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Sun September 23, 2007
London Times Interesting "Computer geeks beware: your days are over. A 'charm academy' is being created for IT students in response to employer complaints that too many lack basic social and business skills" (72)
(A Moon-Phone) Asinine Prize offered for the first mobile phone call from the Moon - can you hear me in space? (76)
The Scotsman Interesting Academics find "uhms" and "ers" by speakers, like, significantly help understanding (37)
Independent Cool OK, cure for cancer can wait a little while. Doctor comes up with formula for perfect boobies. (SFW) (44)
Fox News Interesting "The International Space Station is an orbital turkey. No important science has come out of it...The whole manned spaceflight program, which is so enormously expensive, has produced nothing of scientific value." (104)
London Times Unlikely Think men are smarter than women? You're right. Think women are smarter than men? That's true too. Here comes the science (32)

Sat September 22, 2007
Telegraph Strange Oxford scientists mathmatically prove quantum theory of multiple universes. Shift happens (92)
YouTube Cool Tom Petty's 'Free Fallin' on the Nintendo DS (video) (52)
Yahoo Spiffy "During copulation, males of these species pierce the abdomens of their mates with their genitals and ejaculate directly into their blood" (44)
Fox News Spiffy Penguins rejoice, Linux is "hot again." Bonus: Fox News article (79)
Reuters Spiffy Halo 3 expected to take in at least $125 million in the first 24 hours of nerdgasm tuesday (122)
Fox News PSA Biofuel combustion creates twice as much nitrous oxide as previously thought, which could exacerbate global warming far worse than burning oil, and turn Earth into a giant whip-it (72)
Yahoo Sad Conservation group: The rare Chinese crested tern is almost extinct. Nation of China: OM NOM NOM (26)
CBC Interesting The plant that ate the south may not be all bad after all (34)
Yahoo Ironic Woman who came in contact with rabid bat saved by Facebook. No it wasn't poked to death (43)
Yahoo Misc Apple admits that some iPod touchscreens are flawed. Where is your god now? (67)
(Some Guy) Amusing How to identify the four types of UNIX system administrators. A handy guide (50)
(Some Guy) Interesting Geologic evidence indicates the North Pole may belong to Mother Russia after all (16)
CNN Obvious Laser surgery in wrong hands can be dangerous. That's some fine investigative work there Lou (9)

Fri September 21, 2007
(RCRWirelessNews) Cool Verizon announces move to next generation of UMTS. Soon no more CMDA (38)
(Some Guy) Amusing Apple customers are revolting. They're pissed at Apple too (106)
Fox News Scary NASA replaces blown seal on shuttle's landing gear, offers to help Heidi Klum next (21)
Kotaku Cool Ditch your air guitars and prepare to rock again: The rumored "Guitar Hero III" set list (116)
Mediabistro Sad Amanda Congdon and her world-class breasts are gone from ABC.com (176)
(Science Daily) Obvious Scientists discover that species try to make up in reproductive quantity what they lack in quality, which may explain "clown car" families (33)
BBC Obvious British Navy allows blogging aboard its ships for first time ever. But really, how interesting could it possibly be? "Day 1: Rum. Day 2: Sodomy. Day 3: The lash" (118)
(The Inquirer) Asinine The $30 billion lost to piracy in Canada? RCMP admits they just made it up (70)
(Kingston Sub-Standard) Obvious Mainstream media discovers that pretards are using Facebook to plan their rowdy drinking parties. Well stop the freaking presses (58)
Network World Obvious Apple's options for nixing open source iPhone use (23)
Space Spiffy NASA to launch gamma-ray telescope. "We're not anticipating any problems," says project director Reed Richards (16)
Space Misc NASA's moonbase plans include a larger habitat for astronauts and "sportier" rovers. No word on whether the plans include making any kind of actual scientific achievement (22)
Scientific American Cool Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MoRbO) sends images to filthy humans. Showing Mars might have had liquid water in the past decades (20)
Wired Asinine YouTube bends over for creationist whackjobs, bans Rational Response Squad videos (112)
London Times Cool How Mario and Lara changed the world: The 10 most influential games EVAR (137)
(Some Guy) Obvious Eight-five percent of houses in Britain have digital TV, ensuring that residents never again miss an episode of "I Say, There's a Bumbershoot in My Lavoratory" and lame British remakes of "The Office" (46)
Gizmodo Video Donkey Kong Live (31)
(Some Engrish Guy) Interesting New photocopier translates English to Japanese, Japanese to Engrish (23)

