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Sun September 02, 2007
(Some Geek) Cool This thumb drive will self-destruct in 10 seconds. No, really (20)
(Some Guy) Cool Science of human psychE manipulation eXperiments (10)
(Universe Today) Cool New NASA video covering 2.5 days of the Sun, shows it slowly rotating, with solar prominences blasting out into space (28)
Philly Hero Penn archaeologist finds King Tut's beer stash (11)
Rian.Ru Interesting Russia plans to put a man on the moon. Still no cure for totalitarian oppression (160)
ZDNet Stupid Microsoft would like you to know that an independent survey founds IE to be the most influential tech product of the last 25 years (43)
Denver Post Cool Electric motorcycle ohms competition at race track (30)
Telegraph Strange South Korean farmers are playing classical songs to make their rice crops grow faster (25)
BBC Ironic Global warming creates ginormous ice island. Now freely afloat, it threatens to destroy oil rigs that helped spawn it (39)

Sat September 01, 2007
New Scientist Amusing Physicist Pablo Gleiser of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in Buenos Aires, Argentina, studied the social web within the fictional universe of Marvel comics, comprising 6486 characters in 12,942 issues (11)
(Science Blog) Interesting Scientists have discovered God's latest trick to test our faith: a mechanism by which species might acquire new genes and functions extremely quickly (49)
Telegraph Dumbass No matter how big your mouth is, you still probably don't need GPS-style technology to help you brush your teeth (13)
MSNBC Dumbass "If you just cut your lawn with a gas mower, congratulations, you just put out more pollution in one hour than these cars do in 2,000 miles of driving" What's the catch? They're illegal in most states (200)
(Telegraph Journal) Interesting Some UFO enthusiasts are loons, true. But not many of them are nuclear physicists that are experts in nuclear aircraft fission, fusion rockets and power plants for space travel (133)
(Some Guy) Cool Apparently, the construction of the hyperspace bypass has been postponed (11)
Yahoo Interesting Happy Birthday to you...Happy Birthday to you...Happy Birthday, dear "Elk Cloner" computer virus...Happy Birthday to you (9)
(Some Guy) Amusing Guests at Atlanta DragonCon Supernerd Convention include Erik Estrada, Claudia Black, and thousands of single middle aged virgins who will come out of their parent's basement for the Miss Klingon Beauty Pageant (27)
(Some Guy) Cool Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark have created a refrigerator that cools using magnets instead of electricity (19)
(Nevada Appeal) Cool Most mid-life crisises involve a fast car. This guy decided to aim for a land speed record, in a '71 Riviera no less (7)
C|Net Interesting Video games ARE art. Really. Seriously. Cheeto dust can make a dandy paint (75)
(Some Guy) Spiffy There is a Flight Simulator hidden inside the new version of Google Earth (44)
ABC News Obvious Mars Rovers reported to be OK after being steered into Martian dust storms. Pissed-off NASA engineers go back to work figuring out new ways to kill them so as not to bring down their average (17)

