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Sun March 09, 2008
Chicago Tribune Cool Think the DVD war is over and Blu-Ray is the last one standing? Think again (12)
I-Mockery Cool I-Mockery demonstrates several ways for you to shoot the annoying dog from "Duck Hunt" and silence his laughs forever (3)
I Heart Chaos Interesting Good news everyone-- it's the most complete Futurama timeline known to man for your reasoned, well-thought out discussion (20)
UPI Interesting Memory researches to use Beatles music to see how memories are triggered, discover why the Walrus forgot to get a prenup (9)
Canada.com Asinine Giving to charities rapidly becoming "competitive compassion" as people brag online about how much they've donated (36)
Reuters Scary Energy-rich Jatropha thrives in every ecosystem from jungles to wastelands, consolidating nutrients in the ground into oil. Unfortunately, it is extremely toxic and mutates rapdily. Didn't we see this in a Command and Conquer game? (32)
Boston Herald Cool Medical technology is finally catching up to 1970s television (24)
(Gas 2.0) Cool The car that will change the way we look at electric cars. No, really (62)
Washington Post Spiffy █▄▌▐▀ ▐▄ ▀█ ■▌▄█ (29)
YouTube Video The Lyre Bird: with a mating call consisting of the sounds of camera shutters, ambulance alarms, and the oh-so-sexy sound of a chainsaw (46)
(Universe Today) Scary Good news: NASA has figured out a way to drastically cut costs on a manned mission to Mars. Bad news: Their solution is to make it a one-way trip (68)
News.com.au Cool The European Space Agency has fired a doubledecker-bus-sized robot into space where it will 'rendezvous' with the space station. Giggity (9)
BBC Sad Mobile phone manufacturers are convinced that GPS enabled phones are going to be big business. In related news, you'll shortly be unable to get lost ever again (29)

Sat March 08, 2008
Wired Unlikely Solar power company claims it can power 90% of U.S. homes and cars, walk your dog, whiten teeth while you sleep (50)
Slashdot Interesting NASA says they are running out of plutonium, will have to speed up development of Mr. Fusion (26)
Reuters Interesting Sea levels are about to fall drastically, EVERYBODY PAN... wait, what? (32)
Canada.com Obvious Internet found to be an efficient way to spread rumors and lies. In related news, did you hear Abe Vigoda is dead? (35)
(Some APoD) Cool Enjoy your new desktop background: The most awesome picture of a galaxy you'll see this week (61)
Fox News Interesting Scientists create artificial black hole in lab. What could possibly go wrong? (27)
(Some Guy) Cool The Force is strong with us: A brief history of "Star Wars" video games (90)
(Some Guy) Interesting New derivation of equations governing the greenhouse effect reveals "runaway warming" impossible. Well, now, glad that's all settled (25)
CBS New York Sick Playstation 3 game "Burnout Paradise" snaps a webcam picture during a crash and sends it to opposing player. What could possibly go wrong? (98)
ABC News Cool Bird believed extinct for 80 years has status upgraded to alive, delicious (23)
Quad City Times Interesting Milk cows have difficulty adjusting to daylight-saving time. It's not moos, it's Fark.com (40)
CNN Cool Georgia man builds "robocop" to patrol neighborhood. You have 15 seconds to comply (35)
(Some Guy) Interesting Scotland demands protection from alien fish after flood of complaints that they're takin' oor jerbs (10)
(Some Guy) Obvious Short women found to live longer, listen to more jokes that start, "Hey, as long as you're down there ..." (109)

Fri March 07, 2008
(Low Tech Magazine) Interesting Solar panels generate energy in an Earth-friendly way, but making those panels is as environmentally friendly as powering an SUV with coal and lead while force-feeding mercury to tuna (53)
Network World Cool If you've seen one invisibility cloak (17)
Network World Interesting Casino insider on security: "They spend the minimum on security and surveillance. They'd rather buy three more slot machines and make money. They only mess with you if you’re really, really cheating" (27)
Telegraph Interesting British police unleash "Microdrone," a $50,000 minicam helicopter which can shoot water on people's heads. Boys in the lab currently working on "Weepranker," with "kick me" sign and autowedgie capability (8)
Valleywag Video The top ten videos of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer going nuts. Yes, the "developers developers developers" monkey dance is in there (32)
