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Thu March 18, 2010
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(MSNBC) Cool Four million-year-old shark attack reconstructed. Shark still looks fake  (msnbc.msn.com) (3)
(News.com.au) Interesting YouTube uploads 24 hours of video every minute. That's a LOT of "Final Countdown" covers  (news.com.au) (9)

Wed March 17, 2010
(Jerusalem Post) Interesting Pregnacy is the fountain of youth. Raising the little tykes, however, is the fountain of old  (jpost.com) (17)
(Science Daily) Interesting Scientists establish leech as a model for study of reproductive behavior, a psychological profile of your stoned-off-his-ass roommate  (sciencedaily.com) (11)
(Daily Express) Cool Cure for breast cancer found. Still no cure for canc, er... um, Duke sucks? (w/ photo of medically relevant sideboob)  (express.co.uk) (123)
(Scientific American) Interesting Scientists give up that whole curing cancer thing to tackle a more pressing question: Why is Miley Cyrus so damn popular?  (scientificamerican.com) (30)
(Salon) Ironic Ancient ruins long thought to be an early Jewish temple have now been identified as a Muslim palace. Oopsie  (salon.com) (28)
(The New York Times) Asinine The sage grouse is facing extinction. Congressman Jacob Chaffetz of Utah (R-d) "The only place the sage grouse belongs is on the menu of a French bistro"  (nytimes.com) (34)
(CNN) Stupid Hard-hitting CNN front page news: "How to be cool on Foursquare." Spoiler Alert: tip #1 isn't "uninstall Foursquare"  (scitech.blogs.cnn.com) (36)
(Discover) Cool How to build your own fusion reactor for around $1000. Just try to remember the very flammable gas and voltages high enough to instantly kill you  (discovermagazine.com) (44)
(Discover) Cool Scotland hopes to become the "Saudi Arabia of wave and tidal power," and here are the 4 machines they're counting on to make it happen  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (27)
(The Register) Amusing And it should have wheels and, and a knife with fire coming out  (theregister.co.uk) (13)
(AOL News) Cool V-8 Mustang tops in fuel economy, runs on tears of hybrid owners  (dailyfinance.com) (152)
(C|Net) Scary MIT building self-assembling computer chips to find Sarah Connor  (news.cnet.com) (15)
(AMC) Spiffy Hollywood always gets the future wrong, which is why you're not getting a jet pack or a Nexus-6 basic pleasure model that looks like a young Daryl Hannah  (blogs.amctv.com) (40)
(Popular Science) Scary Not news: Former employee sues company for firing her after she got sick. EVERYBODY PANIC: Employee worked for drug company, claims she was infected by an HIV-like virus created in their lab  (popsci.com) (55)
(Gizmodo) Cool 25 things you can remote control with your iPhone  (gizmodo.com) (48)
(Wired) Cool It turns out Jupiter's Giant Red Spot is really a very complicated, very cold storm  (wired.com) (41)
(Yahoo) Obvious Male gamers are idiots. Here comes the science  (news.yahoo.com) (137)
(Science Daily) Interesting Hello, this is Phil. We found your lost vehicle. You had crashed it in a different place than you thought. But it's still on the Moon  (sciencedaily.com) (101)
(The New York Times) Interesting You should read this article about giving away your privacy and beer drinking habits on the internet -- Drew  (nytimes.com) (77)
(Yahoo) Interesting DivX releases new software for HD video. In other news, DivX still hasn't gone the way of Circuit City  (news.yahoo.com) (59)

