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Sun June 08, 2008
(Some Guy) Spiffy The world's fuel, food, and building supplies problems could all be ended if we grew more American chestnut trees (15)
(Electronista) Spiffy IBM to build next-generation computer chips cooled by tiny water pipes; microscopic plumbers with 3-angstrom ass-cracks expected soon (17)
(MSNBC) Stupid OMG, i dnt wnt 2 b ur gf nemor, your BFF, jill (35)
(Independent) Interesting World Health Organization says there's no global threat of a heterosexual AIDS epidemic, and, outside of Africa, there may never have been one. Oops. Sorry to get everybody all paranoid and scared crapless (52)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Zeppelins could soon be ferrying people on short flights. Even if it blows up, it's still better than the airlines (41)
(The New York Times) Interesting What if someone invented a better mousetrap and the world yawned? (25)
(Firefox) Cool Am I on Myspace? Not anymore (35)
(Boston Herald) Strange Odd-looking machine lets you mow your lawn without burning gas (73)
(Yahoo) Interesting Engage cloaking device, Mr. Nerd (8)
(Free Press) Obvious The stimulants in energy drinks can disrupt the sleep cycle. Ric Romero last seen chugging a Red Bull (28)
(Network World) Cool Celtics injuries? Kobe Bryant's shooting? Nah, tech's the real story at NBA Finals (4)
(Flickr) Cool Nineteen famous photographs done entirely using Lego bricks (81)
(Some Guy) Video Four cellphones all called at the same time pointing towards popcorn kernels (83)

Sat June 07, 2008
(BBC) Cool For the first time, the panda boinking ritual has been filmed in the wild. Basically, the female climbs a tree, and the males fight for it. "I liken it to Chewbaccas in a pub brawl" (video) (81)
(Yahoo) Stupid Microsoft now says that if you don't upgrade from XP to Vista before Windows 7, you will be utterly farked (123)
(Some Google employee) Interesting An explanation on why the favicon for Google changed. Hint: It's the iPhone's fault (17)
(PCWorld) Amusing Blu-ray won, but the public's still not buying (123)
(Kansas City) Unlikely Sprint ranked #1 ahead of Apple by newspaper which, by pure coincidence which in no way affects the outcome of their rankings, happens to be based out of Sprint's hometown (19)
(CNN) Interesting First Mars load fails to make it into Phoenix's mouth, will try again after nap and sammich (12)
(I-Mockery) Amusing I-Mockery's in-depth look at "U.S. 1" - an early 80s Marvel comic book about a truck driver with superpowers (12)
(Slashdot) Interesting AT&T: "BitTorrent? We LOVE BitTorrent No, really..." (26)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Theoretical mathematicians discover handicraft, particularly knitting and crocheting, provides new insight into the geometry of the natural world (12)
(National Geographic) Cool The rebels finish their outpost on Hoth... oh wait, it's the Norwegian Seed Bank at the North Pole (34)
(AP) Obvious NASA secrets revealed - Mars lander nothing more than an Easy-Bake Oven with wheels (19)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Interesting Bad news for Apple fanboys: Desperately awaited 3G iPhone hits major production delays. Only "several thousand" to be available (54)
(Space) Amusing Virgin galactic mothership, not a clown car (27)
(Yahoo) Followup Bald eagle that was Cheneyed two years ago receives artificial beak. Ashlee Simpson's rhinoplasty remains unavailable for comment (15)
(Google) Interesting McCain would like to see a man on Mars. A man named Obama (62)
(Science Daily) Hero Scientists blow off that whole "cure for cancer" thing and work out method to keep beer fresh longer. Hero tag stands up for missing AWESOME tag (41)
(Gas 2.0) Spiffy Old and busted: Biofuels. New hotness: Baby doody fuels (19)
(Refill no more.) Spiffy Polaroid unveils inkless portable printer. INKLESS. NO REFILLS, EVER. Suck it HP, Epson and Canon (62)

Fri June 06, 2008
(Breitbart.com) Spiffy Somewhere in the near future you will be levitating from Los Angeles to Viva Lost Wages at 300 mph, then losing the farm (18)
(Wired) Cool Total Geekgasm: Ancient marvels abound at vintage computer festival (41)
