| Stop me if you've heard this before: Space shuttle launch to go ahead despite safety committee recommendation against it | (13) | ||
| And you thought the comments were the worst thing about Youtube | (53) | ||
| If you want to get someone's attention, look really scared | (6) | ||
| (Physorg.com) | Much like a fat guy wearing a speedo, scientists create semiconductor which can bend light in very wrong ways | (9) | |
| (BizWare Magic) | 21 Internet facts you should know. In fact, if you don't know them, you have no business here; turn off your computer and go outside | (32) | |
| (Some Guy) | Nintendo fan gets the baddest tattoo ever | (29) | |
| (Madcominist) | Ten million-dollar ideas that shoudn't have worked, but did. Fark doesn't make the grade | (72) | |
| (India Daily) | While you were busy arguing over Star Trek trivia from your basement, this mathmetician found a simulator that can create an artificial wormhole | (55) | |
| People can now control their Second Life characters with their brainwaves. Their birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison | (15) | ||
| (asahi.com) | Japanese man invents $70 alarm clock that runs and hides from its sleepy owners as they attempt to turn it off | (28) | |
| Police annoyed by website that "combines Facebook-like social interaction with virtual drug deals and naked characters having sex" | (76) | ||
| (Halifax Daily News) | Canadian company has developed a vaccine that eliminates cancer in mice. Still no cure for getting ketchup out of a new bottle without using a butterknife | (111) | |
| This week's global disaster brought to you by...[shakes Magic 8-Ball]...rampant obesity. That is until someone calculates the heat generated by all those fat people's thighs rubbing together in some Universal Disaster Theory | (12) | ||
| (60 Years Ago Today) | There was a demon that lived in the air. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier | (213) |
| How quantum suicide works | (61) | ||
| (Client56) | As it turns out, brewing beer may not only be good for us, but the byproducts of brewing may become our next fuel source | (26) | |
| World's foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works" | (110) | ||
| (Some Guy) | To monitor spread of avian flu, amateur birdwatchers keep an eye out for sick finches, lethargic gulls and sagging tits | (10) | |
| (Planet Daily) | Old & busted: global warming. New hotness: global cooling. It's all about the sunspots baby | (37) | |
| The babes from "Final Fantasy" vs. the femme fatales of "Dead or Alive." It's a nerdgasm of massive proportions | (36) | ||
| "Smart Bra" allegedly finds breast cancer. Doctors hope claims aren't padded | (7) | ||
| (Some Nerd) | The ten gadgets we could all do without. Well, this is Fark, so you know someone here will be buying all of them | (29) | |
| (EcoGeek) | Inventor creates cheaper, more efficient wind turbine. Oil companies locking and loading their lawyers as you read this | (44) | |
| (Auto Unleashed) | Eight auto design concepts from the LA auto show contest "Robo-cars" | (3) | |
| (Digital Journal) | iPod named all time best gadget ever | (44) | |
| (Bradenton.com) | New techniques can help people with ADHD concen | (12) | |
| (Some Guy) | Amazing portraits made with typewriter | (17) | |
| (Science Daily) | Scientists discover plant that bleeds acid. Game over man, game over | (51) | |
| Step 1. Have a surgeon implant a human ear into your left forearm. Step 2. Implant bluetooth microphone into ear. Step 3. ??? | (34) |
| (Ars Technica) | RIAA admit they have no idea how much money they lose from filesharing, and that suing filesharers costs more than they gain from it. Where did these guys go to business school? | (52) | |
| Old & busted: geocaching souvenirs and knickknacks. New hotness: geocaching your dearly departed in an environmentally friendly way | (9) | ||
| Installing solar panels in your home will pay back their initial investment in lower energy costs. In just 200 years | (42) | ||
| (National Geographic) | 5000-year-old sculpture of Flying Spaghetti Monster found in Egypt. Archaeologists mistake it for ancient hair weave | (19) | |
| BEA rejects $6.6 billion Oracle buyout offer | (19) | ||
| It turns out that MS can update files on your computer at will. Even if Auto updates is turned off | (51) | ||
| (The Business) | Al Gore's Nobel prize proves global warming is not real because the award was the "peace" one, not the "science" one | (42) | |
| Pentagon study calls for a satellite system that collects gigawatts’ worth of solar power and beams it down to Earth. Fails to mention this is also known as a Death Ray | (73) | ||
| To seek out new life and new civilizations by 2025 | (60) | ||
