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Sun October 18, 2009
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(Engadget) Cool Uruguay has provided a laptop to every primary school child. Heh, Uruguay  (engadget.com) (107)
(PCWorld) Stupid Mozilla decides it should be able to kill whichever of your plugins it wants without your input  (pcworld.com) (117)
(Perfectly Candide) Interesting Creationists make almost made as much sense as they did in 1836. Here comes some wackiness like the fact that plants have yearly cycles identical to length of time it takes Earth to orbit the Sun proves an intelligent designer  (cosmolonigology.blogspot.com) (396)
(New Scientist) Scary So why is "Dollhouse" probably going to be canceled? A:) Low Ratings B:) Bad Time Slot C:) The technology is fast becoming real, and the show might freak people out  (newscientist.com) (90)
(PhysOrg.com) Scary DARPA engineers have developed a microchip that allows them to remotely control the flight of beetles  (physorg.com) (34)
(Some Guy) Cool Cool, or Scary? Either way, if your last name is Connor, you should be running  (dvice.com) (35)
(Science Daily) Interesting Isn't it good? Norwegian wood  (sciencedaily.com) (31)

Sat October 17, 2009
(BBC) Obvious "Most people are not at all interested in the death of languages. If we are not cautious about the way English is progressing it may eventually kill most other languages."  (news.bbc.co.uk) (251)
(Live Science) Silly Creationist museum displays chupacabra from Texas because scientists scoff at the chupacabra's existence and coud be wrong about evolution and the age of the Earth or something  (livescience.com) (365)
(Some Monopoly Guy) Obvious The 22 least necessary Monopoly special editions. Arguments for/against cash for "Free Parking" to the right  (toplessrobot.com) (150)
(Discover) Cool Remember that pic of Earth and Jupiter from Mars? Here comes the science  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (26)
(Slashdot) Stupid Eugen Kaspersky, head of Kaspersky Labs demands end to Internet anonymity, requirement for an internet passport. So we can finally know who really posts all those lol cats every caterday  (yro.slashdot.org) (60)
(Some Clouds) Cool Eight breathtaking cloud formations from around the world. Conspicuously absent: Cumulonimbus  (womansday.com) (97)
(Baltimore Sun) Silly ...and in nerd news: Two accused of illegally distributing Dungeons & Dragons handbooks make saving throw, settle out of court  (baltimoresun.com) (73)
(Ars Technica) Spiffy Amazon agrees* to never delete* people's purchased* ebooks EVER* AGAIN*. (* Some limitations apply)  (arstechnica.com) (25)
(Some Guy) Obvious Australia proposes fleet of hovercraft to connect Geelong and Mornington, although commuters could obviously be accommodated by a simple double-switchback at Charing Cross followed by the Docklands Light Rail Gambit to get to Mornington Crescent  (geelongadvertiser.com.au) (33)
(Telegraph) Obvious French government says "give us your money or the planet will die", which is pretty much Al Gore's message these days too  (blogs.telegraph.co.uk) (39)
(Some Guy) Cool Inside The Tube: incredible wave photography  (internetpopculture.com) (18)
(Yahoo) Spiffy China Mobile will spend $4.4 billion upgrading its 3G service in 2010. AT&T to spend 2010 listening to you complain about your iPhone dropping calls  (finance.yahoo.com) (43)
(The Straight Dope) Cool The Straight Dope tackles the why of earworms. Here comes the science  (straightdope.com) (48)
(Gizmodo) Scary Tonight, the earth was almost smacked by an asteroid big enough to destroy a large city. (It was closer to us than the moon)  (gizmodo.com) (207)
(IGN) Cool Top 100 NES games of all time. In a slide show that will make you want to put a light zapper to your head  (ign.com) (174)
(Boing Boing) Weird The Large Hadron Collider may have been sabotaged by the future. This is why we won't have nice things  (boingboing.net) (89)

