SKIRMISHER

* Microsoft is giving away free copies of Windows Vista and some of its other priceless software, but with a little catch — the company wants to watch you using it.

* Alexis Lemaire — world’s fastest human calculator — beats Alexis Lemaire.

* NASA and Lockheed Martin are building a replacement to the space shuttle using off-the-shelf technology.

* Can’t crack the legalese of End User License Agreements (EULA)? Use the EULAlyzer.
to see immediately who’s trying to screw who.

* Remains of dead prehistoric animals have tell-tale signs of “death by asteroids.”

* For anyone who’s taking notes, Isabelle Dinoire, the world’s first face transplant patient, is still okay.

* Turns out, Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), connect the Earth to the sun through “magnetic ropes.”

* Either you eat these ugly motherfuckers or they eat you.

* Brazilian ice cream company Kibon is giving away 10,000 frozen iPods in popsicles, and you have to bite it at least once.

Stumble it!