The picture here is just a small corner of the Periodic Table of Awesoments, since you need to read the kind of awesome elements it contains.

Modern day awesominers know there are actually 118 fundamental "awesoments" that compose all good things. The Periodic table of Awesoments can be a very useful tool. It's designed to show the relationships between awesoments, and often one can even predict how awesoments interact simply by their positions on the table.

http://www.dapperstache.com/index.php?contenttype=ptoa&title=ptoa -via Gorilla Mask

This seems scary. Two researchers speaking at different hacker conferences revealed that they have learned how to turn off implanted pacemakers by remote control. Kevin Fu, director of the Medical Device Security Center, spoke at Black Hat while Daniel Halperin, a graduate student at the University of Washington, addressed attendees at Defcon.

Fu and Halperin said they used a cheap $1,000 system to mimic the control mechanism. It included a software radio, GNU radio software, and other electronics. They could use that to eavesdrop on private data such as the identity of the patient, the doctor, the diagnosis, and the pacemaker instructions. They figured out how to control the pacemaker with their device.

“You can induce the test mode, drain the device battery, and turn off therapies,” Halperin said.

Translation: you can kill the patient. Fu said that he didn’t try the attack on other brands of pacemakers because he just needed to prove the academic point. Halperin said, “This is something that academics can do now. We have to do something before the ability to mount attacks becomes easier.”

This is one of those cases where proving a point can give someone a heart attack. Link -Thanks, Kiltak!

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Better than Rick Rolling, you've just been Barack Rolled! -via Digg

Flickr user 2roxfox breeds hairless mice. Mice that carry the trait are born with hair, but begin to lose it at about two weeks of age. Within a week, they are completely bald! See a photo set of her latest litter of ten, seven of which carried the hairless trait. Link -via b3ta

This post is not about what the athletes eat while training, nor is it about food in the Olympic Village. It's not even about sponsored items. This is a guide to the most decadent and delicious carb-loading snacks you might enjoy while watching the Olympics! Pina coladas and pizza might not get you in shape, but they go good with hurdles on TV. Link -Thanks, Brendan!

Aren't they adorable? Jocelyn at Snack or Die has instructions for making your own Pacman Sugar cookies. Link -via Unique Daily

Ride Lust has a rundown of famous cars from movies and television, in no particular order. Take a look and see if your favorite is there. Link -via the Presurfer

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This bolt of lightning was shot in high speed video, then slowed way down for your entertainment. -via reddit

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Twin moose, that is, with their mama keeping a close eye! -Thanks, Heather!

Since people don't spell very well, shouldn't we just give up and accept variant spelling?

"Instead of complaining about the state of the education system as we correct the same mistakes year after year, I've got a better idea," Ken Smith, a criminology lecturer at Bucks New University, wrote in the Times Higher Education Supplement.

"University teachers should simply accept as variant spelling those words our students most commonly misspell."

To kickstart his proposal, Smith suggested 10 common misspellings that should immediately be accepted into the pantheon of variants, including "ignor," "occured," "thier," "truely," "speach" and "twelth" (it should be "twelfth").

Then of course there are words like "misspelt" (often spelled "mispelt"), not to mention "varient," a commonly used variant of "variant."

Is "misspelt" even a word? I don't think we should give up so easily. Here at Neatorama, we often misspell words, but it's not because we aren't trying. If everyone spelled words any way they wanted, reading would be too difficult for too many people. What do you think? Link

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How many times has someone tried to convince you that the attacks on 9/11 were an inside job, a government plot, or caused by someone other than the hijackers? Besides the conspiracy theorists, there are those folks who believe anything a friend forwards to them by email. The problem is that you don't have any facts at your fingertips to refute their arguments. A post at YesButNoButYes gives you the short course in responding to popular conspiracy theories with counterpoints. This may come in handy as we get closer to the seventh anniversary of 9/11. Link -Thanks, Johnny!

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A 12 minute short depicting the origin of "The Bat-Man" and introducing his amazing skills and abilities... Bob Kane and Bill Finger drew on a lot of silent films to create Batman, and I've always wanted to give the story a try using silent film techniques. What with that whole copyright/waste of time thing, you'll have to settle for this collage. Here are the original influences re-arranged to tell Bruce Wayne's story and his crusade against crime.

A quick two day collage by Andre Perkowski. Drone music by Palker & Perkowski, an outtake from "The Vampire's Tomb" sessions.

See part two here. -via Gorilla Mask

If you've ever wondered how old your favorite internet sensation is, or more importantly, how it got started, here's a fun interactive timeline deigned by BK Gupta. Zoom in with the + flags at the bottom to expand the timeline. Each meme listed has links and/or video to explain its history. Some links NSFW. Link -via Digg

Far above the madding crowd, those who can afford it have private green space to get away from it all. Flickr user jwilly has a set of photos featuring rich people's rooftops in New York City. Link -via the Presurfer

Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss tests your knowledge of Native American logos. Can you match the logo or mascot with the company, school, or product it is linked to? I knew two of them, and gave up on the rest. Maybe you will do better. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17251