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Fri February 03, 2012
Source     Fark Headline Comments
(My Fox DC) Sad Man died while playing video games at internet cafe, but the blank stare and smell of soiled clothing allowed him to go unnoticed by fellow gamers for nine hours  (myfoxdc.com) (61)
(ZDNet UK) Spiffy Future of ACTA, Europe's SOPA cousin, in doubt after someone forgot Poland  (zdnet.co.uk) (27)
(MSNBC) Weird Researchers in Antarctica discover weird lakes that move, crawling like syrup. Antarctic trifecta complete  (msnbc.msn.com) (35)
(The Register) Fail I know some of those words in the headline are English, but they can't be rearranged into anything meaningful  (theregister.co.uk) (41)
(TorrentFreak) Followup Just in time for the Super Bowl, a bunch of those sports streaming websites shut down by the Feds are back online with new domain names  (torrentfreak.com) (70)
(Yahoo) Interesting Eighteen-mile crack seen in Antarctic glacier. Coming Up Next: Unfrozen Giant Caveman Plumber  (gma.yahoo.com) (22)
(Some Guy) Cool New experiment will force creationist arguments to evolve  (tgdaily.com) (178)
(Time) Interesting There may be too many people for Earth, but not for Super Earth  (time.com) (35)
(Network World) Interesting Curt Schilling's 38 Studios proves that some games take even longer than baseball  (networkworld.com) (50)
(New York Daily News) Obvious Alien visitation is not going to happen. SLEEP. There is nothing on our planet that aliens would need. OBEY. If intelligent creatures exist on other planets they likely won't visit Earth. CONSUME  (nydailynews.com) (102)
(Scientific American) Cool While largely forgotten about after the 90's, virtual reality may be making a comeback. In your eyes  (scientificamerican.com) (30)
(NC Times) Followup Kim Dotcom to judge: "You have to grant me bail, your honor, because I'm receiving unwanted advances from all the female inmates." Judge: "You've got to be farking kidding me. DENIED"  (nctimes.com) (59)
(Some Shoggoth) Followup Group of scientists searching the Antarctic for a lake buried for tens of millions of years suddenly stop responding to colleagues, Miskatonic officials  (globalpost.com) (289)
(Gizmodo) Cool Scientists use deadly plant to create a cancer-killing grenade. But your Skyrim character is pretty impressive, too  (gizmodo.com) (31)


Thu February 02, 2012
(G4TV) Weird Back to the Future heads to Broadway?  (g4tv.com) (58)
(doctorwhotv.co.uk) Interesting Matt Smith wants a "cooler, younger Doctor" for number 12. Becoming ginger notably absent  (doctorwhotv.co.uk) (167)
(Wired) Ironic Hipsters, already fans of expensive pre-distressed skinny jeans, flock to expensive belts made from pre-shredded fixie tires  (wired.com) (63)
(NASA) Cool OK, star trail pictures are always cool in some way but none like this one  (apod.nasa.gov) (17)
(Engadget) Interesting Leaked plan from Microsoft details the next version of Windows Phone. It's pretty much full of win  (engadget.com) (84)
(Gizmodo) Cool Enjoy this brain melting optical illusion  (gizmodo.com) (45)
(io9) Wheaton Wil Wheaton, Prince of Darkness  (io9.com) (45)
(Daily Mail) Interesting OMG KILL IT WITH FIRE and butter and garlic  (dailymail.co.uk) (41)
(MSNBC) Misc Worst job in Science: These physicians injected an average of 20.5 cc using "a back-and-forth technique" into the deep soft tissue layers of the penises of 50 men. The product was then 'homogenized with a roller.'  (bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com) (81)
(Ars Technica) Obvious The RIAA is upset that the OPEN Act isn't draconian enough  (arstechnica.com) (50)
(io9) Spiffy GREAT SCOTT.. Hill Valley made from LEGOS  (io9.com) (27)
(Neatorama) Cool Yes, your cubicle art is amazing. No, you are still fired for wasting company time  (neatorama.com) (33)
