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Mon May 28, 2012
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(Daily Mail) Stupid Parent upset after snowflake gets 'humiliating' joke award for not doing her homework. If only there was some way to avoid this, like MAKING HER DO HER GOTDAMM HOMEWORK OCCASIONALLY  (dailymail.co.uk) (60)
(Telegraph) Scary Apparently Best Korean officials are suffering from contagious and deadly "traffic accidents"  (telegraph.co.uk) (64)
(Miami Herald) Followup Police state that naked man eating another naked man's face is certainly a rare occurrence. "Other theories abounded, of course, sometimes leading to comparisons to one horror-movie staple, zombies"  (miamiherald.com) (55)
(Slate) Survey Daily Show writer partners with Slate to crowdsource ideas for amending and rewriting the Constitution. Provide your ideas to the right  (hive.slate.com) (526)


Sun May 27, 2012
(BBC) Hero 70 years ago today Czech partisans made Hitler very angry  (bbc.co.uk) (101)
(NASCAR) Spiffy The King's cars sweep the front row, while Danica Patrick and Kurt Busch race the start-and-park crowd. Your racing trifecta ends with the Coca-Cola 600, live from Charlotte at 5:30PM ET on Fox  (nascar.com) (1097)
(LA Times) Obvious How can you tell when one party thinks it will lose an election? When it begins to argue that the election in question doesn't really matter  (latimes.com) (249)
(YouTube) Video In honor of Vincent Price's birthday, here is part of a super rare movie he was in. Can any of you imagine Price being a roller coaster freak in real life?  (youtube.com) (19)
(National Geographic) Interesting Memorial Day: how it's changed, and why some people think it should not be part of a three-day weekend  (news.nationalgeographic.com) (284)


Sat May 26, 2012
(Fark) FarkParty Chicago Fark Party - 9 June - New bat time, new bat channel  (fark.com) (104)
(AZCentral) Interesting Apparently one of the 11 secret herbs and spices KFC uses is wood harvested from Indonesia's endangered rain forest  (azcentral.com) (80)
(ESPN) Unlikely The Seattle Sounders are outdrawing 12 English Premier League teams. But they'll totally give that soccer thing up once the Mariners or Seahawks get good again, right? RIGHT?  (espn.go.com) (140)
(BBC) Spiffy Glitz, kitsch, human rights violations, a pack of Russian grandmothers, more cheese than a tailgate party at Lambeau Field, politicized voting, and Engelbert farking Humperdinck. It must be time for your 2012 Eurovision Song Contest thread  (bbc.co.uk) (409)
(BBC) Spiffy Sometimes classic car restoration can be challenging. On other occasions you find all the component parts for a 1925 MG buried separately under two inches of concrete beneath a cow shed  (bbc.co.uk) (50)
(CBS 46 Atlanta) Hero You're 17, looking after your little sister after your parents cut and ran, working two jobs and pulling honors grades. You deserve jail time for missing too much school. Tag is for girl  (cbsatlanta.com) (490)
(YouTube) Cool 1982 Sci-Fi Convention "Blade Runner" behind the scenes short film you've never seen. Bonus: Syd Mead discussing how the parking meters he designed would electrocute anyone trying to tamper with them  (youtube.com) (12)
(Fark) FarkParty San Diego Fark Party, THIS SATURDAY May 26th 6:00pm at Pizza Port Solana Beach  (fark.com) (291)
(Some Guy) Asinine Professor complains that crosses on state university entrance tower violate the separation of church and state. Good Christians respond as Jesus would, by stalking, online harassment, death threats, and firing her from her job  (au.org) (234)
(Fark) FarkParty TORONTO FARK PARTY - June 2nd. 1pm Blue Jays v. Red Sox, 8pm variety show at The Comedy Bar - stand-up, music and burlesque acts put together by our very own Mike "Nug" Nahrgang (AKA The Mustard Man). Come mooch a beer off Drew  (fark.com) (144)
(MSNBC) Hero Joe Biden gives one of the most emotional, passionate speeches of his (or anyone's) career... not one iota of partisanship  (video.msnbc.msn.com) (318)
(io9) Obvious Jurassic Park was built by prisoners in Cuba, with obligatory pics of prehistoric Cubans fighting cave-bears  (io9.com) (27)


Fri May 25, 2012
(Slate) Silly White people from Portland prefer Tumblr, white people from Tulsa prefer Pinterest. Everyone else, apparently, has better things to do with their time that use digital corkboards  (slate.com) (45)
(NHL) Cool Will Zach Parise book his team a ticket to the Stanley Cup Final? Will Ryan Callahan pull a Mark Messier? Are the Kings getting a nice tan while awaiting their opponent? Devils-Rangers Game 6 from the Prudential Center (8:10pm, NBC Sports)  (nhl.com) (666)
(MyDesert.com) Stupid It apparently requires the efforts of four TSA and two police officers to identify... an iPhone charger  (mydesert.com) (53)
(New Musical Express) Interesting Bridge from Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under The Bridge" located in MacArthur Park. In other news, someone left a cake out in the rain  (nme.com) (58)
(Business Insider) Interesting "People unwilling to work seems to be a real moral quandary, as reflected by the Fark comments on the story. Some don't have any sympathy, some think she needs more help." That's Fark for you (3rd paragraph)  (businessinsider.com) (47)
(The Mercury) Interesting Mum of two talks about her recent trip to the Playboy Mansion. Yes there's a gallery. Yes there was a lingerie/pyjama party. No, there's no word from her boyfriend about what he thinks about the trip  (themercury.com.au) (44)
(AZ Family) Interesting Father upset that his third-grader daughter was drawing swastikas as part of her class art project when she was supposed to be studying Native American culture  (azfamily.com) (158)
(TMZ) Interesting Wilmer Valderrama sued by neighbor for having loud parties, nailing every hot young starlet he can find  (tmz.com) (53)
(Smh.com.au) Cool Disneyland Japan to let cute Japanese lesbians have their wedding at the theme park. This is a great step forward for gay rights in Japan and... aw, hell, you stopped reading at "Cute Japanese Lesbians", didn't you?  (smh.com.au) (57)
(io9) Cool Scientists believe a new sensory organ they have discovered in whales shows how they are like "mammals from space". Still no transparent aluminum  (io9.com) (28)
(Deadspin) Spiffy Marlins RF Giancarlo Stanton almost decapitated Marlins 1B Logan Morrison after Morrison apparently tried to cutoff Stanton's throw to home (with amazing "The Matrix" video of Morrison dodging the throw)  (deadspin.com) (21)
(Mirror.co.uk) Sad Rescue workers have to demolish part of house to get Britain's Got Tonnage winner to the hospital  (mirror.co.uk) (83)
(BBC) Amusing Fugitive penguin recaptured in Tokyo. Keepers are keen to return it to the Sea Life Park, but on the other hand they've already mixed up 200 pounds of batter for penguin tempura  (bbc.co.uk) (28)
(whdh) Amusing Don't you just hate it when a bunch of heifers crash your party and drink all the beer?  (www1.whdh.com) (34)
(UPI) Amusing Comparing the ex Patriot Act to Nazism...always a good argument  (upi.com) (182)
(YouTube) Video Got an hour and a half to kill? Want to hear Star Wars as performed be Jake the Dog, Pinky and the Brain, Philip J. Fry, Batman and Twilight Sparkle?  (youtube.com) (49)
(Some GaGa) Silly Target, which faced a boycott because they were apparently against gay marriage, is now accused of apparently being for gay marriage  (kare11.com) (46)
(Some Guy) Florida Legoland Florida sets Guinness world record for Dumbest Stunt Performed at a Theme Park Modeled After a Toy  (baynews9.com) (35)


Thu May 24, 2012
(MSN) Photoshop Photoshop this Central Park encounter  (msnbcmedia.msn.com) (28)
(Daily Mail) Sick Am I dreaming or did a priest just claim a missing girl buried in a mobster's tomb was a Vatican sex party slave victim?  (dailymail.co.uk) (185)
(Some Guy) Amusing Old man drives wheelchair down the highway to confront other old man at trailer park over $5 owed. Other old man is naked and using a cane. They end up in a naked, wheelchair bound cane / stick fight in the front yard. Ta-Da  (onlineathens.com) (51)
(Talking Points Memo) Fail When it comes to boneheaded decisions, Congress can always be expected to reach a bipartisan agreement to do the wrong thing  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (35)
(Daily Kos) Ironic TeaParty freshmen in congress already received $600k in contributions by banks. Change you can believe in  (dailykos.com) (65)
(Google) Obvious Lawyers for 9/11 defendants argue that a fair, impartial trial is impossible after Bush and Obama spent the last 11 years calling them "terrorists" in the national media. This is what happens when you let terrorists have lawyers  (google.com) (87)
(Newser) Spiffy Wingsuiters have figured out how to land without a parachute. We're this much closer to flying  (newser.com) (133)
(Den Of Geek) Interesting NBC's memo to the cast of Community after Dan Harmon's 'departure' is leaked. They will wish it hadn't been. It, er, includes the scripted answers the cast should give to difficult questions  (denofgeek.com) (53)


Wed May 23, 2012
(Some Guy) Followup Remember the 7th-degree black belt who can take away your gun faster than you can blink? His black belt skills apparently don't include getting a loaded pistol magazine through TSA  (facebook.com) (78)
(Deadline) Stupid G.I. Joe: Retaliation pushed back to 3/2013. Apparently the other half of the battle is 'post production 3D conversion'  (deadline.com) (59)
(Houston Chronicle) Obvious "The Big Bang Theory" actor Jim Parsons reveals that he has no interest in bazingas  (blog.chron.com) (220)
(The Atlantic) Obvious "SNL needs to update itself and let go of old television parodies"  (theatlantic.com) (71)
(The New York Times) Strange "Mr. Singh said that he had 65 langurs urinating on prominent homes and buildings throughout Delhi." The best part is that they pay him to do it  (nytimes.com) (26)
(Some Guy) Florida Welcome to sunny Florida, please enjoy our strip mall casinos, where mafia-connected thugs will cheerfully beat you to within an inch of your life and provide you with a voucher good for 10% off a paragliding adventure  (wdbo.com) (16)
(Houston Chronicle) Stupid Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (Derpocrat) condemns China's one-child policy as 'violence against women'. Too bad her parents didn't have a no-child policy  (blog.chron.com) (166)
(Some Guy) Cool HP Lovecraft and Nikola Tesla star in 'Paranormal Investigators'  (slyoyster.com) (20)
(WRCB-TV) Amusing The quaint Southern tradition of parking your car on your lawn is coming under attack. No word on whether that includes cars up on cinder blocks or not  (wrcbtv.com) (43)
(WRCB-TV) Fail Realizing that maybe the economy isn't his strong point, Romney shifts focus to education. You know, that part of the federal government over half his party wants to get rid of  (wrcbtv.com) (40)
(Some Guy) Interesting Cory Booker: Mayor, superhero, part-time Hasidic Jew. Wait, what?  (jewishpress.com) (13)
(Slate) Silly "I have a Cuban grandparent. Why does the census count me as Hispanic." Well, either way you get some great college tuition breaks  (slate.com) (56)
(Fark) FarkParty Geek Pride Night 9pm 5/23 at Skybar in Bowling Green, OH. Farkers most definitely welcome to our party  (fark.com) (45)
(Glossy News) Strange Glossy News notes how FARK and others picked up the never ending story about one man's fight against the internet (1st paragraph)  (glossynews.com) (1)


