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Sun July 01, 2007
Reuters Interesting Piranhas are really just wimps (1)
New Scientist Cool The coolest ten-feet-tall K'Nex childs toy calculator you'll see all day (7)
New Scientist Cool We didn't evolve from monkeys. We evolved from worms (52)
(KABC - Los Angeles) Obvious Ric Romero reports: "Companies Offer Cheaper Alternatives to the iPhone" (192)
BBC Obvious According to a study in the British Medical Journal, working too hard can give you a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack (13)
The Register Obvious Google Maps drives one last nail into MapQuest's coffin (60)
(Some Guy) Cool Disneyland's New Orleans Square recreated in Lego (6)
Live Science Interesting Brain scans show that you can use meditation to calm your mind. Or you can be normal and just use beer instead (13)
CBS News Interesting There are five types of alcoholics. That seems low (178)
St. Pete Times Florida Inventor convinced investors to give $21 million to build imaginary Internet technology (52)
(National Geographic) Interesting Scientists baffled by increasing sightings of mysterious "night-shining clouds" (w/ photo) (41)

Sat June 30, 2007
Guardian.com Interesting "Dark Side of the Moon is the porn of audio media." (71)
(Some Paleontologist) Obvious Scientists find a million year old human tooth fossil put on earth by Satan to trick us into believing in evolution (447)
(Damn Interesting) Obvious On the origin of circuits by means of "natural" selection or the preservation of preferred logic gates in the struggle to solve problems by Charles Darwin, whoops I meant Adrian Thompson and his evolving chips (28)
(Some iGuy) Survey So, did you get your iPhone? (180)
(Some Guy) Cool Modder crams computer inside 1950's TV (26)
(Ars Technica) Interesting "We live in a very special time in the evolution of the universe: the time at which we can observationally verify that we live in a very special time in the evolution of the universe" (34)

Fri June 29, 2007
New Scientist Cool NASA's AIM satellite will determine a/s/l of mysterious glowing clouds. In a related story, astrophysicists surprised to learn hot teen girl is really a white dwarf (18)
(WebUrbanist) Cool Wikipedia gets more real unique monthly page views than there are real unique people on Earth (35)
(Some Guy) Cool AT&T wireless data network is suddenly increasing speed nation wide, becoming self-aware at 2:14am EDT August 29 (50)
YouTube Cool Old and busted: Your brand new desktop. New hotness: Multi-touch computers (Warning: New pants may be required) (58)
(Some Guy) Cool First Boeing 787 Dreamliner rolls off the assembly line. Airbus sucks (61)
New Scientist Cool There is nothing new under the sun. The moon, however, seems to be doing something that no one can explain (119)
(Some Guy) Interesting Software for visually challenged chess players developed. Submitter's against this, because he can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open forum (27)
(Engadget) Obvious DARPA wants to build a better Internet, says you broke the first (52)
(Some Guy) Interesting Caller ID spoofing about to be outlawed. Still no cure for junk faxes (22)

Thu June 28, 2007
C|Net Obvious "Someone get me the 'obvious' tag, stat" (39)
(www.olgn.net) Interesting Did the "Day of Silence" Work? Did you even know about it? (63)
(Some Guy) Followup Our sun and the solar system are not part of the Sagittarius galaxy. Seriously, we’re done here, you can stop, really you can stop reading, we're native to the Milky Way, move along (41)
(Consumer Affairs) Sad FTC shoots down net neutrality. RIP, Internet (438)
(Action Trip) Cool LucasArts says Star Wars lightsaber game will be coming to the Wii in the fall. DO WANT (135)
Yahoo Stupid Early warning device gives Japanese ten seconds to prepare for earthquakes, large passing trucks (54)
St. Pete Times Misc Someone finally gets around to opening box left at museum in 2003, discovers remains of some guy known for height, strength and fine looks (18)
Reuters Cool New DirectX 10 graphics cards have “more than half a billion transistors, hundreds of processing engines and accompanied by more than half a gigabyte of memory.” WANT (72)
Sky News Amusing Reply All - the world's worst email blunders (51)
(computerworld.com) Cool "80 Mbytes of storage for under $12k" Ten vintage computer ads from four decades of Computerworld magazine (49)
BBC Scary Always wanted to visit the Sahara desert? Well within the next ten years, you won’t have to travel far (31)
News.com.au Interesting Science proves Dracula effect. Bela Lugosi unavailable for comment (12)
BBC Spiffy Scientists find way to turn peanut butter into diamonds. Mr. Planters runs away, hides; Jimmy Carter instant billionaire (20)
The Sun Interesting Fleet of 29,000 rubber ducks that washed overboard from container ship in 1992 and subsequently helped scientists chart ocean currents set to end their journey for good in Britain this summer (10)
Daily Mail Strange 58-year-old chemist eats only fruit juice and sunshine and has the legs of a scholar (124)
The Raw Story Spiffy Japanese firm develops glove that can feel 3D images. If they've got any sense they'll know to make most of them left handed (25)
IGN Interesting The Watchmen movie still is a bad idea, but the cast could be good. First they got the guy who played Kelly Leak, now Kate Winslet is rumored to be in (49)
Yahoo Obvious Five reasons NOT to get an iPhone. "Overhyped and pricey" mentioned in first paragraph, "piece of crap" suspiciously absent. "Obvious" Tag is for those Farkers who are about to buy one anyway (87)