(Gizmodo) Hero Amazing archive of music about ot be available free. No funny here, just awesome  (gizmodo.com) (26)
(Guardian) Cool Turns out there's no Global Warming - it was some guy stealing all the ice  (guardian.co.uk) (100)
(Fox News) Stupid Group sets world record for stupidest world record of all times  (foxnews.com) (8)
(Seattle Times) Sad Microsoft defenestrates 200 workers  (seattletimes.nwsource.com) (66)
(New Scientist) Cool AR goggle to improve crime scene investigation, too late for Jason  (newscientist.com) (14)
(PhysOrg.com) Cool In self-assembling rod we trust  (physorg.com) (15)
(MSNBC) Strange World's most expensive pigeon sold to world's biggest pigeon  (worldnews.msnbc.msn.com) (5)
(Some Guy) Cool NASA releases video of the dark side of the moon, which surprisingly syncs perfectly with the soundtrack to "The Wizard of Oz"  (geek.com) (48)
(CBS News) Interesting My mouse ate my dongle  (cbsnews.com) (31)
(LA Times) Cool California now getting 5% of its electricity from wind. Savvy lawmakers to propose harnessing energy from wild fires, mud slides, earthquakes  (articles.latimes.com) (27)
(Scientific American) Fail Thanks a lot, plants  (scientificamerican.com) (36)
(Fox News) Spiffy Recipe Cloner has come up with a Do-it-Yourself Twinkie recipe for those of you who are afraid that the Hostess bankruptcy may take away your sweet golden cakes  (foxnews.com) (20)
(Short List) Stupid #The #world's #most #annoying #tweet #is #really #annoying  (shortlist.com) (13)
(Some Guy) Video Danish animation school decides to place every popular 80's cartoon opening in a blender, resulting in a fine paste known as Space Stallions  (awesome-robo.com) (28)
(Wired) Interesting Eight wild proposals to relocate endangered species to locations that aren't my plate  (wired.com) (11)
(MSNBC) Interesting Researchers say scratching feels better on certain parts of your body. Sounds like junk science to me  (bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com) (12)
(Gizmodo) Cool Well, Supernerds, the gauntlet has been thrown down. Literally. How will you top this?  (gizmodo.com) (79)
(Some Guy) Interesting 10 Most Epic Tank Battles in Military History. McNamara approved  (militaryeducation.org) (262)
(New York Daily News) Obvious Apple to introduce the world's first $1200 iPhone  (nydailynews.com) (167)


Wed February 01, 2012
(PC Magazine) Interesting Survey finds that Android users are most likely to put out on the first date  (pcmag.com) (49)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Repulsive gravity, previously thought by physicists to only emanate from your mom, may be key to understanding dark matter  (physorg.com) (54)
(MSNBC) Interesting How to adjust your HDTV settings. RTFM strangely absent  (gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com) (55)
(truTV) Unlikely 10 widely-believed stories of time travelers based on evidence that's going to be left behind  (trutv.com) (115)
(Alamo Drafthouse) Cool First, let's drink. Me from my glass, and you from yours  (princessbridewine.com) (49)
(Huffington Post) Obvious The Super Bowl is almost here, so here's Huffington Post to rain on your parade by telling you that your gametime snacks are going to kill you  (huffingtonpost.com) (23)
(CBS News) Interesting Holding it in your mouth for a while before spitting could be beneficial. At least that's what Shi said  (cbsnews.com) (20)
(Slate) Obvious KILL THE CAPS LOCK KEY... and four other modest proposals for improving the contemporary computer keyboard  (slate.com) (174)
(The New York Times) Silly DC plans Watchmen prequels. When asked for comment, Alan Moore said: I can write characters created by Jules Verne, HG Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Frank Baum, but it's wrong for anyone else to write my characters  (nytimes.com) (123)