Tue May 22, 2012
(Gawker) Cool Stephen Colbert voted Maxim's 69th hottest woman in America. HA HA, dangly parts  (gawker.com) (77)
(phys.org) Interesting New study shows that sleeping around can be costly for sparrows. It pays not to be a cheap cluck  (phys.org) (10)
(USA Today) Amusing Free pizza on June 5 but only if you order it in Spanish. Some people have a problem with that. "In public areas, people should be speaking English, and that includes pizza parlors"  (usatoday.com) (315)
(Des Moines Register) Fail "Sorry, officer. I didn't want to drive drunk, but the zebra had too much wine and the parrot wasn't listening to me"  (desmoinesregister.com) (24)
(Click Orlando) Florida School nurse refuses student access to his inhaler during full-blown asthma attack. School officials took it away because they had no current form signed by a parent authorizing its use  (clickorlando.com) (361)
(Life Site News) Fail Planned Parenthood beats off all competitors when it comes to encouraging masturbation for elementary students  (lifesitenews.com) (248)
(Think Progress) Asinine The Iowa GOP officially endorsing the birther movement is probably the least crazy part of their party platform  (thinkprogress.org) (115)
(CNN) NewsFlash US Airways jetliner en route from Paris to Charlotte, North Carolina, has been diverted to Bangor, Maine due to a suspicious passenger. Passenger was suspicious because he said US Airways had good customer service  (news.blogs.cnn.com) (220)
(Sun Sentinel) Florida If your couch is dirty and smells of urine, do you A: Clean it? B: Throw it out? or C: Set it on fire while it's still in your apartment?  (weblogs.sun-sentinel.com) (44)
(Some Cheese Head) Weird Wisconsin has a Deer Czar, and he firmly believes that State and National Parks are a commie plot. Like to hunt on public land? "Sucks to be you"  (lodivalleynews.com) (115)
(Forbes) Interesting The claim that women make 81 cents to the dollar than men earn doing the same job? It's apparently not only bogus, but also crude and misleading. Like most men  (forbes.com) (196)
(E! Online) Sad Howard Stern makes a little boy cry. This is what Parents' Television Council warned us about  (eonline.com) (97)
(Boston.com) Dumbass Not news: Grandma lets granddaughter test drive her car. Fark: 10-year old granddaughter hits three cars in a McDonald's parking lot  (boston.com) (23)
(BBC) Scary "Vast numbers of counterfeit Chinese electronic parts are being used in US military equipment, a key Senate committee has reported." Sleep tight, citizen  (bbc.co.uk) (49)
(Mother Jones) Interesting Tea Party Patriots' latest IRS filing indicates that they may have filled their fundraising boat with too much money  (motherjones.com) (26)
(New York Daily News) Unlikely Surgeon, apparently listening to a baseball game, uses man's stomach to keep track of a 3 strikeout inning  (nydailynews.com) (45)
(TMZ) Fail Snooki announces she won't take part in season six of Jersey Shore. That show has had six seasons? Really?  (tmz.com) (23)


Mon May 21, 2012
(CBC) Sad Not news: some people climbed Everest. News: Three died on descent because of "traffic jam". Fark: Everest has traffic jams because apparently the only mountaineering experience required is Photoshop  (cbc.ca) (162)
(ABC27) Dumbass "So how did this vehicle crash ma'am?" "My 8 year old son was playing in it while it was in park, and it somehow got off that and crashed"  (abc27.com) (24)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Building built with 500,000 beer bottles, or the trash from roughly one fark party  (lvrj.com) (20)
(SeattlePI) Strange 'Existential' man ordered to serve community service at morgue. Apparently they need another grave Heidegger  (seattlepi.com) (41)
(Your Mom) Interesting Parents are happier than nonparents  (ucrtoday.ucr.edu) (244)
(The Courier-Journal) Ironic News: Shooting happens in a bad part of town. Unusual: Six people are shot, three of them fatally. Fark: One of those fatally shot was the boyfriend of a woman who wore a "No Boyfriend, No Problem" shirt to the crime scene  (courier-journal.com) (60)
(Celebslam) Asinine Kourtney Kardashian parks in handicapped spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces  (celebslam.celebuzz.com) (74)
(Outside the Redzone) Florida Miami Marlins host future Denver Rockies (made that last part up)  (outsidetheredzone.com) (18)
(Some Drunk) Asinine Northern KY group worried about teenagers sitting around drinking during summer vacation. Their solution, various levels of ramped up helicopter parenting. Completely missing from the list, make them get off the couch & get a job  (wcpo.com) (58)
(The Oakland Press) Strange I Kissed A Girl And I Liked It-now with added trailer park and frying pan fight  (theoaklandpress.com) (31)
(TMZ) Ironic The Gospel of Tebow apparently cannot include photos with actresses  (tmz.com) (62)


Sun May 20, 2012
(Major League Baseball) Spiffy Stephen Strasburg's first career homerun helps close out the last game of the BW Parkway series  (mlb.mlb.com) (21)
(MSNBC) Interesting New York City's first million-dollar private parking space to hit the market soon. Comes with its own deed, sales contract, and maintenance fees  (msnbc.msn.com) (95)
(Detroit Free Press) Followup Participation in Komen Race for the Cure down by as much as a third. GEE, I WONDER WHY?  (freep.com) (84)
(The New York Times) Fail After the murder of two Chinese USC students, their parents are suing the college on the grounds that USC's marketing materials described the campus as being in an "urban" location rather than "crime infested"  (nytimes.com) (224)
(The New York Times) Wheaton "Moreover, Wheaton had posted links to some of Cline's poetry slam work on the news and discussion site Fark.com." He's nothing if not a renaissance man. (6th paragraph from the bottom)  (nytimes.com) (3)
(Huffington Post) Scary Wisconsin woman collects cash from relatives to bail out her son. Drug dog inspection finds same traces of cocaine found on every bill in America. Cops seize money for department eclair fund  (huffingtonpost.com) (144)
(Wimp) Silly Chihuahua para bailar la bamba  (wimp.com) (19)
(UPI) Interesting Survey says vacation sex is better. Doesn't mention if that is with or without your regular partner  (upi.com) (56)


Sat May 19, 2012
(Boston Herald) Obvious Fire chief angry at 'idiots' for wasting his department's time and money when they have to rescue them from roof  (bostonherald.com) (57)
(The Newspaper) Spiffy Two Northern California cities dump redlight cameras. Subby's more partial to greenlights, anyway  (thenewspaper.com) (44)
(YouTube) Amusing Cop attempts to bust a clam bake in a parachute on campus while tour group looks on, documented by a crackhead. THEN it gets funny  (youtube.com) (27)
(Boston Herald) Stupid Obama is the first to go negative in the presidential election, says Romney top strategist who has apparently not listened to a single Romney speech this election season  (news.bostonherald.com) (99)
(Contra Costa Times) Cool The USS Iowa will make its final mission Sunday, as it departs the San Francisco Bay on its final voyage to LA to become a floating museum  (contracostatimes.com) (139)
(WMGM TV 40) Stupid Top-notch reporting, fact-checking and proofreading in NJ news: "Van Halens own 'Sammy Hager' donates $10,000 to Atlantic City Parrish"  (nbc40.net) (20)
(Deadspin) Spiffy Australian golfer shoots lowest round of golf ever recorded with 12 birdies, two eagles. FARK: His partner shoots a 69 and loses by 14 strokes  (deadspin.com) (21)
(LA Times) Caturday Apple traditionally names its OS platforms after cats: Mountain Lion is the current version, then Lion, Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger, Panther, Jaguar, Puma, and Cheetah. How many other cat species are left?  (latimes.com) (167)
(Some Guy) Asinine SWAT team arrests Chicago protesters for the heinous crime of...making beer. Glad we're safe from THAT particular scourge  (chicago.cbslocal.com) (241)
(Huffington Post) Strange Famous straight actor slaps obscure gay reporter for attempted sexual overture and it's captured on camera ... our culture will still be parsing this fifty years from now  (huffingtonpost.com) (55)
(Some Guy) Amusing That awkward moment when you realize the vehicle you reported stolen a few hours ago has been parked in the weeds in your front yard the whole time  (dacula.patch.com) (43)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan party at Hollywood home until 7am with predictable results  (dailymail.co.uk) (46)


Fri May 18, 2012
(Slate) Ironic New poll claims only 9% of Americans are willing to participate in polls  (slate.com) (39)
(Crain's) Dumbass Not news: Chicago Cubs owner seeking $100 million in tax breaks. Fark: Apparently so he can spend more of his own money on a PAC attacking Obama. Dumbass: Apparently he's also forgotten what Chicago's mayor's previous job was  (chicagobusiness.com) (55)
(Some Guy) Obvious Liberal group fighting for transparency in political donations and "getting money out of politics", refuses to disclose its own donors list  (freebeacon.com) (43)
(CSMonitor) Cool Humongous Volkswagen-sized turtle fossils discovered, not expected to be part of Michael Bay's turtle movie, we hope  (csmonitor.com) (34)
(BusinessWeek) Spiffy Federal Judge to DOJ: You know that part of the NDA that lets you indefinitely detain anyone you think is "supporting" terrorism? Yeah, the 1st Amendment has a problem with that  (businessweek.com) (170)
(Some Drunk) Obvious Apparently Robert Downey Jr. is the Jesus Christ of the Marvel Universe  (collider.com) (43)
(Google) Amusing GOP Ministry of Truth hard at work helping Romney's primary rivals unsay their harsh criticisms of the candidate; apparently unaware of this thing called "The Internet" where people can go and look these things up  (google.com) (55)


