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A neat way to visualize stock market performance by industry sector. Similar to the disk space treemaps generated by http://www.derlien.com/ and http://windirstat.info/.

Makes it easy to use symbols in your twitter posts.

"Objectives: To determine whether parachutes are effective in preventing major trauma related to gravitational challenge." This is a peer-reviewed paper?? Tell me it ain't so.

Very sophisticated and professional-looking UI widgets and components

Yet another hilarious image-captioning blog by the makers of ICanHasCheezburger.com

The real reason to worry about something going wrong.

GoodGuide lists out all of the reasons this product is rated poorly: Toxic/unsafe ingredients, company environmental performance, company human rights and treatment of employees. And all the data sources are cited. Very informative!

"GoodGuide provides free & easy access to the world's largest & most reliable source of information on the health, environmental & social impacts of products & companies. Today, GoodGuide offers ratings on over 60,000 products commonly found in your home."

Be informed via Twitter whenever new planets are discovered outside out solar system.

Hilarious collection of grammar and spelling gaffes.

Could very well be the first direct image of a planet outside our solar system. Still undergoing confirmation.

McCain finally posted his responses for Science Debate 2008 (Obama responded about two weeks ago).

A nice-looking open source AJAX framework for Java. The widgets in the demo impressed me.

An MIT project to build autonomous undersea vehicles by duplicating the complex dynamics of a biological tuna. They used a genetic algorithm to search for optimal parameters for their simulations. Is the robotic tuna swarm dolphin-safe?

Dennis Kaufman claims his stepfather was the infamous Zodiac Killer. His evidence includes a set of handwriting samples, composite sketch similarities, the hood used in one of the killings, rolls of film depicting murder victims, and more. Is it a hoax?

"Generates live desktop images of the earth as well as other planets in the solar system with additional informations such as the current clouds, storms, satellites, volcanos, earthquakes and times and locations of cities."

Actual "in case of black hole, break glass" button at the Large Hadron Collider.

Best free Java memory/cpu profiler I've ever used

Head like a hole, black as your HIT CTRL-ALT-DEL TO CONTINUE

Given a valid credit card number, all the thief has to do is shave plastic numbers from gift cards or expired credit cards and then glue them to a bogus card. They gouge the magnetic strip, forcing the store clerks to manually enter the account number.

Aww, so cute. You'll want to adopt him.

Excellent summary of heinous nuggets buried in the End User License Agreements for some popular web-based services.

Um… Somebody call the fact checker.

Nice collection of color themes. The highest-rated themes have good combinations of colors well-suited for web / UI design.

Entertaining and informative explanation of the "airplane on the treadmill" problem

A unique new data entry technique for touch-sensitive mobile devices.

"Did I get enough exercise today? How many calories did I burn? Am I getting good quality sleep? How many steps & miles did I walk today? The Fitbit Tracker helps you answer these questions." Syncs all this information with your account on their web site.

Cool app that augments whatever the iPhone camera is looking at with tags describing your surroundings.

A puzzle game where you have to use time travel to advance through puzzles of increasing difficulty. I can see this become a heinous mind-bender.

Advanced technology that can detect if the LHC has wiped us out.

Incredible photos from both parties' extravaganzas. The freak show is in full swing now!!

Best. Watch. Ever.

Javascript widget that lets you manually animate individual MRI frames

The math behind those fancy-schmancy line patterns often found on banknotes.

"StockMood.com uses advanced artificial intelligence to analyze news stories, classify their sentiment, and then measure their potential impact on a stock's price direction." Site is in private beta.

"Google announced today that it is expanding the historical newspaper articles that are searchable online. In partnership with newspaper publishers, it is scanning their print archives and making it available on Google's News Archive Search."

Very cool video of a 102-year-old demonstrating the futility of English spelling.