Valleywag Ironic Fark.com gets Dugg by someone who has never heard of Fark, threatening collapse of space-time continuum (244)
(Bad Astronomy) Interesting The Universe is about 13.73 billion years old. Still pissed it has to show ID for buying beer (67)
ABC News Dumbass Meet the man who climbed Everest in nothing more than a pair of shorts (33)
(Science Daily) Florida University of Florida burn experts found that 69 percent of the 155 pediatric foot and ankle burns they reviewed were caused by children walking on hot ashes, coals and embers. So, I guess the take home message is don't walk on fire, kids (83)
SMH Weird The "scientific research" which Japan uses as a justification for its continued whaling includes such vital questions as "is it possible to cross-breed a whale and a cow?" (86)
MSNBC Asinine After NASA retires the space shuttle in 2010, the US will have no spacecraft and no way to carry astronauts to the International Space Station until 2015 at the earliest (61)
(CinCity2000.com) Cool How would a sequel to The Last Starfighter go forward without Dan O'Herlihy? Nevertheless, it's begun location scouting (133)
Wired Interesting Scientists make fake black hole in a phone line. Customer service reps the world over rejoice (10)
(xkcd) Sappy Today's xkcd is a touching and funny send off to D&D creator Gary Gygax (41)
(NOAA) Obvious From the way back machine. NOAA predicts a warmer 2007-2008 winter season. Results were as accurate as their predictions for the 2006 and 2007 hurricane seasons (40)
Network World Obvious Juniper founder: Cisco has too many operating systems (27)
(Some Carnegie Mellon Researcher) Amusing You can now die by second hand cell phone use. Go ahead and just toss this on top of the pile of things that are secretly killing you (16)
Arizona Star Obvious 'Grand Canyon Really Old' -- this article rejected by Kansas State School Board (87)
(Some Guy) Weird How to make a minivan cool: strap on a 1,000-horsepower jet engine (19)
New Scientist Interesting The latest problem to be blamed on global warming: Deaf fish (18)
CNN Cool My God, it's full of rings (34)
SFGate Amusing Local youths come up with idea for hybrid public transit busses to save even more energy (24)
The Sun Obvious Scientists trying to prove once and for all that teenage boys stink. Still no cure for cancer (9)
Telegraph Obvious High-tech gadgets driving couples to sleep in separate beds. You submitted this with a better headline on your Blackberry from the couch in the spare room at 3:10 a.m (12)
Time Obvious RIP shrink-wrapped software (42)
(Some Guy) Interesting Scientists say intuition is real. Subby had a feeling about this (37)
Reuters Amusing Who needs IT? Savvy office workers are fixing their computer problems themselves... then calling IT to fix everything they've broken (183)

Thu March 06, 2008
TampaBays10.com Cool Study to determine if hyperbaric chambers are effective therapy for treating autistic children, famous musician pedophiles (9)
Gizmodo Cool Ever wonder what a $100K shower looks like? Let's just say you're going to need a cigarette after(NSFW material in video) (47)
(Some really big mirror) Interesting Salt flat in Bolivia is "World's largest natural mirror" - so reflective that it's used for the testing and calibration of remote sensing instruments on orbiting satellites (16)
(PC Magazine) Obvious First review of Internet Explorer 8 beta 1--Don't Use it (41)
(Some NASA Guy) Spiffy Imagine living on a planet where Northern Lights fill the sky at all hours of the day. Around the clock, even in broad daylight, luminous curtains shimmer and ripple across the sky. Astronomers have discovered such a planet. Its name is Earth (24)
Network World Interesting "War game" pits MBA students in wireless Internet battle (22)
Reuters Interesting Apple opens up iPhone to developers; still won't let customers replace their own battery (82)
Network World Spiffy Imagine a robot that hands you a beer and then cleans your kitchen and living room. That's what a start-up called Willow Garage is busy developing (28)
YouTube Cool Concept airship that mimics a manta ray (51)
YouTube Wheaton Wil Wheaton on video games and violence (46)
Kotaku Interesting Circuit City does something unexpected... they will accept recently purchased HD-DVD players in return for original credit towards the purchase of a BluRay player (33)
(Science Daily) Cool Scientists studying images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have discovered what may have once been a habitable lake on Mars (with pic) (11)
