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Sun September 16, 2007
PCWorld PSA If you've been to the GOP's website recently, you might want to check for spyware & malware (1)
LA Times Strange Japanese scientists use rainbow trout as parents for endangered sockeye salmon, dub their method "surrogate broodstocking" (2)
(Some Guy) Sad Robert Jordan dies, leaving fans of the Wheel of Time series without an ending to the 19 book long series (55)
Daily Mail Spiffy British scientists creates "12-inch miracle tube" that puts out more than you put into it. Step right up, ladies (114)
UPI Interesting Astronauts on the next shuttle mission to test high-tech caulk gun for patching tiles. Now all they need is some high-tech duct tape (10)
(Science Daily) Interesting Research finds people deviate from normal food choices when they are especially hungry. Your dog wants rice pilaf (10)
(Some Guy) Interesting Israeli astrophysicists help find oldest-known planet outside solar system, estimate its age as close to 5,999 years. "The dinosaurs would have gazed at it," they marvel (260)
(APOD) Cool The coolest picture you will see all day. Not for those afraid of heights (1.7mb) (51)
YouTube Cool The supermanouverability of the F-22 Raptor (132)
(Some Striker) Obvious Study claims heading a soccer ball does not cause brain damage. Farker looks at Posh Spice and begs to differ (22)
Stuff Interesting Pig man diabeetus-free 11 years after pig cell therapy (10)

Sat September 15, 2007
MSNBC Cool Ugly ass panda born at San Diego Zoo. No really, it's truly ugly. Like a black and white tennis ball with eyes. (ugly pic goodness) (60)
(National Geographic) Cool Study shows Mars, like Earth, has cyclical ice ages caused by corporate greed (29)
News.com.au Ironic Mythical global warming makes mythical Northwest Passage a reality (535)
(Some Guy) Interesting The good news is scientists may have found a natural way to get rid of your allergies. The bad news is it involves implanting a bloodsucking worm into your stomach (51)
(Some Guy) Cool Innovative surgery to help dog with hole in roof of mouth. Bonus: Puppy's name is Pez. (with pic) (6)
(Some Birdwatcher) Interesting Godwit sets long distance non-stop flight record from Alaska to New Zealand. "This organism is absolutely outstanding". Analagous to a man running 43 MPH for 7 days without stopping, drinking or eating (21)
Telegraph Interesting Liverpool Philharmonic moves into Second Life. I know, you don't like Beethoven. You don't know what you're missing. Overtures like that get my juices flowing. But after his openings, he does tend to get a little farking boring (19)
Discovery Sad Most common type of gorilla now "critically endangered." Wait, what? (17)

Fri September 14, 2007
Seattle Times Cool Melting Arctic icecap will expose new oil deposits, mineral resources and benefit shipping. And those libruls told me Global Warming was a bad thing (31)
(Some Angry Guy) Hero Jedi Knight wins heroic victory against the Imperial Forces of Viacom (16)
(Some Guy) Amusing Apple cuts off Linux and third-party applications from the iPod. Suck it, iFanboys (125)
(Some HD Lover) Amusing Blu Ray shows how scared they are of HD DVD, calling their new triple layer 51GB discs a "publicity stunt" (63)
Slashdot Interesting SCO files for Chapter 11. Where is your lawsuit now? (36)
Fox News Amusing Groundbreaking study by metro researchers finds that curly hair tangles less than straight hair. Still no cure for cancer, but at least the victims look fabulous (29)
Kotaku Hero Actual headline: "Gamestop won't sell games to stupid kids." (124)
(KPTV) Obvious Teacher finds old chalkboards with Apollo 10 lesson written on them. Students can't believe moon trip possible with such backward technology (33)
MSNBC Amusing The 5 worst ways to get pwned in a videogame. Big Daddy demands a recount (220)
Yahoo Cool Japan launches SELENE moon probe in attempt to retrieve the Lance of Longinus (76)
Telegraph Obvious "Should the internet be policed?" And what shade of brown should the shirts be? (21)
Chicago Tribune Stupid Rhode Island proposing a tough cyberbullying law: students and their parents could be prosecuted if the student is caught sending internet or text messages that prove disruptive to school. FYRI , YS, so STFU (20)
MSNBC Obvious Men have a built-in gaydar, and it's usually right (80)