| Scientists discover that chocolate tastes good. Here comes the science | (17) | ||
| (Some Guy) | It goes from 0-128 mph in just 3.5 seconds and the steel track goes 456 feet into the sky. Introducing the world's tallest and fastest steel roller coaster | (55) | |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer desperately needs another layer of security. Allow or deny? | (35) | ||
| (Science Daily) | New study finds that marriage lowers testosterone lev... yes dear, sorry | (25) | |
| (HDGameNews) | HD-DVD players outsell Blu-ray players, four to one | (98) | |
| (MCPmag.com) | Top six computer security lapses. Buying Windows ME too obvious for list | (33) | |
| (Some Guy) | iPhone hackers: 2, Apple: 1 | (21) | |
| First high-definition picture of earth from orbit ever released to the public, video may be coming soon. Good to see NASA giving something back after all those tax dollars, oh wait | (36) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Chocolate milk is better than Gatorade | (57) |
| (Some Guy) | EA buys Bioware and Pandemic game developers, thus insuring neither will ever make a quality game again (includes perfect pic) | (101) | |
| MS's Ballmer finds out that Hell hath no fury like the mother who installed Vista on her daughter's PC. BONUS: gets the smackdown from her while he's on stage at an IT conference | (92) | ||
| Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Doc Brown tied in vote for best fictional scientist. Nobel committee that picked random german dude for chemistry prize unavailable for comment | (31) | ||
| Organism remains celibate for 40 million years. Now that's a dry spell | (35) | ||
| (Some NASA Guy) | Giant atmospheric waves sighted over Iowa. EVERYBODY PANIC (with pics) | (27) | |
| Wikipedia "being torn apart" by culture clash between new users and old timers | (57) | ||
| Does chewing gum really take seven years to digest? | (40) | ||
| (Radar Online) | Crazy billionaire Richard Branson is trying to create a plane that will take passengers from L.A. to Australia in half an hour by going up outside the Earth's atmosphere. He says it will take "a few years." | (39) | |
| X-Ray body scanners will soon replace metal detectors, just like in "Total Recall". No word on when three-breasted prostitutes available | (44) | ||
| (Some Guy) | "This computer is NEVER OBSOLETE" | (64) | |
| (Some Guy) | Two Chinese guys make a full sized 15-foot-tall Transformer from a Citroen C2 car | (33) | |
| EA Games partners with British Petroleum to bring you SimCity Societies, an educational game... hey, where are you guys going? | (23) | ||
| (Some Space Cadet) | Grab your diapers and find out when the international space station is flying overhead | (34) | |
| (Some Guy) | Dell delivers "streaming desktop computing" to enterprise laptop users. Still not delivering anything remotely resembling competent customer service | (21) | |
| (Damn Interesting) | The most interesting article on amoebas and the evolution of altruism you'll read for a good couple of weeks | (45) | |
| Just in time for the much-delayed arrival of the future: "Fairly realistic flying car offered for 2009 delivery" | (37) | ||
| Remember that kid who broke the Australian government's new $80m porn filter? It gets better | (25) | ||
| It's not the heat, it's the humanity | (51) | ||
| Internet2 gets speed boost to 100 Gbps. Oddly enough, it's not being driven by porn. Not yet, at least | (22) | ||
| Saddam Hussein's attack on the World Trade Centre blamed for spike in underweight babies immediately after 9/11 | (123) | ||
| Hottest Christmas toy this year is a full-face mask that lets wearer talk like a Dalek. You want one (pic) | (62) |
| Nonexistent global warming is causing a mythical rise in theoretical humidity levels in imaginary parts of the world | (370) | ||
| High-tech grocery carts will soon be screaming at fatties to put down the Twinkies | (117) | ||
| "Genetically modified crops do not harm human health." Suck it, lefties | (80) | ||
| NASA is considering delaying space shuttle Discovery's planned October 23 explosion to replace three possibly defective heat shield panels on the ship's wing | (19) | ||
| New Line CEO says "there's more than hope" for "The Hobbit", and it's in their future. Fans cast +3 excitement | (47) | ||
| Telescope looks to the sky for history of universe, all 6,000 years of it | (37) | ||
| (Bloomberg) | Ertl wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studying surface reactions and heterogeneous catalysis whatever the hell that is | (80) | |
| Winamp: 10 years of playing back your pir8 mp3z | (80) | ||
| Boeing delays the first delivery of the 787 Dreamliner by 6 months | (30) | ||