(Telegraph) Interesting Japan finally recognizes distinct and vibrant culture of the ancient Ainu people of Hokkaido, putting an end to 140 years of Japanese government claims that the Ainu are unremarkable (48)
(Wall Street Journal) Cool Cap and Trade? Cap and dead (39)
(UberReview) Asinine Canada may start inspecting digital devices for pirated content (63)
(MSNBC) Sad The Caribbean monk seal is officially declared extinct, which means no more of that awesome beer they made (26)
(Gizmodo) Amusing [Japan] DVD program teaches confidence by staring at women for 96 minutes. I'll be in my bunk (31)
(Ars Technica) Cool TakeTwo confirms "Bioshock 3." It's Friday and subby had a big lunch, make your own funny headline (45)
(Valleywag) Amusing Bill Clinton updates Facebook profile to say "It's complicated" with Hillary (14)
(io9) Silly New Marvel comic villians are Anti-Venom and Anti-Galactus. No, really, that's their names (58)
(Network World) Obvious Amazon.com is down: Site hasn't been this farked up since August 2006 (68)
(Science Daily) Interesting You got your Fundamental Theorem of Algebra in my gravitational lensing. No, you got your gravitational lensing in my Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (22)
(Network World) Interesting Why Internet self-simulation won't work, will make it go blind (10)
(Slashdot) Cool It's time to kick ass and watch a guy play a demo of Duke Nukem Forever (106)
(MSNBC) Obvious Apple announces iPhone 2.0 will be released in more foreign markets. In related news, the international community of pretentious yuppies is larger than we feared (110)
(Ars Technica) Interesting Astronomers turn state-of-the-art instrument on one of the largest explosions ever witnessed by human eyes and see... nothing (35)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious Visions for a free, porn-filtered Internet service get hairy (24)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting After years of hard work, a Duke scientist has finally discovered how to tell right from left (27)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Cool How to track the Google founders' $15 million party plane from the comfort of your own hovel (15)
(The Scotsman) Interesting Dinosaurs suffered from depression. Do not go near T-Rex when he's having one of his moods. He just wants to be left alone man (30)
(BBC) Interesting Engineers at Indian car maker Tata have been putting the finishing touches to the world's cheapest car. It costs about $2,500, or double that if you have it delivered with a full tank (281)
(Some Guy) Cool Eight cloned cows are born in the UK. You can milk this headline for all the jokes you want, but that would be udderly unnecessary (24)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Forget Mars, there is water on the M-O-O-N. You know what that spells (67)
(Some Guy) Sappy Injured Thai elephant given prosthetic leg. While this is a good thing for pachyderms, for most mammals this would be considered a faux paw (107)

Thu June 05, 2008
(Some Guy) Unlikely Microsoft to businesses sticking with XP: Buy Vista before Windows 7 comes out, or your computer will become a slow, incompatible, virus infested doorstop. Also, we need the money (89)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Gattaca rising (67)
(Denver Post) Obvious Shatner accidentally catches episode of old "Star Trek" while recovering from hip surgery. "I haven't seen myself playing Capt. Kirk in a long, long time ... and I thought, 'You know, that's rather good'" (114)
(SFGate) Interesting Topless pyramid discovered, providing researchers better access to mummaries (33)
(CHUD.com) Stupid Transformers 2: BOOM (167)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Interesting Facebook lawsuit update: Winklevoss twins say they've found new evidence that Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the company: "Smoking gun" instant messages hidden on Facebook hard drives (20)
(UPI) Interesting Alcohol cuts risk of arthritis, sobriety (14)
(CBS Salt Lake City) Dumbass "The objective of a new video game is to stop the spread of Christianity and Islam by brutally killing biblical prophets, says the game's atheist creator" (224)
(Some Guy) Cool Rare sight captured on film: An original GameBoy being used in public (80)
