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Joseph Schneider learns first-hand why you never, ever rip off an army of Internet-inhabiting gentlemen, who proceed on committing something that’s so hilariously sick, it can only be described as a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.

Korea expects that robots will be tasked to build skyscrapers by 2010.

Nicholas Carr on the terrifying future of computing.

Would Darth [...]

Intel and the One Laptop Per Child break up, mainly because Intel couldn’t stop itself from whoring its own machines.

Andy Olmsted, recently dead American soldier in Iraq, blogs from beyond the grave.

This USB mouse loves you, it really, really loves you! Like, totally!

Sandia National Labs is converting carbon dioxide back to methanol and gasoline through [...]

Continents of floating garbage so vast they make us…slightly uncomfortable.

The only thing humans haven’t consigned to machines is creativity. Or is it?

If frogs and all their wonderful cousins begin disappearing, blame this virus.

Roger Highfield discovers that dreams “are much more shaped by events of the past week than childhood trauma,” among other things.

Now it seems [...]

New drug can reverse liver damage; suddenly it’s harder to drink yourself to death.

China’s recent white paper reveals it’s hell bent on using more coal, which would have been dire if not for the cute smileys peppering the document.

North America’s largest solar power plant, made by SunPower, is now running.

How to backup your Google account.

Doorknobs [...]

Video games make your brain bleed. Or something hilarious like that.

IBM’s five predictions for the future.

Will Google-powered mobile phones begin to appear in February?

GoldVish Luxury mobile phones are now available in Russia at a very reasoable price of only 1 millio euros! Very cheap! But a discount if you toss in a kidney or two.

Panasonic’s [...]

Remember last week when US Senator Inhofe and his gang of 400 merry scientists expressed their doubts on man-made climate change? You can now sit back and relax because climate change is still happily not “not man-made,” so we’re still gonna die.

Your mouse, a rich new world of Flash-based fun.

Scientists have found a way to [...]

“Email” in the 18th century, absolutely free of spam.

If for some reason you couldn’t yet see I Am Legend, at least you can now fully watch The Last Man On Earth for free.

Reading in dim light won’t damage your eyes, you don’t need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and shaving your [...]

Microsoft is the software industry’s leading innovator, according to a panel of experts who are still in a drunken stupor after Steve Ballmer gave them marathon blowjobs.

Internet Explorer 8 reaches a magnificent milestone. Meanwhile, the Firefox dudes release Firefox 3 Beta 2. And by the way, Windows XP SP3 is out.

Yahoo! China gets it in [...]

* Is Google broken?
* All PS2 fanboys shouldn’t have missed these top PS2 games of 2007. But for non-PS2-exclusive video games, here’s somebody else’s opinion you might find useful.
* The best iPhone copycats, but we’re not sure what “best” means.
* Korea announces that the only foreigners it wants are Koreans.
* Black hole fed up with [...]

* Can’t beat the snowstorm? Make your own backyard igloo.
* Chatting with God turns out to be not as fun as we thought.
* All Bill Gates wants is to eat his $1.70 burger in peace.
* Google takes on Wikipedia with its “knol” project.
* US adults love googling their names and discovering what the interwebs think [...]