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Sun May 24, 2009
Source     Fark Headline Comments
(Daily Mail) Silly The EU's bright idea to rename light bulbs. Wait, watt?  (dailymail.co.uk) (48)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Interesting Two new studies challenge asteroid impact theory of dinosaur extinction. Still no cure for believing dinosaur bones are just God's little practical joke  (suntimes.com) (136)
(3 News New Zealand) Amusing Keyboard Cat hits the mainstream media - just in time to play them off, I assume  (3news.co.nz) (48)
(Engadget) Cool Possibly the most awesome PC you will ever see. Not yours Ikea  (engadget.com) (131)
(The Stranger) Obvious Two months after killing their dead-tree paper, SeattlePI.com reveals to advertisers exactly what is attracting traffic to their site now. Would you have guessed pet videos, celebrity slideshows, and fashion show pics?  (slog.thestranger.com) (44)
(Boston Herald) Obvious With false alarms declining as passengers adapt to TSA, airports invest in new toys to create new false alarms  (bostonherald.com) (54)
(Spaceflight Now) Followup DEVELOPING: Shuttle Atlantis diverted to Edwards AFB in California; landing scheduled for 8:39am Pacific time  (spaceflightnow.com) (342)
(Fox News) Obvious In a not-so-surprise move, Iran throws a burqa on Facebook  (foxnews.com) (71)

Sat May 23, 2009
(Abc.net.au) Sad Researcher whose work led to the development of Viagra has passed away. Funeral home struggles with pesky coffin lid  T-Shirt  (abc.net.au) (53)
(Gizmodo) Scary Ten real-life robots that will haunt your dreams  (gizmodo.com) (37)
(ABC News) Interesting Obama to appoint experienced, intelligent, highly regarded former astronaut as NASA'a new administrator. Oh, but since he's black, no one will notice his qualifications  (abcnews.go.com) (82)
(Some Guy) Cool Sorted and searchable database of the 86,800 most common words in English. "Green" is 671 and "Light" is 432. Put them together and you get 1103, which is "Leader". Hear that, admins?  (wordcount.org) (81)
(Some Golf Gamer) Silly Blizzard to develop golf-themed MMORPG, Golgolfa: The Ninth Portal. Or it's just another Penny Arcade fever dream  (penny-arcade.com) (28)
(Boston Globe) Unlikely French watchmaker sues Apple over "Fake Watch" iPhone app as consumers might easily confuse a smug Frenchy with a Cartier and a smug American with a digital image of one  (boston.com) (27)
(NPR) Interesting Researchers are exploring whether the mind can operate once the brain has stopped. No, this isn't a repeat of "Flatliners"  (npr.org) (77)
(Washington Times) Interesting Greenhouse gasses at their lowest levels in 19 years. This is bad news for Obama, Al Gore, Henry Waxman, the Carbon Credit industry, etc etc etc  (washingtontimes.com) (129)
(MSNBC) Unlikely Big science projects on the edge of doability  (msnbc.msn.com) (59)
(UPI) Interesting Copmuter prorgam cuold aid some lsydexics  (upi.com) (15)
(Some Guy) Interesting Could 'Terminator' really happen? An MIT professor answers  (hplusmagazine.com) (46)

Fri May 22, 2009
(Time) Cool Proto-Ironman suit called HAL developed by Cyberdyne. No, really  (time.com) (70)
(Scientific American) Interesting Throw your hands in the air. Now wave 'em around like you just don't care. Congratulations. You just got smarter  (scientificamerican.com) (24)
(Discover) Followup The Darwinius affair: Science held hostage. How hype, rushed publication, and poor access ruined a perfectly good fossils reputation  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (76)
(Some Guy) Scary RaballabbadabbaballlasppppttttACK *thud*  (nbcwashington.com) (38)
(SANS) Spiffy Actual white paper title: "Beer - The Key Ingredient to Team Development"  (sans.org) (27)
(Popular Mechanics) Interesting Thanks to horizontal drilling techniques, the US could become the Saudi Arabia of natural gas from shale, but with less slavery and beating of women  (popularmechanics.com) (80)
(Some Guy) Cool What roughly $2,000,000,000 worth of aircraft might look like  (chamorrobible.org) (369)
(Brandfreak.com) Asinine Yes, it's come to this: WD-40 has started its own social network  (brandfreak.com) (145)
(TechEBlog) Weird Guy turns cereal, spoon into working USB flash drive  (techeblog.com) (64)
(Slate) Unlikely Are intelligent robots plotting to wipe out the human race? The answer could surprise you  (slate.com) (55)
(Sun Journal (Maine)) Cool A wood powered pickup truck gets 5,000 mile per cord. Oak, spruce or ash, nobody rides for free  T-Shirt  (sunjournal.com) (63)
(Network World) Asinine Identity thief fired by the State of Texas needs work. Who would hire him? Well, the State of Texas did. Four times  (networkworld.com) (6)
(CBC) Scary Playing the "porn star name game" on Twitter can expose players to identity theft, advises privacy expert Dick Longstreet  (cbc.ca) (62)
(Science Daily) Interesting Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a search engine, no escape from the algorithm  (sciencedaily.com) (27)
(Discover) Cool Lights, Camera, Saturn  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (23)
(London Times) Interesting DNA 1, double jeopardy 0  (business.timesonline.co.uk) (58)
(YouTube) Cool Old and busted: Ultra slow motion footage of lightning. New hotness: Ultra slow motion footage of lightning filmed from an airplane  (youtube.com) (36)

