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Thu August 21, 2008
(Blizzard) Misc Cinematic trailer for latest World of Warcraft expansion released. Screams of excitement from basements heard worldwide (19)
(FHM) Silly Get "Hot for Teacher" then "Beat It"- Guitar Hero 4's set list is released (37)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Elephants can do math. EVERYBODY PANIC (73)
(CNBC) Fail Dumbass: Hacker breaks into FEMA's voicemail system and makes $12,000 worth of calls to the Middle East and Asia. FAIL: Using the vulnerability FEMA warned about in 2003 (16)
(Live Science) Interesting New analysis indicates Iceman likely was herdsman, F-14 pilot (18)
(Labspaces.net) Cool Scientists find that hundred year old stained glass windows are coated with gold nanoparticles that purify the air when hit with sun light. Conspiracy theorists will have a field day with this one (45)
(Some Knittette) Sappy Terry Pratchett receives spiffy handmade "Pratchgan" from fans. And yes, the tears in my eyes are caused by Ankh-Morpork's polluted air (31)
(MSNBC) Interesting Mmmmmmmmm.... calcium (27)
(Daily Mail) Interesting People with pacemakers to get their own personal firewall to stop pale faced basement dwellers hacking into them (15)
(Network World) Unlikely Today's iPhone 3G killer phone brougt you by the Palm Treo Pro (79)
(Wired) Interesting "One of the effects of weightlessness is reduced blood flow to the lower half of your body. The rumor in Star City is that many have tried in vain to get it up out there." (29)
(YouTube) Interesting Fascinating BBC documentary on the intersection of neurology and theology (73)
(SFGate) Interesting A massive mechanical mole that has spent the last five years burrowing through Southern California resurfaced Wednesday. Eeeew (78)
(3 Quarks Daily) Cool That's either a cool optical illusion or submitter drank more than he thought (57)

Wed August 20, 2008
(London Times) Interesting Illegal immigrants in England take 110 years to move 80 feet; may be considered for top civil service jobs (8)
(New Scientist) Interesting James Watson immune to codeine, common sense, race based medicine (32)
(BBC) Interesting Fruit juice could reduce effectiveness of certain drugs. But not orange juice, man (24)
(How Stuff Works) Amusing The Googleplex: apartment-style living for the socially-challenged (16)
(Cracked) Interesting 15 images that look like they were Photoshopped but weren't. Proof that some of you need to go out into the Big Blue Room now and then (78)
(Blueweeds) Obvious Not news: Local offical pulled over for speeding. News: Cop offers to let him off because he is driving a hydrogen car. Fark: Official insists on getting a ticket to illustrate the speed of the hydrogen car (94)
(BBC) Obvious Head of Nigerian government agency charged with stealing public money to hire a witch doctor to guarantee him career success. Turns out it was a scam, marking the first time "Nigerian" and "scam" occurred in the same headline (13)
(New Scientist) Interesting Scientist discover source of Flying Spaghetti Monster's infinite knowledge and power. Ramen (17)
(I Started Something) Cool Internet Exploder 8 may have "porn mode" (46)
(AFP) Cool Giving blood may soon go the way of winding your watch or changing your record needle, as scientists announce a new technique to create unlimited blood supplies from stem cells (176)
(Valleywag) Dumbass Gadget reviewer nearly kills self testing iPhone loaner while driving, then loses it (14)
(New Scientist) Interesting Planets with gooey centers more likely to harbor life, taste better (13)
(WBBM) Spiffy Please be sure your seats are in the upright and locked position. You are now free to surf the internet for porn (75)
(The Register) Amusing Microsoft's Adcenter has apparently been trolling FARK for keyword suggestions (16)
(Slashdot) Amusing Things Hackers can do. 1) Break into secure computer networks. 2) Steal credentials and credit cards off the internet for identity theft 3) Bust the underage Chinese gymansts by finding proof they are underage ... Wait. What? (84)
(Reuters) Cool Alex Proyas to adapt obscure Heinlein novella--which sounds suspiciously like a Philip K. Dick story--for the big screen. Proyas said he chose Heinlein because he doesn't know Dick (91)
(ABC News) Obvious Article asks, "If you had $147,000 to spend on scientific research, would you rather try to find a cure for cancer or see whether women get sexually aroused while watching pornography?" (172)
(TechEBlog) Weird Geeks use lasers to cut pizza, make coffee (33)
(China Daily) Interesting Scientists say we can see sound even without the help of LSD (48)

