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Sat January 28, 2012

Source	Fark Headline		Comments
		To cut production costs, an Ohio congressman has introduced a bill that would require pennies be made out of steel, instead of just doing away with the worthless things altogether (latimesblogs.latimes.com)	(43)
		Marijuana mouth spray could hit store shelves by 2013. Look for it in supermarkets between the Yodels and Doritos (cbsnews.com)	(9)
(swtorpano.com)		A stunning collection of high-resolution panoramas from the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG (swtorpano.com)	(46)
(Westword)		Danny Williams, organizer of Great American Beer Festival and steward of 2,500-bottle beer mine, taps his last keg at age 52 after fight with cancer (blogs.westword.com)	(6)
		That's one small block for LEGO man, one giant block for LEGO-kind (latimesblogs.latimes.com)	(41)
		Researchers observe how a new virus evolves and how diseases can quickly gain dangerous mutations. Interesting tag rapidly mutates into Scary tag (upi.com)	(18)
		Challenge: Off-the-grid, sustainable living and food production. Difficulty: In the middle of Chicago at an abandoned meat-packing plant (popsci.com)	(28)
		X-ray laser heats aluminum to almost the temperature of a microwave burrito (wired.com)	(15)

Fri January 27, 2012

	Rap music powers medical sensor. It makes aneurysm patients say "UHHHHHHHHHHHH, NA NA NA NA" (sciencedaily.com)	(16)
(Some Guy)	January 20, 1992. Today was a good day (murkavenue.tumblr.com)	(31)
(Smithsonian)	In 1920, world's first "portable stovepipe wireless telephone" was demonstrated in the pages of the Sandusky (Ohio) Register. Range of 500 yards, but unfortunately no apps (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)	(16)
	Five "Doctor Who" stories ripped from the headlines. DUN DUN (mentalfloss.com)	(48)
(Some Guy)	69 year old paleontologist collaborates on detailed study of old bone with 19 year old undergrad (bozeman-magpie.com)	(51)
	This is what happens when you take your dog star out to go twinkle (blogs.discovermagazine.com)	(6)
	Capcom inserts Pac-Man into Street Fighter title. The tag explains the rest (g4tv.com)	(88)
	Finally, one of life's mysteries solved. Now someone tell me why fancy ketchup is so damn fancy (mentalfloss.com)	(41)
	Antichrist... Antichrist... Antichrist... PAYDAY (freep.com)	(11)
	Scientists: 'Look, one-third of the human race has to die for civilization to be sustainable, so how do we want to do this?' (theonion.com)	(118)
	Thought you'd gotten over those horrific head models of Beavis and Butthead from a couple weeks ago? Well, here's a model Professor Farnsworth to keep the nightmares coming (ccinsider.comedycentral.com)	(14)
	Did you know we had a Federal CTO? Well, he quit (govtech.com)	(18)
	The greatest threat in the new Resident Evil game? Typos (consumerist.com)	(40)
	Salvage divers, who have apparently never watched a single sci-fi movie, ever, plan to return to investigate an extremely large and mysterious object they discovered on the bottom of the Baltic Sea (news.yahoo.com)	(85)
	Users of popular remote control software warned to stop using it because it might allow people to remotely control their computer (bbc.co.uk)	(14)
	The history of Google. No searching necessary (shortlist.com)	(7)
(Some Estonian)	Minister who deleted Facebook comments on his page about ACTA claims he did it because he was 'running out of space' (empirechronicles.co.uk)	(25)
	Radical new theory explains the origin, evolution, and nature of life. Apparently devolved through repeated multiplication of six times nine (sciencedaily.com)	(66)
	The Science Delusion (guardian.co.uk)	(107)
	Want to heat a room, but can't tolerate those icky $20 space heaters? Has Dyson got the product for you (usatoday.com)	(84)
	Nobel winners invent new way to distill alcohol. Science: it works, female members of the family Canidae (theregister.co.uk)	(12)
	How to senselessly destroy a Lamborghini (jalopnik.com)	(47)
	"Bus sized asteroid to give Earth a close shave." It looks younger with the beard (msnbc.msn.com)	(29)
	Ubuntu to use HUD instead of menus. Still no cure for Unity (zdnet.com)	(62)
	The world's first computer password may as well have been 1234 or password. Damn, now I have to update my Fark account again (wired.com)	(21)
	The Thing is now only the second-scariest thing found in Antarctica (newscientist.com)	(32)
	From a 16-year-old chicken to a 255-year-old tortoise, these pets lived way longer than most (mentalfloss.com)	(28)