| Microsoft's sex change: Will geeks work for a girl? | (36) | ||
| New theory proposes that walking upright is a primitive ape trait, and that knuckle-walking is a later adaptation by our sister species. In other news, Sylvester Stallone may represent the next step in human evolution | (13) | ||
| Nintendo to increase interent support so wii users can nunchuck to wii-wiis and boobies | (23) | ||
| (Times Argus) | DNA tests on large canine shot in Vermont show it's the first wolf spotted there in more than a century. Or rather, was | (55) | |
| (Beaver County Times) | Comic book dude becomes the envy of nerds worldwide, after dropping 1/4 million on original Batman comic someone found in an attic. W/ complimentary nerd quotes and pic | (25) | |
| Chris Pine is in talks to star as Captain Kirk in new Star Trek movie. Who? | (31) | ||
| Remember when you and your best friend used to argue about who would win in a fight, Mario or Sonic? Now is the time to settle that arguement | (83) | ||
| Positive feedback has never been more important. eBay to launch its own social networking service | (14) | ||
| (LiveLeak) | Sandia National Lab geeks accelerate a plate from zero to 76,000 MPH in less than a second. The really fat guy in line in front of you at the Sizzler is unimpressed | (39) | |
| Dino print could be T. Rex mark. Said to be shaped like a hubcap diamond-star halo | (31) | ||
| The British health minister has given scientists permission to create embryos that mix human and animal genetic material. Dr Moreau unavailable for comment but considering adding a plush stuffed snake to the mix | (97) | ||
| Positively the most thought-provoking article on our post-human future you'll read, like..EVAR. Guaranteed | (52) | ||
| Uber Geek who helped create the first firewall, internet forums, early word processors and Alta Vista search engine, fired from Google for being too old | (77) | ||
| (National Geographic) | King Tut's bare face to be displayed to public for first time (w/spoiler photo) | (35) | |
| Environmentalists now want to ban plasma and LCD TVs because they use more energy than CRT models. Bad hippie – no widescreen. Not yours | (90) |
| Fashion designers offering customers their own brand of cellphones, ways to quickly tell the world that they're a douchebag | (63) | ||
| First it was the honeybees, now it is the bumblebees. AUTOBOTS, PANIC | (24) | ||
| Greenhouse gas levels already "beyond the worst-case scenario." Everybody panic, here comes the science, I have no idea what you're talking about so here's a bunny with a pancake on its head | (340) | ||
| Government wants 1,000 irradiation machines in unsecured locations such as hospitals shut down because terrorists could use their radioactive contents to build dirty bombs. And what better way to advertise it than raising the fear in the media? | (35) | ||
| Google records over 37 billion searches worldwide in August alone. In related news, Ask.com got a few hits from people who incorrectly typed their address while searching for porn | (85) | ||
| Researchers figure out why amber makes for such a good insect coffin, and the report is “grim as an Edward Gorey story.” Here comes the science | (9) | ||
| For some people with anorexia, starvation feels like taking ecstasy. No word on whether it makes them like trance music. Subby would like to take some aspiring models on a date. No need to pay for dinner or drugs | (30) | ||
| (Some Physics Guy) | "[The] Universe’s signature might be about to flip from Lorentzian to Euclidean." EVERYBODY PANIC | (156) | |
| "There's a lot of girls around. I honestly find them annoying. Because I'm not here to talk to you. I'm here to play Halo." | (86) | ||
| Next generation telescopes excite astronomers. No word yet on DS9 telescopes | (17) | ||
| GM introducing a new Onstar feature in 2009 that'll make the car undriveable if it's reported stolen | (57) | ||
| Your vast library of porn and cat pictures owes its existence to these two guys | (75) | ||
| The first trailer for the last season of Battlestar Galactica. Your daggit wants mushies | (57) | ||
| Intel had secret back door into Al-Qeada comm network. Gave WH limited access to it on condition they tell no one else. Three hours later, 30 intel agencies and 3 news networks had acessed the site; and the door was closed | (361) | ||
| Japan sending lander to survey surface of moon, pick up Aldrin and Armstrong's empties | (9) | ||
| Scientists say a crappy marriage can be bad for your heart, penis | (71) | ||
| New Lucent - Alcatel routers for BT come with a nifty new feature: remote access without a password | (5) | ||
| Baking Soda + Hydrogen Peroxide + Mountain Dew = A page at Snopes | (40) | ||
