| Source | Fark Headline | Comments | |
| As pretty much the entire tech industry does a collective facepalm over AT&T's Verizon rebuttal ad, AT&T continues insisting that their smartphones are "the most popular" (pcworld.com) | (15) | ||
| (Pen 15 club member) | Bangkok introduces disposable penis measuring device. (measures non disposable penises as well) (nationmultimedia.com) | (9) | |
| Corn-based ethanol producer says it will soon compete with gasoline. This is a repeat from 1999, 1989,...1909 (washingtonpost.com) | (29) | ||
| US defense spending may be out of control, but at least they're going to finally give us our flying cars (theregister.co.uk) | (36) | ||
| In a surprise to environmentalists everywhere, the electric-car capital of the nation is the city with more oil than a New Jersey beach during spring break (blogs.wsj.com) | (32) | ||
| Mastodons probably died off because they were large, slow, and very tasty (latimes.com) | (33) | ||
| Scientists could begin the first human trials for stem cell blindness therapy next year, provided that the FDA lens them a hand (telegraph.co.uk) | (40) | ||
| (Montreal gazette) | Archeologists unearth skeletons at the steps of Montreal Basilica. Expect to learn about life in 1700s, plot to next Dan Brown novel (montrealgazette.com) | (18) | |
| Scientists invent a spray that can prevent premature ejaculation. Look out, it's coming soon (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) | (74) | ||
| This is a test. This game system is conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test. If this had been an actual Koopa attack, you would have been instructed to find power-ups (kotaku.com) | (32) | ||
| Surprising that no one has done this before, 'cause it's teh awesome: visualizing what it would look like from ground level if Earth had Saturn's rings (liveleak.com) | (154) | ||
| Cigarettes contain bacteria that can cause serious disease in humans. So if you're thinking that the smoke you're inhaling is merely chock full of carcinogens and lung-annealing tars, think again, you dipshiat (labspaces.net) | (176) | ||
| Surfing, you officially have a final boss level: riding a solar tsunami (physorg.com) | (31) | ||
| Mac laptops ranked fourth in build quality behind Sony, Toshiba and Asus. Your daily Mac/PC flamewar to the right (arstechnica.com) | (336) | ||
| Google unveils Chrome OS. Geekspasm time (gizmodo.com) | (94) | ||
| Canadian invents reversable paralysis-ray that turns its victims blue and flaccid. U.S. Defense Dept. counters with picture of Rosie O'Donnell (theregister.co.uk) | (22) | ||
| "Hubble Spies Galaxy's Big Bulge." Bow chicka wow wow (space.com) | (17) | ||
| Scientists decide to answer the age old question, "Are caged chickens happy?" (indystar.com) | (77) | ||
| "In Amazon, a frustrated search for cancer cures." They should try Borders or Barnes & Noble, then (news.yahoo.com) | (28) | ||
| Britain launches War on Piracy, will create Pirate Finder General, target piracy sites, programs and alleged pirates with full force of the law and more. This is not a repeat from the 18th century (torrentfreak.com) | (76) | ||
| (AMC) | Will better science education get rid of the bad science in sci-fi movies? Nope, because easy time travel, "red matter," and parsecs as a unit of time are just too much fun (blogs.amctv.com) | (145) | |
| "Call of Duty" sales at $550,000,000 in just five days. Hot Pocket, Mountain Dew sales figured expected to closely parallel (reuters.com) | (175) | ||
| Not news: Sony launches a video game console in Brazil. News: It's the nine year old PS2. Fark: For $500 (kotaku.com) | (63) | ||
| Six inventors who got jack shiat for changing the world (cracked.com) | (136) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Skin-based "electronic tattoos" offer medical read-outs. And possibly, Quake III (hplusmagazine.com) | (29) | |
| Scientists come up with four ways to feed the ever increasing world population. Most of them are quite large schemes, we probably need to start with a more modest proposal (newscientist.com) | (122) | ||
| "Hobbits", which were a new species of human, then were regular humans dwarfed by disease, now a new species again. Still tasty either way, says Goblin King (physorg.com) | (46) | ||
| Don't have time to go to church with your family? That's fine, there's a video game to take care of that (boingboing.net) | (39) | ||
| Need to instantly add cats to every photo you take? There's an app for that (gizmodo.com) | (26) | ||
| First programmable quantum computer created. That was random (arstechnica.com) | (81) |
| One of Jupiter's moons may be teeming with fish. Keep an eye on our dolphins; you never know when they might make a break for it (io9.com) | (157) | ||
| One more reason to hate asparagus: it's covered with beetle egg super glue (msnbc.msn.com) | (30) | ||
| Toronto is being invaded by big, long, slimy pumpkin-colored beasts. "Like slow-moving lions in the vegetable world." (thestar.com) | (45) | ||
| If you've lost a box approximately 50,000 light years in size, astronomers are happy to report that they have located it in galaxy NGC 4710 (physorg.com) | (72) | ||
