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Sun July 15, 2007
YouTube Cool Commercial mentioning that a RadioShack Trash-80 is on sale, $200 off (8)
(Some Guy) Cool Really cool, huge Lego aircraft carrier (18)
TBO Florida Man files real-world lawsuit against guy who ripped off his virtual sex toy in "Second Life" (15)
(Some Guy) Sad Picture of the space shuttle Discovery looking like it should have been put out to pasture a long, long time ago (218)
Scientific American PSA Happy 25th birthday computer viruses. In 1982 a virus created by a high school student spread among Apple II computers (20)
(Some Guy) Interesting Mysteries of the geek brain we will never explain (27)
Telegraph Cool Scientists find watery world trillions of miles away where the cure for cancer grows on trees (30)
Yahoo Cool Buildings in New York are being kept cool with large blocks of ice. Bugs Bunny unavailable for comment (35)

Sat July 14, 2007
CNN Interesting Everything old is new again: Vinyl LP sales grew from 2000-2006, even as overall music recording sales dropped. Other cool retro trends: FTF meetings, Space Invaders, and pencils (62)
(Daily Bulletin) Interesting NASA's youngest astronaut will be on next shuttle mission. Submitter thinks they should send her to restart the sun, because she is hawt (73)
(Panda's Thumb) Obvious Creationism undergoes its third complete makeover to try sneak its way into classrooms while trying to avoid being struck down by the courts (280)
Yahoo PSA NOAA announces that La Nina will not happen for at least two more months. Which is either really good news or time to start evacuating Tampa (55)
Yahoo Obvious Six months after its release, AP gives Vista a report card: does not play well with others, disrupts class by talking too much, and is distracted by shiny things instead of performing scheduled tasks (322)
(Some Guy) Amusing A hotel you don't want to sleep at, rhymes with "sue her pipe" (28)
This Is Local London Amusing Scientists develop new TV remote control that can recognize seven different hand gestures and act accordingly. Guess which one changes the channel off Fox News? (pic) (28)
(Some Guy) Cool Ten of the best natural phenomena (13)
BBC Interesting New Babel Fish-like wristwatch will allow troops in Iraq to communicate with civilians they haven't yet killed (pic) (42)
(World Net Daily) Strange Estrogen from birth control pills are poisoning the water supply, creating metro-sexuals (26)

Fri July 13, 2007
ABC News Obvious Ric Romero says that there are many websites that give information on how to fix things and the best place to look for such websites are "search engines" (62)
Reuters Obvious "Video game companies are hungrily eyeing the millions of people for whom mowing down alien invaders or battling ninjas holds limited appeal" (41)
(Some Guy) Amusing Gran Turismo 5 makes its announcement for release on PS3 with arguably the best graphics ever seen in a videogame. Do want (89)
(townhall) Interesting Chinese release of World of Warcraft will not feature skeletons or bones, to promote a "healthy online culture". Being a member of a spawn-camping PK gang still fine (55)
(Some Fremen) Interesting Australian Drought Update: some guy invents a wind trap to capture water. Aussie women wants to know if the stillsuits make their butts look big (28)
New Scientist Amusing Uranus has no diamonds after all (37)
(Software Developer) Interesting Ghosts in the Machine: 12 coding languages that never took off (75)
BBC Sad The health service is failing adults with ADHD. The health service is fai--ohh look pancakes. The health ser--where are my keys? I’m taking a road trip (205)
Fox News Amusing Thesaurus wielding scientists to study "emissions" (24)
The Register (USA) Spiffy 75-year-old woman has world's fastest private internet connection at 40 Gb/sec. Can download a full DVD in the time it takes to yell at kids to get off her lawn (64)
(Some Guy) Cool "It might be difficult to see what golf has in common with missile defence systems. Until now" (7)
BBC Spiffy Roboticists are building the world’s fastest walking robot shaped like Kelly Le Brock - OK, just the world’s fastest walking robot (16)
Yahoo Obvious Pharmacuetical companies estactic that 88% of babies are identified as lifelong customers before they are born. Good luck getting health insurance if you fail the test (11)
SMH Cool Panasonic releases the 261cm plasma TV -- for those seriously lacking in the pants department (34)
(Modern Mechanix) Cool 1955: when men were men. Men who made their sons toy rocket-cars out of old bombs, to be specific (14)
Yahoo Spiffy New Star Wars video game makes you Darth Vader's apprentice. Dark geeks felt a great disturbance in the force (162)