Thu September 20, 2007
(Some Guy) Cool New experiment challenges the dynamics of Earth’s inner core. New models suggest a very pliable, spongy looking deep mantle (25)
(seriouswheels.com) Followup Pics of the BMW V10 powered Wiesmann GT MF 5. Smitty likey (44)
Discovery Interesting Remember the scene in "Jurassic Park" where the velociraptors were chasing the kids in the kitchen? Well, in reality it would be like "revenge of the pissed-off Thanksgiving turkeys" (45)
Fox News Interesting Nerds rejoice: Hobbits may be more real than your girlfriend who... uh... moved to Canada (19)
Snopes Followup It's not the 25th anniversary of the emoticon... it's at least the 40th. Suck it, Carnegie Mellon (20)
(Some Guy) Cool Best invention ever: Alarm clock that wakes you up with bacon (37)
Gizmodo Amusing I'll take The Penis Mightier for $190, Alex (26)
New Scientist Silly Ever wanted to pretend you are a cat? Now you can have some whiskers (20)
(www.ozone layer.noaa.gov) Followup The ozone hole is shrinking and should be gone by December. So there, econazis (81)
(Electronic House) Silly Study: People want TVs you can talk to. We also want ones that make ice cream and give massages (26)
News.com.au Interesting Australia cracked top-secret US jet fighter codes. It's okay, though, because we knew what they were doing the whole time (21)
Google Cool Scientists aim to barcode world's species. They can check zebras off the list (22)
Yahoo Interesting Paleontologists find fossilized remains of six young dinosaurs in a nursery, complete with the remains of a big, purple trilobite (17)
USA Today Obvious Discovering Wi-Fi blankets too costly, some cities abandon their promises of access for everyone, everywhere (44)
AFP Obvious Irish defence forces secretly tracked UFO sightings for 37 years. And in a country where whiskey is a breakfast food, reported sightings included flying fried eggs and hovering irons (68)
Yahoo Unlikely Cells that make sperm also make stem cells. Oh nuts (44)
Newsday Sad The last bastion of relative peace and solitude in NYC is about to fall: the MTA is wiring the subways to allow cell phone usage. What could possib.... [signal lost] (21)
Network World Dumbass How much does the careless computer store owe the clueless customer? (43)
AP Obvious PS3's version of "Second Life" is behind schedule. Apparently none of the avatars could afford the $500 price tag (160)
Fox News Interesting Widgets may look cute and fun but they are also big security risks. How big of a risk? Even Macs are vulnerable (34)
YouTube Video Thermite vs. French Car. Hosted by Richard Hammond - He's that British guy from that British show about cars, you bloody tosser (56)
Houston Chronicle Interesting Suit against blogger confronts anonymity enjoyed by blogulation. Defamed yarn barns, LOL cats, and presidential candidates rejoice (22)
Computerworld Followup SCO is SCOwned (23)
BBC Interesting Scientists in Georgia unearth four human-like creatures planted by God to trick us (24)
(NASA) Cool Giant trilobite attacks the sun, or, the coolest time-lapse magnetogram video you'll see today of a sunspot (19)
Gizmodo Amusing Finally, the perfect storage for your portable kitten killing pr0n collection - Domo-Kun USB Drives (w/ cute-as-hell pictures) (6)