Thu September 13, 2007
(Some Guy) Cool Evolution of a home office set-up: you wish your basement looked like his does (29)
(RCR News) Asinine Verizon Wireless, claiming their constitutional rights were violated, sues FCC over "open-access" 700MHz rules (27)
Gizmodo Spiffy Inventor creates water bottle that can clean over 4000 liters on a single filter. Can save the lives of disaster victims, military, the entire state of New Jersey (22)
Wired Interesting The Google Lunar X Prize - $20 million to the first private company to put a robotic rover on the Moon (152)
(Cracked) Interesting The eight most common sci-fi visions of the future (and why they'll never happen) (58)
AFP Cool New Dubai tower now tallest free-standing structure in the world, dethroning the CN Phallus. Suck it, Canucks (51)
NCBuy Interesting Some ER patients can begin checking in at computer kiosks. They're quick, efficient, and don't get involved in love triangles with that Croatian doctor or that Indian intern chick (26)
NJ.com Dumbass Parents all up in arms because the new Wii accessory looks like a gun (101)
Slashdot Scary Microsoft has published a patent for displaying advertisements on an operating system. Specifically, how to interrupt game playing, music listenting, and photo viewing with pop-up ads. Woohoo (60)
NYPost Interesting 1/(salmon + BI) ≈ a/(a∞ + salmon ∞) - b/(salmon + salmon 2) = trout (31)
(Some Guy) Scary Microsoft pushes update to Windows XP, even with auto-update turned off (102)
(PRN) Obvious After further (peer) review, more and more scientists are coming to the conclusion that the theory of man made global warming is just bad science (212)
New Scientist Cool Important tips to remember when the metal ones come for you. And they will (51)
USA Today Dumbass Jeremy Jaynes, notorious Virginia spammer, wants you to know that he has a right to express himself by cluttering your inbox with ads for penis enlargement (35)
(Gamasutra) Stupid World Series of Video Games cancelled. In other news, there was a World Series of Video Games (49)
(Some Guy) Interesting The times, they are a-changin': Sun Microsystems will now package and resell Windows on its server systems (24)
BBC Cool New matter formed. Your scientist wants gamma-ray annihilation lasers (34)
(NBC Action News) Interesting TV meteorologist uses a highly sophisticated graphic to explain isotherms and frontal boundaries to us laymen (22)
London Times Spiffy Super-bright light helps scientists find out what's in books without opening them. Why can't they just get their opinions from the Amazon review like everybody else? (18)
UPI Interesting People who go to college less likely to get cancer. Communication majors less likely to get jobs (27)
USA Today Scary How to know that green obsession has gone too far: When one of the first things that's said about one of the most destructive bombs in the world is that it's environmentally friendly (38)

Wed September 12, 2007
(Some NY Times Guy) Interesting The Sun will explode in 5 million years, but good news, Earth may survive (83)
Forbes Followup It's getting cheaper, and easier, to unlock your iPhone. Suck it, AT&T (26)
(Some Guy) Misc "Smallville" Season Seven trailer, featuring first look at Bizarro and Supergirl. Maybe this year Clark will figure out he can fly (62)
BBC Interesting Scientists discover that tangerine peels kill cancer. Still no cure for herpes (23)
C|Net Asinine CNet: AdBlock Plus is evil. Next week, why spam blockers and firewalls should be criminalized (136)
Fox News Interesting New research finds chocolate isn't addictive and the researchers can quit any time they want. They just don't want to quit right now (56)
BBC Amusing Study looks at how much women's breasts bounce when they jog. They could have saved thousands by asking farkers. (With pics) (99)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Today is National Video Games Day (85)
Yahoo Amusing With people, women look for a man with money. In the chimp world, women look for a man who can steal fruit (25)
London Times Interesting Early man wasn't so intelligently designed after all: He wasn't able to run away from the dinosaurs (35)
UPI Interesting Australian patients to get bar coded to cut down on the number of wrong body parts being cut. I came in for my hernia, I left with one arm (12)
Yahoo Asinine Websites that offer help to computer users who are plagued by spyware -- and try to shut down the asshats behind it -- are finding themselves increasingly under attack, making those sites extremely difficult to access (25)
The Sun Cool Raise a glass to world's first automated iBar that can work out what your drink is using sensors that calculate your glass shape (21)