Thu May 17, 2012
(Rolling Stone) Followup Apparently, Van Halen can only stand one another for two months before calling it quits  (rollingstone.com) (112)
(PennLive) Obvious Bud Selig about the Oakland Athletics: "FARK it, if they can't build a new ballpark let's move them somewhere else"  (blog.pennlive.com) (103)
(Some Guy) Obvious Blizzard: "We were not prepared"  (vg247.com) (360)
(Chicago Sun-Times) PSA Security experts claim that if you're carrying a laptop or a smartphone in Chicago this week, you might come under a cyber attack because people may think you're part of the NATO summit  (suntimes.com) (126)
(Food and Wine) Cool The best part of waking up is "coffee tincture made by infusing grain alcohol and rum with cracked coffee beans "  (foodandwine.com) (25)
(Marketplace) Spiffy Those silly hippies of the "Occupy" movement have never done anything worthwhile--except get half a dozen major cities to pass the most signficant bank "transparency" laws enacted in a generation  (marketplace.org) (83)
(Iowa City Press-Citizen) PSA If you're traveling in Northwest Iowa today, be advised that a massive buffalo breakout happened earlier today and now more than 200 buffalo are roaming around five separate counties  (press-citizen.com) (61)
(UPI) Unlikely Obama expects a "serious bipartisan approach" to tackling the budget and growing federal deficit this year. Oh wait, he's serious, let me laugh even harder  (upi.com) (41)
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) Unlikely Newest urban scourge? Geese. Department of Natural Resources: They'll be handled by the coyotes, which will be handled by the gorillas, which come winter, will simply freeze to death  (ajc.com) (109)
(YouTube) Fail Kareem Abdul Jabbar misses an easy dunk on Jeopardy  (youtube.com) (15)


Wed May 16, 2012
(NYPost) Interesting Joe Namath compares Sanchez and Tebow, and it's a dirty little secret  (nypost.com) (29)
(Some zoo's blog) Cool Ugly ass-snow leopards born at Woodland Park Zoo. Link goes to some sucky blog and horrific pics  (woodlandparkzblog.blogspot.com) (47)
(Gizmodo) Unlikely Height, weight, size, girth, tight, skinny, tan, rich, petite, jacked, strong, confident, go-getter, blast at parties, awesome fashion sense, musically adept, great cook, great in bed, etc, etc  (gizmodo.com) (296)
(Wired) Amusing Apparently the entire Oracle/Google Court case is one big "Intro to Java" class  (wired.com) (50)
(Some Awesome Grandma) Cool 100-year-old Edith Pittenger has already taken laps at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (at age 96), so how does she celebrate 100? By going parasailing  (thestarpress.com) (6)
(ABC) Asinine Okay, now this is getting ridiculous. Apparently Obama is America's first "Amish President" as well because he won't let his daughters use Facebook or cell phones  (abcnews.go.com) (137)
(CNN) Followup Real Americans in Nebraska GOP take a hard right turn into Palin country. Democratic nominee and former Senator, Bob Kerrey, last seen dancing a jig and preparing his victory speech  (cnn.com) (84)
(Salon) PSA So, apparently July 9th, 2012 is the Internet Apocaypse. WHO KNEW?  (salon.com) (46)
(LoanSafe) Obvious LoanSafe sees the reality in FARK's prediction of future social security benefits (2nd paragraph)  (loansafe.org) (0)
(Some Guy) Sick What do you get when you combine a Sparkling Princess and Royal Horse Barbie set in pink wrapping paper, a digital camera and Viagra? C.) PMITAP  (post-gazette.com) (40)
(The New York Times) Obvious Coyotes force trail closures in Golden Gate Park due to conflicts with pets, shipments of rocket sleds and giant crossbows from Acme Corp  (nytimes.com) (40)
(Gizmodo) Cool New cut of beef discovered: "The flavor is comparable to the New York Strip Steak. It does not require aging or marinating to achieve tenderness." Kinda makes you wonder... What else have those damn cows been holding out on us?  (gizmodo.com) (195)
(SeattlePI) Followup Seattle Police Department claims Justice Department proposal is unreasonable, says it will be too expensive to stop its officers from randomly bludgeoning innocent people  (seattlepi.com) (116)


Tue May 15, 2012
(McClatchy) Obvious Quietly, the Republican Party embraces gays, adjusts stance  (mcclatchydc.com) (271)
(Telegraph) Spiffy RAF performs perfect 'ER II' formation in skies over North Wales in preparation for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee  (telegraph.co.uk) (57)
(CNN) Obvious Romney: Debt is like a prairie fire. Scientists: Prairie Fires are actually an important part of the ecosystem that prevented the prairie from becoming forest. Also, American Prairie is almost non-existent these days  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (115)
(My San Antonio) Asinine What does a judge say to a 26-year-old who abandoned children to have sex with a 13-year old? a) life without parole. b) chemical castration. c) if you were male, I'd send you to prison, but instead here's a little probation  (mysanantonio.com) (168)
(The Smoking Gun) Asinine Apparently unable to acquire pepper spray, moms dressed in combat boots and military fatigues spray Lysol on dirty dancing teens at prom  (thesmokinggun.com) (85)
(apan Today) Obvious Okinawa celebrates 40 years of independence from America, where independence is apparently defined as having one gigantic U.S. air base on your territory  (japantoday.com) (76)
(Twitchy) Fail Out: centrist third party; In: centrist emo party  (twitchy.com) (30)
(NBCMiami) Followup How you like that? Miami fire captain demoted for disparaging Facebook post about Trayvon Martin  (nbcmiami.com) (141)
(Guardian) Followup Greece chooses to continue not collecting taxes, rather than pay their debts. Germany seen preparing das boot  (guardian.co.uk) (119)
(The Sun) Stupid Nanny state sends police to a toddler's birthday party because. A) Parents got in a fight. B) Pedophile was present. C) Mom tried to light the candles  (thesun.co.uk) (49)
(CBC) Sick When a company has a monopoly they can raise power rates for the 7th time in 11 years and then throw a lavish party the next day  (cbc.ca) (97)


Mon May 14, 2012
(Coming Soon) Cool New photos from "Total Recall" remake. SEE YOU AT THE PARTY, RICHTER  (comingsoon.net) (73)
(Salon) Amusing The Tea Party may throw Mitch McConnell out of his leadership post for being too compromising with the Democrats  (salon.com) (101)
(BBC) Silly "For any passengers who've not visited London before, do please prepare yourselves for the capital's overwhelmingly calm and relaxing pace of life"  (bbc.co.uk) (24)
(Daily Mail) Scary Recipe for disaster: Start digging underground parking lot AFTER you've finished constructing an apartment building and people have moved in (w/photos)  (dailymail.co.uk) (63)


Sun May 13, 2012
(BBC) Interesting Yarr....Dutch court fires broadside right into the mizzen mast of the Pirate Party. Legal experts expect them to drop anchor and shiver their timbers and I can't remember any other pirate terms right now  (bbc.co.uk) (29)
(daily telegraph) Obvious Australian singer claims Alabama ripped off his song. Let's play the two tunes side by side and compare  (dailytelegraph.com.au) (45)
(The Sun) Spiffy This sexy javelin thrower from Paraguay will make you forget all about that sexy pole vaulter from California  (thesun.co.uk) (67)
(The Sun) Obvious Senior British MP says "McParenting" is putting the lives of a generation at risk  (thesun.co.uk) (84)
(AZCentral) Interesting Now it's getting interesting: Ron Paul supporters boo Mitt Romney's son off the stage at the Arizona Republican Party convention. "The white Obama"  (azcentral.com) (383)
(AZCentral) Strange Sao Paolo has 31 life-size human silhouettes appearing tense, perched on the edges of high-rises, prepared to dive to their deaths below. Wall Street has none. Can't explain that  (azcentral.com) (42)


Sat May 12, 2012
(NYPost) Amusing Dear Parent, We regret to inform you that there is no room for your child in Battery Park Kindergarten public school. But do not worry, we checked with the $16k a year private school right down the street and they still have spaces open  (nypost.com) (125)
(KATU) Asinine Praise God and serve the $500k defamation lawsuit for a negative online review from a shunned parishoner  (katu.com) (96)
(Oakland Press) Asinine Step 1) Become emergency manager of Pontiac, MI and sell the Silverdome for 1% of its cost. Step 2) Partner with the guy you sold it to and build a casino there. Step 3) PROFIT (Optional Step 4: Wonder why the hell this is legal)  (theoaklandpress.com) (110)


Fri May 11, 2012
(St. Petersburg Times) Florida Restaurant posts sign warning parents not to let their snowflakes run wild; parents respond by throwing a tantrum  (tampabay.com) (279)
(CNN) Spiffy CNN reports on parenting and uses Drew and his wife Heather as excellent examples (w/photo)  (geekout.blogs.cnn.com) (196)
(Huffington Post) Strange To prepare for the Mother's Day weekend, let's stop random pedestrians on a city street and ask "have you ever seen your mother naked?"  (huffingtonpost.com) (28)
(FilmDrunk) Amusing New pics from "The Dark Knight Rises." Someone compares Bane's mask to... well... you know  (filmdrunk.uproxx.com) (131)
(Uproxx) Scary Facebook apparently will soon let users pay to make their posts stand out in their friends' feed. In other words, Facebook is about to get even more insufferable  (uproxx.com) (88)
(Huffington Post) Followup Remember when Elizabeth Warren was accused of lying about her ethnicity to get special treatment? Turns out that not only is she part Cherokee, but she also never even claimed that on admission forms or employment applications  (huffingtonpost.com) (204)
(Wired) Scary Defense Department Joint Forces Staff College advocates 'total war' on Islam using "the historical precedents of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki" to Makkah and Medinah  (wired.com) (156)
(BusinessWeek) Unlikely The state of Ohio, apparently with a straight face, is asking us to believe that people go to Ohio voluntarily and that their tourism industry grew by $2 billion last year to reach $40 billion  (businessweek.com) (222)
(Orange County Register) Fail Most US students fail at science, don't understand that if they aren't part of the solution....they are part of the precipitate  (ocregister.com) (107)


