Idle Stories for 2012

Christmas Tree Rocketry 29
Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas 370
Tales From the Slashdot Help Desk: Reverse-Engineering Rob Malda (Video) 28
Your Hands Were Made For Punching According To New Study 240
Boeing Uses 20,000 Lbs. of Potatoes To Check Aircraft Wireless Network Signals 104
NASA On Full Court Press To Deflate Doomsday Prophecies 286
Scientists Make Fish Grow "Hands" In Experiment Revealing How Fins Became Limbs 110
White House Must Answer Petition To 'Build Death Star' 384
Australian Prime Minister's Spoof "Apocalypse" Speech Goes Viral In China 225
"Jedi" Religion Most Popular Alternative Faith In England 262
Brain Cells Made From Urine 116
Hagfish Slime Could Make Super-Strong Clothes 82
As Fish Stocks Collapse, Overpopulated Lobsters Resort to Cannibalism 231
Scientists Develop Chocolate That Won't Melt At High Temperatures 161
Boring Conference Still Vows: We Will Not Rock You 42
North Korea Claims Archaeologists Have Found 'Unicorn Lair' In Pyongyang 182
Nobel Prize Winner Got Free House and Free (as In Beer) Beer 118
Critic Cites Revenge of the Sith As "Generation's Greatest Work of Art" 376
Anthropologist Spends Three Years Living With Hackers 252
This Is What Happens When You Deep Fry a Frozen Turkey 164
Is Oprah Cheating On Her Microsoft Love? 215
Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time 733
GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 315
German Police Stop Man With Mobile Office In Car 146
Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes 409
Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies 674
Google's Server Cooling Plan Produces 4ft Alligator 79
The Island of Lost Apple Products 105
Romney Campaign Accidentally Launches Transition Web Site 185
New Dinosaur Named After the Eye of Sauron 69
80,000lbs of Walnuts Purloined In Northern California 127
A Fun Slashdot 15th Anniversary Get-Together in St. Petersburg, FL (Video) 47
Researchers Crown Buddhist Monk the World's Happiest Man 348
In Time For Halloween: 9 New Tarantula Species Discovered 26
How Do You Eat a Triceratops? Start By Ripping the Head Off 113
"Dance Your Ph.D." Winner Announced 31
Cancer-Detecting Bra Could One Day Surpass Mammograms In Accuracy 110
Felix Baumgartner's Supersonic Skydive Attempt 271
Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers 386
New Zealand Turning Hobbits Into Actual Cash 89
Canadian Spying Case Proves Floppy Drive Isn't Dead Yet 148
PETA Condemns Pokemon For Promoting Animal Abuse 418
Learning HTML Through a Board Game 34
Ad Agency's Bizarre Steve Jobs Tribute Flash Mob Hits Seattle 75
French Bees Produce Blue and Green Honey 64
Your Facebook Likes Conveyed As Simulated Hugs 40
Stolen Maple Syrup Found and Returned To Strategic Reserve 255
World of Warcraft Character Becomes Campaign Issue 381
Glenn Beck Reports CIA Plot Between Embassy Killing and Something Awful 413
New York Plans World's Largest Ferris Wheel 170
US Agricultural Economists Say Bacon Shortage Is Hogwash 137
Iran's News Agency Picks Up Onion Story 118
DNC Salute to Vets Featured Backdrop Of Russian Warships 218
Linux Forcibly Installed On Congressman's Computer In Act of Terrorism 343
Global Bacon Shortage 'Unavoidable' 293
Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World 633
Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed 432
Ig Nobels Feature Exploding Colonoscopies, Left Leaning Views of Eiffel Tower 91
US Military Tested the Effects of a Nuclear Holocaust On Beer 215
Nestle's GPS Tracking Candy Campaign 172
Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art 371
Man Pays For Cross-Country Trip Using Bacon As Currency 176
Cameras To Watch Cameras In Maryland 297
Injured Bald Eagle Gets New 3-D Printed Beak 103
One Company's Week-Long Interview Process 362
Following FEMA's Zombie Preparedness Plan Could Land You On Terrorist List 527
QR Codes For Memorials 127
Ale To the Chief: White House Releases Beer Recipe 340
Drinking Too Much? Blame Your Glass 115
Steve Jobs Reincarnated As a Warrior-Philosopher, Thai Group Says 223
Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From Strategic Reserve 399
What The Apollo 11 Crew Did For Life Insurance 168
Message In Bottle Found After 98 Years Near Shetland 107
Meet Interesting People at a Mini Maker Faire (Video) 18
Survey Reveals a Majority Believe "the Cloud" Is Affected by Weather 261
Man With World's Deepest Voice Can Hit Infrasonic Notes 173
Sea Chair Project Harvests Plastic From the Oceans To Create Furniture 96
Phony Laser Security System Proves Perception Is Reality 243
The Worst Job At Google: a Year of Watching Terrible Things On the Internet 535
