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Sun July 13, 2008
(Boston Globe) Amusing Sunday night and the lights are low, so scientists are trying to determine why ABBA songs continue to endure after 35 years. You can dance, you can jive, but there's still no cure for cancer (6)
(Washington Post) Interesting The International Space Station is an orbiting money pit with no real purpose. So let's turn it into something useful: An interplanetary spaceship (76)
(CNN) Spiffy Scientists discover how to make biofuel out of politicians (video) (35)
(Some Guy) Obvious Scientists report that lead used for hunting and fishing harms animals (42)
(News.com.au) Sad Olive Riley, the world's oldest blogger, has made her final entry at age 108. Goodnight, old blogger lady (33)
(AP) Followup Yahoo tells Microsoft and Carl Icahn to go fark themselves with a pointed stick (32)
(TechEBlog) Interesting Microsoft unveils new computer mouse that folds up when not in use (76)
(Some Guy) Cool The effects of sound on salt...another cool visual (32)
(Telegraph) Obvious Going against everything every parent knows, scientists find that sugary snacks "help children concentrate." This quality of work might explain why the eggheads are so shrill that global warming is happening (47)

Sat July 12, 2008
(Cinematical) Amusing Cranky Buzz Aldrin blames "all the shows where they beam people around and things like that" for kids not being interested in real-life space research (69)
(YouTube) Amusing Watch iPhone customers strike back at KTLA reporter Eric Spillman (122)
(Time) Interesting "The horribleness of commenters isn't really a mystery: Internet anonymity is disinhibiting, and people are basically mean anyway" (331)
(The Newspaper) Scary Soon cameras will be checking out your car's wheels and mailing you a ticket if it doesn't like them. Sadly, we're not talking about spinners here (125)
(Engadget) Spiffy Engadget welcomes Caturday in with a device to automatically turn faucet on for cats to drink from(with vid and pic) (25)
(The Register) Cool IBM to make 10 petaflop computer with 38,900 cores, 620TB of memory and an exabyte of external storage. That's a lot of pr0n (34)
(Some Guy) Silly Nick Cage edges out Kevin Smith as top celeb comic book geek (49)
(Computerworld) Interesting Geek fixes 33 year old Unix bug. YAFACC (41)
(Sky and Telescope) Interesting Great Red Spot to Little Red Spot: OM NOM NOM NOM (65)
(TechEBlog) Video John Lasseter gives tour of Pixar Animation Studios (23)
(AP) Sad Ace of Hearts cashes in his chips (34)

Fri July 11, 2008
(Break) Amusing It's as if the Star Wars kid and the Tron guy had a child, and raised that child to be in their image, and all was right with the world (100)
(Some Science Guy) Interesting Intermediate flatfish fossil has eye moved only half-way around head. Darwin kinda sees what you did there, sorta sideways-like (70)
(RedEye Chicago) Unlikely In a poll for best superhero ever, Batman is losing badly to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (87)
(Some Guy) Unlikely FCC makes a decision in support of Net Neutrality, smacks Comcast upside the head (26)
(Charles Redheffer) Amusing Lisa, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics (77)
(Yahoo) Asinine Dutch chip maker has ingenious plan to eliminate all the bugs in its products: sue the people who reveal them to the public (16)
(Cracked) Cool Five famous sci-fi weapons that they're actually building (112)
(Wired) Amusing Monkeys taught to use money re-invent world's oldest profession (45)
(BBC) Cool New solar dyes increase efficiency of solar cells. The sun is there (32)
(Gridcrasher) Video Corvette ZR1 rips Nurburgring a new one (with video) (96)
(Chicago Tribune) Unlikely "Chicks dig the iPhone" (40)
(Steve Jobs) Sad New iPhone comes with new iCant activate feature (377)
(Some Guy) Interesting Baby boomer galaxy found. Will soon suck up all civil services, complain that today's generation of galaxies is worthless (31)
(PhysOrg.com) Asinine Shakira videos lead physicists to discover new particle: 'bottomonium' (40)
(Cincinnati Enquirer) Spiffy Inventors has designed a system of electric cars that drive themselves. Development of the three seashells soon to follow (22)
(Some Guy) Cool The battle between online porn and hard drives continues, as Seagate introduces 1.5 Terafap hard drive (45)
(Network World) Obvious Most IT shops snubbing blogs, wikis, RSS (37)
(Wired) Cool List of what you can expect with the iPhone 2.0 Apps. So, when do we get a iFARK App? (32)
(Aftenposten.no) Strange Hi-tech swimsuit costs $1000, loses its performance after five hours of use (46)
(Sun Sentinel) Obvious Guy sleeps on his mom's couch, is a college drop-out, works part-time at Boston Market-- Of course, he's a professional video gamer (347)
(Daily Yomiuri) Sad Yoji Totsuka, award-winning physicist who discovered neutrinos have mass, dead at 66. Good night, elementary particle physics guy (29)
(Some Guy) Interesting Top 10 reasons to hate the iPhone 3G (158)