Tue August 19, 2008
(LA Times) Stupid Are you alienated by Google's racism because when you search for "Whitney" it returns the Whitney Museum of Art instead of Whitney Houston? Say hello to the Black Google (177)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Ironic Verizon to America: Don't blame us for your craptastic iPhone (62)
(AP) Hero Yet one more way stem cells could save lives if Republicans would just leave science the fark alone (140)
(Reuters) Scary Climate change a bunch of hooey, you say? The Kenai National Forest would like a few words with you (570)
(New Scientist) Unlikely Want to live a little longer? Get a second wife. New research suggests that men from polygamous cultures outlive those from monogamous ones. Penis (43)
(CNN) Interesting Google's plan for world domination is proceeding as scheduled as it starts to invest in drilling geothermal reserves (41)
(STLToday) Silly A new study suggests your dog is stupid because you are, too (24)
(CBS 46) Followup Step 1: Freeze a rubber suit and call it Bigfoot. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit. Step 4: Disappear (181)
(Game Politics) Amusing Parents crucify babysitter. Literally (53)
(Gizmodo) Cool Witness the power of this fully functional Death Sta -- I mean, skyscraper (108)
(YouTube) Cool Looks like someone over at Sega saw "Grindhouse" (39)
(Yahoo) Unlikely Researchers believe attending church may help student's GPAs through increased discipline, parental involvement. Have faith no one will try and distort the study by saying believing in God makes you smarter (45)
(Some Trekkie) Spiffy Jonathan Frakes turns 56 today. Enjoy some Riker bloopers (62)
(NJ.com) Asinine Reason No. 34,231 our schools are failing: Teachers need to take a course in how to use Google (46)
(Breitbart.com) Interesting The annual college mindset list is out: Incoming freshmen have never known a world without GPS, karaoke, and, until now, the Packers without Brett Favre (58)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Impact crater in Australia may be from comet that started all life on Earth, found by guy with way too much time on his hands (49)
(BBC) Cool Wild dolphin teaches other dolphins to tail-walk. Fifteen yards, still first down (83)
(London Times) Asinine A hundred computer-game sharers busted -- 100,000,000 still on the loose (36)
(Newslite.tv) Obvious Scientists that play WoW are better at science, say scientists that play WoW (34)
(Entertainment Weekly) Silly EW's 25 best sci-fi TV shows and movies in last 25 years (184)
(BBC) Interesting Study shows burning coal is primary source of heavy metal pollution in Greenland, followed closely by up-and-coming Swedish garage bands (9)
(Some Guy) Interesting Double your pleasure, double your fun... decrease your colon-surgery recovery time with Doublemint Gum (13)
(News.com.au) Amusing *ring ring* *ring ring* *ring ring* *ring ring* condomophone. Thank you, come again (17)
(Wall Street Journal) Scary Self-described "armchair physicists" and "amateur scientists" trying to build homemade fusion reactors using spare parts. Choose ending: "Macguyver unimpressed" or "This should end well" (49)
(Some Guy) Strange Mathematicians claim that if humans have free will, then the lowliest subatomic particle must have it as well. Subby wishes he would've published his 3:00 a.m. coffeeshop ramblings sooner (181)
(Telegraph) Obvious "We found that shorter, slimmer females with long slender legs, a curvy figure and larger breasts are more attractive." Ric Romero has a chubby (61)
(PCWorld) Stupid Eleven things we hate about iTunes (185)
(CBC) Scary Mutated fish alarm environmental activists in Northern Alberta. Complete with a photo of one of the mutants (143)
(Popular Science) Interesting Batman meets the Segway (34)

