Drew Curtis' FARK.com -- Tech Archives for '2006-12-03 23:59:59'

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The amazing things you can do with Dry Ice

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A pictorial guide to cooking meat using 30 USB ports

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Coolest video of a cicada molting you'll see all day

Brilliantly simple plan by Virgin Atlantic to cut airplane fuel use

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Boeing patents an anti-hijacking device that lands the plane automatically if the crew is killed. "Once activated, no one on board will be able to control the flight". This will end well

Ancient Roman City unearthed by construction workers

High-tech Japanese vending machine makes buying coffee fun

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Latest cure for erectile dysfunction involves patients getting a transfer from a guy who packs more in his genes

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Egyptian government plans to bulldoze entire village located atop pharaonic tombs because town's residents have been plundering them for years. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair

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Creationist TV show host discusses the merits of laser vagina surgery and Miami Vice while holding a toy pistol and wearing a toilet seat around his neck. He's as good a spokesman for creationism as anyone I've seen

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(Popular Science)

"Keeping up with the Joneses" Hippy style. Grow your own home

Sat December 02, 2006:

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Microsoft 'may need a rethink' on Zune

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Na na na na na na na na naaa

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No, you can't operate your garage door on a military frequency. Not yours

(Some Blog)

10 reasons modern keyboards are shiat

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Freezing ovaries may prolong fertility. This begs for a comment about Hilary, or Anne Coulter. Well, Hilary, anyway

Amid storms of controversy, Canada's first for-profit, private emergency room opens

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Synopsis of the Mars Orbiter's mission. With links to the coolest photos of Mars you'll have seen to date, as they were taken with the HiRISE, the most powerful camera ever sent to Mars

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Learn how to improve the appearance of your LCD monitor in Win XP

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People with lexical-gustatory synaesthesia associate tastes for words: "mountain" might taste like bacon, while "gramophone" would have hints of chocolate

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(Some Physicist)

Everyone's favorite quadriplegic, Dr. Stephen Hawking, explains why man should colonize other solar systems. Here comes the science

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Reverse Engineering your THOUGHTS

(The Hawk Eye)

Man invents handheld device to purify vast amounts of water using table salt, donates them to third-world countries

Trace any IP address and see a satellite picture of its location

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Fri December 01, 2006:

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Best Buy testing mobile phone-only stores. The rest of the world shocked to learn Best Buy sold anything other than extended warranties

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(Some NASA Guy)

The coolest video of Leonid meteors hitting the Moon that you'll see this year

(Some Bureaucrat)

Congress is considering legislation that would make it illegal to record music from digital radios and transfer those songs to MP3 players. How they will enforce these new laws is anyone's guess

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(Car and Driver)

Remember when Audi bought Lamborghini and people thought they were insane? It's such a fine line between stupid and clever

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(SciDevNet)

Today's newly discovered greenhouse gas culprit? Hydropower

Scientists build better atomic clock, saying they were always late for movies when they relied on the old ones that lost one second every 60 million years

Despite what those hip Apple commercials tell you, nearly half of all Mac owners are over the age of 55. I was going to insert a funny jab at Apple users here, but then I realized they probably couldn't see the screen

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Two bloggers debate whether Microsoft is innovative. The guy taking the "yea" side used to be the "technical evangelist" in Redmond

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Meddling butterflies decide to piss off anti-evolutionists, evolve into new species, cause rain in New York

Urban living linked to higher rates of bulimia, but not anorexia. Farkers invited to speculate wildly why this might be

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Apple now controls the entire download industry with "billion-dollar patent," after buying it from Vermont tinkerer who invented a way of downloading music from a PC to a player piano in a hotel lobby

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(Financial Times)

Sony needs to sell 30 games per PS3 just to break even. Somehow, I don't think they thought this cunning plan all the way through

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(Some Chemist)

Actual headline: "Experts: Polonium is deadly if ingested." Ric Romero prepares plagiarism lawsuit

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CNET's James Kim and family missing -- have you seen them?

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UK and U.S. discuss joint invasion of the moon

Google drops its Google Answers program. If only there was some way to hire researchers to investigate why

SMiShing, which is using text messages in phishing attacks, set to skyrocket next year. omg ned ur paypl info plz

Steve Ballmer is confident that the release of Vista will spur a "wave of innovation," mainly consisting of software patches designed to fix it

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(Cosmos Magazine)

Researcher discover something new to be afraid of: Earthquakes you cannot feel. Dry rain, predatory animals with rubber erasers for teeth and claws to be added to list soon

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(myfoxny.com)

You don't have to worry about whether your company is tracking your email anymore. They have to now

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The hidden danger of seat belts. Up for next week: Organic sustainable food can kill you too

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Today's b-b-b-but Clinton moment: Clinton arranges for pediatric AIDS drugs to be available for less than $60 per year, per child worldwide. Suck it, libs

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Today's health risk: Fridge magnets

Abortion drug RU-486 prevents breast cancer in mice. Mice get abortions?

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What's older than the sun itself, and found in an icy lake in Canada?

