26

Feb

2007

1.

(comic) Calvin & Hobbes: "I Don't Believe in Ethics Anymore...The Ends Justify the Means" (boundbygravity.com)

470 points posted by sid13

2.

"You're jiggling your leg up and down. It's making my desk resonate." (xkcd.com)

460 points posted by raldi

3.

11 dead in kite flying festival (breakingnews.ie)

356 points posted by cavedave

4.

Dexter Walks (first dynamically balancing biped robot) (paulgraham.com)

313 points posted by Nutshapio

5.

Gore Responds To Drudgeâ€™s Latest "20x Power Consumption" Hysterics (thinkprogress.org)

273 points posted by bonobo

6.

A Herd of Sea Cucumbers (pic) (livescience.com)

231 points posted by nucacids

7.

Skill that should be taught to pharmacists in college: the Straight Face (theangrypharmacist.com)

231 points posted by Aerik

8.

The Giant Ocean Sunfish (with pictures and videos) (fogonazos.blogspot.com)

229 points posted by xenmate

9.

MS Tech support recommends installing Vista crack! (overclockers.com)

224 points posted by dsearson

10.

Just How Many Drinks A Day Is Bad? (thelastpsychiatrist.com)

209 points posted by linuxer

11.

Ever wanted to see things from a Balloon?...at 85000 feet? [pics] (balloons.space.edu)

193 points posted by somenickname

12.

Famous comments by Vice President Cheney have been removed from the archives (teambio.org)

180 points posted by sob062571

13.

"The kids in Iran are pissed off at the way the old Mullahs won't let 'em rock and roll, but the idea that they'll support an American invasion because they're bored is totally insane. It's like imagining that the kids in Footloose would've backed a Soviet invasion of Nebraska because John Lithgow wouldn't let them hold school dances." (exile.ru)

177 points posted by mjk1093

14.

Smart Car (70 mph) vs. Concrete Wall (0 mph) [video] (veoh.com)

176 points posted by hitsman

15.

"I Want To Be Free": 9-Year-Old Canadian Citizen Pleads From Texas Immigration Jail (democracynow.org)

173 points posted by spif

16.

If you find yourself tied up and doused in petrol don't worry if all your assailant has is a lighted cigarette: scientists have proved you won't end up as a human fireball. (guardian.co.uk)

166 points posted by trivial

17.

"Documents captured after 9/11 showed that bin Laden hoped to provoke the United States into an invasion and occupation that would entail all the complications that have arisen in Iraq. His only error was to think that the place where Americans would get stuck would be Afghanistan." (talkingpointsmemo.com)

165 points posted by bonkydog

18.

Why Have So Many U.S. Attorneys Been Fired? It Looks a Lot Like Politics (nytimes.com)

163 points posted by smacfarl

19.

Brother and sister fight for right to continue their incestuous affair (news.independent.co.uk)

158 points posted by ninzee

20.

Those pesky scientists and their "spherical earth" theories (comic) (salon.com)

147 points posted by abudabu

21.

Why Linus Torvalds prefers KDE over GNOME. (desktoplinux.com)

136 points posted by cnbetts

22.

Police no longer need a search warrant if they think your house is a meth lab (law.blogs.enotes.com)

131 points posted by Flemlord

23.

Dear Vice President Cheney: Go home, and shut up. (theatlantic.com)

126 points posted by bonkydog

24.

Al-Jazeera Cameraman Still at Guantanamo (guardian.co.uk)

123 points posted by ousama

25.

I wasn't sure it would ever happen: a computer can play Go (stat.columbia.edu)

119 points posted by linuxer