe." Subby remembers the last time he tried to amaze millions across the globe with his... oh forget it  (abc.net.au) (15)
(National Geographic) Scary Huge new cutie-pie sand-spider species discovered. With stomp-it-quick pics  (blogs.nationalgeographic.com) (65)
(Some Snooper) Fail You want access to a random strangers personal Facebook account? There's an app for that  (wsbtv.com) (28)
(The Register) Obvious Microsoft confirms that accessing critical data in a cloud when your net is down is like getting to level 4 in Mario Brothers the first time you picked up the controller  (theregister.co.uk) (81)
(Some Guy) Amusing Neuroscientist explains how porn something something something  (christianpost.com) (48)
(Daily Mail) Spiffy Scientists discover gecko so small, it can sit on a pencil eraser. You'll say Geck-awwwwwwww  (dailymail.co.uk) (24)

Fri January 15, 2010
(Psychological Science) Interesting Men can smell them in her box. Men can smell them in her socks. Men can smell them in her blouse. Men can smell them in her house. Men can smell girl's eggs, yes, ma'am. Men can smell them, Sam-I-Am  T-Shirt  (psychologicalscience.org) (62)
(Gizmodo) Spiffy When in doubt, get a bigger gun  (gizmodo.com) (74)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Not News: residents complain of ailments cause by radiation from new cell tower. Fark: turns out the tower isn't even on  (mybroadband.co.za) (66)
(Canoe) Interesting Aborted fetuses used to create bacon  (cnews.canoe.ca) (98)
(Canada.com) Obvious Psychologists to parents: It's okay to tell your kids "That sucked. Try harder"  (canada.com) (58)
(CNN) Interesting The rush for movies and TV to go to 3D is ignoring an important thing: a sizable percentage of the population cannot actually see 3D images  (cnn.com) (159)
(Kotaku) Amusing Knitters the world over groan as their secret nerdiness is revealed. Nerds the world over suddenly realize they don't know enough math to knit properly  (kotaku.com) (38)
(Yahoo) Obvious So how did those hackers breach Google's security? Through a security hole in Internet Explorer, of course  (news.yahoo.com) (65)
(WFTV) Dumbass If you left your cocaine baggie in the restricted hangar at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Zaphod Beeblebrox would like to have a drink with you  (wftv.com) (62)
(Some Game) Cool First person tetris. Warning: May cause sensation of vertigo  (firstpersontetris.com) (131)

Thu January 14, 2010
(Some Wii-tard) Amusing While the hardcore gamers are busy pwning the noobz, Nintendo is too busy drowning in cash  (1up.com) (187)
(Washington Post) Interesting The cyber attack on Google is just part of a massive espionage effort by the Chinese to steal defense and industrial secrets as well as totally rule World of Warcraft and Hello Kitty Island Adventure  (washingtonpost.com) (60)
(Kotaku) Obvious Despite all the fuss about digital distribution, most gamers are still buying quaint old boxed games. (With bonus "I'm from the internet" pic)  (kotaku.com) (197)
(Newsblaze) Amusing Disgruntled UFO researcher ridicules sheeple for wanting "solid proof" of UFOs. Bonus whine about Farkers' "fierce" reference to "tin foil hats, probes, etc."  (newsblaze.com) (194)
(Science Daily) Scary Unstoppable increase of colon cancer in Spain; no one sure how this will be rectified  (sciencedaily.com) (21)
(BBC) Interesting New eye test can identify Alzheimer's, replicants  (news.bbc.co.uk) (32)
(Gawker) Interesting ValleyWag is offering bounties of $10K and up for photos of Apple's upcoming iTablet. With that kind of money, you might be able to buy one for yourself - or pay toward your settlement with Apple Legal  (valleywag.gawker.com) (22)
(BBC) Obvious Keyboard commandos living in their mother's basement were able to scrounge up $1 billion for copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Condom sales among the demographic, uneffected  (news.bbc.co.uk) (190)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Nikola Tesla is the new god of tech geeks. With picture of what a Tesla might look like if he was David Bowie  (online.wsj.com) (97)

Wed January 13, 2010
(GameSpy) Amusing What do Dr. Mario, Elite Beat Agents, Squall, and Princess Peach have in common? They are video game characters who would suck in real life. Bonus: The last guy on the list  (gamespy.com) (42)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Hundreds of millions of dollars and multiple failed attempts later, U.S. cities say they've figured out free WiFi for all  (govtech.com) (51)
(Slashdot) Scary India joins the "Weapons in space" club  (science.slashdot.org) (38)
(Discover) Fail Anti-vaccine nutbar sues scientist who dared to disagree with her, then calls for open debate about vaccines just before she gets crushed by a 16-ton weight with the word "Irony" written on it  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (126)
(Discover) Cool I use oil & water to make salad dressing. These scientists use them to make self-assembling solar panels  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (27)
(National Geographic) Cool The coolest photos of an Antarctic "time capsule" hut you will see today  (news.nationalgeographic.com) (38)
(io9) Followup Hey, remember when scientists found Earth II? Well, turns out it's more like Krypton. No word yet if a baby, or his smoking hot cousin, have been sent to Kansas  (io9.com) (30)
(Live Science) Interesting In the winter of 1983, Russia's Vostok research station in Antarctica reached -128.6°F, the coldest temperature ever recorded. Scientists finally figure out how it happened  (livescience.com) (76)
(Wired) Stupid In response to Google's threats of pulling out of China. The Chinese Government has blocked Wired.com. That'll learn em'  (wired.com) (53)
(bit-tech) Stupid Gran Turismo 5 delayed again. Duke Nukem Forever can officially start making jokes about it  (bit-tech.net) (153)
(3 News New Zealand) Spiffy Sesame Street will soon be brought to you by the letters P,S, and the number 3  (3news.co.nz) (17)
(Wired) Interesting Missing Hawaiian moon rocks finally found, despite the claims of a small group of protestors that they originally landed in Kenya  (wired.com) (15)
(Network World) Followup Blocking the site wasn't enough; Facebook now demands that "Web 2.0 Suicide Machine" cease and desist all Facebook-related activities. Machine's reply: Not on your life  (networkworld.com) (45)
(Super) Hero Some Stephen King, Joss Whedon, Luna Brothers- New Comics for January 13  (downtowncomics.com) (27)
(Some Guy) Cool Every. Console. EVER  (consollection.de) (111)

