Drew Curtis' FARK.com -- Tech Archives for '2006-11-05 23:59:59'

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Japanese probe named "Rising Sun" sends back its first pictures, attacks Pearl Harbor

Foods we will be eating in 25 years

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10 Most Impressive Photos of our Universe

The weirdest clock ever the damn thing is powered by a fruit

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The ultimate archive of "Hello, World" programs

(bismark tribune)

North Dakota to launch cellular ballons to repair gaps in coverage. "It's going to happen - there's just too much demand for it," governor says

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Machine has been invented to encourage children to work out while they are playing computer games

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(MaineToday.com)

Can our oil problems be solved by two high-school girls?

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(Some Expo)

Caption these game playing characters

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Pimp your home with these 7 gadgets

(India Times)

UNICEF creates computer game to inform young people about AIDS, apparently unaware that the kids having sex aren't the ones playing computer games

Britain is experiencing critical shortage of sperm

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Sat November 04, 2006:

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(Gizmodo)

HP ink costs more than blood and booze

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Man blames virus for uploading child porn pics on computer: Also forced him to pose as 13 year old girl online. Oh, those clever virus writers

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Deep web searching - how to do online research beyond Google and Wikipedia

How to live 20 percent longer? Chill out, dude

Why young people don't use condoms

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How different game genres evolved

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If you download free music, your computer will be hacked

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FCC endorses broadband over power lines. Your browsing will soon become more powerful

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(MIT Technology Review)

MIT nerds create a bacteria that smells like a banana

(Technology Evangelist)

Minneapolis gets a city-wide, high-speed wireless Internet network, thanks to the money freed up by their successful homelessness prevention program, 'winter'

New high-tech game of tag uses GPS to locate digital icons of players who try not to be seen. Mr. E.R. Bradshaw of Napier Court, Black Lion Rd, London SE5 unavaliable for comment

Study finds that even though global warming will kill off the fish, there will be plenty of bugs to eat. All hail our new insect overlords

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Learn how paintballs are made

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(InformationWeek)

Today's "some day you smug Mac guys are gonna get a virus, just you wait and see" article

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Is the end near? Several new books explore technological innovations and the need for radical lifestyle overhaul in the race against time to save the planet

The incredible apple peeling Rube-Goldberg contraption

(Physorg.com)

Researchers develop a "pulsing gel" that they plan to use to power tiny robots, totally missing the marketing potential in the adult industry

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Mac Users Sharing Dashboard Screenshots

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Sandia's Z machine melts diamond to puddle in experiments on capsule for nuclear-fusion fuel

Professor shunned for bigfoot research

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Fri November 03, 2006:

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Dinosaurs lived for 300,000 years after the meteor strike that wiped them out

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Woman who had entire digestive system transplanted eats for first time. Plans for chili supper fundraiser on hold for now

(VGB)

Sims 3, Sims Wii, Sims II Holiday Edition, SimCity, and some non-Sims games coming from EA between 2007 and 2009

Study: many people with bipolar disorder also have ADHD. EVERYBODY MANIC

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Vying for the title of worst top 10 list ever, ABC News puts together list of 10 worst technology names, SCSI and TWAIN feel left out

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(Nintendojo)

New trailer for Super Smash Brothers Brawl, featuring actual gameplay, new stages. Oh yeah, and Solid Snake gets a grenade launcher too

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Cingular Math: $15/month = free ; no word on why you can't use their math to calculate your bill

(Some Geek)

Next year's cooltoys you wont be able to afford

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Viagra found to help premature babies born with congenital heart disease. Um... yeah, that's what we need it for honey, it's for the kids

Sony to sell worlds lightest notebook, will burn your house down 3 times faster

If you're one of the three suckers who actually bought music from MSN Music, Microsoft has just screwed you even further

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On November 8th, Mercury will cross in front of the sun, and about half the world will be able to see it

(Some Dev Guy)

9 Things developers want more than money. 10th one is a date with someone not named Rosie Palm

(Null Hypothesis)

Microbes taste nasty on purpose. Men and crabs agree

(4)

Salty fog is the new terrorist threat to your power grid. Wait, what?