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NASA plans to build huge radio telescope on the surface of the moon

NASA managers decide to wait until 2008 before redesigning the space shuttle's external fuel tank, preferring to just stay home tonight and watch "Apollo 13" instead

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Apple files patent suggesting it is going with an iPod/phone combo. You knew it was coming

Thu November 30, 2006:

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Bell Lab's history of inventions

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While you're sitting at home with a "wintery mix" falling outside, pass the time by finding out the difference between sleet, freezing rain, snow, snow pellets and hail

Farm animals are more damaging to the climate than cars. Farmers too chicken to face the problem, instead are sheepishly cowed by high demand into remaining resource pigs

Japanese schoolkids, sick of accidentally throwing their Wii controllers through the TV, superglue them to their hands. "Its a cool trick" says one teen with a fleshlight glued to his pants

(GameSpot)

GameSpot states EA might be tarnishing its brand by putting out sub-par games. In response, EA grants exclusive rights to review their games to GameSpy

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Ford Mustang Giugiaro concept with lambo doors

Next time someone on Fark "owes you a new keyboard," tell them you want this one

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(Games Radar)

The top seven girl-on-girl moments in video games (safe for work)

(Wikihow)

How to calculate Pi by throwing frozen hot dogs

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Finally, definitive proof that everything the Bible says about Noah is true: Ancient tsunami destroyed Mediterranean cultures. And it could come back EVERYBODY PANIC

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Protein marker used to identify ADHD not positively correlated with the disease. Still no cure for... hey, that dog's got a puffy tail! Here Puff, here Puff. Ha ha. "Puff." Get it?

Robot to explore Cheops pyramid, battle mummies, find Sarah Connor

(Groklaw)

Judge throws out most of SCO's "evidence," paving the way for the lawsuit to be dismissed ALMOST before the sun cools

(Tech Digest)

The mobile phone of the future will have a touchscreen interface like something out of "Minority Report." Although with less half-pint Scientologists

Students hack Nike+iPod to track joggers whereabouts

Scientists find frequent prayer can lead to neurological disorder

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Apple releases 31 security fixes, proving OS X is just as good as Windows

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Not content with sleeping on your couch or setting your house on fire, Comcast completes the trifecta by blowing up a customer's house, killing two people and injuring more, and setting the surrounding neighborhood ablaze

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Kentucky surgeons perform hand transplant so some guy can not only avow that Duke sucks but perform the hand gesture to illustrate his point

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(Science Daily)

World's oldest ritual discovered, surprisingly doesn't involve Joan Rivers and sex

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It's official: Outsourcing is good for the economy. India's economy, that is

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(Winding Road Magazine)

Chrysler launches new Sebring Convertible S&M Edition for L.A. market

Big Brother finally good for something: using RFID to order beer. Orwell surrenders and knocks back a pint

Microshaft releases Vista for businesses, along with spyware, security exploits, DRM and the bird flu

This is one of those weeks where meteorologists earn their pay, as storm systems threaten just about every part of the country. Batten down the hatches, mateys

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Discovery of 70,000-year-old cave carvings of an ancient snake god pushes back the invention of religion at least 30,000 years. Scientitsts also found a discarded steel bra, a rusted broadsword and the answer to the Riddle of Steel at the site

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Researchers may have found Lou Gehrig's trigger

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Seagate CEO: "Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn"

Zune has a chance to take iPod market share like I have a chance to make sexy time with Pamela Anderson

(NY Daily News)

Sirius and XM fantasize once again about merging, forming Voltron. Submitter creams himself thinking of O&A vs Howard Stern celebrity Deathmatch

"We're trying to develop the perfect condom for men that's suited to every size of penis. We're very serious." And this is coming from a German, so believe it

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(Some Online Sweatshop)

Chinese players make real money off World of Warcraft. Level 9 Romero pissed that some noob ninja'd his story

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The next time you sign into Xbox Live, you’ll be prompted for a dashboard update that updates the 1080p resolution

Zombie tool makes use of Windows, antivirus flaws, and braaaaiiiins

YouTube quickly replacing MySpace as the cyber home of idiots who post their crimes online for the police to see

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Scientists use sonic waves to levitate ladybug, beetle, fish, spider, and ant. No way this could result in superpowers; no sir-ee

Physicist Stephen Hawking receives Copley medal for scientific achievement for work in theoretical physics. Albert Einstein still unhappy about losing to him at poker with Data and Newton

(Joystiq)

As though this joke hasn't already been beaten to death: Xbox 360 game Viva Pinata recommends attacking Seedo's weak point for massive damage

Tim O'Reilly: Next on the Internet is "Who 2.0"

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New study finds that many Americans find membership in online communities to be just as important as their real-world social ties

The ancient Greek machine called the aintkythera mechanism has been re-created and explained

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(betanews.com)

Fujitsu hard drives heading toward 1TB per square inch. That's a lot of porn

Megafauna - wombats the size a family sedan that can shoot little rockets from the side of their head

Scientists develop stethoscope capable of cancelling out ambient noises as high as 120 dB to allow doctors to check a patient's heartbeat inside a moving helicopter

40 amazing facts about sleep

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(Extreme Geek)

Everyone has a flashlight that lights up things. Not everyone has one that lights things on fire

Growing Bones: New Technique Proves Promising. "Such bones could come in handy in those circumstances in which chunks of bone in the human body go missing." WTF?

