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Sun March 14, 2010
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(Globe and Mail) Interesting Scientists on the verge of making other plants capable of producing morphine. There is no possible way this could end badly  (theglobeandmail.com) (61)
(Twitter) Cool Twitpic feed of an astronaut on the International Space Station. This picture shows the pyramids. Check out his other photos for more goodies  (twitpic.com) (57)
(CNN) Cool π, 3.14159265358979..., (V = 4/3 πr3), (223/71 π 22/7): Either way you cut it, it's π . Mmmmm, π  (cnn.com) (139)
(MacWorld) Obvious Apple COO gets $22 million bonus for doing Jobs' job better then Jobs, and without a turtleneck or that unpleasant douchiness  (macworld.com) (50)
(hack n mod) Cool Amazing Rube Goldberg device. I'm not sure this is worth 10 minutes, but c'mon what were you doing anyway?  (hacknmod.com) (58)
(Nerdesque) Cool One billionth-scale model of the Starship Enterprise. I cannae make it any smaller captain  (nerdesque.com) (58)
(AOL News) Scary Mind-reading technology may be just around the corner. In other news, RIAA to start suing people for songs stuck in their heads  (aolnews.com) (38)

Sat March 13, 2010
(AlterNet) Interesting In the future, all people will be Canadian  (alternet.org) (82)
(Time) Asinine Most have come to question the evidence surrounding global warming. Then there's Time magazine, which has apparently found the super-mega-ultra big gulp of kool-aid  (time.com) (299)
(Discovery) Interesting Scientists discover evidence of massive climate shift that almost wiped out Norse Iceland and Greenland. Which is ridiculous since we all know Climate Change began 40.04 years Before Clinton  (news.discovery.com) (56)
(AWPortals) Spiffy Active Worlds offers refugees of There.com 6-months free after the environment closed due to the recession. Next up: Reposessing mounts in World of Warcraft  (awportals.com) (38)
(Some Guy) Interesting Ten things you didn't know about Super Mario Bros  (blogs.ocweekly.com) (57)
(Some Guy) Interesting Google takes aim at Fark with Reader Play. Drew seen heading to Silicon Valley looking to take some aim of his own  (pcpro.co.uk) (48)
(CNN) Spiffy 120,000 iPads sold on the first day of pre-ordering. Suck it, haters  (brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com) (243)
(ABC News) Interesting First there were BBS's. They were supplanted by Internet message forums and newsgroups. Which where then done in by blogs. Which are now going the wayside as Twitter, Facebook take over. So, what's next?  (abcnews.go.com) (66)
(Gamespy) Interesting Why your loved ones hate video games  (gamespy.com) (101)
(io9) Interesting Scientists may have found where all the antimatter went after the Big Bang. Or, for our religious friends, scientists may have found all the cosmic trash God didn't need after the seventh day  (io9.com) (63)
(BBC) Sad Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell says it would be "catastrophic" if we don't land on the moon  (news.bbc.co.uk) (84)
(Some Guy) Strange Not to make fun of your lack of exercise, but this trout has better defined abs than you  (mnn.com) (20)
(io9) Interesting The best costumes in movies that didn't make the heroes look like they should be trick or treating  (io9.com) (53)

Fri March 12, 2010
(New Scientist) Interesting In a blow to tentacle porn fans everywhere, pretty or not, octopuses just don't have good personalities  (newscientist.com) (28)
(NASA) Interesting "A massive 'current of fire' on the sun has started running at high speed, surprising researchers." EVERYBODY PANIC  (science.nasa.gov) (45)
(Discover) Obvious Brian Greene on string theory: "Our universe may be one of many--a single bubble in a huge bubble bath of other universes.... Maybe these different bubbles all have different shapes for their extra dimensions"  (discovermagazine.com) (79)
(Inquisitr) Stupid Twitter falls for huge Formspring-hoax hoax  (inquisitr.com) (12)
