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Sun February 07, 2010
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(Some Guy) Scary A private company is now marketing a 2 1/2 inch, 3 ounce GPS tracking device that can be monitored by any smartphone, and report its location to within 15 feet anywhere on the planet  (pr-usa.net) (121)
(PCWorld) Cool Ohm my god, lithium-ion battery life could reach 20 years  (pcworld.com) (60)
(Some Guy) Cool I don't even think you know what you're talking about, so here's an x-ray image of an AT-AT  (craphound.com) (122)
(Some Guy) Obvious Study finds 95% of user-generated posts on web sites are spam or malicious. Politics tab finally makes sense  (daniweb.com) (42)
(New Scientist) Unlikely Global warming won't kill us. No, it will probably be volcanoes...the silent killer  (newscientist.com) (45)
(Spacevidcast) PSA Last chance to see a night launch of the Space Shuttle. If you're on the east coast, go outside at 4:39am EST. For everyone else, HD stream in link  (spacevidcast.com) (96)
(Scientific American) Sappy Something new to blame on anthropogenic carbon emissions: fake maple syrup  (scientificamerican.com) (25)
(Mental Floss) Cool The coolest pics of Antarctica's dry valleys you'll see today  (blogs.static.mentalfloss.com) (42)

Sat February 06, 2010
(Some six foot, 9 stone guy) Obvious US is only one of three countries not using the metric system. Hey pass the 5/16th wrench  (matadorabroad.com) (273)
(Globe and Mail) Obvious "The global warming movement as we have known it is dead," analyst Walter Russell Mead says . It was done in by a combination of bad science and bad politics. No only does Al Gore have no comment, he's stunned  (theglobeandmail.com) (342)
(C|Net) Asinine FBI pressuring ISPs to spy on every customer and store data for at least two years. Prepare your lolcats for battle  (news.cnet.com) (83)
(Labspaces.net) Interesting Scientist invents quantum computer that handles data in "q-bits". Like 8 bits make a byte, 40 q-bits will make a "quark"  (labspaces.net) (41)
(C|Net) Fail Assuming you haven't installed the two add-ons with trojans, Firefox is a safe, and pretty secure browser  (download.cnet.com) (99)
(Popular Science) Cool Aerogel insulation hits the market. It's so good you can heat your home with a candle. That's so hot it's cool  (popsci.com) (103)
(Network World) Interesting "This Year's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries": From the Amiga 1000 to MacGyver and Windows 1.0  (networkworld.com) (111)
(Some shrubber) Interesting Ancient Stonehenge was surrounded by a Shrubbery and was presumably abandoned after the blasphemy of Ecky ecky ecky ecky pikang zoom boing mumble mumble  (news.oneindia.in) (42)
(Toronto Star) Interesting Science says you can only handle 150 friends, despite Facebook  (thestar.com) (82)
(News.com.au) Interesting Injected fruit juice liquifies tumors, makes delicious cancer smoothie  T-Shirt  (news.com.au) (40)
(BBC) Interesting Prairie dogs pack more information into one bark than humans can express in 140 characters  (news.bbc.co.uk) (20)
(CNN) Scary The government has your baby's DNA. That's all citizens, move along now  (edition.cnn.com) (141)
(NPR) Interesting Humans are basically self-domesticated apes. Your girlfriend wants you back on your leash  (npr.org) (40)

Fri February 05, 2010
(Yahoo) Cool Scientists discover method to use lasers and nanoscale explosions to destroy cancer cells. Still no cure for Restless Leg Syndrome  (news.yahoo.com) (34)
(Time) Obvious Many scholars think much of what is recorded in the Bible is at best distorted, and some characters and events are probably totally fictional including Abraham, Isaac and Jacob  (time.com) (100)
(Some Guy) Interesting Facebook planning to offer full webmail under "Project Titan". Guffaw. No, no, I'm sure "Project Trojan Ribbed" will be huge. Project "King Condom" should be stiff competition to Gmail. Zip it  (techcrunch.com) (21)
(MSNBC) Cool The last night shuttle launch may be seen on East Coast  (msnbc.msn.com) (51)
(Nerve) Amusing If you Alliance my Horde I'll mohawk your shaman. Giggity  (advice.nerve.com) (49)
(Wired) Scary DARPA: BSG was cool. Here's $6 million, make it happen  (wired.com) (108)
(Boing Boing) Dumbass Law firm demands destruction of all Olivia Munn comic books. Retailer says it can't do that because once geeks heard the words "Olivia Munn comic book" the books instantly sold out  (boingboing.net) (60)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Can you trust any hardware made in China? Can you trust Submitter alone with your beer?  (itworld.com) (45)
(Yahoo) Amusing Spore: What happened?  (videogames.yahoo.com) (152)
(DVice) Cool "OK, sun is coming out." Astronauts are tweeting home some of the most amazing pics of Earth you'll see all day  (dvice.com) (28)
(Some Pop Lover) Weird Michael Jackson's face appearing in new plastic solution. Well, that's fitting  (geekosystem.com) (12)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Carbonite reveals chemistry of ancient seawater, Han Solo's facial expression  T-Shirt  (physorg.com) (9)
(London Times) Followup Antarctic Whisky expedition turns up five cases  (timesonline.co.uk) (60)
(Examiner) Interesting Canadian team thrusts forward observation, nailing homosexuals as exceptionally skilled at rearing children, plowing into Christian rhetoric  (examiner.com) (52)
(Telegraph) Interesting This has been a long time coming: Scientists find molecule that controls sperm speed  (telegraph.co.uk) (23)
(Slashdot) Cool IBM: Our new processors will operate at *pinky to mouth* one-hundred BILLION hertz  (hardware.slashdot.org) (63)
(Some Guy) Scary Microsoft Chief Research Officer Craig Mundie wants Internet Driver's License "If you want to drive a car, you have to {prove} you are capable of driving a car" In other news, Microsoft attempting to put AOL out of business  (interesting-people.org) (177)
(Wired) Cool My space robot can beat up your space robot  (wired.com) (27)
(Fast Company) Interesting Timothy Leary's dead, but a new generation of scientists want the walls to melt, say it'd be cooler that way  (fastcompany.com) (40)
(Jalopnik) Spiffy Russia unveils "Snow foot Car" for those stretches of unpaved snowy wasteland (with video)  (jalopnik.com) (26)
(NPR) Interesting It's the strongest "The Nino" in a decade  (npr.org) (46)

