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Sun July 29, 2007
ABC News Hero 15-year-old takes outdated computers from the trash, refurbishes them, and delivers them to families that need them (13)
(Some Peanut) Spiffy Scientist develops allergen free peanuts. Where is your anaphylaxis now? (3)
(hanoi.co.kr) Interesting South Korea determined to introduce metric system. Suck it, lbs (35)
(The Courier-Journal) Unlikely Scientists now think tobacco can help cure cancer. No word yet on development of the Orgasmatron (17)
London Times Interesting "I find your amount of faith encouraging" - London to get new 36-storey building shaped like Darth Vader's helmet (16)
BBC Strange "It's a toothpick." "No, it's an ear wax remover." "Hey, calm down, you two. This ancient device just found by archaeologists is a toothpick AND an ear wax remover." (11)
Network World Unlikely Video games televised as a sport? ... We're doomed, all right (55)
BBC Stupid Scientists claim that regular exposure to HIV can cause immunity. They're positive (20)
ABC News Obvious Researchers have found a genetic change that makes some people remember stuff better than others. Like your wife. Ask her about that time in 1996 when you casually glanced down that waitresses' shirt (17)
Fox News Strange Scientists create world's first schizophrenic mice using interbreeding patterns of Floridians (90)
(Some Guy) Amusing Robotic fighting that doesn't suck (video) (37)

Sat July 28, 2007
London Times Interesting "The birth rate is dropping worldwide and if we keep it up, our kids will be facing a retirement age of 80." Suck it, slackers (65)
(Some Pac Man Draft Dodger) Stupid The US Army recruiting video game is coming to an arcade near you. Not particularly effective against an insurgency (46)
Gizmodo Cool Flightsim geek hardonware. Do want (29)
(59.com.ru) Interesting The twelve most influential state of the art (at the time) gadgets (74)
(Some Guy) Interesting Meet Senator Ray Tenorio, level 70 dwarven priest (59)
Scientific American Interesting How to build a time machine. Hey, we're not talking about Big Ben here (57)
Arizona Star Interesting Microbial scientist discovers new life form at Yellowstone National Park that converts light into energy. Researchers from around the world fascinated, unaware that scientists existed at the microbial level (101)
TechnologyReview Interesting Thanks to scientists, now Rock beats Scissors, Paper beats Rock, and Paper beats Scissors. Damn scientists (20)
AZCentral Interesting If we want to produce green energy on a large scale, we need businessmen in addition to scientists to push the technology forward. Or we can do what the Chinese do and add green food coloring to regular energy (9)
SFGate Obvious "State-sanctioned teams of computer hackers were able to bypass physical and software security in every electronic voting machine they tested'' (17)
Computerworld Weird Indian offshore firm plans 1,000-employee center in Atlanta. Wait...What? (26)
(Arstechnica) Strange The Internet in Kazakhstan: Welcome to the land of $3,355 per month DSL that make benefit glorious modern e-mail communication (16)
Guardian.com Sad Six out of ten U.S. CrackBerry users admit checking their messages in bed (55)

Fri July 27, 2007
Denver Channel Silly Today's bomb squad overreaction brought to you by Geocache (22)
(MDN) Spiffy Dell Computer CEO, October 1997: "I'd shut [Apple Computer] down and give the money back to the shareholders." Today: Apple worth twice the market value of Dell (80)
(Washington Times) Obvious "Global warming" believer sends ugly letter to realist, telling him "he'll never work on this planet again", which launches a Congressional investigation (154)
BBC Obvious New EU satellite to measure local variations in Earth's gravitational field. Make your Rosie O'Donnell jokes to the right (9)
(Some Guy) Obvious Things we’re tired of hearing from Mac users (210)
Network World Cool Show your SysAdmins a little love today ... and no that doesn't mean you should hit on the babe in IT (87)
(evonet.ro) Cool The coolest 18-foot-long Lego aircraft carrier that you'll ever see floating on the water (pics) (134)
(Some Guy) Obvious Microsoft technician travels aboard the Microsoft Across America traveling showroom, it is a 42-foot-long tractor-trailer he calls Windows on Wheels. Apple fans sit back, knowing it won't be long before he crashes (141)
Fox News Cool Future lightbulbs may be made of tinfoil eliminating the need for hats (13)
(InventorSpot) Cool The latest surefire way to clean energy: magnesium. It's not just for shaving off and starting really spectacular fires in chemistry class anymore (31)
News.com.au Cool Car made of vegetables reaches speeds of 150 mph (31)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Guy gets tattoo, turns out to be "fatal exception" (38)
Wired Interesting Homeland security bankrolls development of a new light sabre. Officials tightlipped regarding recent rumors of phase cannons and a transwarp gate guarding the Canadian frontier (31)
News.com.au Stupid Hidden figures revealed in The Last Supper painting. Gallery of 5 pictures in link (275)

