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Sun October 21, 2007
BBC Spiffy Ric Romero's British counterpart cracks a big one: faster computers are getting smaller (5)
(Inhabitat) Cool University of Maryland students build house entirely powered by the sun (18)
UPI Cool Two men with absolutely no lives have parlayed their sad existence to become a successful team of U.S. meteorite hunters (9)
YouTube Cool Duke scientists create invisiblity cloak, continues to visibly suck (10)
SLTrib Dumbass The glorious $130,000,000 per plane F-22 Raptor has been grounded due to design flaws. Brilliant (30)
(Some Guy) Interesting Ever wonder what the patent applications for sex toys look like? Apparently this guy has been keeping track of them. (possibly Not safe for work) (11)
(crn.com) Spiffy Google ups Gmail storage to 4GB in move to help porn collectors (61)
(Some Guy) Video Ride the longest steel roller coaster in the world -- virtually (34)
(Some Guy) Amusing Atari's founder says "today's games are trash", "get off my lawn" (87)
(Honolulu Star-Bulletin) Hero Surfer invents hybrid sunglasses/surf goggles (14)
Yahoo Interesting "Elephants can smell danger." Probably only because most poachers have really bad B.O. (3)

Sat October 20, 2007
Live Science Spiffy Ozone hole shrinks back to average size. Suck it, because it's smaller, environmentalists (38)
Yahoo Cool The evolutionary origin of vision is discovered (55)
(Some APOD Guy) Cool The coolest pic of the Milky Way you'll see today (23)
Guardian.com Stupid It's gotten so the friggin' leaves can't even change color in Vermont in the fall without the media pointing and screaming hysterically about climate change (56)
(Some guy hiding in a bunker) Interesting Maps of major cities with the Tunguska explosion overlaid on top - Goodbye London (45)
(Some Guy) Interesting "NASA's dilemma: sex and dead bodies in space" (59)
(Some Economist) Obvious Chasing women shortens a man's lifespan. Support Internet porn for increased longevity (25)
The Sun Interesting The story of how Velcro, satellite navigation systems and microwaves were invented – mostly by accident (22)
BBC Obvious Scientists come up with composite of "funniest face in Britain." Composite has teeth, so submitter calls shenanigans (96)
Canada.com Obvious "I actually had a guy message me to claim that I had performed oral sex on him in an alley years ago and that it was the hottest moment of his life." People say Facebook is annoying, but they like to look at the pictures (38)

Fri October 19, 2007
Slashdot Stupid Tens of people with RealNetwork's RealPlayer under attack from real zero day vulnerability (40)
(techblorge) Dumbass Universal to launch singles on USB memory sticks. At twice the price of CDs (34)
Computerworld Obvious "Why is it that so many organizations have still not implemented encryption, at least on their laptops and other mobile devices? Laptop losses aren't exactly rare" (124)
WFTV Obvious Astronauts back NASA's decision to skip wing repairs, plan a couple of shots to steady nerves (4)
(Some Guy) Cool Get your own Optimus Prime Peterbilt 1:1 scale replica for just $55,000 (28)
Space Cool Halley's cometh Sunday (7)
TechnologyReview Spiffy Irish computer scientists use neural networks to reduce lag time for online games. Still no cure for rampaging robots (7)
Scientific American Interesting Black holes sing. Here comes the science (19)
(Infinity) Spiffy It's the 40th anniversary of the John Christopher tripod books that steered many a Farker to sci-fi. Gordon Freeman is impressed (48)
(Der Spiegel) Weird Germans create world's largest artificial mini tornado. France surrenders (7)
(Bloomberg) Amusing Ten years after Michael Dell stated that Steve Jobs should just "shut down" Apple and give the money back to their stockholders, Apple's value has now exceeded Dell's (79)
(Some Guy) Unlikely EA wants to end the console wars with a single gaming platform (67)
(Webb Alert) Cool As if Morgan Webb's hotness isn't enough reason to watch her webcast, her repeated pronunciation of "Ubuntu" should be good for a smile. Bonus: She's plugging Fark this week (90)
Wired Amusing Web 2.0 trys to tap "wisdom of the crowds" to probe candidates. Still no word on why, if crowds are wise, Ron Paul is popular (209)
Live Science Cool Scientists create a wireless radio receiver thousands of times slimmer than a human hair (13)
(Greenfield Recorder) Unlikely "Quantum Grid Restructuring actually changes the energetic structure of the building itself at the subatomic and etheric levels" (25)
Live Science Interesting Twenty-five secrets of Mona Lisa revealed. No. 1: She's a man, baby (15)
Houston Chronicle Scary Comcast has begun throttling data transfer from certain websites. Suck it, Net Neutrality (84)
BBC Interesting Your ability to handle stress depends on the amount of BDNF you have. Surprisingly BDNF doesn’t stand for "Beer, Drugs, Nudity & Fark" (8)
BBC Interesting Another day, another hole found in WEP. Does anyone still use this? (78)
(Boy Genius Report) Amusing Motorola forced to make announcement that what appears to be a penis on the clock face of their phones is just three-dimensional shading. With pic of Motorola Penis (70)
USA Today PSA FDA says ED drugs may cause hearing loss. Could this be a blessing in disguise? (77)
(Some Guy) Cool "32 Things You Can Do with Beer" (35)
ABC News Hero Christians launch GodTube site in response to the atheist filth spewed out by YouTube and social news sites like Fark.com. "We see ourselves as the next-generation network where the users interact as well as create programming" (131)

