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Sun April 06, 2008
Guardian.com Obvious Study finds 95 percent of teens are filthy, music-stealing criminals (16)
Google Interesting Over 60 000 people to visit CERN's massive super collider before it collapses the universe this summer (10)
(Winston Salem Journal) Cool Will Christopher Hitchens and his brother mud wrestle to decide whether atheism or religion is right? The Winston-Salem Journal is there (26)
(Science Blogs) Interesting Elephants discriminate between human ethnic groups. African Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) plans lawsuit (5)
(Physorg.com) Scary Ibuprofen is the new juice (21)
(Bloomberg) PSA A bird flu virus that killed dogs in South Korea can spread from one dog to another. Their food supply might be in jeopardy now (11)
(Betanews) Obvious Due to the recent release of Vista SP1 there is only 1 patch for this upcoming `Patch Tuesday'. Just kidding, there are 16 of them (30)
Contact Music Interesting This is what you'll get when you mess with Radiohead: a new social networking website (29)
Telegraph Spiffy World's smallest girl proud of her tiny size. With pic goodness (83)
(NY Times) Interesting Blogging is more than posting pictures of your cats and links to Kirk vs. Picard forum debates. In some cases it's a stressful job that's killing people. Mood: Dead (18)
Sign On San Diego Weird For $25,000 you can name a bone eating seaworm after your ex-wife (11)
(Cracked) Dumbass The 5 most ridiculous lies you were taught in history class (110)
Telegraph Interesting Internet could soon be made obsolete by a new grid system that will allow you to download porn 10,000 times faster than on broadband connections (36)
(Some Guy) Amusing Boring couple sues Google for putting up their home on Street View. Yes, they really are the Borings (153)
IndyStar Silly Purdue University proves they can't win anything the easy way, crowned National Champs at Rube Goldberg Competition. Bet you didn't have them atop your bracket (10)
MSNBC Interesting Astronomer explains why we're likely to meet Cylons long before any squishy E.T.s (38)
(Canyon News) Cool $10 million prize for 100 mph, 100 mpg car (60)
SMH Sad Era of the flip phone is nearing its end, centuries before Starfleet has even been formed (116)

Sat April 05, 2008
Scientific American Spiffy Scientists say we're getting closer to human limb regeneration, allowing growth of a third arm for ski-boxing (44)
(Modesto Bee) Interesting Frito-Lay SunChips, now made with real Sun (15)
(Some Guy) Cool Space Shuttle processing pics rarely seen by the general public (79)
Valleywag Followup Microsoft CEO Ballmer writes an angry letter to Yahoo board. Two-word version: Quit pussyfooting (43)
AP Interesting The next BIG, little thing from another Redmond, WA. company: 72" HD video screen that projects on to any surface, from your cell phone. No more squinting (37)
Seattle Times Cool Nifty watch only sets you back $179 and wakes you up at the best possible time in your sleep cycle. Am I the only one whose dreams this has fulfilled? (22)
(Some Guy) Cool Red vs. Blue has returned (46)
(Some Guy) Interesting City officials will start putting oil on wild geese eggs to prevent them from hatching. Meanwhile, the homeless in the city would do anything for a free omelette (36)
(BoingBoing) Spiffy Behold... the computer nerd's desk from 25 years ago, complete with a "Return Of The Jedi" drinking glass collection (95)

