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Sun December 06, 2009

Source	Fark Headline		Comments
		Still no cure for cancer, but at least we now know how to make flies very angry (physorg.com)	(20)
		You know how some older folks claim scientists predicted a coming ice age back in the '70s, while others insist either that never happened or it was just a few fringe kooks? Yeah, about that (forbes.com)	(436)
		Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo unveiled on Monday. Aisle seat please. (looks at climategate and health care) One way please (space.com)	(47)
		New generation of 'time over distance' speed cameras will track your car for distances of more than 15 miles and give you a ticket if your average speed is higher than the posted limits, even by 1 mph. It's all about the safety (telegraph.co.uk)	(127)
		Just weeks after hysterically warning everyone to wash their hands every 10 seconds so they don't die of swine flu, media asks, "Are we obsessed with hand sanitizer?" (abcnews.go.com)	(45)
		Scientists and lawyers ponder whether people will become attached to the household robots that later slaughter them (chron.com)	(57)
		Smile, you're on Google's candid camera (techeblog.com)	(35)
		What could be contributing to extreme weather patterns? Dam if I know. But dam if others haven't known for 75 years (foxnews.com)	(51)
		The universe is in danger of collapsing because matter isn't stable. 14 billion years in and NOW they tell me? (usatoday.com)	(72)
		Brown pelicans removed from the endangered list in U.S., which means you can go back to serving them over rice with a nice chianti (features.csmonitor.com)	(26)

Sat December 05, 2009

(Some Guy)	MIT and Harvard researchers make a 16 GPU super-computer so they can finally play Crysis; also happens to mimic human vision recognition (web.mit.edu)	(48)
	Turns out asexuality may not be a choice, either (thestar.com)	(354)
(DARPA)	MIT team wins DARPA balloon challenge. Thanks for all of your effort, Farkers. We put up a good fight (networkchallenge.darpa.mil)	(245)
	If you notice an eight-foot red weather balloon today while you're driving around, please let Fark know (Last reminder for anyone who missed the previous threads) (fark.com)	(555)
(Some Guy)	"Yahoo isn't happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides to law enforcement agencies has leaked onto the web" (mathaba.net)	(96)
	After reading his ludicrous ideas on ways to reverse climate change, the Union of Concerned Scientists suggests Freakonomics author Steve Levitt should stick to writing about economics (npr.org)	(68)
	How curbside recycling is destroying the planet (nationalpost.com)	(44)
(First Showing)	Disney will remake "The Black Hole" because the original version did not suck enough. Cool tag will never be seen again after it gets past the event horizon (firstshowing.net)	(80)
(Some Guy)	Old tinfoil hattery: Black helicopters. New haberdashery: Invisible helicopters (airspacemag.com)	(19)
(Pharyngula)	Maths has found God, convinced skeptics: "I am a scientist and as such I didn't at first really believe it myself. But physics is physics, and maths is maths, and you can't argue with it" (scienceblogs.com)	(245)
	New solar plane takes first test flight. The sun is there (news.cnet.com)	(12)
(ITWire)	Australians have had the world's fastest cellphone network for a year today. American cellphone networks too busy screwing over customers, crying about each other's ads and losing money to care (itwire.com)	(23)
	US Air Force confirms the existence of new secret stealth plane that was spotted earlier this week (with pic) (gizmodo.com)	(60)
	Apparently Bing was out of service for 30 minutes last night but hardly anyone noticed (news.cnet.com)	(31)
	As American scientists fight to lessen testicular odor and make nipple hair a problem of the past, English scientists use stem cells to rescue visual function (sciencedaily.com)	(20)
	Still no flying cars, but space beer is finally here (news.cnet.com)	(5)
	Apple in talks to buy music streaming service Lala. Tinky Winky, Dipsy and Po inconsolable (bloomberg.com)	(42)
	Study shows that just because it's getting colder, it doesn't mean it really getting colder. It just means it's getting colder - for now. Colder (breitbart.com)	(97)

