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Sun October 04, 2009
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(Some Guy) Followup Turns out manmade global warming really does exist, provided you're the IPCC and you fake so much data to prove the theory that it makes creationism look scientifically sound by comparison  (spectator.co.uk) (225)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Even if you dismiss global warming, rising CO2 levels will still turn the oceans into a vast acid bath teeming with death  (guardian.co.uk) (65)
(Some Robot) Obvious As the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close, one burning question remains: Where the hell are all the cool robots?  (gantdaily.com) (60)
(Retrocrush) Spiffy A look at the 1978 Atari Catalog  (retrocrush.com) (108)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Coolest underwater photos you'll see today. That they were taken by a cave-diving hottie doesn't hurt either  (mailonsunday.co.uk) (42)
(Independent) Fail Richard Dawkins rejects claims that he is 'strident': "I'M ONE OF THE MOST UNSTRIDENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD," he points out. Repeatedly  (independent.co.uk) (246)
(CBC) Scary Turns out handwashing is about as effective as chicken sacrifice or chiropractic when it comes to stopping the spread of the flu virus  (cbc.ca) (48)
(Science Daily) Spiffy Fish-killing toxin could destroy cancer cells. The first step is figuring out how to turn cancer cells into very small fishes  (sciencedaily.com) (11)
(Scientific American) Followup Why scientists are so excited about finding water in space. And not just because they're easily-excitable nerds  (scientificamerican.com) (26)
(Some Guy) Followup 52 years ago today, Sputnik was launched onto a soundstage just outside Vladivostok  (tomsastroblog.com) (24)
(CBC) PSA Dear prairie dogs: Funtime is over  (cbc.ca) (86)
(Reuters) Interesting New film aims to provide insight into mystery of disappearing bees, Nicolas Cage's overacting  (reuters.com) (20)
(Daily Express) Ironic Cervical cancer vaccine "may be riskier and more deadly than the cancer it is designed to prevent." It's like RAAIIIINNNNN on your wedding DAAYYYYYYY  (express.co.uk) (127)
(PhysOrg.com) Strange Polaroid develops digital camera that prints. Just like the old Polaroids  (physorg.com) (33)
(Daily Collegian) Interesting Researchers measure it at 110 decibels. You can't hear a person more than a foot away. Front row at a rock concert? Nope, fan noise at a Penn State home game  (collegian.psu.edu) (51)

Sat October 03, 2009
(My Fox Dallas) Spiffy Scientists create hydrogen and batteries from pee. Urine charge now  T-Shirt  (myfoxdfw.com) (34)
(BBC) Interesting Mini-Stonehenge discovered, already crushed by dwarves  (news.bbc.co.uk) (36)
(Some Bot) Cool If you always like imagining your pens and pencils were rockets, you will like what this artist has done with found objects  (adoptabot.deviantart.com) (17)
(Space) Interesting Photographic proof of a giant galactic beast that's prowling the Milky Way  (space.com) (34)
(TechEBlog) Amusing Five Super Mario World levels guaranteed to make you go insane  (techeblog.com) (76)
(C|Net) Obvious AT&T beginning to think the iPhone fanaticism may be hurting their brand image  (news.cnet.com) (86)
(LA Times) Obvious Scientists determine that leaving your mom's basement and going outside once in a while can make you a better person. Not that you will. We're just throwing that out there  (latimes.com) (10)
(CNN) Interesting Surprising first products of 14 famous companies. In convenient, non-slideshow form  (cnn.com) (39)
(The Register) Asinine "5318008, trouble us no longer" ɔıuɐd ʎpoqʎɹǝʌǝ  (theregister.co.uk) (60)