Fri April 04, 2008
BBC Strange Ugly-ass animal described as a cross between a tiny antelope and a small anteater discovered in Tanzania (pic) (59)
Local6 Interesting Mysterious fanged, polygamous fish discovered in Utah. Fish was found w--OH MY GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE (69)
Kotaku Followup We apologise again for the bad review we gave your game. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked (31)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Israeli Vets rebuild sea Turtle's fin with metal plates and screws; Turtle goes to work for Oscar Goldman (24)
(Some NASA Guy) Spiffy A crescent moon of perilous beauty is about to appear in the evening sky. The best night to look is Tuesday, April 8th, when the moon joins the Pleiades star cluster for a must-see conjunction (18)
(Some Guy) Interesting Gates: Windows 7 may come "in the next year." So was Vista another Windows ME? Or are Vista owners just paying beta fools? (130)
(TG) Amusing After ThinkGeek unveils "Personal Soundtrack Shirt" as April Fool's gag, so many people try to order one that they're turning it into an actual product (pic) (70)
(Science Alert) Interesting Scientist expects to create an optical disc with enough storage to fit over 200,000 DVDs, meaning that they may finally catch up to existing porn collections (59)
Live Science Obvious Survey finds that men are more okay with discrimination than broads are (104)
BBC Obvious Temperatures set to drop this year, thereby conclusively disproving Global Warming (360)
AP Interesting DNA evidence may prove Czar Nicholas II's entire family was wiped out in 1917 and that's no bolshevik. Tsariously (31)
Houston Chronicle Cool Fire a bullet the size of a double-decker bus into space, accellerate it to over 27,000 km/h, and have it arrive the international space station at a feather's touch. Nice job, Jules Verne (46)
(Some Guy) Interesting All those city-wide smoking bans might be increasing the number of drunk drivers (284)
SMH Followup First underwater photos of HMAS Sydney show extensive damage, severe punishment (16)
New Scientist Spiffy Top ten things once thought impossible. Here comes the possible (92)
The Sun Interesting Meet one of only 10 ugly-ass albino alligators in the world (pics) (81)
(Some Guy) Cool Microsoft to extend life of XP again. Vista sucks (122)

Thu April 03, 2008
CBC Obvious And so it begins: trans fats could reduce heart disease, diabetes risk (41)
(insidebayarea.com) Cool "Marine biologists who journeyed off the coast of Indonesia to study octopus love lives found a kinky and violent society of jealous murders, gender subterfuge and once-in-a-lifetime sex." (38)
Wired Stupid Are you a PC gamer looking forward to playing Madden '09? Because if so, EA has a message for you -- "Suck it" (87)
Network World Cool IBM touts complex math to help handle natural disasters (28)
Guardian.com Amusing Slidshow of the weirdest inventions on display at the 36th International Exhibition of Invention in Switzerland (27)
(Science Daily) Interesting An international team of scientists have found the source of the stream of particles that make up the solar wind. Submitter is going to go out on a limb and guess it's the sun (10)
The Register Dumbass Fuel cell powers aircraft to a breathtaking altitude of 3,000 feet at the mind boggling speed of 60 miles per hour. Success (65)
(MLive) Cool Engineering student builds own tank from scratch, with cannon that shoots Red Bull cans at jocks and sorority girls (pic and video) (48)
Entertainment Weekly Spiffy No new "Lost" tonight, so here's a critique of Season Four so far, and the mystery of Waaaalt (93)
(Some Guy) Scary In case you were wondering how "High School Musical" and "Hannah Montana" were going to further bankrupt you, Amazon is about to introduce purchasing via text message (12)
Fox News Obvious Fox Health discovers what Fark has always known for years: Coffee Just Might Keep You Sane (133)
Telegraph Interesting Solar activity 'not behind climate change' (195)
SeattlePI Interesting Odd, flat faced fish may be new species, relative of Gilbert Gottfreid (17)
Kotaku Spiffy The reviews are in: Mario Kart Wii kicks ass (122)
Wired Interesting Ahead of BSG's return tomorrow, here's an interview with one of the hottest toasters ever (31)
Wired Interesting Apple gives the Big Apple a ™ to chew on (185)
(Some Guy) Interesting New Sci-Fi Channel series to be first television show filmed entirely in green-screen. Plot sounds suspiciously familiar (66)
Fox News Amusing Study finds botox may migrate to brain. Ignoring the fact that the type of people who get botox aren't using their brains to begin with (25)
(NZ Herald) Scary Study shows dogs catch avian flu directly from birds. Your dog wants steak, not chicken (4)
News.com.au Ironic BMG sued for piracy. The irony is delicious (36)
BBC Video The coolest video of a solar "tsunami" you'll see all day (18)

