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Wed May 16, 2012
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(australian) Scary New study says that fat reaches a person's waistline within three hours of eating a meal, or three and a half hours after Domino's gets the call  (theaustralian.com.au) (6)
(Mental Floss) Amusing Alcoholidays, mirthquakes, and other portmanteaux that sadly did not catch on  (mentalfloss.com) (6)
(MSNBC) Interesting Over 2,000 people apply for jobs to build asteroid-mining robots. "Thanks a lot" says asteroid miners' union  (msnbc.msn.com) (2)
(Scientific American) Cool Scientists discover earth-like planet emitting infared glow. Still striking out on that whole warp-drive thing  (scientificamerican.com) (2)
(io9) Spiffy Doctor Who + Corsets + Lolita skirts = NERDGASM(52) + 1  (io9.com) (11)
(Slashdot) Cool Google's new Android strategy: Fark the carriers  (mobile.slashdot.org) (9)
(CNN) Cool New MacBook Pro includes slim design, new retina display. Voight-Kampff testing capabilities still unknown  (cnn.com) (28)
(Some Guy) Cool Portal turret comes alive in robot project  (zdnet.com.au) (3)
(Discover) Silly I will set your skirt on fire. Is this understood, gypsy?  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (2)
(CarConnection) Interesting If you send a text to a driver, can you go to jail if he crashes?  (thecarconnection.com) (24)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Everyone's so happy over at Blizzard that they've even taken the forums offline for a little "emergency server work". I guess 1000 pages of happy customers was just too much squee, right Blizz?  (us.battle.net) (113)
(CNN) Dumbass How many times do I have to say this? If you run an unsecured Wifi network called "pedodave69" you are are only asking for trouble; especially if you are a retired FBI agent  (cnn.com) (14)
(MSNBC) Cool Need a reason to visit Santa Claus, Indiana the summer? How about riding the world's longest water coaster  (itineraries.msnbc.msn.com) (8)
(Scientific American) Interesting Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude. Wait, what?  (scientificamerican.com) (6)
(The Restart Page) Cool Computer restarts from days gone by, all for your clicking pleasure. Christ, I'm old  (therestartpage.com) (17)
(Fox News) Spiffy Russian satellite captures highest-resolution image of Earth ever. Something must be wrong with this monitor, I can't see America  (foxnews.com) (10)
(ABC) Silly Paleontologists determine that Pliosaurs had arthritis. Still no cure for cancer  (abcnews.go.com) (2)
(Gamma Squad) Strange All the toaster strudels will look up and shout, "Frost us" and I'll look down and whisper, "No"  (gammasquad.uproxx.com) (11)
(National Geographic) Spiffy Slideshow of National Geographic's "Best Night Sky Pictures of 2012"  (news.nationalgeographic.com) (10)
(Gizmodo) Cool New cut of beef discovered: "The flavor is comparable to the New York Strip Steak. It does not require aging or marinating to achieve tenderness." Kinda makes you wonder... What else have those damn cows been holding out on us?  (gizmodo.com) (177)
(Science Daily) Interesting Drugs harvested from Gila Monster saliva reduces cravings for chocolate and other foods, may revolutionize Type II Diabetes treatment  (sciencedaily.com) (44)


Tue May 15, 2012
(io9) Cool 10 best time travel movies of all timelines  (io9.com) (322)
(Joystiq) Fail Curt Schilling about to eat it  (joystiq.com) (105)
(Stuff.co.nz) Cool Scientists now using body heat as an energy source. In a related story, Sofia Vergara has been reclassified as a nuclear reactor  (stuff.co.nz) (49)
(VentureBeat) Satire World exclusive Diablo III review  (venturebeat.com) (270)
(Fark) Sad Your official Error 37 thread continues...  (fark.com) (538)
(Gizmodo) Interesting How Yahoo killed Flickr: In the billiard room, with the candlestick. Duh  (gizmodo.com) (21)
(SlashGear) Followup Siri: I'm sorry, did I say that the Lumia 900 4G by Nokia was the best smartphone? I'm sorry, I misunderstood your question. My mistake, won't happen again  (slashgear.com) (62)
(AnnArbor.com) Cool The University of Michigan's Computer and Video Game Archive, where you can go play any of their games and which wants to collect every video and computer game ever made  (annarbor.com) (45)
