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Sun May 20, 2007
(US Patent Office) Weird You know those talking heads in jars on Futurama?? Well, somebody holds a patent on that (1)
(your first name) Interesting 10 most common passwords, is yours one of them? (33)
Wired Amusing Google.com not optimized for Google (9)
AP Interesting A rare find theses days; a well written article. Boston not panicking over blue lighted mennonites (11)
Washington Post Dumbass Employers sending fake phishing emails to see how dumb their employees are. Number one clicked phishing email? Oh yeah, cat pictures (70)
(Poe) Cool "Villains" I shrieked, "dissemble no more I admit the deed - tear up the planks here, here - It is the beating of his hideous heart" (16)
(Some Guy) Cool Some of the geekiest guitars ever (20)
(ScienceDaily) Interesting Jet lag explained: it's caused by high ping times in your circadian thingy (15)
(Business Week) Interesting Company readies first commercially available zero emission car to run on compressed air. Thanks to congress, this is one resource America truly has an inexhaustible supply of (32)
(Some Guy) Interesting Oxford geneticist predicts the extinction of human males (45)

Sat May 19, 2007
(Terra Daily) Interesting Scientists reveal that molten lava is soon to blanket the earth and bring us to our fiery demise (29)
(Some Guy) Interesting Russian and NATO forces are waging virtual warfare on Estonia's cyber territory (90)
(Some Guy.) Obvious No-period pill poised for FDA approval, end of Fark headlines (32)
Yahoo Interesting Female fiddler crabs prefer to get it on with he-crabs who live in less flashy abodes (10)
(Popular Mechanics) Interesting Anatomy of a home run: the science of baseball (15)
Yahoo Hero How Tyrannosaurus overcame his wussy little forearms to become the world's ultimate paleo-bully (28)
Yahoo Cool Uruguayan children enjoy low-cost laptops and email advertisements for penis enlargement (8)
(Some Guy) Amusing What happens when you mix beer and technology? These robots (8)
(koco) PSA Here is how to properly remove a tick. Surprisingly pouring gasoline on your leg and dropping a match is not suggested (69)
Kotaku Cool Starcraft 2 Official. Let the nerdgasm commence (261)
YouTube Video How to build a 2/5th scale Sherman Tank (10)
Slashdot Cool Astronomers have detected a planet, that is just 20 light years away, with possible oceans and earth like temperatures. I for one welcome our Glieseian red dwarf overlords (14)
(DailyTech) Stupid Microsoft now banning modded Xbox 360s from Xbox Live. Where is your mod now? (46)
Wall Street Journal Obvious According to the WSJ, having lots of gadgets in your car could cause battery drain. Ric Romero wants to borrow your jumper cables (3)

Fri May 18, 2007
(Some NASA Guy) Interesting As it turns out, Galileo may have been wrong (51)
Yahoo Cool How to spot Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter this week (25)
(Some Shepherd) Interesting "Nearly every suit sold today - certainly those at the middle through the top of the market - is made from wool shorn from sheep descended from just two rams and four ewes." (17)
ABC News Unlikely Conference ponders whether modern medicine could have saved Abraham Lincoln's life after he was shot. Next year's topic: Could high-top sneakers have saved Achilles? (49)
USA Today Obvious The FCC has officially approved the iPhone, probably because they knew that angry mobs would burn them at the stake if they didn't (230)
Yahoo Interesting Do grizzlies and wolves need a trust fund? Are they really that bad with money? (8)
Wired Spiffy Is that the grandfather of your Xbox? (33)
The Sun Obvious Dolphins off coast of Britain found to be speaking Welsh. On the positive side, fish are more understandable than when humans speak it (51)
(Bonus Delorean!) Cool Geek-gasm alert. Free printable paper models of your favorite "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" spacecraft. Bonus: English translation a bit wonky (52)