| There's a rounding-error bug in the Droid camera autofocus that causes it to behave poorly on a 24.5-day cycle. That is, it'll work for 24.5 days, then have poor performance for 24.5 days, then work again. iPhone killer, indeed (wired.com) | (120) | ||
| Meteor streaking across Utah sky turns night into day, with cool links to video of the event (fox13now.com) | (46) | ||
| IBM creates supercomputer that simulates a cat's brain. Programmers currently perfecting "napping" and "running around frantically for no apparent reason" subroutines (tech.yahoo.com) | (117) | ||
| New approach to TV: You get free cable, "as long as you agree to surrender large amounts of personal data about your viewing, surfing and purchasing habits" through your set-top box (online.wsj.com) | (101) | ||
| Call Of Duty: Modern Rage 2 (theregister.co.uk) | (188) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Researchers create entangled photons from quantum dots. Or so they claim, - it's not like they can whip these things out at a news conference and show people (eurekalert.org) | (40) | |
| (AT&T) | It's like watching a flamewar, only with multi-billion-dollar conglomerates: AT&T responds to Verizon Wireless, claims their lawsuit is valid because their smartphones are "more popular" (att.com) | (120) | |
| (Some Comic Geek) | A Dr. Horrible one-shot, Blackest Night stuff, and Dark Reign galore. New comic releases November 18th. What's in your sub-box? (downtowncomics.ning.com) | (35) | |
| Scientists to probe the mysteries of the rolling stones, but they're being optimistic if they expect any satisfaction (telegraph.co.uk) | (32) | ||
| Social networking sites "need help buttons" to protect from bullies, UK official says, apparently missing the giant "X" in the corner of his browser (news.bbc.co.uk) | (47) | ||
| Computer hackers got into Holocaust-denier David Irving's email and sites, hackers claim it never happened (theregister.co.uk) | (65) | ||
| Streetlight captures amazing pictures of the surface of the sun (msnbc.msn.com) | (24) | ||
| Seven great comic book arcs that are too epic for cinema (io9.com) | (154) |
| Egyptian mummies suffered from hardening of the arteries, according to new research from the I Thought That Was The Whole Farking Point Institute of Egyptology (online.wsj.com) | (16) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Cool: Modern Warfare 2 is the fastest selling entertainment of all time. Asinine: No dedicated server support for PC version. Cool: Dedicated server hack 7 days after release. Asinine: It's for grenade spam and superjump (tomshardware.com) | (211) | |
| Kentucky researchers have developed a chewing gum that can replace a toothbrush and toothpaste. Will this finally convince that 1 out of 5 dentists who can't decide if chewing gum helps? (kentucky.com) | (21) | ||
| Accidental discovery produces a nearly perfect blue pigment. Smurf fetishists overjoyed (labspaces.net) | (84) | ||
| Your next Windows security update will come from the NSA (npr.org) | (120) | ||
| Finally, a New Moon true geeks can squee over (blogs.discovermagazine.com) | (42) | ||
| (Mars Today) | NASA team prepares to uplink commands to stuck Spirit rover. Commands said to include 'load extra bag of salt into trunk' and 'powershift directly from first gear to reverse at high RPM' (marstoday.com) | (29) | |
| (Some Guy) | Newest contestant in the New Space Race is: New Zealand? (spacefellowship.com) | (48) | |
| What happens when you bring a 25 year-old Mac to the Apple Store in the Meatpacking District in NYC? No, you turn into a massive douchebag, isn't the correct answer. Well it is, but it isn't (gizmodo.com) | (106) | ||
| Verizon Wireless files their formal response to AT&T's lawsuit: "AT&T has admitted the the maps are accurate ... they sued because the truth hurts" (gizmodo.com) | (208) | ||
| Toshiba sends chair into space for new advertisement. Still not as impressive as the Chesterfield Sofa which showed up in the middle of a cricket match (wired.co.uk) | (49) | ||
| Developers worried by Android's rapid growth, especially as nobody thought to program in three laws (wired.com) | (81) | ||
| Failing to develop antidepressant medicine, scientists instead develop cure for female headaches (news.bbc.co.uk) | (43) | ||
| Brown pelican no longer endangered species, despite efforts of Bugatti Veyron owners (latimesblogs.latimes.com) | (27) | ||
| Young inventor spends many a sleepless night to invent a gadget to fight insomnia (mirror.co.uk) | (33) | ||
| (PetaPixel) | National Geographic Photographer comes face to face with one of the Arctic's most vicious predators. With video scaryness (including graphic nature scenes) (petapixel.com) | (106) |
| Slate spins off Double X as a new, stand-alone website for women. Six months later, Double X sees a big hairy spider and runs back to Slate (gawker.com) | (44) | ||
| NASA official says Mars will be shooting Leonids at us. Or something like that (cnn.com) | (51) | ||
| There's a mysterious "dark flow" extending toward the edge of the universe. Scientists think it could be due to gravity, a parallel universe, or the smooth raps of 80s hip-hop star Rakim (newscientist.com) | (88) | ||