(IGN) Stupid CapCom will re-evaluate how to block on-disc content so they can sell it to you later  (ign.com) (94)
(Daily Mail) Florida 900-year-old skulls found buried in Florida backyard has officials scratching their heads  (dailymail.co.uk) (32)
(Neatorama) Cool Oh boy, candy corn. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH. OH GOD, MY TEEF  (neatorama.com) (43)
(Gizmodo) Cool Air Force accidentally fills entire hangar with foam. Sheriff Carter is NOT going to be happy about this  (gizmodo.com) (56)
(Reuters) Interesting Judge reinstates Apple's suit against Samsung tablets. Thousands of lawyers rejoice  (reuters.com) (42)
(Some Guy) Scary Defence Secretary warns that EMP bombs could cripple Nanny State's vital fleet of television detector vans  (techweekeurope.co.uk) (44)
(TechEBlog) Cool You won't even need a penis after this car  (techeblog.com) (69)
(Boing Boing) Cool The Nerds have accomplished the equivalent of Sherman's March in their war against Jocks. Revenge is ours  (boingboing.net) (28)
(io9) Cool Comic art legend Neal Adams to draw X-Men prequel mini-series starring Wolverine and a Nazi-hunting Magneto. No word yet whether the Expanding Earth Theory will be involved  (io9.com) (26)


Mon May 14, 2012
(Laughing Squid) Cool Edible chocolate brains created from MRI scan data. THAT'S how we can manage the zombie apocalypse  (laughingsquid.com) (10)
(Jalopnik) Cool The oldest cars still in production  (jalopnik.com) (40)
(NASA) Cool NASA releases its latest simulated flyover--Vesta  (apod.nasa.gov) (15)
(Yahoo) Sad To the distant, tearful strains of the world's smallest violin, we learn that Facebook is cutting into the hard-earned SMS profits of carriers  (news.yahoo.com) (28)
(National Geographic) Interesting New research indicates an as yet undiscovered planet may be orbiting at the dark fringes of our solar system  (news.nationalgeographic.com) (89)
(*ACHOO*) Cool Berkeley Lab finds a means to make viruses generate electricity. This science is brought to you with a shot of Dayquil  (newscenter.lbl.gov) (14)
(foodiggity.com) Interesting The Good, the Bad, and the Mummy: How the General Mills cereal monsters succeeded and failed  (foodiggity.com) (87)
(Economist) Cool Facebook's IPO is so big, it will balance California's budget  (economist.com) (99)
(CBC) Sick Fourteen year old girls posing topless on webcam, brought to you by Rogers, Bank of Montreal, Tim Hortons, and Home Depot  (cbc.ca) (194)
(RamblingBeachCat.com) Strange Creepy: Finding two dead bodies while you're flying a kite. Really Creepy: They are wearing raincoats, lead masks, and carrying a note about taking pills and waiting for something to happen  (ramblingbeachcat.com) (110)
(OK! Magazine) Stupid World's saddest iPhone app lets you date, kiss and move in with computerised versions of boy band One Direction  (ok.co.uk) (30)
(TechEBlog) Cool Hello? Yes, this is loser  (techeblog.com) (44)
(PCWorld) Interesting 72.5% of U.S. mothers now check Facebook daily for friend updates, wall postings, to see what their husband is claiming for his relationship status  (pcworld.com) (34)
(Some Guy) Interesting NASA to play real life asteroids  (asianage.com) (17)
(CNBC) Interesting Contraceptive implants may prevent repeat teen pregnancies. Finally, something to offset the effects that breast implants had on getting them pregnant in the first place  (cnbc.com) (44)
(MSNBC) Interesting Study suggests that if you identify with a fictional character, you may become more like them. However, it doesn't seem to work for all those people who read about Jesus  (bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com) (193)
(Farker abkaiser) Plug Another Farker wrote a book. Think Raymond Chandler fused with Douglas Adams. Free to read for Amazon Prime subscribers, and very cheap for the rest of the world  (amazon.com) (63)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Vintage camera sells at auction for $2.8 million  (news.yahoo.com) (49)
(Gizmodo) Interesting Kodak bankruptcy goodies: Kodak name, a plethora of patents, weapons grade nuclear reactor hidden in basement in NY  (gizmodo.com) (123)


Sun May 13, 2012
(doctorwhotv) Amusing Doctor Who's eleventh incarnation becomes a puppet  (doctorwhotv.co.uk) (29)