Thu July 12, 2007
Network World Cool FBI: More spam prosecutions on the way (20)
(Some Guy) Amusing Turns out that Apple made more than enough iPhones for everyone that wanted one. Extras selling for a loss on eBay (81)
Jalopnik Amusing Beans, beans, the magical fruit. The more you eat, the more you see they will be used to make seat cushions in the 2008 Mustang (61)
Wired Weird Heated, proximity-sensing furries: Not just for "Second Life" anymore (15)
eBay Followup Blended iPhone up to $570.00 on eBay (41)
Reuters Cool A planet in the Vulpeculan constellation has water, may support life. Kinky, wet Vulpeculan life. And I for one welcome our new Vulpeculan sex-goddess overlords (with Earth pic) (45)
Space Cool Haaaappy biiirthday mister craaaash test dummmy attachedtoaweatherballooon, haaaappy birthday to yooou (3)
SLTrib Cool The coolest gallery of scorpions glowing under black light you'll see today (23)
Network World Ironic As image spam declines, PDF spam ready to take its place (23)
(Some Guy) Interesting Best Buy Geek Squad employees stole porn files from porn star Jasmine Grey's computer days before she died in a car crash (155)
CNN Stupid Experts warn that getting struck by lighting while using an iPod could injure you. As opposed to other electronic devices, which are made of 100 percent insulated rubber (73)
(WKRC-TV) Interesting Mouse, the domestic cat, is mom to wild Mongolian zoo kittens (7)
Yahoo Cool Malaysia plans to clone rare turtles, teach them ninjitsu, serve them pizza (30)
(Ministry of Tech) Cool Guy writes 384-page sci-fi novel on mobile phone traveling to work, doesn't cause accident (51)
Newsweek Interesting MSNBC investigates why Darwin hasn't killed off all the ugly people. Perhaps it's because they aren't in season and you can only bag three at a time (225)
(Some Guy) Interesting Winner of MySpace political reality show may face serious tax and election law problems (24)
Fox News Interesting Neil Armstrong travels to Israel to discuss the moon landing and the type of sound stage that was used (135)
Wired Obvious FBI sends fake emergency letters to phone companies to get them to turn over letters complete with false claims that proper papers had been filed with U.S. attorneys (w/picture badness) Obvious trumps scary (95)
Kotaku Dumbass Microsoft exec dumped $6.2 million in stocks before the Xbox warranty extension announcement (59)
(Popular Science) Interesting Scientists develop artificial snot for robot noses. Snot nice (7)
(National Geographic) Unlikely NASA satellite photos reveal western Texas has turned green. Confused I-10 motorists have no idea where they are anymore (30)
(GayNewsWatch.com) Asinine You can join Facebook if your name is Hitler, but not if it's Gay (113)
(Physorg.com) Interesting The 2012 Toyota Terranube will be powered by 100 percent ground-up babies (17)
Gizmodo Interesting The FuelVapor car from Canada: Goes 0-60 in five seconds, gets 92 mpg, looks like a big penis (24)
STLToday Stupid Article headline: "Lightning strikes reported by iPod users". Five paragraphs later: "Contrary to some media reports, electronic devices don't attract lightning." Fine-reporting-there-Lou trifecta now in play (20)
Reuters PSA If you want to buy a Wii for someone for Christmas, you had better start looking now (59)