Thu July 10, 2008
(Telegraph) Obvious Supermarket chain blames lengthy website crash on "metal thieves" because it sounds more professional than "beer on the servers" (13)
(Scientific American) Obvious Scientists: Bisexual behavior may have developed to diffuse conflict. "Sorry for nailing your wife dude, let's make out and we'll feel better." (102)
(Daily Tech) Cool Hitachi unveils green second-generation terabyte hard drive, for comfortably storing your "collection" while saving the planet (18)
(Wall Street Journal) Spiffy Meet the face behind 4Chan (160)
(Gizmodo) Cool Damn, that was fast (17)
(First Moran) Stupid Guy flies to New Zealand to be one of the first people on the planet to by the new 3G iPhone, then immediately TAKES IT APART (47)
(TTAC) Stupid Autoweek lists the "Top 5 Fuel-Efficient Cars You Actually Want to Drive", except for the fact you can't actually drive two of them (39)
(Ars Technica) Obvious French study finds more discrepancies where electronic voting is used. In other news, there are now Republicans in France (12)
(Kotaku) Silly You thought "Burgertime" was fierce? Get a load of "Hell's Kitchen: The Video Game" (59)
(Outpost Gallifrey) Cool Fans rejoice at news that exiting producer Russel T. Davies will never write another Doctor Who episode after he hands the series over to Steven Moffat. Floating glowy JesusDoctor not amused (109)
(Slashdot) Obvious RIAA and SafeNet caught lying their asses off about "technical expertise" to avoid disclosure. Lawyers start circling in the water (35)
(The Register) Silly Well I'm certainly never going to waste my time pipetting chemical solutions again (36)
(ABC News) Interesting Do brain games improve cognition or are they just mental masturbation? Hint: this headline is in the form of a question (60)
(Entertainment Weekly) Spiffy "Hellboy II" is devilishly good: "del Toro stages all of the action brilliantly, whether he's choreographing an onslaught of skittery, spidery face-huggers or tracing the rhythmic, thrusting assault of flying swords" (100)
(Apple) Obvious Apple's new MobileMe service goes live. And promptly crashes. Windows Fanboy can't contain his glee (43)
(Roswell Daily Record) Unlikely Fake rock where aliens hid keys from 1947 crashed flying saucer found outside Roswell, New Mexico (89)
(ClusterStock) Florida The largest solar plant in the US will be in Florida. Take that Fark (68)
(TechEBlog) Cool Why scuba dive when you've got a working homemade submarine (11)
(Houston Chronicle) Scary "Open the pod bay doors, Ivan" (20)
(Metro) Obvious Laboratory mice, when forced to give up drinking, get rather lachrymose (7)
(Ars Technica) Interesting Mobile Internet use has reached "critical mass," will start organizing group rides to block traffic and acting like jerks to motorists (16)