Fri October 16, 2009
(UPI) Spiffy All LHC sectors have now been cooled to operating temperature of 1.9 kelvin (-456F), which colder than deep space but not quite as cold as Nancy Pelosi's heart  (upi.com) (97)
(Guardian.com) Amusing Unlike the FBI, the NASA do have a sense of humor, of which we are now aware  (guardian.co.uk) (38)
(Space) Interesting Small asteroid to pass the Earth tonight. No time to launch Bruce Willis  (space.com) (12)
(Some Guy) Unlikely The hoax is not that we ever landed on the moon. The hoax is that we ever stopped going  (counterpunch.org) (52)
(Some Guy) Interesting Test shows Snow Leopard faster than Windows 7, except on all those games you can't play  (tomshardware.com) (75)
(Ars Technica) Obvious Turns out that Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement does include "internet enforcement" clauses  (arstechnica.com) (10)
(The Register) Spiffy DARPA, Microsoft, Lockheed, Al Gore team up to reinvent the internet  (theregister.co.uk) (21)
(ZDNet) Cool Google maps Streetview is going off-road, and between now and October 26, the company is taking online votes for where to go next. Let's harness the power of Fark and send them someplace fun (w/ voting goodness)  (blogs.zdnet.com) (81)
(BBC) Scary Mad scientists, hoping to someday rewrite your memories with frickin' "lasers", are now practicing on flies  (news.bbc.co.uk) (14)
(Wired) PSA You aren't going crazy: eggs are, in fact, getting harder to peel. Here comes the science  (wired.com) (60)
(SMH) Interesting Australian student sends balloon up 100,000ft into the stratosphere with a digital camera attached. Status of 6 year old pilot still unknown  (nashvillesnews.com) (28)
(New Scientist) Interesting Who owns the Moon? Not the US, because we didn't colonize it. And not D.D. Harriman, he only left a body and an epitaph on an oxygen tank tag  (newscientist.com) (101)
(The Local (Sweden)) Interesting Swedish study shows that the most reliable body temperature readings don't come from the mouth or the ear. What, what?  (thelocal.se) (94)
(TechEBlog) Strange Every now and then, an invention comes along which will completely revolutionise the way you live your life. This is not that invention. Unless you're a furry  (techeblog.com) (49)
(Wired) Interesting Forget MP3's and illegal downloads, ring tones are the real threat to the record industry  (wired.com) (197)
(NASA) Cool NASA discovers giant glowing ribbon at the edge of our solar system. Dr. Soran smirks knowingly  (science.nasa.gov) (108)

Thu October 15, 2009
(AOL) Asinine Ethanol makers want to lower your gas mileage even further. This will be a repeat in March 2010  (autos.aol.com) (80)
(Newsarama) Cool "Futurama" co-creator on upcoming new episodes: "It involves a slightly disturbing and somewhat literal rebirthing process. Be prepared. Don't eat a heavy meal before watching"  (newsarama.com) (160)
(Computerworld) Obvious Five ways the Linux desktop shoots itself in the foot. Yes, "acting like a douche when a simple question is asked" made the list  (blogs.computerworld.com) (233)
(Mirror.co.uk) Obvious If you come home and discover your house has a sunroof and it didn't when you left, there's only one explanation: space junk  (mirror.co.uk) (24)
(Breitbart.com) Obvious A geologist believes that a major earthquake will hit Sumatra in the next 30 years. Or maybe 4 years ago  (breitbart.com) (13)
(The Sub-Standard) Obvious Why young people aren't going into engineering or computers sciences any more. It's because of Dilbert. And not William Gibson, who basically got everything wrong  (thewhig.com) (147)
(RedOrbit) Interesting Wasp brains are plastic, adapting to different wasp tasks. "Foraging" requires a complex net of neurons while "Sting the fat guy on the riding mower" not so much  (redorbit.com) (22)
(Gizmodo) Cool Ready to feel small and insignificant, OK, even more small and insignificant? Here's a picture of Earth and the Moon, and Jupiter and her moons all in the same frame taken from Mars  (gizmodo.com) (92)
(LiveLeak) Cool Here's something for the airplane nerds: footage of the in-flight refueling test of the F-35B prototype  (liveleak.com) (47)
(Wired) Cool Nobody ever said the Light Saber was a practical weapon - it's no match for a good blaster  (wired.com) (48)
(New Scientist) Spiffy The best pictures of the year from the world of medicine. Don't worry - none of them are gross  (newscientist.com) (19)
(National Review) Obvious "I don't mean to overly mock the role-playing game community, these are my people. But when the zombies come, I'd rather be imbedded with a bunch of Navy SEALS or a Marine platoon or the Hell's Angels"  (corner.nationalreview.com) (140)
(Northern News Service) Interesting Archeologists find evidence of trade links between Europe and North America in the middle ages  (nnsl.com) (50)
(BBC) Interesting Pink banana thrusts seedbank closer to its goal, will respect botanists in the morning  (news.bbc.co.uk) (13)
(Washington Post) Silly Mozilla releases Firefox plugin to monitor security of Firefox plugins. Expects it to function until version 3.5.2.3.4.5.12 released later this afternoon  (voices.washingtonpost.com) (149)
(Reuters) Spiffy RIM launching new touchscreen BlackBerry. Good job  (reuters.com) (73)
(ZDNet UK) Obvious World Wide Web inventor says he's sorry for unnecessary backslashes, hopes public's anger won't prevent them from watching his global warming documentary  (community.zdnet.co.uk) (54)
(PCWorld) Amusing PC World gives its take on the Sony PSPgo: "PSPgo f*ck yourself."  (pcworld.idg.com.au) (132)
(Smithsonian Institute) Cool Smithsonian Institute adding an exhibition hall devoted to human evolution in March 2010. This should go over well  (newsdesk.si.edu) (264)