Mon August 18, 2008
(Telegraph) Spiffy Tossup between "creepy" and "spiffy:" South Korean artist creates skeletons of cartoon characters with archeological precision (87)
(Gizmodo) Cool Students develop "Spacetime Fusion Technique", a technology to fill or remove objects from video footage (91)
(Canada.com) Spiffy I'm in ur abdominal cavity, scoping mah tubes (4)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious "The environmental movement has morphed into the most authoritarian philosophy in America" (88)
(Canada.com) Interesting A newly discovered "minor planet" with an elongated orbit around the Sun may help explain the origin of comets, buy alcohol in a few years (10)
(London Times) Cool Emily, the creepy videogame RealDoll that has leapt across 'Uncanny valley' (96)
(Breitbart.com) Scary Old and busted: H5N1, New Hotness: H9N2 - almost twice as bad? (103)
(Gizmodo) Cool Up Up Left Right Left Right B A Start (56)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Cool Feds out of Google's way: FCC signs off on HTC Dream a.k.a. GPhone (32)
(Mark's Technology News) Interesting NASA concept car: A decapitation machine that can drive sideways (32)
(BLOCKBUSTER BUZZ) Hero Watchmen creator Dave Gibbons on the new "very sexy, very violent" movie (146)
(Science Daily) Interesting Why an exciting book is just as thrilling as a hair-raising movie (with pic of woman presumably watching any Uwe Boll film) (12)
(UGO) Spiffy Bruce Campbell on "Evil Dead 4": "When [Sam Raimi's] ready, I'm ready" (82)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious Microsoft: of course we spy on our web users. But not as much as the other guys (11)
(Fox News) Unlikely Giant windshield may stop glacial melt. Yeah, sure it will (16)
(Labspaces.net) Obvious Contrary to popular opinion, science finds that video games are great for the brain (27)
(Guardian.com) Obvious If you thought the internet was cool, wait until it goes big time (21)
(Reuters) Spiffy Robot bartender weighing 500 pounds can serve a quick drink. Isaac-Tron has 500 vocal effects and answers questions, like what the lady at the end of bar is putting in her gear box tonight (39)
(Some Moran) Dumbass Not News: ZTE releases new phone. News: It can receive analog TV broadcasts. Fark: U.S. analog TV broadcasts to be shut down Feb '09 (29)
(Daily Mail) Cool Butt of jokes, stunt doubles for children, porn, cure for cancer - dwarfs; is there anything they can't do? (66)
(AP) Stupid Toshiba: Ok Ok so our HD DVD thing tanked. But we are really excited about our new endeavor ... the DVD player (69)
(USA Today) Cool The coolest Jetson's - flying - car - that - looks - like - floppy - bunny - ears you will see today (26)
(MSNBC) Interesting State fairs are going green, and we're not talking about the deep-fried asparagus (32)
(Wired) Ironic AT&T accuses Google of privacy weaknesses, kettle of being black (9)

Sun August 17, 2008
(Telegraph) Amusing Spiffy: scientists investigate split ends, frizziness and say bad hair days may soon be a thing of the past. Amusing: Donald Trump photo used in article (26)
(The News & Observer (NC)) Dumbass 16 year old drops out of high school to focus on Guitar Hero career (72)
(AP) Obvious Then: America must embrace wind power to save the planet. Now: Big Wind is despoiling nature, ruining America's farms, splitting up families. Soon to come: America must embrace moonbeams and unicorn farts to save the planet (287)
(Washington Post) Sad Internet radio nears its end as record companies continue to insist that 100-300% of revenue is a fair price (108)
(LA Times) Amusing Christian researchers strive to prove that the Shroud of Turin is real. "The 'it's just that dude from the Doobie Brothers' theory is just that, a theory" claims head scientist (84)
(Fox News) Interesting NASA delays robotic moon mission after soundstage construction falls behind schedule (10)
(C|Net) Cool Physicists at Baylor say that faster than light travel could be possible through the use of "dark energy". Submitter doesn't really get the science here, he just hopes this means he might get to score with an alien chick someday (127)
(CBS Minneapolis) Interesting Moss can be used as an alternative to chlorine. The downside being it will complain about its job and then ask to be traded (23)