Thu May 21, 2009
(Autoblog.com) Amusing Times are so tough even Google Streetview is cutting back, switching to tricycles  (autoblog.com) (9)
(NYPost) Silly 2007: Captain America dies. 2008: Bruce Wayne is killed off. Now get ready for 2009's great comic-book gimmick: The marriage of Archie Andrews  (nypost.com) (94)
(Science Daily) Sad Good news: possible cure for cancer. Bad news: it's Down Syndrome  (sciencedaily.com) (126)
(Wired) Obvious Judge reviewing whether the Judge in the Pirate Bay trial was biased due to being a member of the Swedish Copyright Association has been removed for being a member of the Swedish Copyright Association  (wired.com) (39)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Trailer for the new "V" series. Hollywood still out of ideas, but at least it looks free of lens flare  (scifiwire.com) (76)
(USA Today) Obvious More Americans play video games than go to movies. The plot is more developed, better acting, more action, and popcorn costs less than $50  (content.usatoday.com) (258)
(Starpulse) Obvious "Star Wars" named best sci-fi film of all time. I won't give away the worst, but it rhymes with 'Nattlefield Birth'. Obvious tag sets for stun, asplodes  (starpulse.com) (202)
(MSNBC) Interesting NOAA predicts weather to occur during hurricane season. As for figuring the actual hurricane probabilities, well good luck with that  (msnbc.msn.com) (73)
(Some Guy) Stupid Tech analysts kindle rumors that Steve Jobs will climb down from Mt. Cupertino with tablets. Will introduce iCommandments  (appleinsider.com) (42)
(Cinematical) Silly Sam Raimi says he's learned from his Spider-Man mistakes. Peter puts away his emo duds  (cinematical.com) (125)
(Wall Street Journal) Cool Gamestop records higher net profit, but warns on slower growth due to Battletoads being backordered  (online.wsj.com) (114)
(ZDNet) Interesting If you crash your car, have OnStar and need help you can blame Microsoft if it doesn't get to you in time  (blogs.zdnet.com) (10)
(Engadget) Cool The Virtual Console on the Wii just got a whole lot more awesome  (engadget.com) (80)
(Science Daily) Interesting Couples to rely solely on male contraceptive in new trial. Consists of her pointing and laughing  (sciencedaily.com) (188)
(New Scientist) Interesting Scientists create realistic soccer-playing robots. Bonus: video shows exactly one kick and the robots falling over 14 times, making it extremely lifelike  T-Shirt  (newscientist.com) (26)
(USA Today) Obvious TSA to remove bomb particle-sniffing "puffer" machines that never worked anyway after word got around the terrorist community to change out of their bomb-making clothes before going to the airport  (usatoday.com) (34)
(My Fox DC) Strange Space Shuttle Atlantis crew to-do list: 1. Fix Hubble 2. Shuttle Safety Check 3. Testify from orbit before the Senate Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Subcommittee 4: Photograph Earth...wait, what was #3 again?  (myfoxdc.com) (99)
(Reuters) Spiffy The Hubble Space Telescope proves, again, to be one of the coolest and most complex things man has ever put into orbit  (reuters.com) (60)
(Kotaku) Silly If you're going to advertise your new video game using copied promo materials from Tarantino's "Grindhouse," remember to erase the "Coming April 2007" part too  (kotaku.com) (11)
(Newsweek) Spiffy Porn may be a cure for clinically low levels of testosterone. Is there anything that boobies can't do?  (newsweek.com) (35)
(MSNBC) Cool Astronauts on board the International Space Station enjoy some Coors Light  (msnbc.msn.com) (43)
(The Sun) Amusing Study from the Louis Skolnick Research Institute reports that IT Nerds are better in the sack  (thesun.co.uk) (163)
(National Geographic) Amusing Lizards assault US air force base, offer them jet insurance  (news.nationalgeographic.com) (35)
(The Age (Melbourne)) Amusing Not News: Toddler want toy truck. News: Toddler buys it herself online. Fark: It wasn't a toy, parents receive bill for NZ$20,000  (theage.com.au) (81)
(The Scotsman) Interesting Men to become extinct in 5 million years as SRY gene fades away along with BBQ and YSDR genes  (news.scotsman.com) (63)
(Gizmodo) Spiffy Australian scientists create an optical storage medium that can store 12TB of a data on a disc the size of a standard DVD. This means you could put your entire porn collection on just 7 or 8 discs  (gizmodo.com) (43)

