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Fri May 16, 2008
(Geek Tyrant) Cool Hulk will Fight Wolverine In upcoming Animated Feature from Marvel (24)
(Slashdot) Interesting Indiana Jones and the Reviews of Doom? (53)
(Fox News) Interesting An insightful and polite article discussing the relationship between science and God. Bonus: "Scientists hate God" is the first sentence (278)
(Google) Cool Harrison Ford elected to the board of the Archaeological Institute of America on the basis of his "no snakes or Nazis" platform (86)
(BBC) Interesting 150 year old egg, with a side of Elizabethan bacon and a cup of Incan coffee. The breakfast of archaeologists (18)
(BBC) Amusing From the makers of the "$100 laptop" comes the "$100 laptop with Windows XP". Vista so bad even kids in third world countries won't touch it (49)
(Space) Interesting "Singularities are merely artifacts of our insistence that space-time should be described as a continuum." Okay, now they're just making it up (51)
(Valleywag) Followup Pro-Microsoft shareholders now control at least 29 percent of Yahoo. CEO Jerry Yang can write all the letters he wants, but that's a pretty big fork (39)
(Newsweek) Interesting A new study reveals that for teens, it's not whether you're really popular. It's whether you THINK you are (100)
(LA Times) Interesting Mars polar ice is like Mexican seven-layer dip, only it won't give you as much gas (11)
(Forbes) Obvious We asked nicely, see? Now listen, my pretty Yahoo. You're gonna hug Mr. Microsoft. You're gonna give him what he wants. Or we're gonna take you in that room, see? You don't want to go in that room. Trust me (8)
(CNN) Obvious Mortal Kombat co-creator confirms fears that MK -vs- DC Universe is going to suck (38)
(IGN) Cool A look back at the 1987 Sega Master System Catalog (70)
(Gizmodo) Cool Quite possibly one of the coolest PC gaming inventions of 2008 (44)
(DallasNews) Interesting Texas man finds fossil of a mosasaur, still not fully convinced on the existence of dinosaurs - "How can these be 3 million years old? The world ain't that old" (85)
(Daily Mail) Cool The Tesla Roadster is sold out until 2009. Being able to drive a Lotus Elise based sportscar two hundred miles on electricity costing the same as a beer might explain things (117)
(AP) Interesting Scientists create worlds first database of bite marks. Sharks reply, "Suck my *ick, I'm a shark" (24)