Tue January 12, 2010
(G4TV) Cool Nintendo won't release the new Zelda game until it's "perfect"  (g4tv.com) (203)
(LA Times) Fail The high-speed supertrain from San Diego to San Francisco that California is building needs to carry 112,000 passengers every day or it will go insolvent. And it has no back-up plan for that contingency  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (160)
(The Street) Obvious Pioneer's new Pandora-enabled car stereo may prove to be death blow to Sirius XM, as people become reluctant to pay for privilege of listening to satellite radio programmers' crappy taste in music  (thestreet.com) (125)
(Globe and Mail) Spiffy Mystery object to use Earth as fire hydrant; presumably from Dog Star  (theglobeandmail.com) (60)
(MSNBC) Scary Add parking lots and driveways to list things you can get cancer from. Not even your Prius can save you  (msnbc.msn.com) (30)
(Local6) Obvious Going without sex may help relationships, or at least help foster new ones  (clickorlando.com) (434)
(yomiuri.co.jp) Interesting Japanese scientists discover blood protein associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Apparently, slacking is in your blood  (yomiuri.co.jp) (41)
(Rasmussen Reports) Interesting Eighty-seven percent of Americans oppose an Internet computer in a car's dashboard. The other 13 percent think that life without constant access to Russian midget tranny porn is just not worth living  (rasmussenreports.com) (53)
(Sciencenews.org) Cool Sea slug steals plant genes and makes its own chlorophyll. It's easy being green  (sciencenews.org) (34)
(Gizmodo) Asinine Chuck Norris can get into any facebook account he wants to  (gizmodo.com) (46)
(CNN) Cool Ten of the coolest new toys from CES. A geekasm waiting to happen  (cnn.com) (84)
(Chronicle of Higher Ed) Interesting Admitting you don't recycle is like saying you want to boff Satan on a stack of burning Bibles: Environmentalism is the new secular religion  (chronicle.com) (314)
(Fox News) Interesting Scientists now say we will have 30 years of Global Cooling, followed by 30 years of Global Stationary Room Temperature  (foxnews.com) (164)
(Some Guy) Interesting Israel finds 8000 year old abandoned house near Tel Aviv, promptly moves Jewish inhabitants in before the Palestinians can claim it  T-Shirt  (apnews.myway.com) (33)
(Mental Floss) Interesting Netflix tracks which cities rent which movies more often. Submitter hopes to someday move from a Tyler Perry area to a "Caligula" area  (mentalfloss.com) (142)

Mon January 11, 2010
(BBC) Amusing Reporter at C.E.S. breaks "unbreakable" phone in three seconds during live demonstration  (news.bbc.co.uk) (113)
(BBC) Interesting Scientists to spend three years building "wet computer". Drew to publish Fark server research documents  (news.bbc.co.uk) (18)
(IGN) Cool Why the PS3 is so much more awesome than you or your XBox360  (ps3.ign.com) (302)
(Some Guy) Weird "Norway Time Hole 'Leak' Plunges Northern Hemisphere Into Chaos." Oh goody  (daily.pk) (258)
(London Times) Spiffy Study shows the Arctic tern migrates over 50,000 miles a year: scientists tracked 11 of the birds, because one good tern deserves another  (timesonline.co.uk) (18)
(Discover) Cool What do you call an avalanche on Mars? How about farkin' awesome  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (34)
(India Daily) Cool NASA corrects its error and states that the world will not end on 12/21/2012, but instead at any time between 12/23/2012 and 12/23/2029  (indiadaily.com) (41)
(Canoe) Interesting Sex addiction: Is it a real disorder, or is it just a way to excuse having the morals of a rutting weasel?  (canoe.ca) (140)
(Space) Obvious Current "theories" in physics show the Earth plummeted into the sun during formation. Yet, the Creationists are the crazy ones  (space.com) (307)
(Wall Street Journal) Spiffy New book asks "why does time flow in one direction only," and other questions you've posed to your friends while very, very high  (online.wsj.com) (194)
(InfoWorld) Amusing IT personality types: 8 profiles in geekdom  (infoworld.com) (256)
(London Times) Interesting Google Earth finds El Dorado. Whereabouts of Golden Condor still unclear  (timesonline.co.uk) (146)
(The Register) Florida Doctors in Florida set a new speed record for reversing vasectomies with a robot. If ever there was something you didn't want to be treated as a race, this is it  (theregister.co.uk) (18)
(Gizmodo) Obvious Surprising absolutely nobody, the life of a booth babe is fraught with weirdos  (gizmodo.com) (82)
(Some Euclid) Silly For the nerd who has everything: The Story of Math on DVD. Sure, the story's derivative, but the inverse is worse  T-Shirt  (tvshowsondvd.com) (66)
(Some Guy) Interesting Studies show that pyramids were built by a bunch of willing old Gizas  (haaretz.com) (53)
(Gizmodo) Cool There actually was a practical product at this year's CES: a router that pulls in 3G and WiMax and converts it to wireless  (gizmodo.com) (54)

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