Tribler makes BitTorrent impossible to shut down (TorrentFreak)

Is it ever okay to hug your doctor? (Medical Xpress)

The deadliest blizzard in history happened in Iran (Mental Floss)

Nintendo is going to employ a spokesdog (TDW: Geeks)

Japan is weird (Business Insider)

6 counterintuitive tricks to beating popular game shows (Cracked)

Eat at Red Lobster for justice (The Jane Dough)

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It is difficult to prove that someone ripped off your game (Ars Technica)

Did Russian scientists actually breach Lake Vostok? (Discover)

$1 million diamond headphones (The Jane Dough)

U.S. cities have wonky names (BuzzFeed)

13 gorgeous bookstores from around the world (Mental Floss)

Have a tour through Japan’s electronics district (Business Insider)

Turn a balloon into a key cover (Lifehacker)

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Over 3 years later, deleted Facebook photos are still online (Ars Technica)

Foxconn employee who assembles iPads is shown one for the first time (Gizmodo)

Reactions to Go Daddy’s Super Bowl commercial (The Jane Dough)

13 recruiters share the weirdest job applications they’ve ever received (Business Insider)

Osama Bin Laden zombie movie (TDW: Geeks)

Is this Iceland’s lake monster? (io9)

How much do you dig dancing naked M&Ms? (SportsGrid)

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Here’s what Otto von Bismarck sounded like (NY Times)

Behind the scenes at the Puppy Bowl (BuzzFeed)

Graphic novel adaptation of Alien from 1979, by an 11-year old (ALIEN – Age 11)

Plants might make Earth unique in the universe (Nature)

Are there more humans alive than have ever lived? (io9)

Facebook makes $4.39 a month per user, but it’s not enough (The Atlantic)

Inside Domino’s secret Super Bowl war room (Giz)

(dog fort is dead, long live fort kickass, via Reddit)

Someone finally punched Kim Dotcom in the face (Ars Technica)

Android phones headed to U.S. government officials and Army (CNN)

32 adorable albino animals (BuzzFeed)

Test Dropbox’s new software and get 5gb of space (Engadget)

Adorable knit Dalek (BoingBoing)

Blizzard sends out 100,000 Diablo III beta invites (PikiGeek)

This is how you land on a comet (Universe Today)

(title pic via World of Wonder)

Why piracy is indispensable for the survival of our culture (Techdirt)

Alzheimer’s is a distorted protein, not a virus (Slashdot)

Germany has a bit of a Zoophilia problem (The Local)

Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickenson rides in a submarine, just ‘cuz (Helensburgh Advertiser)

Do bros only show off to impress the ladies? (The Jane Dough)

Teaspoons qualify as drug paraphernalia these days (Arbroath)

Free Doctor Who and BSG printable board games (Make Use Of)

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The official list of things that forever ruined World of Warcraft (Sean Malstrom)

Collection of computer ads from the 1980s (Vintage Ad Browser)

How “Like” made millions (The Wall Street Journal)

Too much testosterone is unsurprisingly linked to inflated egos (US News)

The sequel to the worst Final Fantasy is slightly not as awful, but still pretty awful (Ars Technica)

Scientists say sugar should be regulated like alcohol and tobacco (TDW: Geeks)

11 charts and graphs about television shows (Mental Floss)

(title pic via EPICponyz)

Kaz Hirai takes over for Howard Stringer as new Sony CEO (Engadget)

Women are more likely to use their cell phone while on the toilet (The Jane Dough)

Check out these new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures (TDW: Geeks)

Leaked iPad 3 info?! (Business Insider)

A brief history of Zork (Mental Floss)

Feudal Star Wars (BuzzFeed)

7 awesome things that Douglas Adams did besides Hitchhiker’s Guide (Topless Robot)

(title pic via reddit)

Can you find Chef Goldblum? (Chef Goldblum)

Here are 20 happy dogs to make you happy (BuzzFeed)

Disgruntled scientists form Creative Commons peer review website (Ars Technica)

Hard times for the abandoned pets of Fukushima (Boing Boing)

NBC positions itself to be a major player with eBooks (Wired)

The next Soyuz launch has been delayed a month (Universe Today)

Dragon head beer mugs (TDW: Geeks)

(title pic via fake dolphin NASA)

Julian Assange will appear on The Simpsons, but recorded the segment under house arrest (Mashable)

Computer glitch could delay flights of over 150 airlines (The Next Web)

This bunny is herding sheep (The Daily What)

Listening to Mozart won’t make you smarter (Gizmodo)

Sexpocalypse (io9)

6 injuries of the modern era (Mental Floss)

Vi Hart ruins SpongeBob (Vi Hart)

