Drew Curtis' FARK.com -- Tech Archives for '2006-11-19 23:59:59'

In 1992, a meteor brighter than the full Moon streaked across parts of several US states during its 40 seconds of glory before crashing into this car in Peekskill, New York (pic)

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(Some University)

Interesting: Scientists discover that a virtual limb in a virtual reality can ease amputees' phantom pain. With screenshot and pic goodness

World's largest "digger" eats bulldozers for breakfast (pic)

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Space mirrors might be used to beam microwave energy to heat up Martian surface, find Sarah Connor

UN says that broadband internet is as important to a business as water or electricity. In othe news members of the UN Fark while they're at work too

(Great Falls Tribune)

Bottled water is less safe than tap water, is four times more expensive than gasoline and uses more than 1.5 million barrels of oil to make 26 billion bottles that will all be thrown away. How naive

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(Amazon.com)

Amazon to offer Xbox 360 core for $100 (limited time and quantity)

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Scientists introduce predator into lizard population to study natural selection

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(TECH.BLORGE.com)

Five reasons to detest Macs

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The world’s most high-tech urinals

Sat November 18, 2006:

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(KRT Wire)

Having learned their lesson from raining blubber chunks, scientists will load and sink whale carcass with tons of railroad wheels, then film its eventual extirpation

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Top ten movie spaceships

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Remember that deal between SuSE and Microsoft? Yeah, it was a trap. Microsoft now claiming stolen code, and saying "look, SuSE fessed up"

Research finds more Canadians are wearing food instead of eating it

Iphone concepting

Japanese company comes out with the most useless USB product yet, the USB eye warmer

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Best Leonid meteor shower in years forecast for eastern U.S. and western Europe tonight as earth passes through dense trail of debris left by Comet Tempel-Tuttle

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Guy smashes PlayStation 3 in front of hundreds of fanboys, hilarity ensues

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Adolescent girls who live within half a mile of a park are significantly more physically active than other girls, with the exception of girls who live within half a mile of a Catholic Youth Organization clubhouse

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70 eminent scientists give their predictions of what the next 50 years will bring to New Scientist. Still no flying cars or Orgasmatrons

UCLA chemist provides insights into Chemistry's periodic table. Tom Lehrer unavailable for witty song

Good: The Clinton White House's IT manager has her own Wiki. Bad: She got kicked upstairs by the Bush White House. Fark: Her academic degrees came from a Motel 6 in Wyoming

Happiness survey finds that men 18 to 29 are the saddest age group. Man up, nancies

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Three out of every four California schoolchildren could not complete all six tasks in the state's annual fitness test. Is it that hard to walk a mile in 11 minutes?

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By 2011, mind-machine interfaces will allow paralyzed patients to operate switches, find Sarah Connor

Fri November 17, 2006:

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How to tweak Firefox 2

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Neanderthal bone gives DNA sample (with bonus Neanderthal come hither pic)

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(Popular Science)

The coolest periodic table you will see all day

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(SmashMyPS3)

Mirroring the anoyance of Farkers everywhere, man buys PS3, promptly smashes it in front people waiting in line to buy one. PS3 pentafecta achieved

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Fox News reaches a new low with graphic robot tadpole sex

Leaked Nokia N97 pictures, features 5-megapixel camera and 20GB hard drive

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(FP Passport)

For $20,000 you can have your own, legal police siren to cut through traffic in Moscow

Scientists attempt to send 50-microseconds signal into the past. Next on the agenda: Delorean, Gray's Sports Almanac (1955)

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180 members of UN reach deal to cut emissions. USA says it can accomplish everything in a week if they shut down a few Taco Bells

(Some Jones Guy)

Wikipedia, the website that was unbanned in China, now banned again

(PC World)

The 13 most embarrassing Web moments

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Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google to standardized sitemap protocol. Still no cure for Junkmail

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BellSouth lickspittle toadies up to FCC chairman ... search party out looking for his dignity

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Researcher blames quiet hurricane season on El Nino being on Mexican time

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(Nat'l Geographic)

More smarty-pants crap from Hubble...Boy, are they going to feel dumb when they realize the Unverse is only 6000 years old

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Ballmer says Linux "infringes our intellectual property," which is the only time you'll see "Ballmer" and "intellectual" in the same sentence

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Remember when your mom said that fish was brain food? Turns out she may be right... eating fish significantly lowers risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease

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(Der Spiegel)

BMW's new hydrogen-fueled car is sleek, sexy, stylish -- and puts more strain on the environment than driving a heavy diesel truck

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Indiana University researchers come to startling conclusion: The most effective drink to help athletes recover after exercise is... chocolate milk

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"Hugh Hefner has always been a gamer"

(WKYT)

People waiting in line for PS3s at the Best Buy in Lexington, KY had to endure both a drive-by pellet-gun shooting and police chasing down a suspected rapist in their midst