Thu May 17, 2007
Network World Cool Bright idea: New LEDs will dazzle handhelds, PC screens, TVs and more (11)
Kotaku Interesting Sony buys Sigil (makers of the very crappy Vanguard) and fires every employee (39)
(The Age) Followup Website of "Virginia Tech Massacre" game author taken offline. www.worldsbiggestdouche.com.au now available for purchase (186)
Guardian.com Obvious Man U has the world's most popular soccer website -- more than two million people a month log in to check who they played a scoreless tie with lately and how many players suffered devastating knee injuries from capricious gusts of wind (41)
Google Misc Google redesigns their main website. You'll get over it (105)
(Megagames) Dumbass Sony executives refuse to lay down the meth. Predict 10 year lifespan for PS3 (89)
(The News Tribune) Followup "Everybody steal my stuff" Craigslist ad was brought to you by victim's niece (83)
(Macworld UK) Obvious Apple is the most trusted brand in the country. Meanwhile, Microsoft moves up one place to 5,738,427th most trusted company, finally edging out Krooked Kurt's Kavalvade of Krappy Katrina Kars (66)
Globe and Mail Spiffy Britain to allow animal-human hybrid embryos, paving the way for a Red Bull product that actually gives you wings (100)
SFGate Followup Those studies that implied oral sex could lead to cancer? Yeah, not so much. Now to disprove the "steaks are bad for you" bit and we'll be all set (78)
Wired Misc Patent reform being considered at Capitol Hill. Microsoft claims reform violates 462 of their patents (19)
Lifehacker Amusing New Firefox extension that blocks time wasting-websites like Fa -- (13)
Network World Interesting A Day in the Life of the Verizon Wireless "Can You Hear Me Now?" guy (8)
Jalopnik Cool New "Transformers" trailer coming this afternoon; here's a peek. With Bumblebee and Starscream goodness (69)
Network World Obvious Cisco routers take blame for massive Japanese network outtage (22)
Network World Amusing Top 10: Tech jargon you love to hate (54)
EITB24 Interesting Hundreds of new marine species found in Antarctic waters (29)
BBC Cool In the UK, Internet is dominated by 18-34 year old females. You submitted this with a snarkier headline while I was packing my bags (21)
(Some Guy) Amusing Engadget knocks $4 billion off Apple market cap by blogging a bogus iPhone email as news (153)
(Some Guy) Interesting Thirty-four upcoming PS3 games. Sony strikes back? (76)
(Some Guy) Cool Modder turns Atari 2600 controller into TV remote (7)
The Register Florida County hasn't patched its server in five years, and it's connected to a bunch of electronic-voting machines. What could possibly go wrong? (74)
STLToday Cool The bad news: You've got herpes. The good news: You're now immune to many kinds of food poisoning, the plague and Lindsay Lohan (12)
Guardian.com Interesting Prozac celebrates its 20th birthday. Yay, I guess. I dunno. Whatever (126)
CBC Spiffy It sounds like a great idea: A stove, fridge and electrical source all rolled into one appliance and running on biomass fuel like wood (9)
News.com.au Interesting "Cure" found for baldness -- doesn't involve rubbing anything weird into your scalp, but removing your scalp (22)
Reuters Obvious Sergey Brin has gotten married. I know, you figured some geeky social outcast with a net worth of merely $14 billion would probably remain dateless forever (8)

