Everyone stop recycling, 31,000 scientists say Global Warming not man made and greenhouse gases are good for us	(64)
		Turns out that hurricane season forecasts are about as useful as "President Hillary Clinton" commemorative cocktail napkins	(42)
		Drug use doesn't stop with aging so, like, whatever groovy happening you wanna have on my lawn is cool, man, long as the fuzz doesn't find out	(74)
		Because marijuana is now cheaper than gasoline... Cannabis Hemp: A Viable Option to Oil Dependency	(44)
(Some Guy)		A nasal spray which increases a person's trust of strangers is showing promise as a treatment for social phobia. Cocaine unavailable for comment	(21)
		Huge flying reptiles ate dinosaurs, leveled Tokyo	(10)
		China bans plastic bags, of which it uses 3 billion a day, to protect the environment. Spewing tons of crap into the air still A-OK	(37)
		Microsoft says Safari for Windows isn't safe	(49)
		Even c|net has slow news days, Google has updated their favorites icon. "The 16x16 pixel logo that appears in browser locations."	(40)
		It turns out Stonehenge is a burial ground for ancient royalty; really, really tiny royalty	(46)
		Lorenzo Odone, the kid with ALD whose life story was made into the film "Lorenzo's Oil," dies at age 30	(141)

		French company invents smart billboards that watch passers-by, detect their gender and age, time how long they look at the billboard, then upload data to command central	(41)
(Some Cyclone)		First Atlantic tropical storm of the season forms somewhere between the Moon and New York City	(56)
		Shuttle countdown discussion thread. Launch scheduled for 5:02pm ET; link goes to NASA-TV	(266)
		Nanopaper invented to clean up oil spills. Able to be beaten by nanoscissors, but still beats nanorock	(24)
		Lump spotted on Mars might be ice -- or stone. One thing is for sure: it's not a tumor	(42)
(Some Guy)		Think it sucks when you have to rent a truck and move all your stuff to an apartment on the other side of town? Be glad you're not moving 70 elephants hundreds of miles to an African sanctuary	(8)
		One British citizen will be killed by an asteroid every 7,000 years and the odds of other strange ways to die	(37)

		All Canadian competitors have been eliminated from the National Spelling Bee after trying to put an extra "U" into several words and using a strange letter called "zed"	(145)
		Phoenix Mars Lander has short-circuit problem. Johnny 5 sent to investigate	(36)
		Comcast teen hackers caught, await charges, Verizon FiOS installation	(49)
(NWCN)		Oregon woman's fall at work spreading fast on Internet via viral video. In other news, CNN scooped on this important story	(101)
		"If you want better fuel economy, it's just a question of when auto companies want to do it and when consumers decide they want to buy it. Auto companies can deliver it within a year."	(94)
		Mythbuster Adam Savage says Lost's finale has junk science--but it's all a means to and end	(100)
(Some Skeptic)		Jeff Peckman will be showing a real life video of an alien today. But the public is not allowed to see it. And media must shut off their cameras. Because, you know, that's how truthful information is revealed	(62)
(Some Guy)		Kids now a days, if they aren't making steampunk pistols, they're making Iron Man masks and arc reactors	(24)
		Where are they now? Dot-coms from the 1990s	(55)
		Scientists find that choking down barium before a CT scan is no longer necessary. The miracle substance to replace it: whole milk	(46)
		Adding rosemary to your steak may help prevent cancer. But it means you'll be eating a steak that smells like a pine tree and tastes like meat with sharp grass fragments on it	(60)
		China on the brink of becoming a net importer of food for the first time in history. Now would probably be a good time to stock up on groceries	(50)
		Bill Gates says Windows 7 support for touch screens will lead to the demise of the computer mouse, will be used only by gamers and luddites	(134)
		"Back in MY day, we didn't have those newfangled monitors, we used oscilloscopes": The second video game ever made, in 1958 - Tennis for Two	(19)
		The Milky Way has been weighed, contains no whey. No way? No: No whey. Oh, no 'Whey'. Yes, no whey. Way	(46)
		The 6 Most Badass Stunts Ever Pulled in the Name of Science (some not safe for work language)	(98)
		Lexington Kentucky has the biggest carbon footprint per person in the country -- somebody please tell Drew to turn the bathroom light off	(46)