Finland Hosts Mobile Phone Throwing Championships 70
eBay Bans the Sale of Spells and Magic Items 295
Chinese Man Builds His Own Prosthetic Hands 144
Obama Finally Beats Bieber Fever According To Klout 67
Bill Gates Wants To Reinvent the Toilet 338
How Google+ Punk'd The Oatmeal 218
Korean Artist's Intentionally Useless Satellite To Launch This December 151
Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle 666
Store Offers Kinect Body Scanner To Help You Find Jeans That Fit 59
NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown 597
Iran Nuclear Agency Not "Thunderstruck" By Virus 91
Critics Blast Apple's Cheesy New Ad Campaign 244
Legend of Zelda NES Nintendo Prototype On Sale For $150K 114
Slashdot's Rob Rozeboom Interviews D&D Designer Mike Mearls - Part 2 (video) 43
Cray XK6 Supercomputer Used To Simulate Ice Cream 55
"Exploding" Termite Species Discovered 158
New Reality Series: Be the Next Microsoft Employee 168
Jack Daniels Shows How To Write a Cease and Desist Letter 402
Medieval "Lingerie" From 15th Century Castle Could Rewrite Fashion History 177
Man Who Protested TSA By Stripping Is Acquitted By Judge 246
Even Silicon Valley's Prison Inmates Have Their Own Startup Incubator 88
Bad Weather Brings Down Lawn Chair Balloonists 62
Star Wars Fans Fix Up Luke Skywalker's Home 90
Man Tries To Live an Open Source Life For a Year 332
Bloodsucking Parasite Named After Bob Marley 64
Holy iPad Slayer! Company Releases World's First Christian Tablet 326
Why Were So Many "Crazy" Higgs Boson Stories Published? 291
Cloned Horses Ok To Compete In Olympics 87
$1.2 Million Ultimate Games Collection 149
University Sues Student For Graduating Early 232
San Diego's Fireworks Show Over In 15 Seconds 241
Cubify 3D Printers Aren't Just for Squares (Video) 134
Army Creates a Directed Lightning Bolt Weapon 214
Majority of Americans Think Obama Is Better Suited To Handle an Alien Invasion 305
Game of Thrones: Bush's Head Gets a Makeover 266
Fundamentalist Schools Using "Nessie" To Disprove Evolution 936
Gamera II Team Smashes Previous Best Human-Powered Helicopter Flight Time 118
China Pirates Austrian Village 150
Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island 398
University Students Become Superheroes To Teach STEM Education 55
National "Do Not Kill Registry" Launched In Response To Drone Kill List 484
Gamer Keeps Civilization II Game Going for 10 Years 219
Company Creates a Self-Making Bed 159
Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft 322
A Day In the Life of a "Booth Babe" 687
China Secretly Clones Austrian Village 329
Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir 360
The Real-Life Doogie Howser 303
Fox News Ties 'Flame' Malware To Angry Birds 188
Mathematicians Show Why Bubbles Sink in Nitrogen-Infused Stouts 55
Grilling For Geeks 169
Chemists Make Olympic Rings On a Molecular Scale 89
19-Year-Old Squatted At AOL For 2 Months 141
MIT Creates Superhydrophobic Condiment Bottles 292
Allowing the Mind To Wander Aids Creative Problem Solving 185
Kevin Bacon Meets Wikipedia With New Pathfinding Program 50
Student Makes Real-Life Portal Turret 91
Subdermal Magnets Allow You To Wear an IPod Like a Watch 228
Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise In 20 Years 589
U. Chicago's Epic Scavenger Hunt Is Back For 2012 56
Stone-Throwing Chimp Back In the News With Better Plan 235
UK Home Secretary Bans US Martial Arts Expert 440
US Metaphor-Recognizing Software System Starts Humming 105
Jars of Irradiated Russian Animals Find a New Purpose 86
Methane Producing Dinosaurs May Have Changed Climate 264
South Korea Plans Hashtag-Inspired Skyscraper 117
How Romanian Fortune Tellers Used Google To Fleece Victims 140
Automated Dorm Room Causes a School Inquiry 170
Finally, a Shark With a Laser Attached To Its Head 139
KegDroid: Combining Arduino, Android, and NFC to Dispense Beer 48
The Greatest Machine Never Built 132
Apple Planning To Build Private Restaurant 234
Microsoft's Hotmail Challenge Backfires 453
Travelling Salesman, Thriller Set In a World Where P=NP 165
Company Accidentally Fires Entire Staff Via Email 333
Electronic Glitch Artwork Made by 'Weirdos Within the Weirdos' (Video) 58
GSA Emails Recount Inside Story of Exploding Toilets 119
Man Builds 737 Simulator In a Garage 102
Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick 296
Man Protests TSA With Nudity 434
MacBook Pro Fragrance Created 114
National Planetary Exploration Car Wash and Bake Sale 103
Japanese Researchers Create A Crab-Based Computer 102
Police Forensics Team Salvage Blind Authors' Inkless Novel Pages 100
