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Sun May 13, 2007
CNN Obvious Microsoft claims that free software like Linux violate 235 of their patents, want royalties from distributors and users. Grandmothers and 7-year old girls seen cowering in corner (21)
Scientific American Interesting The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are colliding. EVERYBODY PANIC (25)
AP Asinine The RIAA is making students an offer they can't refuse: Pay us $3,000 or we'll sue you. "Legally, it probably makes sense, because we don't have the money to fight.", says one shaken down college student (265)
CNN Misc Chips on DVDs could prevent theft, revive Erik Estrada's career (11)
Reuters Hero MC Hammer declared web 2.0 expert by eminent consortium of computer experts (57)
(eWoss) Spiffy What should be green, but isn't, has a big mouth, and lives in Tennessee? (21)
CBC Cool Nintendo's Wii used for physical Wii-habiltation (18)
Wired PSA If you own a broadband intertubes service provider, please make sure to have the FBI's key copy to the front door ready by Monday, or else... Exactly (131)
(Some Guy) Cool NASA might soon be able to determine if the real-life planet Vulcan could sustain life. I fail to see the logic of this mission (17)
Reuters Cool Sake may power cars, karaoke singers in the future (24)
(Some Guy) Weird Tetris-inspired kitchen gets you in the game (12)

Sat May 12, 2007
Reuters Interesting Al from Honest Al's Used Space Vehicles premptively warns us that the shuttle fuel tank might look a little funny, but he swears it'll fly or your money back (16)
(Showbuzz) Followup Makers of Spiderman 3 seen having money fights in the hallways as the mediocre action film makes $348 million worldwide (43)
Slashdot Interesting First the fourth season was Battlestar Galactica's last. Now it may not be. Either way, Galactica 2009 is in planning stages (36)
Space Obvious Russian cargo ship hauls snails to International Space Station. So really it's more of an escargot ship (172)
Yahoo Misc The ashes of Scotty refuse to stay in orbit. Apparently these primitives haven't encountered transparent aluminum (16)
Guardian.com Interesting Google has drawn up plans to compile psychological profiles of millions of web users by covertly monitoring the way they play online games (16)
Yahoo Obvious Motorola granted patent for smellophone. Stinky drunken late night phone callers demand recount (6)
Scientific American PSA From the "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" Files: Helmets attract cars to cyclist (94)
Yahoo Cool MMORPGs allow basement-dwelling nerds to assume exciting virtual roles including warriors, valkyries, mages, and...pawnbrokers? (9)
(Some Guy) Interesting Sun Tries to Jump on iPhone Bandwagon with jPhone (4)
(Cosmos Magazine) Cool Voyager space probes reveal solar system's bullet shape, now ready to join with mysterious alien cloud and seek to bond with the Creator (9)
(Some Guy) Interesting 10 custom Nintendo cases you probably haven't seen before (12)
The Sun Interesting Girl fighting rare, life-threatening disease gets kidney transplant. Now she has three of them (40)
ZDNet Obvious 2/3rds of British workers would rather fix their computer problems themselves then call Moss and Roy and be asked "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" (17)
Chicago Tribune Spiffy Students find cave with well-preserved life from 310 million years ago. Sloth impressed (10)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Harvard using UFOs to create wireless network (4)
BBC Cool "Star Wars" voted most influential visual effects movie of all time. "My Dinner With Andre" angrily demands recount (25)
News.com.au Stupid US plans to block G8 declaration of Global Warming. In other news, OIL (44)
Daily Mail Spiffy Scientists cross a melon with a cucumber, come up with an ugly-ass superfruit (23)