Thu May 15, 2008
(London Times) Cool Two words: Camera. Gigapixel (49)
(MSNBC) Interesting GM says it'll skip Vista and wait for Windows 7 or the Grim Reaper. Whichever comes first (72)
(Kotaku) Spiffy A hot gamer-girl? Unpossible (82)
(Sun Sentinel) Florida Study: Rising ocean may submerge South Florida. Promises, promises (143)
(Some Guy) Stupid How is it any video game based on a movie sucks, even one as easy to make as "Iron Man"? (73)
(Ars Technica) Hero Meet Copowi, the world's first ISP to guarantee network neutrality (32)
(London Times) Interesting 55-million-year-old fossil parrot found. It's not bleedin' demised, it's just pining for the Lower Eocene (17)
(YouTube) Amusing The Circuit's Comic Con Coverage -- hear Stan Lee himself scream, "EXCELSIOR!" (16)
(itnews.com) Interesting If Google Street View went to Europe, it could be illegal or have to be heavily regulated by the EU's Ministry of Making Sure You Don't Do Anything We Can't Tax (22)
(RCR News) Interesting T-Mobile hit with class-action lawsuit over charges for premium content (10)
(UPI) Spiffy Rare albino tadpoles found in Wales. Much more common albino tadpoles found on your mom's chin (40)
(CNN) Spiffy Mom who posed as a 16-year-old boy and cyber-bullied a 13-year-old girl into hanging herself may soon be posing as a person not behind bars (479)
(Some Guy) Stupid News: Dish Networks adds 22 HD channels boasting 95 in total. Fark: Then removes 15 HD channels hours later (82)
(Reuters) Interesting Phone-wallets still years away. Computer ham-sandwich dispensers still a sweet, sweet pipe dream (40)
(The Hollywood Reporter) PSA Fox geeks out like a gibbering Comic Con fanboy by annoucing a new fall schedule that includes Joss Whedon and J.J. Abrams sci fi thrillers and the return of "Terminator" (97)
(Engadget) Strange Nintendo ordered to pay $21 million to "patent troll." What does a patent troll do? Sit on your patent papers and shout "FATTIES R TEH SUXX0RZ"? (64)
(Some Guy) Silly Microsoft asked to clarify its statement that Xbox 360 is world's best-selling console. "Xbox 360 has the largest global install base of any current gen. high definition gaming console, Wii excluded" (225)
(TheSpec.com) Spiffy Canada set to land its first science mission on an alien planet, complete with maple-leaf-flag wordmark logo. Now the Martians will know who to attack in retaliation (43)
(C|Net) Spiffy New IBM chip-cooling technology for solar cells can withstand the heat of a thousand suns. Meanwhile, Xbox 360 overheats into RROD ten seconds after you turn the damn thing on (26)
(The Sun) Obvious Cyber crooks are cashing in on the huge popularity of the new "Grand Theft Auto" by offering bogus downloads full of viruses. Just buy the damn game, Thiefy McPirate (39)
(Daily Mail) Asinine Rechargeable cigarettes: Smokeless, although the picture with the article shows smoker exhaling smoke which seems to contradict the smokeless claims (52)
(The Register) Interesting Spotigo promises Wi-Fi mapping within 5.5 yards, still won't help get you laid (10)
(Wired) Scary The Air Force seriously wants to create Skynet, because we all know how well that turned out (30)
(SMH) Amusing Hasbro isn't entirely happy about a video showing My Little Ponies singing "Smashing and bashing, killing dudes, tends to have an effect on you" (38)
(National Geographic) Cool The coolest pics of slugs you will see today (50)
(Canada.com) Silly Your garden can be deadly. Everybody BOTANIC (20)
(Yahoo) Sad Betamax has finally and truly died (28)
(LV Review Journal) Sad Priority one message coming in from Starfleet: Distress call issued from Quark's Bar in Las Vegas (60)
(CNN) Obvious Polar bears now listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. Condition may also describe the Secretary of the Interior who was a little quick to say that this shouldn't be misused to help regulate global climate change (35)
(Science Daily) Interesting Weixiao Haung, whose father woke him up early every morning to practice mathematical calculations without a calculator, may make silicon chips a thing of the past. Suck it, silicon chip calculators (26)
(Telegraph) Misc British couple have Star Wars-themed wedding; flower girls walk in single file to hide their numbers (55)

Wed May 14, 2008
(Kotaku) Cool Gamers, hell has officially frozen over. Yahtzee Croshaw reviews "GTA IV" and LIKES it. Armageddon countdown starts to the right (89)
(Boing Boing) Sad Warner and DC Comics shut down children's cancer auction over a copyright issue (123)
(MSNBC) Obvious “Restless legs syndrome is a great example of a suddenly out-of-the-blue disease,” created by pharmaceutical industry to sell hundreds of millions of dollars of unnecessary drugs (117)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Followup Charter defends its plan to monitor your Web traffic for ad targeting: It's an "enhancement" (139)
(Valleywag) Silly Out of deep concern for user-privacy, Google blurred this horse's face (27)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Interesting Google's OpenSocial now "sucks less," coders spend less time on Facebook (15)
(Chicago Tribune) Interesting Thirty percent of households have no land line, use only cell phones, as reliance on technol ------ (no signal) (361)
(Some Guy) Amusing "A lot of gamers were somehow expecting 'Gears 2' to suddenly come out and have big bright purple flowers and rainbows and unicorns coming out of my ass or something like that" (30)
(CBC) Interesting HPV found to cause more than 50 percent of oral cancer in men. Unfortunately, the vaccine would turn men into lewd, horny, sex fiends (197)
(Discovery) Interesting New online game lets players come up with scientific solutions to problems. So you know nobody's going to play it (21)
(Engadget) Cool Flying cars? Maybe not. Personal jet backpacks? OH HELL YES (28)
(Engadget) Stupid Microsoft gives the Red Ring of death to new Xbox 360s in 2009 (59)
(Statesman) Interesting Disney to hack into brains in Austin to study effects of advertising (15)
(MediaPost) Unlikely Austin consumers are the most digital-saavy. Their beer is better too. Spelling? Not so much (34)
(Telegraph) Weird Honda's robot conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, is dismayed to find first chair oboe player Sarah Connor missing (27)
(FARK) PSA Shiny new Fark Facebook app now available. Geocities-compatible version still delayed. DIT (207)
(Daily Mail) Spiffy Scientists invent Mr. Fusion 1.0 (59)
(Canoe) Spiffy Velcro turns 50 years old. Plans on getting ripped (57)
(Seattle Times) Interesting Teen girls' exercise may reduce risk of breast cancer, increase male population's risk of heart attack (35)
(CNN) Interesting There will never be another Hurricane Dean. YEEEEAAAARRRRGGGHH (20)
(The New York Times) Interesting Japan, U.S. and Soviet Union in neck-and-neck race to perfect propulsion system with no moving parts (48)
(Wall Street Journal) Cool When marines are pinned down by sniper fire, with no clear shot and the nearest reinforcements 20 miles away, who has the best shot? Why, a guy sitting at a desk 8,000 miles away, naturally (111)
(Newsweek) Interesting Study finds that not finishing high school makes you more likely to die young, vote for Hillary Clinton (10)
(YouTube) Cool Famous comic book writer Grant Morrison interviewed at Comic Con about his work, on whether he's a God or not, and who has a bigger penis -- Superman or Batman (45)
(Reuters) Cool Craigslist countersues eBay. Principles only. Farkers, please don't contact article subby. Please, no phone calls about this post (29)
(AP) Interesting MySpace wins $234M anti-spam lawsuit (20)

