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Sun August 26, 2012
Behind the scenes Full Metal Jacket? There's an app for that
Latest "Treknology" made real: Vulcan Mind Melds
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat promises "a blockbuster every single week" for season 7. BBC America promises 30 minutes of commercials, edited episodes, and delaying broadcast of new episodes whenever they can
Space historian James Oberg recounts and debunks a few myths about Neil Armstrong
Apple v. Samsung jury awarded damages on products it found non-infringing, ignored judge's instructions, ignored prior art because "it was bogging us down"
Apple vs Samsung juror: "It was quite clear that Samsung was simply in the business of making knockoffs." Haters: "It's still real to us, dammit"
Sunbathing keeps North American bugs healthy, except in Jersey where they just spray themselves orange
Woman gives birth to her own grandson. Grandma and baby doing fine. Family tree, not so much
It's like "Oh God... Oh God... Oh God... Oh God... Oh God... Oh God... OH GOD" except in this case the white dwarf star dies at the end, and isn't in midget snuff porn
The FDA has approved only 2 of 13 new categories of antibiotics, and makes the approval process difficult to comply with. Naturally, this is a failure of capitalism
Bill Gates decides after 25 years he can spare a few bucks to update Microsoft's logo "It's awfully bland, particularly if you saw it in one color"
The Robot Hall of Fame is allowing the public to help its decision this year. As for the nominees, they can bite my shiny metal ass
Sat August 25, 2012
Finally, a Kickstarter campaign that's actually fun. Help contribute to build a Millennium Falcon float for Peter Mayhew, for the "Chewbaccus" parade in New Orleans
"Then as his men stared on in disbelief, Inouye crawled over, pried the grenade from his severed right hand (with his still functioning/attached left hand), and lobbed it at the soldier that had just fired on him"
The new Furby is here and AAGGGGGHHHHHH AAIIIEEEEE KILL IT KILL IT WITH FIRE
Top 10 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Redheads: oh god yes, yep, WTF?, definitely, okay, oh yes, eh-maybe, you know it, should be #1, and you've got to be kidding?? (warning: slideshow)
Neil Armstrong's close call (with video clip)
One thousand ants to be fitted with tiny radio receivers in an attempt to learn more about THEM and their behavior
Hormones explain why girls like dolls, boys like trucks. G.I. Joe still confused
LeVar Burton discusses the new Reading Rainbow iPad app, believes that this new medium will take the show upward like a butterfly in the sky, perhaps even twice as high
2013 Ram 1500 pickup will be first in U.S. to offer hands-free texting. Difficulty: It's still a Chrysler
Your next smartphone case may be made up of the same material NASA uses to protect astronauts in space from harmful radiation waves
Google's seeing-hand patent shows its smart glove ambitions are finally approaching Farkers' search parameters
Planned British supercar will achieve 69 MPG and leak oil at almost 200 MPH
Scientists make breakthrough in producing man-made lava, for which there are endless applications in the field of total landscape destruction
Hundreds of racing pigeons disappear after being given tern by tern directions
Scientists have found a way to convert blood cells to stem cells. Still no cure for cancer
Now we know why the Japanese tsunami was so huge
The only thing creepier than a creepy humanoid robot is a creepy humanoid robot staring at itself in the mirror to gain self-awareness
Coolest graphic of every hurricane since 1851 you will see today
Fri August 24, 2012
Samsunk
The actor inside R2-D2 was not a fan of the guy in C-3PO
Geoff Johns says the newest Green Lantern, Baz, is an Arab-American
The Oatmeal strikes again with $1 million raised for Tesla Museum
Star Wars comedy series announced. Believed to be more hilarious than Episode II
Windows is checking for available updates. This is done by sending all your money to Microsoft
The ten biggest unresolved plotlines in DC Comics history
Science will never be able to replace religion because people are hard-wired to be stupid
Diablo III director completely unprepared for jump in difficulty between PR Nightmare and PR Inferno
Thai Buddhist temple claims that the late Steve Jobs is now living in a "parallel universe" as a "mid-level angel." No idea how he gets those turtlenecks on over his wings
Championship weightlifters from the ranks of Fark? It's more likely than you think
Five things you didn't know could make you smarter. Cracking open the skulls of your brighter enemies & feasting on the goo within oddly not listed
Spider-Pole, Spider-Pole, does whatever a Spider-Pole does (as long as there are two guys to spin the ladder)
'Poo powered motorcycle' finally unveiled. Makers quick to point out it runs on livestock waste, not human waste - also known as 'election cycle'
'Naked Darth Vader' approach could tame antibiotic resistant superbugs. Wait, what?