Thu February 04, 2010
(BBC) Sad Nobody knows Bo  (news.bbc.co.uk) (77)
(Science Daily) Interesting "Good" bacteria keep immune system primed, use good manners, tip a generous amount after meals  (sciencedaily.com) (31)
(Some Alien) Obvious British astrobiologist asserts that human beings are aliens brought to Earth by comets, making Captain Kirk's affairs not so remarkable after all  (koreatimes.co.kr) (44)
(MSNBC) Interesting Pluto attempts to regain its lost fame by publicly releasing blurry photos with tantalizing hints of more detail soon to come  (cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com) (48)
(Panspermia Guy) Interesting Terrestrial organisms survive just fine in open space, proving the world is just 4,000 years old and you need to stop touching yourself under the sheets  (esa.int) (170)
(Some Guy) Fail U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is technologically incapable of physically picking up a fax and rotating it 180 degrees  (industry.bnet.com) (80)
(Some Blue Guy) Cool Sega finally gives fans what they want, makes Sonic The Hedgehog 4 without any shiatty side characters. Somehow, the game will still suck  (gamespot.com) (84)
(io9) Interesting Proving everything that Texas fans have ever said about them; a researcher at Texas A&M has found that Viagra is useful for sheep as well  T-Shirt  (io9.com) (23)
(Wired) Cool If you were told there would be no math, you were lied to in a most beautiful fashion  (wired.com) (44)
(Wired) Ironic Spending time at high altitude causes healthy weight loss--unless you're fat  (wired.com) (29)
(Discover) Interesting Everything you could ever want to know about time travel, at least until Dr Dan Streetmentioner finally publishes his handbook  (discovermagazine.com) (75)
(Some Guy) Interesting How a brain-slicing machine kept me out of graduate school  (hplusmagazine.com) (36)
(The New York Times) Interesting "Physicians and society are not ready for 'I have brain activation, therefore I am,' " Dr. Ropper wrote. "That would seriously put Descartes before the horse"  (nytimes.com) (179)
(Gizmodo) Amusing When in doubt, try ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A  (gizmodo.com) (87)
(Wired) Strange Hackers steal millions of carbon credits. You may want to check your carbon credit report from all three agencies to see if you were a victim  (wired.com) (147)
(News.com.au) Interesting Scientists studying deadly Australian snails in hopes of finding new painkilling drugs. If only there were a phrase to describe the pace at which their research is proceeding  (news.com.au) (14)
(BBC) Obvious "Pretty soon the villagers drew the obvious conclusion that the salamander's spirit was wreaking revenge from beyond the grave, and must be placated" (w/ video)  (news.bbc.co.uk) (17)
(The Inquirer) Obvious Mac OSX is far less secure than Windows  (theinquirer.net) (163)
(Some Guy) Obvious Windows is far less secure than Mac OSX  (macdailynews.com) (52)
(io9) Interesting In the event of a global apocalypse, would the sum total knowledge of our civilization survive?  (io9.com) (159)