Wed June 27, 2007
Scientific American Interesting Scientists reverse retardation in mouse; will soon try the experiment on a human, perhaps a retarded janitor, who will keep a journal about the treatment (36)
(Engadget) Obvious Sprint is finally killing the Nextel brand, two years later than expected (26)
NPR Interesting Biosphere 2 reopening, buuuuuddy (33)
Gizmodo Obvious The iPhone is freaking awesome... except for the fact that it's lacking several very common and desired cell phone functions (177)
Guardian.com Spiffy Smithsonian won't host "Lucy," says stresses of travel too much and ancient fossils should remain in their homes. This summer's "Nazareth" tour in jeopardy (19)
(Some Guy) Amusing After selling for $580 million, MySpace founders are now demanding $50 million to renew their contract (90)
(Some Guy) Stupid How to properly label your network cables to avoid confusion (34)
(Zum Zum) Interesting Taking the concept of "small block V8" a little too far, man builds fully functional V8 motor that fits in the palm of his hand (22)
BBC Obvious IBM unveil the world’s fastest supercomputer until next week: The Blue Gene/P, which runs at three petaflops per second and able to run Vista Home Premium Edition upgrade (36)
PCWorld Interesting The folks at PC World list their 100 favorite blogs. Omission of Fark coupled with inclusion of I Can Has Chezburger now accepted as definitive proof that Fark is not a blog (22)
Daily Mail Cool China opens longest sea bridge in the world, across Hangzhou Bay (30)
London Times Unlikely Old and busted: Bringing dead mammoths back to life. New hotness: Bringing the Dead Sea back to life (13)
(Times of India) Cool Paleontologists think it is theoretically possible to bring woolly mammoths back to life (122)
(computerworld.com) Interesting U.S. broadband speed lags behind most industrialized nations (50)
(xinhuanet.com`) Interesting New computer announced with power of 200,000 home computers, 1.7 petabyte HD. Likely to be $799 at NewEgg by next June (35)
(Some Guy) Asinine Michael Moore wants iPhone launch delayed, attacks Steve Jobs (67)

Tue June 26, 2007
UPI Obvious The first example of the use of ionic liquids for effective de-polymerization of polymeric materials (29)
(Concerned Scientists) Amusing Science Idol 2007: Twelve science cartoons (with voting for the best) (36)
Google Misc The "Cosmos"-less Science Channel Discussion Thread (230)
(Some Guy) Interesting Contrary to popular belief, it's not the Morlocks keeping North America above sea level (13)
Fox News Interesting Scientists hope to reconstruct the DNA genome of the Neanderthal, mammoth and cave bear. What could possibly go wrong? (40)
Discovery Spiffy Researchers create lemon and rose flavored tomatoes. Tomacco still being developed (104)
(Some Sweet Guy) PSA New study reveals possible link between aspartame and cancer. Americans shrug and keep pouring Diet Coke down their gullets while they super-size their meals (141)
Network World Obvious Judge snubs Google on search engine complaint against Microsoft, falls back on old U.S. government antitrust decree (10)
BBC Interesting Ninety-nine years on, scientists find the impact crater from the Tunguska Event -- or maybe not (46)
(Some Guy) Weird Modder creates world's first "coal-furnace inspired" case mod (19)
TBO Spiffy Academic world amazed by college student's updated version of "Pong" (27)
Wired Scary Scientists blame "global warming" on cow burps. Cow burps? Yes, cow burps (30)
(Short News) Amusing Scientist blames "global warming" on worms. Worms? Yes, worms (22)
Network World Scary Yes, experts say, it is possible for your cellphone to be hacked and for you to be spied on via your camera phone. Nice undies, by the way (20)
Independent Asinine Al Gore says that "global warming" can be blamed on scientists. Scientists? Yes, scientists (33)
(Mac Daily News) Dumbass Photos of the first moran in NYC to get in line for an iPhone (58)
Houston Chronicle Interesting New research reveals that dogs can imitate human behavior. Your dog wants pr0n, opposable thumbs (56)
CNN Unlikely This just in: Aspartame may or may not cause cancer. EVERYBODY PANIC (33)
C|Net Obvious C|Net calls Apple's iPhone the "greatest device in American history" (139)

Mon June 25, 2007
(Wellington Grey) Amusing Wi-fi routers shoot radiation into your bones and eat your children and are pure, undiluted evil. Tremble before a SFW graphic depiction of this (35)
Network World Cool Parallel processing machine 100X faster than current PCs needs a name (144)
Houston Chronicle Unlikely Study: Hurricanes are responsible for teen smoking (83)
AFP Spiffy Herb originally used by Native Americans is proven to be an effective shield against colds. Sorry, they're talking about echinacea (28)
Abc.net.au Interesting The Grand Canyon was created by Noah’s flood and other creationist tidbits currently touted by three Republican candidates and 43 percent of the American public. Big Bang wants a mulligan (262)
Discover Interesting In case you were in the habit of telling people your theory about how Einstein was way off on relativity, some scientists just proved he was right (40)
(Some Guy) Interesting Study: Eating ham and cheese for breakfast can significantly improve cognitive functioning (33)
Gizmodo Cool Samsung begins manufacture of 64GB solid-state hard drive (62)
(Some Guy) Obvious Rabid, near-hysteric hype over the iPhone may be setting Apple investors up for a pretty big fall (328)
(Some Guy) Misc Nintendo overtakes Sony in market value, Mario Kart ranking (72)
Reuters Obvious "The most important thing happening on the Web is people's relationships with other people. There is no reason to segment your relationships based on which applications you use." Except if you're a Mac-using scumbag (19)
(Some Guy) Cool The coolest photo of aurora borealis as seen from outer space you will see today (25)
The Sun Cool New electric Mini prototype powered by four wheel-mounted motors and does 0-60mph in 4.5 seconds and packs 640 brake horsepower (pic) (42)
Breitbart.com Cool An international crew of adventurers from 11 countries will attempt make a North Sea crossing in a restored 11th-century Viking longship, or be called by their ancestors to the halls of Valhalla... where the brave... may live... forever (29)



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