Wired Scary Google to give paying third parties access to your gmail contact list. What could possibly go wrong? (44)
(Some Guy) Obvious Internet Explorer safer than Firefox, Opera and Safari. Suck it nerds (78)
Slate Stupid The $11,000 coffeemaker: an instrument so precise it allows coffee snobs to dial in their ideal levels of flavor, temperature, pretension, douchebaggery (47)
(Science Blog) Spiffy Scientists report on costs of using switchgrass for ethanol. Summary: Costs ~$60 per ton, yields 5x more energy than required to produce, creates ethanol for ~$.60 a gallon, and will never see the light of day on subsidized farms (97)
Valleywag Spiffy Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is the world's youngest billionaire -- making all other 23-year olds look like pikers (53)
(Tech Digest) Stupid As if graphic designers weren't irritating enough, they now have a $495 indestructible, airtight case to cart their 24" iMacs in. For LAN parties, obvs (40)
(Some Guy) Cool Top 12 things you need to be a mad scientist (43)
(Some Guy) Obvious "I think the single-person blog is increasingly a thing of the past: the majority of big, profitable blogs are group efforts and the better for it. Once a blog becomes popular, its proprietor essentially becomes unhireable" (41)
Valleywag Followup Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer considers raising offer to buy Yahoo $3.1 billion, mostly cause he's pissed (16)
Slashdot Interesting Hawking radiation observed from a Bose Einstein Condensate. If you understood that, give yourself a wedgie (68)
(Geneva Motor Show) Cool The car of the future is here, and it looks nothing like a Prius. WANT (46)
Scientific American Cool "Methuselah" gene to long life found. This discovery brought to you by the Ira Howard Foundation (55)
USA Today Scary Wiretapping? Hell, the federal government has been copying down addresses off your mail for more than a decade (22)
News.com.au Stupid Ten reasons for astronauts to kill themselves in orbit, as selected by 14-year-old girl (159)
Guardian.com Stupid World's first organic cod farm runs up £40m debt and becomes a pain in the bass. In these shellfish times, the people responsible were knocked from their perch. After all, that kind of loss is enough to give anyone a haddock (27)
(Some Guy) Obvious Town described as "ugliest" in the Netherlands to be home to new massive solar array as civic officials hope to blind visitors with it (8)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Five things your car will finally do in 2020 (47)
Computerworld Cool Lenovo takes a shot at the MacBook Air, decides to add functionality instead (63)
ZDNet Interesting Microsoft to introduce touch-sensitive spheres and a first-time experience for many Microsoft employees (13)
UPI Interesting Eating disorders linked to narcoleps....zzzzzzzzzzzz (8)
Guardian.com Ironic Linux-powered Eee PCs flying off the shelves faster than Asus can build them. Where is your Vista now? (49)
Wired Amusing Girl scout cookie sales have moved to eBay. Buyer beware, cookies not made from real girl scouts (76)
C|Net Spiffy The coolest furniture made from cardboard you'll see all day (43)
Gizmodo Interesting NASA engineer suggests the reason we're not on Mars yet is that the space program bureaucracy refuses to acknowledge that astronauts have huge balls of brass and would go there even if it killed them (60)

Wed March 05, 2008
(Some Guy) Scary Las Vegas health clinic re-used syringes and vials for four years, putting over 40,000 patients at risk of hepititis-C and HIV. What happens in Vegas, stays in your blood (121)
Guardian.com Interesting Ninee prsnt v clvvers hab heern damaj afer wun ni ow. I said, "90% OF CLUBBERS HAVE HEARING DAMAGE AFTER ONE NIGHT OUT" (82)
(/film) Cool Steve Wiebe attempts to reclaim his Donkey Kong world championship tonight in Vegas. Billy Mitchell will always be a douche (46)
Daily Mail Interesting A herb known as bitter vetch which was used by medieval royalty to make their mistresses lose weight could be used in the modern day battle against obesity. Duke's girlfriends sucked (106)
(RCR News) Interesting T-Mobile, Sprint sued over mandatory arbitration, upgrade fees, roaming charges, deceptive advertising. In other news, people are beginning to suspect that wireless companies just might not be the most pro-consumer organizations out there (33)
(physorg.com) Stupid "The obesity epidemic has absolutely been exaggerated," claims expert who apparently has never visited a Walmart (74)