Thu July 26, 2007
Wired Interesting 6 tips on how to arrange your action figures (20)
Yahoo Scary Nanny State goes 50 for 0 against common sense as utilities propose taking over control of homeowners' thermostats to reduce power consumption (178)
Fox News Obvious Ric Romero latest scoop involves the fact that 1 in 5 people are watching web videos (10)
(inventor's blog) Cool New display technology where secret messages can only be seen with a digital camera. This is like the grown-up version of the magic decoder ring you used to get in your cereal boxes (26)
Yahoo Dumbass Editorial: "Harry Potter had no moral crisis in the seventh book, which is poorly written." Translation: "I wish I had sold 325 million books, too. And Snape kills Dumbledore" (299)
Wired Unlikely Proponents claim that Linux is now ready for the desktop. In other news, Linux recently lost a popular pro-desktop kernel developer regarding Linux's pro-server, anti-desktop development stance (34)
USA Today Stupid "Wanted: Volunteers to Be Stung by Jellyfish." Hey, good luck with that (57)
Yahoo Dumbass Virginia nerd decides to take the term "flamewar" literally (14)
(Ad Age) Unlikely Mark Cuban declares the internet is dead (with scary douchebag pic) (176)
(WBJB) Sad Looks like the DVD wars are over: Target set to sell Blu-Ray DVDs (329)
Fox News Obvious Those pylons of a frightful gateway into forbidden spheres of dream known as the transantarctic mountains have been determined by scientists to be the remnants of a giant plateau, possibly Leng (40)
YouTube Video T3h h1$t0ry 0f th3 h@x0rz (18)
London Times Obvious FaceBook judge: "Dorm room chit chat does not make a legal contract" Who knew? (14)
(Some Guy) Cool Step 1.) Get new black ink cartridges: 1966 Batmobile as a paper model kit (21)
(Some Guy) Misc And now, introducing our new robot, the HOLY CRAP GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME (38)
Discovery Obvious New Mexico declares the site of the Apollo 11 moon landing a "historical archaeological site," probably because that's where the soundstage is located (22)
(NZ Herald) Scary Amazon rain forest now in the 2008 dead pool. Smoke'm if ya got'em (44)
(Some Guy) Sad Shatner responds to media reports that he's angry about being left out of "Star Trek XI" (video) (57)

Wed July 25, 2007
BBC Amusing Who in their right minds would try to drive in a car to the north pole? The Top Gear lads of course (35)
Fox News Spiffy Archaeologists sift through the human waste of over four million Egyptians to discover hidden Egyptian city beneath Alexandria (24)
Jalopnik Interesting Flying car enters production. Now, where's my robot sex slave? (65)
Canada.com Scary "Ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically… with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth." (54)
(Some Guy) Unlikely AMD plans on increasing system memory over the next two years, making the bold assumption that they will exist for another two years (46)
(DailyTech) Amusing Thanks to its $100 price cut, the PS3 isn't getting killed quite as badly as it was before (110)
WFTV Florida Waterspouts form over lake in Central Florida, the end is near (with raw video, photos) (30)
Computerworld Amusing "What operating system am I running? A laptop" and other funny help desk quotes (185)
(Tech Digest) Interesting The 101 best Facebook applications in the world today. Put them all on your profile. Actually, don't (22)
Slashdot Cool Qantas to offer in-flight Internet access, meaning it's only a matter of time before some farker starts an airplane thread (40)
(The Age) Interesting Hanging out with fatties may make you look skinny now, but new study indicates you'll end up just like them (140)
(Techdirt) Asinine The evildoers are at it again. Government employees install LimeWire on government computers and reveal confidential documents. Anti P2P legislation to ensue (27)
Wired Cool Wired brings you nine hacks to make your new iPhone do some very useful tricks. Have at it, fanboy (24)
PCWorld Cool Google privacy chief wants to see t-shirts replace ties in the workspace, claiming a tie "constricts cirulation to the brain." Well, that would explain Congress (36)
Newsweek Interesting Newsweek heralds the business opportunities in "Second Life." Meanwhile, Wired is running an article calling the sex-soaked virtual world a wasteland (25)
Yahoo Dumbass Cybersquatter who grabbed "thesimpsonsmovie.com" loses case in WIPO arbitration. D'OH (41)
Chicago Sun-Times Interesting Teenager makes pins that alert people to the fact that she hasn't yet finished the new Harry Potter book. Submitter is currently working on making "no snark" pins (223)
Yahoo Interesting Toyota unveils plug-in hybrid to test on roads, to be followed by unveiling of world's longest electric cord (22)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Police in India's Punjab region seek geeks to help them fight crime. Says one cop, “Geeks will be the masters and act as the real super cops in the virtual world" (8)
CTV Weird Cats and rats working together... MASS HYSTERIA (34)
Yahoo Interesting Facebook might have pulled a Microsoft (22)
Yahoo Interesting Computer program can learn baby talk. Oh yes it can. Oh yes it can (24)