Sat August 16, 2008
(Irish Times) Amusing Politician presses for creationism to be taught alongside evolution in classrooms across Northern Ireland. Class will be held right after Inroduction to Leprechaun Biology (277)
(Sify) Cool India to witness partial lunar eclipse. The rest of it has been outsourced (9)
(Palo Alto Daily News) Obvious When your Bigfoot press conference is hijacked by a guy in a Chewbacca costume wielding a "We hide for a reason" sign, you might just have a credibility problem (88)
(Daily Kos) Cool California to build two solar plants with the ability to produce as much power in a single day as a coal plant (135)
(BBC) Interesting Is computer use changing children? (81)
(Yahoo) Interesting Jet trails spotted on Saturn moon. Cruise Missile? It's not a streetlight (23)
(NASA) Cool NASA solar eschatologist states 2008 will not see the second coming of the Maunder Minimum (with hot "you are here" graphic) (31)
(Boston Globe) Dumbass Tech-saavy columnist discovers Twitter and concludes it "can safely be ignored." The column surely was written in 2006, right? Nope (43)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Happy 10th birthday, iMac (91)
(Popular Mechanics) Interesting NASA declares war on the moon (55)
(Reuters) Interesting Archaeologists find the portal to the underworld in Mexico, which leads to an obstacle course instead of a stairway to heaven (36)
(New Scientist) Amusing Fark mascot being studied by scientists (96)

Fri August 15, 2008
(Reuters) Followup One of the two samples of DNA said to prove the existence of the Bigfoot came from a human and the other was 96 percent from an opossum. That is legal in north Georgia (158)
(Daily Express) Interesting Full moons cause people to have strokes. Werewolves most at risk, say scientists (14)
(TechEBlog) Cool What the Terminator skull would look like as a DVD player (13)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Red Bull gives you.... a stroke and increased risk of heart disease (50)
(USA Today) Obvious New 3G ... Iphone suff .... drop .... calls world-wide.... at Apple blame ..... hope they.... product recall (59)
(Jalopnik) Amusing Top Ten worst car names: How can you go wrong with "Nissan Homy Super Long" or "Isuzu Mysterious Utility Wizard"? (34)
(Some Guy) Weird Russia's latest tactic in the Cyberwar against Georgia: Trolling (87)
(ToplessRobot) Interesting Terrible villains, awful plotlines and that invisible plane: 10 reasons no one cares about a Wonder Woman movie (115)
(Some topless robot...) Cool 10 most blatant Star Wars Ripoffs. With trailer goodness. ..."The Black Hole"? (131)
(Boston Herald) Scary UMass professor discovers security hole in your heart (40)
(Some Guy) Silly It's bad enough that Star Trek geeks have spent years learning to speak Klingon; now they've invented a whole new language for Romulans. K'pekt (42)
(Onion AV Club) Sad George Lucas hired one of the top three living directors of animation and gave him full creative control, and the result was a masterpiece. Then he fired him and made a crappy kids movie on the cheap (112)
(EurekAlert) Interesting Big-brained animals evolve faster - at least until they can form the idea "Mmmmmm, boobies", then the focus moves away from brains (58)
(Atom) Amusing Would you sleep with Zelda from the Legend of Zelda? This guy really wants to (64)
(TechEBlog) Interesting Guy builds world's smallest Corvette V8 engine, includes spark ignition (51)

Mon August 11, 2008
(Some Guy) Cool Scientists dig up frozen Alaska corpses, subtract 1918 flu virus from them, and confirm that old surviving coots still carry antibodies (7)



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