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Sun September 14, 2008
(C|Net) Obvious Apple blocks competitive products from iPhone app store (59)
(iTWire) Unlikely Bigger Bang Theory: end of world postponed until 2012? (62)
(Some Guy) Interesting Why Blu-Ray will be dead by 2012 (124)
(BBC) Obvious British cabbies found to have "sat-nav for brains", unlike the cabbies in your town who have something for brains that also begins with the letter 's' (34)

Sat September 13, 2008
(Newsweek) Obvious "If college students can beat the best antivirus programs, why do people spend nearly $5 billion a year on them?" (109)
(PhysOrg.com) Cool Pilot lands in Antarctica at night (37)
(Some Guy with a Hadron) Cool Can YOU find the Higgs Boson? The LHC simulator. (Subby just created a blackhole, whoops) (71)
(Reuters) Unlikely "Scientists race to crack the potato's genetic code." Because its not like the potato is just going to sit there (24)
(Daily Mail) Cool Librarians soon to be less hot (68)
(Popular Mechanics) Interesting Put. the candle. back. (147)
(CBS Chicago) Cool Zero energy solar homes: If the meter arrow points left, you're sending power - if it points right, you're buying it (120)
(BusinessWeek) Interesting HP planning on making its own operating system to fight Vista. Your dog wants cake and an Ipod (89)
(Connecticut Post) Scary Cities' drinking water safest in years.... whooooaaaa... duuuuuddee....the colors (56)

Fri September 12, 2008
(AP) Interesting High-tech wine labels track travel temperatures so you can be sure your Two Buck Chuck isn't cooked (27)
(Game Politics) Obvious Xbox 360 tester admits the Red Ring of Death is the fault of Microsoft's shoddy production, is promptly fired and may face lawsuit (85)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Asinine Adventures in journalism: Twittering the funeral of a 3-year-old boy (67)
(Space) Spiffy One small step for man, one giant leap for space based microwave power stations whose beams accidentally wander across your town frying everyone there, except the cranky guy who drinks sterno (98)
(Sci Fi) Cool "Iron Man 2" director Jon Favreau says the Mandarin will be the bad guy. Insert Asian stereotype here (86)
(Newsweek) Interesting New study, with absolutely no political implications, shows rich moms should stay at home. Research on lack of footware, proximity to food preparation area ongoing (20)
(InformationWeek) Sad Japan ranks 1st in study measuring country broadband speeds. U.S. comes 16th, behind powerhouse countries such as Latvia, Lithuania and Slovenia (83)
(Live Science) Interesting Scientists to study near-death experiences to find out what causes them. Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon unavailable for comment (36)
(The Industry Standard) Interesting Why is the Web still so U.S.-centric? (96)
(ZDNet) Obvious Microsoft on the next version of its web browser: "When we designed IE8, we did not start with performance in mind" (69)
(New Scientist) Obvious Religion evolved to help us survive because the tendency to falsely link cause to effect is occasionally beneficial (454)
(Wired) Misc Amish sue to prevent having to implant RFID chips, or as they like to call them, "the mark of Satan," in their livestock (59)
(Science Daily) Interesting Scientists design tiny "cargo ships" that can transport cancer drugs to a tumor. Unless they are helmed by tiny Joseph Hazelwoods (21)
(The New York Times) Cool Honda unveils its ugly assed baby hybrid, the Insight (77)
(Kotaku) Sad Sadly George Lucas was in fact involved with the new Star Wars video game (88)
(London Times) Spiffy 50 years of the microchip (13)
(Telegraph) Cool Peugeot reveals the car designs of the future, including the 888 that shrinks for easier parking, and a car without wheels. The Batmobile is so last season (39)
(New Scientist) Interesting Apple latest foray into the world of advanced DRM is intended to control what type of shoes you wear (42)
(MSNBC) Cool Hurricane Ike so big it's disrupting traffic... IN SPACE. (with the best "from the spacestation" pic you'll see today) cool tag for the pic (58)
(Science Daily) Interesting New, gecko-like adhesive saves you 15 percent or more on dirt sticking to it (6)
(NASA) PSA Not news: It is not safe to drive while talking on the cell phone. Fark.com: It is not safe for Mars rovers to drive while on the "phone" with Earth. In other news Wil Wheaton will have take off his Starfleet communicator (15)
(Computerworld) Obvious Apple successfully creates a new Windows Vista virus (88)
(Live Science) Cool Early whales had legs. Happy nightmares (69)

