| The US Climate Change Science Program, set up by Bush, concludes that human activity was responsible for the rapid warming of the 20th century | (27) | ||
| Amazing photo of US military's new cloaking device | (64) | ||
| (*BLINK*) | 'Anime Eyes' now possible with special contact lenses. Wierd tag steps in just to piss off everyone who thinks they're Spiffy | (83) | |
| Old and busted: exhaust enhancers to make your ten-year-old Honda sound badass. New hotness: the Lotus "Safe & Sound" system, so your hybrid can make sounds | (64) | ||
| Sandstone arch collapses due to natural forces according to park's Chief of Interpretation. In related news, another career path presents itself for Liberal Arts majors | (54) | ||
| Science close to unveiling invisible man as soon as they can find him | (22) | ||
| Old and busted: Running with scissors. New hotness: Throwing scissors in the operating room, thanks to Medical Rage | (25) | ||
| Study by the Romero Institute of Gerontology finds most senior citizens own neither a cell phone or a computer | (26) | ||
| Mollusk knows when you are about to become ill. Medical labs, worried that it might be the last snail in the coffin for them, have clammed up after calling it a 'shell game' designed to mussel in and steal their hard-earned squid | (34) |
| Security expert criticizes Google vulnerability to malicious redirection, Google counters that the observed behavior is a feature, not a flaw. Where have we heard that argument before? | (12) | ||
| Dell reached its goal of being carbon neutral a year earlier than expected | (41) | ||
| Gallery of 101 vintage computer ads | (54) | ||
| For another year, Microsoft leads in patch repor...what? Are you sure? Oh man, the fanboys aren't going to like that | (50) | ||
| This is what an ordinary day in Britain looks like. As seen from space | (28) | ||
| (Product news) | That DNS fix? Not so much, actually | (32) | |
| School robots divide experts over teaching of phonics, search for Sarah Connor after class | (33) | ||
| Newly-discovered monkey species already critically endangered, with 1100 left occupying 7 square miles. Kipungi | (20) | ||
| MIT students prove that subway RFID payment cards are insecure. Government responds with lawsuit to prevent students from telling anybody | (56) | ||
| (This... is... NOTTINGHAM!) | Scientists work to genetically engineer animals that taste better. Suck it, PETA | (58) | |
| I want a new drug. One that don't make me click | (103) | ||
| Save the planet: Eet Mor Kangaroo | (30) | ||
| Popular fertility drug found to make women less fertile | (22) | ||
| Ecstasy helps us deal with drunks, say cops | (101) |
| What actually goes on at atheist summer camps | (414) | ||
| Due to climate change, rain is getting heavier, and Leon's getting lllaaarrrger | (29) | ||
| Study promoting physical activity to take place entirely within Second Life | (19) | ||
| Get a load of the lunar lander model that Mythbusters will use to pown moon-hoax loonies | (118) | ||
| EA doesn't rush and release a buggy Dark Knight game along with the movie, confusing the entire industry | (107) | ||
| Scientists working on generating electricity using kites. Bonus: Project lead is named Wubbo | (23) | ||
| Transformers "concept car" revealed as the "Corvette Centennial Concept" | (49) | ||
| Eight new contenders for the 'Biggest Douche in the Universe' title have John Edwards looking nervous | (51) | ||
| (SearchSecurity) | Vista's security rendered completely useless. Wait... hasn't it always been? | (62) | |
| Scientists map 38,000-year-old mitochondrial DNA of a Neanderthal, but I bet the poor bastard still gets stuck with child-support payments | (44) | ||
| Old and busted: Electric cars. New hotness: Electric planes | (33) | ||
| World's roundest object created by a bunch of squares | (33) |
| Neanderthal genome analysis reveals interesting fact: Since they lived in the time before alcohol, humans never banged them | (37) | ||
| Phishers are lazy: How it's easy to find their stolen data | (10) | ||
| Anyone who has September 10th as the day the Earth becomes a huge black hole you better try collecting your prize this month before it happens | (102) | ||
| New mouse with built in heart monitor, which will undoubtedly be used to surf for porn, brings the term "beats per minute" to entirely new level | (14) | ||
| MIT researchers discover that we can cut fuel consumption by 50% in 25 years by doing sensible things, like inflating our tires | (85) | ||
| Sprint/Nextel customers might soon be writing their checks to "Google Wireless." Assuming of course Sprint/Nextel customers actually start to pay their bills | (38) | ||
| Top ten things not to type in your Facebook status update. Submitter is: in his bunk with a bowl of Jell-o. Voting enabled, submit other ideas | (462) | ||
| Man with tattoos gets turned away from club, sets up Facebook group in protest. This is news? | (210) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Mexican scientists to lure 2,000 sharks to the coast with food to better understand why sharks come to the coast and associate food with humans | (42) | |
| Scientists create world's thinnest balloon. World's thinnest party hat still in developmental stages | (20) | ||
| Increase in foreclosures causes West Nile virus to become more potent. Whaaaa? | (19) | ||