(Some Guy) Followup Article offers realistic counterpoint to Bloomberg's "Real Cost of Being a Video Gamer" idiocy  (tomsguide.com) (68)
(io9) Obvious You are biatching about the wrong things when you read an article about science  (io9.com) (16)
(Telegraph) Spiffy "Spiffy," said Tom, "I have invented the phonograph. Now businessmen can send each other brief messages in pneumatic tubes, which I call the Internets." "Now, Slave, fetch me a recording of Bismarck"  (telegraph.co.uk) (10)
(Some Guy) Obvious Scientists now able to reconstruct words from thoughts. Subject D. Curtis' experiment results reveal "sex sex beer beer sex beer boobies beer boobies sex sex boobies beer sex beer boobies sex beer boobies" occurs 500 times a minute  (news.sciencemag.org) (31)
(Some Guy) Spiffy While you can't stab someone over the internet, science is one step closer to allowing you to robo-bang your significant other while you play Elder Scrolls  (extremetech.com) (39)
(Joystiq) Stupid Minecraft developer learns the hard way that when you crowd-source your translations, you deal with people who annoy you  (joystiq.com) (44)
(MSNBC) Interesting FDA Approves first drug for inoperable skin cancer. Still no cure for... Lupus?  (vitals.msnbc.msn.com) (22)
(Science Daily) Interesting Your next wound could be healed by a golden shower  (sciencedaily.com) (18)
(MSNBC) Strange Spider's detachable penis finishes without him. This comes in handy a lot of the time  (msnbc.msn.com) (26)
(Science Daily) Spiffy Not to alarm anyone, but deep space particles are invading the solar system. And they're definitely not self-assembling near Jupiter into an autonomous, horrifying death ship of staggering power  (sciencedaily.com) (28)
(Buzzfeed) Cool These 21 amazing shadows will blow your mind. Bonus: No slideshow. Fark Bonus: Numbers 15 and 16  (buzzfeed.com) (38)
(YouTube) Amusing Skyrim: The Andy Richter voiceover reel  (youtube.com) (140)
(Laughing Squid) Spiffy Breaking Bad gets the retro 8-bit makeover  (laughingsquid.com) (47)
(Some Geek) Spiffy Cool list of all the science fiction awards. Ever  (locusmag.com) (15)
(Discover) Cool What the COOL tab was made for: moonset as seen from the International Space Station  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (18)


Tue January 31, 2012
(Some Guy) Cool A brief TED talk on treating cancer with electric fields. Interesting as hell  (ted.com) (39)
(Buzzfeed) Amusing The 46 types of people on Facebook  (buzzfeed.com) (106)
(io9) Interesting Scientist has either figured out the answer to life, the universe, and everything or is batshiat insane. No one knows for sure yet  (io9.com) (79)
(YouTube) Cool What's cooler than Battlefield 3? Tilt-shift Battlefield 3  (youtube.com) (50)
(Smh.com.au) Florida "Sightings of raccoons are down 99 per cent, opossums 98.9 per cent and white-tailed deer 94 per cent." Giant pythons have eaten the Everglades  (smh.com.au) (71)
(io9) Obvious Is it time to rethink treatment of.. of, wait hang on.. (checks link) oh yeah, ADD?  (io9.com) (38)
(Cracked) Interesting Six painful things nobody tells you about fighting, in blow-by-blow detail  (cracked.com) (227)
(io9) Interesting From this day forward, we shall call the galaxy TotalFark  (io9.com) (12)
(Wired) Interesting It takes 24 million generations to grow from mouse size to elephant size, according to evolutionary biologists who have never been to WalMart  (wired.com) (27)
(MSNBC) Unlikely Study finds women are better at parking than men, but only because other cars on the street flee in terror at their approach  (bottomline.msnbc.msn.com) (31)
(PhysOrg.com) Amusing PNAS study reveals Christian political beliefs not as firm as the foundation erected by Jesus' teachings. PNAS  (physorg.com) (42)
(Telegraph) Interesting Tomatoes slow prostate cancer, but are incredibly messy to apply  (telegraph.co.uk) (24)
