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Sun November 04, 2007
(NASA) Cool Want to see Venus, Saturn, Mars, the crescent Moon, Orion, Castor, Pollux, Regulus, Aldebaran, Sirius, the space shuttle Discovery, the International Space Station and an exploding comet? NASA says be awake at 5:30 am tomorrow (19)
(Some Science Guys) Cool November 13 is "Judgment Day" for "intelligent" design. So 1) creationists are going to Hell, 2) Sky.net hates idiots, or 3) PBS's "Nova" will have a two-hour special? James Cameron surrenders (171)
(NY Times) Spiffy "And he was like, call me. And I was like, no way And like, he said why? And I was like, oh my god don't you... hello?.....hello?.....HELLO?" (101)
(Some Guy) Wheaton It's Wil versus The Baconator in the battle for Best Celebrity Blogger (69)
(Guerilla News) Obvious ♫ Fat on the scarecrow, subsidies for the plows ♫ This land fed a nation and made them fat as sows ♫ (14)
Guardian.com Spiffy We've seen a 10% drop in attacks due to the War on Superbugs. Suck it, antibiotics (10)
Yahoo Amusing How many rocket scientists does it take to prevent sidewalk stains? (4)
Valleywag Interesting Google has purchased the shortest domain name ever (26)
Yahoo Interesting Canadian wireless company sues Apple, Dell, Intel, Sony, Toshiba, Best Buy, Circuit City, HP and others over patent infringement (19)

Sat November 03, 2007
(Some Guy) Cool You know you have too much time on your hands when you turn your house into a Super Mario level for Halloween (33)
Seattle Times Cool Ever wanted your own 500 mph jet? These guys just made that dream a little closer (121)
Kotaku Obvious From the "I can't believe it took so long to happen" department, cheap Wiimote rip-offs finally appear at Wal-Mart. Merry Christmas, son (31)
Telegraph Interesting Scientists announce breakthrough in limb-regeneration, providing longer careers to chainsaw jugglers everywhere (14)
(TG Daily) Cool Researchers announce that they are attempting to create accurate three-dimensional maps of major cities...using millions of vacation photos from Flickr (46)
(Some Guy) Cool The world's first MP3 player from 1998 (56)
(Some Guy) Interesting Steampunk laptop is turned on with key -- Linux powered (24)
SMH Stupid Women with otherwise perfect breasts demanding implants so they too can look like hookers and porn stars (204)
LA Times Hero Self-taught electrical engineer working with top scientists, doctors, Nobel prize winning chemists, finds he can kill cancer cells with radio frequencies (47)
(Some Guy) Sad How many months of service does your seventh-generation console get? After 24 years, Nintendo to cease repairing broken NES units (31)
(Sheboygan Press) Asinine Mayor tells woman she's not allowed to put a link to a city web site on her web page (84)
Boston Globe Interesting It was 50 years ago that physician-scientist Wilhelm Reich, best known for his discovery of a purported cosmic life force associated with sexual orgasm, died in federal prison, his books burned and his equipment destroyed by the government (108)
Wired Followup The 15 dumbest Apple predictions of all time (66)
(NASA) Hero 50 years ago today the first Earth being went into space. RIP Laika (24)
Independent Interesting 101 gadgets that changed the world (39)

Fri November 02, 2007
(Deputy Dog) Cool The 10 best photos from space you'll see today, or ever (39)
Network World Interesting Deploying virtual servers is easy, it's managing them that will drive you nuts (18)
Canada.com Interesting After apes and monkeys, it turns out the human being's closest relative looks like a lemur who mated with a frisbee (23)
London Times Interesting Here I come to save the day (35)
(Some Guy) Cool I present to you "Pac-gentleman", the mechanical game from the 1880s that inspired generations (30)
(Some Guy) Scary Pratchett has stroke. Death of Rats strangely silent (74)
(Betanews) Interesting Kmart to stop selling Blue-Ray discs. In other news, people still shop at Kmart (150)
Computerworld Amusing HA HA HA11 I just upgraded to Mac OS X.5 Leopard and watched my wireless slowly die111 (122)
(GG) Dumbass World's most useless car now includes half a sunroof (23)
(Ars Technica) Obvious Microsoft happy with Vista. Well, that's one (89)
(Some Guy) Cool The world's only street-legal Boeing 727 jet limo (12)
Yahoo Interesting Chemists have possibly created a device to prevent red-wine headaches. Still no cure for whiskey-dick (28)
Sky.com Obvious British Army develops first self-aware fighter-bomber. "This is a machine able to think for itself." What could possibly go wrong? (57)
(Some Army Scientist Guy) Cool By 2025, the American Solder will be damn near invincible. It ain't Master Chief, but cool nonetheless (110)
(AARP) Weird Finally a video teaching old people how to play video games (23)