Thu January 26, 2012

	Mice are actually sophisticated singers, and when played in the correct order they will squeak "The Bells of St Mary's" (newswatch.nationalgeographic.com)	(26)
	Are Doctor Who's fans the show's worst enemy? (denofgeek.com)	(97)
	In honor of Google's new no opt-out privacy changes, click to check and see what its ad server thinks you are. It thinks I'm a 20-something male, and so do I -Drew (google.com)	(598)
	Old and busted: U.S. missile shield. New hotness: European asteroid shield (spiegel.de)	(24)
	What are you drinking your coffee out of, mall ninja? Introducing the OPMOD Battle Mug (youtube.com)	(53)
	Study finds religion boosts self-esteem in religious societies, but has no effect in secular ones. Science, on the other hand, makes people everywhere feel AWESOME (livescience.com)	(59)
	Want to make money off a stolen iPhone? Try Apple customer service (reuters.com)	(28)
	A floating BBQ for the pool? What could possibly go right? (gizmodo.com)	(33)
	Scientists at UT Austin have perfected a working "cloaking device" in their lab. Critics say this is yet another example of Obama's lawlessness as this is a blatant violation of the Treaty of Algeron (smh.com.au)	(38)
	Generation X just got back from the rainforest. 46 new species identified including cowboy frog, Crayola katydid, Pac-Man frog, and Conehead grasshopper (news.yahoo.com)	(16)
	Blu-Ray version of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" reveals embarrassing long-lost details like the 24th Century's version of jorts, the skant (wired.com)	(162)
	The bizarre history of pregnancy tests (io9.com)	(16)
	Blizzard cancels this year's Blizzcon, taking away the only bit of joy Jay Mohr has left in his life (iheartchaos.com)	(107)
	News of the PC's death is greatly exaggerated (pcworld.com)	(76)
	There are 4,400 Google searches every month for the phrase "met on a plane". Ergo wemetonaplane.com (cnngo.com)	(5)
	Illinois lawmakers are being urged to help lower the risks of online dating, presumably by banning use of MySpace photo angles (chicagotribune.com)	(27)
	Navy testing automated, computer controlled plane which can take off and land on a carrier. I think I've seen this movie, and it had Jamie Foxx, and it was terrible (latimes.com)	(28)
	Farking magnetic fields: why do galaxies have them? And do they make barriers at the edges that turn Sally Kellerman into a silver-eyed super-powered mutant? (physorg.com)	(24)
	Black market IT (gawker.com)	(64)
	Columnist says Microsoft suffers from "premature innovation". That must be why they leave so many unsatisfied (seattlepi.com)	(31)
(Some Guy)	There's everyday green, then there's "capital G Green," and then there's "your energy-efficient windows are melting your neighbor's Prius" Green (losangeles.cbslocal.com)	(98)
	Canada's new SOPA-style copyright bill could shut down YouTube. What's this all aboot, eh? (boingboing.net)	(58)
(Some Guy)	For the first time ever a Snowy Owl migrates to Hawaii. Avada Kedavra (hawaii.land.blogs.civilbeat.com)	(64)
	Is wireless bandwidth starting to run out of ro (computerworld.com)	(38)
(UK Huffington Post)	This week in British nannystating: Labour MP calls for rehab for gamers (huffingtonpost.co.uk)	(20)