(Network World) Asinine Latest "lost" laptop holds a treasure-trove of unencrypted AT&T payroll data. The good news: Victims are all in AT&T management (29)
(Kotaku) Interesting Talking about MGS4 cutscene and install times? You better believe that's a paddlin' (38)
(Boston Globe) Interesting Fuel economy myths debunked: Even if you keep your windows up, your AC off, lose 50 pounds -- you're going to get the same crappy mileage (338)
(The Register) Amusing Google "Hot Trends" is shafted by a big strap-on from Mcallen, Texas (21)
(Science Daily) Interesting Anchovies blamed for spreading cat parasite to marine mammals. Dr. Zoidberg refuses to comment (16)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Cool "Battlestar Galactica" mobile phone game released. Players score points by keeping track of an increasingly confusing plot (53)
(Engadget) Interesting Behold the Beer Bear. Technology can't possibly advance any further (23)
(Yahoo) Interesting Its about time humans got chimps sick, instead of the other way around. Suck it monkey-pox carriers (12)
(BBC) Obvious Realising how awful Vista is, Microsoft agrees to continue allowing PC makers to sell XP until Windows 7 comes out (117)
(Some Guy) Interesting "Call of Duty 4" sells 10 million copies on the promise that it will give Internet tough guys everywhere some modern combat experience (100)
(Yahoo) PSA Bushnell offers $1 million for an undoctored pic of Sasquatch. Lobster Boy still not worth the $2 admission price (79)
(Telegraph) Interesting New Zealand scientists claim to have developed anti-flatulence innoculation for sheep, which will lead to huge savings in dry cleaning bills for farmers' pants (34)
(Telegraph) Amusing Goofy 1980s haircuts go against evolutionary process, says math professor. No word if droopy legwarmers violate Second Law of Thermodynamics or if giant shoulder pads negate Stefan-Boltzmann constant (32)
(Hack n Mod) Cool Turn your Roomba into a dust-bunny-eating Pac-Man. Wokka wokka wokka (video) (38)
(News.com.au) Cool Rocket man sets flight record over Ireland. In an unrelated story, dozens of Irishmen give up drinking simultaneously after seeing a man flying over their local pub (17)
(National Geographic) Spiffy No one knows who was first man on the moon, but we know who invented lunar concrete out of moondust (16)

Wed June 04, 2008
(IGN) Spiffy Guitar Hero: Aerosmith preview and setlist. Bonus level unlocked if you complete the 'Methadone rehab clinic' mini-game and get Steven Tyler off the junk before the next gig (56)
(How Stuff Works) Interesting You know how time really seems to drag somedays? Some of us call it Mondays, Einstein called it time-dilation (36)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Chinese experts predicted earthquakes three times. You're doing it Wong (10)
(Some Guy) Sad Top 10 scientists killed or injured by their experiments (49)
(CrunchGear) Asinine A quick word to Microsoft: If someone is cool enough to like Joy Division, they aren't lame enough to own a Zune (97)
(Network World) Interesting Commercial space travel: The next Mt. Everest? Or just a fiery death? (18)
(Labspaces.net) Cool Carbon [√], Epoxy [√], Moon dust [√]. NASA scientists concoct recipe for a giant lunar telescope (42)
(WenWorld) Weird Ugly-ass baby giant Palouse earthworms discovered in Washington state. Happy Wormsday (17)
(CNN) Obvious Advocacy group: Please ban eight artificial food colorings. FDA: Dye in a fire (46)
(Fox News) Cool Old and busted: Wi-Fi. New hotness: WiMAX (26)
(Local6) Florida Jesus helps man solve energy crisis by running his car on water, getting 100 miles per OUNCE (423)
(Boston Globe) Hero Grandfather builds a web browser for his autistic grandson, makes it available to anyone for free, gets back to cultivating his lawn (47)
(Network World) Obvious Starbucks can't handle demand for free Wi-Fi (28)
(Newsweek) Obvious Psychologists now say it's probably better to bottle up your emotions after a traumatic experience, rather than normally-advised "getting it off your chest." They would have told us earlier, but figured it was smarter to keep quiet (39)
(Wired) Amusing Someone has discovered the perfect way to take money from gullible Christian fundamentalists (307)