Wed April 02, 2008
CBS News Spiffy Media heavyweights to open new website. "The venture will not produce original content, but will consist of hand-selected links to outside posts, much of it with a cultural focus." About time someone came up with an idea like that (24)
(Pew Research) Interesting Only four percent on 'net users have info online they consider "embarrassing". Subby is proud of the Tinkerbell photos, proud I tell you, proud (15)
(Some Guy) Interesting Overweight kids have fewer cavities. One of the many benefits inhaling food has over primitive chewing (55)
(Some Guy) Cool Crawling fish discovered. ID advocates back to the drawing board (50)
C|Net Interesting Former Google exec running EMI's digital unit is okay with file sharing (13)
Network World Obvious Feds swear they'll meet huge June IPv6 deadline (13)
(Some Guy) Hero Patrick Stewart is not amused when interviewer calls Star Trek fans "weird", perhaps because the word wasn't strong enough (80)
(Topless Robot) Amusing Battle of Hoth wedding cake. Note: Inaccuracy of Han Solo carrying a light saber already noted by nerd (pic) (78)
Yahoo Interesting Male squid can change their own color to flirt, fight. Kinda like Michael Jackson (LGT Video) (9)
Boston Globe Interesting Traditional economics and the expectation that people act rationally may not apply to the poor, which explains why they continually do dumbass stuff that keeps them poor (209)
Entertainment Weekly Cool A guide to Season 3 of "Battlestar Galactica." Caution: Cylons are using their dreaded slideshow weapon (106)
MSNBC Interesting Scientists conclude that everything you know about water's health benefits is wrong. The only thing they do agree on is that water is wet (62)
NPR PSA Having grown bored with important research, the brains at MIT tackle that pesky wallpaper problem (10)
Wired Spiffy Scientists are learning how to rebuild teeth instead of just drilling and filling. Still no cure for cancer, but at least you'll have a great-looking smile when you die from it (25)
The Register Asinine UK government calls on Facebook and MySpace to include adverts for the 999 emergency line on their sites, you know, just in case the kids can't remember the number (29)
Network World Interesting High-tech jobs still hot, money's not bad either (60)
BBC Interesting GM seeds can last up to 10 years, which is five more than you'll get from one of their cars (46)
(Some Guy) Amusing Review of the first MMO, Outside (83)
The Sun Interesting One-third of Brits think everyone else is out to get them. The other two-thirds know it (77)
London Times Interesting Scientists spy on underage planet (30)
Telegraph Scary I, for one, welcome our new cow... er, human... er, whatever they are... overlords (110)
(Some Guy) Cool The 10 craziest scientific experiments ever conducted (53)
(Planetary Society) Cool NASA Mars orbiter snaps picture of the Starship Enterprise. Fark.com: It is not an April Fools prank, but a cloud (32)

Tue April 01, 2008
Telegraph Video Flying Penguins (39)
Washington Post Asinine Congress has a hearing on and in "Second Life." And if that sounds confusing, that's because it is (34)
(VQR) Dumbass The Christian Broadcasting Network is worried that the Second Coming might not be televised. “We even discussed how Jesus’ radiance might be too bright for the cameras and how we would have to make adjustments for that problem" (114)
YouTube Sappy In a complete contradiction of all reasonable expectations, meet the polar bear that nuzzles with huskies (28)
InfoWorld Amusing Apple plans for iPhone Enterprise Server. Yes, that's iPEnIS (26)
Yahoo Amusing Home defibrillators shown to lower risk of dying, increased incidence of recreational elder-zapping (65)
InfoWorld Amusing Google to acquire U.S. government. Bush relieved (17)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Cool iPhone shortage goes nationwide. 3G version coming sooner than expected? (13)
PCWorld Obvious Apple's claim that their 20-inch iMac displays "millions of colors" is inflated by around 750,000, reports PC World with glee (36)
InfoWorld Amusing Eco-friendly server converts conference-room hot air into CPU cycles (19)
(WGAL) Amusing Rogue band of teachers make fake "Star Wars" movie. Math Solo, Princess Reada encourage kids to do well on upcoming state test. In other news, George Lucas Star Destroyer filled with copyright attorneys now engaging tractor beam (123)
(ThinkGeek) Amusing The most useful media product ever: Beta to HD-DVD converter (58)
(NY Daily News) Obvious Katee Sackhoff says the only way you'll ever see her and Starbuck together again is if she's in the mood for strong, crappy coffee and her finger is covering the last "s" (148)
(Moore - Gibbons - Schulz) Amusing What if Charles Schulz created "The Watchmen"? (38)
(Some Guy) Amusing Blizzard decides to release an Atari version of "Molten Core." Your dog wants "Diablo 3" (52)
Google Cool Google Books introduces new scratch-and-sniff technology (29)
Sun Sentinel Obvious Scientists claim another rough hurricane season in the cards. Michael Irvin claims they're still just rebuilding (51)
(NASA) Spiffy NASA releases amazing photo of liquid water on Mars (64)
Google Spiffy Google and Virgin have teamed up to offer you the chance for the adventure of a lifetime (81)
Yahoo Interesting Man's crucial Mars obstacle (other than that messy yards vs meters conversion issue) (14)
AFP Scary German hackers threaten to publish Chancellor Merkel's fingerprints. Would you like to touch my passport? (32)
News.com.au Spiffy Aussie airline implements device that does what those glasses on the back of comic books have long promised to do -- see through clothes (20)
AP Interesting American Heart Association says mouth-to-mouth no longer needed during CPR. Sorry, virgins (26)
Yahoo Amusing Apple catches up to 1999 (46)

