It's the time of year for all sorts of internet hoaxes and gags.

The Geek Workout.

Even The Simpsons have been outsourced to India. (Via Joost Bonsen.)

Science news of the day: Dogs really do resemble their owners. Sort of like this.

A new weapon to be issued soon to US Marines in Iraq uses sound waves to incapacitate the target. The special sound is "a recording of a baby's scream played backwards". (Via Metafilter.)

NASA is discussing how to terraform Mars. (Via Linkfilter.)

"The Adventures of Seinfeld and Superman": Pretty good mixed live action and animation featuring you-know-who. The longest one is "Uniform". (Via Gravity Lens.)

Send an e-mail to your future self. (Via Boing Boing.)

Catching car thieves with high-tech bait cars.

Police load the vehicles with an array of technology, including a global positioning satellite tracking system, computers, video equipment and cell phones, transforming them into eyes and ears. The cars are left in the top auto theft spots based on crime analysis and police and citizen tips.

When a thief makes an attempt to steal or burglarize the car, sensors send a signal that notifies police dispatchers who contact a patrol officer who then follows the car. At the same time, auto theft investigators are paged and the videotape begins to roll.

The GPS tracking computer software maps the car's location in real time, and at any time, the officer can make the decision to remotely shut down the engine and lock the car doors, trapping the thief inside.

Some of these videos have been aired on local television, and they are very popular with the public. (Via Techdirt.)

Detailed review of electronic voting and some associated problems. Given the importance of these issues, a mandatory verifiable paper audit trail seems like such an obvious solution, both to insure the honesty of the system and (more importantly) to assure voter confidence in the honesty of the system.

Invention of the day: The SawStop can sense the difference between wood and a human finger, stopping a power saw blade in 5 milliseconds. Dramatic videos here. As the company says, this technology "can make the difference between needing a Band-Aid or a hand surgeon." (Via David Solsberg.)

Food scares: Myth vs. truth. (Via SciTech Daily.)

Advances in brain-machine interfaces now allow humans to control a videogame with their minds.

Two high school students have developed new mathematical methods for detecting killer asteroids.

The Earth has a quasi-moon.

A burglar breaking into a house in Washington state was caught cross-country on the East Coast via webcam. (Via Linkfilter.)

Medical breakthrough of the day: Stool transplants. No, really. According to the article, these are usually administered by a feeding tube through the nose or mouth. (Via Dave Barry.)

More would-be challengers to Google.

The TSA cancelled an American Airlines flight because of a psychic tip. Needless to say, nothing suspicious was found during the search. (Via World Wide Rant.)

"Putting the Weirdness to Work": Upcoming business applications of quantum mechanics.