(New York Daily News) Stupid Facebook Subscribe: Now with free porn  (nydailynews.com) (8)
(Digital Trends) Cool US military has developed self-guided bullet that can travel over a mile and change direction before it hits its target. Gene Simmons approves  (digitaltrends.com) (106)
(Google) Cool What happens if you Google "askew"? No, there's nothing wrong with your monitor  (google.com) (103)
(C|Net) Cool Yep, that's me with my awesome Jedi wife and our two Bobas and a Leia  (news.cnet.com) (50)
(Bloomberg) Unlikely Bloomberg estimates the true cost of being a hardcore PC gamer, from buying multiple motherboards to boosting up RAM to playing non-Zynga games  (bloomberg.com) (168)
(Engadget) Spiffy All-electric bike goes 35 mph, has a 40 mile range, can haul 300 pounds, and looks like it came out of a box of Legos  (engadget.com) (68)
(Daily Mail) Sad Religious leaders falling over themselves in scramble to excommunicate philosopher who's building a temple to atheism  (dailymail.co.uk) (405)


Mon January 30, 2012
(NPR) Obvious "Could a club drug offer almost immediate relief from depression?" Um...isn't that the whole point of taking it?  (npr.org) (45)
(io9) Stupid No fallout shelter will protect you and your loved ones from the SEXPOCALYPSE  (io9.com) (41)
(New Scientist) Obvious Can't find your keys? Your brain's out of sync. Oh, and I'm not helping you find them, either  (newscientist.com) (13)
(Mr CommDot) Cool If this guy is right, the MPAA/RIAA are totally screwed because everyone can have their own private Internet  (kurzweilai.net) (56)
(The Atlantic) Obvious How QR codes are exactly like a roller skating horse. Or not  (theatlantic.com) (64)
(InfoWorld) Sad Dear Google: Please get off the lawn you built for me  (infoworld.com) (56)
(Joystiq) Cool Free Crack Forever  (massively.joystiq.com) (45)
(ABC) Interesting Meet the guy who turned down a founding role in Facebook to work for the 2004 John Kerry campaign instead. Things have actually worked out pretty well for him  (abcnews.go.com) (19)
(Daily Mail) Interesting I know it sounds a corny and a bit nutty, but scientists have developed a special type of bacteria that changes the color of human excrement to let them know exactly what ails you  (dailymail.co.uk) (53)
(Chicago Tribune) Interesting 10 kitchen tools you didn't know you needed. Or, you could just get married. Either/or  (chicagotribune.com) (197)
(SlashGear) Obvious It's yet another article about a Facebook "upgrade" that has people "considering" deleting their profiles. It's like tech writers aren't even trying anymore. Time to feed the dogs, Mr. Pavlov  (slashgear.com) (65)
(CNN) Spiffy We're descending toward Hill Valley, California, at 4:29 pm, on Wednesday, October 21st, 2015  (cnn.com) (44)
(Some Guy) Scary Oh, and careful around that Griff character. He's got a few short circuits in his bionic implants  (spectrum.ieee.org) (16)
(Guardian) Obvious Now that they are done searching Megaupload's servers, can the Feds resist pushing the big red button? The jolly, candylike button?  (guardian.co.uk) (39)
(Some Guy) Wheaton The first-ever full cast reunion of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" announced for Calgary. Vulcan too booked  (vancouversun.com) (107)
(Onion AV Club) Amusing 14 entertaining tales of collectivist Internet satire  (avclub.com) (11)
(News.com.au) Weird From the "This Will Not End Well" Department: Scientists make human brain cells using the skin of schizophrenic patients  (news.com.au) (14)
(Fox News) Interesting New analysis of data from the summer of 2003 in NYC shows rise in deaths were attributed to blackout, not customer heart attacks after receiving Con Ed bills  (foxnews.com) (5)
(The New York Times) Strange A scholarly examination of why certain cultures chow down on things the rest of the world finds repulsive, like hakarl, natto, Sardinian maggot cheese, and White Castle burgers  (nytimes.com) (75)