Microsoft makes pact with Novell in an effort to harmonize their products. Gee whiz, a RSOD with Microsoft and Novell harmonies, I can hardly wait

The most detailed world map of mammals, birds and amphibians ever produced shows the need for a major paradigm shift regarding how to go about protecting endangered species

(Some Fractal)

The physics behind the paintings of Jackson Pollock AKA The Father of Fractal Expressionism

Samsung unveils $200,000 machine-gun equipped sentry robot

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(Trading Markets.com)

Researchers develop new spray-on treatment for premature ejaculation; for some reason, topical ointments don't work no matter how quickly you rub them on

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(Some NASA Guy)

The Solar Optical Telescope onboard Japan's Hinode spacecraft has opened its doors and started snapping some amazing pictures

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(CIO Tech Informer)

It is now easier to install Windows on a Mac than on a PC

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Astronomer proposes cooling Earth by launching trillions of small discs into space to form a vast cloud blocking the sun. Kenny G and Abba CDs solicited

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Toilet paper on the face now a thing of the past. Liquid bandage stops bleeding instantly

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Thu November 02, 2006:

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(Gamepolitics.com)

Video games can cure ADHD. Up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down secret code can treat ED

(Autoblog)

Want to make your Hummer-driving neighbor's junk shrivel? Here's how

(Fox Soccer)

German Club Bayern Munich threatens to sue YouTube. Says it hurts fee based FC Bayern TV. Obviously they don’t know what the Hun has done for German porn on the net

Latest ranking of chipmakers is out. Intel still #1. What's more surprising, that Texas Instruments is #3 or that AMD isn't even in the top 10?

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Researchers determine that orgasms will help you live longer - Here comes the science

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Fresh from "bad ideas 101" comes the promise of a rocket-jet racing league

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Remember when Youtube dropped many Comedy Central clips? No? Well, it may not matter now

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Military admits its malfunctioning radar was to blame for dozens of cars "going haywire" as they drove past it

If current trends continue, there will be no fish in the sea within the next 50 years. Also if trends continue, you will weigh 10 tons when you die

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Six international anti-spam groups combine to form Voltron

Bush: You can't have global warming research information. Cheney: Not yours

(68)

(Nature)

Scientists describes our ancestors' first sexy encounter with neanderthals: "they saw each other as physically and socially appropriate... and they got it together"

Coolest video of electricity you'll see all day

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(PC World)

With the imminent launch of Windows Vista , two things are certain: 1) It'll involve lots of hoopla, and 2) that hoopla will fail to match that generated to coincide with the arrival of Windows 95. With video goodness

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Chinese researchers find extraterrestrial outhouse that predates human life. "The facilities accommodated number one, two, or three,"

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First, they said pills were great. Then they said no, they lead to teen suicide. Now, the latest study of anti-depressants say that they are just fine, once again

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Man turns his POS 1972 Vauxhall into world's fastest street car, capable of going from zero to 60 in one second (pic)

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New Romero protege discovers more than half of blogs made under assumed names

CNET grades every congress member on their technology votes for the entire decade. Initial results indicate more clogged tubes than originally thought

Forgetful? A virus may be eating your brain. Forgetful? A virus...why these pancakes??

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(PhysOrg)

Irish securities market accurately predicts U.S. elections

A gallery of Hubble's best pictures. You're welcome

Viral fossil brought back to life. This can only end well

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New cell phone targets the over 50 crowd with giant buttons and an oldschool dial tone, which begs the question: do we really want to make it easier for the elderly to be on the phone while driving?

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Top 5 greatest James Bond car chases

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(TCPalm)

The good news is that no major hurricanes struck Florida this year. The bad news is that killer bees have arrived in their place

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Scientists develop nanocoating that kills 99.9 percent of viruses, bacteria, and Zunes

Call centres "let down millions." And not because when you have an obvious case of IP address problems, they read the script and make you restart even though it isn't the goddamn problem, as you already told Sanjib. Three times

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20 things you didn't know about lab accidents

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Inventor of Firefox working on web-based OS to bridge the tangled gap between the web and the desktop. God speed young man

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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome may be caused by a congenital brain abnormality

Wed November 01, 2006:

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Flat-screen TVs are killing the planet

UTube.com sues YouTube.com. You can follow the lawsuit on BooHooTube.com

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(Apple Insider)

The new iPod Shuffle has a gigabyte of flash memory, but weighs in at half an ounce and measures only half a cubic inch. Sony, this may be why your video Walkman isn't catching on

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(arstechnica.com)

Voting early and voting often now available outside of Chicago for those lucky enough to be using Deibold equipment

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Most fuel efficient SUVs from 2006. How's that for an oxymoron?