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Israel is developing a "bionic hornet" that would be able to navigate its way down narrow alleyways to target otherwise unreachable enemies, such as people firing rockets. Find Sarah Connor

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People who own aggressive dogs such as pitbulls have significantly more criminal convictions. Your dog wants a plea bargain

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Group of "super lions" has evolved in Africa. EVERYBODY PANIC

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The 10 best Firefox 2 extensions

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(Cyberdyne Systems)

Scientists create robot that can discover itself, regenerate, hunt Sarah Connor

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New prosthetic foot is so advanced that it may allow amputee soldiers back into battle. Sorry Stumpy Joe

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Too lazy to read the Bible? It's now available in blog form

Thu November 16, 2006:

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(uneasysilence.com)

Hacking the XBox 360’s HD-DVD for the PC

China unblocks Wikipedia after year-long ban. Er, correction: Wikipedia was never blocked in China

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When you have only 10 PS3s to sell and 50 customers waiting outside, just put ten chairs in the parking lot and have everybody race for it. What could possibly go wrong?

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McAfee's Global Threat Group warns that all 25 computers with Windows 2000 still installed are at risk for new exploit

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Study says Date Rape Drug use not widespread. Most who think they were drugged just drank too much

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Amount of crap produced by amateurs will soon exceed the amount of crap produced by professionals on the web, Google says. Here's some more crap from an amateur to clog the tubes

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(Sony)

Now that you have your $4000.00 PS3, install another OS on it, cause you're that rich

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Coffee machine that runs on .NET. Java surrenders

(Some recently unemployed IT guy)

Top 10 data loss disasters. Submitter will back up his stuff soon, honestly. He'll get around to it. Really

Research shows that the impact in plane crashes is often survivable, so more airplanes are adding air bags to the seats where passengers are at greatest risk

In Queensland, Australia, it's snowing in the south, over 104° Farenheit in the north, the coast is on fire, and Satan is devouring Judas, Brutus, and Cassius in the center

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HDTVs are turning Americans into couch potatoes. As if standard definition programming didn't wreck them enough

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Can't see the Leonid meteor shower? Try hearing it instead

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Pollution created "global warming". Now Nobel winning scientists says pollution could combat "global warming". These people just need to make up their minds

Scientist able to convert brain waves into music for your health. Now if only they could convert my spreadsheets into music for the bottom line. Gordon Way enraged

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Blizzard bans Linux-using World of Warcraft players. Next up: bans for players using Logitech mice

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13% of the population of Seattle identifies themselves as gay or bi-sexual; this percentage jumps to 15% when the Seahawks have a home game

First there was fingerprint, then retinal scanning, now the latest in biometric security - rectal scanning

(Winding Road Magazine)

Ferrari readying new 4x4. Carbon-fiber gunrack and Calvin "piss on Porsche" sticker expected to be popular options (with pics)

(Mac News World)

Microsoft made the Zune ugly on purpose in order to dilute MP3 players from valuable fashion statements to utilitarian commodities

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If you got an older HDTV that can only run 1080i, chances are if you're getting a PS3 soon yo'll be playing 720p games at 420p res

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Pedal-powered laptop gives geeks a reason to exercise

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17th century sword contains the earliest known application of nanotechnology

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Sony's latest multimedia phone boasts a built-in TV tuner and video recording capabilities

Stem cells help dogs with muscular dystrophy. Your dog wants federal funding

Scientists unlock DNA secrets of 38,000 year old skull, still unsure why The Predator didn’t take it

(WRAL)

Homeless hired to stand in line to buy PS3

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New study finds that happy people get sick less often. So when you're going in for your next HIV test, remember, think positive

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Dell customer gets refund for not installing XP, Satan seen putting on ski jacket in background

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Daily dose of chocolate lowers risk of heart attack, say most awesome scientists ever

There are special cells within heart tissue that are similar to stem cells

Wed November 15, 2006:

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GM creates revolutionary new keyfob that remotely shows tire pressure, fuel level and other current stats. Cool tag for those who wrote this off after "GM creates revolutionary"

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Two years of R&D: $30 million. Building 100,000 Zunes: $10 million. Having the folks at CNN laugh at your product and then show off their new iPod shuffles: Priceless

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Just in time for Christmas: Zune isn't compatible with Vista. Take that, Apple

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CopyBot wreaks havoc in "Second Life," literally threatening virtual economy. Not to mention angering basement dwellers everywhere

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(FP Passport)

How Microsoft could become the greenest company on Earth, overnight

Today Show compares new Zune with older monochrome non-video iPod. Nope. Nothing misleading there

Fearing widespread fraud, eBay will restrict sale of the new PlayStation 3s

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New study finds that those who attend religious services regularly as they get older live longer lives than those who don't. Still no cure for cancer, religious flamewars

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"Former HP chair pleads not guilty, blames desk." (Some headlines just write themselves)

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(Gamespot.com)

The list of all-time top 40 PS2 games contains only one from 2006. Thank goodness the PS3's graphics means better games