Fri October 02, 2009
(SFGate) Obvious 80% of Twitterers tweet about themselves. In other news, I picked up my dry cleaning. Now I'm on my way home. Let you know when I get there  (sfgate.com) (34)
(BBC) Interesting Researchers created wifi proof paint for people unable to set a router password. Last seen working on hair gel for those who find tin hats unsightly  (news.bbc.co.uk) (48)
(C|Net) Followup Google unbans Pirate Bay from the internet  (news.cnet.com) (38)
(Utne) Sappy The world's longest-running scientific experiment has been working perfectly since 1927--though not one person has actually observed it in action  (utne.com) (64)
(InfoWorld) Hero The rhyme of the ancient network switch: 'When a Cisco 6509 went belly up, the drama that unfolded could only be described in verse'  (infoworld.com) (47)
(The Register) Unlikely Google bans Pirate Bay from the internet  (theregister.co.uk) (155)
(Guardian.com) Obvious Australia rejects proposal for crocodile safaris even though it would have given country increase in tourism, their own Fark tag  (guardian.co.uk) (18)
(Some Geek) Spiffy And what would Friday morning be without some fun with liquid nitrogen  (web.mit.edu) (21)
(Statesman) Amusing Why don't pregnant women tip over?  (statesman.com) (63)
(BBC) Cool Ever wanted to push your 3Ghz processor to 6.5Ghz, and happen to have more money than common sense can overcome? Two words: liquid nitrogen  (news.bbc.co.uk) (75)
(Abc.net.au) Interesting Australians discover new "super-LSD," three days later are still freaking out, man. Cops announce two monkeys, one fish  (abc.net.au) (74)
(techflash.com) Obvious Larry Ellison calls cloud computing 'nonsense' because you can't make yacht payments from it. Er, HE can't  (techflash.com) (130)
(Ars Technica) Asinine Sony launches new PSP that can't play games you already own and is generally pure evil. Ars tells Sony where they can shove it  (arstechnica.com) (197)
(Independent) Fail Out of 180 'probiotic' drinks tested by the EU, guess how many were found to improve health?  (independent.co.uk) (45)
(TechEBlog) Cool MIT student turns shopping cart into 30mph go-kart, calls it the LOLriokart  (techeblog.com) (31)
(ABC News) Interesting Most babies born today can expect to live past 100, of course assuming that global warming or socialized medicine doesn't get them first  (abcnews.go.com) (67)
(Reuters) Scary Tokyo governor claims global warming poses threat to 2020 Olympic Games, presumably because humans will have adapted by then to have flippers instead of arms and legs  (reuters.com) (31)

Thu October 01, 2009
(Reuters) Scary If you were wondering how the sky was so blue in China today, here comes the science. The frightening, world domination-ish science  (in.reuters.com) (74)
(Some anthropologist) Followup Ardi, the "new" hominid fossil documenting human evolution, is a remarkable find but it does NOT radically change our views of human evolution in spite of the usual popular press exaggerations  (scienceblogs.com) (174)
(Some Gamr) Amusing An illustrated history of the progressive degeneration of ads for "Evony," which in reality is a bland Civilization-like game  (lazygamer.co.za) (121)
(National Geographic) Interesting New skeletal fossils lead scientists to hypothesize men have been paying for sex for over 4 million years  (news.nationalgeographic.com) (56)
(Fox News) Weird Cloudy, with a chance of rocks  (foxnews.com) (23)
(ChannelWeb) Interesting Al Gore applauds Icann agreement  (crn.com) (66)
(Some Guy) Silly Make your own black hole  (instructables.com) (47)
(New Scientist) Interesting The Anthropocene will be the Earth's shortest epoch, and will end once humans are gone. But the Earth will go on for billions of years thereafter, as the evolved rats expand into the galaxy  (newscientist.com) (94)
(Some Guy) Interesting Six-week expedition to Australia fails to catch a glimpse of the Night Parrot, a bird even more elusive than the fabled Burrow Owl Stuartis of midwestern trailer parks  (birdwatch.co.uk) (53)
(Daily Mail) Cool Scientists invent pill that could give you back the muscles of your youth, before you got a desk job, a wife and the kind of physique that makes anorexic supermodels wince  (dailymail.co.uk) (73)
(Florida Today) Stupid Shuttle Atlantis can't launch over New Year's holiday because the shuttle's computers can't handle the year-end rollover. I'm guessing their computers are the 1954 RAND models we're all familar with  (floridatoday.com) (159)
(WTOP) Interesting Earthquake strikes central California. Death Valley free from tsunami threat  (wtop.com) (10)
(Salon) Interesting Confessions of a home-schooler  (salon.com) (185)
(Some Guy) Florida Guy who thinks GTA is the cause of all society's woes sues Facebook for 40mil because of hate groups dedicated to him. Tag says it all  (goodgearguide.com.au) (110)