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At home, with Hitler (Daily Mail)

Iron Sky, the fan-funded farce about moon Nazis, gets a premiere date (YouTube)

20 pictures of cats in sinks (BuzzFeed)

Caterpillar camouflage (TYWKIWDBI)

Steve Jobs remembered on Apple’s campus (9to5 Mac)

Horrifying, realistic Space Invader (CGHub)

Ever wonder what human eyes taste like? (HuffPo)

(title pic via T-Rex Trying)

A walk down meme-ory lane (BuzzFeed)

Who is responsible when drones kill? (IEEE Spectrum)

Bill Gates on Steve Jobs, and Philanthropy (Telegraph)

Cold War U2 spy plane chosen over drones (LA Times)

Google+ now open to teenagers (/.)

An invisibility cloak for the microwave spectrum (Engadget)

The world needs a documentary about VHS tapes (Kickstarter)

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Jeb, on the future of Minecraft (Gamasutra)

The world’s first computer passwords were pretty useless then, too (Wired)

Mystery moon flashes finally explained (Universe Today)

Gingrich’s space base is probably illegal (BuzzFeed)

Monty Python reforms to do a new, not-Python project (The Mary Sue)

Take an arrow to the heart with Skyrim Valentine’s Day cards (TDW: Geeks)

This is how you play Street Fighter by your lonesome (The Retroist)

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Netflix won’t be getting in on video game rentals anytime soon, it turns out (TDW: Geeks)

Could a balloon fly in outer space? (Scientific American)

Apple is successfully infiltrating the office (Infinite Loop)

Underwater Bahama caves could give clues to life beyond Earth (Science Daily)

Dubstep Cat couldn’t have happened without the Internet (BuzzFeed)

6 hugely successful products invented for something else (Mental Floss)

Apple employees get $500 off Macs, $250 off iPads (9to5Mac)

(title pic via reddit)

What your favorite blog says about you (Slacktory)

No, an American radar station did not sabotage Russia’s Mars mission (Wired)

An interview with William Gibson, the guy who coined the term “cyberspace” (The Verge)

100 weird flash drives (Fun Bindass)

Woman claims energy efficient windows are melting her energy efficient car (CBS Los Angeles)

A Hitman novel is a thing that is happening (Eurogamer)

6 amazing animals that practically lived forever (Mental Floss)

(title pic via Geeks are Sexy)

wat (I don’t even)

Twitter bots create surprising social connections (Technology Review)

Starbucks is starting to sell alcohol (Reuters)

Homemade D&D module from 1981 (Boing Boing)

Make any site look like Geocities (Wonder-Tonic)

Skyrim Daedric sword in real life (TDW: Geeks)

Ubuntu bids farewell to application menus (How-To Geek)

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ESA drops SOPA support (Kotaku)

Porn makers up in arms over condom law (The Daily Beast)

6 weirdest ways wild animals are having to adapt to us (Cracked)

Robot and Frank sounds like a pretty cool movie (io9)

Strongest solar storm since 2005 currently underway (Universe Today)

Tablets and eReaders were super popular gifts this season (Ars)

Deadline for astronaut applications is coming up fast! (NASA)

(title pic via Reddit)

Ever tried putting rocket fuel in your gas tank? (io9)

Sigourney Weaver says Prometheus was her idea (Nerd Bastards)

What does the Megaupload raid tell us about the DOJ? (TechDirt)

Cosmonaut survival training (Universe Today)

Gut bacteria could turn seaweed into biofuel (/.)

Google is being sly with Google+ user numbers (Venture Beat)

E.U. retailers will start taking eWaste for free (Engadget)

(title pic via Nerd Approved)

Amazon fulfillment center comes to India (Reuters)

A refutation of David Pogue’s stance on SOPA (Clay Shirky)

Kim Dotcom’s private war on terror, and other side projects (Fast Company)

Behavioral pricing is downright evil (TNW)

More Google services get the axe (MacWorld)

Corruption trial re-enacted with puppets (BoingBoing)

Miniature gardens made in potholes (BuzzFeed)

(title pic via Neatorama)

A surprisingly plausible, terrifying theory about SOPA (reddit)

Do dolphins speak whale in their sleep? (ScienceMag)

The Pentagon wants you to play video games that will improve their weapons (Kotaku)

Costa Concordia as seen from space (Universe Today)

DoJ shutdown of MegaUpload shows SOPA and PIPA are unnecessary (VentureBeat)

10 actors who hated their own films (Mental Floss)

Meet Kim Dotcom, the guy behind Megaupload (Business Insider)

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The Nokia N9 is made out of the same materials as F-22s (Nokia Connects)