Tue March 16, 2010
(Engadget) Fail Microsoft drops that old, outdated "cut and paste" functionality. It's not like anyone uses it any more  (engadget.com) (156)
(Telegraph) Interesting Humans could regrow body parts like some amphibians. This is good news for John Bobbitt  (telegraph.co.uk) (30)
(Google) Sad "When Will We Land on Mars?" Wernher von Braun thought maybe 1986  (books.google.com) (76)
(Financial Times) Strange Traffic on Facebook has surpassed the amount of traffic on Google. Am I going to die?  (ft.com) (50)
(Some Guy) Fail Al Gore helpfully explains that weather is not climate, except when it is. And climate change is not global warming, unless it's getting warmer. Otherwise, you should be very afraid of weather. Got all that?  (businessandmedia.org) (281)
(ABC News) Cool London to Beijing on high speed rail  (abcnews.go.com) (53)
(HiRise) Cool Nothing to see here, just the latest badass photo of an avalanche. On Mars  (hirise.lpl.arizona.edu) (36)
(Some Tinfoil Hat Wearing Guy) Unlikely "Parachute some bears into areas bin Laden might be" is actually not the craziest suggestion left by members of the public at the Defense Department's website  (military.com) (90)
(Daily Kos) Cool While you were all complaining about HCR, some smarty just created artifical photosynthesis  (dailykos.com) (80)
(Some Artist) Obvious Jack Kirby's estate is suing Marvel Comics. Again. This time, for rights to all his creations, including Nick Fury and the Fantastic Four  (digitalspy.co.uk) (56)
(Some Guy) Obvious YourData from MySpace is ForSale  (readwriteweb.com) (21)
(Gamma Squad) Cool This personal rocket copter runs on hydrogen peroxide and awesomeness  (gammasquad.uproxx.com) (25)
(NPR) Interesting The trail of bacteria you leave behind can finger you for a crime  (npr.org) (11)
(PhysOrg.com) Amusing Your mama is so fat she exceeds the Chandrasekhar limit  (physorg.com) (50)
(Jalopnik) Amusing Wait, the Silver Surfer is causing runaway Toyotas?  (jalopnik.com) (26)
(The New York Times) Spiffy Skydiver to jump at 120,000 feet and be the first human to break Mach 1 in free fall. And it's all sponsored by Red Bull  (nytimes.com) (95)
(Ars Technica) Interesting How robots think: an introduction. Yes there's math, and it's the hard stuff with no numbers only letters  (arstechnica.com) (33)
(Network World) Amusing Never tell a madman with a silly mustache you risked the Third Reich on the security of cloud computing  (networkworld.com) (10)
(Den Of Geek) Interesting The top 10 things that videogames have taught us about the future  (denofgeek.com) (167)
(Cape Cod Times) Ironic Residents ponder future of wind power after two wind turbines are damaged . . . by wind  (capecodonline.com) (30)
(The Sun) Unlikely Ringtones help cure hangovers. In other news, ringtones help aggravate hangovers  (thesun.co.uk) (3)
(The Register) Stupid Finally, Subby has something in common with Twitter  (theregister.co.uk) (16)
(BBC) Interesting Facebook is looking for their next "killer game". Something iconic, something like a farming mermaid aquarium Sim type of thing  (news.bbc.co.uk) (47)
(Telegraph) Interesting Ugg boots aren't only the fashion equivalent of a train wreck, they're bad for your health, too. Here comes the science  (telegraph.co.uk) (292)
(Guardian.com) Spiffy Soldier wounded by RPG learns to lick his blindness  (guardian.co.uk) (82)

Mon March 15, 2010
(CNN) Followup Apple iPad orders drop sharply over the weekend, should pick up about 28 days from now  (brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com) (216)
(Hot Air) Cool While you weren't paying attention, the EPA reported the air is getting cleaner  (hotair.com) (52)
(Space) Cool While NASA astronauts are working on their hitchhiking skills, India just upped its space program budget $1.25-billion  (space.com) (57)
(Ars Technica) Interesting Your dog wants you to get an iphone  (arstechnica.com) (19)
(NPR) Unlikely FCC's new broadband plan will make the Internet faster and cheaper and more ubiquitous, make your children sit up straight, and get the crabgrass out of your lawn  (npr.org) (40)
(Canada Free Press) Cool Richard Dawkins gets PWND, picks up his tinfoil hat and runs away crying  (canadafreepress.com) (525)
(New Scientist) Cool Climate scientists, geology conspire to counter another global warming denier talking point  (newscientist.com) (182)
(Some Guy) Sad It looks like you can break out your "Save the Honeybees" bumper stickers and t-shirts again  (mnn.com) (49)
(Some Guy) Strange They can put a man on the moon, but scientists still can't explain earthquake lights, how the universe started, and Naga fireballs  (mnn.com) (317)
(CNN) Interesting 25years.com  (edition.cnn.com) (23)
(Silicon.com) Obvious Not satisfied with ID cards, pictures, fingerprints, retinal scans, body imagers and RF chips, the government is considering shoving something up your nose to verify your identity. All right, now they're just f*cking with us  (silicon.com) (31)
(Wired) Asinine Well, I guess they aren't necessarily *green* apples  (wired.com) (27)
(Some Guy) Interesting For 50 years we've been trying to help ET phone home. Researchers now considering leaving a voicemail  (failuremag.com) (16)
(Some Guy) Obvious The weakest link in computer security is you. This is a repeat from every year since the start of computer security  (computerworlduk.com) (78)
(Cracked) Scary Enjoy Fark while you can, for these are The Good Old Days of The Internet™  (cracked.com) (110)
(IndyStar) Cool The true story behind the edge only brownie pan. Suck it gooey center  (indystar.com) (69)
(Some Guy) Interesting Can you build a fusion reactor for $20 million?  (hplusmagazine.com) (56)
(Wired) Cool Ten damn-near perfect cars  (wired.com) (169)
(Business Insider) Fail Cause of Toyota acceleration problems determined: it is apparently correlated with the amount of grey hair you have on your head  (businessinsider.com) (190)
(TechnologyReview) Scary Yet another way found the universe plans to kill us all: a passing star swings through the Oort cloud to bombard us with comets. EVERYBODY PANIC... in 1.5 million years  (technologyreview.com) (51)

Sun March 14, 2010
(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)

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