Wed May 16, 2007
Yahoo Interesting Court tells Google that a little sex is okay (51)
Network World Interesting IBM opens sales center in "Second Life" (13)
LA Times Obvious Porn.com address, which sold for $47,000 ten years ago, resold for $9.5 million at auction. Now that's a happy ending (6)
BBC Obvious Latest Windows malware attacks Windows Update itself, bypassing the very mechanism that's supposed to help keep your computer from being infected with malware (32)
Wall Street Journal Cool New and busted: iPods. Old hotness: Real live jukeboxes with 45 RPM records. An 80-gig hard drive just can't beat a half ton of chrome and bubbles, baby (21)
Live Science Interesting The upside of having slept with Paris Hilton is finally revealed (32)
Discovery Interesting What's more pathetic looking than a turtle without a shell? Not much. With pics (130)
Yahoo Interesting AOL to launch new e-mail portals, to the delight of elderly aunts everywhere (7)
(E-Dog in the Bunny Hutch) Video Thanks to Microsoft Vista, voice recognition is finally here (some site ads are NSFW) (53)
(Some Guy) Interesting Hi, I'm Andromeda and I'm here to steal your sun (45)
BBC Interesting Today's "It used to be good for you, now it'll kill you" health warning: Multivitamins may increase prostate cancer risk (28)
Yahoo Interesting Vitamins are linked to prostate cancer. In related news, thousands of Farkers check ingredient listing of beer (16)
Canada.com Scary Watcha gonna do with all them mumps, all them mumps and you throat bumps. "My mumps" out break for my Canucks? (54)
Fox News Cool Italians save Renaissance-era art by pouring newfangled salad dressing on it (19)
(Some Guy) Cool Five Firefox tricks you probably didn't know about (52)
(NewLaunches.com) Strange What happens when an idiot packs a plasma television (33)
MSNBC Interesting Scientists discover fruit flies have free will by gluing hooks to their heads (22)
(Planetary Society) Cool Space probe en route to Pluto takes the most amazing movie of a volcano erupting you will see all day (28)
(Some Blog) Dumbass 409 people clicked a Google ad that said "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here" (45)
The Sun Sad Top Gear tests $1.3 million supercar. Because this is Fark, you know what happened next (31)
MSNBC Obvious Pesticides to join the list of things that screw up kids. List already includes: Wi-fi, diet soda, dirt, peanuts, boobs, evolution, Jews, mold, GTA, The Bee Gees, The Bible, Fark redesign, alcohol, marijuana, sex, drugs and rock & roll (16)

Tue May 15, 2007
(NYT) Silly Your dog wants steak. Here comes the science. Still no cure for cancer (20)
Gizmodo Cool F-35 helmet display system to scare the bejeezus out of enemies (35)
BBC Interesting Hubble spots rings of enigmatic substance known as dark matter. Enigma, please (11)
Discovery Spiffy New species of hummingbird discovered in Colombia. Apparently it's very jittery and paranoid, but biologists can't figure out why (4)
CBC Obvious 30% of Canadians claim to be workaholics. The other 70% say they have something like workaholism, but for alcohol (9)
(PNAS) Obvious Enzymatic analysis of a rhomboid intramembrane protease implicates transmembrane helix 5 as the lateral substrate gate (259)
(Some Guy) Cool The coolest concept cars you'll see today (16)
CBS San Francisco Unlikely Physicist uses science to prove the existence of God. Here comes the scien-- er.... wait a second (67)
(Indestructibles) Cool Cool bike spoke mod. They see me rollin', they be hatin' (11)
(Some Guy) Cool How to make your own "Han Solo in Carbonite" chocolate bar (7)
(Some Guy) Interesting Why owner ratings might not be dependable: Two domestics rated much lower than a foreign, except for one small fact: "All were built at the same plant, only varying in hood ornaments" (48)
London Times Obvious Nintendo announces Lara Croft is coming to the Wii, says the Wiimote will "allow Wii gamers to control Lara in brand new, unique ways" (29)
(Some Guy) Cool A review of a soon-to-be U.S. production car that's shorter than a golf cart, gets 40 miles to the gallon and is French. Gets rave reviews with the exception it breaks down everytime a VW crosses its path (53)
(Some Guy) Interesting Every car in Bermuda must be fitted with an RFID tag so authorities can track its movements and issue tickets for any violations detected by the master control program (20)
CBC Stupid Improving on the whole cubicle experience, scientists have found a way to harness workstations to treadmills. Next up, giant human-sized hamster wheels (9)
Network World Interesting How does Google translate languages that its engineers neither speak nor understand? (12)
(Spiegel International) Obvious German study proves no sex leads to less sex. Obvious tag claims it has a headache, goes to bed early (73)
(Some Guy) Cool Scientist creates "micro-tornadoes." Miniature trailer parks on high alert (3)
(Alaska Report) Spiffy Humpback photographed off Alaska in 1972 returns 35 years later with message to mankind: Get off my lawn (13)
(Medpage Today) Amusing Actual headline: "Children with 'lazy eye' view themselves poorly" (24)
YouTube Amusing The best Steve Balmer remix you'll see today (34)
ABC News Obvious Institute for the Blindingly Obvious plans to study how crystal meth affects the people who use it. "It really affects their ability to function," explains lead researcher Dr. N.F. Kidding (9)
(Seed) Cool Hubble telescope's successor to peer at universe's birth. Mother Nature demands a curtain (11)
Sci Fi Spiffy Tokyo's University of Science invents the Muscle Suit; which adds +4 to strength, dork factor (25)