Thu October 18, 2007
Newsweek Cool Talking. So easy a caveman could do it (31)
Guardian.com Unlikely Researcher says long-term habitual smoking is not bad for you; quitting long-term, habitual smoking is what causes cancer (69)
Wall Street Journal Unlikely Sony slashes PS3 prices in last ditch effort not to fail. Master Chief not impressed (128)
Yahoo Obvious Scientists discover that eating clams and applying heavy makeup are among the earliest human accomplishments, further evidence to back prostitution's claim to be the world's oldest profession (7)
BBC Interesting World's oldest fossil reptile found in New Brunswick, pushes back age of life on Earth to 6003 years (28)
Reuters Cool Electrical outlet that spins each receptacle 360 Degrees to accommodate for larger plugs (65)
BBC Interesting Scientists create nano-radio several atoms wide, only to find every station plays same Nickelback crap (41)
Wired Cool Hymini offers wind and solar-powered USB chargers for small gadgets. But if you break the Hymini, you'll have to look for a new version (31)
Yahoo Obvious This may come as a shock but studies have shown that technology has made it easier to *gasp* access porn at work. Ric Romero on the scene (149)
(TTAC) Amusing "Encountering the new Ford Focus for the first time is like discovering that a short, fat, balding Elvis imitator has a less-attractive twin." (89)
Yahoo Interesting Why do males die before females? Turns out, the answer is sex: the source of and solution to all of life's problems (48)
Wired Interesting "Artificial intelligence is brain-dead because researchers have failed to grapple with philosophy" (91)
(Science Daily) Unlikely Using a water pipe is as addictive as other forms of tobacco smoking. In other news, some people actually use tobacco in water pipes (155)
UPI Obvious Japanese researchers warn that eating raw fish can cause gastric distress, emergency situations aboard airplanes (25)