Thu September 11, 2008
(Kanyeuniversecity) Cool Finally a drivable landspeeder, built by former LucasFilm employee (44)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Scary Microsoft's influence starting to show at Facebook (30)
(Popular Mechanics) Amusing Beer pagers, beef jerky cock pumps and more insane kitchen appliances you'll only use once (15)
(KVOA) Cool UA researchers using Algae to eat carbon dioxide and poop gasoline, causes global eco-orgasm (41)
(The man himself) Cool A Game of Thrones moves one step closer to being ruined by HBO (195)
(Some Guy) Interesting Clumps have attacked the legs of the Phoenix Mars Lander and are continuing to change and grow, EVERYBODY PANIC (127)
(Network World) Amusing San Francisco network administrators have lost a device on their network. Literally lost. It responds to ping, it works completely, they just can't figure out where in their data-centers it is (100)
(Dark Horizons) Stupid Sure, Universal will give Battlestar Galactica the runaround, but they'll jump on the chance to make a live-action Sigmund & The Sea Monsters movie. So sea we all (52)
(Guardian.com) Dumbass Director of education at the British Royal Society backs teaching of creationism alongside evolution. "Just because something lacks scientific support doesn't seem to me a sufficient reason to omit it from the science lesson" (967)
(Slashdot) Interesting Research shows carbon dating inaccurate. EVERYBODY PANIC (except you creationists... you can now walk around looking smug) (95)
(Slashdot) Obvious Racial bias in virtual worlds? It's exactly as likely as you think (75)
(CNN) Cool "Extinct" frogs survive devastating fungus. Crazy frog still thriving as well, unfortunately (26)
(CBC) Scary It's possible to navigate around the entire northern ice pack, a first since satellite observations of the region began three decades ago (213)

Wed September 10, 2008
(Science Daily) Interesting B-b-b-bil-l-l-ingual ch-ch-chil-chil kids more l-l-likely t-t-to st-t-tutter (48)
(NASA) Interesting Scientists are beginning to unravel the mystery of an extraordinary gamma-ray burst on March 19, 2008, which was visible to the naked eye. It turns out the explosion was aimed directly at Earth. EVERYBODY PANIC (103)
(The New York Times) Spiffy Scientists have... [buzzz]... genetically engineered a mosquito... [buzzz]... that willl stop the spread of dengue fever... [buzzzzz]... [slap] [splat]... oops (32)
(Telegraph) Interesting Scientific breakthrough allows woman to feel sensation in her bionic hand, hunt for Sarah Connor (27)
(Telegraph) Obvious Record number of cold, barren objects with no intelligent life reported off coast of Canada. Besides Newfoundland, that is (84)
(Some Guy) Stupid Old news: Global warming. So five-minutes-ago: Global cooling. Hot newsiness: Global dimming (124)
(Some Guy) Obvious New Facebook look "is here to stay." Company says users upset at new appearance will get over it (177)
(AP) Interesting AOL adding outside content for the first time including, Facebook and Gmail. Expected to prove old adage that if you put lipstick on a pig then...oh, wait (14)
(Guardian.com) Scary If you thought 17 year cicadas were bad, you should see the 50 year rats (86)
(YouTube) Cool Watch 5 years of LHC assembly happen in less than 6 minutes (75)
(SMH) Dumbass People who check their email every five minutes waste 8.5 hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments before (78)
(The Straight Dope) Interesting How would the military handle a zombie attack? The Straight Dope is there (343)
(io9) Silly All copies of Frank Miller's "All Star Batman & Robin" to be destroyed after someone at DC noticed the goddam Batgirl has a farkin' potty mouth (63)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious Google's Chrome market share going nowhere fast (117)
(BBC) Obvious Diatom nanostructures found to bend light using silica-based cell membranes, opening way to exciting new biosynthetic innovations (34)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Interesting A decade of Google products and acquisitions you've mostly forgotten about (12)
(C|Net) Obvious Price of text messages up 100%, number of national carriers reduced by 33%: Congress finally begins to mull the notion that wireless carriers might possibly be gouging consumers. Fark needs a "finally" tag (78)
(AP) Followup That sound you heard in the middle of the night? That "sproing" was the collective erection of 9,000 physicists as the Large Hadron Collider was fired for the first time (425)
(Nature) Cool University of Hawaii physicists suggest that extraterrestrials might send messages by tweaking the brightness of certain stars (37)
(Wired) Interesting Everyone's buzzing about the "sophisticated and lethal special operations program" that Bob Woodward alluded to in his recent 60 Minutes interview. Here's some out-of-the-ass speculation (22)
(Wired) Cool It's alliiiiiiivveee (53)
(News.com.au) Interesting ♫ Abalone has a new threat ♫ A V-I-R-U-S ♫ Abalone could get wiped out by ♫ G-A-N-G-L-I-O-N-E-U-R-I-T-I-S ♫ (15)
(Jalopnik) Cool Crossover concept takes MINI where no Cooper has gone before: Off-Road (30)
(Labspaces.net) Cool New nanotechnology paints for walls, ceilings, and surfaces could be used to kill hospital superbugs when fluorescent lights are switched on. Now, that's a bright idea (19)