Fri May 11, 2007
(TECH.BLORGE.com) Ironic The Pirate Bay hacked, usernames and passwords stolen (34)
Wired Amusing "Let's Spend Time With Hamsters" and other Japanese video games. With bonus pic of crazy child (13)
MSNBC Cool Asphalt munching bacteria discovered. Your unicellular microorganism wants I-95 (32)
The Register Scary Skynet coming online. The real Skynet (38)
ZDNet Asinine Company decides that not using their DRM software constitutes violation of DMCA. Threatens Microsoft, Apple, and others with lawsuit (42)
(Some Germans) Interesting Journalist questions whether global warming is really a bad thing. (Bonus: pics of German girls sunbathing) (74)
Yahoo Stupid YouTube to remove videos making fun of Thailand's idiot douchebag King Bhumibol Adulyadej (132)
(Some Guy) Misc Malcolm McDowell talks "Heroes," and reveals he's never seen any "Halloween" flicks (27)
The Sun Unlikely Jealous of all the press the Department of the Blindingly Obvious has been getting, the Department of Wishful Thinking releases a study claiming 1 in 4 women want to star in porn and 1 in 3 want to be spanked (188)
(Some Guy) Weird A look at the weird contents of Carl Sagan's 1970s message to intelligent extraterrestrials (149)
Fox News Misc IPods cause pacemakers to malfunction according to the first recipient of the 2007 Zune Scholarship (22)
(USBGeek) Interesting USB drumkit with video demonstration. Here come the drums, here come the drums (25)
Yahoo Obvious NASA study: Eastern U.S. getting hotter, Leon getting larger (337)
MSNBC Spiffy Town shows fighting obesity can take a village. A fat, fat village (31)
(Some Guy) Cool 10 geeky lamps you don't see everyday (11)
Space Cool Ancient star nearly as old as the universe tells Milky Way to get the fark off its corona (18)
BBC Spiffy New baby sex test reveals gender at just 6 weeks so parents can get an earlier start color-coding their infant (18)
CBS News Obvious NASA jumps on global warming bandwagon, and they brought their giant space thermometer to prove it (27)
RedNova Interesting Sulfur dust harvested from coal-fire plants might someday save the earth from global warming (11)
CNN Cool Dude, the Smithsonian's getting an antique Dell (11)
Yahoo Strange Actual quote from study: "Being thin doesn't automatically mean you're not fat." Still no cure for stupid (29)

Thu May 10, 2007
CBC Obvious Toronto municipal employees banned from using Facebook, but city councillors exempt themselves from the ban because they need to communicate with constituents, especially hot young female ones with low self-esteem (41)
Yahoo Interesting Botulism? In my armpit? (31)
(Dark Horizons) Asinine Further evidence that Hollywood is out of ideas: Plans announced for Terminators 4 through 6 (61)
Reuters Interesting "Start A B ←→ ←→ ↓↓ ↑↑" (47)
(Some Guy) Cool The spiritual successor to the Toyota Supra is coming in 2009 and it's a 400 HP hybrid (with pics) (52)
Space Spiffy NASA plans three sun-watching missions. Migrane headaches, obsession with number theory to follow (19)
Wired Cool The Antikythera Mechanism is, in fact, an ancient Greek computer, presumbly used to make silly photoshops of Spartans (42)
Yahoo Asinine Time Warner plans to use interactive ads to make your cable television viewing experience as annoying as web browsing has become (32)
CBC Interesting Canada to barcode species. Now you can be 100 percent sure that's a cow you're looking at (17)
BBC Cool Female astronauts on the space shuttle can pee standing up. Submitter hopes this space age technology one day becomes available to us earthlings. It's not news, it's the BBC (51)
Wired Amusing Poochie gadgets: Your dog wants a cellphone, digital camera, virtual steak (6)
BBC Spiffy Google Maps may soon incorporate sound from each location. Submitter suggests “mute” when viewing your mom’s house (14)
Baltimore Sun Interesting Queen evokes gravity at NASA: "Let them derive F = GMm/r², where G = 6.67*10-¹¹ N-m²/kg²" (118)
SeattlePI Interesting Shredded East German secret police documents to be reconstructed using advanced optical recognition algorithms (8)
The Scotsman Obvious Scientists develop powerful new crimefighting tool that "freezes" the memory of crime scenes in the minds of potential witnesses. Philip K. Dick predicted this (10)
ABC News Interesting Swedish snuff known as "snus" as effective at cutting cancer rates among smokers as IKEA chairs are at preventing comfortable seating (11)
ABC News Obvious Rationality (Bashir) kicks the crap out of douchebaggery (Cameron) (102)
London Times Strange Opossum may be the key to curing cancer, heart disease, extraneous vowels (11)
New Scientist Scary Oral sex linked to throat cancer (329)
(Some Guy) Cool Coolest picture of the Milky Way as seen from Death Valley you will see today (108)

