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Sun September 27, 2009

Source	Fark Headline		Comments
		Scientists abandoning chicken egg utilization in new flu vaccine development. So much for nanu-technology (rds.yahoo.com)	(29)
		He was a mean-spirited dick but he sure as shiat knew how to turn a phrase: Check out his beautiful speech for Nixon in case Armstrong and Aldrin got stranded on the moon. RIP Bill Safire (en.wikisource.org)	(103)
(Digital Journal)		Here come the access to fresh water wars (digitaljournal.com)	(77)
		You're Facebook. How do you deal with a Playboy bunny who goes to the press after you blocked her account? By "(c)", blocking the reporter's, too (ctv.ca)	(41)
		Paralyzed rats can walk without using their brains (blogs.discovermagazine.com)	(41)
		Dogs and babies easily confused by adult social cues. Wolves point and laugh (sciencedaily.com)	(21)

Sat September 26, 2009

(Some Guy)	Star Trek Online: Set phasers to cool (hellforge.gameriot.com)	(228)
(Some Tree Hugger)	And the award for Most Impractical Cell Phone Concept of the Year goes to: (treehugger.com)	(19)
	Intel develops fiber-optic microchip, giving computers speeds of 10 GBPS (physorg.com)	(76)
	Why are the Russians so good at chess? (slate.com)	(47)
	Doctors complain mixed messages on flu shots (it'll kill you) are confusing people (Big Pharma's shot doesn't work) who should be getting it (because EVERYONE wants a big ol' dose of autism) (thestar.com)	(58)
	The iPhone finally has MMS support. Now it's almost worth the ridiculous amount of money your parents pay for it monthly (voices.washingtonpost.com)	(76)
(Some Guy)	Why middle-aged people shoudn't think about enlisting in the Army. HERE COMES THE SCIENCE, MAGGOT (scienceblog.com)	(47)
	Scientists figure out how to remote control living, giant, horrifying flying beetles. Isn't that just super (liveleak.com)	(22)
(Some Guy)	The fifteen most memorable lines in video game history. Yes "All your base are belong to us" is on the list (zikkir.com)	(285)
	New "eclipse" curtains promise to block out more than 100% of all light. Good Christ, they've figured out how to divide by zero (consumerist.com)	(62)
	New species of frog has fangs, eats birds, is flavored with the refreshing taste of Limnon (foxnews.com)	(19)

Fri September 25, 2009

		Scientists discover how eels migrate. Duh, everyone knows they use hovercrafts (news.bbc.co.uk)	(32)
		The inventor of the MP3 has a new smokin' audio technology to show off (wired.com)	(52)
		"Oxygen-from-Moon-dirt passes vomit comet test" (theregister.co.uk)	(29)
		Doctors sue KFC, claiming the grill marks on grilled food cause cancer. The plaintiffs face two obstacles: They already lost a similar case against McDonald's, and they're all idiots (sfgate.com)	(104)
		'Wet' drips style, but lacks substance" Actual headline, not a PRON site (usatoday.com)	(51)
		After facing stiff competition from the electric nail file and electric candles, Shower radio voted worst gadget ever (metro.co.uk)	(91)
		1 in 5 US drivers admits to texting while driving. The other 4 are too busy putting on their makeup and reading the newspaper to bother looking at the phone (reuters.com)	(88)
		Man reports being attacked by cougar in British Columbia. Authorities setting out traps baited with Appletinis and October issue of Cosmo in hopes of capturing the beast (cbc.ca)	(28)
		Even if we reduce emissions 80% it won't stop global warming. So what's the point? (msnbc.msn.com)	(292)

