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  1. BREAKING: User states that the "vast majority" disliked a change. He also states that he studied the "vast majority" of basic statistics.
  2. BREAKING: Concerned about the welfare of anti-Mono bloggers, Xamarin announces project that will ensure them ad revenue for some more years.
  3. BREAKING: In an attempt to make new contributors feel more welcome, the LKML administrators plan to hire Simon Cowell as a patch reviewer.
  4. BREAKING: User asks "when" his proposals will be implemented. He does not need to ask "if", because such proposals "are just common sense".
  5. Our public relations team is experimenting with Tumblr to archive past editions of Stallman Factor. stallmanfactor.tumblr.com
  6. Our editors would like to publicly apologize for firing the reporters who brought the semicolon story. We just found out it was not a joke.
  7. TONIGHT: Our experts compare Red Hat, Instagram, and Xamarin, and explain why not having one billion dollars is an obvious sign of failure.
  8. BREAKING: Advocates of Canonical and Red Hat attempt to raise brogramming to a corporate level, via constant bantering and pissing contests.
  9. "Thou shalt not film porn with mankind as with womankind: it is an abomination. You can encode it in H.264, though. We're cool with that."
  10. BREAKING: Thanks to a contributor, we have exclusive news about the recent discovery of a previously unknown Bible verse: Brendan 89:30.
  11. BREAKING: Campaign by FOSS Firefighting Brigade recommends ignoring texts containing "this is a clear attempt to..." or similar expressions.
  12. TONIGHT: An experts panel headed by Dan Brown discusses the mysterious "Ubuntu Kernel" engravings recently found on the Release Note Stones.
  13. BREAKING: Bug triagers decide that a condescending lecture on the importance of something gets a report auto-closed with status "ROLLEYES".
  14. BREAKING: Continuing the purpose-based renaming that started with "Web", GNOME will release the mail app "Flame" and the blog app "Rant".
  15. BREAKING: Research surprisingly reveals that adding "btw thanx for ur work" does not magically make a "fix it now, you incompetents" polite.
  16. Our reporters missed that this is Sexism Week. We will link to the last Stallman Factor while writing new material. twitter.com/#!/FOSSNewsCha…
  17. BREAKING: FSFE press release explains handcuff campaign: "The FSF is too quiet lately, there is an evident void on advocacy ridiculousness."
  18. TONIGHT: The Stallman Factor discusses sexism. Teasers: twitpic.com/8zbc6n twitpic.com/8zbcj2 twitpic.com/8zbcrh
  19. TONIGHT: Keep up with Retina Displays! Our experts will present basic talking points for smugly arguing that low resolutions are superior.