Wed October 14, 2009
(Wordpress) Interesting Why sponges are considered animals  (whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com) (66)
(London Times) Interesting British scientists develop brain-to-brain communication system; first message sent believed to read "fancy a shag, darlin'?"  (technology.timesonline.co.uk) (42)
(Examiner) Cool 90% efficient in-road wireless chargers for electric cars "already working perfectly" and ready for commercialization "within 3 years"  (examiner.com) (155)
(LA Times) Interesting Black bears rate minivans their number one choice when looking for a vehicle to ransack for food  (latimes.com) (21)
(C|Net) Stupid This is worse than the time Mick Jagger pitched Windows 95  (news.cnet.com) (157)
(Telegraph) Scary Everything you've ever feared about Indian food turns out to be true: "It is not uncommon for meals to be prepared in rat and cockroach-infested kitchens or for food to be prepared by staff using dirty hands and even feet" Feet?  (telegraph.co.uk) (139)
(Houston Chronicle) Asinine New Mexico announces plan to connect the nations 3 power grids, thus ensuring blackouts and brownouts become national events  (chron.com) (75)
(Slate) Obvious Why letting your cell phone charge overnight is killing the planet  (slate.com) (69)
(Washington Post) Interesting The completely easy-to-do, utterly non-controversial solution to protecting yourself from cyber fraud  (voices.washingtonpost.com) (67)
(New Scientist) Scary Leading physicists think that rogue particles from the future are sabotaging the Large Hadron Collider. Then it gets weird  (newscientist.com) (112)
(Independent) Obvious Microsoft release their biggest Windows patch on record, although it's still smaller than the one Ubuntu will be releasing in a couple of weeks  (independent.co.uk) (244)
(My Fox DC) Interesting Is E-Mail Dead? Yup. No, wait...no? Maybe?  (myfoxdc.com) (70)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting FCC wants broad open-internet rules. Which is kind of like Jeffrey Dahmer promising to obey the safe word as he snaps the fuzzy handcuffs shut  (online.wsj.com) (186)
(dvice) Amusing Top 6 gadgets Japan goes wild over that USA went "huh?" about  (dvice.com) (125)
(Hindustan Times) Scary News: New drug to prevent blindness. Holy Fark: REPEATED INJECTIONS DIRECTLY IN THE EYEBALL  (hindustantimes.com) (46)
(Financial Times) Strange HP unveils new line of laptops with built-in drains, to protect your valuable keyboard from stickiness when you spill beer or any spillable liquid all over it  (blogs.ft.com) (48)
(Some Comic Guy) Survey October 14 list of new comic releases : What's in your bag?  (downtowncomics.ning.com) (41)