Paleontologist rips idea of "living fossils" as rebuke to evolution, says coelacanth, duck-billed platypus and horseshoe crab are more like hipsters, who find their own obscure backwater and live in it forever without growing up
Inventor envisions 21st-century hovercraft, featuring computerized motion control, LED lighting, and sleek lines. No word if automated eel-filling mechanism will be included
New Screenshots of GTA:V show off something completely new and exciting for the series: a police chase
OK Kids if you can't get along and share nobody gets it. Are you happy now? One more word and we will turn this car right around and I mean it
Incredible Dino vs. King Kong drawing by Art Adams (and you don't need to sit through a nearly 4 hour movie to enjoy it)
The Donkey Kong record has been broken again by someone who isn't named Steve Wiebe or Billy Mitchell
What do you invest in after dumping $400m worth of Facebook shares? Two words: Meat Printer
Security Protip: before being interviewed on TV, wipe passwords off whiteboard
On second thought, using your GPS to exit the ferry wasn't such a brilliant idea
Insane in the squid brain
Thu August 23, 2012
Why your 'friends' don't follow you on Facebook anymore
NASA to name the Curiosity landing site after Ray Bradbury
Facebook updates iOS app to be faster, "rebuilt from the ground up"
Pinterest may be cool to some, weird for others, here are five baffling things about it explained
Titan has become Jan Brady. "Well all I hear all day long at NASA is how great Mars is at this, or how wonderful Mars is at that. Mars, Mars, Marsǃ"
How a parody of _50 Shades of Grey_ made it to the iTunes Top 5 list. Yes, your Mom probably has a copy
Meet the professional Googler whose job is to search for questionable, disturbing, and illegal porn and scour it from Google's website
Typography & Semiotics nerd alert: Deconstructing Microsoft's new logo
New scientific theory on origin of universe: Somebody left the intergalactic fridge door open
Your toolbox: $25 slab of injected polystyrene. Mythbusters' Adam Savage's toolbox: doctor's medical satchels handcrafted in aluminum perched on rolling scissor lift, organized on principle of "first-order retrievability"
Video game designed for predatory fish to determine organizational characteristics determines two important facts: 1) bluegills are griefers, and 2) maybe we should put the predators farther away from the respawn point
Curiosity captures images of streetlight on Mars
A sampling of Wonder Woman's villains that resembles the cast of 'Freaks'
Scientists intelligently design a spray that keeps bananas fresh for up to two weeks. Kirk Cameron overjoyed
How many alien civilizations exist?
War drivers celebrate German proposal to give government the ability to take over your wireless network in emergencies. What could go wrong?
Joss Whedon to become a primary architect of the entire Marvel Movie Universe...and there was much rejoicing
Why evolution-rejecting-Righties and vaccine-rejecting-Lefties are flip sides of the same authority-mistrusting coin
Best Buy has the new "Diamond Series. High Speed" two foot HDMI cable for just $934.99. 'Especially made for a Dumbass'
Google uses a custom-made bike to bring Street View to a remote town in the Canadian Arctic inaccessible by road. Researchers shocked to discover only 3 Tim Horton's in the resulting images
Unearthed video of teleconference reveals top officials at Fukushima nuclear plant suffering visible meltdown as tsunami disaster struck facility. Immortal quote: "I want to cope but cannot come up with the answers"
Science fiction Sunday school comics from the 1970s were trippy as balls
Your password is slightly more secure than that piece of wire that keeps the door to your storage shed closed
Ingredients for black holes detected in Milky Way's core. Mostly nougat
Logitech is run by Farkers
Wed August 22, 2012
Ten myths about space travel. Article was submitted tomorrow and needs to be greenlit to avoid fatal time paradox
Now that Curiosity is doing donuts on Mars, NASA prepares to launch a pair of spacecraft to go study Earth's radiation belts, solar storms, and how the Fantastic Four were created
Rob Liefield leaves DC 'to preserve my sanity.' No mention of preserving readers eyesight to his art style however
Sony ports its popular audio editing software from Windows to Mac, confusing Mac users who thought Sony stopped making anything cool around 1996
Now in Jerusalem, you can have Wi-Fi on your ass
Instead of diamonds for his 50th anniversary, Spider-Man gets a sidekick
You know those giant inflatables with the flappy arms? Well, DARPA just weaponized them
Ubisoft's PC games suffer a 95% piracy rate says Ubisoft's CEO. The remaining 5% probably got sucked up his ass to fill the void where those statistics came from