(TG Daily)

Windows Vista packaging revealed, showing they cut corners on the boxes too

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McAfee antispam researchers warn that the latest trend in spamming is using small islands' domains. There are apparently gaping holes in the Christmas Islands domain, so watch out for anything marked .cx

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Creating web addresses using non-Latin letters could permanently break teh Internets

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Power plant companies accused of skirting federal laws. Submitter is shocked to hear of corporations skirting the law

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(Daily Mail)

Breakfast cereal bars have more fat than a half-rack of greasy ribs

Execs say their AOL free strategy still on track. The sooner we have an AOL-free internet, the better

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70% of Dutch use internet. And 50% of them featured in some very interesting photo galleries

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Google's fines for breaching newspapers' copyrights in Belgium reach $43 million, forcing company to break out is backup loose change jar

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Web now contains 100 million (mostly inane) websites. We're going to need more tubes

(matthew berman)

Old-School "Illegal" Internet Activities

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Apple revela iTunes de Latino. Apruebe este acoplamiento por favor. Duke aspira

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Full-service cable company insists "no more free ride" for dotcom providers, insists nonstarter tariff better than raising rates. Bonus: Still the only ISP to turn over subscriber information to the RAI. Ironic tag dodges Obvious for the win

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Cars capable of 100 mpg could be right around the corner... right next to the personal hovercraft

Disillusioned online daters turn to matchmakers, figuring phosphorous poisoning is better than living alone

Microsoft's AdCenter under fire from privacy advocates for providing advertisers with detailed customer information

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(Mobiblu)

Worlds smallest Digital Media Player. New an improved and easier to lose

Microsoft VISTA delayed 18000 years

Three ways to save video from the Internet

(Winding Road Magazine)

New "entry level" Ferrari that you still don't have a prayer of being able to afford caught testing

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Running nine years behind schedule, Skynet, goes on-line, apologizes for the delay and will begin bombing immediately

TV networks crapping their pants as Google making more ad revenue than them. "This is not just a cyclical issue - this is deep structural change, rather like global warming"

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(autoblog.com)

Jay Leno now owns the coolest, and probably the only, bio-diesel supercar. (pic)

(LVTimes)

Red wine extract helps obese mice eat high-fat diet, live long, healthy life. Scientists say too early to start swilling barrels of red wine. But you can never be too safe

Researchers spend a whole lot of time, and need a whole lot of words, to explain a phenomenon submitter can sum up as 'whisky dick'

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(Science Daily)

'Dachshund' gene changes cancer cells back to normal

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Landmark government study examines depression. Results are described as being a bit of a bummer

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Wachowski brothers to make live action version of Speed Racer

In what may be seen as an obvious admission to poorly implemented bloatware, Microsoft prohibits benchmarking of Vista OS

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BBC previews the Wii: "I couldn't help thinking this was more like ritual humiliation than something supposed to be fun."

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Power aware cord shows how much you suck

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UN summit on the internet is held without internet access

If you've got cancer, can you just hold on a few more years while science attempts to perfect the jack-o-lantern lid? Great, thanks

(Winding Road Magazine)

Having succeeded in making ridiculously large wheels that have spinners, encrusted jewels and gold plating, the industry is doing away with spokes altogether

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(Times)

Morality, that knowledge of what is right and what is wrong, is hard-wired into our brains through evolution

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Reserve the night of November 18th for a shower with some hot, fast starlets

Skin cancer patch cures cancer without the annoying scarring or infection

Tue October 31, 2006:

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New blood substitute in works for head injury; Motorcyclists ready to be guinea pigs

(Drivl)

The seven phases of iPod ownership

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Man loses 41 pound in three months by biking while playing World of Warcraft. He forgot bikes work outside too

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One of the few climatologists who refused to play Chicken Little this hurricane season says a leading researcher "would sell his soul to the Devil to get global warming funding"

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(Tech Digest)

Top 10 reviews of the new Firefox 2.0 web browser. Some pro, some anti, some confused

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Google acquires a wiki company. Search results expected to benefit STEVE EATS POOP greatly

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Google is not at war with East Asia. Google has never been at war with East Asia

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Battle against software pirates intensifies. Letters of Marque revoked

Google begins giving videographers a cut of the advertising money generated by videos posted to YouTube

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(WSMV Nashville)

MySpace, the site that couldn't figure out how to match up a list of known child predators using real names and locations to their database, to implement advanced audio fingerprinting technology to foil illegal music uploads

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If there's something strange / in the neighborhood / who ya gonna call? Paranormal Investigation of NYC. Wait, what?

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Submitter works at NASA so he's getting a kick out of all your replies: Word just in, Hubble is a GO for a fourth servicing mission

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Not news: New candidate for contraceptive pill has no side effects. News: Should be approved and on the market in a few years. Giggity giggity: It's for men

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Monsanto breeding the perfect Jack-o'-Lantern pumpkin. Future experiments include turkeys with seasoned cornbread entrails, a herd of flying reindeer and a rabbit that lays eggs

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Nintendo Wii game reviews

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Gentlemen, we can rebuild her. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic cow. Theresa will be that cow. Better than she was before. Better, stronger, faster

(Science Daily)

Researchers can now look at a brain scan and tell whether you speak more than one language