Wed September 19, 2007
Yahoo Followup That meteorite from Peru turns out to be a meteorwrong (32)
(Spartan 117) Silly Ladies: If you were planning on dressing up in official "Halo" lingerie for that special man in your life... you can't. Although your boyfriend is still a lucky, lucky bastard (31)
Network World Followup Turns out Ameritrade knew about data leak way back in Jan. '06. They only told customers Friday. Sam Waterston says he'll prosecute (15)
Live Science Obvious The top 10 things you didn't know about you. Really more like the top two or three things you didn't know about you. With not safe for lunch pic (see item 4) (34)
(Ars Technica) Amusing Not news: Music industry sends DMCA notice to torrent site. News: It's over emails. Fark: The legal response starts "Dearest little Ass-tunnels" and ends with "eaten by Cthulhu" (194)
Network World Cool Cisco offers a glimpse at the risky business of acquisitions (10)
Yahoo Obvious ICANN wants to finish off the Soviet Union (15)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Hot girl-on-alien lesbian sex in new video game will surely not cause any controversy (178)
AP Stupid Google hopes to make surfing the Internet even more annoying by placing ads inside interactive "widgets" (14)
(Zune Scene) Dumbass Microsoft readies Zune 2 as competitor against Apple for holiday sales. Touts new "squircle" button and "mickey mouse" like play/back buttons. This profit quarter will end well (55)
NCBuy Followup Apple to launch iPhone in Germany on Nov. 9. You know who else liked cutting-edge wireless communication? (45)
The Register Amusing I'm a 13-year-old virus in ur Vista fixing ur master boot record (58)
Free Press Unlikely Ford and Microsoft pair up to build something that actually works (27)
CNN Obvious Amputees now have a website. It's reported that all versions of the login "Stumpy" are already taken (76)
BBC Spiffy ♪ Galileo (Galileo), Galileo (Galileo), Galileo funding-magnifico-o-o ♪ (44)
USA Today Obvious Hardcore gamers end up with high-paying jobs, attract more beautiful mates and are happier in their lives compared to others. Just kidding, they have low grade-point averages and are losers (180)
BBC Spiffy Medical log, supplemental: HP invents patch which can be used to painlessly inject medicines (12)
(Wasted Rage) Interesting Playstation 4: Is Sony quietly exiting the console race? (99)
(wilwheaton) Wheaton Wil Wheaton to appear in an episode of "Family Guy" (71)
(DefenceTalk) Interesting Fasten your seatbelts, Mach 6 is here (18)
AFP Interesting U.S. Air Force Cyber Command goes online Tuesday. System expected to learn at a geomeric rate, become self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th (34)
Yahoo Interesting One language disappears every two weeks. French surrenders (54)
(Daily Yomiuri) Spiffy Japanese high-school students chart prevalence of different earwax types in order to trace migration of ancient peoples into Japan (19)

Tue September 18, 2007
This Is Local London Obvious Grandmothers "may be responsible for evolution of menopause." That's hot (14)
Yahoo PSA If you like to drink, get jealous and chase across the country after people, you too can become a candidate for NASA's 2009 astronaut class (4)
MSNBC Cool Nine-day aquanaut mission has them living 60 feet below the surface (with link to active webcams) (34)
ABC News Interesting National Weather Service changes its decades-old severe weather warnings to make them more specifically wrong (17)
(Some Lvl 12 Warlock) Stupid Not news: "World of Warcraft" player sells his account. News: Player sells his account for the largest amount ever. Fark: Buyer paid nearly $10,000 (82)
Mercury News Cool Intel unveils eight-core processor along with a 12-core graphics chip. No word on the six-assed monkey though (31)
(Thoof) Interesting Windows users 20 percent more interested in religion stories than Mac users. Well, duh, because Mac users have always ranted about th -- wait, huh? (62)
C|Net Ironic Microsoft representative argues open-source software can't sustain innovation - Ironic tag is trying to explode: Allow or Deny (70)
Time Stupid Time names the "50 best websites of 2007." Starwars.com? INGDirect.com? WTF? (65)
IGN Cool Nintendo confirms online play for Super Smash Bros Brawl. NOW I FINALLY WANT (113)
Reuters Cool IBM to re-release Lotus Office to compete against Micro$oft Office. The catch? It's free (50)
(New World Notes) Strange News: Labor unions protest IBM paycut. Fark: Protest to happen on IBM's virtual world campus with pro-union avatars waving signs (17)
Discovery Cool Scientist come up with real "Spider-Man" suit that uses self-cleaning, adhesive power of engineered molecules known as carbon nanotubes. Here comes the science (22)
(Popular Mechanics) Interesting "Scientific" magazine Popular Mechanics debunks "It doesn't matter where you sit on an fail-iner" myth (56)
(Some Guy) Interesting Defective quad core? No sir. That there's an opitmized AMD three-core Phenom (54)
Houston Chronicle Sick School should be about the four "R's" -- Readin', Ritin', 'Rithmetic, and Respiration (15)
MSNBC Cool Goodbye, pricks (23)
Telegraph Interesting Smoking causes acne, still makes you look cool (28)
BBC Interesting Remember that hole in the ozone layer? Yup, still there (42)
Reuters Unlikely Researchers at Duke University suggest body odor does not come from someone else's body, it comes from your nose. Duke stinks (19)