Thu September 24, 2009

(Some Thirsty Person)	Mars, for the purest water on Earth (uanews.org)	(67)
	New NASA data shows the Greenland and Antarctic ice shelves are melting faster than expected. So either we're back to global warming, or NASA needs to stop shooting 50 million laser beams at the ice (ctv.ca)	(89)
	DNA studies in India show how social constructs can have an impact on human evolution. But "Idiocracy" was funnier (newscientist.com)	(55)
	Nintendo to cut Wii prices another $50, still no word on whether they will start making real games (money.cnn.com)	(188)
	Google adds commenting... to everything (google.com)	(81)
	Water, Helen, waaaattttteeerrrrr (blogs.discovermagazine.com)	(44)
	Iranian government not only expert in the use of Photoshop, they also excel at copy and paste (nature.com)	(22)
	The top 10 worst science grants...including measuring the velocity of a penguin's excretions (telegraph.co.uk)	(78)
	Using astronomy and archaeology, it's possible to calculate the exact day the ancient Egyptians started building the Great Pyramid of Giza. Daniel Jackson not impressed (news.nationalgeographic.com)	(40)
	Farkers are farked as a new smartphone app checks potential dates for DUIs, sexual assaults, spouses, home value and Second Life usage (tech.yahoo.com)	(78)
	Scientists perfect swimming knife fish robot. In related news, scientists have decided that it will never be safe for us to go in the water again, ever (newscientist.com)	(22)
(Some Guy)	Rogue waves are real. Here comes the math (insciences.org)	(77)
	Boy writes letter to rocket scientists, gets reply 52 years later reportedly saying, "See? Not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up" (abc.net.au)	(47)
	HIVaccine? (msnbc.msn.com)	(274)
	September 24th, 1979: CompuServe is born, offering 300 baud access to newspapers, stock quotes, weather reports, and emailing ascii playboy bunnies (wired.com)	(78)
	Back assward man got a new traeh (abcnews.go.com)	(10)
	FCC to be "top cop" on the Internet. Suck it, net neutrality (reason.com)	(128)

Wed September 23, 2009

	This is what the Burj Dubai would look like in Midtown Manhattan (gizmodo.com)	(98)
(Some Guy)	Jumbo squid hit Oregon beaches. Everyone PICNIC (registerguard.com)	(48)
	"Sex Degrees of Separation" means you've slept with 2.8 million people (news.com.au)	(105)
	Internet CEO answers a philosophy question: if a DNS server has a security hole and the hackers don't have the source code, isn't the hole not dangerous? (news.zdnet.co.uk)	(49)
	Newest ATI video card supports ridiculous amounts of monitors for people with ridiculous amounts of money (hothardware.com)	(87)
	Not satisfied with simply having the worst wireless network of all time, AT&T begins tele-bombing existing customers (consumerist.com)	(37)
	Your AT&T iPhone can take pictures, navigate back alleys, share music, and even play games, but god help you if you want to actually make a call (news.cnet.com)	(120)
	Doctors say people in a vegetative state can learn, you just have to do it slowly so they can ketchup (livescience.com)	(42)
	To study risk-taking behavior, scientists feed jello shots to rats and teach them to gamble (blogs.discovermagazine.com)	(16)
	Palm: here's how we're going to make the Pre work with iTunes. USB Implementers Forum: wait, what? (businessweek.com)	(193)
	Bank employee sends sensitive customer info to wrong Gmail account, so naturally it's Google who's getting sued (networkworld.com)	(51)
	If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. And autotune (youtube.com)	(59)
	The coolest R2-D2 mod you'll see today (pics) (engadget.com)	(39)
	The building contained 1,322 pounds of highly enriched uranium, enough to make 24 nuclear bombs. The security system consisted of what he later described as a "Civil War padlock." (washingtonpost.com)	(41)
	Art historian and textile expert spend five years harvesting the silk from Madagascan golden orb spiders to create an 11-foot long cloth which is as strong as steel (nytimes.com)	(69)