(Fox News) Amusing Fox News speculates on what will cause the end of the world. Armies of invisible sky people battling evil creatures from the pit strangely absent  (foxnews.com) (28)
(Some Guy) Cool Scientist discover ancient rivers buried under Simpson Desert. Mmmm....ancient rivers  (cosmosmagazine.com) (23)
(Some Spector) Cool Marvel Comics' best superhero, Moon Knight, is entering The Heroic Age  (digitalspy.co.uk) (58)
(ABC News) Interesting Scientists find the "mother" of all skin cells. They could tell it was the mother because it was so fat its blood type was gravy  (abcnews.go.com) (14)
(ABC News) Interesting Norway doomsday seed vault hits 1/2 million mark, which is very good considering the upcoming apocalypse  (abcnews.go.com) (15)
(Arcadeaid.com) Amusing From the "Tron Legacy" viral campaign, here's a name-the-video-game puzzle quiz  (arcadeaid.com) (45)
(Space) Scary Killer electrons are all up in your magnetosphere, pwning your statelites  (space.com) (18)
(Independent) Stupid Facebook threatens to sue The Daily Mail for daring to insinuate that innocent teenage girls might be propositioned by anonymous perverts on the Internet  (independent.co.uk) (36)
(AFP) Interesting Russians to sell a dozen nuke reactors to India in a veiled attempt to curry favor  (news.yahoo.com) (20)
(io9) Stupid It looks like Marvel's movie timelines are as jumbled and hard to follow as the comic book ones are  (io9.com) (32)
(Ars Technica) Interesting Something from outside our universe is pulling matter towards it in a mysterious "Dark Flow". The Event Horizon has returned  (arstechnica.com) (50)
(News.com.au) Interesting France adds Australia to the list of "internet enemies", surrenders. (With pic of what internet censorship might look like)  (news.com.au) (13)
(Discover) Sad Pioneering underwater robot, ABE, is lost on a deep dive off the coast of Chile. Its last message from the abyss: "Going to stay a while"  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (41)
(Gizmodo) Amusing Here's a handy little chart to explain the differences between the Millenium Falcon and a sex toy, just in case you were having trouble telling them apart  (gizmodo.com) (64)
(Wired) Interesting TSA worker charged with attempting to insert logic bomb into government networks, marking the first time in history that the words "TSA worker" and "logic" have appeared together in a sentence  (wired.com) (20)
(Discover) Interesting Deforestation in Congo reveals gigantic meteor crater, temple inhabited by bloodthirsty gorillas  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (47)
(Wordpress) Cool Star Wars as an Icelandic saga. Awesome  (tattuinardoelasaga.wordpress.com) (34)
(The Sun) Unlikely Today's OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE story is about a series of deadly comets being hurled at the Earth by an invisible 'Death Star' in orbit of The Sun, who are of course there  (thesun.co.uk) (61)
(Boston Herald) Obvious One third of New Hampshire's bird species are stable or increasing in number, one third are decreasing, and one third were too busy crapping on your car to respond to the survey  (bostonherald.com) (15)

Thu March 11, 2010
(CSMonitor) Dumbass Who needs the Ivy League? At the University of Wyoming you can get a PhD in Donkey Kong  (csmonitor.com) (44)
(Science Daily) Interesting The future of broadband: broadcasting data with desk lamps  (sciencedaily.com) (23)
(Gizmodo) Cool Steve Jobs to unveil his newest invention this summer: Multitasking  (gizmodo.com) (81)
(New Scientist) Ironic Your snowflake didn't scrape her knee, she got brain damage instead and it's your fault  (newscientist.com) (10)
(Some Fox) Cool Megan Fox is looking for someone to have a sex tape with  (pc1news.com) (82)
(BBC) Cool "Console killer" OnLive to launch in June. Popular console games will begin streaming over the internet  (news.bbc.co.uk) (100)