Wed January 25, 2012

	I'm still trying to think of a witty headline to post for this story (npr.org)	(19)
(Topless Robot)	Fifty years of Doctor Who condensed into ten minutes (toplessrobot.com)	(96)
	I can see my house from here (gizmodo.com)	(44)
	Experts managed to sneak actual science into Hollywood science fiction movies. Still no cure for midichlorians (io9.com)	(89)
	NYC amputee-diabetic campaign features man who had his leg 'shopped off (nytimes.com)	(29)
	26 life-sized versions of popular board games. Bonus: The pieces are really hard to lose (mentalfloss.com)	(49)
	A Personal Smack Down from Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales (venturebeat.com)	(70)
	And lo, the lamb opened the seventh seal and saw that Fleshlight is developing an iPad case you can have sex with (Not safe for work) (gizmodo.com)	(56)
	What if those solar storms knocked out the i (latimesblogs.latimes.com)	(27)
	Fark loves LEGO. Fark loves Minecraft. What's not to love about this LEGO Minecraft? (news.cnet.com)	(43)
	Why they changed it I can't say. Maybe these relics will indicate people just liked it better that way (nytimes.com)	(6)
	Archaeology is a dry, boring profession, until you discover the mass grave of 54 Jomsviking mercenaries of Harald Bluetooth, decapitated in the St Brice's Day Massacre of 1002. Then it's all FUS RO DA (bbc.co.uk)	(82)
(Some Guy)	Independent developers called out Zynga for shameless ripping off their ios game, with hilarious congratulation message (techcrunch.com)	(55)
	Why does my computer keep zeroing in on boobs? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)	(7)
	The 10 most undignified deaths in science fiction. KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHNNNNNN (io9.com)	(151)
(Wired)	Hey, I know, why not make it so that our customer's cellphone number is added into the request headers every time they browse a website on their phone? (wired.co.uk)	(7)
	Researchers discover that flying dinosaurs had black feathers like ravens, believe that they still couldn't hit a 32-yard chip shot (abc.net.au)	(13)
	BREAKING NEWS: Death Valley is not at risk of a volcanic eruption anytime soon (wired.com)	(7)
	Kim Dotcom's agile figure is a little more understandable when you consider that until yesterday he was the worlds #1 ranked CoD MW3 player (news.com.au)	(59)
	Scientists find it's more difficult to think outside the box when you're actually in a box. Talk about outside-the-box thinking. They obviously weren't in a box when they thought of it (theregister.co.uk)	(14)
	Facebook Timeline launches this week. All users given the choice to either: A) Take it, B) Take it, or C) Take it (consumerist.com)	(48)
	My micromechanism thanks you, my computer tapes thank you, and I thank you. And we thank you too, Robot (dailymail.co.uk)	(7)
	New study finds that neanderthals may have domesticated the dog as long as 30,000 years ago, far earlier than previously thought. Your dog wants mammoth (azcentral.com)	(19)
(Tech Dirt)	Wil Wheaton says Chris Dodd is lying about lost jobs; says MPAA accounting creates more losses than piracy (techdirt.com)	(56)
	The makers of Batman: Arkham City are working on a TMNT game? You have my attention, please tell me more (iheartchaos.com)	(70)
	One of the largest solar storms in years creates the most spectacular northern lights display ever. Why yes, I can see (dailymail.co.uk)	(104)
	200,000 years ago women were putting on red ochre lipstick and asking whether this cave bear hide gave them mammoth butts (physorg.com)	(11)