Thu May 10, 2012
(Think Progress) Amusing Tea Party-backed candidate who defeated Dick Lugar (R-IN) in GOP Senate primary says that bipartisanship is "Democrats coming to the Republican point of view"  (thinkprogress.org) (129)
(Huffington Post) Fail Unwed teen mom Bristol Palin lectures Barack Obama on the sanctity of marriage and being a good parent  (huffingtonpost.com) (473)
(WTKR) Interesting Virginia Attorney General and Tea-Party darling Ken Cuccinelli has heated interview with Bill O'Reilly. Who do you think is the 'winner'?  (wtkr.com) (60)
(Think Progress) Obvious A couple hours after Barack Obama made his announcement of support of gay marriage, House Republicans voted to keep on hating gays for no apparent reason  (thinkprogress.org) (153)
(Reuters) Asinine The officer in charge of censoring the audio coming from the military tribunals at Gitmo apparently decided that national security would be harmed if reporters were allowed to hear the phrase "big-boy pants"  (reuters.com) (37)
(The Week) Unlikely The Republican who is trying to 'save' Planned Parenthood  (theweek.com) (19)
(ESPN) Obvious Lin case there were any Lingering doubts, Lin will be an Linportant part of the Knicks team next year  (espn.go.com) (40)
(SeattlePI) Silly Are you going to the pride parade, or are you just playing soccer?  (blog.seattlepi.com) (8)
(RamblingBeachCat.com) Cool Jenny the Dry Erase Board Girl (actress Elyse Porterfield) on life after becoming a meme and before her debut on 'Parks and Recreation' tonight  (ramblingbeachcat.com) (57)
(Yahoo) Followup The missing Russian jet apparently crashed into a Pacific island volcano, appeasing the Waponi fire god for one more year  (uk.news.yahoo.com) (58)
(Daily Mail) Strange Was Christina Aguilera's sparkly hot pants a good look? Well, it depends  (dailymail.co.uk) (68)


Wed May 09, 2012
(Fark) FarkParty Imprompteux Nola Fark Party shaping up for Friday night at Cooter Brown's... DIT  (fark.com) (51)
(WTSP) Florida Apparently, the idea of making misbehaving students wear those cone thingies that dogs wear so they don't chew themselves to death hasn't gotten old for teachers in Florida. Dug surrenders  (wtsp.com) (59)
(The Atlantic) Cool The Atlantic notices how FARK picked up a tall tale about Abraham Lincoln (6 paragraphs from the end)  (theatlantic.com) (0)
(Media Matters) Followup Shepard Smith warns GOP to steer clear of the only side of history it knows  (mediamatters.org) (155)
(Some Guy) NewsFlash From the 'It's about god damned time' department: DOJ plans to sue Sheriff Joe over allegations of civil rights violations  (abc15.com) (552)
(Yahoo) Followup In the "I knew it all along" department, that "revenge-filled dentist pulled out ex-boyfriend's teeth" article was a hoax  (news.yahoo.com) (69)
(Boing Boing) Asinine Drawing an Iranian Parliament Member wearing a soccer jersey? That's a lashin'  (boingboing.net) (31)
(Media Matters) Asinine When Breitbart blogger told a Tea Party crowd they had to kill Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) because she's an "evil monster," he didn't mean they had to actually KILL her. Why do you libs have to take everything so seriously?  (mediamatters.org) (147)
(Yahoo) Cool Secret X37B Space Plane a 'Spectacular Success,' except for the Secret part  (news.yahoo.com) (53)
(Gigwise) Strange Ke$ha working with Iggy Pop on second album. How can you tell them apart?  (gigwise.com) (34)
(Some Transplant) Scary Okay, so apparently there is a Plan B  (rightwingwatch.org) (356)
(KMOV St. Louis) Stupid Those F-16 parts you're buying on Craigslist? The seller may be a no-show. Bonus: News video of the story shows an F-15  (kmov.com) (15)
(BBC) Silly Some days, being a scientist is pretty dull. On other days, you come up with a plan to air-drop poisoned mice by parachute to wipe out an army of two million snakes  (bbc.co.uk) (102)
(Talking Points Memo) Followup Dick Lugar does not go gently into that good night, lashes out at the Tea Party upstart who defeated him, giving Democrats plenty of ammunition for the November election  (2012.talkingpointsmemo.com) (147)
(CBC) Dumbass Murdering your wife and then claiming that she shot herself will not hold up in court if your wife is paralyzed and can't hold a gun. You probably should have known this, being a judge and all  (cbc.ca) (28)


Tue May 08, 2012
(Hot Air) Interesting Industries dependent on massive government handouts to even pretend that they make a profit, upset at these Tea Party people think that the government shouldn't prop up failing industries in favor of successful companies  (hotair.com) (73)
(LA Times) Dumbass Man stabs party-goers after cake dispute. No lie  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (79)
(ABC Cleveland) Sick The guys who tried to blow up a bridge in Cleveland weren't part of the Occupy movement, except for the one they featured on their website. Or the dozens of Occupy members who showed up to give support  (newsnet5.com) (194)
(Fark) Spiffy SAVE THE DATE - Amsterdam Fark Party on Sept. 29 - Scheduled to appear: Drew  (fark.com) (31)
(Newser) Amusing The weirdest part of the Met Gala...Tom Brady's hair  (newser.com) (52)
(Gizmodo) Hero Not news: Hottie finishes London Marathon, News: She's paralyzed, Fark: She does it in a bionic suit  (gizmodo.com) (103)
(Huffington Post) Amusing Bowling alley bandits steal $30,000 in brazen robbery. Article has devastating puns-per-paragraph value and mugshot you can add to your collection  (huffingtonpost.com) (34)
(Some Guy) Weird Apparently, UFOs are refreshing and delicious now  (news.gather.com) (9)
(ESPN) Amusing Vikings release their highest scorer, because clearly there's something wrong with him if he's willing to be a part of such a spectacular failure  (espn.go.com) (75)
(WorldNetDaily) Unlikely Apparently unsatisfied with killing the photographer from the coroner's office, Obama's minions have now caused a witness to Breitbart's death to disappear. Either that or the guy just stopped taking calls from Wingnut Daily  (wnd.com) (71)
(WRCB-TV) Scary When you drink, you pass out in the yard. When you pass out in the yard, your party guests can't see you. When your party guests can't see you, one of them will drive over you. Don't let your party guests drive over you  (wrcbtv.com) (43)


Mon May 07, 2012
(Daily Mail) Scary I used to go for walks in the park like you, but then I took an arrow in the neck  (dailymail.co.uk) (37)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Congratulations to Mexican Wolves F749 & M740, proud parents of eight adorable, rare, ugly-ass Mexican Wolf pups  (nywolf.org) (33)
(ESPN) Obvious Spurs prepare to put the Jazz out of their misery, while the Clippers hope they can keep Memphis from leveling the series. It's your NBA playoffs discussion thread. Games begin at 8PM EST on TNT  (scores.espn.go.com) (86)
(Canada.com) Obvious Canada.com editor mentions the different and unique perspective of FARK as compared to the vortex of the Kanye West twitter  (blogs.canada.com) (7)
(MyFox Twin Cities) Scary Tornado rips apart Kiester  (myfoxtwincities.com) (26)
(WTOP) Scary The modern-day parent's dilemma: do you allow your precious offspring to go down that big, scary, gleaming slide by himself (and possibly die), or do you slide down with him and risk snapping his leg in half when it gets caught on the side?  (wtop.com) (117)
(IBD) Obvious Right-wing blogodome outrage du jour for Monday, May 7: Obama congratulated newly elected French President Francois Hollande after his victory yesterday instead of nuking Paris and killing Jerry Lewis  (news.investors.com) (285)
(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Amusing Polls show that Republicans are more informed about current events than liberals and are more tolerant with opposing ideas than their liberal counterparts. Exhibit A: The comments section of the accompanying opinion piece  (startribune.com) (288)
(Daily Express) Dumbass Mother of the year stops in safari park to let giraffe put its head through car window (with bonus pic of her daughter petting it)  (express.co.uk) (167)
(The Newspaper) Interesting Police use sloppy parking as pretext for drug bust, lose case because parking over the line is not a crime in Maryland  (thenewspaper.com) (119)
(Newser) Spiffy After 4 1/2 years, Shaquille O'Neal earns a Ph.D. It would have been sooner but part of his doctoral thesis included having to make seven of ten free throws  (newser.com) (37)


Sun May 06, 2012
(Denver Post) Hero Lawyer spends 11 years proving inmate's innocence. He offers to pay for her gender-reassignment surgery. "It was a very sweet gesture on his part," she said. "But he really needs to focus on taking care of himself first"  (denverpost.com) (322)
(ESPN) Cool Once again Warren Buffett is a lone voice of reason in the wilderness, standing apart from the small but powerful group of which he is a member. But why the hell is this in the Sports tab?  (espn.go.com) (57)
(LA Times) Scary A stream of highly charged particles from the sun is headed straight toward Earth. On the good side, you are probably going to die. On the other side, you probably will wish you did. It's not time to panic yet, but you should be ready to  (latimes.com) (76)
(Yahoo) Sad Al-Qaeda extremists destroy the grave of a Muslim saint in Timbuktu. In other news, Timbuktu is an actual place, Muslims apparently have saints, and Al-Qaeda really sucks at the whole "winning hearts and minds" thing  (news.yahoo.com) (100)
(SaveOnBrew) Spiffy Best baseball parks for craft beer. Lord knows you're not going to watch the snoozeball  (saveonbrew.com) (50)
(Reason Magazine) Obvious This year's Libertarian Party convention? Why yes, it did end up being a complete clusterfark  (reason.com) (284)
(Some Spary) Dumbass Apparently, it needs to be said. Do Not bring your weed to class. Especially if your class is with the state police training academy  (wcax.com) (41)