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Interesting Researchers bent on kitten genocide invent a device that lets you feel what's on a computer screen (15)
C|Net Interesting Microsoft is very excited about IE8, or as everyone else calls it, Firefox 1.5 (49)
The Raw Story Asinine FBI head: Give telcos immunity even if they acted in bad faith (48)
(Scientist Live) Interesting An unusual observation in a physics lab may lead to a new generation of Quantum computers (45)
(Natural 20) Followup 25 gaming euphemisms for the death of Dungeons & Dragons creator Gary Gygax (273)
(Some moron) Unlikely Statisticians use statistics to blame Apple for increase in crime. Other uses for statistics include: lying, supporting statisticians (22)
I-Mockery Amusing I-Mockery helps you pinpoint what kind of geek you are and just how socially acceptable it is... or isn't (160)
(New Launches) Silly Laptop offers built-in air purifier because you want all those air impurities sitting in your lap (11)
(Lost Vegas Now) Followup Feds hope flushing three times will clean up grand canyon. Darned low-flow toilets (101)
(Science Mag) Strange Scientists somehow manage to store and retrieve nothing. Other accomplishments include walking against the wind, getting trapped in a glass box (36)
Denver Post Asinine Denver International Airport slaps filters on its free WiFi network to ban travellers accessing filth such as Perez Hilton, Sports Illustrated or boingboing.net (39)
G4TV Cool DVR capacity could skyrocket, enable more storage room for porn (36)
Fox News Ironic Daylight saving time uses more energy, not less (67)
Metro Cool Artist makes digital images based on virus code. MyDoom has never looked so good (22)
(Labspaces.net) Interesting Using MRI technology, researchers find that drivers are significantly distracted by cell phones, even if they're not the one using it (21)
NPR Cool Hacker/inventor explains "why crows are better than flying monkeys, and how you can teach them to do your bidding" (20)
Reuters Interesting Aoahoo? (24)
Pravda Amusing Sexologist at a Russian hospital explains how astronauts will concieve a baby in the International Space Station. "Some fastening device on a wall is most likely to be used" (405)
The Register Interesting Windows passwords were enough to secure your machine while you went to the bathroom. Until now, that is (37)
Telegram Obvious Radiation. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked, goggle-boxed do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense (33)
Reuters Interesting 99 pound laptop launched in UK. Sounds awfully heavy (24)
(Some Guy) Asinine The first $40K MacBook Air you'll see today, iDebt (38)
I Heart Chaos Interesting What will the world look like in the year 2100? Robots, holo-sex and giant spider robots. You'd better believe it (20)
Gizmodo Cool This plane can stay in the air longer than the next US president will be in office (19)
MSNBC Weird Ask.com quits chasing Google. Will target married southern women looking for help managing their lives. Nobody bothered to ask Jeeves (8)

Tue March 04, 2008
Network World Cool Monkeys playing Space Invaders using just their thoughts help scientists learn how to hack the human brain (26)
MSNBC Interesting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome has apparently been cured. Studies are underway to determine if it ever was really an epidemic (38)
Live Science Interesting Science has a lot to learn from flying squirrels (25)
MSNBC Obvious Expensive placebos work better than cheaper ones, according to new study which proves with utter finality that the human race is stupider than a sack full of hammers (38)
Gizmodo Ironic Anti-shark device eaten by shark during testing. No word if Sharper Image will be doing their marketing (119)
(NY Times) Interesting The science of binge drinking. Don't worry, there is no math (49)
InfoWorld Interesting Microsoft offers $100K to testers of Office Live Workspace. Simply forward this link in an email to ten people (19)
Breitbart.com Cool Toyota unveils new subcompact that can fit three adults and one child, or six midgets and a cat driving the wheel, or 60 Smurfs using cables & pulleys (40)
Daily Mail Dumbass Today's "Party crashed by several hundred people after dumbass posts the invite on Bebo" story brought to you by Bournemouth, England (19)
(Some Guy) PSA Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons & Dragons, has failed his saving throw vs. death (1092)
Fox News PSA What net neutrality means, and why it's necessary (107)
(Some Guy) Interesting Short women more likely to live to age 100, have beer rested on the tops of their heads (37)