Wed July 11, 2007
Yahoo Dumbass If you downloaded top secret documents and pictures from a military file server on the Internet, they are asking you to please delete them. Thank you (79)
(Steve Jobs Secret Diary) Cool "Today in the music business we're about where IBM and Microsoft were in 1989, when IBM finally got hit with the clue stick and realized what Microsoft was doing" (26)
MSNBC Obvious Who killed the 40mpg SMART car? A lumbering 4,000 lb gas guzzling behemoth usually driven by a woman on a cell phone (111)
(Gamespot) Cool Slash to be a boss in the upcoming Guitar Hero III (78)
USA Today Hero FCC chairman Kevin Martin to soon disappear without a trace (24)
BBC Interesting When it comes to global warming, the Sun is not there (60)
USA Today Unlikely Ford says hydrogen powered cars almost here. For real this time... no seriously... stop rolling your eyes (304)
Yahoo Strange Finally, someone dared to ask the question no one else wanted to speak aloud: Would Dwight Eisenhower like the iPhone? (19)
(CRN) Interesting Microsoft admits that there are 11,600,000 defective Xbox units floating around out there that they'll have to replace to the tune of 1,150,000,000 dollars (61)
Scientific American Scary Coming soon to an episode of COPS near you: The Taser shotgun (56)
(Tech Digest) Cool Apple preparing to (finally) launch Yellow Submarine iPod, with entire Beatles catalogue preloaded on it. Frog Chorus inclusion unconfirmed (59)
G4TV Plug In celebration of the new 8-bit cartoon show Code Monkeys, they're giving away an old-school arcade game.....ahhh Dragon's Lair. Sponsored Link (138)
(Some NASA Guy) Cool The Perseid meteor shower is coming on Sunday, August 12th, and experts say it should be a great show (32)
Lancashire Evening Post Interesting Pop princess Kylie is pictured as Astrid in filming for the Christmas special of "Doctor Who" (69)
AFP Silly Mathematics proves the silliness of "silly walks" (26)
SeattlePI Asinine Man sues Microsoft for $5 million when his XBox 360 scratches two games (223)
SMH Interesting There is now a scientific reason why some people find Barbra Streisand and Barry Manilow songs so nauseous (18)
Yahoo Sad That one bottle of ketchup a day I've been chugging for the past five years? All for nothing (14)
(arizona.edu) Weird Strange absolute black spot on Mars defies explanation (101)
Yahoo Obvious Rare giant squid washes up on the beach in Australia. If you are missing a rare giant squid in Australia, please call the rare giant missing squid hotline, or just go get a new rare giant squid (with rare giant squid pic goodness) (74)
BBC Interesting Ugly-ass baby mammoth unearthed in Siberia (47)
BBC Interesting Your memories will one day be crystal clear (29)
Yahoo Cool Guys with really big telescope find stuff that's really far away. Bonus: Team member's name is anagram of "Dank Star" (16)

Tue July 10, 2007
BBC Weird Study finds garlic reduces cow flatulence, improves flavor (11)
C|Net Stupid Twenty-four percent of 10- and 11-year-olds have cellphones. One in five teens would give up TV to keep their cellphones (28)
YouTube Video Cool little video showing Google tricks, hacks, and Easter Eggs (16)
Yahoo Interesting Ever wonder why modern CDs don't sound as good as old school ones? (61)
(Scalzi) Obvious "The problem with using the Web as a model for what's really going on is that on the Web, Ron Paul is a presidential front runner and Serenity is the greatest science fiction movie ever made" (286)
(Some Guy) Followup Congress holds iPhone hearing -- AT&T exclusivity challenged (60)
Reuters Unlikely 10 print "Suck" -- 20 goto 10 -- run. Commodore unveils new gaming PCs (76)
(Tech Digest) Cool Top 5 Simpsons gadgets, tying in with the movie. You never knew you wanted a talking Moe's Bar alarm clock until you read... Actually, you still don't want one (21)
Reuters Cool Okay. All games that are going to be a PS3 exclusive take one step forward. Woah, not so fast there, Metal Gear Solid (94)
WTOP Silly iBikini. Get on the universal serial bus (23)
Forbes Obvious Is Apple planning an iPhone Nano? Do journalists ask obvious questions? (19)
Slashdot Cool Man compresses Wikipedia to within one percent of artificial-intelligence threshold. Wikipedia expected to become self-aware shortly (52)
Fox News Interesting Top ten reasons not to buy an iPhone (72)
(Some Guy) Obvious Microsoft announces Xbox 360 price cut one day after Sony cuts PS3 price (102)
AFP Interesting "Is there life on Mars?" asks NASA, David Bowie (37)
(planetary.org) Spiffy Pics of the next rover NASA will send to Mars -- it's the size of a small car and will be nuclear-powered (25)
The Register Obvious Steve Jobs sees no reason you would want to use your iPhone as an iPod substitute (45)
Gizmodo Followup Pictures of NASA's new $19 million toilet, complete with leg restraints and thigh bars. Astronaut applications from S&M scat fetishists set to take off (11)
(Some Psychologist) Obvious Scientists discover that women prefer muscular men to skinny guys. Line for Romero jokes forms to the right, line for submitter to the left (62)
BBSpot Amusing Top 11 rejected Transformers (92)
PCWorld Interesting Fifteen tech myths put to the test (29)
CNN Cool Phoenix ready for Mars mission. Cyclops and Wolverine fighting over who gets to go with (8)
The Register Obvious I declare you must beware when taking your computer for repair. You know you will despair when you don't know where your wifey's pubic hair ends up on public air (23)
London Times Weird Cow farts are destroying the known universe. They must be stopped before they destroy us all, say scientists (29)
Gizmodo Spiffy First hands-free toilet paper dispenser coming soon (15)
ESPN Scary Live Earth sets Internet record with 10 million live streams (30)
(Some Guy) Asinine AT&T says you can't use your iPhone too much. Or too little. Or send email overseas (39)
(liveleak.com) Video Mercury to W Cephei, our Sun = Pwnd (11)
Yahoo Obvious Study shows that blindness increases your risk of unwittingly walking directly into your impending doom (5)
CBS 2 Lost Angeles Cool Riverside, California residents will get free wi-fi starting Tuesday. Government already claims it will be hackproof (22)
News.com.au Cool Australian scientists have transported atoms across the country. Star Trek-style teleportation only years away (50)

