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• Scientists Melt Diamond
  Dude, really, why would you? Why? WHY?!
• Creating Passionate Users
  “Passion starts with two simple words: F***ing Cool!”
• PopSci’s Best Of 2006
  “The future is now -and it looks good.”
• TIME Best Inventions 2006
  “It’s been an interesting year in technology. Nintendo invented a video game you control with a magic wand. A new kind of car traveled 3,145 miles on a single gallon of gas. A robot learned to ride a bike.”
• Extreme Trainsurfer Video (YouTube)
  Quite emotional video of a young German guy who was diagnosed with leukemia and decided to surf high speed trains in the remaining time before his death.
• 5 Robots You Don’t Want to Mess With
  5 terminators to be reckoned with.
• Old Viruses Resurrected Through DNA
  “Thanks to advances in DNA technology, scientists can now reconstruct new copies of old viruses.” Again: dude, really, why would you?
• Do You Deserve A Raise?
  You deserve a raise. You know you do. But how to get it?
• Could our big brains come from Neanderthals?
  “Neanderthals may have given the modern humans who replaced them a priceless gift, a gene that helped them develop superior brains.”
• Murphy’s law
  Portrait of the brilliant and strikingly unprofessional economist Kevin Murphy.
• How to Survive a Zombie Attack
  “Preparing now for zombiedom is a good idea. Remember what the TV preacher said, ‘When hell is full, the dead will walk the earth.’ So it’s bound to happen sooner or later.”

• Gold mine holds life untouched by the Sun
  “The first known organisms that live totally independently of the sun have been discovered deep in a South African gold mine. [...] Similar life forms may exist on other planets, experts speculate.”
• How to Save a Wet Cell Phone
  “Ever dropped your cell phone in the sink, or even worse the toilet? [...] It usually means you have to replace your phone, but sometimes if you’re fast you can save the phone.”
• Top scientist asks: is life all just a dream?
  “[..]] life, the universe and everything may be no more than a giant computer simulation with humans reduced to bits of software.”
• ‘Soup Nazi’ still building off ‘Seinfeld’
  “Chef Al Yeganeh, the model for the “Soup Nazi” on TV’s “Seinfeld,” is opening 18 related food franchises across the United States.”
• World Fisheries Risk Collapse by 2048, Scientists Say
  “World fisheries risk collapsing completely by 2048 if humans continue to erode species diversity by causing regional extinctions.”
• Dilbert creator’s mysterious recovery
  Dilbert creator was diagnosed with incurable neurological condition taking his ability to speak, but suddenly gets his voice back, but: “Adams himself said he’s nervous that he’ll lose his voice again.”
• Freaky close ups of insects on Russian site
  Man, if these we’re any bigger I’d kill myself being scared all the time.
• Why Do We Have an Adam’s Apple?
  “But does it do anything? Not really. Like the cartilage in your ears or nose, it’s just kind of there.”
• Top 100 photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
  Beautiful stuff, good to know that the telescope will be saved.
• 11 Ways To Sleep Better
  “Caffeinated drinks and food such as coffee, tea, sodas and chocolate will keep the mind stimulated much longer than some people think.”
• Lost Moon landing tapes discovered
  “For years ‘lost’ tapes recording data from the Apollo 11 Moon landing have been stored underneath the seats of Australian physics students.”

Lists, we got lists people! Enjoy!

• 101 Dumbest Moments in Business
  “Enron? Those guys were lame. We did the same thing, but it only took us two months.”
• The 50 people who matter now
  “Rank 1: You!”
• 20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Lab Accidents
  “German scientist Hennig Brand stored 50 buckets of urine in his cellar for months in 1675, hoping that it would turn into gold.”
• 2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards
  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: “I’m going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f***ing kill Google.”
• Six Health Threats You Can’t Ignore
  “A bump that at first glance looks like a run-of-the-mill pimple may actually be basal-cell carcinoma, a slow-growing form of skin cancer.”
• Top 10 Funniest Bushisms of All Time
  “[...] They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
• The Thoughtful User Guide: iPod Etiquette
  “Mp3 players are unwelcome at weddings, funerals, and other gatherings, and also in classrooms or places of worship. This holds true even if you’re a sullen 13-year-old with inattentive parents.”
• The Thirteen Scariest People in America
  The current president isn’t even on that list, imagine the horror the other thirteen are causing.
• Five Things That Should Never Be on Your Car
  “Bumper Stickers – They aren’t funny and nobody cares about your religious affiliation.”
• Very Short Stories
  Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
• Pimp My Mobile: 33 ways to sex up your cell phone
  No.1: “Upgrade to a diamond-encrusted, million-dollar GoldVish phone.” So, that’s 32 really…
• The Seven Phases of Owning an iPod – An Illustrated Journey
  Phase 6: “A smaller, fancier iPod is created and yours is now outdated and crappy. Yours is no longer awesome, it is horribly awful. Just awful.”

• Local commercial for a Halloween store (NSFW)
  “We got every kind of girl’s costume for Halloween: Sexy Abe Lincoln. Sexy pharmacists. Sexy detective. Sexy Mustard. Sexy Jesus…”
• Flight of the Pole Dancer (NSFW)
  What went wrong with the tumbling pole dancer in a YouTube video? Scientifically explained.
• 10 Steps You Can Take To Guarantee Failure
  I’m an expert myself, but these are some great tips for those of you who tend to succeed in life.
• 213783647 reasons why water is the shittiest thing on this planet, besides shit
  My personal favorite “The only reason people drink water is because its trendy, its the cool thing to do.”
• Desktop Blues
  Create your own blues record!
• The Kid From Brooklyn on Starbucks (NSFW)
  This guy walked right out of The Sopranos: “7 fuckin’ dollars? What they fuckin’ think they’re serving over there? Liquid gold?!”
• Welcome to Günthernet (NSFW)
  “Günther wants to change the worlds look at the sexual way of thinking, so he have started a new trend to sexualise it more in the world. ‘A Günther trend’.”
• The 50 coolest song parts
  “The song, and even the artist, may be mediocre, overplayed, or perhaps even awful, but there’s that special part that’s worth stopping whatever you’re doing [...].”
• On the move: David Hasselhoff
  The Hoff speaks his mind: “We can do anything. I own the studio because I am the Knight Rider.”

• The Internet black hole that is North Korea (u/p: keeskist)
  Kim Jung-Il to Madeleine Albright: “Please give me your e-mail address.”
• The Credit Card Prank II
  “How far could I go before they would check my credit card signature?”
• Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God
  “Not only do we need no God to explain the universe and life. God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs.”
• Gerhard Schroeder thought George Bush was a theomaniac
  “Quite rightly, we criticize that in most Islamic states the role of religion in society and the secular character of the legal system are not clearly separated,” he said. “But we haven’t taken note as readily of the U.S. Christian fundamentalists and their interpretation of the Bible that show similar tendencies.”
• Governments Fund the Darnedest Things
  Great list of 7 of the largest, oddest, and most useless state projects in the world.
• What it takes to be great
  “The secret? Painful and demanding practice and hard work.”
• Complete 911 Timeline
  “This timeline is meant to be a comprehensive resource for anyone attempting to understand 9/11 and the “war on terrorism” in general.”
• 10 Marketing Tactics Under $10
  My favorite: #1. “Instead of putting a 39-cent stamp on an envelope, put 39 1-cent stamps on the front of an envelope. [...] so your mail isn’t thrown away or ignored.”