| What the duct tape wallet wants to be when it gets recycled | (25) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Cancer might evolve to become contagious. EVERYBODY PANIC | (152) | |
| 25 year old Dutch schoolteacher finds a weird object in space. It's being called "Hanny's Voorwerp", but it's no voorwerp I've ever seen (I've seen four; two in real life). I think it looks like Trogdor | (45) | ||
| (Discovery Channel) | 25 of the dirtiest jobs in science. Yes, biology teacher in Kansas is on the list | (44) | |
| France may levy tax on rich and fatty foods in order to avoid wave of American-style child obesity. GO USA | (34) | ||
| (retrothing.com) | A 1978 advertisement for General Electric's widescreen television and Enola Gay-sized VHS recorder. Although the unit is turned off, you can still see the shadows of several dozen orphans pressed hammering against the inside of the screen | (37) | |
| Understanding the tenth dimension. Doc Emmett Brown, Kurt Vonnegut wanted for questioning | (77) | ||
| Massive explosion of one of Jupiter's largest moons will lead to nuclear winters on Earth | (43) | ||
| Dim economy drives women to donate eggs for profit. No penis | (19) | ||
| Newly discovered flaw in the Internet's core infrastructure permits hackers to force people to visit Web sites they didn't want to. Hey, what's up with that tag? I know nothing about it | (28) |
| (Some Guy) | Google launches free music search in China. Surprisingly, the classic hit, "All Of Your Human Rights Are Being Violated By Your Tyrannical Communist Government" doesn't make the list | (10) | |
| Stupidest question of the week: "Should videogaming be made an Olympic sport?" | (55) | ||
| "Aw yeah, I'm about to drop some particle physics in da club. The LHC is supa-dupa fly, y'know what I'm sayin?" | (30) | ||
| Mayo Clinic says early indicators of Alzheimer's are more common than previously thought. Also finds that early indicators of Alzheimer's are more common than previously thought | (20) | ||
| (Tech Digest) | Old & busted: homemade Batman's tumbler. New hotness: homemade A-team van...and it's for hire | (64) | |
| (Phone News) | The FCC's recent ruling against Comcast may have also won an unintended victory: Wireless carriers may now be prohibited from disabling phone features such as Bluetooth or phone-as-modem | (32) | |
| This just in: Macs are more expensive than PC's | (214) | ||
| CDC says average ER wait time nearly an hour. Subby wants to know where it is that low | (275) | ||
| Mummy fetuses in King Tut's tomb may be his children, or simply snacks | (74) | ||
| (CrunchGear) | Man builds Batman's Tumbler in his garage. With pic | (44) | |
| (Pure Music Group) | From the PT Barnum files: Acoustic system phase correctors for the audiophile in your life | (114) | |
| If you thought giant viruses that blur the line between life and non-life were cool wait till you check this out: those viruses can get infected... by other viruses. Looks like it is viruses all the way down | (37) | ||
| Amateur astronomer finds Space Ghost. Brak, Thorak, Moltar still missing | (57) | ||
| Britain unveils new map to help battle for Arctic territories | (22) | ||
| Asteroid mining "X" seminar features discussions on mining in space, challenges in losing one's virginity before age 40 | (162) | ||
| Have an iPhone? Have $1000? The obvious thing to do is buy an app that does nothing but show a red gem on the screen | (56) | ||
| Cablevision is the latest company to block those awful kiddie-porn infested newsgroups such as alt.religion.christianity | (56) | ||
| (FQXi) | Why will the Large Hadron Collider will be shut down before it even starts running? Backwards time ripples from the future | (117) | |
| "SCIENCE QUALITY WARNING: The chance that we are following this correctly is roughly equivalent to that of a man with no arms throwing a handful of jelly through a falling doughnut at 50 yards without touching the sides" | (36) | ||
| (Mark's Technology News) | Nissan unveils electric vehicle for 2010 which will have twice the power of current models. Clearly, the money hasn't been spent on aesthetics | (48) | |
| It's called "kiting," and it could be part of the solution to our energy needs | (64) | ||
| Yawning is known to be contagious in humans but now scientists have shown that pet dogs can catch a yawn, too. With video of a yawning human, then a yawning dog. You're yawning right now, aren't you? | (32) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Experience the Tail Cam of a A380 | (42) | |
| Colorado's total potential for solar power generation could send 223 people back to the future | (39) | ||
| (chronicle.com) | How our modern culture keeps students away from science: "We just don't challenge kids with hard stuff like trig anymore, preferring that they have self-esteem, which qualifies them to have just gotten laid off by Starbucks" | (188) | |
| (Some Dubai) | The Emirates Airbus A380 from the inside. If you have to ask how much a ticket costs, you'll never, ever fly on this plane | (54) |
| (Some Guy) | First look at Marvel Comics' adaptation of Stephen King's "The Stand." Don't fear the reaper | (148) | |
| Google employee uses Google Street View to propose | (21) | ||
