How do Michael Jackson's garage sale, the Large Hadron Collider, the Snuggie and booze "shot guns" all fit together?

In the Scanner of course. He insanity (and inanity) of a week's worth of the Interweb's best.

Anyone else weirded out by Michael Jackson's supposed auction this spring? Rhinestone socks? The Moonwalker robot head? What else? [Urlesque]

Looking for another way to digest your news? The New York Times lab boys have created an "article skimmer" that gets right to the meat of the news.

I apparently missed the memo on this one, but apparentlyTuesday was "Hug-A-Journalist" Day. [SFist]

Nate Silver, the stat geek with an uncanny ability to predict outcomes in baseball and politics, has turned his attention to picking the Oscar winners. [New York]

How cool is this: MIT students have created a wearable computer. [Wired]

One British comedian's fight against online piracy? He smashed an audience member's cell phone during one of his bits.

My favorite science experiment ever, The Large Hadron Collider, is back and Tom Hanks is going to start it up again. [Gizmodo]

What to get for the Star Wars geek who loves to party in your life? The Death Star Disco T-shirt. [Fashionably Geek]

Leave it to the Army to make Paintball no longer fun. The military is looking into developing non-lethal weapon that fires paintballs, pepper spray balls and more. [Wired]

Speaking of firearms, take your party to dangerous levels with the booze "shot gun", that fires an ounce of your favorite alcohol right to the back of your gullet. God help us if this gets into the wrong hands. [Gizmodo]

I have a feeling a climbable dorm would do very well in Northeastern colleges. That means you Vermont. [Neatorama]

Change you can chew. Ripley's is getting its hands on a portrait of the president made out of more than 12,000 gumballs. [Trendhunter]

I think giving uninsured people my age the nickname "Young Invincibles" kind of misses the point. That's a pretty sweet title.

If you're anything like me, one of the upsides of Jimmy Fallon replacing Conan O'Brien as the host of Late Night is the addition of The Roots as the house band. But turns out there's a catch, NBC doesn't have any money for them to play covers. [Vulture]

Time Magazine has set its sights on listing the best and worst blogs on the Interwebs. Much discussion material there.

Finally, someone created an online platform to keep track of how often you're having sex, and with who. Because really, it was so hard to keep track before.

While we're on the subject of getting busy, USA Today finds that the recession seems to have sparked condom sales.

My Yacht Rock Sense was tingling, now I know why. A big Yacht Rock extravaganza is taking place in Brooklyn. In the words of Liz Lemon "I want to go to there."

I had something of a Twitter aneurysm yesterday after discovering this, so I'm just going to point you to the link: Snuggie Pub Crawl.

Also on the subject of Twitter, doctors are Tweeting surgery.

If you thought US politicians were taking a leap by getting on Twitter, think again. Tweetminster is the place where British members of Parliament come together.

Who knew we were on to a trend a few weeks back with Jane Austen and zombies. Now comes news that "Pride and Predator" will become a feature-length film. [Variety]

An advertiser's dream (that many are probably kicking themselves for not thinking of before): Kid Rock is getting his own line of beer. [Pet Rock]

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