(MSNBC) Unlikely If only men felt guilt and emotions the same way women do, "John Edwards wouldn't be a baby daddy and maybe Abu Ghraib would just be a little-known prison in Iraq." Here comes the science  (msnbc.msn.com) (65)
(Some Guy) Interesting Study shows birds separated by deforestation evolve distinctly. If only there was a documented case of a scientist observing divergent traits in birds separated by geological means  (mnn.com) (40)
(Pajamas Media) Cool The nail in the coffin of global warming? Three of four temperature datasets now "irrevocably tainted."  (pajamasmedia.com) (226)
(PC Magazine) PSA Fark it, we're doing six cores  (pcmag.com) (93)
(ABC News) Obvious Ric Romero discovers home offices, recommends you outfit yours with all-in-one printer and all-in-one iMac. "Technology is supposed to make our lives easier and sometimes it actually does"  (abclocal.go.com) (43)
(Gamma Squad) Cool Test car with a new kind of fuel injection system gets much better gas mileage than hybrid cars of the same weight  (gammasquad.uproxx.com) (82)
(Pharyngula) Sick Really weird Australian courtship rituals. w/video Aussie "goodness"  (scienceblogs.com) (10)
(AFP) Cool Papaya leaf extract is effective in fighting a broad range of cancers, says the skinny hippy running your local Vitamin World. Oh, and a team of scientists who just conducted a rigorous scientific study of it  (news.yahoo.com) (33)
(Gamma Squad) Cool Fred Van Lente previews Marvel Zombies 5, in which we get to see zombies from across the Multiverse  (gammasquad.uproxx.com) (23)
(Guardian.com) Sad Study finds animals are going extinct in England at the rate of two per year. Tree sparrows and West Midlands chavs reportedly still doing okay  (guardian.co.uk) (21)
(Science Daily) Obvious Students with conservative religious and political views are more inclined to think the Earth is less than 2000 years old and to know less about evolution  (sciencedaily.com) (277)
(Wired) Strange If you've ever wondered what cocaine does to honeybees, or been fascinated by the effects of fellatio on fruitbats, there's a scientific paper for you  (wired.co.uk) (24)
(PhysOrg.com) Cool Porn is socially beneficial, says this BEST. STUDY. EVER  (physorg.com) (44)
(ABC News) Asinine Sony unveils the latest "killer app" for the PS3, the Sony "Move" a revolutionary new controller that looks, and acts, precisely like the Wii remote  (abcnews.go.com) (163)
(Bit Rebels) Weird Geeks can now roam the streets in their own QWERTY keyboard car  (bitrebels.com) (48)
(New Scientist) Interesting Women with good genes have more sexual partners than those without, possibly because their butts look so damned good in them  T-Shirt  (newscientist.com) (50)
(The Sun) Interesting In Japan, the billboards read you  (thesun.co.uk) (25)
(BBSpot) Interesting Five three-strikes laws we really need for the Internet  (bbspot.com) (76)

Wed March 10, 2010
(Discover) Interesting #FFF5F2  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (40)
(BBC) Fail Large Hadron Collider misses again. This is not a repeat from 2011  T-Shirt  (news.bbc.co.uk) (395)
(Kotaku) Fail What do you get when you combine a man, some farm equipment, an angry bull and a carbomb? If you guessed the first Pakistani arcade game, disarm the package containing your prize  (kotaku.com) (30)
(YouTube) Interesting Sparse voxel octrees  (youtube.com) (55)
(Cracked) Scary LearJet-sized raptors, giant sea scorpions, and other giant animals we can thank Darwin are extinct  (cracked.com) (59)
(Kotaku) Spiffy Civilization V preview: small changes, big differences, still awesome  (kotaku.com) (169)
(Discover) Interesting I made you a galaxy but I eated it  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (19)
(WOAI) Interesting Natural Gas drilling is the cause of recent earthquakes. No not those recent earthquakes  (woai.com) (14)
(Boing Boing) Interesting Depending upon the country where you work, if there's a fire you head for either the red sign that says "EXIT" or the green one with the dude running away  (boingboing.net) (66)