Fri December 04, 2009

	If you own or want an Amazon Kindle, you are responsible for the Holocaust, you Nazi bastard (huffingtonpost.com)	(108)
	Scientist: [Why global warming is real and hack makes no diff.] Commenters: [ZOMG NWO CRU WHARGARBL] Scientist: [Shut the fark up and let scientists do their science.] (blogs.discovermagazine.com)	(173)
	For decades its residents would have been pleased to inform you that all life on Earth probably started in Canada, but now there may be science to prove it (canada.com)	(42)
	In the dark, it's hard to tell a crayfish from a scorpion. Except for that "one lives underwater" part (animals.howstuffworks.com)	(21)
	Not News: Web site for lost laptop News: They charge you to give it back Fark: They stick all your personal files up to help you confirm its yours (theinquirer.net)	(15)
	Nokia offering free rides on Symbian (engadget.com)	(39)
	Next week Slipknot and Art Garfunkel make their debut on Rock Band. Not together of course, that would be.....unsettling (kotaku.com)	(29)
	Are the CRU emails embarrasing, and indicative of problems? Yes. Do they invalidate the science involved? No, says Nature (arstechnica.com)	(341)
	The army is going too have jetpacks... JETPACKS (wired.com)	(101)
	Humans are "losing the battle against global warming," and it will kill you and everyone you hold dear, begins a calm, reasoned AP article (news.yahoo.com)	(122)
	Botanists prove for the first time that plants are carnivorous predators who kill insects in order to self-fertilise. John Wyndham predicted this (telegraph.co.uk)	(20)
(Some Guy)	"The message from Google Wave is clear - this is for the big boys of 21st-century online interaction, and if you don't like it, you can go play on Twitter with the other babies" (badidea.co.uk)	(219)
	Herbicides found to delay onset of sexual maturity in male frogs the way watching Futurama and playing PS2 does in humans (redorbit.com)	(35)
	Canadians top users of social media, so you know who to blame for the popularity of FarmVille (calgaryherald.com)	(26)
(Some Guy)	One of the biggest mysteries of our age is now being explored: Did Michael Jackson compose the soundtrack for Sonic The Hedgehog 3? (w/ startling photographic evidence) (techdigest.tv)	(30)
	Glacier threatens capital city of Bolivia, sparking warnings that people may one day have to walk for their lives (news.bbc.co.uk)	(17)
(EurekAlert)	Best pictures you'll see today of planets orbiting another star similar to the sun. In fact, the first you've ever seen (eurekalert.org)	(53)
	NASA scientists pull sandtrapped rover out of Troy. Troy visibly relieved (physorg.com)	(25)
	Getting the lead role in an upcoming film is easy, just have a bear eat a marshmallow from your mouth (youtube.com)	(25)
(Some Guy)	How a web design goes straight to hell. Or as subby likes to call it: Why all clients are morons (theoatmeal.com)	(171)
(wtfiswrong.com)	Google Public DNS - But Why? (wtfiswrong.com)	(104)

Thu December 03, 2009

		Scientists discover that women show their attraction by opening their legs. Still no cure for cancer, farkers, and your mom (telegraph.co.uk)	(49)
		Nano the Snowman / Was a very tiny soul / With a tin body and platinum nose / And two eyes carved by a focsed ion beam projector (timesonline.co.uk)	(18)
		The year's most amazing scientific images (popsci.com)	(25)
		Ever wonder what drugs astronauts are on? Here's the list (news.discovery.com)	(32)
		This is my Facebook page. There are many like it but this one is mine. Without my Facebook I am useless. Without me, Facebook is useless. I must poke others before they poke me (nationalpost.com)	(43)
		Some guy thinks NASA is hiding climate data. Possibly in an abandoned sound stage in the desert (washingtontimes.com)	(150)
		"In fact, our findings suggest that online social networking profiles convey rather accurate images of the profile owners, either because people aren't trying to look good or because they are trying and failing to pull it off." (upi.com)	(61)
		Hard to believe ten years ago everyone was worried about Y2K. Now, here we are, ready for 2010. Here are some millenial predictions that were right and wrong (io9.com)	(83)
		Get ready to have a geekasm. Intel has just demonstrated a fully programmable 48-core processor (news.cnet.com)	(134)
		Google Streetview adds the igloos and ice roads of nine more Canadian cities to its service (cbc.ca)	(40)
		Scientists downgrade prairie chicken to 'no longer delicious' in Canada (cbc.ca)	(24)
		Scientists discover The Horrendous Space Kablooie (news.yahoo.com)	(27)
		2.5 gigapixel picture of the galaxy. Giggety. Awwwwright (blogs.discovermagazine.com)	(69)