Fri August 31, 2007
PCWorld Cool IBM stores data on single atom. Your atom wants left alone (23)
Live Science Unlikely Secondhand smoke may cause cancer in your pets, which begs the question: how long before your dog wants class-action lawsuit status? (21)
PCWorld Amusing Man buys a "new" hard drive from eBay, only to find it contains personal data of members of the Arkansas Democratic Party (13)
Discovery Cool The same camera that sends you a ticket for running the red light can now save your life, by keeping the other guy's light red until you pass safely (28)
(Florida Today) Unlikely NASA fixes shuttle tank foam problem. "No, really, we mean it this time" (5)
Wired Interesting Bullsht article says we're hardwired to curse (64)
Jalopnik Cool BMW to begin offering in-dash Google Local screen; no word on commanding Teutonic dominatrix voice telling you where you will eat, shop (12)
Fox News Interesting Unlike the three hundred and twenty designs proposed before, THIS electric car means the end of the internal combustion engine (162)
(Eternal Icon) Interesting Discovery of the Lost City of Apollo at Stonehenge. Bad archaeology, or good historical detective work? (22)
AFP Amusing "The only moon landing in history is NASA's Apollo expedition in 1968" (146)
Network World Cool "Star Trek" device comes to the emergency room. Yeah, that's nice but hurry up with the holodeck, already (31)
New Scientist Dumbass Foul language from the sky could repair pants (92)
(Marc Morano) Obvious Review of 539 abstracts in peer-reviewed scientific journals from 2004 through 2007 finds that climate science continues to shift toward the views of global-warming skeptics (131)
(Some Guy) Interesting Lebanese not happy about new video game allowing players to kill their prime minister (15)
Wired Asinine "I can fly a spacecraft to any planet in the galaxy, and I'm being judged by people who don't have a clue as to my technical qualifications whether I'm suitable for government service" (242)
CNSNews Misc My '86 antique fighter jet can whip your fancy new $6.2 billion fighter jet, aircraft pioneer says (96)
(Some Guy) Scary Peugot concept car has Xbox in dashboard. Does it also have an auto pilot? Because submitter sees a potential problem here (16)
Wired Cool Scientists observe proto-planetary rainfall for the first time, amazed to see Gene Kelly dancin' on a regolith (6)
Yahoo Amusing Setting aside the search for a cure to cancer, researchers discover fruit flies can taste fizz (7)
Yahoo Cool The most kick-ass neutron accelerator is now located in Oak Ridge, TN (25)
New Scientist Obvious Population: Obesity is a problem. Scientist: Hibernate, you fat bastards. Surgeon: Shut up, nerd. I've got a good thing going here (25)
AZCentral Interesting West Coast will witness a rare meteor shower tonight, followed by a day of triffids (27)
News.com.au Sad Experts concerned about the future of a rare species of turtle that breathes through its butt (51)
SMH Cool An enormous freezer is being built in the Arctic that will preserve some 4.5 million batches of seeds from all known varieties of the planet's food crops in the event of a global catastrophe (30)
Reuters Cool Japanese scientist discovers sunken kingdom and possible Asian Atlantis. Here comes the science (25)
Seattle Times Cool Microsoft Virtual Earth reveals U.S. nuclear submarine's secret propulsion system. Jack Ryan, Marko Ramius, so on and so forth (44)
Yahoo Obvious Sony is shutting down its Sony Connect online music service, and will introduce new models of its digital Walkman that play other types of music files. In other news, Sony is still making digital music players (19)
Daily Mail Scary New report outlines how British authorities plan to recycle coffins in case of a country-wide flu outbreak. EVERYBODY PANDEMIC (37)
(Science Daily) Interesting Scientists, evangelicals team up for Alaska expedition. What could possibly go wrong? (27)

Thu August 30, 2007
Reuters Cool Astronomers witness the birth of a future solar system's water supply (16)
Guardian.com Unlikely How William Gibson's new pile o' crap novel "is threatening to completely overhaul the way literary criticism is conducted" (37)
Fox News Interesting Dear iPhone hackers, Don't. Sincerely, Apple lawyers (70)
Guardian.com Obvious Scientists investigate why hot coffee doesn't burn people's mouths by sticking electronic sensors inside people's mouths. Still no cure for caffeine (23)
News.com.au Cool I am a 107-year-old grandmother and world's oldest blogger, and I am really getting a kick out of these replies (82)
UPI Sad Scientist who proved man could fly under his own power has slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings for the last time (19)
Slashdot Stupid Man posts video about his video on YouTube. Viacom pulls video about their video about his video because of copyright violations, even though they violated his copyright by using his video in their video (29)
Network World Asinine Microsoft: "You're all filthy pirates -- every last one of you. Oh, wait, never mind" (46)
Network World Interesting Body heat touted as power source. Next alternative energy source: Porn (26)
The Register (USA) Interesting AMD processors to finally support arithmetic where A and B equals C (30)
(4thletter) Amusing A look at the parallels between comics and pro wrestling (8)
The Register Hero Samsung introduces dual-format hi-definition DVD player. Introduction of hi-definition movies worth watching delayed indefinitely (48)
ABC News Asinine Do you have TiVo for your telephone? No? The FBI does (48)
Computerworld Interesting Microsoft admits offering bribes in software standards vote (6)
Network World Cool Pssst… wanna buy a data center? (8)
Aint-It-Cool-News Stupid "Star Trek" fans can breathe a sigh of relief. The new movie won’t screw up established canon because it takes place in an alternative timeline (156)
The Register Cool David Bowie to appear as evil alien on "Dr Who." No word on whether the episode will feature Martian arachnids (47)
NYPost Dumbass If you plan to cut out of work early on a regular basis, don't accept a GPS-equipped cellphone from your boss (14)
Houston Chronicle Spiffy One in three female online daters report first-date sex (1895)
Retrocrush Spiffy The best superhero costumes of all time (49)
CBC Obvious The oblivious parents' back-to-school guide for cheap software that everyone already knows about (19)
Sky.com Interesting Race car capable of 150 mph is made from hemp, with tires made out of potatoes and brake pads from cashew nut shells. Plus, because it's powered by hydrogen, it will be good at killing hippie drivers. There are pics and everything (34)
Canada.com Unlikely Climate change now responsible for... *borrows Magic Eight Ball*... cougar attacks (318)
BBC Interesting In the future, women may find out that they're pregnant because their toilets leak (12)
Washington Post Spiffy Thanks to government regulation of industry, the Japanese can get their tentacle pr0n @ 100 MBPS (39)