Wed October 17, 2007
(TechDirt) Silly Law firm says "No, you can't look at our HTML source code. Not yours" (109)
(Orbiting Frog) Cool The ten strangest real things in space. I want to believe (pics) (50)
(Freakonomics) Scary Owner of online poker website Absolute Poker caught cheating versus his own player base (190)
Computerworld Scary Skype to help spread the Herpe (7)
LA Times Amusing The Los Angeles Times wants you to know that while it's tough to take cow flatulence seriously, it's no joke. Adds that it's a "silent but deadly source of greenhouse gases." But remember: It's no joke (67)
(destructoid.com) PSA Street Fighter 4 confirmed (with hadoken goodness) (82)
Gizmodo PSA Steve Jobs: iPhone SDK In Dev Hands February '08 (56)
Yahoo Interesting Early man walked around, on the beach and the shoals. Their minds were all the same, to eat seafood was their goal. So, they put their makeup on and they headed to the shore. Science has just found out: Evolution was a chore (33)
(Some Guy) Dumbass In planning stages now: "Spiderman 4: The Revenge of the Suck" (93)
PCWorld Cool Make Office 2007 look like Office 2003 (44)
UPI Cool Astronomers in Taiwan have named a small astral body they discovered between Mars and Jupiter "Chiayi," which roughly translated means "F*ck you China" (19)
Wired Cool New "metamaterial" brings us one step closer to a cloaking device, helping those Klingon bastard's kill Captain Kirk's son (33)
Washington Post Asinine Godless scientists blame "evolution" for emergence of new germ that kills more people than AIDS each year (92)
Reuters Silly According to Google's statistics, Chile leads the world in searching for the word "gay." According to Nelson from The Simpsons, "Ha... ha..." (72)
Discovery Spiffy Oldest known human footprints now opened to public display. Sadly, tracks just lead to remains of oldest known Bronto-Burger stand (9)
Daily Mail Interesting Scent of a breastfeeding woman increases other women's sexual desire. Whoo-ah (35)
(PonderAbout) Interesting A 1960s video essay defining the computer and speculating on how it would change our lives (19)
(The Herald) Stupid Latest evolutionary phenomenon that scientists haven't totally figured out yet, thus providing indisputable evidence for intelligent design: Whale suckling (39)
CNBC PSA Napster launches again. Now using some web platform that lets you download music without having to install software, etc (16)
(iht.com) Unlikely New Internet dot com bubble sees growth that will never ever ever end... ever (19)
Yahoo Interesting Rwanda is trying to become the Singapore of Africa (19)
BBC Asinine Fishing nations bring Blue Fin tuna population to brink of collapse. Their response? Push the prices up and squabble for a bigger share of what's left. Fark prediction for 2010: "Fishermen demand government subsidies to sit on empty boats" (12)
Boston Globe Scary "Spock raised a manicured eyebrow at Kirk, causing a shudder of glee to course through the virile captain at the prospect of an off-duty night of ecstasy." Taking at look at fan fiction (214)
AFP Interesting System that converts human waste into biogas to be unveiled at World Toilet Summit, sponsored by ExxonMobilTacoBell (11)
New Scientist Cool Microsoft has filed patent for interface between users' brains and their computers. Implications of Blue Screen of Death still to be worked out (23)
(Oil Online) Scary French Petroleum Institute in 2001 predicted peak oil in 2020, in 2006 it was 2015, and now the prediction is 2010. French cars surrender (21)
Guardian.com Amusing The popping and skipping of vinyl, the flat tones of CDs... can't decide? Take both (38)
Yahoo Cool Apple's new OS to be released in stores next week, as Vista in 2009 (82)
Washington Post Scary Drug-resistant bacteria now kills more Americans than AIDS (41)

Tue October 16, 2007
The Register Followup Greenpeace admits that the iPhone does, in fact, meet current eco-regulations. You may continue to enjoy your iPhone-tinis (22)
Time Ironic People in India realizing that working in a call center sucks (188)
(Some Carl Sagan Guy) Cool The "Cosmos"-less Science Channel Discussion Thread (255)
(Ars Technica) Ironic Microsoft licenses approved as "official" open source by OSI. Overheard from Irony tag: "I see what you did there" (25)
Wired Interesting RIAA sues Usenet, refuses to get off lawn of Internet old-schoolers (134)
ZDNet Dumbass Latest Vista fark-up that won't be fixed in SP1: Out of memory errors when copying files (69)
Wired Interesting Single ion engine performing well. Imagine what could be done with twin ion engines (76)
(ars technica) Unlikely Internal Comcast handbook for dealing with government requests leaked, indicates they obey privacy laws perfectly. Hero tag does a reality check, stands down (16)
SeattlePI Interesting Actual Headline: scientists create pollution-sucking trees. You submitted this with a Duke reference but everyone already saw it coming a mile away (12)
BBC Unlikely Another new dinosaur is discovered. God's plan to deceive us into believing these things were real is almost complete (58)
Excite Strange Scientists explain chocolate cravings, still have no idea why people are addicted to Fark or celebrity meltdown news (26)
Slashdot Spiffy OSX 10.5 will ship on 10/26/07 (154)
UPI Cool The U.S. space agency, for the fifth time, is extending the program for its Mars Exploration Rovers which were originally planned to last only 90 days (52)
How Stuff Works Interesting That simple yellow first-down line you see on TV NFL games? Yeah, that takes four people, eight computers and a truckload of equipment. Here comes the science (97)
Chicago Tribune Cool I see your Wii lightsaber and raise you a replica Millennium Falcon/personal IMAX theater (15)
Yahoo Interesting The search continues for the Streisand gene (15)
Scientific American Cool Cars of the 1907 automobile show, with pics (24)
(RCR News) Scary Verizon Wireless announces plans to share customer call records with third-party companies unless customers actively opt-out, effective last week (55)
Network World Interesting The iPhone is toxic, warns Greenpeace (37)