Wed May 20, 2009
(MSNBC) Spiffy And now - what every American really, secretly wants: an electric hummer  (msnbc.msn.com) (51)
(Ars Technica) Amusing Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, bonerphone  (arstechnica.com) (23)
(News Wales) Interesting Secret of the singing brain could cure epilepsy, become title of next Uwe Boll movie  (newswales.co.uk) (17)
(TUAW) Ironic Apple store in Chicago unveils the only version of windows that won't crash even when bricked  (tuaw.com) (331)
(Mercury News) Spiffy Coming soon: Robot Chicken Spore expansion pack. YA RLY  (blogs.mercurynews.com) (55)
(MSNBC) Fail As reported by MSnbc: Microsoft MAY unveil new search engine. MAY get trottled again by Google  (msnbc.msn.com) (32)
(CNN) Interesting Begun, the iPhone rumors have  (scitech.blogs.cnn.com) (37)
(Rotten Tomatoes) Sad Who would have thought that the directer of Charlie's Angels would ruin the new Terminator movie  (rottentomatoes.com) (204)
(BBSpot) Cool Study shows cats control 42% of the Internet. Meow  (bbspot.com) (42)
(Forbes) Interesting Researchers have found a vaccine to the simian version of AIDS, to the relief of everyone who's ever slept with Fergie  (forbes.com) (36)
(Cr0) Amusing OS X is the only operating system that has yet to patch a critical Java exploit that was discovered in 2008  (blog.cr0.org) (90)
(Kotaku) Dumbass The Sims 3 Boldly Goes Where Many Have Gone Before  (kotaku.com) (72)
(Telegraph) Cool The coolest tesla coil pics you will see in a while  (telegraph.co.uk) (16)
(io9) Followup Dan Akyroyd drops hints, desires for "Ghostbusters 3," such as casting Eliza Dushku and Alyssa Milano as the first female Ghostbusters; nude slime-wrestling scene  (io9.com) (66)
(TechEBlog) Cool Homemade Iron Man suits that could pass as the real thing  (techeblog.com) (40)
(Guardian.com) Obvious Scientists spend £300,000 to find that ducks like water. Still no cure for cancer  (guardian.co.uk) (50)
(Some Guy) Stupid The new Palm Pre will be out on June 6, which should be very exciting for the six or seven of you still using Palm phones  (informationweek.com) (137)
(Yahoo) Amusing Losing a console war is no shame, but losing the console war to the system you are trying to replace? So hard a fail, it can only be Sony  (videogames.yahoo.com) (329)
(Wired) PSA IPod users shocked SHOCKED by static buildup in their earbuds  (wired.com) (43)
(Some Guy) Video Video of one of God's RC toys in action - a white blood cell chasing bacteria  (maniacworld.com) (105)

Tue May 19, 2009
(Good Gear Guide) Obvious HP recalls 70,000 batteries, though not fondly  (goodgearguide.com.au) (24)
(USA Today) Interesting Study shows children born to mothers who smoked while pregnant four times as likely to be smokers, annoyed by jackhammers  (usatoday.com) (51)
(MSNBC) Scary Scientists discover venom-injecting, difficult to tame megashrew  (msnbc.msn.com) (37)
(Some Guy) Obvious Mix-up results in pharma company shipping TB drugs in anti-epileptic medicine bottles, leaving patients shaking with rage  (scripnews.com) (18)
(Labspaces.net) Interesting In a breakthrough for women's sexual health, researchers have invented a lithium battery that lasts three times as long as current ones. Unnecessary penis  (labspaces.net) (27)
(Canada.com) Fail Canada's crown jewel is a state of the art research center at the entrance of the Northwest Passage, a facility so magnificent that... Nah, just kidding, they abandoned it and it's turned into a toxic ghost town and a national disgrace  (canada.com) (44)
(The Register) Interesting DARPA finally figures out what the rest of us have known all along. Geese don't fly in 'V' formation just because it looks cool  (theregister.co.uk) (32)
(MediaMemo) Unlikely Google cofounder Larry Page's advice to class of 2009: "Be more lazy"  (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) (27)
(USA Today) Stupid National Academy of Sciences paid people to yell at bird's nests. Thank god they've cured cancer  (blogs.usatoday.com) (39)
(Labspaces.net) Interesting Researchers learning more about how Alzheimers causes memory loss. What a cool article. I should submit that to Fark when I get home  (labspaces.net) (38)
(Science Daily) Obvious Scientists warn that global warming will result in cooling of the southeastern U.S. Face it - they're just making crap up at this point and they don't care who knows it  (sciencedaily.com) (702)
(Some Guy) Unlikely The anals say, that one day, Apple may, sell their computer attache, at a, Wal-Mart? I like hay  (blogs.barrons.com) (42)
(Some Guy) Interesting Some female lizards can lay unfertilized eggs that hatch clones of the mother. This particular species is entirely female. What a boring episode of "Maury" that would make  (amnh.org) (34)
(CNN) Dumbass "At first, it may seem ridiculous that someone would pay for virtual currency in order to buy a T-shirt icon to put on a social-network profile." At first?  (cnn.com) (45)
(Houston Chronicle) Amusing Facebook's crack team of fake-account blockers falling behind: 13 "Seymore Butts" still active  (chron.com) (40)
(Ars Technica) Interesting Harvard law professor claims that peer-to-peer filesharing is "fair use," causes no provable harm to copyright holders  (arstechnica.com) (200)
(Telegraph) Scary In addition to being nine feet long, with a tail that can break your leg, jaws that can snap bone, razor-sharp teeth and deadly bacteria in their mouths, Komodo Dragons have venom too  (telegraph.co.uk) (115)