(NASA) Cool NASA release a top-down photograph of our Milky way galaxy. How the hell did they get a camera up there (97)
(Daily Mail) Strange Mechanic builds the world's smallest Hummer, which will do fifty-four more miles per gallon than the real one(pic) (30)
(AFP) Interesting Darwin loses this battle as scientists find that stupid flies live longer (78)
(The Morning Call) Obvious In 2005 electricity prices were too low to encourage new power plant construction. Now they're too high to stop pocketing profits. The "OMG we don't have enough energy" scam rolls on (14)
(The Sun) Interesting Shirkers are ditching the time old 'going out for a smoke' break and wasting time on social networking sites instead (99)
(Isla Nublar) Interesting 120,000 year old bacteria found alive in ice. What could possibly go wrong? (32)
(Wired) Spiffy "Car, start." "Hello, Dave." "... Car. Start." "What are you doing, Dave?" "CAR" "Yes, Dave?" "START." "This daily commute is jeopardizing my mission, Dave" (26)
(Gizmodo) Strange New inflatable car lets you drive off cliffs, through floods, and off bridges. Will be available just in time for Ted Kennedy's recovery (29)
(New Scientist) Interesting Zombie caterpillars controlled by voodoo wasps (39)

Tue June 03, 2008
(AP) Cool Astronauts anchor lab to space station. If this lab is anything like subby's, the first thing it did was pee on the rug (21)
(CNN) Interesting 50 mpg from a Honda Accord? This guy does it, and claims you can too with "Hypermiling" (401)
(Labspaces.net) Unlikely Researchers show that instant messaging increases workplace efficiency. ROFLMAO ^-^ (21)
(Telegraph) Interesting "Bubble Boy" cured of mysterious disease; still won't accept "Moops" as an answer (28)
(Boing Boing) Cool The coolest sunset you'll see today (33)
(Some Guy) Interesting Footprints in ancient volcanic ash indicate man may have been in New World 34,000 years before the dawn of time itself (74)
(ESPN) Obvious You know it's not good when even ESPN is writing about the shortcoming of Madden '09. Who doesn't love being able to control the cost of hot dogs at concession stands. Commies (35)
(Guardian.com) Scary Cannabis shrink brain scientists say. Subby say no. Me have good brain (81)
(Network World) Cool Computer screens coming to Coke cans (just don't shake them) (31)
(The New York Times) Spiffy Scientists study sarcasm in the brain. Great job, guys. Maybe next you can study jerkism (34)
(Slate) Cool Michael Crichton accurately predicted the death of MSM. From 1993. Also: Better stay away from satellites crash-landing in Utah (85)
(ABC Action News) Obvious Chief Meteorologist Ric Romero: "Hurricane season outlooks of little use" (36)
(New Scientist) Interesting I made you a cookie, but I was worried about dying, so I ated it (28)
(London Times) Cool Faithbook has been launched today on Facebook by both Jews and Muslims to try and combat extremism and encourage multi-faith understandi -BLAM-BLAM-BLAM- (154)
(USA Today) Amusing Bring on the bells and whistles: Now that more and more people are starting to realize that its coffee actually does suck, Starbucks starts offering free Wi-Fi as consolation (53)
(intology.com) Interesting The Playstation 3 consumes five times more power than a domestic fridge, according to scientists who have yet to cook bacon on one (84)
(Forbes) Strange Forbes has article on who would win a fight between King Kong and T. Rex. In other news, the fighting abilities of movie monsters is now somehow important business news (19)
(Some Guy) Obvious Gamers are outraged after developer releases a patch that accidentally reduces the breast size of certain female avatars. Developer: "Your breasts should be back to normal soon" (56)
(Discovery) Scary Half of Papua New Guinea forests could vanish, that is unless they MOVE THE ISLAND (37)
(TechEBlog) Cool Asus unveils eco-friendly bamboo laptop, to cost $2000 (26)
(kk.org) Cool Ever wonder what an alternative universe where the Aztecs invented the wheel would look like? Let these Philippinos show you (43)
(Jalopnik) Obvious E85 sucks. Here's the science (77)
(Just This Guy, You Know?) Interesting New material absorbs all light that touches it. Hotblack Desiato unavaliable for comment (65)