Wed July 09, 2008
(Google) Cool Google creates new 3D socializing site called "Lively" in attempt to break Second Life's monopoly on furries (66)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Sad Fake Steve Jobs, R.I.P. Good night, satireman (15)
(Scientific American) Cool Reason No. 7482 our brains are clearly broken: New visual illusion discovered (101)
(New Scientist) Strange Not news: Water on mars. News: Water on Mercury. Fark: Water on the moon? (44)
(Science Daily) Interesting Tomatoes that aren't busy giving you salmonella could vaccinate you against Alzheimer's disease (12)
(News.com.au) Asinine Psychiatrists have diagnosed the first case of "climate change delusion," and no, it wasn't Al Gore (52)
(Telegraph) Amusing Probably your only chance to see a cow with a methane fart rocket on its back (114)
(New Scientist) Silly The new culprit behind global warming: Clean air (46)
(Ars Technica) Interesting Microsoft working on a concept OS called Midori, so named because you'd have to be drunk to use it (55)
(Washington Post) Interesting U.S. Transportation Department to start using female crash test dummies. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm (39)
(Aftenposten.no) Strange Thousands of snails pose threat. Everybody walk for your lives (82)
(CBC) Strange A Calgary company is spearheading development of a new aircraft, filled with helium and powered by four rotors, which will be used to move materials to remote areas including the Canadian North. Oh, the moose-manity (31)
(Carrier lost) Interesting The first iPhone 3G reviews are already in. The phone itself is "nearly perfect", though AT&T's coverage is sti (109)
(AFP) Interesting Internet flaw could let hackers take over the Web. EVERYONE PANIC (44)
(Science Daily) Interesting An ancient organism from the pit of a collapsed volcano may hold the key to humanity's future. Or its utter, final and horrifying doom. They're still checking the data, promise to get back to us next week (46)
(USA Today) Unlikely Texas oil brazillionaire wants to convert a whole bunch of hot air and gas into electricity and fuel. What could possibly go wrong? Grab some popcorn (54)

Tue July 08, 2008
(Broadband Reports) PSA If you use ZoneAlarm firewall and like having an internet connection, don't install latest Microsoft update (62)
(BBC) Cool Scientists reveal colors of feathers of birds that lived on earth when it was created as long as 5,000 years ago (pics) (108)
(SeattlePI) Interesting Flickr to start allowing users to sell their images to advertising agencies for thousands of dollars. Expect to see poorly focused self portraits with teenage cleavage everywhere in about 6 months (31)
(MSNBC) Cool Global warming deniers rejoice, here's a glacier that's actually getting bigger. Recycled Southpark jokes at 11 (271)
(Lifehacker) Interesting Do More Than Just Game on Your Xbox 360 (85)
(Some Guy) Obvious Man arrested for running into burning home to save his computer. Must have been some porn stash (108)
(Wired) Stupid Researchers create website that uses Google news and Google maps to unwittingly track media panic outbreaks (42)
(Some Guy) Interesting 122 105 124 122 117 040 103 117 115 120 125 124 105 122 040 115 125 123 105 125 115 (68)
(MSNBC) Obvious Jason Burnett, you're the 1000th former Bush administration official to claim that VP Cheney interfered in scientific reports from the EPA. What are you going to now? I'm going to DisneyWorld, then maybe a book deal (33)
(Some Guy) Cool GM to build the worlds largest rooftop solar power plant, which will produce 15.1 million kWh annually (video) (48)
(PCWorld) Cool Google opens up their data exchange language (12)
(BBSpot) Amusing Top 11 geek euphemisms for sex. Yeah, it could happen (89)
(The Consumerist) Stupid Apple lets anyone change your password by asking nicely -- it just works (35)
(The Register) Obvious It will "shortly" be time to disable automatic XP updates again (57)
(Telegraph) Obvious The Indoor Tanning Association commission study: Indoor tanning "good for you" (86)
(Reuters) Interesting "I wish I could do one thing that would help me lose weight, then I'd slim down." Turns out people can, but researchers doubt they will (391)
(PhysOrg.com) Sad NASA picks date of final shuttle explosion: May 31, 2010 (51)
(Herald Tribune) Florida Florida preparing to add basic DNA extraction to elementary school classroom labs. OH THE NEW MANATEE (33)
(Canada.com) Interesting Thirteen-year-old kid developing car alarm that alerts owners when conditions are bad for pets in the car. It's called the Summer-Detector (93)
(Gizmodo) Unlikely Obi-Wan has become the RIAA tech chief; claims DRM will "become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" (40)
(Gizmodo) Silly Cats of the world, look out: The infrared-tracking remote-control car is ready to raise some hell (7)
(Yahoo) Interesting The Tao of Ty Webb. Here comes the science (19)
(Gizmodo) Asinine Meanwhile, from their secret mountain lair, the RIAA unfolds a dastardly plan for laptop manufacturers (46)
(Science Daily) Interesting Scientists describe how some solids flow like liquids, calling it the Taco Bell effect (33)
(Science Daily) Cool This just in: Recycling cures cancer (4)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Cool Kevin Smith to moderate "Battlestar Glactica" panel at Comic Con. After attending, geeks will feel as if their souls are now prepared for the afterlife (63)
(Gizmodo) Weird Another example of why Japan should have a tag: Hello Kitty Antivirus and Firewall (33)
(Some Guy) Obvious Women increasingly running risk of contracting STDs while on vacation after incorrectly reasoning "Hey - why should I use a condom? When am I ever going to visit Haiti again?" (39)

