FARK.com: Geek links -- Archives for 2009-11-08

If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page.

Not News Sports Business Geek Showbiz Politics Music Video All

Sun November 08, 2009

Source	Fark Headline		Comments
		Nanoparticles may kill you. Bet you didn't see that coming (guardian.co.uk)	(50)
(Not Neil Peart (he's good))		Good news for tone-deaf wannabe musicians who can't carry a beat and have no real talent: Activision is working on "Drum Hero" just for you, so you can know how if feels to be Dave Grohl, Ringo Starr, and Phil Collins (360.kombo.com)	(116)
		Scottish historian attacks government for favoring romantic 17th-century Jacobites in choice of monuments and sites, instead of freedom-fighting Protestant Covenanters. "In many ways, they are seen as a sort of Scottish Taleban" (news.scotsman.com)	(36)
		The most amazing hi-res close-up pics of Mars you'll see all year (boston.com)	(88)
		New battery to have 11 times the energy density of lithium-ion model. Still will not be included (physorg.com)	(66)
		Developer placed in charge of oversaturating Halo brand worries about oversaturating Halo brand (joystiq.com)	(62)
		Shave and a haircut, come in (youtube.com)	(45)
		The best reproductions of famous art masterpieces using coffee instead of paint you'll see, well... let's be honest, ever (gizmodo.com)	(34)

Sat November 07, 2009

	Scientists create mind reading computer which porn beer beer porn beer porn porn (dailymail.co.uk)	(40)
(Some Guy)	A new study says internet use is not linked to isolation. Submitter posted this from his mother's basement a few days shy of his 40th birthday (wsbtv.com)	(36)
	And this is why computer mice shouldn't have 18-buttons (techeblog.com)	(164)
	Relax. Your Google searches for whipped cream and parrots aren't being added to your permanent record, you pervert (theregister.co.uk)	(31)
(Hulu)	Carl Sagan hould have turned 75 today. Here's a little thing he threw together called "Cosmos" (hulu.com)	(182)
(The Good News)	10 ways Darwin got it wrong (gnmagazine.org)	(248)
(Some Guy)	Most awesome photos you'll see today of a 1930's Russian Flying Fortress dogfighting a Nazi flying saucer, velociraptors suspiciously absent (englishrussia.com)	(90)

Fri November 06, 2009

(University of Georgia)	Bad news: Another invasive species. Good news: It's a bug that eats kudzu. Great news: It also eats soy (georgiafaces.caes.uga.edu)	(60)
(Some Guy)	Engineer says wind farm site is too windy (newsvine.com)	(71)
	You like raspberry candy? How about raspberry candy made with real beaver anal glands? (alternet.org)	(86)
(Santa Cruz Sentinel)	Monterey researchers starting to get worried about the gang problem. The dolphin gang problem (santacruzsentinel.com)	(30)
(Rock Band Aide)	Rock Band 3 will include more realistic instruments, teach you how to really play. At this rate, rock band 4 will include heroin and shotgun peripherals and brain-splatter decals for your wall (rockbandaide.com)	(90)
	Boy to grow up to be the next Inspector Gadget: toddler gets a telescoping, prosthetic arm bone (blogs.discovermagazine.com)	(24)
	Verizon calls AT&T's bluff, demands their suit proceed to trial, putting AT&T in the unenviable position of explaining -- in court -- why the coverage maps, despite being accurate, are inaccurate (pcworld.com)	(142)
	New type of supernova discovered after analysis of spectrum, high squeeky voice (msnbc.msn.com)	(18)
	I'll take my bread shoes with a side of athlete's foot and toe jam (techeblog.com)	(11)
(Some Guy)	Could you survive a nuclear attack by uploading your city to the net? (hplusmagazine.com)	(54)
	Thinking of not smiling? This spike-equipped hat won't allow it (thesun.co.uk)	(81)
	Have a landline phone jack that you no longer use? Why not plug in this nifty lamp that steals power from the phone company? (wired.com)	(101)
	Scientist says Lee Harvey Oswald rifle picture is real, he can tell by the pixels and from having seen a few shops in his time (huffingtonpost.com)	(198)
	Get ready to change your desktop background again: Here's another awesome image from Hubble (wired.com)	(23)
	She's hot, she's blonde, and she OWNS Kirk Cameron and his banana-toting buddy (huffingtonpost.com)	(381)