		Scientists find that Mars's water was too salty to sustain life, but may have been roamed by grizzled alien sea captains	(133)
		In response to heightening fuel prices and environmental awareness, next Toyota Prius to be longer, wider... uncut	(50)
(Hell for Leather)		If this concept 'motorcycle' doesn't get your heart pumping, check your pulse. You may already be dead	(81)
		Free wireless internet for the entire US may be on the horizon. Let's hope this goes better than the last spectrum auction did	(34)
		DNA tests reveal (seriously) that Rupert Murdoch is a long distance runner who thinks asparagus doesn't make his urine smell	(12)
(Pittsburgh Live .com)		Vaccine reverses Type 1 diabetes in mice	(41)
		The 10 worst jobs in science. Working for Microsoft comes in four spots above digging through whale poop	(33)
		Comcast H@x0R3D by tH3 P1g5	(115)
		Scientists create tiniest noodle bowl. Ramen	(19)
		In America, we deny UFO involvement in bizzare air crashes and blame it on top secret military missions. In Vietnam, it's just the opposite	(11)
(Sunday Sun)		Under new rules, British "psychics" must tell their patrons that the reason why they have brown eyes is that they are full of crap, and that fortune telling is unscientific nonsense	(37)
		Video with sounds of Phoenix Orbiter in the Martian atmosphere as it descended and landed. Plus, a nice slide show of images of it on the surface and images it has taken	(20)
		NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material circling a dead star. Although rings and spheres of material are common in the universe, this one is not quite like any ring astronomers have seen before	(57)
		New York to build a fleet of ambulances dedicated to organ harvesting. Ambulances took a little longer than expected because it was difficult to outfit each one with an ice-filled bathtub	(96)
		They do nothing	(40)
		Researchers discover that earlier tornado warnings create Darwin Award winners	(16)
		Well now, who on earth would even want a high-performance supercar with hundreds of horsepower that got 220 miles per gallon? You know, besides "everybody"	(50)
		Ian Fleming was a prophet	(18)
(Some Guy)		Global warming "may stop," scientists say. Next up: How climate science is like herding a pack of Schrodinger's cats	(191)
(Some Guy)		Dehydrated tomatoes show promise for preventing prostate cancer. If you've ever looked closely at a dehydrated tomato, you'll understand how it could scare a prostate into behaving itself	(68)
		Old and busted: Urban assault vehicles. New hotness: Cargo bikes?	(47)
		Scientists thrilled to capture footage of world's rarest rhino, are dismayed to discover shortly thereafter that it's related to Sean Penn	(53)
		C-sections increasing premature births, weird scars on strippers	(16)
(Some Martian)		I see your grainy lo-res picture of the Mars landing and give you... the high resolution jawdropping version	(49)
		When your little snowflake complains that math is hard and "What use is geometry anyway?", tell them the story of Thales of Milete and how he predicted a solar eclipse that stopped a war	(26)
		Firefox aims for geeky world record	(34)
		Animals had "sex for fun" 380 million years ago, with "I'd hit it" Devonian fish pic goodness	(42)

		An Asteroid Deflection Research Center has been established on the Iowa State campus to bring researchers from around the world together with Bruce Willis to develop asteroid deflection technologies	(33)
		Baking soda can detect cancer, make REALLY COOL VOLCANOES	(14)
		From the Correlation Equals Causation Department: Violent crime rates are down because we use unleaded gas	(21)
		Scientists have created killer telepathic robot monkey hybrids	(42)
		Mars Phoenix glitch caused by cosmic rays, according to Fuk Li. Also blamed co-worker Fuk Up	(23)
		BMW plans on installing solar panels on car roofs to help cut fuel costs	(45)
		Scientists recover 1,000-year-old Viking DNA, fail to uncover any clues as to why Hagar the Horrible is still published	(40)
		Pterodactyls weren't so flightly. More like land stalking storks	(37)
		Mars lander gets orders to extend arm. Can you hear it, because it's doing it as hard as it can	(39)
		GPS art was a fake. DHL traveling thousands of miles in strange directions to nowhere is not a common practice, apparently	(38)
		Dwight Schrute to battle Decepticons in "Transformers 2"	(75)
		Scientists working with images from the Mars Phoenix mission are baffled by pictures of polygonal slabs set into the ground. If only they went to the movies or watched TV	(41)
		Tolkien family says they're owed $160 million from the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Studio says Peter Jackson spent it all on CGI and Ho Hos	(44)
		Bill Gates finally admits it: Microsoft products are infuriating even to him	(51)
(GrownManAgenda)		Two possible actors to play Spider-Man in parts 4 and 5 (which will be filmed simultaneously)	(106)
		Early reviews are in: Microsoft Windows 7 will be dead on arrival	(143)
		Think twice before you get that tattoo of Optimus Prime battling Papa Smurf on your forearm: A researcher has developed an image retrieval system that would help police use tattoos, scars and other marks to identify suspects	(52)
		Unusual methods of PC cooling	(54)
		When it's raining more than ever, know that you can still drink filtered water when you stand under my Filterbrella-ella-ella eh eh eh	(14)
(m&c Europe)		Czech president ready to debate Al Gore on "global warming," remembering that the last time Gore debated anyone, he kept talking about a "lock box"	(87)
		The Phoenix lander has done more than just take photos of Mars. It has also brought a special DVD full of messages for the Martians to peruse. Including the 1938 radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds"	(23)
		Spanish drought uncovers submerged 11th-century church (with pic). Inquisition soldiers bet you didn't expect that	(26)
		In space, no one can hear you flush... because the damn toilet is broken	(24)
		Fish species swimming in lake severely polluted since 1950s exhibit "reverse evolution," reverting to more primitive form to survive (w/ photo comparison). Disappointingly, they fail to acquire third eye	(79)
		Cable TV boxes are soon to go the way of Lindsay Lohan's career	(48)