Mon October 15, 2007
(Some Guy) Cool An automated home-bartending system that's preprogrammed to make up to 5,000 different drinks. With video goodness (37)
Guardian.com Interesting Genetically-modified trees with pancakes on their head clean the soil or some damn thing (18)
MSNBC Weird Architects working with paper-based material called "papercrete." Big Bad Wolf lends his support (19)
Valleywag Spiffy Take the pledge to not suck at the Internet (57)
(US News & World Report) Obvious "The profusion of social media sites, which rely on users to generate content, has provided a platform for determined 'bot' users to flood the Internet with material." Submitter wouldn't know anything about that (29)
(Some Guy) PSA Worldwide nergasm in t-minus 10 days. Lucasarts to unveil the Wii Lightsaber on October 26 (56)
Kotaku Spiffy Now gamers everywhere can get their girlfriends to dress up as their favorite video game babe for Halloween. Oh wait (52)
Mercury News Dumbass Wired editor discovers it's a really bad idea to fly remote-controlled planes equipped with cameras over secure federal labs such as Lawrence Berkeley (pic) (105)
Wired Amusing Microsoft attempts to patent the iPhone (23)
MSNBC Interesting Boy is allergic to every food except chicken, tuna, carrots, potatoes and grapes. However, seeing as how this spares him from 99.9 percent of British culinary offerings, he should consider himself lucky (44)
(Some Guy) Interesting Remember that article about human sex with robots by 2050? Apparently, Norelco wants to start now (safe for work) (sponsored link) (130)
Reuters Spiffy Pfizer to pfartner with social networking site pfor pfharmaceutical pfrofessionals and pfhysicians (19)
Live Science Cool Depending on the average wind speed, a 10 kilowatt turbine with a 20-foot rotor diameter could supply most of the electricity for a house (63)
Guardian.com Cool Is there life on a moon of Saturn, and if there is, can we subjugate it and bend it to our will? (32)
Seattle Times Obvious As Apple becomes Microsoft, fanboys are inconsolable. Submitter suggests they go cry about it (81)
(Some Guy) Weird The strangest moths you'll see today (31)
(Ars Technica) Cool Class action to unlock mobile phones gets greenlit by California Supreme Court, Fark admins (32)
BBC Cool Hitachi announces technology breakthrough which could lead to four terabyte disk drives. Soon, subby will only need two drives to store his porn (32)
News.com.au Spiffy British officials have developed a long-term goal to reduce the amount of carbon emissions caused by refrigerated milk. Finally (3)
(ScienceDaily) Sad Tuna nets: Not just for dolphins anymore (40)
Minneapolis Star Tribune PSA For those of you with a Medtronic internal defibrillator, you're pretty much screwed. For the rest of you, Medtronic will no longer be offering replacement parts for their internal defibrillators (12)
The Sun Scary Scientists identify the asteroid that is going to kill us all in 2036. Submitter's liver isn't going to make it until then, so he's passing this along as a courtesy to the rest of you (42)
(La Voz) Interesting Vinyl records: Dead medium? Or alive and sp sp sp sp sp sp sp sp sp sp sp sp sp sp sp sp (72)



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