Tue May 13, 2008
(Wired) Sad College level Skee-ballers hack Dave and Buster's credit card data (27)
(The Consumerist) Asinine Charter to begin deep packet inspection of all traffic (78)
(NASA) Spiffy NASA's Phoenix lander is getting ready to touch down on Mars and begin an unprecedented investigation of the Red Planet's arctic realm (77)
(The Register) Scary Remember in "The Day After Tomorrow" how freezing air downed the helicopters? Welcome to the freezing air theory of the January Boeing 777 crash. (Scary tag because interesting tag is boring and there is no flamebait tag.) (52)
(Yahoo) Stupid Thomas Friedman has "fading green bonafides." Translation: He had the audacity to notice that coal is somewhat less dangerous than antimatter (26)
(Some Guy) Cool Liberty City versus New York City: A side by side comparison (pics) (79)
(Post-Gazette) Spiffy Children's hospital plans new ward to study the environmental toxin theory of autism. Which is completely pointless since everyone already knows it's caused by the mercury in vaccinations (108)
(The Register) Followup Faced with yet another embarassing update debacle with XP SP3, Microsoft takes the high road, accepting full responsibility and promising to do things better next time. Just kidding - they blamed HP for the whole thing (68)
(BBSpot) Amusing Top 11 people you'll find at a geek convention. Mr. Socially Adept and Good at Sports strangely absent (90)
(Real Tech News) PSA Apple to recall line of dual-purpose paperweight cigarette lighters. Loyal Apple followers describe it as the best recall ever, a monumental spark, the hottest moment in history, penis (41)
(C|Net) Asinine Having dealt with rising gas prices and the continuing quagmire in Iraq, Congress proposes fines for retailers that sell M-rated games to minors. It's just like the penalties in place for movie and music retailers... Wait a minute (40)
(Discover) Cool Sand, under a 3D microscope? It's cooler than you think (47)
(C|Net) Obvious Harvard researchers conclude what anyone with a brain in his head suspected all along: There's no link between video game and real life violence, and Jack Thompson is a bleating nutjob (50)
(MSN) Spiffy New telescope from Microsoft allows you to download spyware from distant galaxies (16)
(Boston Globe) Amusing Rival plants shirt behind Boston's new Apple store (with pics) (32)
(News.com.au) PSA Climate change will turn your cornflakes into a lethal BREAKFAST OF DOOM. I'm totally cereal (263)
(London Times) Unlikely The Lost Ark. Germans have their top men looking for it. Top men (68)
(The Register) Unlikely Is Apple planning a to release a new handheld gaming device? (45)
(Eco Worldly) Cool South Korean village runs on 100 percent solar, kimchi power (47)
(Australian PC World) Interesting New Aussie technology may help find life on Mars (21)
(London Times) Interesting How does a 66 year-old, wheel chair-bound physicist go on a safari to find an African Einstein? Very carefully, I'd hope (28)
(AP) Stupid Headline: Tornado deaths underscore risks of taking shelter in cars. Article: 7% of the tornado deaths in the past 10 years were in cars (28)