Wed May 09, 2007
CNN Cool Lander to probe Mars for life. That's quite a bit of stamina you have there, lander (15)
Stuff Cool Scientists start working on free, online catalog of all Earth's 1.8 million documented species. Now Drew's wife can quickly identify that giant spider behind the clock (120)
Reuters Unlikely Fruit juice not linked to obesity. Fatties worldwide rejoice by eating healthier (22)
Yahoo Unlikely Chips on DVDs will prevent piracy... for about 10 hours, until some Chinese kid hacks it (39)
Yahoo PSA "You can not accurately predict if and when a given virus will become a pandemic virus," said Chicken Little as The Boy Who Cried Wolf nodded agreement (46)
(Latino Review) Strange The part of Chun Li in the upcoming "Streetfighter" movie will likely be played by noted Asian actress Jessica Biel (84)
Wall Street Journal Interesting EBay in talks to acquire StumbleUpon for $75 million. In related news, Fark.com in talks to acquire Heineken for $24 a case (63)
(Some Guy) Cool Michael Shanks talks about the the upcoming "Stargate SG-1" DVD movies (26)
Marketwatch Scary Doctors are given hundreds of millions of dollars by drug companies to prescribe their potentially unsafe products. What could go wrong you say? Romero has no clue (29)
CBC Scary Scientists discover protein that originally made human brains highly intelligent, and decide to artificially induce its production in laboratory chimps' brains. We all know how this one turns out, with the Statue of Liberty and everything (170)
Newsweek PSA Your genes are not your fate. Also, your date is not your beer coaster and your mama is not that good at teh buttsecks (20)
(Some Artist) Asinine Not news: Bartender confiscates underage drinker's fake ID. News: She posts it on her website. Fark: Underage drinker files DMCA complaint (231)
(Associated Content) Scary Air conditioners might pose a threat to hard drives, although probably not much since submitter's AC has been on full blast all day and there hasn't been a prob **AAGAAG*<< (24)
Yahoo Obvious EA having a not so good year. Shocking when you consider the quality of the product they deliver to their customers (45)
BBC Obvious German police investigate "Second Life" kiddie-porn ring, hope to nab suspects before they fly away (13)
BBC Cool Driving remote-control cars is now like arguing on the Internet (13)
C|Net Obvious Yahoo to shut down U.S. and Canadian auction sites. Now can focus more attention on developing revolutionary new earth-mapping service (11)
Gizmodo Scary Clamp it on and start screwing your way to a bigger willy (44)
Yahoo Interesting Comcast CEO shows off new modem, capable of 25x current cable speeds. Of course, operating as a monopoly in most markets, they will have plenty of incentive to offer this service (56)
Yahoo Interesting Study finds obese women less likely to be screened for cancer because their doctors don't want to see them naked either (16)
C|Net Interesting Medical imaging specialists have created the first Terapixel image and it's of a boob. However, these guys clearly don't understand anything about boob photography because it's taken way to close to do anyone any good (SFW) (18)
News.com.au Cool Scientists in Hong Kong send cancerous cells to Australia for training to fight cancer (4)
(Bad Astronomy) Cool French photographer photographs International Space Station in broad daylight. No word if he has surrendered to NASA (15)
Daily Mail PSA If you've got milk, you've probably got acne (12)
Daily Mail Obvious Submitter is shocked that electric cars may not be safe in an accident (23)
The Sun Sad The plastic cassette tape: 1965-2007. Hundreds mourn the obsolesence of a machine munching their tunes (220)
(GAAAAAA!!!) Scary The computer protocol used to control dams, oil refineries, railroads and nuclear power plants is "completely open to attack" by remote hackers. IS IT can it be panic tiem now plees? (37)

Tue May 08, 2007
Real Tech News Interesting Rudimentary replicator may soon be able to create plastic objects using downloaded specs. Whatever. Call me when there's an Ashley Judd holodeck program (45)
(Some Guy) Interesting Bipolar disorder may be polygenic illness (22)
BBSpot Amusing Top 11 reasons they will make "Spider-Man 4" (44)
(Some Guy) Amusing Wii version of game review grouped with PS2 version. Xbox 360 and PS3 versions high five each other, point and laugh at Wii (108)
(Some Guy) Misc Mario creator complains outside developers are screwing up his Star Fox and F-Zero series (45)
(Some Guy) Cool "We've reached an apex of technology -- and an iPod Shuffle case that can also open your beer on a sunny day proves it" (22)
Reuters Cool Ericsson and Sun to develop open-source-based server (9)
CBC Obvious Study finds that most parents let babies watch TV to allow themselves to take the occasional break, despite advice from presumably childless scientists (131)
(Automobile Guy) Stupid Dodge proves its marketing genius by providing yet another four-door sedan that looks exactly like all the other four-door sedans in their inventory (41)
(National Geographic) Interesting Turns out Emperor Commodus was a fan of gladiator porn. Joaquin will be in his lectus (23)
Guardian.com Dumbass The latest thing killing the planet? "Binge flying." Al Gore goes wheels up to England to have a chat with article's author (171)
News.com.au Cool New on the PSP: The PlayStation Koran (21)
Space Cool Methane rocket successfully tested, proving that life imitates Fark photoshops (6)
(Some Guy) Interesting Scientists create odor-sensing yeast. So now you can smell you beer and your beer can smell you (7)
Live Science Cool Wal-Mart to harness the power of the sun for evil (19)
(eCanadaNow) Unlikely Legendary Pictures are looking at Brad Pitt to become the most power man in the universe: He-Man (46)
Live Science Obvious New study finds plants don't produce greenhouse gas (34)
(NASA) Cool NASA finds "The brightest supernova ever." The sun is no longer there (110)
C|Net Interesting Nooooo, they be stealin' my photobucket (38)
ICNetwork Obvious Welsh children track polar bears to learn about global warming, failed presidential hopefuls (4)
BBC Interesting New alien submarine can stay underwater forever and never needs refueling. Roy Scheider sent to investigate (34)
MDN Spiffy Company develops underwear designed to prevent people from taking see-through shots with infrared cameras. Now if they could just make them gnomeproof, they'd be golden (24)
Daily Mail Strange Gila Monster spit can help control type 2 diabetes (21)
(ars technica) Ironic Verizon claims giving phone records to NSA is free speech protected under the First Amendment. Ironic tag sees what they did there (35)