Thu November 05, 2009

	Large Hadron Collider shut down. Again. Due to French bread (io9.com)	(92)
	Not news: Study shows iPhone users are smug porn-watching egomaniacs (huffingtonpost.com)	(53)
	Old and busted: Jesus on a toast. New coldness: Mother Nature on a glacier crying (abcnews.go.com)	(24)
	Gran Turismo 5 creator Kazunori Yamauchi on the game costing $60 million to make: "considering the size and scale of the game, I think it's probably a fairly small amount." (kotaku.com)	(121)
(WCNC-36)	Experts suspect cheerleader who went public with claims of contracting rare disease from flu shot might be a misdiagnosed case of attentionwhoreitis (wcnc.com)	(88)
	Good sprinters have athletes foot (scientificamerican.com)	(8)
	Stars, gas, blow? It's Hubble, not a Lindsey Lohan party (blogs.discovermagazine.com)	(10)
	The future now sending birds to sabatoge the LHC (popsci.com)	(55)
	Oldest American-made object ever discovered was manufactured in Oregon, 14,230 years before Wal-Mart outsourced it to Asia (nature.com)	(37)
	Facebook backdoor found, ogled (tech.slashdot.org)	(15)
	Yellowstone scientists find mushrooms. Then they start seeing all sorts of weird creatures (google.com)	(16)
	Old people are sexting (gawker.com)	(50)
	A Japanese company polled 500 men ranging from their teens to their 40's about which games have made them cry the most and came up with a list of the top five. There are five people who cried because of video games? (kotaku.com)	(343)
	The man who killed Pluto talks about Planet X and the end of the world (dsc.discovery.com)	(72)
	Kissing boosts a women's immune system. Her dirty little skank immune system (myfoxdc.com)	(lots)
	Honey, could you put your head in my lap? I need you to blow up my seat belt (usatoday.com)	(86)
	Google and multiple telecom companies begin laying transoceanic fiber-optic cable between Japan and North America, say new pipe can easily handle USA's increasing demand for Asian, uh, multimedia productions (examiner.com)	(74)

Wed November 04, 2009

	"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." (wired.com)	(189)
	Modern Warfare 2 will be capped at 9v9. Bonus: Company brags that it'll have mouse and keyboard support (kotaku.com)	(284)
(Utne)	In a typical day of web browsing, your eyes will scan more words than appear in "War and Peace," and 90 percent of them will be misspellings of the word "Viagra" (utne.com)	(21)
	"What happens when Harvard scientists use a brain scanner to look for the devil inside?" Good question (scientificamerican.com)	(33)
	American company wants to raise the HMS Victory which sunk in 1744 killing 1000 men. It is expected to have a billion dollars of gold in it and thus raising it will be great for "cultural" and "educational" purposes (news.bbc.co.uk)	(47)
	Apple's App store passes 99,999 iFart App barrier (engadget.com)	(47)
(Some Guy)	Finally an article that addresses the most pressing issue of the day: which country has the best electrical outlet (crave.cnet.co.uk)	(88)
	Scientists claim "magic" is causing emissions from galactic core. I mean "dark matter." Yeah, "dark matter." (scientificamerican.com)	(99)
	I can haz swine fluz? (komonews.com)	(36)
	Study finds that female crabs trade sex for protection, as opposed to female humans who get crabs for sex with no protection or some damn thing (cbc.ca)	(26)
	New gloves allow people to use touchscreen phones, devices without taking them off. Dialing wand for fat-fingered folk sold separately (nydailynews.com)	(42)
	Happy 20th Birthday to Wallace and Gromit, with love from Google (telegraph.co.uk)	(37)
(CNNGo)	Tokyo gets burger vending machine. The real ingenuity is: only one moving part (cnngo.com)	(43)
(Some Comic Geek)	So who's picking up the first of their Green Lantern ring set this week? New Comics Shipping November 4th (downtowncomics.ning.com)	(68)
	Astronomers celebrate Halloween by finding the Universe's skeleton. Ooh, spooky (msnbc.msn.com)	(35)
	Oracle is surprised that European commissioners are struggling to reconcile of the words "Larry Ellison" and "free" in the same sentence (theregister.co.uk)	(27)
	Stun guns, Tasers, Taser shotguns -- now everyone's worried about police injuring perps with a Taser grenade launcher. In related news, the cops would like to know if they could go back to just shooting people, please (newscientist.com)	(41)
(Neowin.net)	AT&T to Verizon, "there's a lawsuit for that" (neowin.net)	(77)
	Scientists baffled by strange condition that's making bears lose all their fur, and SWEET ERUCTATING CTHULHU ON A PIMPED-OUT POGO STICK -- WTF??? (dailymail.co.uk)	(98)