(TechEBlog) Amusing Yeah, that COULD be the coolest Diablo costume ever... Or it could doom the wearer to a lifetime of virginity  (techeblog.com) (37)
(io9) Interesting Photographer finds the equations hiding in her x number of pictures where x = 3(4+y) * 2(6 - y) and y = elevendy  (io9.com) (28)
(Guardian) Spiffy Brooklyn residents will soon start heating their houses with their own poo  (guardian.co.uk) (14)
(The Atlantic) Interesting Oh, the cute manatees  (theatlantic.com) (14)
(Telegraph) Sad Apple employees work in a constant state of iFear  (telegraph.co.uk) (166)


Sun January 29, 2012
(ABC) Strange Dolphins reported to talk in their sleep...in Whale, not Dolphinese  (abcnews.go.com) (44)
(9 News) Interesting Caffeine may alter women's estrogen levels, BUT YOU BETTER KEEP THAT COFFEE COMING, YOU SON OF A BIATCH  (9news.com) (79)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Very Large Array antenna time lapse? Check. Geeky motion graphics? Check. Awesomeness? Check  (vimeo.com) (38)
(io9) Amusing Archeologists found world's oldest "yo mama" joke. Still, it's younger than your mother  (io9.com) (34)
(CBS News) Obvious You you own an Apple iProduct? Well, then you are a horrible person and you should feel bad  (cbsnews.com) (452)
(Daily Mail) Cool Ohh, Global warming not scary enough for you? It bores you? Well how about FREEZING TO DEATH IN A NEW ICE AGE? There, that ought to keep 'em in line. Now where's my research grant?  (dailymail.co.uk) (394)
(Some Guy) Obvious MPAA Exec: We don't really understand this confounded internet  (techdirt.com) (221)
(Discover) Cool Sun trifecta complete: hypnotizing, towering loops of magnetic plasma erupt in a flare  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (15)
(Science Daily) Interesting Life found on dead hydrothermal vents. Which makes them not so dead, Mr. Science-Pants  (sciencedaily.com) (22)
(Mental Floss) Interesting Six hugely successful products originally invented for something else. Behold the wonderful mysteries of Listerine  (mentalfloss.com) (46)
(YouTube) Cool This AK-47 comes with all the add-ons -- drum magazine, night sights, chainsaw, selective fire switch...wait, what?  (youtube.com) (76)


Sat January 28, 2012
(TechEBlog) Silly Geeky acts of vandalism  (techeblog.com) (73)
(Some Guy) Amusing Things scientists write in research papers...and what they actually mean  (recyclexp.net) (49)
(Discover) Cool Blasting out a billion tons of matter didn't satisfy the Sun last week, so it did it again. Twice as big  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (47)
(Discovery) Spiffy The coolest pictures of an albino hummingbird you'll see all day. You're welcome  (news.discovery.com) (30)
(LA Times) Interesting To cut production costs, an Ohio congressman has introduced a bill that would require pennies be made out of steel, instead of just doing away with the worthless things altogether  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (144)
(CBS News) Spiffy Marijuana mouth spray could hit store shelves by 2013. Look for it in supermarkets between the Yodels and Doritos  (cbsnews.com) (39)
(swtorpano.com) Cool A stunning collection of high-resolution panoramas from the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG  (swtorpano.com) (119)
(LA Times) Cool That's one small block for LEGO man, one giant block for LEGO-kind  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (55)
(UPI) Scary Researchers observe how a new virus evolves and how diseases can quickly gain dangerous mutations. Interesting tag rapidly mutates into Scary tag  (upi.com) (27)
(Popular Science) Cool Challenge: Off-the-grid, sustainable living and food production. Difficulty: In the middle of Chicago at an abandoned meat-packing plant  (popsci.com) (48)