Tue October 13, 2009
(Gizmodo) Amusing DARPA and iRobot invent walking robotic scrotum for teabagging Sarah Connor  (gizmodo.com) (25)
(Charles Stross) Interesting Science fiction writer explains why he hates Star Trek so very much: "The protagonists don't tell us anything interesting about the human condition under science fictional circumstances"  (antipope.org) (284)
(Philly) Spiffy Latest episode of "Nova" revisits the in-space repair of the Hubble telescope. Little-known tidbit: An astronaut had to use reverse percussive maintenance on a stuck handrail  (philly.com) (39)
(ABC News) Sad Hospital error causes 206 radiation overdoses. No word yet on emerging superpowers  T-Shirt  (abcnews.go.com) (66)
(Boston Globe) Interesting Robotic prostate surgery on the rise, searching for Sarah Connor in the wrong place  (boston.com) (24)
(Some Guy) Sad Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Comic to End With Issue #50  (oldrepub.com) (59)
(Kotaku) Cool Things that make me wish I was six years old again. Exhibit A: Halo-inspired Warthog Power Wheels  (kotaku.com) (30)
(Seattle Times) Strange Scientists baffled by massive landslide that destroyed mile of state highway, re-routed neighboring river by more than 10 miles, and destroyed area homes by uplifting. 2012?  (seattletimes.nwsource.com) (67)
(Discover) Cool Sometimes, extreme violence yields enduring beauty  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (47)
(The Register) Interesting "Orbiter detects pole-plunge hotspots in dark bottom." Hotspots  (theregister.co.uk) (19)
(The Local (Sweden)) Interesting Misplaced period drags Sweden off the internet. How bloody inconvenient  (thelocal.se) (22)
(Some Guy) Interesting Scientists discover tracks of tiniest dinosaur, apparently running for its life. No word yet on discovery of dime-sized crater  (zeenews.com) (16)
(The New York Times) Obvious So FlashForward is just bad scifi? Maybe not. Creation of the Higgs Boson in the future has caused time ripples to sabotage the LHC and scuttle the superconducting supercollider  (nytimes.com) (168)
(BBC) Interesting Australia prepares for 2009 bushfire season amid warnings country is "dangerously unprepared." On the positive side, fires may wipe out some of the animals than can kill humans, which in Australia seems to be "all of them"  (news.bbc.co.uk) (23)
(BBSpot) Amusing Top 11 ways geeks ruin job interviews. #7 Talking like Yoda, "Working too hard my biggest weakness is."  (bbspot.com) (105)
(BBC) Strange Ever wondered what you'd get if you crossed a jukebox with a mausoleum? Me either, but the Japanese have us covered just in case  (news.bbc.co.uk) (10)
(USA Today) Interesting Cosmologists are awed by some broad who says General Relativity is flawed  (blogs.usatoday.com) (97)
(New Scientist) Interesting Want to build a second sun? All you'll need is some burnt coconuts and $10 billion  (newscientist.com) (46)
(Mother Nature) PSA This just in: Going commando is good for the environment  (mnn.com) (39)
(Some Guy) Amusing Dude, you like, totally gotta try this Ph.D, man. All the cool kids are doing it, you want to be cool right?  (scienceblogs.com) (62)
(Daily Mail) Cool James Dyson's gone from suck to blow  (dailymail.co.uk) (114)
(Stuff) Interesting BBC survey finds that New Zealanders have one of the most socially attractive accents, which just makes it more of a shame that it's wasted on a bunch of sheep  T-Shirt  (stuff.co.nz) (27)
(The Sun) Interesting New study finds that Britons are spending more and more time online, which helps to explain why there are no attractive people on the internet  (thesun.co.uk) (16)

Mon October 12, 2009
(London Times) Interesting Professor Venkatraman Ramakrishnan wins Nobel Prize for chemistry, spelling bee  (timesonline.co.uk) (41)
(NPR) Obvious Humans are officially the loudmouth, slovenly roommate of the animal kingdom, cockblocking other species  (npr.org) (21)
(io9) Cool Scripts for a tenth season of Red Dwarf have already been written, and production will begin in 2010. With the original cast  (io9.com) (106)
(Kotaku) Cool New Dreamcast game. This is not a repeat from 1999  (kotaku.com) (85)
(SeattlePI) Silly Retiring arts-and-sciences department board member gets newly discovered ugly-ass frogfish named after her. "It was the most creative thank you I've ever had"  (seattlepi.com) (3)
(BBC) Spiffy Scientists discover first vegetarian spider, easily identified as the one shunned by other spiders and getting picked on by ants  T-Shirt  (news.bbc.co.uk) (56)
(Slate) Obvious Scientists ask why so many Greenlanders kill themselves. As if living in Greenland wasn't reason enough?  (slate.com) (27)
(Inquirer.net) Scary Geologists are rethinking their theories in the wake of massive Pacific earthquakes and tsunamis. EVERYBODY PANIC (then go surfing)  (newsinfo.inquirer.net) (28)
(InfoWorld) Spiffy Apple versus Microsoft: The top 20 stolen ideas of the OS wars  (infoworld.com) (82)
(Toronto Star) Scary After rash of deaths caused by Tasers being fired at suspects' chests, police told how to use the devices more safely: "Aim lower"  (thestar.com) (64)
(New Scientist) Interesting ... and when I click my fingers you will awaken with an overwhelming urge to greenlight this link  (newscientist.com) (34)
(Engadget) Scary Within a year, doctors will be able to use tiny robotic spiders to navigate inside and scan your entire body. The ones that are in there already, well, sadly, there's nothing they can do about them  (engadget.com) (42)
(Some Guy) Obvious Cats found to really hate change in their environment, and no, they WON'T goddamn well get over it  (news.softpedia.com) (40)
(TechEBlog) Amusing Six awesome chairs apparently designed for the sole purpose of making sure nobody ever visits your apartment twice  (techeblog.com) (41)
(The Register) Stupid If you don't buy this Global Warming campaign, we'll drown this dog  (theregister.co.uk) (138)
(The Age (Melbourne)) Obvious Scientists proudly unveil new passenger car that puts out less power than a toaster, apparently unaware that Kia has been making them for years (pic)  (theage.com.au) (34)
(TBO) Scary "Crack found in Crystal River nuclear plant." Nuclear plant swears this dude just asked him to hold it  (www2.tbo.com) (52)
(Daily Mail) Strange Soon your kitchen will be able to grow its own salads and ... seafood? (pic)  (dailymail.co.uk) (96)

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