Mon May 12, 2008
(Some Guy) Spiffy New Dungeons & Dragons game ditches orcs and gnolls in favor of vampire knights set in era of King Arthur (86)
(Space) Interesting Piece of missing cosmic matter found. Scientists insist that no questions will be asked if the rest is on their desk by tomorrow morning (34)
(UPI) Interesting Mystery of Jupiter ring protrusion solved. It's just happy to see you (20)
(ZDNet) Scary Security flaw in Gmail turns it into a large scale spam machine. Bonus: It can bypass your filter (40)
(Geektyrant.com) Cool Is that Captain America's shield in "Iron Man"? (186)
(C|Net) Misc Facebook CTO to leave the company, will be replaced by three apps that do half the work. Facebook is betting nobody notices the difference for at least a year (19)
(IGN) Cool Top 10 Atari 7800 games. Bleep. Bloop. Bleep (64)
(NYPost) Interesting Global warming is decimating the polar bear population. Although somebody should tell the polar bears, whose population is up by 40 percent over the past 25 years (290)
(Game Politics) Interesting "I found that 'Grand Theft Auto' actually offered a less sensational portrait of gangland and ghetto streets than the one put out by most cops, politicians, policymakers and even academics" (99)
(Wired) Interesting Hydrogen cars won't make a difference for 40 years, presumably when all the smug is able to displace the smog (73)
(National Post) Dumbass Researcher uses grant money to buy wheels for his car, an iPod and expensive TVs. Authorities outraged that a science grant is being treated like an arts grant (114)
(Chicago Tribune) Interesting Facebook sued over fake page (18)
(London Times) Weird When stressed, seaweed is capable of controlling the weather (27)
(Telegraph) Spiffy Hundredth anniversary of the mobile phone. With "I say, am I audible to your good self now?" pics (69)
(Science Daily) Interesting Earthworms can pull a Ron Jeremy when paternity is at risk (21)

Sun May 11, 2008
(Techwhack.com) Unlikely Microsoft has now sold more than 2 million Zune players, only 148 million to go before they catch up with the iPod (203)
(Science Blogs) Spiffy Today's science experiment: Dissolving an avocado. Because who wants to cure cancer anyways? (25)
(C|Net) Spiffy Google announces it's own social network, "Friend Connect." Well, Facebook, Myspace, you two had a good run (72)
(Some Guy) Interesting Retired U.S. Air Force colonel writes a book about the time he chased a 2,000 mph street light which made impossible sudden 90 degree turns and then crashed in Mexico. Complete with unburnable, uncuttable metal debris (99)
(NASA) Cool One of the best astronomy pictures of the day in a while: Retrograde Mars - A time lapse picture of Mars' path through our field of vision (w/ bonus constellation overlay) (21)
(Coding the Wheel) Interesting Think online poker bots are a figment of over-active imaginations? Think again (24)
(Popular Science) Cool The science of Scotch. Who would've guessed there are over 800 chemical compounds that affect its flavor? Well, besides Orson Welles (29)
(Some Guy) Cool Ever wondered what the sun would it sound like if you could hear it? Welcome to the exciting world of helioseismology (27)
(Wall Street Journal) Cool There is now scientific support for sleeping late like a lazy farker on the weekends. So STFU and GBTS (13)
(Some Hungover Guy) Interesting Just in time for that weekend hangover: How do painkillers find and kill pain? (6)
(Reuters) Interesting VW, Sanyo to develop lithium-ion battery for use in hybrid and electric cars. Finally, Germany and Japan are working together again (29)
(YouTube) Video Again and again (70)

Sat May 10, 2008
(Independent) Amusing Every thirty minutes, Chinese internet surfers are reminded they are being watched by the happy manga police (45)
(Slashdot) Asinine Microsoft now blocking Youtube links in IM’s on MSN and Windows Live Messenger. Rest assured this is to protect you the user. Not because of the launch of Messenger TV. Pinky swear (76)
(New Scientist) Spiffy Five science fiction movies that get the science right. So they do pop out of the chest like that (143)
(Wired) Followup NASA answers questions about the "90 days in bed" thing (43)
(Boston Globe) Hero FBI tries to strong-arm the Internet Archive to reveal online activities of patron. The EFF biatch-slaps the FBI, and the FBI backs off, mumbling an apology of sorts out of a broken lip (37)
(Denver Post) Amusing Denver Zoo adds a shipwreck for polar bears. "The shipwreck is a great way to stimulate natural behaviors in the bears." Bears are anxious to get the main and mizzen masts repaired, go for the Horn (26)
(Engadget) Amusing Scientists develop artificial mouth to study complexities of chewing, digesting. ONLY chewing and digesting (14)



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