Tue September 09, 2008
(Some Guy) Cool Tesla Motors introduces a powertrain capable of 0 to 60 in about four seconds. Suck it, Big Three (82)
(Some Techie) Amusing The six least surprising things about Apple's new tech announcements (58)
(Cincinnati Enquirer) Interesting University of Kentucky taking land-lines out of dorms because students don't know what land-lines are for (153)
(ZDNet) Interesting Ten key differences between Linux and Windows. "Smug" surprisingly absent from the list (314)
(Live Science) Interesting New study suggests Neanderthal brains grew much like ours do. Which explains election season (134)
(My Fox DC) Interesting Electric utility plans text-messaging thermostat to keep customers aware of usage and hourly price. R U 2 Hot? SUK It (36)
(BBC) Cool Spectacular fossil forests have been found in the coal mines of Illinois by researchers who have never driven along Interstate 40 in Arizona (34)
(C|Net) Obvious No matter what Apple introduces or updates today, investors and fanboys will be disappointed (159)
(Telegraph) Followup Stephen Hawking has said the Large Hadron Collider is "vital if the human race is not to stultify and eventually die out." If only he would stop ringing submitter's answerphone every night to tell him the time and date (316)
(USA Today) Cool Sweet invention that will allow you to torment the bastich who just stole your cell phone (34)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field is failing: apparently he didn't invent the iPod (43)
(Boston Globe) Amusing The Boston Globe offers a timely article about scientific research which says football fans earn more money when their team is winning. Total collapse of New England financial system expected tomorrow (32)
(TechEBlog) Cool It looks and functions like a machine gun, doubles as grenade launcher, can keep punk kids off your lawn for weeks at a time (33)
(News.com.au) Unlikely Sex not the top male priority, according to a study by a bunch of guys looking to get laid (289)
(The Local (Germany)) Cool Water bear survives naked in space. Water bear survives naked in space. Nope didn't help second time, confused dog is still confused (27)
(Wired) Cool Top 10 amazing physics videos. (Bonus: All on one page) (34)
(The Register) Interesting Having conquered much of the land, Google takes on the sea (10)
(YouTube) Cool Coolest video of model maglev trains you'll see this month (29)
(Daily Mail) Obvious More than just a headache: Migraines can cause raft of symptoms, and mistreatment can lead to "mini-stroke" that cruelly will not kill you (17)
(LA Times) Interesting Wilmington, NC becomes the first city to abandon analog TV signals. With phallic switch-fondling mayoral pic goodness (20)
(Discover) Cool Astronomer lists 10 things you don't know about the Earth. Bonus: Astronomer is a Farker. Extra bonus: "Farker" is not a result of Fark.com's filters (107)

Mon September 08, 2008
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious IPods schmiPods. Apple shareholders just want to see El Jobso healthy again (21)
(Ars Technica) Ironic Spore, originally expected to make record sales, on its way to becoming the most pirated game ever made thanks to EA's anti-piracy system (209)
(EurekAlert!) Interesting Researchers discover that observers perceive masculine motion as coming towards you, while feminine motion seems as though it's moving away from you. In related news, all the galaxies have developed strange fondness for shoes (38)
(BBC) Interesting Hugging and stroking helps calm primates after a fight. Posters on Fark's Politics tab seen edging slowly away from one another (78)
(Washington Post) Asinine Children's cold medicines are close to being pulled off the market because a handful of parents can't read directions (59)
(TechEBlog) Cool When skateboards collide with motorcycles, you get the Scarpar and Wheelman (37)
(Some Guy) Interesting Alan Wake: Quite possibly the most interesting upcoming videogame on the planet. So, er, what's happened to it? (48)
(Some Guy) Interesting NASA delays repair mission due to weather. Says it's easier to get to the Hubble when the sun is out (4)
(Newsweek) Interesting "Steve Jobs is just like Bill Gates: A monopolist." How Apple turned into Microsoft (148)
(Network World) Cool Fifteen cool technologies from annual DEMOfall 08 conference. Fully interactive sexbots still lagging behind development (21)
(Network World) Interesting RealNetworks debuts what it calls "legal" DVD-to-PC copying software. Expect lawsuit from movie industry in three... two... one... (50)
(AFP) Sad The WWF reports that koalas are dying by the thousands due to land-clearing, steel cage matches (88)

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