Mon July 07, 2008
(Orlando Sentinel) Interesting Some are questioning why a "Beer Pong" video game was rated suitable for children as young as 13 (83)
(WTC 2.0) Obvious Since New York can't come to a consensus on what to build on the WTC site, how about they just upgrade and rebuild the Twin Towers? (pics) (113)
(Wall Street Journal) Spiffy Global warming finally refuted. At last. Seriously (229)
(U.S. News and World Report) Scary "We Are Running Out of Environment" (41)
(CBS New York) Interesting The next creepy group to prey on teen girls on MySpace: The NYC Health Department? (5)
(Some Guy) Amusing How to Annoy Geeks: Put a 10x10 pixel grey box in the corner of your email app, and don't tell anyone why it's there (77)
(Live Science) Obvious "For all we know, sex in space has already taken place" (Armstrong and Aldrin not asking, telling) (57)
(Reuters) Followup Microsoft willing to CTRL-ALT-Delete talks with Yahoo instead of telling them to EABSOD (28)
(BusinessWeek) Obvious Architects rank top 10 best-designed American cities, with particular emphasis on green-ness. Los Angeles beats out San Fran, and Chicago tops NYC (228)
(Daily Mail) Strange Researchers provide Rubik's Cubes to octopuses, attempt to prove... something (95)
(Cult of Mac) Amusing "Cult of Mac" site claims Mac computers are becoming less interesting, but have many promising things coming up (64)
(ZDNet) Interesting Despite all the recent Ubuntu hype, Linux is just now getting close to one percent market share (84)
(Telegraph) Interesting British UFO sightings at an all-time high this summer. This is what you get when you put "Doctor Who" back on the air (23)
(Inquisitr) Stupid Spanish RIAA sues and wins blog comment case. Being called thieves offended their honor (22)
(Crni) Cool Ford introduces vehicle that they guarantee will not have a mechanical failure (162)
(London Times) Interesting Just as plants are migrating to higher elevations, fish are diving deeper to find cooler temperatures. Here comes the science (20)
(Live Science) Interesting Artificial DNA could power future computers, find Sarah Connor (20)
(News.com.au) Interesting You can all stop eating right and exercising: Fat people genetically "hardwired" that way (261)
(TechEBlog) Weird Functional computers made from beer cases, pizza boxes (18)
(Wired) Sad I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of nerds with plastic-tipped ears suddenly cried out in terror and were silenced (58)
(Telegraph) Ironic Stephen Hawking seeks "Einsteins of Africa." Tells them to live where the food is (238)
(Gizmodo) Silly There used to be a time when Venetian blinds and T-shirts were mutually exclusive. That time is over (13)
(BBC) Obvious Scientists, farmers enraged that British government intends to take no action to kill TB-ridden badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers (15)
(Boston Globe) Interesting How Prozac sent the science of depression in the wrong direction (54)
(Marketwatch) Spiffy Toyota Prius with its own solar panels? It's more likely than you think (65)



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