Tue November 03, 2009

	Ainus hetkel teadaolev võimalus ühendust katkestada on avada Safari ning samalt lehelt minna mõnele teisele lehele (theregister.co.uk)	(39)
	Windows 7 is significantly more resistant to viruses and WOULD YOU LIKE BIGGER PENIS??? YOUR BULGING MANTOOL WILL CAUSE HER SCREAM (tech.slashdot.org)	(165)
	Coolest video you'll see today: Entire Ares I-X flight captured from aircraft flying near point of impact (launch to splashdown). Bonus: Sweet prandtl glauert shock cloud on descent (youtube.com)	(61)
	And now, for no particular reason, the sex life of seahorses (guardian.co.uk)	(28)
	Claude Lévi-Strauss is dead. We'll miss his genes (boingboing.net)	(39)
	One fifth of what makes you you isn't yours (wired.com)	(106)
	Warning issued over white whale. This is not a repeat from 1851 (news.bbc.co.uk)	(53)
	Scent of fear keeps male bed bugs from "traumatic insemination" of other males. You'll click for the bedbug porn (wired.com)	(43)
	Evolution has a speed limit (sciencedaily.com)	(77)
	Afraid of flying? Yes, there's an iPhone app for that, guaranteed to bring you a few minutes of peace before it interferes with the flight controls and sends you all plunging to a fiery doom (news.com.au)	(40)
	The most amazing hummingbird mating ritual you'll see, well, probably ever (news.bbc.co.uk)	(40)
(Some Guy)	NASA, X Prize award $1.5M to companies that pretended to land on moon. Companies will use money to build "Mars" soundstage (pilotbug.com)	(22)
	Unisys exec's all-too-sunny forecast for American IT pros: Cloudy with a great chance of unemployment (networkworld.com)	(78)
	When the going gets tough, you could either take public transportation or build one of these (techeblog.com)	(22)
	Child obesity 'is levelling off.' So, on the Doritos Obesity Scale™, this is a Spicy Sweet Chili™ level problem, and not at all at Cool Ranch™ levels as feared (news.bbc.co.uk)	(93)
	Flying frog and mountain mouse among new species in danger of going extinct, becoming cartoon characters (telegraph.co.uk)	(4)
	Ultra primitive particles found in comet dust, sign to do series of really annoying ads for Geico (sciencedaily.com)	(8)
(Some Coco-Nut)	Thermonuclear fusion and coconuts - strange bedfellows (hplusmagazine.com)	(35)
	10-ton Japanese fishing trawler capsized by giant jellyfish, three fishermen rescued by passing vessel. And so it begins (telegraph.co.uk)	(154)
	Scientists prove that new rift in Ethiopia is beginning of a new ocean. Ethiopian ministries announce immediate new coastal developments: Costa Del Lex, Luthorville, Marina Del Lex, Otisburg... Otisburg? (physorg.com)	(57)

Mon November 02, 2009

	Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smrt (newscientist.com)	(454)
	... acg cct bac onb aco nat cca agt (google.com)	(35)
(MediaMemo)	Not News: Apple rumored to be planning subscription-based HDTV service next year to compete with cable. News: AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE (mediamemo.allthingsd.com)	(60)
	It isn't lupus. But just in case it is, there's a drug for that now (google.com)	(16)
	Cassini to sample volcanic ash plume from Saturn's moon Enceladus by flying right through it. The plume, not the moon (blogs.nasa.gov)	(25)
(Electronista)	Web traffic stats show Windows 7 launch drove users to upgrade from XP and Vista to Snow Leopard. Wait, what? (electronista.com)	(388)
	Creatures of the sea quiver with anticipation as they begin their long-overdue campaign against the Japanese (livescience.com)	(48)
	Much like your mom's vagina, Martian soil is hospitible to exotic forms of bacteria (science.slashdot.org)	(32)
	In this economy, we obey the laws of thermodynamics (physorg.com)	(46)
	Studies show that nearly 14% of men and 9% of women between ages 25 and 40 are eligible for an exciting career in volcano god appeasement (newscientist.com)	(178)
	Conficker worm: one year later, the gift that keeps on giving (networkworld.com)	(39)
	Another inane and stupid study found that negative thinking improves memory. What a load of crap. IIRC, Mecklenbräuker and Hager published the same garbage in the Journal of Psychological Research, Volume 46, Number 4, December 1st 1984 (news.yahoo.com)	(28)
	Some people need help to kick their internet obsession, says article you can only read on the internet (boston.com)	(37)
(XKCD)	XKCD provides you with a perfect way to keep track of the LOTR trilogy (xkcd.com)	(201)
(Some Guy)	The world's first Hotel in Space is taking reservations for 2012. "Guests can crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spider-Man." (heraldsun.com.au)	(35)