		The birth of a virus, photographed for the first time	(36)
		Buckyballs, nanotubes, nanosheets, and now we have "nanoribbons," with just as many applications as the earlier shapes. Still working on nanoziggurats and nanomobiii, which will have no application other than making scientists giggle	(36)
		Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter takes a dump all over its UHF radio, delaying the Phoenix lander's second day of activities	(21)
		Battlestar Galactica Ending Revealed Episode 7 shows that Cylon baseships use Windows XP; Cylons to get obliterated when they try to update to Vista	(43)
(Some Guy)		InformationWeek asks: "Life on Mars?" ... NASA answers: "We will find life on Mars when we find it, now shut-up or I will turn this space craft around... I mean it"	(28)
		Bork bork bork iphone bork bork Scandinavia	(15)
		Apple wants to patent solar cells on portable devices. Potentially ensuring it will be the most costly technology for many years to come	(46)
		FCC to provide free broadband access to special porn-free internet. Expected to utilize 3.5" floppy drive for backup	(43)
		Star-Trek-themed cake by the "Ace of Cakes" crew leaked online, Trekkies go absolutely ballistic over its accuracy (pic)	(116)
(Some Guy)		Video games activate reward regions of brain in men more than women, Stanford study finds	(154)
		Technology students rig up dorm lights to play snake over entire building façade. W/video coolness	(19)
(Some Guy)		Is "The Hobbit" film about to be terminated? No, not the precious	(45)
		Study finds adult ADHD costing millions to companies. Wait until they find out about TotalADHD	(78)
		Harrison Ford says he'll never play Han Solo again. Now someone else will have to play him in those six Star Wars sequels that George Lucas is working on	(152)
		Functional computers made from video game consoles	(16)
		Dymestiyfing dsylxeia	(43)
		Swiss supercollider puts the U.S. in the "minor leagues" of particle physics. U.S. scientists are cheesed	(84)
(UberReview)		World's first solar-powered speedboat	(13)
		Viacom tries to out-douche the RIAA, sues YouTube	(40)
(NASA)		The coolest pic taken of the final descent of a spacecraft onto a planetary body taken by another spacecraft you'll see all day	(157)

		Samsung develops 256GB solid state drive	(45)
		╔╗╔╗ [] ╔╗ - (exp.) Fark you. (colloq.)	(20)
(Some Guy)		Copyright Police may seize iPods, Macs under G8 trade deal	(88)
		Burgers, beers, books: 10 Twitter feeds that aren't a complete waste of your time	(15)
		Dutch scientists claim first full sequencing of a human female DNA, conclude after careful study that it makes no sense	(32)
		Coffee and napping not helping jet lag? Try starvation instead	(14)
		You may now play ROCK BAND without feeling like a complete douche ~ DEVO to offer downloadable content	(90)
(Some Guy)		GameStop gives up on the Zune. Tens of customers heartstricken	(65)
		Microsoft and Apple will soon be challenged by a quixotic,"upstart", "insurgent" browser you've probably never heard of, called "Mozilla Firefox". Bees-to-quarter converter extension highly recommended	(83)
		Eating five to six smaller meals a day won't help weight loss. Captain Obvious never gets a day off	(112)
		Researcher's dissertation proves brisket fat "is like olive oil and has no downside" (w/ hittable pic of researcher)	(45)
(Metimes)		Top strategic guru at Center for Strategic & International Studies lays out how a nuclear war between Iran and Israel would really play circa 2010. Spoiler: glass parking lot for Iran	(71)
(Some Guy)		"The technology would enable the robot to learn to evolve a design and draw the face of a criminal based on the feed back of the victim." Ah, but can it draw gold spray paint?	(6)
		Times breaks out the xkcd-to-English translator	(37)
		Everyday gadgets turned functional game consoles	(14)
		Time travel may be possible, but it also means you probably don't exist	(47)
(U. of Arizona & NASA)		Hot off the galactic presses, here are the first images from the Phoenix Mars Lander	(66)
		Time travel is possible, explains Phycisist Michio Kaku. Chances of going back to fix "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"? Not so much	(99)