(Some Guy) Amusing Extremely serious photos of extremely serious writers  (flavorwire.com) (32)
(Some Guy) Plug Farker wrote a zombie book. Free to read for Amazon Prime subscribers  (amazon.com) (164)
(BBC) Interesting Yarr....Dutch court fires broadside right into the mizzen mast of the Pirate Party. Legal experts expect them to drop anchor and shiver their timbers and I can't remember any other pirate terms right now  (bbc.co.uk) (29)
(Daily Mail) Cool New released behind-the-scenes photos from Empire Strikes Back, like Leia making out with a Gamorrean guard. You know, like in that porn fanfic you wrote  (dailymail.co.uk) (108)
(C|Net) Obvious Three tech bargains you shouldn't fall for... but probably will  (reviews.cnet.com) (128)


Sat May 12, 2012
(Aggrogate) Fail Why lightsaber games never worked. Hokey peripherals and ancient controllers are no match for a good Zapper at your side, kid  (aggrogate.com) (65)
(Gizmodo) Cool You've never seen so much wood in your entire life (that's what she said)  (gizmodo.com) (20)
(Canoe) Interesting [redacted]  (cnews.canoe.ca) (39)
(Visual.ly) Spiffy Five exoplanets that might just be able to support human life. Subby calls dibs on Gliese 667C c  (visual.ly) (167)
(io9) Cool The Nine Circles of Hell, rendered in Lego, as written about by Tente Alighieri  (io9.com) (34)
(MSNBC) Interesting If you don't want to wait until 2245 for the first USS Enterprise to be built BTE Dan has some good news for you  (msnbc.msn.com) (82)
(PC Magazine) Obvious Author correctly identifies Instagram as the Country Fried Steak of photography  (pcmag.com) (130)
(Google) Weird What the heck is this thing? A decommissioned radar assembly or a shrine to the god of bowling? DIT  (maps.google.com) (81)
(Haaretz) Cool Can Gelfand the Great defeat Anand the Ace and anend his reign? Can the Israeli Icon crack The DaVishy Code? Will the ghost of Bobby Fischer appear to demand money and extra lighting? The Chess World Championship continues today  (haaretz.com) (39)
(io9) Scary Almost all spiders are solitary, and very few hunt together in groups of thousands, cooperating to kill and eat prey thousands of times their own size. Very few  (io9.com) (108)


Fri May 11, 2012
(NJ.com) Dumbass Man implants magnets in his arm to hold his iPod  (nj.com) (62)
(Wired) Amusing So THAT'S what you do with your physics degree  (wired.com) (20)
(io9) Amusing Game of Thrones decapitated Ned Stark dessert pops  (io9.com) (55)
(io9) Cool The best Airship pictures you're going to see today  (io9.com) (34)
(Some Guy) Asinine Wait until Microsoft realizes they could be charging money for security patches too  (nakedsecurity.sophos.com) (56)
(YouTube) Strange What happens when you combine Glee and Call of Duty?  (youtube.com) (27)
(Fox News) Interesting Japan is experiencing reverse Idiocracy. EVERYBODY PANIC  (foxnews.com) (254)
(Popular Science) Scary The Chinese teleported protons over 100 kilometers. I for one, welcome our Chinese, proton teleporting overlords  (popsci.com) (43)
(Computerworld) Obvious Microsoft touts Windows 8's ability to detect itself  (computerworld.com) (58)
(MSNBC) Asinine Bayer Cropscience would like you to know that in no way does their insecticide cause colony collapse of bees  (cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com) (19)
(Wired) Obvious The FBI has a problem with anonymized online currency substitutes such as Bitcoin  (wired.com) (40)
(Boing Boing) Interesting An incredibly detailed look at Internet marketing scams, and it won't even cost you $5 a month  (boingboing.net) (60)
(Uproxx) Scary Facebook apparently will soon let users pay to make their posts stand out in their friends' feed. In other words, Facebook is about to get even more insufferable  (uproxx.com) (88)
(Short List) Weird For all those who wanted an even closer relationship with their vacuum cleaner  (shortlist.com) (13)
(Some Buffy site) PSA When should you stake a vampire? A handy flowchart for "Buffy" fans  (btvsonline.com) (26)
(Slate) Silly "I lasted less than half a day... and it was hell." a) Hiker trying to traverse Death Valley on foot, b) Embedded reporter in Afghanistan, or c) tech writer trying to go a day without Google products?  (slate.com) (24)
(Gizmodo) Ironic Yeah, this camera only shoots in two colors. You've probably never heard of it  (gizmodo.com) (70)