Sat May 05, 2012
(The Boot) Amusing "I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out." - Ten quotes from Dolly Parton that show how witty she is  (theboot.com) (121)
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) Followup UGA gymnastics coach resigns after 3rd year of sub-par results. He had succeeded the legendary coach whose record included winning the last 5 consecutive NCAA Championships of her career. But don't fret - he'll land on his feet  (blogs.ajc.com) (7)
(Chicago Tribune) Sick Arizona bans Planned Parenthood funding. Apparently, a few people have a problem with this  (chicagotribune.com) (242)
(Some Guy) Fail The British Asparagus Festival has been cancelled due to lack of asparagus   (britishasparagusfestival.org) (38)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Cool In tribute to Adam Yauch, Coldplay played (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party) at their show last night. And yes, there is video of the performance  (hollywoodreporter.com) (94)
(Huffington Post) Stupid The GOP is trying to roll back protections for abused women. Why? No reason. Apparently they just like pissing you off  (huffingtonpost.com) (353)
(Mother Nature Network) Interesting Dentists are now using fillings made of nano-sized particles that kill bacteria and strengthen your teeth. It almost makes you long for the good old days of fluoride in the water  (mnn.com) (18)
(AZ Family) Silly Statue of an obese nude woman that sits across the street from a church is vandalized with paint a few days after somebody covered it up with a burlap apron a few days after all the private parts were covered in dollar bills  (azfamily.com) (76)
(Mirror.co.uk) Misc It's take your parrot to work day. (This has nothing to do with John Cleese)  (mirror.co.uk) (30)
(YouTube) Dumbass Two rival bands of college kids prepare to battle with foam swords. The winner is... the bus  (youtube.com) (49)
(WDAY) Dumbass Mock crash at high school becomes real when someone forgot to put the fire truck in park  (wday.com) (30)


Fri May 04, 2012
(STV.tv) Scary Warrant issued after man has part of ear bitten off at bar. Still, that's gotta be better than most Scottish cuisine  (news.stv.tv) (31)
(USA Today) Interesting Bill Buckner's '86 World Series ball sells at auction. Apparently, someone couldn't let it slip through his fingers  (usatoday.com) (16)
(Talking Points Memo) Sad Dick Lugar (R-eally wishing his party wasn't crazy) losing to Tea Party challenger   (2012.talkingpointsmemo.com) (105)
(Economist) Sad SpaceX prepares for the first private sector mission to resupply the Coca Cola International Space Station. Brought to you by Carl's Jr  (economist.com) (72)
(Some sister) Cool An interesting comparison of the Alien and Prometheus trailers  (tor.com) (44)
(Washington Post) Obvious "The entire Obama campaign is a slice-and-dice operation, pandering to one group after another, particularly those that elected Obama in 2008 - blacks, Hispanics, women, young people - and for whom the thrill is now gone"  (washingtonpost.com) (169)
(Stylist) Unlikely Apparently, this is how to get sexually enlightened  (stylist.co.uk) (55)
(Some Guy) PSA If you live in AR, CO, FL, KY, LA, MO, NV, OH, TN or WV, it will suck to be you this fall. Prepare to be ground zero in the upcoming Citizens United-fueled presidential ad onslaught  (electoral-vote.com) (126)
(YouTube) Video Russians continue to flip over crazy amusement park ride  (youtube.com) (35)
(STV.tv) Fail UK government political party defeated in election by a man dressed as a penguin  (local.stv.tv) (46)
(Deadspin) Fail The human element in baseball - Part 2: The generous strike zone called during Jered Weaver's no-hitter  (deadspin.com) (218)
(Some WV Guy) Dumbass If you're going to steal copper wire, make sure it's not connected to the police department  (wvgazette.com) (29)
(SacBee) Dumbass California GOP calls press conference to advertise itself as "Party of Yes". Then immediately calls for "no" vote on tax proposition  (blogs.sacbee.com) (271)


Thu May 03, 2012
(610 WIOD) Florida Tea Party candidate dies during forum at Homer's Smorgasbord. That is all  (610wiod.com) (118)
(HitFix) Ironic Pepsi advertising may only be partially responsible for Michael Jackson's death, but will be fully responsible for his resurrection  (hitfix.com) (15)
(Bleacher Report) Interesting The Bella Twins open up about their departure from the WWE. It's now real to them, dammit  (bleacherreport.com) (56)
(Daily Kos) Interesting Iron clad proof that America will always have a two party political system  (dailykos.com) (84)
(First Coast News) Florida Looking for unique venue to hold your kid's birthday party? Look no farther than your local funeral home. "We've done a bridal shower, a baby shower, a surprise birthday party"  (firstcoastnews.com) (11)
(Lohud.com) Sad Apart from the whole "house burning down in five minutes, killing everybody inside" part, engineered wood is a wonderful modern construction material  (lohud.com) (46)
(Some Guy) Followup Apparently feeling it is undeserving of the Worst Company in America title, EA claimed Rock Band disabling message was just an error, totally not true. Also, let's just pretend the FAQ update which confirmed the said error didn't exist  (computerandvideogames.com) (58)
(Yahoo) Interesting How you know your law firm is doomed: When the senior partners distribute a memo to partners "encouraging" them find a new job somewhere else  (news.yahoo.com) (12)
(Gizmodo) Amusing A story about parking missiles over your house should make you stroppy but the words "War Blimp" are just too giggle-inducing  (gizmodo.com) (43)
(WRCB-TV) Cool "This is my first experience with an animal, other than taking care of my dog Sparky," Dr. Warren says. "So, I'm branching out a little bit"  (wrcbtv.com) (11)
(Short List) Video Apparently Newcastle United scored one of the English Premier league's best ever goals last night. I scored one like this once. On the Playstation  (shortlist.com) (33)
(Engadget) Cool Prepare to be slaughtered by an army of robot birds  (engadget.com) (13)


Wed May 02, 2012
(SacBee) Cool "Frank McCourt is not involved in any shape and fashion. Frank is not here. He's not a part of the Dodgers any more. We should be clapping just for that"  (sacbee.com) (18)
(Abc.net.au) Interesting Suu Kyi sworn in as member of Burmese parliament, receives five dollars  (abc.net.au) (49)
(Reuters) Obvious Law banning cannabis for tourists in The Netherlands is under a week old, and already black markets have sprung up, people are now sparking up in public. PROBLEM SOLVED  (reuters.com) (65)
(YouTube) Cool Cool: training a border collie to herd sheep. Farkin' amazing: training a border collie to herd mule deer out of Waterton Lakes National Park's townsite  (youtube.com) (33)
(Huffington Post) Sick Texas Attorney General calls Planned Parenthood a "terrorist organization" in a motion to stay a U.S. district judge's ruling  (huffingtonpost.com) (160)
(CNN) Spiffy Paralyzed Rutgers defensive tackle gets signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, immediately moves to second on the depth chart  (news.blogs.cnn.com) (30)
(Some Guy) Asinine Apparently feeling it is undeserved of Worst Company in America title, EA is disabling purchased copies of Rock Band on iOS devices  (computerandvideogames.com) (134)
(Antarctica Bar) Cool Reminder: NYC Fark Party tonight: 9pm Antarctica Bar on Hudson. Johnny Walker tasting is full, this is the afterparty (LGT location)  (antarcticabar.com) (144)
(AZCentral) Dumbass Two players for the Nashville Predators suspended because they stayed out late partying the night before a playoff game. If the whole NHL thing doesn't work out for them they could always get a job with the Secret Service  (azcentral.com) (33)
(Reuters) Asinine Say folks, would you like to become a rapist? Are rapists getting a bum deal in your part of the country? Worry no more fellas, I invite you to come to Montana, the land of trophy elk, big skies, and consequence-free rape  (reuters.com) (136)
(Des Moines Register) Silly Cardboard cutout of Tim Tebow accompanies Iowa high schooler to prom, is expected to make the next Fark party  (desmoinesregister.com) (43)
(Talking Points Memo) Interesting It's been forty years since the American workforce had benefits and salary that ran parallel to economic growth, and those forty years have been full of pay disparity based on both race and gender  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (199)
(Some Guy) Spiffy People are re-discovering manual transmissions in cars. Women apparently not asked about this  (autoblog.com) (492)
(Daily Mail) Sick Note To pedophiles: When preparing for a routine home inspection by the police, don't forget to release the 12 year old boy locked-in the cabinet  (dailymail.co.uk) (113)


Tue May 01, 2012
(C&E News) Followup How worried should we be about intelligent space dinosaurs? Apparently enough to try and get the same paper published three times in three separate journals  (cen.acs.org) (33)
(Bitten and Bound) Fail In an eleventh hour adios, Lionel Richie has bailed on his newest project ABC's Duets. This guy is apparently unclear on how comebacks work. #dumbassmove  (bittenandbound.com) (35)
(Houston Chronicle) Asinine Federal Court ruling that Texas cannot bar Planned Parenthood from serving low-income women blocked 5 minutes later by Appellate Court  (blog.chron.com) (243)
(Wired) Weird Post-traumatic stress flashbacks can be prevented--with Tetris. Apparently it blocks out bad memories  (wired.com) (34)
(Newser) Florida Senior Citizen Attacks Golfing Bachelor Party. Tells them to respect their elders ... as he drives a golf cart into them  (newser.com) (37)
(Buzzfeed) Amusing The 37 saddest failed Kickstarter projects. "I have taken so many dumb part-time jobs to keep it going that it is embarrassing and tiring"  (buzzfeed.com) (124)
(YouTube) Video The Occupy protests taking place today have a long and illustrious history, as this video from the glorious 1950 May Day parade illustrates so well. Pay no mind to the genocidal dictator on the reviewing stand  (youtube.com) (134)
(Some Guy) Cool Apparently not content with just your browsing habits, Facebook now wants your organs   (digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com) (37)
(USA Today) Stupid So you know that impending student loan rate crisis that's about to destroy our nation and has both parties tearing each other apart (again)? Yeah, turns out it's not really much of a crisis at all  (usatoday.com) (147)
(Last Angry Fan) Stupid Liverpool fan rushes onto the pitch and hugs Luis Suarez, then simulates masturbation before mooning the crowd. Or as they call it in Italy, fan participation  (lastangryfan.com) (10)
(Some Guy) Misc Unattended multi-million dollar mansions in San Diego are being raided by groups of up to 400 very hard-partying teens. "The house was trashed. Vomit, cigarette butts, bottles everywhere"  (10news.com) (95)
(NW Florida Daily News) Florida From the "I Want To Party With Her" files: Woman caught shoplifting Coppertone Dry Oil, Modelo beer, Pepsi, Bubba keg, Combo ink, Tampax tampons, shampoo, Energizer batteries, and Venus razors  (nwfdailynews.com) (52)
(Some Guy) Fail Paramedics called to Knicks locker room after Amare Stoudemire cut his hand punching a fire extinguisher. Guess he couldn't take the Heat  (sbnation.com) (25)


