Idle Stories for 2011

Orangutans To Skype Between Zoos With iPads 149
Transistor Made From Cotton Yarn 92
Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie 289
World's Worst PR Guy Gives His Side 576
Apocalypse Tourism: Where To Celebrate Doomsday? 233
Progressive Era Hacker Griefed Marconi Demonstration 147
Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI 369
New Car Anti-Theft Device Profiles Your Rear End 126
Satellite Piece Crashes Through Man's Roof 121
The Science of Santa 223
Face-Scanning Vending Machine Denies Children Access To Pudding 215
Democratic Super PAC Buys Newtgingrich.com 630
Bon Jovi Says He's Not Dead 7
Kim Jong-Il Was an "Internet Expert" 238
Man Changes Name to "Mark Zuckerberg" After Facebook Sues Him 113
Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights 321
The Most Dangerous Toys of 2011 292
Google Engineer Builds Ultimate LAN Party House 175
Japanese Use Wild Monkeys To Track Radiation 85
Picture Blocking Beer Cooler Keeps Your Face Out of Embarrassing Photos 200
North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights 441
Virginia May Help People Pay For Space Burials 145
Geodesic Gingerbread House Template For the Holidays 61
Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law 516
The Unique Candidates of the New Hampshire Primary 116
Original Star Wars Camera Sells For $625,000 65
MythBusters Bust House 631
Russian Scientists Say They'll Clone a Mammoth Within 5 Years 302
World's Fastest Cells Raced On Petri Dish 61
Using Toads to Predict Earthquakes 78
Linux Advent Calendar: "24 Outstanding ZSH Gems" 46
Angry Snake Charmer Lets Snakes Loose In Gov't Office 0
Fate Saves Workprint of Manos: The Hands of Fate 94
Inside the World's Largest LAN Party 199
Jetman Yves Rossy Flies In Formation With Jets 93
Restaurants Plan DNA-Certified Seafood Program 174
The Science of Humor 344
Lego Bible Too Racy For Sam's Club 484
4.74 Degrees of Separation on Facebook 216
The Physics of Wine Swirling 98
Baker Has to Make 102,000 Cupcakes For Grouponers 611
Recycled Medical Records Used As Scrap Paper At Elementary School 119
In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration 815
Designers Build 35-Foot Robot Snake 38
Toronto School Bans Hard Balls 319
Study Finds Frequent Gaming Changes Your Brain 171
Mongolia Wants To Use Artificial Glaciers To Cool Capital 97
Mario's Raccoon Suit Enrages PETA 491
2011 Geek IQ Test 161
Heavy Duty Electric Unicycle Maker Takes On Segway 93
Biofuel Thieves Steal Restaurant Grease 165
Ballistic Clipboard Holds Papers, Stops Bullets 161
Gadget Allows You to Keep Bees In Your Apartment 252
Airline to Offer In-Flight Adult Movies 200
Help Rename the Department of Homeland Security 382
Computer-Controlled Cyborg Yeast 61
Guy Fawkes Day Fireworks Mishap Shortens Show From 30 Minutes to 1 2
Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard 260
Meet the Saber-Toothed Squirrel 59
Apple Threatens Bistro Over "AppleADay" Name 301
The Physics of Jump Rope 29
Angry Birds Downloads Pass Half-Billion Mark 94
Dutch Psychologist Faked Data In At Least 30 Scientific Papers 254
Hobby Inspired Electric Multicopter Makes Manned Flight 104
Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" 151
Ohio Emergency Responders Stage Mock Zombie Invasion 219
The RMS Tour Rider 373
World's Biggest Gold Coin Minted In Australia 171
New Coral Named After Call of Duty: Black Ops 27
Avira Anti-Virus Detects Itself 142
Man Has Nokia Phone Embedded In False Limb 171
New York State Releases Sex Offender Facebook App 252
MC Hammer Launches a Search Engine 124
Fat Replaces Oil In F-16s 206
Actress Sues IMDb For Revealing Her Age 465
Lego NXT Bot Beats Rubik's Cube Record 50
"World's Most Relaxing Music" Composed 239
Brothers Charged With Stealing Bridge 9
All-Electric DeLorean Car To Hit the Streets In 2013 366
Can the Hottest Peppers In the World Kill You? 337
Look Ma, I'm Getting Arrested! 238
Rat Attack Causes Broadband Outage In Scotland 85
Woz Is First In Line For iPhone 4S 287
Company Offers Creepily-Realistic Masks of Clients 82