Tue January 24, 2012

	Scientists grow weary of trying to cure cancer, take time off to create magnetic soap (labspaces.net)	(19)
	Dogologists at the Westminster Kennel Club announce six brand-new breeds for this year's show, including the Octo-Retriever, the Scottish Laser Hound, and the Snooki (sacbee.com)	(34)
(Some researcher)	"Answer me: Who taught you how to share your account passwords?" "From you, all right? I learned it by watching you" (zephoria.org)	(74)
	Google Plus now allowing pseudonyms. Too little, too late (wired.com)	(50)
	Music Industry: Oh, that's OK, we don't need SOPA or PIPA, we have enough clout with the Feds to shut down our competitors right now (plus.google.com)	(59)
	Do you sell merchandise online? If so, prepare to meet your new worst tax nightmare, Form 1099-K (consumerist.com)	(172)
	Crash site of ancient Roman B-2 bomber found (news.discovery.com)	(35)
(Some Happy Guy)	Leading researcher says magic mushrooms could treat depression, details results of study involving seven pink unicorns, two rainbow colored Andean mountain goats and a really long chat with Jim Morrison's ghost (tgdaily.com)	(124)
	Facebook and Twitter tell Google "Don't be evil". Google leans back in leather chair, strokes silky white cat, and laughs uproariously (telegraph.co.uk)	(53)
	Trekkie gets married. Trekkie gets divorced. And that's how his painstaking recreation of his 1 bedroom flat into the Starship Voyager in gets tossed into the doomsday machine (theregister.co.uk)	(52)
	Five crazy ways people amused themselves before television. "Dueling for dollars" strangely absent (mentalfloss.com)	(20)
	Russell's Pit Viper can send you back through puberty. AWKWARD (io9.com)	(25)
	2012's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries (networkworld.com)	(20)
	BMW introduces first open-road self-driving car guided by remote assist. Driver's hands now free to accomplish other important front seat tasks (w/video) (buzzfeed.com)	(32)
	Farker's artwork makes Scientific American's Image of the Week. With dinosaur goodness (blogs.scientificamerican.com)	(31)
(Some Guy)	"The worst of the storm is likely to go north of Earth." There's a north of Earth? (firstpost.com)	(36)
	Even Bruce Wayne's feeling the economic pinch. I am the 1% (iheartchaos.com)	(15)

Mon January 23, 2012

	As it turns out, the Konami Code was invented because devs couldn't beat their own games (iheartchaos.com)	(91)
	Judge rules that defendant MUST decrypt laptop so they can use it to incriminate her. Buh-bye Fifth Admendment (wired.com)	(746)
	How "Return of the Jedi" should have ended (io9.com)	(120)
(Some Guy)	Band camp a bore? Try Hellboy summer camp were you'll get training in paranormal investigations, zombie attack survival, meet the Hellboy artists and much more (wweek.com)	(12)
	Every minute, 60 hours of video is uploaded to Youtube, with 58 of those hours consisting of 13-yr old girls lip syncing to Katy Perry songs (physorg.com)	(39)
(Some Guy)	Photos of the graveyard of Soviet spacecraft (saoirse-2010.livejournal.com)	(39)
	Netherlands becomes bored, creates world's largest NES controller. Your move, America (g4tv.com)	(25)
	Hero: Activists attack SOPA website. Fail: The Scottish Organic Producers Association (theregister.co.uk)	(17)
	"Polish government websites under apparent attack" Even after they upgraded their firescreen (businessweek.com)	(7)
	Bulge of freshwater found in Arctic Ocean. That's interesting, due to the wind direction and natural curr-- Does that satellite have breasts? (bbc.co.uk)	(45)
	Some of Nintendo's most awesome commercials from the past 30 years. Yes, it includes the dancing Zelda/Link from Japan (wii.ign.com)	(30)
	Your gnome wants a Ball Park Frank (massively.joystiq.com)	(16)
	Scientists ask the dangerous question, "What if intelligent life had developed on Earth...and the apes had actually taken over?" (msnbc.msn.com)	(116)
	New study debunks popular myth that women have higher threshold for pain, shows they're just drama queens who SAY the pain is much worse (sfgate.com)	(92)
	Scientists say falling asleep right after sex is a sign you're deeply in love. Best. Wingmen. Ever (dailymail.co.uk)	(35)
(Some Guy with Vision and Talent)	This photographer bugs me - but only on a miniscule scale (nicolasreusens.com)	(11)
	How is Zynga spending all of that awesome IPO money? They're spending $300 in marketing for each new customer, who then spends an average of $150. YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG (games.ign.com)	(55)
	Birdwatchers flocking to see rare white blackbird before it moves to better neighborhood (bbc.co.uk)	(19)
	New report about Fukushima disaster says Japan hid worst-case scenarios of radiation, reactor meltdown, large lizard off the coast (worldnews.msnbc.msn.com)	(23)
(Some Guy)	Man makes cool quarter-mil off a domain name his friend put up as collateral for a loan he never repaid (northjersey.com)	(19)
	Russian scientist claims signs of life spotted on Venus. Wal-Mart immediately plans opening of store #8403 (news.yahoo.com)	(51)
	Just like the products they make, the firing of RIM CEO's Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis comes 18 months behind the curve (engadget.com)	(71)
	In today's attempt at exploding a tag, we try reporting the finding that gym teachers tend to have relatively low SAT scores (blogs.discovermagazine.com)	(30)
	Slash fiction authors rejoice: John Barrowman interviews William Shatner (io9.com)	(16)