Wed September 30, 2009
(C&EN) Cool Chinese Proverb: Man who leave food in refrigerator have funny smell. Man who collect many funny smells becomes professor  (cenblog.org) (28)
(Yahoo) Sad Stephen Hawking steps down as Lucasian professor at Cambridge, sort of  T-Shirt  (news.yahoo.com) (154)
(Gizmodo) Hero Poor teenager in Malawi uses junk yard parts to build a windmill and bring electricity to his village for the first time. Hopefully the wind can blow away the smell from all these onions I'm chopping  (gizmodo.com) (121)
(CNN) Spiffy Obama to announce $5 Billion in scientific research grants. What's this guy tryin to do, cure cancer?  (cnn.com) (139)
(BBC) Cool Subby doesn't understand the science, but figured anything dubbed a "time telescope" has to be a neat idea  (news.bbc.co.uk) (43)
(CNN) Interesting Find out exactly where you will be mugged for your iPhone  (cnn.com) (33)
(BBC) Cool On October 1, US will agree to surrender oversight of internet's regulatory body, allowing it to be autonomous. Net neutrality, indeed  (news.bbc.co.uk) (101)
(PCWorld) Stupid Want an app to find all the other iPhone apps? There's an app for that  (pcworld.com) (34)
(London Times) Cool Scientists explain why champagne tastes so damn good. Still no cure for cancer, but you can put a cork in it for now  (timesonline.co.uk) (68)
(Discover) Cool Two jaw dropping Hubble pictures of galaxies passing gas. With bonus Family Guy footnote  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (49)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Security experts reassure public that al Qaeda's new ass bombs "probably won't become a major terrorist threat"  (mcclatchydc.com) (58)
(Some Guy) Obvious Hippies upset that Pittsburgh police deployed 'sound cannons' to break up their G20 protests, say they had been counting on water cannon so they could get at least one bath a year  (truthout.org) (172)
(Mustang Guy) Unlikely Floor mat problem may cause rapid acceleration in Toyotas - wait what? rapid acceleration in a Toyota?  (pressroom.toyota.com) (134)
(Eurekalert.org) Amusing Fruit fly sperm makes females do housework after sex  (eurekalert.org) (33)
(Gizmodo) Cool England to send rover to mars in 2018, attempt to change what side of planet rovers can drive on  (gizmodo.com) (37)