Mon September 17, 2007
London Times Interesting Old and busted: stethoscope. New hotness: download patient's heartbeat on your MP3 player. Suck it, MPAA (13)
CNN Obvious Behold – The $100 lap...no wait, the $176 lapto...ummm no it's the $188 laptop (28)
(Centre Daily Times) Amusing Now you know where that stupid 'smiley face' came from -- blame a Pennsyvlania prof who had a bad computer moment (198)
Network World Scary Been to the Gateway of Hell: One tech editor's torture at the hands of Gateway Computers tech support (65)
G4TV Obvious New Fury PVP MMORPG giving away $2,000,000 in prizes during public beta. Sadly, everyone who knows what PVP MMORPG means will never spend any of it on a real girl (37)
(Some Guy) Amusing Blizzard disbands pedosexual guild (80)
Newsweek Interesting A $20,000 camera coupled with a sixty-year-old telescope found to shoot sharper images than the $1.5 billion Hubble telescope (pics) (123)
Aint-It-Cool-News Cool Learn how the sixth season of "Angel" begins. With dragony goodness (24)
YouTube Misc *SPOILER* The ending to Halo 3. *SPOILER* In case you haven't guessed, this is a SPOILER (101)
WTOP Silly AOL bids goodbye to Virginia, heads to New York to seek its fortune. Expected to return flat broke in a couple of years asking to sleep in the spare bedroom (13)
Yahoo Stupid Digital protesting is more effective and fun because no one gets tear-gassed. With "Look at me, I was really a cool hippie protester back in the '60s and please God let me relive my glory days" photo goodness (40)
Discovery Strange New findings suggest that ancient Scots mummified their dead -- either that, or they were making haggis a lot earlier than anyone suspects (15)
(Tech Digest) Amusing Celebrate next week's "Halo 3" launch with some Master Chief-branded M&Ms party favors. Perfect for the Martha Stewart/Xbox 360 fanboy hybrid (38)
London Times Scary Another sign of the coming apocalypse: The left-handed army is on the rise (248)
Reuters Interesting Snuffleupagus actually to blame for global warming. Suck it, Jane Fonda (45)
London Times Weird Blessed are the cheesemakers: It's a big day for Wedginald (12)
BBC Amusing Micro$oft £oses appeal of its €U anti-trust ¢ase (52)
ZDNet Asinine Get ready for ads on your cell phone (35)
Fox News Unlikely Cassini probe flys within 1000 miles of geodesic shaped moon Iapetus, conveniently goes into safe mode while transmitting pics (32)
Kotaku Ironic Chinese game companies trying to stop piracy (12)
(Some Guy) Obvious Study: Some thought testosterone smelled like old cat pee, others thought it smelled like sweet vanilla. Bonus study: Why dirt smells like dirt (4)
(the London Free Press) Unlikely "We might choose to broadcast every single minute of our lives to an unseen online audience. That, or we'll just be having sex with unicorns" (12)
(Best Buy) Spiffy Ping-pong game: Sucky. Ping-pong game on Wii: Slightly less sucky. Ping-pong game on Wii with Christopher Walken: Super awesome (21)
MSNBC Sad Woman signs up for experimental gene therapy to relieve arthritis pain. Technically, the treatment as a success (40)



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