Data Center Staff Will Sleep Among the Racks For London Olympics 210
Coming to an Ice Cream Shop Near You: Soft Serve Beer 157
IT Calls of Shame 256
Robotic Squirrels Battle It Out With Rattlesnakes 125
Plantronics Helps Make Remote Workers' Lives Easier (Video) 233
UK Surgeons Are the First To Operate In 3D 64
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RoboBonobo: A Project To Outfit Apes With Tablets and Telepresence Bots 68
Poo-Powered Rickshaw Unveiled At the Denver Zoo 52
HDTV Expert Alfred Poor Tells You What to Buy and What Not to Buy (Video) 324
Giant Paper Airplane Takes (Brief) Flight Over Arizona 54
Kazakh Gold Medalist Is Played Borat Anthem 155
Battling Fish Fraud With DNA Testing 63
Steve Jackson Games Shows Off Their Latest Tabletop Games at SXSW (Video) 95
The Sounds of Tech Past 231
Garden Gnome Tests Earth's Gravity 144
Nokia Applies For Vibrating Tattoo Patent 97
Austin Case Modders Take Their Exotic PCs and a Giant LAN Party to SXSW (Video) 40
The Pirate Bay Plans Servers In the Sky 329
PR Expert Andy Marken Has Some Advice for Startups and FOSS Projects (Video) 43
Google Cools Data Center With Bathroom Water 230
Sexually Rejected Flies Turn To Booze 95
Gamestar Mechanic Teaches Kids to Write Their Own Computer Games (Video) 55
Campaign Urges People To Send MPAA and RIAA Copied Currency 413
10 Ways To Celebrate Pi Day 196
Looking For iPad, Police Find 750 Pounds of Meth 195
It's New. It's a League. It's for Gamers. It's the League for Gamers! (Video) 62
'The Hobbit' Pub Threatened With Lawsuit 388
Camera Gun Would Let Hunters Get Killer Wildlife Shots 263
Lego Mindstorms Used To Make Artificial Bones 42
Chinese Spies Used Fake Facebook Profile To Friend NATO Officials 117
Marketing Agency Uses Homeless As Wi-Fi Hotspots 267
Meteorite Crashes Through Cottage In Oslo 122
Amateur Rocketeer Derek Deville's Qu8k Rocket Flies to 120,000+ Feet (Video) 165
Server Names For a New Generation 429
George Takei Helps Facebook Troubleshoot MySQL 86
Kinect Grocery Cart Follows Shoppers Around the Store 155
Speech-Jamming Gun Silences From 30 Meters 370
Stealthy Pen Test Unit Plugs Directly Into 110 VAC Socket (Video) 74
Iran's Cardboard Khomeini: Now Available As Malware 51
Play Angry Birds With a USB Slingshot 36
Slashdot Visits the Seattle Pinball Museum (Video) 82
Slovaks Vote To Name Bridge "Chuck Norris" 2
Police Find Apple Branded Stoves In China 212
What Beer Can Teach Us About Emerging Technologies 131
YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music 730
Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review 284
Remote-Controlled Planes Used For Wildlife Conservation 48
Gates Foundation Makes Progress On Reinvented Toilets 167
Man Ordered To Apologize To Wife On Facebook 400
Slashdot Visits Metrix Create:Space in Seattle (Video) 27
Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group 1127
Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon 276
Tetris In 140 Bytes 215
Man Digs Out Basement Using Radio Controlled Toy Tractors 169
Optimizing Your Caffeine Intake With an App 134
School Sends Child's Lunch Home After Determining it Unhealthy 554
Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death 507
Mozart and Bach Handel Subway Station Crime 353
Hungary's Needy Given Money to Burn 95
Why the Number of O's In LOL Matter On YouTube 186
Hacked Syrian Officials Used '12345' As Email Password 231
How Much Stuff Can Timothy Jam Into His New Hoodie's Pockets? (Video) 183
Sponsor a Valve On Colossus 30
Jedi Master's Hand-Made Lightsaber Stolen 174
If You're Fat, Broke, and Smoking, Blame Language 297
DARPA Investing In Electric Brain Stimulation To Train Snipers Quickly 124
Seattle Library Lets Man Watch Porn On Computers Despite Complaints 584
Chinese Boy Claims To Have Cat-Like Night Vision 171
Aussies Could Use Elephants To Fight Invasive Species 274
The Science of Human-Robot Love 88
Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song 452
Inside the Museum of Nonsense 83
Sinclair ZX81 Made Out of Lego 97
Monty Python Crew To Reunite For Movie 136
Pentagon Drafts Kids To Build Drones and Robots 173
Team Creates Footwear Recognition System 50
Pac-Man Is NP-Hard 195
High School Students Send Lego Man 24 Kilometers High 115
The Web's Worst Privacy Policy 107
Android Kinect Projector Interface 45
MIT Media Lab Rolls Out Folding Car 222
Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship 285
Tales of IT Idiocy 181
Russian Scientist Claims Signs of Life Spotted On Venus 272
Police Investigate Offensive Wi-Fi Network Name 890
Walmart Holds Invention Contest 91

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