Company Unveils Personalized Anime Robot Girl 240
Company to Send DBA into Space 98
Real Life Super Hero Arrested 590
A Few Million Monkeys Finish Recreating Shakespeare's Works 186
Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case 462
Phelps Clan Tweets Intent To Picket Jobs Funeral Via iPhone 699
Autism Traits Prove Valuable for Software Testing 180
US Scientists Invited To Russian Yeti Hunt 195
Airline Offering Plane Crash Survival Course to Frequent Flyers 155
Judge Rules Boss's "Firing Contest" Created a Hostile Work Environment 314
Exploding Toilet Injures Two Government Workers 4
Theater Professor's Firefly Poster Declared Threatening 566
2011 Ig Nobel Prizes 61
Why Chilies Are Hot and Yogurt Puts Out the Fire 184
Tokyo Subway Gets Lightsaber Handrails 61
Drunken Parrot Season Starts in Australia 97
Doritos Creator Art West Dead at 97 178
Coffee-Powered Car Breaks World Record 174
Irish Man's Death Ruled Spontaneous Combustion 224
A Few Million Virtual Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare 312
The Mythical Tunnel Between CERN and Central Italy 303
Swedish Daycare Tracks Kids With GPS Devices 125
Work Underway To Finally Build Babbage's Analytical Engine 86
World's Oldest Running Car Up For Sale 107
Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer To "Milking" Pigeons 190
Electric Tron Lightcycle Hits the Streets 113
Designer Creates "Euthanasia Roller Coaster" 409
Deep-Sea Squid Mate and Run 62
Spectrophotometer Analysis of Crayons 40
A Fifth of Telecommuters Work Less Than An Hour Per Day 323
PETA To Launch Pornography Website 348
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day 3
William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars 511
Gamers Piece Together Retrovirus Enzyme Structure 149
Famous Wildlife Photographer Busted For Using Stock Images 182
Wild Parrots Learning To Talk From Escaped Pet Birds 225
Bejeweled Yields Cognitive Benefit In Older Adults 82
Medical Billing Codes For Injury Via Turtle Among Thousands Created by New Law 380
Happy Programmer Day! 97
"Wi-Fi Refugees" Shelter in West Virginia Mountains 627
The Linux 3.1 Kernel May Have A New Logo 17
Glowing Cats a New Tool in AIDS Research 107
HD Transfer of Star Trek: TNG To Arrive This Year 267
Study Suggests Magnets Can Force You to Tell the Truth 320
Booktrack Adds Music and Sound Effects To Ebooks 119
Nike to Unveil Self Lacing Shoes? 281
$5M In Torrented Files Presented As Art 243
Find My IPhone Used To Locate Plane Crash In Chile 95
Tech Company To Build Science Ghost Town In New Mexico 198
Kinect Based Whole Building Breakout 46
BMW Working On Laser Headlamps 330
Hilarious 1930s Predictions of Wearable Technology 1
Lucasfilm Unveils "Sandcrawler" Singapore Office 159
Man Becomes Artist When He Sleeps 130
Domino's Plans Pizza On the Moon 214
German Prostitutes Must Feed Meter To Walk Street 4
Swiss Researchers Try to Make it Rain With Lasers 139
Chemical Cocktail Turns Mice Clear 145
Panda Poo Yields Key To Cheaper Biofuels 113
Cornell's Creative Machines Lab Lets Chatbots Interact 106
Environmental Enforcement Agents Targeting Guitars 379
Delivering Medicine By UAV 87
The Tech Sector's Best Beards 6
Ugandan Seeks To Build Backyard Space Shuttle 136
Galactic Empire Defeated and Now Washing Cars 1
The Least Amount of Exercise Needed To Extend Life 249
Could Assortative Mating Explain Autism? 286
Sports Bars Changing Channels For Video Gamers 351
P2P Alarm Clock Service 107
Origins of Lager Found In Argentina 77
Taken Over By Aliens? Google Has It Covered 99
Google's Amazon River Street View Project 45
GE's World War II Era "Copper Man" Gets His Due 61
Canadian Library to Loan Out People 98
What If Aliens Came To Save the Galaxy From Mankind? 534
"Woot" Becomes an Official Word 146
Former Popemobile Going Up For Auction 68
Company Wants You to Visit Near-Space In Their "Bloon" 135
New Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Beats the Stock Market 209
Accused Teen Bomber Finds FBI Surveillance Team's Wireless Network 267