| Full ‘Internet census’ needed 3 billion pings, 2 months and one comic strip | (5) | ||
| Studies say treating mini-strokes fast prevents later strokes. Different strokes still only treatable by Gary Coleman | (9) | ||
| Is "beep...beep...beep" not enough to wake you in the morning? Try the shockingly effective Lightning Alarm Clock with mini Tesla coil | (37) | ||
| Before you start cramming Ritalin down your bratty kid's throat, maybe you should take them to the eye doctor first | (32) | ||
| Americans spend more time with their computers than with with their significant others, still likely to get a virus | (76) | ||
| Climate change about to claim a new victim – the fashion industry | (14) | ||
| Pimp my wireless: T-Shirt displays Wi-Fi signal status | (22) | ||
| Nissan Unveils "DO NOT WANT" Futuristic Electric Car. Submitter wanders off mumbling "just build a flying car already" | (69) |
| Researchers conclude sound of angry bees can frighten elephants. No word on 'Dogs with bees in their mouths so when they bark they shoot bees at you' | (12) | ||
| (Some Vardos) | It looks like Rose won't be the only past companion making a return in the 2008 series of Doctor Who. Plus more confirmation on a returning villain rumour. Link contains major spoilers(as well as some slightly Not safe for work ads) | (63) | |
| Saturn, the solar system's token sullen emo planet, continues to blame the sun for all its problems; refuses to move out of Jupiter's basement; get a respectable job like his brothers Uranus and Neptune | (16) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Amateur astronomer in NJ takes a picture though his telescope of the International Space Station overflying him . Picture looks exactly like a tie fighter from "Star Wars" | (40) | |
| (Lohud.com) | The most exhauastively researched article on roadkill compost you'll see all week | (4) | |
| You know those Lego videos you love to watch on YouTube? Here's how they make 'em | (14) | ||
| (military-heat.com) | Forget the X-Wing. What you really want is the recently declassified Boeing Bird of Prey (pics) | (49) | |
| (AutoBlog) | Yamaha to build ugly-ass Transformer-type motorcycle | (25) | |
| (Some Guy) | Left Behind Games HQ: We're about to release an expansion for a game that everybody said sucked. How to generate publicity? I know -- let's sue everyone who said bad things about it | (58) | |
| Minnesota woman, who initially said she would not accept charity and would pay a $220,000 RIAA judgement out of pocket, gets off her soapbox and will now appeal the verdict | (191) | ||
| "Halo" movie downgraded from "development hell" to "entirely dead" | (55) | ||
| Global warming will save lives. Quick, go buy an SUV. It's for the children | (247) | ||
| Rube Goldberg meets Aquaman, and as a result you may soon be able to swim 150 percent faster. Here comes the science | (15) | ||
| Restauranteurs make startling discovery that unemployed bloggers like free food | (6) | ||
| (GameIndustry) | Sony managing director on whether PS3 early adopters should feel cheated: "I think it's natural to feel that way, of course it is" | (44) | |
| (Some Guy) | Watered-down "Manhunt 2" still deemed too upsetting for British gamers to handle. They have boobies on TV, though, so we're even | (158) | |
| (VGB) | Your Wii is now a NEOGEO too | (90) | |
| (Microsoft KB) | Error message: Your password must be at least 18,770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30,689 passwords | (69) | |
| Australia to host world's largest wind farm and migratory bird destructor | (31) | ||
| (Some Guy) | MSNBC buys Newsvine, a Seattle startup that allows users to post and comment on news stories. What a dumb concept | (19) | |
| Your odds of getting sued by the RIAA are less than the chance of getting hit by lightning, but they double if you actually own a computer. Party on, Garth | (16) | ||
| (Universe Today) | NASA is building the third largest roller coaster in the world | (22) | |
| (Electronic House) | Forget the remote, new TV responds to hand gestures. What's the gesture for this show sucks? | (22) | |
| (Some Guy) | Bling-bling company creates 24-carat gold MacBook Pro | (31) | |
| Microsoft Office getting competition from open-source alternatives. They'll still find a way to blame the pirates, though | (36) | ||
| Now you can walk along an ancient path, following 6,000-year-old Italian fossilized footprints. Wine and spaghetti not included | (9) | ||
| Why Fark.se has been down so much lately, and not because someone spilled lutefisk on the servers again | (23) | ||
| (TGDaily) | Scientist gets whacked in head with shovel to demonstrate new super foam | (45) |