Tue September 22, 2009

	Have a look at "Courier" - Microsoft's "astonishing take on the tablet." Suck it, Apple (with video demo) (gizmodo.com)	(153)
	First day of fall to bring sixteen inches of global warming to Colorado (denverpost.com)	(148)
	New species of ghost shark identified. "It's a big weird looking freaky thing," say scientists (wired.com)	(46)
	Immortality only 20 years away says lunatic scientist (telegraph.co.uk)	(141)
	Sunbathing may help people survive skin cancer (nzherald.co.nz)	(27)
	Incredibly, Bing has increased Microsoft's search share by a whopping 0.4 percent. Google it if you don't believe me (news.bbc.co.uk)	(82)
	Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine (wired.com)	(99)
(Channel Register)	Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, says the OS has become "bloated and huge". Much like your average Linux user (channelregister.co.uk)	(188)
	Revered Buddhist leader, His holiness the 17th Karmapa Lama, will pwn your n00b ass (shambhalasun.com)	(38)
(Some Guy)	Sci-fi crossdresser wants you to install low-flow toilets already (biggreenboulder.com)	(33)
(adn)	Ugly-ass mystery fish found in Alaska. Yes, ugly (adn.com)	(28)
	Mars wasn't always red. Its really a complex result of its shame (news.yahoo.com)	(24)
	Biologist argues death panels should be set up for pandas. "Here's a species that, of its own accord, has gone down an evolutionary cul-de-sac. we should pull the plug. Let them go, with a degree of dignity" (abcnews.go.com)	(109)
(Wired.co.uk)	The game that destroys your PC files if you lose - and also if you win (wired.co.uk)	(79)
	35 million worldwide living with dementia, posting in Fark Politics tab (cbsnews.com)	(64)
	The coolest photo of the aurora over Yellowknife you're likely to see today (antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov)	(24)
(SpaceRef.com)	NASA to hold press conference Thursday to reveal evidence of water on the moon. A lot of it (spaceref.com)	(137)
	Not getting enough "Holy Crap" in your life? Then behold: Saturn at the equinox (blogs.discovermagazine.com)	(76)
	Best instructional video on the Freudian psychiatric apparatus you will see today. And by "best" we mean "über creepy." .. and what WAS David doing in the basement with his sister? (youtube.com)	(38)

Mon September 21, 2009

(Smithsonian Magazine)	These pictures of the solar system's planets are so spectacular, you won't even mind the slideshow (smithsonianmag.com)	(47)
	Cursive may be a fading skill, but so what? (stltoday.com)	(276)
	Scientists develop Drake-like equation for determining the habitability of planets, feasibility of terraforming. KHAAAAN (sciencedaily.com)	(185)
	Scientists learning to speak supervolcano in their own home (sciencedaily.com)	(29)
	If you have to pay Geek Squad to set up your newly purchased PS3, you probably won't be able to figure out how to play the games anyway (consumerist.com)	(189)
	Lyme disease patients look for better diagnostics, more ade (ctv.ca)	(33)
	South Africa builds on its long history of being a pioneer in the area of human rights with new plan that would make HIV tests compulsory (dailymail.co.uk)	(121)
	UN climate chief says China poised to claim "front-runner" status among nations battling climate change. Because nothing says 'we love the environment' like being the biggest emitter of CO2, Mercury and coal dust pollution (reuters.com)	(60)
(Some Guy)	A.I. researcher asks, in all seriousness: Will we eventually upload our minds? (hplusmagazine.com)	(311)
	Canadian scientists invent pool-playing robot to demonstrate their vision of augmented reality, remorselessly hustle local pub denizens (news.cnet.com)	(10)
(Some Guy)	"The countryside has become the locus of our collective anxieties and fears. It is the home of swine flu, foot and mouth, dangerous mushrooms, unbalanced farming folk, drunk drivers, murderous cows and carcinogenic crop spraying" (thisislondon.co.uk)	(38)
	While Israel builds a huge wall to keep out Palestinians and America builds one to keep out Mexicans, Canada is putting one up to deal with the biggest threat facing its society: moose (cbc.ca)	(42)
	Coolest gallery of glaciers from space that you'll see in the next hundred years. Or maybe not depending on that global cooling thing (wired.com)	(18)
(Some Guy)	Lead "Global Warming" Scientist concludes that we are now are in a global cooling phase and that global warming hysteria will return in 2020 or 2030. No, really (calgaryherald.com)	(395)