SKIRMISHER

* It’s okay if everybody else in the world no longer has privacy, as long as Facebook dude Mark Zuckerberg, the privacy cherry-popper himself, maintains his own.

* If you wanna make your brain “fast and fit”, says a new book, cheat at school and fuck everybody that comes your way.

* Just when we’re getting cozy with “After I close the space dock and bend over, you know what to do” astronaut sex jokes, Snopes had to shoot it down. Damn.

* Mohammad Usman, the only boy in an all-girls college, now knows how to say “You go, girlfriend!” to his dad.

* Behold Kevin Rudd, the new Kyoto Protocol-ratifying, climate change-hatin’ Australian Prime Minister.

* Stephen Hawking meets Jim Carrey. And after that, the sex video.

* Ray Kurzweil says it again: nanobots can make humans live forever. Including assholes.

* Video game weddings.

* The Internet does not only get the word out on environmental problems, it is an environmental solution itself.

* How to track down practically anyone online.

* Frank Pringle can microwave a 14-inch car tire to turn it into 1.2 gallons of diesel, 7.5 pounds of carbon black, 50 cubic feet of combustible gas and two pounds of high-strength steel.

* The balls-scratching mystery of the 1507 Waldseemuller map.

* China swears that if you’d look closely, you’d actually see a new “original” asteroid hole somewhere in that image. So it never really stole anything from NASA. Like, totally.

* This mini-tank can occupy an entire Third World country.

* If you believe you are ugly, it’s just your brain telling you that. Which is why zombies are so happy.

* “The Hydra Project.”

Stumble it!