| Scientists -- the same ones claiming global warming is happening -- claim they've found 700-degree water coming from a vent in the ocean. Yeah, so, uh, why doesn't it boil? | (141) | ||
| (Some Researcher) | You can add a 7 day workweek to the list of things that would help you lose weight that you're totally unwilling to do | (26) | |
| (Some Guy) | 1 IN 4 SOLDIERS IN WAR ZONES FOUND TO HAVE SUFFERED HEARING LOSS. 'Obvious' TAG SURRENDERS | (19) | |
| The stuff NASA found on Mars that was a sign of life, then not a sign of life, then a chemical that excludes the possibility of life is actually something else, but they're not sure what | (31) | ||
| Exclusive new details on next Grand Theft Auto game: CHINATOWN WARS | (67) | ||
| (RedditAll) | What better way to let CERN know we trust them and their large hadron collider than by sending them a wrecking bar so Gordan Freeman can save us all when it goes kablooey? | (75) | |
| (National Weather Service) | Ever wonder why some clouds aren't white? Maybe an MS Paint graphic from a government agency will clear things up for you (scroll to bottom) | (69) | |
| (Topless Robot) | The Ten Stupidest Things in Dungeons and Dragons. (Only Ten?) | (171) | |
| Low testosterone makes you fat, says skinny scientist | (38) | ||
| (EcoGeek) | IPhone 3G goes solar-powered with new case. Charge of $29.99 for sunlight quickly added to monthly bill | (17) | |
| (Tor Books) | The Fermi Paradox: If aliens do indeed exist, where are they? Science fiction writers may have the answer | (241) | |
| New pill may make Britons stop binge drinking. The pill is called unlikelyadone and is made by Magical Faery Pharmaceuticals in Imaginationland | (77) | ||
| They warned us this would happen: Korean scientists clone booger | (43) | ||
| Steve Jobs comes thiiiis close to confessing that Microsoft made MobileMe for him | (26) | ||
| Latest dumb fad to hit Los Angeles: "anti-social networking." Involves using services like Slydial to only give the "illusion" that you want to stay in touch with someone. Yes, they even created a service for this | (35) | ||
| Doctors asked to stop screening patients over 75 for prostate cancer, as poking an old man's anus is liable to do more harm than good | (33) | ||
| Mars lander discovers the red planet would kill us if it had the chance | (50) | ||
| (Some Malware Detector) | It's not news, it's CNN. No, wait, it's actually malware spam | (13) | |
| Company unveils world's first multi-touch, 3D hologram system | (38) | ||
| From the "Life Imitates Star Trek" Files: the Air Force wants a holodeck | (38) |
| Nissan making an "eco-friendly" gas pedal that pushes back if you drive too fast. It's like reverse cruise control. Cruise control that can cause you rear end the car in front of you | (74) | ||
| GTA pulled from shelves after teen kills taxi driver "to see if it was as easy as in the game" | (331) | ||
| Who knew "Big Brother" could be so eerily beautiful? | (25) | ||
| Could the Phoenix lander have found a big fat pile of steaming crap? | (51) | ||
| Soon to be a show on FOX: Are you smarter than a worm? | (21) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Two breast-implant companies report the biggest drop in breast augmentation surgery in recent mammary | (49) | |
| "Evolution suggests humans should be good at dodging dangerous projectiles but we are actually very bad at it. Our judgment is skewed by experience of slow-paced everyday situations, which cause the brain to react sluggishly" | (69) | ||
| French oysters are being decimated by a herpes virus. Sales of tiny oyster condoms skyrocket | (25) | ||
| Phil, the bad astronomer, blogger and fellow Farker is now president of the James Randi Educational Foundation. Congratulations | (155) | ||
| (Some Survivalist) | For those times when you descend from your persistant state of panic: The Global Disease Alert map | (21) | |
| (DailyWTF) | Best traffic enforcement camera photo you'll see all day | (49) | |
| "Grand Theft Auto" sales halted after murder in Bangkok. Jack Thompson seen translating his BS into Thai | (37) | ||
| CEO of failed search startup Cuil: "The fact that it works at all is a kind of a miracle" | (53) | ||
| Global warming is real, and existed back in 1730 | (53) | ||
| "The Earth is, more or less, a disc," he states. "It is around 24,900 miles in diameter." And the BBC is more than happy to give them publicity | (597) | ||
| Apple is planning to release an iPhone nano for Christmas, which will come with a free iPen and iMagnifying-Glass [citation required] | (31) | ||
| Most people have to be drunk to put up with top 40 music | (184) | ||
| AT&T all but confirms iPhone exclusivity extended until 2010 | (35) | ||
| (News Tribune) | How genome-tracking technology ultimately led anthrax investigators directly to Bruce Ivins | (13) | |
| Users of tween social networking site Bebo have been given the opportunity to send a message into outer space. ZOMG HAV U RLY GOT A GRN HED | (12) | ||
| San Francisco's world-famous cable cars: 135 years old and still going strong. Enjoy this behind-the-scenes photo gallery of a true 19th century marvel | (32) | ||
| Subjects of British nanny state shocked, SHOCKED, to find that health officials want to put fluoride in the drinking water to halt tooth decay | (183) | ||
| An elephant may never forget, but you might have to forget about elephants surviving past 2020 | (143) |