Mon May 18, 2009
(io9) Weird Weird: Saudi inventor applies for patent on implantable GPS microchip designed to monitor Undesirables. FARK: It also dispenses cyanide. Fail: He applied for it in Germany  (io9.com) (55)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Size of Internet estimated at 500 billion gigabytes of data - at least 10 megs of which aren't porn  (guardian.co.uk) (55)
(Google) Hero Google CEO tells new college grads to get the hell off computers, get a real life. "Turn off your computer. You're actually going to have to turn off your phone and discover all that is human around us."  (google.com) (69)
(VentureBeat) Asinine Facebook raises $150 million to pay out employees who have toiled away at the company for all of two years  (venturebeat.com) (36)
(Live Science) Silly Researchers find that child brains organized differently than adult brains, also find that chickens do not resemble eggs, and don't even get them started on butterflies  (livescience.com) (38)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Fail Fox officially cancels "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" right before "Terminator Salvation" release  (thrfeed.com) (198)
(Discovery) Scary Professor of computer science working on a guide of ethics for autonomous military robots. Currently having trouble with the, "when sarge ain't lookin" and "intel indicated they were terrorists" algorithms  (dsc.discovery.com) (38)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Interesting Joss Whedon: "Dollhouse" season two will be less like "Murder She Was Imprinted to Write"  (thrfeed.com) (93)
(HealthCare IT News) Silly Hospital set to be the first to Twitter during a transplant surgery. Because, you know, there isn't anything better to be doing in the room than Twitter  (healthcareitnews.com) (44)
(Computerworld) Obvious The first of many articles you will read about how you should cancel your cable subscriptions and watch television programs on your computer  (computerworld.com) (74)
(Baltimore Sun) Spiffy Coffee, which was once good for you, then bad for you, is good for you again  (baltimoresun.com) (89)
(PC Pro) Amusing Mozilla to finally ditch tabbed browsing. Apparently, they discovered that ALT+TAB or APPLE+TAB is easier than CTRL + ALT + LEFTSHIFT + RIGHTARROW + PAGEUP to switch active browsers  (pcpro.co.uk) (225)
(ABC2News Baltimore) Interesting Scientists discovered bees have velcro legs which enable them to hold on to flowers in high winds. Isn't that just the bee's knees?  (abc2news.com) (11)
(kpho.com) Interesting Turns out, you can milk things without nipples; Gaylord Focker unavailable for comment  (kpho.com) (30)
(Bucks Herald) Obvious Bad dental hygiene could increase swine flu. Here comes the swience  (bucksherald.co.uk) (15)
(MTV) Silly Find R2-D2 in Star Trek and win a prize. Lt. Cmdr Data unimpressed  (moviesblog.mtv.com) (141)
(Slashdot) Obvious Why Linux sucks as a desktop OS  (linux.slashdot.org) (284)
(Some Guy) Interesting Did AI cause the financial crisis?  (hplusmagazine.com) (60)
(TechEBlog) Interesting Guy uses Lego Technic set to build working flamethrower, almost burns down house  (techeblog.com) (24)
(Space) Amusing Do you know that if you change a tire, and take each lug nut out one at a time, that the last one is going to be a real b*tch to get off? Congratulations, you are smarter than NASA  (space.com) (103)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Neanderthals in south-west France may have been eaten by ancestors of French, presumably with red wine, not white  (dailymail.co.uk) (58)

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