Tue September 11, 2007
FHM Cool "Halo 3" developer talks about the making of the game (45)
(Some Carl Sagan Guy) Spiffy The "Cosmos"-less Science Channel discussion thread (188)
The Register Amusing Google under legal assault from incoherent Australians for spinning their drains in the wrong direction (8)
Wired Followup "Black Screen of Death" not true. Microsoft has announced pirated copies of Windows Vista will continue to perform as inadequately as the real ones (35)
(Hollywood Reporter) Cool Two words: "Tron" sequel. Hopefully we can avoid a sequel to the homemade "Tron" outfit (64)
(Some TF Lover) Cool After nine long years, "Team Fortress 2" is about to be released. Where is your Duke now? (80)
Rocky Mountain News Spiffy In-flight turbulence may become thing of the past, like on-time departures and leg room (12)
Computerworld Misc "Black Screen of Darkness" on pirated copies of Vista activated today by Microsoft. DAARRRRRRK (97)
Network World Strange AT&T abandoning blue in favor of… orange? Must be because Vonage has had so much success with it (32)
YouTube Amusing WoW player scolded by parents on Ventrilio. Cries like a baby (113)
Sign On San Diego Scary The series of seven quakes that has rattled the California region during the past week and a half doesn't mean "The Big One" is more likely to hit soon. In Arizona news wetsuit sales jump 33% over the weekend (34)
MSNBC Interesting Scientists invent new lies about origin of life on Earth. Invisible Sky Wizard nowhere to be found (54)
(Tech Digest) Silly OSOYOU is a new social-networking site for fashionistas, complete with "virtual clothes hangers" to try on outfits. And people say Web 2.0 is a bubble waiting to burst (9)
Network World Cool NASA building silicon chips that can handle massively high heat, and then some (19)
(The Syndicate) Amusing To try to stop slumping CD sales, the RIAA launches the "Ringle," a ringtone/single combo. "It's revolutionary and will solve the music biz's problems," says one out-of-touch exec as he puts batteries in his Walkman (50)
Live Science Cool Future smart cars would prevent accidents, hopefully with "Turbo Boost" (19)
Slashdot Interesting Big Blue joins OpenOffice.org community. Millions of penguin-humpers rejoice (15)
Fox News Interesting Remember how ebola was going to kill everyone a couple of years ago? It's back (20)
London Times Unlikely Move over, Master Chief. Monty Python is the next big star of the XBox 360 (19)
Slashdot Spiffy English Wikipedia reaches two million hopelessly inaccurate, poorly written articles (31)
MSNBC Amusing Smellovision making a comeback. So next time Britney comes on TV you'll be able to smell the faint scent of alcohol, vicodin and despair (31)
Network World Amusing IBM beats Microsoft over the head with its own code (6)
Live Science Interesting Stem cells: Best shaken, not stirred (5)
MSNBC Interesting Want to protect your vision? Eat more spinach quiche (18)
(The New Republic) Interesting Harvard study pointing to obesity as a major contributor to death is full of baloney. Mmmm, baloney (21)
Abc.net.au Obvious Researchers find no correlation between number of MySpace friends and number of real life friends (32)
Jalopnik Cool Lamborghini announces a million euro car called the Reventon that will have a total production run of 20 vehicles (w/ amazing artistic renderings) (55)

Mon September 10, 2007
Yahoo Spiffy Study shows that cialis makes your penis work, even if your legs don't (17)
Yahoo Cool Remember that mythical engine that runs on water the oil and car companies are supposedly keeping a secret? Maybe it's not so mythical after all (115)
(Some Guy) Amusing In the year 2000 as told by the French in 1910 (151)
Fox News Interesting The song choices on your iPod says a lot about you. Your likes/ dislikes, whether you are organized or eclectic. It also establishes your identity after you are hit and killed by a bus and the police find no wallet on your body (27)
(Some Guy) Sad The Sun seen from Alpha Centauri A (68)
(Some Guy) Scary Scientists invent world's coolest and creepiest origami (16)
(Some Guy) Interesting Remember that a black hole begins when a dying star collapses in upon itself? Well, not so fast (65)
Network World Cool FBI squashes cybersquatter (25)
(Some Guy) Cool AMD to launch new 4-core server chip, Intel sits back ... loading ... waiting to see ... loading ... if there is any ... loading ... real competition (51)
(Tech Digest) Interesting Apple sold its millionth iPhone on Sunday, the company has announced. Assuming a good 950,000 of those were sold before last week's price cut, that's $95m in $100 Apple Store credits for disgruntled early adopters. Ouch (30)
(Some War Machine) Cool Iron Man teaser trailer hits. Submitter hit with repulsor blast of awesomeness (100)
Independent Amusing Ah, Germany. Warning about electrosmog from Wifi and cellphones. You know who else created electrosmog? (this headline is now pre-Godwinned for your convenience) (20)
(Some Guy) Interesting Apple, with $14 billion in cash, considering taking part in the auction for a chunk of the wireless spectrum. Could result in own phone and computer networks plus much more (33)
Network World Interesting Powerhouse player blesses Google Apps ... And that's Steve Ballmer you hear taking the Lord's name in vain (5)
BBSpot Amusing Apple refunds Apple Lisa early adopters $7000 in store credit (141)
Yahoo Interesting Chip implants linked to cancer in animals. Also linked to increased tinfoil sales among humans (14)
Network World Obvious AMD leans on LucusFilms to promote latest Intel-killing processors (20)
Wired Dumbass Techno environmentalists decry mountaintop mining for coal. In other news, that new quad core dual video "extreme gaming" PC consumes up to 800W of precious coal powered go juice. Cause, meet outcome (69)
(Engadget) Strange 3M unveils very suggestive looking DLP projector (29)
Toronto Star Interesting Why the Earth's atmosphere is like an ocean and you're at the bottom of it. Right now you're sitting under the weight of 32,000 kilograms of air (56)
Sky News Cool The future is here, in black and white. But does anyone understand it? (45)
(Some Guy) Cool Fan creates giant Xbox 360, uses it to store movies and games (35)
Guardian.com Interesting 3D images give early warning of genetic disorders in children, such as snaggletooth, butterface. Still no cure for monobrow (12)
(Some Guy) Obvious "Social websites" costing British employers £130 million a day, but employees only £2.50 per month based on current exchange rates (10)
(Some Guy) Stupid We all knew the internet would be used for crazies to spout their theories to everyone. Example, here is a guy claiming the search for Steve Fosset is actually a search for a missing nuke (44)
The Scotsman Obvious Salt linked to high blood pressure. Next study from Institutue of Blindingly Obvious expected to link 'sunset' to 'darkness', alcohol consumption to running Fark (11)



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