(Washington Post) Obvious Playing WoW during lecture, alt-tabbed behind notepad? You're not fooling anyone. Movements to ban laptops from classrooms gain steam  (washingtonpost.com) (189)
(Some Guy) Cool The coolest gallery of micrographs of insects you will see all day  (animalpicture.ru) (13)
(Some Guy) Cool The coolest interactive live map of ships at sea you'll probably ever see  (marinetraffic.com) (53)
(PopMatters) Cool One surefire way to incite nerd rage is to ask what the best gaming console ever is. The only reasonable answer is Sony's Playstation 2  (popmatters.com) (213)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Race car that runs on chocolate, potato starch, and flax generates 1.21 gigawatts of power and goes from 0 to 88 mph in 3.2 seconds  (news.yahoo.com) (37)
(Bit Rebels) Cool Star Wars cuddlies is showing us that knitting is cool  (bitrebels.com) (38)
(Yahoo) Interesting Tasmanian devil is immune to cancer, still susceptible to its natural predator...the American snark bunny  (news.yahoo.com) (23)
(Gizmodo) Strange Vertical prison design for the future. Have we forgot the tower of Babel and what happened?  (gizmodo.com) (63)
(Some Guy) Interesting What the Earth will look like in 50 million years  (darkroastedblend.com) (96)
(PhysOrg.com) Obvious You taste fat  (physorg.com) (34)
(Some Guy) Amusing In 'Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus', a shark jumps out of the water and takes down an airplane flying at 6,000 ft. Your first instinct may be to call 'bullshiat'. Your a idiot and here comes the science  (flowingdata.com) (117)

Tue March 09, 2010
(Yahoo) Cool Cisco just invented a new router that can download the entire Library of Congress in one second, every movie ever made in four minutes, all the porn on the internet in 69 years  T-Shirt  (finance.yahoo.com) (88)
(Huffington Post) Fail Neither science nor logic will ever deter Jenny McCarthy's unrelenting will-to-idiocy: "With so many kids with autism, the environment has to be to blame, and vaccines are an obvious culprit"  (huffingtonpost.com) (143)
(io9) Interesting The guy who made Alice in Wonderland a suicidal orphan in a PC game has now set his sights on Little Red Riding Hood  (io9.com) (74)
(Boing Boing) Strange Give the NY Times a month until they notice it and call it a trend: Young women videoblog the aftermath of their shopping trips to the mall  (boingboing.net) (30)
(Kotaku) Spiffy Rock Band 3 "will innovate and revolutionize the music genre," just in time for Christmas  (kotaku.com) (88)
(SciFi Squad) Spiffy Eight science fiction films you didn't realize were science fiction until you went "Woah" about two-thirds of the way through. With spoilers as massive as Alec Baldwin's head  (scifisquad.com) (235)
(BBC) Interesting England has found a way of ridding itself of superweed that doesn't involve college freshmen  (news.bbc.co.uk) (17)
(io9) Obvious Marvel is going to squeeze every penny they can out of Iron Man 2 as they redesign the character across the entire Marvel line  (io9.com) (33)
(Yahoo) Followup Remeber that coming "crippling shortage" of rare earth elements used in virtually all high-tech devices? Turns out the US has a metric assload of them but can't be bothered to mine them  (news.yahoo.com) (88)
(Mac|Life) Obvious For all practical purposes, Apple's iPhone developer's agreement basically grants them ownership of every app you create. But it does let you sue them for up to and including the staggering sum of $50  (maclife.com) (34)
(Kotaku) Interesting Why modern video game armies lack female troops  (kotaku.com) (88)
(Child Trends Data Bank) Obvious 94 percent of parents of three- and four-year-olds report having spanked their kids in the past year; parents of the other 6% have them working down't mill twenty hours a day for tuppence a month  (childtrendsdatabank.org) (61)