Mon March 31, 2008
(Physorg) Cool Scientists use computer simulations and geological evidence to determine a Cuneiform clay tablet recorded the impact of a large asteroid before dawn on June 29, 3123 BC (40)
Metro Interesting Fifty web guinea pigs sign up for "Super Spam Me" junk-mail challenge sponsored by McAfee (12)
Live Science Spiffy Another challenge to the Flying Spaghetti Monsters' reign of 5000 or so years - ancient naval fuzz (31)
BBC Cool Archaeologists begin new dig at Stonehenge. Dwarves banned for fear of monument being crushed (25)
(engadget) Asinine Don't reach for that crayon just yet: T-Mobile has exclusive rights to the color magenta (53)
Time Cool Details of Neal Stephenson's upcoming novel is released. This headline is fascinating, but you don't like the way it ends (82)
Aint-It-Cool-News Dumbass Old and busted: Recent failed NBC re-launch of "Knight Rider." New hotness: Re-launching the re-launch of "Knight Rider" (102)
(Some Guy) Interesting Yahoo launches new Shine website, aimed at women between 25 and 54; loads site with content featuring crying and shopping (27)
Network World Amusing Inside UC Berkeley's high-tech joke-recommendation system (8)
The Consumerist Scary Circuit City destroys Civic during navigation system install (76)
Network World Interesting Researchers zap mystery of lightning diversity (17)
BBC Obvious "Spam is a real-life arms race" (57)
(Some Guy) Obvious Zetia and Vytorin have racked up $5 billion in sales despite limited proof of benefit. Two Congressional panels launched probes into why it took drugmakers nearly two years after the study's completion to release results (27)
(Autoblog) Asinine California looking to remove emissions exemption on pre-1976 cars. Your classic Chevelle SS396 wants out of this nanny state (77)
(Some Guy) Asinine Newspaper places advert offering payment for stories on how computer games lead to a life of crime (205)
London Times Interesting Old and busted: Music piracy. New hotness: Digital book piracy (72)
Yahoo Obvious Study shows that life was difficult for ancient Egyptians, even without the Bangles bugging the hell out of them (84)
Gizmodo Amusing Electric Socks -- more than just a great band name (19)
Telegraph Ironic German town sinks into Earth after power company drills under it to harness green energy (19)
Derby Evening Telegraph Cool Blind pilot breaks the sound barrier (29)
ABC News Interesting Geriatric animals of America's zoos want you to stay the hell off their lawns or face a gumming (30)
C|Net Asinine So, who's to blame if a graphics card, which worked fine on an old OS, suddenly stops working on the new version of the same OS? If you guessed the makers of the OS, be prepared to be a little surprised (82)
(Some Guy) Obvious Eating three strips of bacon a day can give you bowel cancer. Bacon -- is there anything it can't do? (50)
SMH Sad Top scientist Peter Cullen dies. Everyone else moves one position up in the rankings (20)
(Some Guy) Boobies Study suggests flexible great tits can survive. Remarkably very safe for work (37)
Daily Mail Stupid Nomophobia - the fear of being out of mobile phone contact (37)



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