Mon April 30, 2012
(Cracked) Interesting Did the parents realize their kid was kidnapped in Monsters, Inc? This is among the Six Disturbing Unanswered Questions from Children's Movies  (cracked.com) (104)
(CBS News Detroit) Spiffy In the greatest example of viral marketing to date, BMW gets sued because its motorcycle seats cause 20 month erections, prepares to sell 10 million bikes next month  (detroit.cbslocal.com) (191)
(Yahoo) Dumbass The state of Parenting 2012: Dear Abby, whenever my eight-year-old son loses a game, he takes his anger out by beating our dog. He'll be mad at me if I put him in therapy, so how do I convince my wife to get rid of the dog?  (news.yahoo.com) (345)
(YouTube) Video Hungry Hippos - The Movie (SyFy Parody)  (youtube.com) (10)
(Daily Express) Amusing Angry toddler storms off on bike, gets lost, tells police it's his parents' fault for not fitting a sat nav [with angry toddler pic]  (express.co.uk) (97)
(Some Guy) Weird Not News: UFO Guru predicts a UFO will appear on Sunday over an LA park. News: Enough people show up to make it a story. Fark: It actually happens  (news.gather.com) (64)
(Google) Interesting Israel's political leaders are greatly exaggerating the potential effectiveness of a military strike against Iran, according to the former head of some apparently liberal peacenik organization called "Shin Bet"  (google.com) (128)
(Some Guy) Scary "Here's another fact we found out from the state police: troopers don't have any responsibility to inform a business if a sex offender is living in their parking lot"  (wcyb.com) (28)
(Mediaite) Dumbass Apparently, Keith Olbermann got a little butthurt over Kimmel's jokes at last night's White House Correspondent's Dinner  (mediaite.com) (144)


Sun April 29, 2012
(CNN) Scary Apparently, waving your arms in the direction of a guy who nearly runs you over is grounds for getting shot under the "Stand your ground" law in Arizona  (cnn.com) (751)
(Daily Express) Asinine Council tells woman with twins who haven't been separated since birth to take them to different schools two miles apart...even though she has no car  (express.co.uk) (84)
(SeattlePI) Spiffy Good news: Eight mayors band together to publicly compare the ban on marijuana in the United States to Prohibition. Bad news: They're not mayors in the United States  (blog.seattlepi.com) (116)


Sat April 28, 2012
(Sun Sentinel) Florida Man busted for parking his truck on the side of the road to sell seafood and regular, strawberry, blackberry and apple-flavored moonshine. Why yes, this did happen in Florida  (weblogs.sun-sentinel.com) (50)
(Yahoo) Interesting The world fears being plunged into anarchy and chaos as the Prince of Lichtenstein threatens to step down. Yeah, so, apparently Lichtenstein has a prince, who knew?  (news.yahoo.com) (136)
(Some Guy) Amusing The face of the Tea Party in PA  (post-gazette.com) (253)
(KTLA) Sad Parents warned about dangers of upper-floor windows -- as apparently people these days are too stupid to understand the gravity of the situation  (ktla.com) (79)
(ESPN) Followup How far will Lamar Miller's draft free fall take him? Who will be the 2012 Mr. Irrelevant? Which teams will be talking about Colt McCoy? NFL Draft: Part III - Rounds 4-7 (Begins at 12:00 PM ET)  (espn.go.com) (754)
(Some Guy) Strange There's caring for the environment and then there's eating fish you raised inside your New York City apartment  (asiaone.com) (65)
(Courier Mail) Interesting For just $50,000 you can purchase a $195 million ship from the Defense Department. But there's just one catch: As soon as you buy it you have to dismantle it on US soil  (couriermail.com.au) (115)
(CNN) Unlikely Analyst predicts the cult of Steve Jobs will decline now that he's dead. Apparently he's never heard of Jesus  (cnn.com) (81)
(CNN) Spiffy Blind Chinese prisoner Chen Guangcheng escapes house arrest, apparently going unnoticed by pulling fire alarm while his captors ran in circles  (cnn.com) (43)
(BBC) Scary KFC's Twister Wrap contains a secret blend of 12 herbs and spices, one of which will paralyze you for life  (bbc.co.uk) (62)
(Click Orlando) Florida Teacher arrested after losing his iPad in a Wal-Mart. Apparently, the iPad had all his videos of 8th grade girls changing in the locker room  (clickorlando.com) (120)


Fri April 27, 2012
(Science Daily) Interesting New subatomic particle discovered at CERN made up of a combination of quarks that only exist for a fraction of a second before divorcing. Particle tentatively named "The Kardash-ion"  (sciencedaily.com) (69)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Best Korean parade honoring country's founder is visible from space  (dailymail.co.uk) (85)
(Daily Mail) Fail Paramedics: Boasting on Facebook you saved the life of a young woman is good. Boasting that you managed to cop a feel while doing so is bad  (dailymail.co.uk) (63)
(The Local (Sweden)) Scary The Swedes have not kept very tight controls over their plutonium, even selling it to a wild-haired scientist for some spare pinball machine parts  (thelocal.se) (36)
(Deadspin) Fail After preparing for 12 months, the NFL Network's draft coverage gets off to a roaring start with 30 seconds of dead air (w/video)  (deadspin.com) (36)
(WPTV) Florida State department denies restaurant its trademark request because its name is "immoral and deceptive" Well if you don't like it, then Fuku  (wptv.com) (66)
(Some Suspicion) Photoshop Today's iron photoshop ingredient: Paranoia  (26.media.tumblr.com) (34)
(Fark) FarkParty EuroFark Party, Prague, April 27-28  (fark.com) (64)
(Some Guy) Cool Parents, pay attention, this is how you take photos of your kids  (boredpanda.com) (88)
(Some Guy) Interesting Russian Paratroopers will meet up with American Forces next month for a joint military exercise in Colorado. WOLVERINES   (articles.businessinsider.com) (77)
(Daily Mail) Asinine Parents sue because their snowflake was kicked out of an honors English class after he was caught cheating. Fark: He had signed an Academy Honesty Pledge which warned that cheating was grounds for immediate removal from the class  (dailymail.co.uk) (200)


Thu April 26, 2012
(truTV) Silly What happens when you try to get strangers in Central Park to kiss you? You do get a lot of lip  (trutv.com) (12)
(Craigslist) Weird World's strangest job opportunity: Dream Stenographer / Lucid Dreaming Partner  (seattle.craigslist.org) (39)
(SCOTUS Blog) Dumbass Justice Department regrets getting caught lying to Supreme Court  (scotusblog.com) (80)
(MyrtleBeachOnline) Silly Someone breaks into woman's apartment, steals movie and eats her doughnut. Cop said the burglar did her a favor since it was a Tyler Perry movie that was stolen, but they will definitely be investigating the missing doughnut  (myrtlebeachonline.com) (28)
(WRCB-TV) Unlikely Apparently that whole "leap from the car seconds before it crashes and bursts into flames" thing happens in real life, too. Even more amazingly, the leaper only suffered minor injuries and will be fine  (wrcbtv.com) (27)
(Celebslam) Interesting Tara Reid worried that reports about her partying are affecting her career, surprising many who were unaware that Tara Reid still had a career  (celebslam.celebuzz.com) (26)
(Instapundit) Followup U of Florida backs off on plans to ditch computer science department on news that they're the only school where nerds and hot cheerleaders exist on the same campus  (pjmedia.com) (62)
(crains detroit) Stupid Detroit fire department to close budget gap by letting vacant buildings burn to the ground. This is bad news for Lions fans  (crainsdetroit.com) (22)
(laist.com) Amusing Laist.com applauds the "LOLs from the folks at Fark" over porn film story (3rd paragraph)  (laist.com) (2)


Wed April 25, 2012
(Daily Mail) Interesting Not news: Americans solicit prostitute while traveling abroad. News: They're government officials and broke her collar bone after refusing to pay the agreed price. Fark: This isn't part of the Secret Service fiasco  (dailymail.co.uk) (107)
(Talking Points Memo) Followup Some of the Secret Service Agents did not have sex with the hookers because they were too drunk. Also, Secret Service Agents on Bill Clinton's detail went to a Brazilian strip club, though that was part of their protective duties   (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) (64)
(Talking Points Memo) Ironic Karl Rove is trying to be the Conservative voice of reason, warning fellow party members trying to link Obama to the Secret Service Scandal and GSA was a bad idea  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (128)
(Some Morons) Fail Ad for life-saving EpiPen pulled from air after outraged parents of children with food allergies protest that it makes them look like bad parents. Because I'd rather my child die than suffer the embarrassment of being considered a bad parent  (blogs.babycenter.com) (176)
(Some Guy) Amusing All porno movies produced in Simi Valley must now be reviewed by city's police department to ensure proper condom use. Breathless, sweaty detectives promise to put in as many hours as it takes to service protection  (losangeles.cbslocal.com) (136)
(TMZ) Sad Octomom's house now looking like every other home with 14 kids and no parental income  (tmz.com) (93)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Townhouse used as location for Sarah Jessica Parker's residence in Sex and the City sells to anonymous buyer. Rent to remain stable  (dailymail.co.uk) (15)
(ESPN) Spiffy Finally some good news for Mets fans: Not only does Jason Bay's injury spare them from having to watch him flail at the plate every day, it may also prevent his $17 million option from vesting next year  (espn.go.com) (15)
(WRCB-TV) Scary Side effect of all those foreclosed and abandoned homes? Millions and millions of hungry, blood-sucking parasites. And along with bankers, there are a lot of mosquitoes, too  (wrcbtv.com) (51)
(Yahoo) Asinine Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores. City kids still have green light to sell drugs, their bodies and stolen car stereos  (news.yahoo.com) (372)
(St. Petersburg Times) Interesting Separate ways, but no longer worlds apart: Journey, Steve Perry reunion could happen on farewell tour  (tampabay.com) (23)