Mon July 09, 2007
BBC Obvious Free energy device set to be displayed for full peer review... oh, sorry about that, we have to delay this display indefinitely (59)
(BetaNews) Stupid You're the third largest wireless provider and you want to destroy your reputation. Do you a) cancel accounts when they call support too often b) cancel accounts for roaming too often c) refuse to comment on anything, or d) all of the above? (43)
Slashdot Asinine Yahoo continues its Parade Of Suck by farking up the MusicMatch Jukebox (42)
I-Mockery Amusing There was a time when Optimus Prime was used to shill Pepsi. More than meets the eye, indeed (42)
UPI Interesting If you're Scottish and of south Asian descent, you wil die a horrible, horrible death (24)
UPI Obvious NASA names its new comet-observing spacecraft after a crappy movie about a comet hitting Earth (30)
London Times Ironic Head of Electronic Arts says games are boring and repetitive. In other news, Madden 2008 scheduled for release August 14 (91)
Boston Globe Cool Is it true that people are slightly radioactive? (48)
(Times Argus) Amusing Vermont invaded by European rock snot (71)
(Some Guy) PSA Microsoft readying Vista's first service pack for July release. Bonus: It's a beta (32)
(God & Dinosaurs) Silly Creationist Paleontologists discover dinosaur saddle (56)
Yahoo Cool Algae-to-biodiesel testing holds up well under extreme conditions. Algae bra product still untested (20)
(Press The Buttons) Stupid Microsoft blames dead Xbox 360s on surge protectors. Other ways to kill an Xbox: turning it on, using it indoors, looking at it funny (79)
Space PSA Dawn spacecraft launch pushed back to 7/15 after Tony Orlando found in its crack (6)
(Omni Brain) Amusing Determining a man's political views by examining his beaver (don't be crude - it's a hat) (6)
Winding Road Cool The folks that brought the gobsmacking Ariel Atom supercar-slayer to America are now going green with an electric motorcycle (17)
Slashdot Obvious Study says kids like "M" rated games. Still no cure for cancer (17)
CNN Sad Virgins no longer have opportunity to see live boobies (30)
UPI Obvious Children prefer snack foods over vegetables, according to a brand new study by Dr. Sherlock of the No Sh*t Institute (53)
(www.IHT.com) Weird America's leading scientific advisory group says the hunt for extraterrestrial life should be greatly expanded to include what they call "weird life": organisms that lack DNA or other molecules found in life as we know it (24)
The Register Cool Ebuyer supercomputing cluster uses a CRAY surrounded by Commodore 64's. Be sure to stay the hell off their lawn (27)
CNN Unlikely Sony cuts PS3 price by $100, expects sales to double. Unlikely Tag laughs, goes back to playing Wii Tennis (159)
Breitbart.com Sad Here’s a preview of this years E3; it sounds about as exciting as a CPA convention (24)
Lancashire Evening Post Scary A helmet which could have come right out of Star Wars has been designed to help cyclists breathe easier - but it will scare the hell out of everybody else (32)
(Science Blogs) Cool Bird rediscovered after not being seen for 40 years. And unlike the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker "discovery", scientists have clear, close-up photos of it. Extra bonus: cool, smiling beak (8)
Scientific American Obvious The problem with emo kids is too much chattering in their dentate gyrus (13)
NewsMax Interesting Paris Hilton will never die of cancer (56)
(Some Guy) Interesting You may be more closely related to a sea anemone than you think (11)
YouTube Cool Creepiest looking bird mating ritual you'll see all day (31)
(3d Realms) Amusing "There's no possible joke you could make about the game's development time that we haven't already heard" (73)



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