The smallest working dog in the world (Best Week Ever)

Did you see the Resident Evil: Retribution trailer? It’s ridiculous (Den of Geek)

37 vintage travel posters from the Library of Congress (Mental Floss)

Iran confirms death of ’porn site’ web programmer (Guardian)

Hacker News locked registrations yesterday to keep redditors out during the reddit blackout (Hacker News)

Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru (Newsdesk)

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This is what the Internet looked like in 2011 (Pingdom)

Jim Henson’s lost epic, “Tale of Sand” (Mental Floss)

A solar-powered steampunk pocket watch (TDW: Geeks)

The number one thing people are using Kindle Fires for (Business Insider)

25 people who thought SOPA was about soap (BuzzFeed)

6 fictional places you didn’t know actually existed (Cracked)

8 of the world’s most incredible rock formations (All That Is Interesting)

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An in-depth study explains why people use Facebook (Read Write Web)

What it’s really like to work at Google (LockerGnome)

New information emerges about the U.S. drone captured by Iran (DefenceWeb)

Apple becomes 8th most valuable brand in the world (AppleInsider)

The stealth bomber re-imagined as an airliner (Flightglobal)

Mel Brooks is amazing (Topless Robot)

SpaceX upcoming 1st Dragon launch to the ISS is delayed (Universe Today)

(title pic via reddit)

Man surrenders 94 remarkably healthy hamsters (Digital Spy)

No one knows anything about this missile (Defense Tech)

The only GOP candidate who believes in global warming dropped out (Jezebel)

33 amazing pictures of the Costa Concordia disaster (BuzzFeed)

BBC’s top predictions for 2112 A.D. (BBC)

9 really old photos of very serious children posing with toys (Mental Floss)

News of Joss Whedon’s next movie is beginning to slip (TDW: Geeks)

(title pic via Majikland)

Time for an iPad 3 already? (Bloomberg)

Ringing iPhone brings concert to screeching halt (NY Times)

Scientists now know what you ate from your pee (TNW)

U.S. may use mine-detecting dolphins in the Strait of Hormuz (The Atlantic)

NASA’s open source aircraft design software (/.)

J.J. Abram’s Star Trek II begins filming (Nerd Bastards)

Papercraft human organs (BoingBoing)

(title pic via Reddit)

New incurable tuberculosis found in India (/.)

How to name a web browser (thebeebs)

Apple joins Fair Labor Association (PR Newswire)

Sci-Fi Aliens in Vintage Postcards (Retronaut)

Answering emails now qualifies for overtime pay in Brazil (The Star)

Testing NASA’s new spaceship (Universe Today)

The people inside puppets (Flavorwire)

(title pic via Bruno Oliveira)

Obama administration says you have a constitutional right to video police (Ars technica)

Game of Thrones season 2 premieres Sunday, April 1st (TDW: Geeks)

A Twitter feed documenting a 65-year-old mom’s adventures in Skyrim (Twitter)

8 rumors about the iPad 3 (Mashable)

The 15 coolest offices in tech (Business Insider)

6 CES technologies that were ahead of their time (Mental Floss)

7 classic video games that are older than you think (Cracked)

(title pic of a brilliant anti-snooze apparatus via reddit)

The Pirate Bay is immune to SOPA (Techdirt)

Shove your iPad into a guitar (TDW: Geeks)

How to cut the cord on cable (Business Insider)

Perceived scarcity of women causes men to spend more, save less (EurekAlert)

All Cheezburger sites will black out on January 18 along with reddit in protest of SOPA (Ben Huh)

Microsoft now getting license fees for 70% of all Android devices sold in U.S. (Unbiased Tech)

11 insane features of normal human anatomy (Mental Floss)

(title pic via Lunch)

A terrifying list of Congress members who are for or against SOPA (SOPA Opera)

Music made from ice (The Fox Is Black)

Google Maps is getting gamified (The Next Web)

Compilation of Great Danes being scared by funny things (Laughing Squid)

11 geeky license plates (Mental Floss)

6 reasons modern gaming doesn’t suck (Cracked)

Money is not a motivator for Tim Cook (Business Insider)

(title pic of a birthday monkey on a diet via MonkeyBrandz)

The raid on AOL: How Vox pillaged Engadget and founded an empire (Business Insider)

300 Foxconn employees threaten suicide in labor dispute (Eurogamer)

30% of U.S. warplanes are drones (Wired)

Chris Onstad, the creator of Achewood, on his return to webcomimcs (Comics Alliance)

This guy is dumb (Obvious Winner)

6 small math errors that caused huge disasters (Cracked)

Optical illusion illusions (Optillusions)

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