News: X-Men comic to reboot with all-female team members

Neat!

News: Official White House response to Death Star petition...

...is awesome.

Obit: Aaron Swartz, Coder and Activist (Wired)

Sad: Computer activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide

He was indicted for mass-downloading documents from JSTOR, a massive online journal of academic papers. He fought against the system of hiding intellectual knowledge behind a paywall, despite the research being paid for with public monies.

He also happens to have created the RSS 1.0 specification and was an early co-owner of Reddit, a popular online community news site. He truly stood for letting the world be smarter than it was...and left it dumber without his presence in it.

Sports: 0 of 37 eligible voted into MLB Hall of Fame for 2013

With the wave of steroid-marred candidates for the Hall of Fame getting their first chance to be voted in, the voters decided to send a message. No one was voted into the Hall of Fame for 2013.

News: UN names 2013 International Year of Quinoa

Interesting, seeing as I just discovered the stuff.

Funny: Dad hires 'in-game assassins' to kill son's character

Trying to get him to quit the game and get a job. Hilarious.

How-to: Perfect scrambled egg breakfast (by Gordon Ramsey)

Love Gordon Ramsey. Not sure why.

There is also the double-boiler method, which I'll have to try this weekend. http://lifehacker.com/5973143/make-perfect-light-and-fluffy-scrambled-eggs-with-a-double-boiler

Study: Why girls do better in school than boys

News: Android no longer free (as in speech)

Branches of the previously free-to-modify code have already been released. This could be a good thing for Ubuntu Mobile OS.

News: Ubuntu (Linux OS) come to smartphones!

My favorite Linux distrobution has finally come to phones! Think of it like a better Android. One that doesn't sit there for 30 seconds before finally connecting the call.

Comic: B.C. 12/27/12

Poor Duncan.

News: Smartphone use as car keys by 2015

Barf. Do not want. Steal my phone means you can steal my car (because I can't call to cancel/block anything...because you stole my phone).

Comic: Penny Arcade 12/21/12

I tend to agree.

News: 1st non-Google company gets autonomous drivers license

I like it. This company is the company that sells tech to ALL of the car companies. If they can get this down, we might start seeing automatic driving in low-speed (a.k.a. rush hour) settings. So, if you are stuck in traffic, just turn on the auto-pilot (won't change lanes, won't hit car in front of your, will keep up) and you can read or something. When traffic picks back up, take back over and drive.