(Some Freak) Obvious Blu-Ray and HD-DVD both lost HD format war (105)
Jalopnik Amusing Lamborghini unveils new penis car, goes smaller for first time (31)
ZDNet UK Obvious Companies are failing to utilize the IT skills of new grads, as older managers miss out on valuable opportunities to post drunken pics of themselves on Facebook and text each other from five feet away (41)
Reuters Spiffy New invention allows users to control their iPod by blinking. New users advised not to use the "Nancy Pelosi during the State of the Union address" setting since it may cause epileptic seizures (9)
London Times Cool Even Professors get bored in lectures. This one so bored he managed to crack a 140-year old mathematical puzzle (37)
Starpulse Spiffy Jeri Ryan gives birth to 2 of 2 (48)
BBSpot Amusing Top 11 ways geeks stop the hiccups (40)
The Register Cool Over 1/2 of PS3s sold aren't even used for gaming (126)
(Some Guy) Interesting New studies indicate that early primates, in direct defiance of God not having created them yet, moved from Asia to North America 55 million years ago (66)
News.com.au Strange ♫ ♪ I'd like to be under the sea / In a hexapus' garden in the shade / Most have eight sticks; he's got just six / In a hexapus' garden in the shade ♪ ♫ (26)
(HiRise) Cool Not news: Powerful orbiting telescope photographs Earth. Fark: It is in orbit around Mars. (W/picture) (41)
Reuters Obvious Getting knocked out can cause brain tissue loss. Also, getting knocked out can cause brain tissue loss (61)
Space Cool Top 10 original Star Trek gadgets in use in the real world (50)
(Space Ref) Interesting Spring cleaning in Antarctica: Project has moved more than 5.5 million pounds of excess and obsolete materials from Antarctica. In other news, there's more than 5.5 million pounds of human material in Antarctica (15)
(Honolulu Star-Bulletin) Cool Man to attempt sailing on wave power from Hawaii to Japan (20)
Computerworld Interesting The steaks were high when they invented the cow-powered laptop (14)
PCWorld Cool 25 third-party applications for the iPhone people want to see the most (51)

Mon March 03, 2008
MSNBC Obvious Aromatherapy stinks (30)
(Some Guy) Interesting Coolest picture of an avalanche on Mars you'll see today (20)
The Consumerist Interesting Those pricey Monster Cables you bought don't sound any better than the free-range coat-hangers you have breeding in your closet (333)
(Some Guy) Cool Physicians are helping develop gear that lets players "feel" the impact of a bullet or a fist. The doctor is in (19)
SeattlePI Amusing Top five leaked Microsoft emails of all time, with Romeroesque lead quote from Bill Gates (20)
Daily Mail Cool Researchers convince teens that science isn't boring by supergluing balloons to them and then pushing them off cranes (pic) (21)
Valleywag Amusing Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales dumps his stalker Fox News girlfriend stalker Rachel Marsden on Wikipedia, but only after forcing changes to her stalker bio removing the whole stalker thing. (POV) (cite) (131)
Wired Interesting FBI targets elite blind hacker. I SAID, FBI TARGETS ELITE BLIND HACKER (50)
YouTube Video And now for something completely different: How not to be seen if you are a rogue in "World of Warcraft" (71)
Kotaku Silly Finnish company is attempting to copyright "pwnage." That's almost as ridiculous as trying to copyright "Not safe for work" (139)
Wired Interesting A rare look inside the exclusive Los Angeles club where the Internet service providers hook up with each other and their tubes get laid (51)
Boston Globe Stupid Neurologist to administer therapy via "Second Life." In related news, "World of Warcraft" will schedule group-management classes to be hosted by LEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY JENKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINS (30)
Telegram Interesting Inventor in the coolest hat ever improves gas mileage by adding a fifth wheel that turns a generator to make electricity to drive the car to turn the wheel that turns the generator that... you can see where this is going (47)
Yahoo Interesting Intel picks "Atom" as name for new microprocessors, gets sued by Adams College and a football player named Ogre (24)
(NYT) Cool Old and busted: The religious day of rest. New hotness: The secular Sabbath from technology (11)
Yahoo Interesting Ginkgo biloba may help to protect... um... err... it does something... I dunno. What were we talking about again? (7)
SMH Interesting Original creator of