Thu November 01, 2007
(Some Guy) Obvious Student newspaper asks the veritable question for the ages: Are we living in a Porn Nation? Subby would like to reply, but it's hard to type with one hand, submit this (155)
CBS 2 Lost Angeles Spiffy It's that time of year again... The leaves fall off the trees, the pumpkins start to rot, the robot cars hit the desert in California... Wait, what??? (12)
Washington Post Unlikely "Some people alive today will live in a robust and youthful fashion for 1,000 years". In other news, it's a slow news day (49)
(Mac|Life) Amusing Apple's new Mac OS makes it extra easy to find Windows machines on your network: their icons all look like little Blue Screens of Death (pic) (102)
AFP Sad Nintendo has decided to stop repairing the NES console. Yes, the original one (74)
C|Net Cool The Zune 2 is the most wanted gadget. Suck it, iSheep (109)
Daily Mail Cool Scientists use lenses purchased off eBay to discover three new planets. A+++, would buy from again (13)
Yahoo Amusing Article on "How the Malware Marketplace Works" farked by malware (9)
AFP Spiffy Ever wanted to surf the Internet and grill up a steak while cruising down the freeway at 80 mph? These and other accidents-waiting-to-happen await you at the annual auto accessories exhibition (54)
ABC 2 Interesting Who does Comcast think they are? The friggin' internet police? Go get 'em FCC (37)
(Some Guy) Asinine Want to use Jesus Christ as your Facebook name? Whatever. Flash Gordon? We'll let it slide. Jon Swift? Oh you'd better believe that's a bannin' (20)
Canoe Strange Facebook groups are a great place to meet people with similar interests, like cooking, travel, and throwing donuts at prostitutes (79)
Aint-It-Cool-News Stupid NBC cancels the Heroes:Origins spinoff due to the pending writers strike (66)
(Some Guy) Obvious Bad news: Nintendo wii owners only buy 3.44 games on average. Worse News: 2 of those games are free and included with console and remote (138)
Yahoo Cool Scientists decode majority of cat genome (with "O hai i can haz vollinteer?" pic) (167)
Network World Followup PDF spam: It's baaaaack (10)
(Some Guy) Interesting Eliza Dushku to star in new Joss Whedon fantasy TV show. Fox already threatening cancellation (118)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Critical trojan found to affect 10.4 and 10.5 of Mac OS. Where is your Jobs now? (101)
London Times Strange Good news for Harry Potter fans: JK Rowling has just published a spin-off book, "The Tales of Beedle the Bard". Bad news: Only seven copies will ever be printed and only one is for sale (124)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Night of, Dawn of, Day of, Land of, Diary of, ?? of The Dead. Studio greenlights yet another George Romero zombie flick (97)
(Some Guy) Amusing Don't you hate it when your sat nav system leads you so badly off course that you wind up wedged in a narrow lane and sleeping in your truck for three days? This guy feels your pain (75)
(Some Guy) Cool "The breasts in this game are scarier than some of the enemies" (32)
(Business Week) Interesting Now that we've mastered talking on our cell phones while driving, Google soon to offer search engine service on Verizon (11)
BBC Cool 50,000 residents of Britain head out to count country's great tits and boobies. Fortunately, they usually travel in pairs (9)
Telegraph Interesting Cinnamon the cat could offer eyesight to the blind. Pete Townshend predicted this (pic) (16)

Wed October 31, 2007
(LiveLeak) Video Truly spectacular video of an iceberg falling apart in front of an excited crowd on the Argentinan coast. The collapse that occurs at 2:26 is epic (56)
Yahoo Stupid Landmark study concludes if you starve yourself, and avoid meat, sugar and alcohol, you have a good chance of avoiding cancer during your flavorless, miserable life (156)
(Some Guy) Strange " 'HIV drugs gave me breasts,' " says 42-year old man. Some people are never happy (15)
London Times Interesting Ten most bizarre science experiments of all time, including elephants on acid, two-headed dogs and raising the dead (18)
Denver Post Interesting Cisco and Wipro choose Halloween to announce they're joining forces to create a technology alliance of unholy job-eating zombies (5)
AFP Interesting Treadmill training helps Down syndrome babies walk, provides cheap source of electricity (43)
Yahoo Cool "Increased efficiency" trifecta now in play as flash memory technology is about to be replaced by something 1,000 times more efficient (31)
BBSpot Amusing Can you tell which of these is a Stargate, Star Trek or A-Team episode? Harder than you think (72)
Wired Interesting Fear – danger = pleasure (25)
CBS News Obvious Wii users must make stabbing motions to play what some call the most violent game ever, “Manhunt 2”: "it's probably not something you would want to have your kids get much practice on" (87)
Discover Interesting 20 things you didn't know about living in space. "Water on the tongue, in the nose, and in the eyes would boil away. This actually happened" (20)
Baltimore Sun Cool Doctors in California have recently started dripping pure Capsaicin onto open wounds during surgery. Interestingly enough, this actually reduces the pain felt by the patient (23)
(PinkNews) Unlikely A third of US high school footballers have gay sex, claims sociologist (521)
Space Interesting Record setting black hole discovered, 24 to 33 times the mass of the Sun. Soundgarden called to investigate (25)
(News4Jax) Scary Cancer center treats wrong side of patient's brain with gamma knife, significantly decreasing its nutritional value for zombie staff (46)
(The Moscow Times) Interesting Cockroaches in Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace (17)
Yahoo Obvious Today's "Commuters inhale heavy doses of pollution while driving" study brought to you by the Romero Institute of Obviousness (5)
YouTube Video The world's smallest production car (29)
CBC Interesting "Yellow dogs, they're all like, 'Raff raff raff' you know? And us black dogs, we're all like 'Ruff...ruff...ruff'" (24)
(Some Guy) Obvious Facebook-style social networking site aimed at people over the age of 50 launched. Tech support proposes adding 'Any' key to all keyboards to head off flood of expected calls to help line (26)