(The Raw Story) Interesting Pentagon's electromagnetic crowd-control pain cannon demonstrated on mock protesters. Just getting you used to the idea before the time comes, citizens (108)
(CNN) Stupid "I don't like the packaging", "the Time Machine GUI is soooo cheesy", and "I'm a dipshiat who can't find the power button" are somehow valid reasons for why Macs don't work well for small businesses (124)
(Canoe) Amusing The world's most expensive cellphones. Your Razr wants you to skip this story (17)
(Daily Mail) Interesting What's the big deal with eating bugs, anyways? The science lab at the Daily Mail came up with these stunning conclusions: They are good for us AND the environment. So have a bowl of silkworms (76)
(Fox News) Cool Earliest known record of live birth in the animal kingdom now goes back 380 million years (24)
(Yahoo) Dumbass Time Warner to meter Internet use. Everybody panic. No, seriously EVERYBODY PANIC (135)

Mon June 02, 2008
(Yahoo) Obvious Study claims consumers return most electronics because they IMPORTANT: DO NOT RETURN PRODUCT TO STORE. Contract your ungulated diaphram quickly AFTER INSTERTING TUBLAR APPLIER IN LEFTMOST REAR OF LOWER ATONOMICAL CAVITY (47)
(CNN) Asinine Neil Young looking to change the world by converting his 1959 Lincoln Continental to electric and investing $120,000. By God, Neil just may be onto something (174)
(The New York Times) Scary Spain is the new Australia which is the new Africa (24)
(MSNBC) Cool New iPhone hits stores next week. EVERYBODY PANIC (199)
(RedNova) Interesting It typically takes astronauts 30 minutes to put on their 91-pound spacesuits; 60 if they forgot to pee first (22)
(Gizmodo) Video Ever wonder what a magnetic field actually looks like? Well, so did NASA. Wonder no more (49)
(NPR) Silly Mr. Spock: The 'Mystery of Masculinity' embodied. "He was just plain sexy, without even trying. Sex symbol, savant and occasional psychic: Spock is an icon for all times." (49)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Stupid Meet the guy dominating YouTube with cat videos (21)
(Labspaces.net) Cool Congratulations to MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb for being the smallest planet in the universe (33)
(PC Authority) Unlikely Toshiba unveils a new challenger to Blu-Ray, for no apparent reason (32)
(Live Science) Interesting Humans can get a glimpse of events one-tenth of a second before they occur according to scientists (79)
(Engadget) Followup Yes, Virginia, there is a GPhone. Maybe (18)
(Scientific American) Interesting This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time (49)
(Wired) Asinine 2003 Northeast blackout may have been caused by CHINESE HAXX0RZ ZOMGWTF--except for the fact that the 2003 blackout has been thoroughly investigated and the Chinese were nowhere near it (42)
(BBC) Interesting Acrobat fans are sweating more than a Pdf file in a schoolyard following news that Adobe has moved into online document sharing (21)
(Gizmodo) Cool Scientists unveil an air-conditioned kennel with a built-in wireless webcam for those who want to watch Rover licking his balls at 3am from their hotel rooms (12)
(BBC) Interesting Slapheads rejoice - baldness to be cured within 5 years (39)
(Wired) Amusing The 8 best non-Wiki 'Pedias, such as Dickpedia: "Gerald 'Geraldo' Rivera is a TV journalist, noted egotist, former talk-show host, and a dick." (82)
(AFP) Cool Forget the monkeys...paralyzed man able to "walk" using only his thoughts (22)
(ZDNet) Interesting Google makes two promises about its new Android. The first is that it will be 100% open source, and the second is that you will be able to have sex with it (32)
(Honolulu Star-Bulletin) Cool Title of 11th grader's science project: "A New Model of See-through Vision: Image Reconstruction in Scattering Media from Quantum Exit Probabilities for Aerial, Terrestrial and Underwater Robot Inspection." (46)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Amusing In Facebook's quest to be the operating system of the web, they achieved something Google never could: most people hate them (33)
(AutoBlogGreen) Amusing Everyone who has ever wanted a wheelchair mounted flamethrower, take one step forward (25)
(Wired) Interesting Wired would like to know "what does it mean to be Human?". VE for the best answer (112)