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  1. I've heard of wearing your heart on your sleeve... on Neurons Created Directly From Skin Cells · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...but your brain?

  2. Glycine Deficiency on NASA Discovers Life's Building Block In Comet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Strange, we think that a comet wiped out the dinosaurs, and yet another comet like this one could sustain the glycine-deficient dinosaurs at Jurassic Park!

  3. Pyramid shaped rodents on The Mice That Didn't Make It · · Score: 1

    I neglected to see the "Hardware" tag for this article and immediately assumed the article was about freaks of biological science, the mice that were engineered into crazy shapes but that didn't get the positive press that the mouse-with-ear-on-back (http://meredith007.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/mouse-human-ear.jpg) got. You know, rodents shaped like pyramids, steering wheels, trackball rats. Why, I once saw a mouse genetically engineered to have a little phosphorescent red light on its belly that lit up when ever someone dragged it along a flat surface.

  4. Dictionary! App on Apple Balks, Finally Relents, At Possible User Queries of Dictionary App · · Score: 1

    For those who are interested, there is a fine little FREE app called Dictionary! (previousy Dictionare) for iPhone/touch that features all the dirty words you could ever want. Its entries are not hugely detailed, but when you want an uncensored definition, it's the way to go. For example, when I fill the search field with "fuck" it gives me entries for 'fuck', 'fuckup', 'fucker', 'fucking', 'fuckhead', 'fuck all', 'fuck off', 'fucked-up' and 'fucking(a)'. Frankly, I find all of these wonderful descriptors for Apple's retard-power over the App store.

  5. What about Qwantz? on xkcd To Be Released In Book Form · · Score: 2, Funny

    My hope is they turn Dinosaur Comics into a flipbook!

  6. Re:Fast walk? (not run?) on Toyota Reveals A Humanoid Robot That Can Run · · Score: 4, Funny

    It looks to me like their is something below the foot that makes contact before the white part of the foot makes contact. From the high speed camera, it looks like this make contact on the front foot before the back foot leaves the ground. I thought to be running, both feet need to be in the air at once. Otherwise you were walking. Maybe I am just seeing the video wrong? Regardless, it looks very impressive.

    If you watch closely around :53 you can see that both feet are not touching the ground. But really, when you're being pursued by a hyper-ambulatory Asimo, my mind's on survival, not robo-locomotive kinematics!