| Apple patents a gadget that will freeze your computer if you don't respond to an advertisement, comrade (boingboing.net) | (251) | ||
| Just like the U.S. Congress, Dutch homes are to be powered by bullshiat (news.yahoo.com) | (17) | ||
| Deepak Chopra points out that you can't put time in a marmalade jar and that quantum physics means anything can happen at any time for no reason (huffingtonpost.com) | (121) | ||
| Do not taunt happy fun hypermuscular monkey (latimesblogs.latimes.com) | (51) | ||
| (Some Randall) | If you wish to create a superhero from scratch, you must first invent the universe (xkcd.com) | (32) | |
| (Some Guy) | Insurance + cryonics = you are your own insurance beneficiary (hplusmagazine.com) | (31) | |
| Cray supercomputer blows by IBM Roadrunner faster than a coyote wearing Acme rocket-powered skates (networkworld.com) | (106) | ||
| Hypnosis shows up in brain scans say verrrry sleeeepy researchers (news.bbc.co.uk) | (15) |
| Global temperature rise by 2050, as predicted by computer models, if CO2 emissions are not curbed: 1.0C. Global temperature rise by 2050, by those same models, if CO2 emissions meet Kyoto Treaty targets: 0.94C (americanthinker.com) | (395) | ||
| Doctors: Here, take these common prescription drugs proven to cut your chances of getting cancer in half. Public: No thanks, we prefer to take this snake oil peddled by the health supplement industry. Doctors: **FACEPALM** (nytimes.com) | (163) | ||
| (Reality Carnival) | Yeah, yeah, we've all seen pretty fractal pictures befo... HOLY THIRD DIMENSION, BATMAN (skytopia.com) | (122) | |
| Scientists fear that increased technology will lead to greater incidence of attention deficit dis- HEY LOOK A BIRD (sfgate.com) | (31) | ||
| NASA launches a website to dispel fears from Roland Emmerich's "2012". Your tax dollars at work (news.cnet.com) | (138) | ||
| "Could the evolutionary perspective on religion become the basis for some kind of detente between religion and science?" (nytimes.com) | (279) |
| Coolest video of a giant stingray you'll see all weekend (youtube.com) | (50) | ||
| Meet your new desktop pic: The Earth as seen from the Rosetta spacecraft (wired.com) | (32) | ||
| Ever wonder how an earthquake propagates through the entire planet? Here comes the science (gizmodo.com) | (25) | ||
| Climate change is rDING... The sheriff is a nDING... Look out-- the sky is fDING... Snape kills DumbleDING... We're all gonna die in a fDING... Soylent Green is pDING.... Imma let you finish, but BeyDING (breitbart.com) | (59) | ||
| (Vancouver Sun) | Scientists probe possible human causes of earthquakes. Apparently yes, your mom IS that fat (vancouversun.com) | (30) | |
| Five things you shouldn't microwave (w/ videos) (techeblog.com) | (104) | ||
| During the last 3 periods of global cooling since 1850, carbon emissions increased. And during the current one too. Hmmmmm (telegraph.co.uk) | (90) | ||
| Experts promise flying cars within five years. Still no word on sexbot prototype (msnbc.msn.com) | (63) | ||
| Tom Bethel is not just a creationist, HIV denier, climate-change denier, and a relativity denier but he also thinks Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare's plays. Time to give that man a GED in Law (theatlantic.com) | (127) |
| YouTube to roll out 1080p video. Subby likes high definition turtles (venturebeat.com) | (57) | ||
| In the days after Thanksgiving, researchers find traces of sage and thyme in the water supply. No word on why they didn't find evidence of the martinis you swilled to get through the day (blogs.discovermagazine.com) | (18) | ||
| Behold, the uncertain science of carpet bumps (arstechnica.com) | (10) | ||
| Google to offer free cell phone service (cnn.com) | (43) | ||
| High-speed nanosensor-based chemical sensing... with a cell phone? NASA lab has an app for that (nasa.gov) | (12) | ||
| (Universe Today) | Why did the HAL 9000 sing "Daisy, Daisy..." as it died? It was an homage (universetoday.com) | (84) | |
| Humans are evolving to become less intelligent. There goes the science (news.yahoo.com) | (151) | ||
| Six months later, and numerous scientific and engineering reports later, NASA is ready to try to get the Mars rover unstuck with this radically new, scientifically researched and engineeringly approved maneuver...backing up (news.yahoo.com) | (47) | ||
| NASA's glass is more than half filled on whether there is water on the moon (foxnews.com) | (146) | ||
| The coolest video of a meteorite you'll see before dinner (space.com) | (18) | ||
| LHC doomed to fail in its nefarious mission to destroy Earth. But keep the crowbar handy, just in case (news.discovery.com) | (66) | ||
| NASA instructs astronauts to start saving their Mountain Dew bottles after ISCA (in-space-crapping-apparatus) goes on the fritz. Howard Wolowitz unavailable for comment (msnbc.msn.com) | (77) | ||
| (Navy Times) | High-tech WWII Japanese subs found off Hawaii. This is not a repeat from 1941 (navytimes.com) | (120) | |
| Synthetic stone DVD claimed to last 1000 years. No word if you have to use a bird's beak to play them (hardware.slashdot.org) | (65) | ||
| China's weather manipulation brings crippling snowstorm to Beijing. No, really (popsci.com) | (44) |