Sun January 22, 2012

	Anonymous completely (though briefly) deletes CBS.com from the Internet (rawstory.com)	(252)
	Make your own Cyclops visor for under $30 (io9.com)	(32)
(Morning Sentinel.com)	Maine man builds the "Phantom." A homemade snowmobile with a heater, a CD player, and a rearview TV monitor. His inspiration is " the old game from PlayStation, 'Spy Hunter,' because I think it is cool" (onlinesentinel.com)	(77)
	Tombstone, AZ replacing its old-timey wooden trash barrels with solar-powered compactors, the young guns of the waste disposal industry (nytimes.com)	(43)
	Pass the stuffing, Turkey has just completed the world's first triple-limb transplant (mirror.co.uk)	(16)

Sat January 21, 2012

	Yet another Bonnie & Clyde robbery (news.yahoo.com)	(32)
	Study finds the more time you spend on Facebook, the more you think your life sucks. This contrasts nicely with Fark given the more time you spend here, the more you think boobies (abcnews.go.com)	(43)
	Oh my, this wine is just HEAVENLY (io9.com)	(50)
	Judgement Day. Three billion human lives ended on August 29, 2012 (newscientist.com)	(62)
	Olop (physorg.com)	(11)
(TreeHugger)	Swedish city allocates $4.1 million to build 20-mile-long four-lane bicycle superhighway (treehugger.com)	(35)
	Could the internet ever be destroyed? Just in case, here's a handy guide how to do it (scientificamerican.com)	(41)
	The smart way to play god with...okay, that's it, we really need to get these geeks out of the lab and get them to the movies (scientificamerican.com)	(10)
	Here's an easy, step-by-step guide to help you get lucky at your next Fark party (foxnews.com)	(477)
	Scientists suspend work on weapons grade bird flu, giving rest of world 60 days to beat some sense into them (bbc.co.uk)	(12)
(Some Guy)	Psst, hey buddy, want to see a little 'Forbidden Color'? C'mon, you know you do, try it. Just once. It wont hurt I promise (lifeslittlemysteries.com)	(52)
(Some Guy)	Publisher of iPad textbooks claims students show a 20 percent performance increase, specifically in studies of applied parabolic avian trajectories coupled with porcine devastation (macrumors.com)	(39)
	Archaeological discoveries in the Amazon show extensive urban development, which is complete nonsense since we know Columbus created the first cities by burning down all the natives and exploiting them for oil (nytimes.com)	(35)
	Fark you. Fark you. Fark you.. you're cool. FARK YOU. I'm out (gizmodo.com)	(52)
	Are you scientifically literate? Take this quiz by the Christian Science Monitor. It has Science in the name, so you know it's legit (csmonitor.com)	(203)
	Russia wants to build a manned base on the moon. Finally they'll be able to claim some of their women weigh under 200 pounds (msnbc.msn.com)	(43)
	I heard you like photography, so I put a famous photographer in your photograph with their famous photograph so you can click while you slideshow (wired.com)	(10)
(WABC)	New app cracks one of the most unbreakable codes on earth: a NYC parking sign (abclocal.go.com)	(124)

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