Hackers Get Their Own Scoreboard and Rankings 106
1 in 8 Take Fake Phone Calls to Avoid Talking to Others 160
Yahoo, Facebook Test "Six Degrees of Separation" 228
Essex Police Arrest Man Over Blackberry Water Fight Plan 158
Star Wars Coins Issued By Pacific Island Nation 129
Jeff Bezos Wants To Put an Airbag In Your iPhone 102
Artificial Skin Made From Spider Silk 49
Researchers Make Graphene From Girl Scout Cookies 129
Can Analytics Help Fix Your Love Life? 73
Right-Wing German Extremists Tricked By Trojan Shirts 457
The Biggest Dangers to Your Fiber 122
Orange Goo Invades Alaskan Village 153
$1.5 Billion Star Trek Theme Park Coming To Jordan 233
US Army Unveils Its Official Cologne 2
British Teen Crowned Excel World Champion 8
Drought-Stricken Texas Town Taps Urine For Water 300
The History of Invisible Ink 41
NASA Sends Lego Figures to Jupiter 164
Giant African Rat Kills With Poisonous Mohawk 97
Mysterious Object Found In Seabed 336
Website Allows You to Rate Your Priest 5
Fire Breathing Robotic Pony 4
3,500 Person Flash Mob Synchronized By MP3 File 1
Archaeologist May Have Found the First Protractor 78
Computer Marries Texas Couple 142
Study Compares IQ With Browser Choice 380
Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day 220
McCain Decries "Hobbits," Accused of Ringbearing 722
South Korean Scientists Create Glowing Dog 139
Better Copyright Through Fair Use and Ponies 169
OK Go Goes HTML5 171
Chinese Couple Sells Kids To Fund Online Gaming 223
Crowdsourcing Ancient Egyptian Scrolls 94
Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas 283
Predictions of the Future...From the 1960s 278
Sheikh Carves His Name In Desert So It's Visible From Space 336
Fake Apple Stores Mushrooming In China 241
Tae Bo Workout Sent Skyscraper Shaking 107
Dumpster Drive: File-Sharing For Your Digital Trash 79
Wall-E Robot Made With LEGO Mindstorms 29
iPhone 4 Survives Fall From Skydiver's Pocket 233
Swedish Police Have a Sperm-Sniffing Dog 1
Stanford Students Build "JediBot" 157
Scientists Derive Gelatin From Human Tissue 123
Man Builds Turbine Powered Batmobile 77
34% of iPhone Owners Think the 4 Is 4G 306
Mexico's Recycled Concrete Tube Hotel 5
Pastafarian Wins Right To Wear Colander In License Photo 689
Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet 471
How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix? 422
Snail Discovered That Can Survive Digestion By Birds 82
Man With 10 Million Air Miles Gets Plane Named After Him 249
Turn Your iPad Into a Star Trek PADD 165
Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock 390
When Software Offends 467
Idle: File-Sharing Is Not a Religion, Says Swedish Government 250
Fitness Site Accidentally Shows Sexual Activity 297
NASA's New Bag Turns Urine Into Sports Drink 182
Using Old Linksys Routers to Control BBQ Smokers 118
Lawyer Attempts To Trademark Bitcoin 209
Geocaching Shuts Down British Town 282
Germany Considers Banning Wild Facebook Parties 100
7 Days In Email Hell 213
Scientists Put an End To Smelly Socks 238
3D Chocolate Printer 91
Eyeglasses Made of Human Hair 97
Anti-PowerPoint Party Formed In Switzerland 113
Treasure Worth $20 Billion Found In Indian Temple 3
Bug With "Singing Penis" Is World's Loudest 117
Chinese Officials Need a Better Photoshopper 105
Police Vulture Training Not a Success 65
The Science of Human-Robot Love 137
Org Charts of All the Major Tech Companies 12
Lawsuit Claims LegalZoom Is Practicing Law Without a License 246
Irish Judge Orders 13-Year-Old To Surrender Xbox 445
Monty Python Members Reunite For Chapman Film 55
Using Facial Recognition To Find the Best Bar 136
Pope Joins Twitter 3
Plan To Test Shakespeare Remains For Marijuana 1
30 Creative 404 Error Pages 166
San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales 733
Happy Tau Day 298
Finally, an Ad Campaign Aimed At Monkeys 59
TSA Has 95-Year-Old Remove Her Diaper For Screening 582
Wikipedia Adds "WikiLove" For Newbie Editors 225
"Do Not Eat iPod Shuffle": 30 Dumb Warning Labels 143

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