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(Some Text Jedi)

The original Star Wars trilogy, animated in ASCII

Scientists on mapping the Neanderthal genome: "It's so easy, even a caveman could do it"

Honda will make hydrogen fuel-cell cars available to the public in two years. Suck it, Big Oil

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Earth's fields may soon reverse. EVERYBODY MAGNETIC

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Elementary school bans handheld video games from campus. Wait till they find out how many fourth-graders will just whip out their RAZR

Nokia-Siemens merger creates huge opportunity for dirty jokes

NFL tells Senate Judiciary Committee that cable systems should not have to charge viewers extra to carry NFL Network on main tier of service even as it is embroiled in disputes with Time Warner, Cablevision over that very subject

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Internet startups help applicants clean up their online reps. Most common advice: When applying for new jobs consider deleting any lesbian beer bong pics from your MySpace profile

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Lotus unveils the world's fastest biofuel-powered car, beats the Ferrari F430

(New Straits Times)

Scientists discover world's second smallest fish, claim the one they let go was much smaller

Spraying WD-40 on your squeaky computer and mailing your hard drive wrapped in old dirty socks are less than ideal ways to treat your data

(Businessweek)

Group convinces FCC to investigate and attack companies that abuse cookies, steal personal information (including Microsoft) - large blue monster named independent prosecutor

Another inconvenient truth to global warming? Siberian bears forgo hibernation to roam the land in a zombie-like fashion

Online multiplayer Halo 3 will be available in the spring of 2007

(Gizmodo)

The perfect Christmas gift for all your MILFy neighbors: a combination mirror/radio for the shower - which also contains a hidden camera and wireless transmitter

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(Space Review)

Having solved pesky issues like ensuring shuttles that go up come down again, NASA finally gets around to the big issue: seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeex iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace

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Attention smokers. If your butt starts a fire, you can be tracked via DNA

Like getting sex advice from Hef: Kevin Mitnick's top 10 computer security tips

Free broadband users are not happy with the quality of their free broadband. What do they expect for nothing ?

(Department of I Want One)

Josef Stalin once tried to breed an army of MonkeyMen

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Steampunk'd laptop

AIM 6.0 will no longer be loaded with endless pop-up advertisements like previous editions. Initial studies indicate only one popup per 3.5 seconds

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Starting Jan. 1, Massachusetts doctors will be required to provide the state with the name of anyone testing positive for HIV

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Bio pen detects bio threats. Invented too late to detect crappy Biodome movie

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Worst polluter in LA? Big Oil. Second worst polluter? Big Celebrity

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The tangle of cables and plugs needed to recharge today's electronic gadgets could soon be a thing of the past

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Non-allergenic cats available next year for $5000. That's one expensive fap

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(Gameshout News)

Hackers have cracked the anti-piracy measures on Microsoft products. The unusual part is that the products are Vista and Outlook 2007, which haven't been released yet

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Now you can play Spyrograph and destroy data at the same time

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French will launch new satellite designed to find smaller, more Earthlike planets

Boost Mobile unveils new phones that automatically track people you add to your buddies list, Sarah Connor

Scientists proudly announce that they can grow brain cells in humans that lack them. Leave a comment about which political party or celebrity will benefit from this in the link to the right. Wipe hands on pants

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Tue November 14, 2006:

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(Some Fossil)

We all know that a large meteor hit the Yucatan Peninsula, causing a mass extinction, right? Well, new evidence shows a different meteor killed off the dinosaurs

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Church of England decides it would be just dandy if doctors let sick or disabled babies die. What, no medical experiments first?

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Want to live until you're 85? Don't be a lard ass, don't smoke, get married and eat your beans, says Captain Obvious and the Research Avengers

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China churning out loads of ugly-ass baby pandas thanks to artificial insemination

(Playlist)

IPods will now integrate with airlines' in-flight entertainment systems, allowing passengers to listen to SkyMall, watch "Bio-Dome" on 2-inch screens

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Newsweek's Dr. Dean Ornish talks smack about Harvard researchers, setting the stage for the dorkiest Celebrity Boxing episode ever

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(Destructoid)

Microsoft to buy Capcom?

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(NDTV)

Adobe India CEO's three-year-old son kidnapped while waiting for school bus

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(Businessweek)

Tip-tip-top of the line: New $1.4 million Bugatti goes from 0 to 62 in 2.5 seconds, $319K Lamborghini clocks in at 3.4 sec, while "cheap" $255K Ferarri Enzo does it in 3.7

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(Engadget)

Engineering students build robot that shall patrol the streets of Wisconsin tasering people

Earth is heading for a cloud of comet dust that could produce an outburst of Leonid meteors on Nov. 19th, with more than 100 per hour expected

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Now you can get a mobile angioplasty from McDonald's after they clog your arteries at their restaurants

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(Some gal)

AMD drops PC line for developing countries after realizing running water was bigger priority