Tue April 24, 2012
(Business Insider) Scary Russia sends R.S.V.P. reply for gracious invitation to summer mega-party "IranSlam 2012". All are reminded it's BYOB  (articles.businessinsider.com) (197)
(Daily Mail) Silly The best way to mark the Queen's 60 years on the throne is with. A) A huge party. B) A statue. C) A commemorative can of beans  (dailymail.co.uk) (66)
(Duluth News Tribune) Asinine Here's what will NOT get you fired from the Fargo, N.D., Police Department: a) Having sex with a teenager in your squad car, and b) leaving your squad car unlocked, allowing a thief to steal handcuffs, Taser, ammo and bulletproof vest  (duluthnewstribune.com) (90)
(With Leather) Interesting Apparently the only way to beat Deion Sanders is to marry him  (withleather.uproxx.com) (16)
(Deadspin) Cool NY Yankee Andruw Jones uses Texas Ranger fan as his outfield toss warm up partner. (w/video)  (deadspin.com) (53)
(Yahoo) Asinine Man spends 15 years in jail that was originally a 3 year sentence because.....c) his father would not pardon him "until he is proven to be righteous by his father"  (news.yahoo.com) (91)
(Baltimore Sun) Stupid Deep down in places you don't talk about you know. You want the Department of Homeland Security on that wall. YOU NEED THEM ON THAT WALL. Protecting us from counterfeit NFL jerseys  (baltimoresun.com) (85)
(Some Neuter) Scary Common: Parking lot dispute settled by a fight. Not common: To the death. Fark: By "squeezing his testicles"  (arbroath.blogspot.com) (82)
(CBS 46 Atlanta) Dumbass Apparently needs to be said: Take Your Daughter To Work Day does not apply to burglars  (cbsatlanta.com) (18)
(Yahoo) Interesting Inside the GOP's anti-Obama "war room" where the best minds of the party wrestle with how Obama can be a Communist AND a Fascist, and whether he's a secret Muslim or a devoted Follower of the Rev, Wright  (news.yahoo.com) (40)
(The Daily Show) Amusing Last night Herman Cain sat down with The Daily Show's John Oliver in a parody of 'Inside the Actor's Studio'. The results were magical  (thedailyshow.com) (58)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass If you're trying to trick Planned Parenthood using phony pregnant women seeking gender-based abortions, they're on to you  (huffingtonpost.com) (259)


Mon April 23, 2012
(Mother Jones) Interesting Meet some of the country's biggest media companies, which own dozens of newspapers and TV news operations that are lobbying against transparency  (motherjones.com) (15)
(Some Regular Citizen) Asinine Is it okay to fly down the Garden State Parkway to Atlantic City doing 100 mph in your exotic car? Apparently it is if you have a state police escort  (nbcnewyork.com) (56)
(Think Progress) Scary The Republican Party's economic platform in 2012: What Bush did, "just updated"  (thinkprogress.org) (58)
(Des Moines Register) Cool Forest Whitaker adopts elementary school as part of a new NEA project  (blogs.desmoinesregister.com) (19)
(LA Times) Followup From the 'well that didn't take long' department, John Huntsman is already backing down on his comparison between the GOP and Communist China  (latimes.com) (38)
(Mental Floss) Interesting 17 elaborately staged theme park ride photos  (mentalfloss.com) (17)
(Yahoo) Unlikely Author of article "how to delete yourself from the Internet" apparently thinks that's possible without setting off EMP devices to fry every Internet connected computer on earth simultaneously  (news.yahoo.com) (21)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Dumbass "Among the 243 porn websites Judge Polito's county computer attempted to access are chubbyparade.com, hugeheavybreasts.com, bigbras-club.com, portofdebauchery.com and teenagesextape.com"... All rise  (suntimes.com) (76)
(Short List) Fail How'd you like them apples? A little too much, apparently  (shortlist.com) (19)
(Guardian) Dumbass Australia's Parliamentary Speaker pulls a McGreevey. Crikey  (guardian.co.uk) (7)
(BBC) Interesting Extremely rare adult white killer whale spotted in the wild with his black counterparts. The whale appears to be healthy, socialized, not followed by mall security  (bbc.co.uk) (59)
(Courier Mail) Asinine 13-year-old girl sued for accidentally hitting a classmate in the eye with a tennis ball during a tennis lesson. This is why someday soon you're going to be forced to buy third-party insurance if you want your child to play sports  (couriermail.com.au) (168)
(BBC) Weird Springtime in Germany means annual near-orgasmic obsession with asparagus has begun. "Who knows what the mixture of phallic symbolism and fertile soil means in the German psyche"  (bbc.co.uk) (88)
(Forbes) Florida University of Florida cuts computer science department to save $1.7 million, adds $2 million to athletic department  (forbes.com) (241)


Sun April 22, 2012
(Next Web) Interesting The Next Web mentions FARK in its article on using a CSGT for a more efficient method of real time tracking of hot topics (6th paragraph)  (thenextweb.com) (1)
(SaveOnBrew) Interesting The only way to get through nine painful innings is to soothe the way with sweet sweet beer. Beer prices at every MLB park  (saveonbrew.com) (59)
(The New York Times) Cool "Last week I put on my leopard suit, went outside, and it was 63 degrees; I had to come back in and change" - indeed, Clyde Frazier is still badass at 67  (nytimes.com) (14)
(Deadline) Followup The Hunger Games finally gets knocked off its perch to #3, with Think Like a Man taking the top spot and Nicholas Spark's twelfth rewrite of The Notebook taking #2  (deadline.com) (87)
(Boston.com) Fail Town that spent $1 million last year to switch to multispace parking meters will spend $100,000 this year to switch back to traditional meters  (boston.com) (107)
(Gizmodo) Cool How to build a MacGyver rocket from parts found around the house  (gizmodo.com) (45)
(The Sun) Strange 35-year-old Milf cries tears of diamonds. The Sun is there, making her eyes all sparkly (w/pic)  (thesun.co.uk) (167)


Sat April 21, 2012
(Times Herald Record (NY)) Obvious Never give Darwin a second swing: man clips several parked cars, flees, and a few minutes later says hello to Mr. Tractor Trailer  (recordonline.com) (32)
(Talking Points Memo) Fail Orrin Hatch falls to the Tea Party, will now be forced to run for reelection   (2012.talkingpointsmemo.com) (79)
(Deadspin) Cool Oregon father and son build 1/3-scale Fenway Park replica on their farm. Shoeless Joe Jackson approves  (deadspin.com) (29)
(MSNBC) Sad Sam Wo's, the San Francisco restaurant that once featured "the world's rudest waiter" set to close its door after 100 years. How rude was he? "The Soup Nazi is the Dalai Lama compared to Edsel Ford Fung"  (usnews.msnbc.msn.com) (135)
(New York Daily News) Spiffy What secret is Princess Cadance and Shining Armor hiding from Twilight Sparkle? Did Pinkie Pie plan the wedding reception? Will Derpy bring muffins? It's the Royal Wedding season finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, 1 pm on The Hub  (nydailynews.com) (154)
(Fark) FarkParty Twin Cities Fark Party TONIGHT April 21st, Psycho Suzi's Motor Lounge. Now with 17% more out-of-towner  (fark.com) (611)
(Daily Mail) Amusing 'Britain's most beautiful face' apparently belongs to Rose Tyler  (dailymail.co.uk) (85)
(Charlotte Observer) Dumbass You can't fight City Hall, but apparently you can smoke pot & have sex there  (charlotteobserver.com) (16)
(Major League Baseball) Amusing In further proof that God hates the Red Sox, Bronx Bombers bombard Boston with 5 home runs on Fenway Park's 100th birthday  (mlb.mlb.com) (230)
(Daily Mail) Cool Coolest photos you'll see of a one-off, porcelein-bodied Bugatti supercar parked casually on a Paris street you'll ever see. Try not to drool. Or wish for a hammer  (dailymail.co.uk) (80)


Fri April 20, 2012
(NHL) Cool Day 10: Elimination Day Part II. Will the refs swallow their whistles in Nashville? Can a Penguin actually die on the ice? These questions and more as the Pennsylvania Civil War continues @ 730ET and DET @ NSH 800 ET  (nhl.com) (1000)
(Washington Post) Sad Tom Davis (R-ret.): There are still centrist Republicans out there, but I won't name a single one because they'll probably lose their next primary to some Tea Partier  (washingtonpost.com) (120)
(Guardian) Obvious The Guardian notices the use of social internet memes and cites FARK for its "sometimes-tasteless humour" (5th paragraph) (Warning: graphic image in link)  (guardian.co.uk) (22)
(ESPN) Obvious Bud Selig says that the A's and Rays need new ballparks. Preferably far away from any troublesome bridges  (espn.go.com) (104)
(Talking Points Memo) Followup One of the Secret Service agents in the middle of the Colombian prostitution scandal was part of Sarah Palin's detail, and he often joked about checking her out  (livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (191)
(USA Today) Spiffy Fenway Park turns 100 today. Suck it, Yankees  (usatoday.com) (422)
(ABC) Asinine Republicans, who are apparently REALLY slow readers have apparently just finished the early chapters of Obama's autobiography which was published 16 years ago  (abcnews.go.com) (208)
(Huffington Post) Interesting Brain Study: Erotic movies make parts of brain shut down (especially the part that's suppose to remember to clear your browser history)  (huffingtonpost.com) (25)


