Scientists, whose life is basically spent telling people what they already knew, have confirmed: Whining is the most annoying sound, ever.

Scientists have definitively proved that overhearing a cellphone conversation is more distracting than overhearing a normal conversation. It's because you only hear a "half-a-logue," which is less predictable and therefore requires more mental power to parse and ignore.

When you go to work out should you be all focused and intense and hardcore, or should you just be flipping through some magazine on the elliptical, while sexting? Well, look at it this way: Do you want to die?

We've survived through another wonderful, crazy Saturday. Seriously: crazy kids, crazy rock stars, crazy politicians, and just straight-up crazies. Glad we made it out okay. Here's your SNL open thread.

This from-the-archives Hugh MacLeod comic pulled 1,181 diggs this morning. Timeless, Hugh, timeless.

Good luck getting your computer fixed today. Is there some strange flu that only infects sysadmins sweeping the nation? No — but Blizzard Entertainment did dump Wrath of the Lich King, an update to its online World of Warcraft videogame franchise, on the Internet at midnight last night. What this means: A lot of…

Stock market be damned, it's Fleet Week. While Owen grumbles about the racket overhead that drowns out his phone calls, I'm up on the roof screaming Yeeeeeeeeeah baby YES WE CAN!! The Angels are doing practice runs for this weekend's performances, Saturday and Sunday from 3-4 pm. I feel kind of sorry for the guy…

Stupid yet clever enough for Monday-afternoon viewing is this Nintendo Wii ad on YouTube that shakes apart the whole page during gameplay. Drill into it and you'll find it's not a standard YouTube video page, but an oversized Flash animation. Well done! But if the Wall Street Journal's Ahead of the Tape page does this…

Internet video darling Veronica Belmont's

On Wednesday, the world saw a spine-tingling photo of an Iranian multiple-missile launch. On Thursday, we learned the image had been altered, apparently by Iran's Sepah News agency, to add another missile and make it scarier. Today, Wired rounds up the free world's response.

Transcribe quickly, for FUN. This reminds me of that Japanese videogame where you drive a cab. Still, it's addictive. [TypeRacer via Cabel]

"Twenty-three years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. Six years ago, the world ended. This is the story of what happened next." FreakAngels is a new graphic novel published online in weekly installments by Warren Ellis. The zany, dog-hating author is best known for …

I miss John Brownlee's deliciously twisted Table of Malcontents blog at Wired, with its weekly Cthulhu Cthursday post. So I was happy to find a Cthulhu reference in the enigmatic Perry Bible Fellowship comic strip this morning. It's not the funniest of the series, but hit the Random button on PBF's website a few…