Wed December 02, 2009

	A year of abstinence leads to bluer boobies, which actually makes the boobies more desirable (w/pic). Boobies (timesonline.co.uk)	(63)
	For the past eight years, blue whales have the hell been singing in lower and lower notes, baffling scientists. Global warming? Ambient Noise? Recovered whale numbers? LDS? (wired.com)	(124)
	Oregon scientists work like crazy for 11 years, solve mystery of brain cell glutamate receptor structure. "I am not sure whether non-crystallographers can truly appreciate what an astonishing tour-de-force this is" (oregonlive.com)	(65)
	Bug spray may cause penis defects, says Professor Alan Boobis of Imperial College London's department of Fark Headline Setups (uk.news.yahoo.com)	(36)
(Some Guy)	Knitting Mania: Finally an iPhone game for your Grandmother (scaryideas.com)	(22)
	Man gets married, updates his Twitter, Facebook, then kisses his new bride, new social interactions at work (news.cnet.com)	(34)
	LHC power failure: "Maybe it was a birdy bread-bomber from the future" (theregister.co.uk)	(55)
	Good news everyone. The robotic version of "The Stranger" will soon be available for home use (news.yahoo.com)	(36)
(Some Guy)	'Citizen science' poised to change the field of astronomy as dramatically as 'citizen journalism' reshaped the media (thisisexeter.co.uk)	(56)
	Super sized earthlike planets out there may be better at harboring life than our earth. Or not. We are totally guessing here (news.yahoo.com)	(59)
(Some Guy)	The top Christmas gifts for people who own a Wii. Inexplicably, 'a better gaming system' not among them (techradar.com)	(189)
(Some Comic Geek)	New comics are delayed to Thursday December 3rd this week. This doesn't mean we have to delay the humpday comics thread does it? (downtowncomics.com)	(49)
	"The annual Google search results show Australia to be a nation in love with vampires and the AFL, concerned by swine flu and the prospect of an Oasis break-up, and after croquembouche recipes or Pink tickets" (theage.com.au)	(11)
(Topless Robot)	By the mighty hammer of Thor, it's the 10 dumbest comic book Hostess ads (toplessrobot.com)	(51)
	2009: The year in IT industry apologies (networkworld.com)	(25)
	Prankster changes roommate's computer regular welcome sound to be explosions and gunshots, then turns up the volume and waits. With a camera, of course start filming (techeblog.com)	(52)
	Great Britain designs their own version of beer goggles (lep.co.uk)	(10)
	Snake begins to choke on its own tail, becomes rattled (telegraph.co.uk)	(43)
	Fark: Lord Lawson's anti-AGW institute gets graph wrong. Farkier: Their graph based on questioned CRU data. Farkiest: Climate scientist calls for an investigation. We have tit for tat, but all you'll remember is the tit (telegraph.co.uk)	(167)