Mon May 14, 2007
(Business Week) Sad Meet the "YouTube Police," a group of 20-somethings that sit around all day and surf for copyrighted material on YouTube (23)
Gizmodo Asinine What an asshat (20)
(WSB Radio) Stupid Over one billion people around the world have high blood pressure. EVERYBODY STAY VERY CALM (48)
(APOD) Cool Coolest Quicktime movie of the rotating earth you will see all day. Sit on it and spin (14)
Yahoo Obvious "NASA study: Eastern U.S. to get hotter." In related news, the first day of summer is next month (9)
Seattle Times Cool Masi Oka talks about "Heroes." {{{(>.<)}}} (o.o) (74)
(Some Mac) Obvious Apple's video download business on iTunes and its Apple TV set-top box are already obsolete because television and cable networks will quickly shift their creative product to free ad-supported streaming (28)
(Boing Boing) Asinine Microsoft to GNU/Linux users: "Nice operating system you got there...it'd be a shame if something were to happen to it." (31)
Discovery PSA Want to cut down on air pollution? Clean your windows, you dirty smelly hippie (12)
Toronto Star Cool You know, the humpback, although slow and dangerous behind the wheel, can serve a purpose -- like donating flippers to serve as wind turbine blades. Don't you go dying on me now (13)
PCWorld Spiffy AMD to launch chips with quad-cores and a crispy, yet hearty crunch (21)
Network World Advice Google: There's a butt load of malware on the Web (56)
Yahoo Stupid "Heroes" was sooo good that it will produce a bad spin-off about Hiro and a sushi restaurant. And... nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh the "Bionic Woman" will be back, among other bad shows (73)
(Some Guy) Amusing The hardest part of being a naked news anchor? Covering natural disasters or atrocities such as 9/11: "We stayed fully dressed, all of us, for the entire week" (11)
(Some Guy) Interesting "Virus Sponge" could improve flu treatments, diabetes care, vaccine development, but only if you're spongeworthy (18)
Network World Cool Top 10 things Microsoft loves and hates about open source (42)
Daily Mail Amusing Latest "dumbass achieves fame as Internet laughingstock" comes to you by way of Britain, and this idiot who emailed pics of himself dressed as a bare-chested cowboy to an incredibly unimpressed woman (pics) (290)
iWon Obvious "Spider-Man 3" drops 60 percent in second week, only takes in $60 million at box office. If next week drops further, Tobey McGuire might only be able to afford medium-sized jacuzzi in Hummer (35)
The Register Obvious Turning every tree and crop on the planet into biofuel might not be such a good idea (22)
Chicago Sun-Times Interesting New trend of "Hypermilers" feature drivers committed to squeezing every last drop of fuel out of car's engine using unorthodox techniques (30)
Independent Interesting The real main cause of global warming: Brazil's deforestation, not Al Gore's planes or the Brady Bunch's SUV. Suck it, non-Amazon countries (19)
BBC Interesting China launches a satellite for Nigeria. Will be paid the $311 million fee just as soon as they hand over their bank details and pay some unforeseen processing fees (10)
(Some Guy) Cool AMD/ATI finally gets around to releasing a DX10 video card (27)
(Computerworld) Amusing Memo to Dell, Apple, Palm, et al: Please stop designing gadgets and laptops with unnecessary lights (49)
(Physorg.com) Interesting The goggles, they do something (9)
LA Times Interesting NASA competition for robots that could potentially excavate on other worlds has no winner. NASA to fall back on in-house expertise at using spacecraft to dig holes (16)
(Some Guy) Sad Acclaimed urologist John K. Lattimer pisses away. PASSES away. Passes (44)



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