Mon May 07, 2007
Reuters Cool Astronomers report biggest bang in universe. Eccentrica Gallumbits unavailable for comment (14)
(Cinematical) Interesting Seven ways "Spider-Man 3" could have been done better (112)
(Some Guy) Interesting U.S. and British scientists have used coherent X-ray speckle patterns to investigate nanoscale dynamics of anti-ferromagnetic domain walls. Got that? (25)
USA Today Spiffy EA cuts deal with The Weather Channel, so all games played in NCAA Football '08 will be played in real-time weather conditions. (Halfway down the page) (112)
Wired Interesting Wired's "Smarter Emergency Kit." Fans of "Jericho" probably have already most of this stuff (44)
Houston Chronicle Interesting Second Canadian-built nuclear reactor turned on in Romania. In other news, Canada can build nuclear reactors (42)
(Some Guy) Followup NASA awards heat-shield contracts to the lowest bidders. In other news, NASA awards pretty much every contract to the lowest bidders (16)
C|Net PSA Wiis are too popular to produce enough product (64)
(Wizard Universe) Cool Wizard Magazine profile of Bruce "Evil Dead" Campbell (30)
Discovery Cool Fat, eccentric planet discovered, believed to be intrinsically superior to neighboring lazy, liberal, welfare planet with eight moons (13)
Canada.com Obvious New study shows that same-sex couples are better than nuclear families when it comes to parenting, being gay (50)
The Sun Unlikely Scientists develop cap that shoots magnetic pulse through your skull so you can cram a full night's sleep into three hours (118)
Yahoo Hero A summary run-down on new diesel technologies and all the new cars that will offer them by 2008. Suck it, Prius (127)
Wired Cool I'm in ur chandelier, randomizin ur light display (4)
(Some Guy) Interesting Comcast announces deal with Zimbra to integrate voicemail, email and extortion-like pricing services (17)
(Some Guy) Interesting Actual headline: Dell to join the axis of evil. "Exploding laptops will be our weapon of mass destruction" (12)
Discovery Asinine Microsoft is developing software that splits a computer screen in two halves, each side with its own operating system, allowing a single computer to crash twice as often (67)
(Some Guy) Strange Strange pinball machines you don't see everyday (19)
News.com.au Obvious Firefox has shown the world that open-source software challenges the establishment. Headline tagged with Obvious add-on (39)
AP Interesting Face masks may not slow spread of super flu, still considered effective against extreme butterface and Ed Zachary disease (15)
Boston Globe Interesting CσmÞµŧərς rəςÞσŋςibℓə ſσr a dəcℓiŋə iŋ haŋdщriŧiŋg ςkiℓℓς (36)
Newsday Interesting Ever wonder how the annoying sounds of chalk squeal and fingernail screech are produced? Neither does submitter, but the science shall proceed undeterred (6)
RedNova Cool "What seems to be happening is that information is coming from the future" (47)
MDN Amusing Kissing makes you live longer. Here comes the slightly questionable, but extremely hot, science (20)
Boston Globe Interesting Study finds that hormones may help prevent dementia, apparently forgetting what exactly causes women to become raving lunatics once a month (5)
Daily Mail Interesting Babies born in spring are going to be dummies when they grow up (18)
(Iran News Agency) Interesting Stephen Hawking to take part in physics competition in Iran, which is like bringing in Big Papi to hit against your kid's T-ball team (13)



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