Tue September 29, 2009
(Wired) Interesting The Tyrannosaurus was killed off by a single-celled parasite. No word yet how Kanye West traveled back in time  (wired.com) (50)
(smart planet) Cool NASA hits target 250,000 miles away and traveling at 3600 mph with a friggin laser beam, hell even Darth Vader is impressed  (smartplanet.com) (58)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Hiding from zombies in a mall much smarter than heading for the hills. Here come the BRAAINNNS  (insidescience.org) (314)
(Wired) Spiffy Ecuador is coming up with new ideas to keep us from farking up the Galápagos  (wired.com) (10)
(PhysOrg.com) Cool Physicists explain how human eyes can detect quantum effects, Schrödinger's cat not amused  (physorg.com) (47)
(Slashdot) Cool Synthetic sebum sees slippery sailboats slip smoothly through the seas, says sea-struck scientist  (science.slashdot.org) (23)
(NPR) Interesting Plutonium shortage could stall space exploration, mutant population  (npr.org) (71)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting US wiretap laws are so outdated, you probably commit three felonies a day just by surfing the Web. If your surfing takes you to 4chan, add three mortal sins to that total  (online.wsj.com) (70)
(Some Guy) Interesting The gravity of the tablet wars has just changed as Apple has rehired the Newton developer  (macobserver.com) (42)
(Some Guy) Interesting Chinese researchers unearth ancient four-winged chicken, Anchiornis huxleyi, ignore fact that it anagrams into "China sexily oh ruin"  (tvnz.co.nz) (58)
(Network World) Interesting What are the odds you'll get hit by a vending machine while falling out of bed to buy lottery tickets?  (networkworld.com) (21)
(Washington Post) Silly April 8, 2014. The day Microsoft says you have to stop using Windows XP. Seriously this time  (washingtonpost.com) (204)
(The Register) Strange This must be the weirdest, creepiest, USB-powered thing ever  (reghardware.co.uk) (46)
(Some Guy) Misc Wichita scientists receive 2.1 million dollars to invent new generation of medical devices, insure their next generation not forced to work in Wichita  (hdnews.net) (20)
(Time) Interesting This looks 'shopped, I can tell from some of the granularity and from seeing quite a few daguerréotypes in my time: Famous doctored photos in history (warning: cool photos but super-annoying slideshow)  (time.com) (72)

Mon September 28, 2009
(Wired) Spiffy A little trick dreamed up in 1929 by Hermann Oberth could get us to Mars in three months instead of six  (wired.com) (89)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Prelife preprogrammed by prevolution, presages prebiotic presentation  (physorg.com) (116)
(PhysOrg.com) Obvious It's official. If you're creative, you're crazy  (physorg.com) (106)
(Guardian.com) Amusing I Don't like Apple products. And the better-designed and more ubiquitous they become, the more I dislike them. I blame the customers. Awful people. Awful. Stop showing me your iPhone  (guardian.co.uk) (232)
(National Review) Obvious On campus learning found to be better than online learning in latest news that would infuriate University of Phoenix degree holders if they could read  (phibetacons.nationalreview.com) (87)
(Some Guy) Cool New technology from Alcatel will deliver 400 dvd's worth of porn per second  (gigaom.com) (40)
(Live Science) Spiffy Australian scientists discover 850 previously unknown species living in subterranean caves and micro-caverns, most of which are blind, pale and play World of Warcraft for up to 20 hours/day  T-Shirt  (livescience.com) (30)
(Discover) Obvious Its left-wing politics notwithstanding, The Huffington Post is a dank snakepit of New Age woo-woo and alt-medicine that makes chiropractic look like advice from the Mayo Clinic  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (124)
(CBS News) Stupid The European Union says your MP3 player is too loud. Also says you need to clean your room if you want to go out tonight  (cbsnews.com) (81)
(Engadget) Interesting Looks like AT&T has all the low radiation phones that won't kill you. Still no cure for coverage  (engadget.com) (34)
(The New Republic) Scary New study says that all commercial fish stocks will have collapsed by 2048. Mother of cod  (tnr.com) (93)
(WLBZ2.com) Spiffy Peregrine falcons in New Hampshire set new breeding record previously held by Octomom  (wlbz2.com) (11)
(BBC) Dumbass Scientists reveal secrets of how illusionists make objects disappear as they try to ruin magic the way they have been unsuccessfully trying to ruin the Holy Bible  (news.bbc.co.uk) (67)
(Google) Cool International research team unearths the potato genome  (google.com) (28)
(Wired) Obvious Wired picks the eight worst technology adverts ever. Microsoft takes the top three spots  (wired.com) (175)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Computer scientists successfully boot one million linux virtual machines. Perhaps now they can get smooth full-screen flash video working  (physorg.com) (84)
(The Earth Times) Obvious FW: Fw: Chain e-mail messages considered most annoying  (earthtimes.org) (48)
(WWLTV) Sad Hospital learns not to put all their eggs in one basket  (wwltv.com) (19)
(UPI) Cool LSD research returns to university labs. "This isn't fun. There's no Grateful Dead music playing. This is serious business."  (upi.com) (89)

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