(Some Guy) Interesting Investors pay $850,000 for Batman #1, wonder why it says "The New 52"  (wfaa.com) (37)
(The Atlantic Wire) Interesting Have you bought an iPod in the last six years? Well guess what? You are currently suing Apple  (theatlanticwire.com) (148)
(Neatorama) Interesting On yer voter registration card, does it say "D," or "Arrrrrr"  (neatorama.com) (23)
(Fox News) Fail Microsoft to ban every browser but Internet Explorer from the new version of Windows. This is not a repeat from 1998  (foxnews.com) (264)
(Some Guy) Sad Comic book artist Tony DeZuniga, who co-created Jonah Hex, is dead at age 71. Sadly, he did live long enough to see his most famous creation on the big screen  (digitalspy.com) (30)


Thu May 10, 2012
(Great Falls Tribune) Dumbass If your company's computers crash and its backup servers are erased just days after you're laid off, don't demand a multi-year contract at exorbitant rates to repair them, because someone will put two and two together  (greatfallstribune.com) (51)
(Gizmodo) Sad We've been trimming our nails wrong for more than 100 years  (gizmodo.com) (67)
(Science Daily) Cool Scientists discover key mechanisms behind tinnitus, get a ringing endorsement  (sciencedaily.com) (37)
(Kotaku) Weird Dat (robot) ass  (kotaku.com) (63)
(Slate) Weird Most new cars now have a little arrow on one side of the gas pump icon on the fuel gauge. It actually means something--but what?  (slate.com) (259)
(Kotaku) Amusing When Optimus Prime and Spider-Man won the Chinese lottery  (kotaku.com) (10)
(Forbes) Cool Intel turning itself into a software powerhouse  (forbes.com) (11)
(Fox News) Interesting Facebook to cornhole users with new app store  (foxnews.com) (64)
(Tech-Stew) Cool Scientists develop wallpaper to block Wi-Fi, available in 2013  (tech-stew.com) (57)
(Some Guy) Interesting Why computers are awesome: Medicare inspectors were able to uncover $5.6 billion in potential fraud by running a statistical analysis on all 1 billion prescriptions filled at retail pharmacies that were billed to Medicare last year  (kens5.com) (77)
(Gizmodo) Strange The seven weirdest creatures under the sea. Sweet dreams  (gizmodo.com) (51)
(CNN) Spiffy Twitter during brain surgery? It's almost like being there  (cnn.com) (8)
(Lifehacker) Interesting Computer editor spends a week with IE9 as his default browser and still lives to tell about it  (lifehacker.com) (60)
(ABC) Interesting A new drug, Truvada has been shown to 94% effective in preventing AIDS infections in healthy people - which is why AIDS prevention advocates fear it will be a disastrous to their efforts to prevent the spread of AIDS  (abcnews.go.com) (76)
(Discover) Silly Here, take this amphetamine and another drug that removes your need for sleep, and let's see what that does to your sense of humor  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (19)
(Telegraph) Fail Half of all British men will be obese by 2040, the remainder after midnight  (telegraph.co.uk) (9)
(Wired) Silly Turn your $700 toy into a $20 toy  (wired.com) (16)
(Mental Floss) Interesting Entirely everything you ever wanted to know about Animaniacs. Hellllllloooooo facts  (mentalfloss.com) (75)
(Mother Nature Network) Scary A new species of spiders that create trapdoors to catch their prey is discovered in: A) the Amazon, B) the Congo, or C) Auburn University  (mnn.com) (31)
(USA Today) Interesting NFL players found to live longer than the general population. Probably because most Americans now outweigh the average starting offensive line  (usatoday.com) (24)
(Science Daily) Interesting Scientists have found the neurotransmitter responsible for something or other  (sciencedaily.com) (2)
(New York Daily News) Strange I'll see your occasional blue lobster and raise you with a rare calico-colored lobster. Simply delicious  (nydailynews.com) (10)
(Fox News) Interesting "SOHO went into 'Emergency Sun Reacquisition' mode on 5/4/12, caused by a false trigger of the Coarse Sun Pointing Attitude Anomaly Detector." That's NASA talk for "OMG, we're not alone"  (foxnews.com) (34)
(The Local (Germany)) Obvious Ancient Mayan skull said to have magical powers- stolen from Tibet by Nazis - is damaged in a fall after lab techs fail to properly protect it in a refrigerator  (thelocal.de) (93)