Tue October 30, 2007
UPI Interesting Cow gene may hold human infertility clues. You shouldn't really be trying to have children with cows anyway (9)
Yahoo Scary Bad: US falling behind other countries in broadband speed. Worse: The government now wants to get involved (45)
Yahoo Stupid 5% of the electricity used in this country is going to things that aren't actually turned on (56)
(Some Carl Sagan Guy) Cool The Cosmos-less Science Channel Discussion Thread (133)
AP Followup Houston, we have a problem... unless you included a needle and thread for the solar panels (62)
(Gamespot) Cool LucasArts and BioWare form alliance, fueling rumors of a planned Star Wars MMO that doesn't suck (78)
Fox News Cool Google Phone to be announced within weeks. That sound you hear is the stock bursting at the seams (29)
Kotaku Spiffy Boston exhibit shows evolution of video games over time. Creationist critics cite lack of transitional cartridges, say it clearly demonstrates presence of some "intelligent game designer" (42)
IOL Obvious Researchers have found that men tend to show off when they are in the company of women (36)
(Baseline) Cool Swords into plowshares: How predator drones turned the tide on the Cali wildfires (36)
(nasa.gov) Cool Rover captures video of small tornado on Mars (38)
BBC Interesting Government of Uruguay places first order for $100-dollar laptops. Machines will come pre-installed with filter to delete all emails including the phrase "LOL your country's called 'U R Gay'" (19)
Arizona Star Interesting AIDS came to U.S. from Haiti in '69. The year, not the position (243)
Yahoo Strange Researchers defy warnings, stop in bat country in order to study bat colony in hopes of finding them a new home once they destroy their old one (10)
CBS News Scary The bee rapture is upon us (54)
Guardian.com Interesting Where Canada is hiding oil reserves six times greater than Saudi Arabia's...and what it will cost to get them out of the ground (60)
Fox News Interesting Q: What do dark matter and the Redskins' offense have in common? A: People talk about them but in reality neither one exists (32)
BBC Spiffy Scientists digitally "dissect" 53-million-year-old spider. Still no cure for...heck, this is just cool (28)

Mon October 29, 2007
AP Interesting Doctors test hot sauce for pain relief after discovering that most buffalos didn't flinch when their wings were cut off. Here comes the science (27)
(Some Internet Guy) Obvious Vint Cerf leaves ICANN. If you know who Vint is, and what ICANN is, you are probably on par with Submitter's chances of getting laid this week (31)
Computerworld Ironic Mac users upgrading to Leopard see "Blue Screen" that can last as long as six hours, begin to feel like Windows users (129)
PCWorld Amusing Fastest Windows Vista notebook is a MacBook Pro. This shouldn't cause any debate at all (130)
Yahoo Stupid Phillip Morris to build a $350 million smoke screen to make tobacco use safe (46)
CBC Obvious Canadian biochemists accused of racism for inventing a new skin-whitening cream. As if anyone in Canada needs to be whiter (41)
(ZeeNews) Cool World's first meteorite auction includes a rock that hit and killed a cow (9)
(WPTZ) Interesting Doctors suggest screening kids for autism two times. No, three. No, four. No, five. No, six. No, seven (19)
USA Today Interesting Astronauts move giant truss, apply ointment (6)
Yahoo Interesting Remember when this would have sounded like a sentence from a Gibson novel rather than a news headline? "Russian Crooks Spreading Gozi Trojan with PDFs" (26)
(Treehugger) Asinine 25 most endangered primate species could "fit into a football stadium," outplay Dolphins (83)
(Autoblog) Cool 816 HP Ferrari FXX Evoluzione revealed ... and is sold out before even being built. Can't have one. Not yours (63)
(Some Guy) Amusing List of things that piss geeks off (109)
(Science Daily) Interesting Protein-based vaccine fights malaria, potentially more effective for women who are used to being injected with protein from a small prick (8)
(Some Guy) Interesting The first (affordable) color television set from 1954 (50)
ABC News Interesting Spacewalking astronauts discover disturbing metal shavings inside station's solar wing joint. Alien aluminum termites not ruled out (23)
BBC Interesting Only 4% of Africans have internet access. 98% of those are Nigerians who want your help securing $10m trust funds (23)
Reuters Cool Walgreen plans to install DVD burning kiosks in their stores next year (30)
MSNBC Interesting Tropical storm Noel forms in the Caribbean. Residents of drought-stricken Gulf states hoping it will come their way (23)
(Some Guy) Cool Need the perfect Christmas gift? How about a 40-foot-tall fire-breathing robotic dinosaur strong enough to tear apart an airplane? Yeah, submitter would like one. Big time (pic) (67)



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