Wed August 29, 2007
Computerworld Cool Suddenly all those "person saw face of religious figure on toast" stories are starting to make sense. Toast Printer (24)
ZDNet Interesting Vista SP1 to come soon. This will fix everything. Or: Will the suckitude never end? (95)
(DailyTech) Interesting Poll shows only 45 percent of published scientists accept global warming as fact. Yay consensus (120)
Yahoo Spiffy NASA images to be archived online. Photos to be broken down into categories such as "celestial bodies," "launches," "Mir keggers," "spacewalks," etc (27)
Yahoo Interesting Google chief financial officer to retire to spend more time rolling in his vast pits of filthy lucre (21)
ZDNet Obvious Wi-fi to replace wired ethernet networks "within the next two or three years." No, this article is not from 2001 (106)
(Some Study) Unlikely Media plus a dash of science does it again by somehow linking two unrelated things - the price of your home and your waist size (104)
Fox News Followup A&P sues grocery clerks over their YouTube "ProduceParadise" rap video (109)
(Some Guy) Silly Joss Whedon wants walking-dead rocker Pete Doherty to play zombie in his new BBC "Buffy" spin-off (46)
News.com.au Unlikely Go ahead and laugh, you skeptics, but we all nearly died of manbearpig. Serial (21)
Fox News Interesting Good news fellas. Annual prostate checks may not be necessary. Look for backpedaling followup article tomorrow (81)
UPI Obvious Alcoholsm can reused brian funcinality (26)
Fox News Obvious Ric Romero reports that there are now more homes in the U.S. with cell phones and no land lines than with land lines and no cell phones (22)
BBC Interesting Bravely eschewing work on any of the major problems currently facing mankind, scientists announce that they might one day be able to make a real Spiderman suit (32)
(Someone relative) Interesting Under certain circumstances, electrons can instantaneously communicate with one another whether 10 feet or 10 million miles apart. Suck it, Einstein (61)
(Some Guy) Cool Survey finds one in four women would be open to having sex with another woman (413)
ABC News Followup Mystery surrounds discovery of kryptonite. Lex Luther seen fleeing the scene (78)
Telegraph Obvious "Men have evolved to seek wives and girlfriends who are younger than they are to maximize their chances of reproducing." Send Darwin a nice card on his birthday, guys (38)
NCBuy PSA In case you were curious, downloading mosquito repellent software to your cell phone doesn't work (33)
Reuters Stupid China dispatches two anime police officers to interwebs to patrol tubes for porn, illicit political talk (69)
(Gamedaily) Interesting Hollywood is out of ideas: 80s video game Joust coming to the big screen (83)
Yahoo Scary Experts confirm human to human transmission of H5N1 bird flu. EVERYBODY PANIC (35)