(Ars Technica) PSA Ars Technica asks readers to turn off ad-block on its website to help save the site. On that note, if Farkers out there don't mind turning off adblock for Fark we'd sure appreciate it too -Drew (link fixed)  (arstechnica.com) (705)
(Aggrogate) Fail Star Trek Online: it goes boldly, but not very well  (aggrogate.com) (178)
(Some Shocked Spock) Cool Leonard Nimoy will head to the final final frontier: guest starring on an episode of Big Bang Theory  (digitalspy.com) (72)
(The New York Times) Interesting Touted by environmentalists as the wave of the future, Spain's solar power program still needs massive subsidies and serves as an example of what not to do  (nytimes.com) (141)
(Boston Globe) Obvious "But while Gore prays for redemption, the pews in the Church of Climate Catastrophe are gradually emptying. The public's skeptical common sense, it turns out, is pretty robust. Just like those Himalayan glaciers"  (boston.com) (634)
(Science Daily) Interesting Exposure to the letters F and A before a test can lower or raise your scores. Fk'n A  (sciencedaily.com) (29)
(SLO Tribune) Sad Sea lions being killed by wildlife officials for eating too many salmon. Fat couples at Red Lobster currently exempt  (sanluisobispo.com) (26)
(NPR) Interesting Grizzly bears starting turf war with Polar bears on Hudson Bay. Stephen Colbert last seen running in terror towards New Jersey  (npr.org) (27)
(ZDNet) Strange Your AA battery charger may have a backdoor that allows remote computer access. No, seriously  (blogs.zdnet.com) (101)

Mon March 08, 2010
(Yahoo) Hero Study shows iPhone addictive, making it the first truly great smartphone that people literally can't put down. You think anyone actually feels that way about their Blackberry? If they did there'd be a cute punny name for it or something  (news.yahoo.com) (59)
(London Times) Spiffy Gribble will turn wood into biofuel. John Redcorn unavailable for comment  (timesonline.co.uk) (31)
(Onion AV Club) Weird "Murder, She Wrote" The video game is finally here. Time to upgrade grandma to a 486  (avclub.com) (52)
(Some Mad Scientist) Cool Scientists at MIT discover solution to exploding battery problem: Cut out the middleman  (web.mit.edu) (24)
(PhysOrg.com) Spiffy Researchers transmit power through superconducting lines for 200 meters. All we need is 12 gajillion miles of liquid nitrogen cooled power lines and our grid will be hugely efficient and we'll save electric... wait this isn't adding up  (physorg.com) (34)
(Boston Globe) Audio The 13-note Bohlen-Pierce musical scale, invented in the 1970s by microwave technicians, as played on one of six existing BP-scale clarinets in the world. Yeah, it sounds about like you'd imagine  (boston.com) (104)
(Time) Cool Einstein's theory of relativity to be displayed for the first time in Israel. His theory of hairstyling shall forever remain a mystery  (techland.com) (21)
(Time) Scary Because you're not sufficiently freaked out yet today, here's where your cell phone ranks on the radiation report card  (time.com) (64)
(Some Guy) Interesting Iraq may be home to the oldest continually-inhabited human settlement in the world  (praguemonitor.com) (27)
(HelenaIR.com) Sad Yellowstone Park's Druid wolf pack is gone. Nobody knows who they were, or...what they were doing. But their legacy remains, hewn into the living rock...of Yellowstonehenge  T-Shirt  (helenair.com) (75)
(Washington Post) Cool Keep on drinking the Haterade, haters, but Second Life entrepeneurs cashed out over 50 million real dollars last year  (washingtonpost.com) (54)
(Neatorama) Cool Would a lava lamp work on Jupiter? Really, who cares, but it is an excuse for this guy to build a centrifuge in his living room (with video)  (neatorama.com) (72)
(BBC) Stupid We hold these truths to be self-evident, that among them are life, liberty, and high-speed Internet  (news.bbc.co.uk) (149)
(Guardian.com) Sad Humans driving species to extinction faster than new ones can evolve. Darwin facepalms  (guardian.co.uk) (190)

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