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Fri November 20, 2009
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(PCWorld) Stupid 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) Weird Bangkok introduces disposable penis measuring device. (measures non disposable penises as well)  (nationmultimedia.com) (9)
(Washington Post) Interesting Corn-based ethanol producer says it will soon compete with gasoline. This is a repeat from 1999, 1989,...1909  (washingtonpost.com) (29)
(The Register) Cool 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)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting 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)
(LA Times) Obvious Mastodons probably died off because they were large, slow, and very tasty  (latimes.com) (33)
(Telegraph) Interesting 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) Interesting 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)
(The Times of India) Interesting Scientists invent a spray that can prevent premature ejaculation. Look out, it's coming soon  (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) (74)
(Kotaku) Interesting 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)
(LiveLeak) Cool 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)
(Labspaces.net) Obvious 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)

Thu November 19, 2009
(PhysOrg.com) Cool Surfing, you officially have a final boss level: riding a solar tsunami  (physorg.com) (31)
(Ars Technica) Obvious Mac laptops ranked fourth in build quality behind Sony, Toshiba and Asus. Your daily Mac/PC flamewar to the right  (arstechnica.com) (336)
(Gizmodo) Cool Google unveils Chrome OS. Geekspasm time  (gizmodo.com) (94)
(The Register) Weird 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)
(Space) Cool "Hubble Spies Galaxy's Big Bulge." Bow chicka wow wow  (space.com) (17)
(IndyStar) Silly Scientists decide to answer the age old question, "Are caged chickens happy?"  (indystar.com) (77)
(Yahoo) Interesting "In Amazon, a frustrated search for cancer cures." They should try Borders or Barnes & Noble, then  (news.yahoo.com) (28)
(Boing Boing) Scary 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) Interesting 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)
(Reuters) PSA "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)
(Kotaku) Amusing Not news: Sony launches a video game console in Brazil. News: It's the nine year old PS2. Fark: For $500  (kotaku.com) (63)
(Cracked) Interesting Six inventors who got jack shiat for changing the world  (cracked.com) (136)
(Some Guy) Interesting Skin-based "electronic tattoos" offer medical read-outs. And possibly, Quake III  (hplusmagazine.com) (29)
(New Scientist) Interesting 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)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting "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)
(Boing Boing) Amusing 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)
(Gizmodo) Amusing Need to instantly add cats to every photo you take? There's an app for that  (gizmodo.com) (26)
(Ars Technica) Spiffy First programmable quantum computer created. That was random  (arstechnica.com) (81)

Wed November 18, 2009
(io9) Interesting 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)
(MSNBC) Strange One more reason to hate asparagus: it's covered with beetle egg super glue  (msnbc.msn.com) (30)
(Toronto Star) Scary Toronto is being invaded by big, long, slimy pumpkin-colored beasts. "Like slow-moving lions in the vegetable world."  (thestar.com) (45)
(PhysOrg.com) Strange 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)
(Wired) Unlikely 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)
(KSTU FOX 13) Cool Meteor streaking across Utah sky turns night into day, with cool links to video of the event  (fox13now.com) (46)
(Yahoo) Cool 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)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting 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)
(The Register) Dumbass Call Of Duty: Modern Rage 2  (theregister.co.uk) (188)
(Some Guy) Fail 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) Strange 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) Spiffy 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)
(Telegraph) Interesting Scientists to probe the mysteries of the rolling stones, but they're being optimistic if they expect any satisfaction  (telegraph.co.uk) (32)
(BBC) Stupid 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)
(The Register) Hero Computer hackers got into Holocaust-denier David Irving's email and sites, hackers claim it never happened  (theregister.co.uk) (65)
(MSNBC) Spiffy Streetlight captures amazing pictures of the surface of the sun  (msnbc.msn.com) (24)
(io9) Cool Seven great comic book arcs that are too epic for cinema  (io9.com) (154)

Tue November 17, 2009
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting 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) Asinine 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)
(Herald-Leader) Interesting 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)
(Labspaces.net) Interesting Accidental discovery produces a nearly perfect blue pigment. Smurf fetishists overjoyed  (labspaces.net) (84)
(NPR) Scary Your next Windows security update will come from the NSA  (npr.org) (120)
(Discover) Cool Finally, a New Moon true geeks can squee over  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (42)
(Mars Today) Interesting 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) Cool Newest contestant in the New Space Race is: New Zealand?  (spacefellowship.com) (48)
(Gizmodo) Interesting 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)
(Gizmodo) Amusing 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)
(Wired) Cool 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)
(Wired) Interesting Developers worried by Android's rapid growth, especially as nobody thought to program in three laws  (wired.com) (81)
(BBC) Spiffy Failing to develop antidepressant medicine, scientists instead develop cure for female headaches  (news.bbc.co.uk) (43)
(LA Times) Spiffy Brown pelican no longer endangered species, despite efforts of Bugatti Veyron owners  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (27)
(Mirror.co.uk) Interesting Young inventor spends many a sleepless night to invent a gadget to fight insomnia  (mirror.co.uk) (33)
(PetaPixel) Scary 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)