Tue August 28, 2007
The Sun Cool Australian storm brews up an extra grande portion of frothy beachy goodness (pics) (19)
(clipsyndicate.com) Video Terrifying local news report about the north pole melting and how we're all gonna die capped off by priceless OMG Everybody Panic look on co-anchor's face (45)
Wired Amusing In your Facebook, Wal-Mart (14)
Wired Scary "Videogames make better horror than Hollywood." Mr. Bubbles groans in agreement, kills you (162)
Wired Obvious Interweb's high speed lanes still blocked for rural customers because telco pocketed subsidies (38)
Guardian.com Interesting Northwest Passage through the Arctic is ice-free in August for the first time in recorded history (415)
Gizmodo Obvious Is Drew the head of Robotics at MIT? No? Then explain this (36)
BBC Amusing News: Students threaten to “bring the bank to its knees” over account charges. Fark: Via a protest on Facebook (29)
(wvmv.com) Cool Gaming gets more realistic with a new 22-inch monitor for 3D games that have been released. Now needed -- meds for dizziness (35)
Network World Stupid Sony back to rootkit shenanigans, security firm says (73)
STLToday Interesting Christopher Columbus threatened to steal the moon unless he got food (25)
Wired Cool The GPhone could be here by September (43)
(zomgowned) Interesting Cool composite image of the lunar eclipse (27)
YouTube Interesting F-4 at 500 mph vs. "nuke plant" concrete wall. Two enter, one leaves. One leaves only a mark (47)
Yahoo Spiffy Sony develops battery powered by sugar, which will be called "Children" (19)
Yahoo Interesting Ancient bacteria are able to survive nearly half a million years in harsh, frozen conditions like those on Mars. Here comes the "I want to believe" science (21)

Mon August 27, 2007
Newsweek Interesting Honda has "Prius envy," plans to unveil new hybrid (39)
AJC Cool Indian company outsourcing jobs to the U.S. Since it will be in Georgia, you still won't be able to understand them on the telephone (20)
(Gearlog) Spiffy Podbrix is releasing a "Young Woz and Jobs Playset," a 300-unit limited-edition Lego playset, complete with its own custom-made Lego computer (15)
MSNBC Unlikely Sunspots predict heavy rains. And disease. And possibly the rectification of the Vuldrini, where the Traveler will come in the form of a large and moving TORG (44)
ZDNet Asinine MPAA causes another BitTorrent site to shut down. You know who else hated BitTorrent? Hitler (87)
(Ars Technica) Interesting British survey reveals DVD watching is losing popularity to DVRs. Cassettes and eight-tracks heartily welcome DVDs to scrapheap of old media (21)
Wired Asinine Wired lists the "10 fastest 'green' cars." Unfortunately, half the cars run on biofuel and stll spew out greenhouse gases like there's no tomorrow (40)
London Times Misc Acer to buy Gateway for $710 million (64)
ZDNet Asinine Spammers using fake YouTube site to spread worm. Most victims note it was still the best video they've ever seen from YouTube (22)
(Some Guy) Followup He's been offered money, cars and new phones. But all that George Hotz, iPhone hacker extraordinaire, really wants is a girl's number (33)
(NASA) Followup NASA shows when to watch tonight's lunar eclipse from any time zone with spiffy full-color diagrams, time and phase charts, and eclipse visibilty maps (160)
(East Volusia) Amusing Uber-geek physics professor creates a course dissecting bad physics in movie special effects. Also offers extra credit if students submit their dissertation on the "Han shot first" debate (657)
Gizmodo Followup Whoops, we didn't know. Everyone else: Riiiight (37)
ZDNet Dumbass China would like us to know they didn't hack Germany's network because they have rules against that type of thing (19)
ZDNet Asinine Microsoft tries to explain its Vista network performance problems and gives the corporate sector one more reason to never get Vista (93)
Fox News Amusing Playstation 3 outsold by... Playstation 2? (161)
(SunJournal.com) Sad The bluefin tuna population is declining. Sorry, Charlie (21)
(Some Guy) Interesting Tests on mice provide important clues to OCD. Tests on mice provide important clues to OCD. Tests on mice provide important clues to OCD. Tests on mice provide important clues to OCD. Tests on mice provide important clues to OCD (18)
Japan Times Cool Using a rice paddy for a canvas, Japanese farmers grow Hokusai woodblock prints. With cool pics (15)
(Some Guy) Cool Coolest space walk pic you'll see today (26)
BBC Spiffy Launch of the largest amateur rocket in Britain delayed due to bad weather. The rocket -- designed to travel at about 500 mph, and accelerate from zero to 100 mph in just over a second -- is scheduled to fly on the first of September (pic) (25)
(Some Guy) Interesting NASA declares nuclear war on cancer (8)
(Some APOD Guy) Cool The coolest time lapse photography of a total lunar eclipse over North Carolina you'll see today (5)
(Some Car Lover) Cool Not News: Man builds a car. News: It's smokin' hot. Fark: It's made of wood (21)



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