Wed November 29, 2006:

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What was supposed to be a very busy 2006 hurricane season ends tomorrow with no hurricanes having hit the US mainland. Probably the same forecasters that said Carolina and Pittsburgh would be in the next Super Bowl

(TronGuy)

Top computer servers from Hollywood. I welcome our new digital overlords

(Game Daily)

In-game advertising. Is it really that bad?

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Houses being built out of bales of straw. Sticks apparently not a viable building material. Bricks being looked into

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(Gizmodo)

Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" would have worked in the second century B.C

Rare dinosaur nest with eggs to be auctioned. InGen certain to be high bidders

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Study urges more studies on studies. Penis gourd

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(Security Focus)

The moral of the story: if you're a television celebrity, you should probably wipe the hardcore porn videos of yourself off the computer before you sell it

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Mmmmm, rubber suit, sweat, mmmm

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(Rocky Mountain News)

Using your phone at a restaurant is now a good thing, Startup offers 'pay by text message'

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Wood in world's best violins may have been atreated with ancient version of Viagra. Atreated?

(Tech Digest)

Nokia declares war on the iPod. Its key weapons are connectivity and, er, FM radio

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Couple's Xbox 1 power cord catches fire -- three years ago -- and CBS Boston just now finds out. EVERYBODY PANIC

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Bush Administration bans sale of iPods to Kim Jong-Il. No North Korea, you can't have an iPod. Not yours

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(Treo Central)

Cell phone owners are now allowed to break software locks on their phones without violating copyright laws

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(Pocket Gamer)

N-Gage is dead, long live, er, N-Gage: Nokia reveals more details on its next-generation gaming platform. Which isn't as stupid as the last one

Findings of a new study indicate that a permanent subclass of Internet non-users may be developing

German team develops surgical procedure to restore male fertility that involves correcting varicose veins in the testicles. You would have submitted this with a better headline but you were too busy curling into a ball and wincing

Scientists describe 33-foot-long, prehistoric "Darth Vader of fish" as being able to snap sharks in half, use the Force for evil. (With cool pic)

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(Jalopnik)

Audi officially partners with Daimler-Chrysler on 50-state-approved Bluetec diesel engines for 2008 launch. Bü-jaa

(News4Jax)

"Parents warned PSP could hold porn" + "The manufactures make it that way on purpose" = DDDUUUHHH

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National Institute on Media and the Family presents its annual list of video games to avoid, AKA the "aww, mom, everyone else is playing this one" list

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(CNET)

Court rules that it's completely legal to call Barney a "cross-dressing, child-molesting rump ranger" online

After all the hype, all the commercials, all the silly stunts, Microsoft's Zune player is doing... not so well. Captain Obvious too busy listening to his iPod to comment

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(Tech Digest)

Forget two turntables: This guy DJs with two mobile phones. And when he dropped the Nokia tune, man, the dancefloor went crazy

The coolest bathtub/shower you'll see this week

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Online gamers show the same signs of addiction as gamblers and drug addicts

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Study finds 107 percent of top U.S. scientific journals pledge greater oversight of scientific research

Sydney to get free wi-fi

After seeing how well it's working with Zune, Universal Music may seek royalty deal with iPod

Doctors say face transplant was successful (with scary pic demonstrating the opposite)

Evolutionary biologists claim they know why women insist the wrinkled screaming prunes that are newborns look like daddy: they're lying

Tue November 28, 2006:

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Since the killer hurricane season didn't pan out, global warming scientists are more careful with their doom forecasting. Just kidding: Now they're predicting all life on Earth will die soon

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Brits looking to 86 AM and FM. No, Siriously

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Calculation: Few lines of computer code could save 45 million tons of CO2 emissions

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Wind-powered skyscraper to be built in Paris. Looks like headless monster which is (somehow) about to devour city. Extra white flags to be distributed to populace

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Violent videogame effects linger in brain, which may explain why submitter always feels the urge to jack cop cars

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Scientists catch deep sea-volcano explosion in real time

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HD movies will apparently slow video downloads. Who knew?

"Magnetic Storage Using Quantum Vortex Cores." Submitted with Wheaton tag because "Quantum Vortex Cores" totally sounds like something Wes Crusher would say

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The only way to combat bird flu is to throw billions of dollars at it, according to some experts. Perhaps something in the money ink makes people stop french-kissing chickens?

Carmakers say CA emissions rules may eliminate SUVs from the market

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Not news: Man gets dicked around by AT&T over bad Internet connection. News: Problem magically fixed when they learn he's the Internet columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Fark: They still charge him 70 bucks for repair

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Turkey-powered cars a holiday hit, and as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly, too