Mon November 16, 2009
(Gawker) Interesting 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)
(CNN) Cool NASA official says Mars will be shooting Leonids at us. Or something like that  (cnn.com) (51)
(New Scientist) Interesting 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)
(Boing Boing) Asinine Apple patents a gadget that will freeze your computer if you don't respond to an advertisement, comrade  (boingboing.net) (251)
(Yahoo) Cool Just like the U.S. Congress, Dutch homes are to be powered by bullshiat  (news.yahoo.com) (17)
(Huffington Post) Amusing 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)
(LA Times) Scary Do not taunt happy fun hypermuscular monkey  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (51)
(Some Randall) Amusing If you wish to create a superhero from scratch, you must first invent the universe  (xkcd.com) (32)
(Some Guy) Interesting Insurance + cryonics = you are your own insurance beneficiary  (hplusmagazine.com) (31)
(Network World) Interesting Cray supercomputer blows by IBM Roadrunner faster than a coyote wearing Acme rocket-powered skates  (networkworld.com) (106)
(BBC) Spiffy Hypnosis shows up in brain scans say verrrry sleeeepy researchers  (news.bbc.co.uk) (15)

Sun November 15, 2009
(American Thinker) Fail 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)
(The New York Times) Interesting 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) Cool Yeah, yeah, we've all seen pretty fractal pictures befo... HOLY THIRD DIMENSION, BATMAN  (skytopia.com) (122)
(SFGate) Unlikely Scientists fear that increased technology will lead to greater incidence of attention deficit dis- HEY LOOK A BIRD  (sfgate.com) (31)
(C|Net) Asinine NASA launches a website to dispel fears from Roland Emmerich's "2012". Your tax dollars at work  (news.cnet.com) (138)
(The New York Times) Unlikely "Could the evolutionary perspective on religion become the basis for some kind of detente between religion and science?"  (nytimes.com) (279)

Sat November 14, 2009
(YouTube) Video Coolest video of a giant stingray you'll see all weekend  (youtube.com) (50)
(Wired) Cool Meet your new desktop pic: The Earth as seen from the Rosetta spacecraft  (wired.com) (32)
(Gizmodo) Interesting Ever wonder how an earthquake propagates through the entire planet? Here comes the science  (gizmodo.com) (25)
(Breitbart.com) Stupid 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) Interesting Scientists probe possible human causes of earthquakes. Apparently yes, your mom IS that fat  (vancouversun.com) (30)
(TechEBlog) Spiffy Five things you shouldn't microwave (w/ videos)  (techeblog.com) (104)
(Telegraph) Unlikely During the last 3 periods of global cooling since 1850, carbon emissions increased. And during the current one too. Hmmmmm  (telegraph.co.uk) (90)
(MSNBC) Unlikely Experts promise flying cars within five years. Still no word on sexbot prototype  (msnbc.msn.com) (63)
(The Atlantic) Stupid 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)

Fri November 13, 2009
(VentureBeat) Cool YouTube to roll out 1080p video. Subby likes high definition turtles  (venturebeat.com) (57)
(Discover) Amusing 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)
(Ars Technica) Strange Behold, the uncertain science of carpet bumps  (arstechnica.com) (10)
(CNN) Interesting Google to offer free cell phone service  (cnn.com) (43)
(NASA) Spiffy High-speed nanosensor-based chemical sensing... with a cell phone? NASA lab has an app for that  (nasa.gov) (12)
(Universe Today) Interesting Why did the HAL 9000 sing "Daisy, Daisy..." as it died? It was an homage  (universetoday.com) (84)
(Yahoo) Interesting Humans are evolving to become less intelligent. There goes the science  (news.yahoo.com) (151)
(Yahoo) Silly 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)
(Fox News) Cool NASA's glass is more than half filled on whether there is water on the moon  (foxnews.com) (146)
(Space) Cool The coolest video of a meteorite you'll see before dinner  (space.com) (18)
(Discovery) Spiffy LHC doomed to fail in its nefarious mission to destroy Earth. But keep the crowbar handy, just in case  (news.discovery.com) (66)
(MSNBC) Fail 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) Scary High-tech WWII Japanese subs found off Hawaii. This is not a repeat from 1941  (navytimes.com) (120)
(Slashdot) Interesting 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)
(Popular Science) Interesting China's weather manipulation brings crippling snowstorm to Beijing. No, really  (popsci.com) (44)

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