Wed February 03, 2010
(Scientific American) Interesting Supposedly Niels Bohr wondered why whoever drew second always seemed to win in western movies. Well, now we know it's not just a plot device to make the loser the bad guy, ruin Star Wars  (scientificamerican.com) (64)
(PhysOrg.com) Cool Merging galaxies create a binary quasar (w/ video simulation awesomeness)  (physorg.com) (37)
(Discover) Cool Does this cluster make my mass look fat?  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (13)
(PhysOrg.com) Strange "To understand the debate between 2/3 and 3/4, assume a spherical cow."  (physorg.com) (64)
(Telegraph) Asinine Internet Explorer 8 is now the most popular web browser in the world  (telegraph.co.uk) (127)
(Washington Post) Interesting Feds don't believe Toyota's "sticky gas pedals," "floor mats," and "the hooker regained consciousness and tried to escape" excuses for sudden acceleration of its cars, says electronics may play a part  (washingtonpost.com) (148)
(Science Daily) Spiffy One positive impact of global warming, forests are growing faster than ever  (sciencedaily.com) (107)
(The New York Times) Unlikely Iran says it's taken the first step toward becoming a space-faring nation, recently sending worms and turtles into space. Sure, they were nuclear-armed worms and turtles, but still  (nytimes.com) (36)
(Stuff) Silly Australian scientists invent new "spider-feet" device, estimate that with just a little more work they may one day be able to attach a small cat to the ceiling  (stuff.co.nz) (26)
(Cracked) Amusing 9 inventions that prove Leonardo da Vinci was a supervillain  (cracked.com) (41)
(Guardian.com) Obvious In the past, if a scientific study was "peer reviewed", it was credible. When it comes to climate change, "peer reviews" cause jealousy and tribalism, and makes all research worthless  (guardian.co.uk) (257)

Tue February 02, 2010
(YouTube) Amusing The official Modern Warfare 2 music video is almost better than the game. Okay, that's an asinine statement but it's still pretty damn good  (youtube.com) (108)
(Discover) Cool Hubble spots asteroids getting rocks off in space. Bruce Willis unavailable for comment  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (35)
(Techcrunch.com) Cool Apple may already have a bigger, faster, more versatile iPad in the works. Suck it, first adopters  (techcrunch.com) (195)
(BBC) Amusing California calls studio used to fake Moon landings a protected "state historical resource"  (news.bbc.co.uk) (32)
(Slate) Interesting Are kosher and halal meats better for the environment? Nope. But the animals die in much more pain and agony, so they have that going for them, if you're into that  (slate.com) (253)
(Canada.com) Interesting Exposure to luxury can make people more self-interested and less ethical, according to impoverished researchers  (calgaryherald.com) (43)
(YouTube) Spiffy The coolest video of flying robot penguins you will see today  (youtube.com) (50)
(Google) Followup Scientific Journal fully retracts the article linking autism to the MMR vaccine, lead authors to be stripped of right to practice medicine. But Jenny McCarthy still believes it so it must be true  (google.com) (123)
(PhysOrg.com) Cool Spray-on liquid glass invented. Mr Scott rubs his hands in anticipation of the fishtank he can build now  (physorg.com) (90)
(Boing Boing) Spiffy Arthur C. Clarke envisioned the iPad 40 years ago in "2001." Subby is still waiting for Heinlein's dilating doors  (boingboing.net) (94)
(MSNBC) Sad Rare genetic disease causes 13-year-old girl to look like she's approaching 50. Chris Hansen unsure where you should have a seat  (today.msnbc.msn.com) (395)
(TechEBlog) Cool Shapeshifting cell phone, now with doppleganger blood  (techeblog.com) (40)
(CNN) Amusing Inventor unveils $7,000 talking sex robot. Yeah, he pretty much looks like you'd expect him too  (cnn.com) (245)
(MSNBC) Interesting Fish caught evolving into three different species  (msnbc.msn.com) (66)
(Discover) Weird Fifteen year old girl with no vagina gets pregnant, apparently due to sperm she received from performing fellatio leaking from her GI tract into her uterus after being stabbed at the bar where she worked. Then it gets weird  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (313)

Mon February 01, 2010
(Yahoo) Cool Woman's cells harvested in 1951 become immortal, continue to live and benefit science. BRAINS. Oh, and she was hot  (smithsonianmag.com) (75)
(ScienceBlogs) Interesting Fossilhunters find f*cked phylogenies from fetid fish  (scienceblogs.com) (53)
(Scientific American) Interesting If you've always thought that bees seem to single you out, it looks like you might be right  (scientificamerican.com) (49)
(Guardian.com) Asinine In Britain, homeopathy is taken so seriously that the national health service pays for homeopathic "medicines" and there are five homeopathic hospitals. And Brits think Americans are dumb?  (guardian.co.uk) (191)
(Some Guy) Weird Turn your office paper into toilet paper (you may want to take out the staples)  (dvice.com) (23)
(The Consumerist) PSA As if all the other crises facing the nation weren't bad enough, we now have to contend with a Wii Fit Plus shortage  (consumerist.com) (68)
(Some Guy) Scary Second largest swarm of earthquakes ever recorded at Yellowstone...and with December 2012 just around the corner too  (missoulian.com) (97)
(Gizmodo) Interesting New hand mounted mouse will allow you to avoid RSI while you attempt to take over Stargate Command  (gizmodo.com) (67)
(Live Science) Video Hot engineer shows off the coolest new thing - metal foam  (livescience.com) (85)
(Engadget) Scary Meet Diego-san, the creepy robot baby  (engadget.com) (34)
(Oregon Live) Cool God, I hate walking through this place at night  (oregonlive.com) (40)

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