Tue December 01, 2009

	Armed-sea-creature gap between US and Russia widens as scientists design robotic clams to detonate underwater mines (livescience.com)	(34)
	Radiologists studying cases of soda-can pull-tab ingestion claim today's kids are eating modern stay-ons at same rate you used to eat old-fashioned pop-tops (latimesblogs.latimes.com)	(77)
	Not only are scientists certain the fossilized bacteria came from Mars, they strongly believe life still exists there today (telegraph.co.uk)	(153)
	It is against the new Verizon user agreement to post things that are off-topic on message boards. Duke sucks (yro.slashdot.org)	(94)
	What's the most environmentally responsible way to dispose of old pills and cough syrups? Note: "A massive weekend bender" is not an answer (slate.com)	(53)
	"We started our research seeking men in their twenties who had never consumed pornography. We couldn't find any." (physorg.com)	(94)
(Some Guy)	We don't know who started the war between man and carp, but we do know that it was us who poisoned the canal (chicagobreakingnews.com)	(42)
	Worldwide shortage of Omega-3, which is good for human brain development, likely by mid-century. YouTube comments will be unaffected (cbc.ca)	(53)
	"Scientist" says we could make a dark matter ramjet propulsion system. Here comes the absurdity (newscientist.com)	(92)
	Maryland launches computer system that automatically adjusts the speed limit to be below whatever speed you're driving (wtop.com)	(61)
	Good news Kiwis. New Zealand will not be sunk by an iceberg this year (fe9.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com)	(17)
	So just how tough are the new Thinkpad laptops? Oh, and are the trackpads scrotum sensitive? (gizmodo.com)	(30)
	Space junk on kamakazi course with ISS - This is not a repeat from November (blog.al.com)	(26)
	New light shed on epilepsy. Hopefully, it's not a strobe light (sciencedaily.com)	(18)
(Daily Galaxy)	Gas ejected from supermassive black hole at 4 to 6 times the speed of light. CNN is there (dailygalaxy.com)	(81)
	The mystery of the 1981 videogame Polybius. Did it ever exist? Is it a gaming urban myth? Did it leave gamers genuinely suicidal? (denofgeek.com)	(57)
	Good news to everyone reading this -- too much physical activity may lead to arthritis in old age. So settle into that dent in the couch, because it's good for you (labspaces.net)	(22)
	Source code for global warming modeling was tweaked to skew results. Who would've thought? (americanthinker.com)	(959)
(Web Shizzle)	The evolution of web design. Yahoo circa 1992 was not intelligent design (sixrevisions.com)	(55)
	Some Moran writes about the campaign to save Argleton, the Google maps city that doesn't exist (guardian.co.uk)	(20)
	Lab-grown artificial meat described as "Soggy Pork" by scientists determined to improve its texture, much to the chagrin of millions of Brits (science.slashdot.org)	(50)

Mon November 30, 2009

	Scientist says that nearly immeasurable energy can be produced by hitting a pellet the size of a Tic-Tac with a giant laser. Incredibly, he may NOT be completely insane. Here comes the science (newsweek.com)	(66)
	"Nobody died from taking homeopathic medicine, which is why homeopathy continues to flourish." And no one will die, unless they're allergic to distilled water (timesonline.co.uk)	(121)
	Titan's lakes don't migrate with the seasons. But you stopped reading this headline after the first three letters (blogs.discovermagazine.com)	(29)
(Charles Stross)	Suck it like a salt vampire from M-113, Trekkies: "The entire conceptual framework of the starship is a dangerously misleading dead-end" (antipope.org)	(190)
	Scientists discover that shaking your salad dressing causes the oil and water to mix (wired.com)	(41)
	Archeologists find evidence of the first people to get the hell out of Detroit (canada.com)	(13)
(Some Guy)	Scientists gain new insights into the experience of anger, its role in our everyday lives and the fact that I WON'T farkING GET OVER THE REDESIGN, DREW. EVER (eurekalert.org)	(52)
	Global warming fraudsters conspire to create the first snow-free November in Toronto in over 160 years (thestar.com)	(135)
(Some Guy)	Not News: People steal video-game account information. News: It's a crime. Fark: The police arrest someone for it (sophos.com)	(38)
	How to keep your kids' torrents from interfering with your porn (computerworld.com)	(67)
	Moller skycar nearing 'virtual flight testing', says company spokesman Duke Nukem (theregister.co.uk)	(152)
	Last night, while you slept, those damn particle beam scientists tried to destroy the world again (abcnews.go.com)	(89)
	A buzzing fly is more likely to wake up a grown man than a baby, say scientists from the I'm So Farking High Institute (telegraph.co.uk)	(34)
	Japanese scientists unveil safe pufferfish, despite objections of some fugu chefs. "It's obviously more than a little exciting to go to a restaurant knowing that it might be the last meal that you ever eat" (upi.com)	(35)
	British Royal Society puts 60 of the most important research papers ever written online to remind people there was a time when scientists didn't just make stuff up and throw out their raw data (news.bbc.co.uk)	(127)
	Australians try to breed non-burping sheep to reduce greenhouse gases, develop an animal that won't spoil the romantic mood by belching every 15 seconds (telegraph.co.uk)	(17)