Nerdgasm alert: Complete MSL Curiosity Descent In Full Quality Enhanced 1080p
How teachers are using iPads for classroom management. Surprisingly, not by smacking the loudmouth kids with it
Canned Air now available, President Skroob approves
People from Syracuse, NY in the east to Milwaukee in the west sound weird and are obliviously ruining traditions in the English language that are over a thousand years old. Here comes the linguistics
The 1980s were a great time to be a kid, as there were lots of cool toys, from GI Joe to Transformers to He-Man. But as these 9 toylines show, not every gimmick worked
DARPA looks to make cyberwarfare routine. Anonymous source suggests that this will not end well
Old & busted: Streetlights. New hotness: Dead pixels
Blowing up asteroids with Neil DeGrasse Tyson. You're welcome
Hackers break into University of South Carolina computers, are delighted to find personal info, transcripts and like such as
So Samsung replicates Apple products. Who cares and why should this be illegal? Harvard author claims the world would be better if more companies just copied, like Samsung
Dear Madam, Gems, tuning forks and vitamins are not viable health treatments. Stop claiming it is. Sincerely, The Iowa Board of Medicine
T-Mobile to announce unlimited, no-throttling, no Verizon/Google discrimination one week before they receive the iPhone
Fandroid site reviews new Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, calls it "an embarrassing, lazy, arrogant money grab"
Couple who met while playing Gears of War online used a Retro Lancer to cut their wedding cake and some noobs
Samsung continues to use the GOP playbook in its closing arguments
Red alert: Russians on International Space Station raise shields
Tesla is also the father of wifi. Unfortunately, the article does not say if he finally figured out how to make 802.11b backwards compatible with 802.11a, so I think we are gonna have to wait a bit longer
Assange: I'll come to Sweden to answer the allegations if Sweden promises not to extradite me to the US. Sweden: Well, since America is calling all the shots here, we'll have to ask them first to see if we are allowed to do that
The brain has a previously unknown plumbing system that blasts out waste by flushing it with the brain's cleaning solution - cerebrospinal fluid. This explains much, so, so much
The coolest wedding photo you'll see all night
Tue August 21, 2012
News: Major advance in the war on cancer will make very early detection VERY cheap and VERY fast. Fark: Scientist responsible is 15 years old. Still no cure ... hey give him a chance he won't be 15 forever
Everyone's a little bit racist and a sell-out, even good ole Dr. Seuss
Microsoft to offer Personal Licenses for home-built PCs with Windows 8, changes EULA so simple people can understand
The Disney corporation would like your kids to know that open source software is risky and dangerous and should never be used (with video propaganda goodness)
Nintendo Power no longer holding A, pressing Start
About.com still exists and is worth $300 million to Barry Diller
Curiosity completes the first Hokey Pokey on Mars. That's what it's all about
Lunar X-Prize Team ups the ante on last day of Kickstarter. Will allow eight donors to drive rover on Moon. FARK: At the Apollo 17 Landing Site
The Accidental History of the @ Symbol
If you wanted to hear the theme to Game of Thrones sung by a cat, here ya go
After 506 years, Leonardo da Vinci gets the last laugh
Google says patent wars "not helpful to innovation", as it launches its latest patent lawsuit
Two years ago a research group was hoping their evolution-based approach would result in improved medicines. Now they done just that. Still no cure for creationism
Amazon introduces glacier cloud storage, refuses to acknowledge global warming
Scientists discover first evidence of a missing planet, devoured by its red giant star. Still no sign of tiny baby-sized rocket
The illustrated evolutionary history of dragons
Forget glass bottomed swimming pools, check out this glass bottomed concept plane
What if it turns out WE are the super-advanced race in the universe?
Dogs who chase their own tails may have a form of OCD. Your dog wants to wash his hands
A Minecraft experiment teaches us about what dicks people can be when confronted with limited resources
California wants labels on genetically modified food, presumably with the word "tastier" in large bold letters
How about a Hoverbike while you're waiting on that flying car?
Ten new owl species discovered in the Philippines. YA RLY
Woman goes blind due to pigeon poop
Mon August 20, 2012
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