(BBC) Obvious Why do Americans consume 80% of the worlds painkillers? BECAUSE WE CAN  (bbc.co.uk) (227)
(io9) Interesting Medical predictions for the 21st century from 1955 are in many cases not that far off  (io9.com) (13)
(Mental Floss) Interesting Could humans hibernate? Verdict: kind of  (mentalfloss.com) (26)
(C|Net) Silly That guy next to you on the subway, shaking his leg like he's trying to remove dog crap on his shoe? Not to worry, he's just texting his wife he's running late for dinner  (news.cnet.com) (6)


Wed May 09, 2012
(News.com.au) Amusing If LoLCats make us smarter, we should have cured cancer by now  (news.com.au) (6)
(Calgary Herald .com) Interesting "Born-again atheists are as irritating as born-again religious persons"  (calgaryherald.com) (660)
(Popular Science) Interesting How to use Microsoft Kinect to detect autism. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. UH-OH  (popsci.com) (37)
(Discover) Obvious What did people in 1859 think of the Great Solar Storm? They 23 skidoo'd their drawers  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (29)
(Some Guy) Cool Wolfenstein 3D is 20 years old. Let's kill Hitler  (wolfenstein.bethsoft.com) (95)
(UPI) Interesting National survey indicates six percent of Canadians prefer Internet to sex -- results that seem counter-Inuitive  (upi.com) (10)
(Ars Technica) Interesting DDR4 memory is coming soon. I'm pretty sure that no one wants memories of my Dance Dance Revolution moves  (arstechnica.com) (36)
(Boing Boing) Stupid Obnoxious new anti-piracy warnings make DVD buying worse. For you younger folks: DVDs were hardcopies of digitized films that you couldn't legally transfer electronically. Strange, I know  (boingboing.net) (257)
(CTV) Interesting I saw a wolf in New Brunswick for the first time in 150 years. His hair was perfect  (ctv.ca) (32)
(Mother Nature Network) Interesting Hawaii says "aloha" to plastic bags. That would be the "goodbye" aloha, by the bye  (mnn.com) (42)
(Jalopnik) Strange "The answer is I don't sit around twiddle-farking my life away, playing video games, watching TV or movies, which is what a lot of those guys waste their time doing" - says some guy building his own car  (jalopnik.com) (48)
(IGN) Sad BioShock Infinite lives up to its name in regards to development time  (ign.com) (35)
(io9) Spiffy Cool: Guy hand-forges his own wedding ring. Fark: Out of a meteorite  (io9.com) (169)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Old, busted: miniature giant space hamsters. New hotness: miniature giant mammoths  (phys.org) (16)
(Discover) Cool Good: The crack in Amy Pond's wall is gone. Bad: It's now The Nexus. Fark: It's trillions of miles long  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (68)
(io9) Cool And now, a Batman helmet right out of the 1920s  (io9.com) (8)
(BGR) Interesting Wake up call: 59% of mobile apps don't earn enough to break even [infographic]  (bgr.com) (24)
(The Earth Times) Interesting Endangered jaguars are making endangered sea turtles even more endangered  (earthtimes.org) (13)
(Some SMRT guy) Interesting Eastern Michigan University sees 12.4% increase in students taking remedial courses. Wait, almost HALF of them? That's unpossible  (annarbor.com) (140)
(Discover) Fail Who puts water on cereal?  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (212)
(News.com.au) Unlikely YouTuber claims to have found evidence of another spaceship near the Sun from SOHO footage. Yes, another one  (news.com.au) (44)
(BBC) Silly Some days, being a scientist is pretty dull. On other days, you come up with a plan to air-drop poisoned mice by parachute to wipe out an army of two million snakes  (bbc.co.uk) (102)
(tech news daily) Obvious Nielsen survey finds that older white men have the fewest number of smart phones, most VCRs still flashing 12:00  (technewsdaily.com) (71)
(Geeks Are Sexy) Interesting Discover what the numbers on your credit card actually mean  (geeksaresexy.net) (104)
(io9) Interesting New evidence indicates the Germans may have launched a crewed rocket into space in 1933. Soar krauts  (io9.com) (49)
(io9) Interesting The Man Who Declared War on Gravity. Gravity: 1 Guy you never heard of: 0  (io9.com) (28)

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