(Wired) Cool X-ray laser heats aluminum to almost the temperature of a microwave burrito  (wired.com) (20)


Fri January 27, 2012
(Science Daily) Strange Rap music powers medical sensor. It makes aneurysm patients say "UHHHHHHHHHHHH, NA NA NA NA"  (sciencedaily.com) (20)
(Some Guy) Cool January 20, 1992. Today was a good day  (murkavenue.tumblr.com) (36)
(Smithsonian) Cool In 1920, world's first "portable stovepipe wireless telephone" was demonstrated in the pages of the Sandusky (Ohio) Register. Range of 500 yards, but unfortunately no apps  (blogs.smithsonianmag.com) (18)
(Mental Floss) Strange Five "Doctor Who" stories ripped from the headlines. *DUN DUN*  (mentalfloss.com) (55)
(Some Guy) Spiffy 69 year old paleontologist collaborates on detailed study of old bone with 19 year old undergrad  (bozeman-magpie.com) (59)
(Discover) Cool This is what happens when you take your dog star out to go twinkle  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (6)
(G4TV) Stupid Capcom inserts Pac-Man into Street Fighter title. The tag explains the rest  (g4tv.com) (112)
(Mental Floss) Interesting Finally, one of life's mysteries solved. Now someone tell me why fancy ketchup is so damn fancy  (mentalfloss.com) (43)
(Detroit Free Press) Cool Antichrist... Antichrist... Antichrist... PAYDAY  (freep.com) (11)
(The Onion) Satire Scientists: 'Look, one-third of the human race has to die for civilization to be sustainable, so how do we want to do this?'  (theonion.com) (123)
(Comedy Central) Silly Thought you'd gotten over those horrific head models of Beavis and Butthead from a couple weeks ago? Well, here's a model Professor Farnsworth to keep the nightmares coming  (ccinsider.comedycentral.com) (15)
(Government Technology) Interesting Did you know we had a Federal CTO? Well, he quit  (govtech.com) (18)
(The Consumerist) Fail The greatest threat in the new Resident Evil game? Typos  (consumerist.com) (40)
(Yahoo) Followup Salvage divers, who have apparently never watched a single sci-fi movie, ever, plan to return to investigate an extremely large and mysterious object they discovered on the bottom of the Baltic Sea  (news.yahoo.com) (86)
(BBC) Ironic Users of popular remote control software warned to stop using it because it might allow people to remotely control their computer  (bbc.co.uk) (14)
(Short List) Interesting The history of Google. No searching necessary  (shortlist.com) (7)
(Some Estonian) Dumbass Minister who deleted Facebook comments on his page about ACTA claims he did it because he was 'running out of space'  (empirechronicles.co.uk) (25)
(Science Daily) Obvious Radical new theory explains the origin, evolution, and nature of life. Apparently devolved through repeated multiplication of six times nine  (sciencedaily.com) (68)
(Guardian) Dumbass The Science Delusion  (guardian.co.uk) (112)
(USA Today) Stupid Want to heat a room, but can't tolerate those icky $20 space heaters? Has Dyson got the product for you  (usatoday.com) (85)
(The Register) Spiffy Nobel winners invent new way to distill alcohol. Science: it works, female members of the family Canidae  (theregister.co.uk) (12)
(Jalopnik) Fail How to senselessly destroy a Lamborghini  (jalopnik.com) (48)
(MSNBC) PSA "Bus sized asteroid to give Earth a close shave." It looks younger with the beard  (msnbc.msn.com) (31)
(ZDNet) Fail Ubuntu to use HUD instead of menus. Still no cure for Unity  (zdnet.com) (62)
(Wired) Interesting The world's first computer password may as well have been 1234 or password. Damn, now I have to update my Fark account again  (wired.com) (21)
(New Scientist) Scary The Thing is now only the second-scariest thing found in Antarctica  (newscientist.com) (32)
(Mental Floss) Interesting From a 16-year-old chicken to a 255-year-old tortoise, these pets lived way longer than most  (mentalfloss.com) (29)

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