Tue July 24, 2007
(Next Energy News) Cool Governor Schwarzenegger's big gamble: $200 million free energy experiment (73)
ABC News Interesting College students increasingly using military super-drug given to soldiers in combat in order to stay awake (73)
C|Net Unlikely Blogger feels $100 laptop may bring an end to public interest in high-performance desktops. John Carmack and his 11 Ferraris beg to differ (27)
London Times Cool The ultimate test drive: A 700 hp Formula 1 race car. "The whole drive was like a prolonged car crash without, thankfully, the final impact" (28)
Yahoo Video In space, nobody can hear you flush (11)
(ABC 30) Strange Farmers flock their trees with sunblock to protect the nuts. Subby suggests wearing shorts (6)
Yahoo Interesting Black holes chew through matter like a Jewish mother through self esteem (8)
(Some Guy) Interesting Eight ways to search the dark web beyond Google (20)
(VGB) Interesting If the World of Warcraft were a nation, it would be the 90th most populated country on Earth -- above Haiti, but behind Sweden (120)
Yahoo Misc Lower your cholesterol or you'll die. Oops, now you have cancer (20)
(NS4W.ORG) Cool Confusing pictures of the concept Mercedes R500 (40)
(Post-Gazette) Interesting Pennsylvania to open its first autism center, right after Wapner is over. But not on Monday, definitely not on Monday (13)
Wired Scary Dangling pointers more dangerous than previously thought. Wait until they see what erect pointers can do (58)
BBC Strange Genetically modified goats protecting us against chemical attack? It’s more likely than you think (8)
(Hungry in Hogtown) Weird If you want really good fries, you need horse fat. Here comes the science... with PETA and the ASPCA close behind (42)
Reuters Obvious China claims to have cloned a rabbit. Because it's so difficult to get the little farkers to breed in captivity (32)

Mon July 23, 2007
(PhysOrg) Interesting Researchers at the Ric Romero Institute strive to invent spark-free fuel efficient engines. Otto Diesel not available for comment (34)
Slashdot Obvious Why Alexa site rankings are meaningless (24)
(Some Cyborg) Followup Poker pros Phil Laak and Ali Eslami are losing to Polaris the Poker Bot. Fark cliches redundant as they're already in the article (22)
(Linux.com) Obvious Linux user groups losing popularity as longtime members discover existence of women (19)
(Tech Blorge) Silly "Second Life" residents fret about possible bestiality crackdown. In other news, these people have absolutely no damn life whatsoever (47)
(Some Guy) Obvious RIAA knows its tactics don't work, but refuses to back down regardless (150)
Network World Cool Corning claims new optical fiber will bend and twist without significant signal loss, meaning 25 million high-rise dwellers will finally get their lightning-quick porn downloads (20)
MSNBC Cool Both Mars Rovers survive massive sand storms, continue relentless search for Sarah Connor (65)
(Wikinews.org) Followup That Fox News web server hole? Yeah, it exposed the personal information of 1.5 million people (99)
(unshod.org) Interesting Shoes considered harmful. Hippies say, "I told you so." Here comes the science (62)
(Ars Technica) Amusing According to NBC, what is P2P sharing destroying? A) Innocent recording artists. B) Poor local movie theaters. Or C) Corn growers (56)
TampaBays10.com Florida Bones from a Camarasaurus found near Clearwater. Still no word on Corvettasuarus and Firebirdasaurus (84)
(WTOV) Unlikely Is Microsoft the new champion of privacy? (99)
MSNBC Obvious NEWSFLASH: Matt Groening reveals that Marge Simpson's hairstyle was inspired by the Bride of Frankenstein. Apparently MSNBC thinks this is a big deal (37)
BBSpot Satire Apple stores to begin charging entrance fee (46)
iWon Obvious To the surprise of absolutely no one, "Harry Potter and the Truckload of Money" sells 8.3 million books in first 24 hours, averaging more than 300,000 copies per hour (549)
Yahoo Sad Anna Nicole Smith, Tammy Faye Bakker Messner and now Fifi the Chimp. It's been a tough year for old primates (39)
Drudge Unlikely Hackers may be able to exploit flaw in iPhones. Which is impossible, of course, because Apple products never have any problems, never break down, never get viruses, and just work (106)
(Some Guy) Cool A first look at the rumored 6th-generation iPod interface boasting iPhone-like goodness (37)



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