Thu April 19, 2012
(Grantland) Unlikely Want to see reasons why the top prospects should not be drafted? Check this out, it compares Andrew Luck to Todd Marinovich  (grantland.com) (27)
(Pajiba) Amusing What IF "Community" was really just "Saved by the Bell" this whole time? The eerie parallels are too hard to ignore  (pajiba.com) (109)
(Talking Points Memo) Followup George Zimmerman wants a private meeting with the parents of Trayvon Martin. Preferably in a dark alley on a cool, rainy day  (livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (551)
(The Consumerist) Obvious Apparently Verizon was told there would be no math  (consumerist.com) (21)
(Yahoo) Fail Hindu God Ganesh, minus two of his arms, mysteriously turns up in museum parking lot after owner pays some guy to dispose of it. The Simpsons did not do this one yet  (ca.news.yahoo.com) (43)
(Some Guy) Obvious Auto-parts shortage threatens Detroit as commentators fail to note that you can get all kinds of parts just by following an American-built car and picking them off the road as they fall off  (northjersey.com) (21)
(Deadspin) Followup Miami Marlins fancy new ballpark now features interesting foods, great field views, fans disguised as empty seats  (deadspin.com) (116)
(Talking Points Memo) Cool President Obama sits on the bus where Rosa Parks refu-OMG, IS HE GOING BALD?   (livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (145)
(Daily Express) Amusing British parliament in uproar over plans to tax the Cornish pasty and other ancient pie-related products  (express.co.uk) (50)
(Daily Mail) Fail Kids downloading too many paid apps from Apple? There's a lawsuit for that. Tag is for parents who apparently don't know what parenting is  (dailymail.co.uk) (31)
(Boston.com) Cool After initially turning down his invite to be part of the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park ceremony, Terry Francona sees the fans reaction to Bobby Valentine, reconsiders and decides to attend. Maximum Trolling  (boston.com) (43)
(YouTube) Hero Democratic strategist to Tea Partier live on Fox News "You don't know what the F**K you are talking about"  (youtube.com) (260)
(Reason Magazine) Asinine Bad: two cops beat the crap out of a kid for fun. HERO: Officer Regina Tasca intervenes and stops the beating. Fark/obvious: Police department rules Regina Tasca "psychologically unfit" to be a police officer  (reason.com) (242)


Wed April 18, 2012
(Fox News) Followup Drew compares patent trolls to Abu Sayyaf terrorists. Sources say Abu Sayyaf was reportedly offended by the comparison  (foxnews.com) (125)
(io9) Interesting 15 writers and directors who've spawned their own separate genres. Bonus: Not a slideshow  (io9.com) (95)
(The Daily Show) Amusing Pop quiz hotshot: If Johnny has 3 apples, and Billy wants 6, then calculate the square root of 83 until $47 Billion in new tax revenue becomes less than $300 million in subsidies to Planned Parenthood  (thedailyshow.com) (62)
(AZ Family) Silly With 4/20 just days away, here's your annual story about about an anti-drug group handing out free drug testing kits to concerned parents. "Parents need to be aware of this culture"  (azfamily.com) (175)
(Daily Mail) Scary Ugly ass baby parrot born in Germany  (dailymail.co.uk) (34)


Tue April 17, 2012
(Telegraph) Fail As Europe prepares for the next round of bailouts, officials promise yet again that this time will be different  (telegraph.co.uk) (77)
(io9) Spiffy Now that the Avengers movie is finally coming out, what can Marvel Studios do to top it? Plenty, apparently. "We have the comics. When you're producing a story a month for 45 years, there are enough great (ones)"  (io9.com) (157)
(NYPost) Followup Hillary Clinton, party animal - the morning after  (nypost.com) (66)
(Talking Points Memo) Followup Upon realizing they have no other option, the Tea Party is starting to warm up to Mitt Romney  (2012.talkingpointsmemo.com) (202)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Austin Police Department says officer followed procedure when he showed up for a domestic disturbance at the wrong address, pulled his gun on the startled resident, and shot his dog dead in front of him in a span of four seconds  (kvue.com) (306)
(Some Guy) Obvious Jennifer Aniston reportedly cares, or doesn't, about engagement. She's moved on. Apparently the media hasn't  (wpix.com) (37)
(BBC) Interesting Researchers find evidence that "helicopter parenting" pre-dates the invention of the actual helicopter by nearly 2,000 years  (bbc.co.uk) (28)
(KATU) Strange Apparently so many teachers are having sex with their students that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife office has had to start busting pervs  (katu.com) (47)


Mon April 16, 2012
(Fox News) Dumbass Apparently the only person in baseball who doesn't think Kevin Youkilis is passionate about the game is his manager  (foxnews.com) (55)
(Huffington Post) Asinine Tea Party speaker: "We will not be silenced by f*ggots." Clearly this is a tea-party colloquialism that somehow relates to economic issues. Perhaps he meant "Keynesian acolytes"  (huffingtonpost.com) (503)
(MSNBC) Cool The elusive Majorana Fermion may have been found after decades of searching; the subatomic particle (which is its own antiparticle) was first theorized in 1937  (msnbc.msn.com) (72)
(News.com.au) Obvious Research finds a strong correlation between body art (piercings and/or tattoos) and unsafe sex, fighting, heavy drinking, and participating in completely obvious studies  (news.com.au) (135)
(NJ.com) Strange Part-time municipal prosecutor arrested for his day job as a criminal attorney. A *CRIMINAL* attorney  (nj.com) (52)
(Buzzfeed) Amusing Romney offering "preferred status" to Inauguration for donors who cough up $50,000. Still unsure where the party tent will be set up to get a good view of Obama's swearing in, though  (buzzfeed.com) (98)
(Onion AV Club) Fail Fourteen short-lived film-to-TV adaptations. Remember Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Parenthood? Yeah, neither does anyone else  (avclub.com) (152)
(YouTube) Strange Dwyane Wade in post-game interview discusses the game, his teammates, and the particular shade of dress the sideline reporter is wearing  (youtube.com) (16)
(Yahoo) Sick Feeding tubes, once reserved for the comatose and the terminally ill, have now become a hip fashion accessory as they are part of the latest diet craze  (gma.yahoo.com) (116)
(MSNBC) Scary American Nazi Party gets its first lobbyist. Know who else lobbied the Germans?  (usnews.msnbc.msn.com) (188)
(Yahoo) Scary The fact that global warming is "an unproven theory pushed by tree-huggers" hasn't stopped the five nations bordering the Arctic from preparing their militaries to seize the Northwest Passage the moment it thaws  (news.yahoo.com) (354)
(C|Net) Sappy Indian child, separated by circumstance from his family at five and adopted by Australians, finds his mom over 20 years later by using Google Earth  (news.cnet.com) (45)


Sun April 15, 2012
(St. Petersburg Times) Florida A bomb blast, an ambulance stolen and a man named either Maggie, Shadow or Spartacus clutching a potato. Just your average Saturday night in Tarpon Springs  (tampabay.com) (37)
(Newser) Interesting While the media was obsessed with #Occupy's antics, the tea party was busy with the -really- freaky shiat: meetings. Going over legislative records, following debates, arguing with each other, preparing candidates. And no drum circles. Ew  (newser.com) (280)


Sat April 14, 2012
(LA Times) Obvious Movie analyst urges studios to join real world, stop charging same ticket price for every movie, whether it's sparkly vampire crapfest, brainless action crapfest, or sensitive Oscar-bait crapfest  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (95)
(Reason Magazine) Amusing Senator Orrin Hatch (R-eally pissed) is "doggone offended" by "radical libertarians," threatens to punch them in the mouth. Ah, the sound of a neo-con where the tea party is challenging his incumbency  (reason.com) (232)
(Some Guy) Amusing When asked if she would consider running for President, Dolly Parton responds, "We've had enough boobs in the White House"  (foxnewsinsider.com) (130)
(Fark) Amusing Tampa Fark party at Tiny Tap on May 5, because, why not? Anyone in?  (fark.com) (16)
(Quad City Times) Silly Over 1,000 hayseeds descend on the Quad Cities to partake in a massive Square and Circle Dancing competition. "We call things like scissors to banjo and scissors sidecar"  (qctimes.com) (34)
(Some Guy) Obvious Lots of baby girls born this year will probably live to Rue the name their parents give them in a fit of "Hunger Games" fandom  (moms.today.msnbc.msn.com) (131)
(Some Granny) Sad 73 yr old grandma who supplied 40% of the marijuana to Tulsa and parts of Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri arrested with 4 lbs of pot, 2 guns and $276,000 in cash  (thedaily.com) (149)


Fri April 13, 2012
(Some Guy) Hero If you're the 7- or 8-year-old boy who spotted the abandoned penguin egg at the Woodland Park Zoo, then zoo officials as well as the penguin who hatched would like a word  (today.seattletimes.com) (35)
(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Sad "Like many readers, I don't particularly empathize with chickens. It's their misfortune that they lack big eyes"  (startribune.com) (132)
(WLUK-TV) Strange If you're having problems finding the night deposit box at the local funeral parlor, you really shouldn't leave the package next door  (fox11online.com) (14)
(Sun Journal (Maine)) Sad New Hampshire police chief lived his life like in the movies. Unfortunately, it was the part about getting shot one week before retirement  (sunjournal.com) (63)
(Yahoo) Interesting Scientists say that having a second x chromosone apparently makes it much more difficult to distinguish between the gas and brake pedals on a car. Hey, don't get mad at me, this is SCIENCE  (news.yahoo.com) (41)
(WRCB-TV) Scary The peacekeeper slowly entered, surprising the illegal gambling party. He knew these men were among the rich and powerful, but the tin shield on his chest proclaimed justice for all. Then one of the gamblers, in desperation, pulled a gun  (wrcbtv.com) (112)
(National Geographic) Interesting Strawberry leopards forever  (news.nationalgeographic.com) (22)


Thu April 12, 2012
(Daily Kos) Dumbass The Catholic League would like to remind all parents that adopting children is not as good as having them yourselves  (dailykos.com) (262)
(Washington Post) Followup Apparently running on the field in Batman underwear and a cape is FROWNED UPON IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT  (washingtonpost.com) (33)
(Yahoo) Fail Apparently supermarkets haven't thought their cunning plan to save money by firing cashiers and replacing them with self-scanning stations all the way through  (news.yahoo.com) (171)
(Some Guy) Obvious And now for something completely different: An impartial, unbiased, and thorough article by ExxonMobil concludes that petroleum is the best fuel for cars  (exxonmobilperspectives.com) (34)
(Deadspin) Spiffy If you guessed two weeks before MLB has its first inside-the-park home run this season, take a congratulatory lap around the bases  (deadspin.com) (50)


Wed April 11, 2012
(Portland Mercury) Spiffy Portland Mercury mentions the appealing and witty elements of FARK comments (1st paragraph)   (blogtown.portlandmercury.com) (6)
(Network World) Cool Japanese officials prepare for a wave of hand thefts as bank rolls out palm reading ATMs  (networkworld.com) (26)
(610 WIOD) Stupid "Yes, hello? Is this the I.T. department? Can you help me fix my toilet? No? How about find me a video of Elvis?"  (610wiod.com) (307)
(Outside) Misc Wild parrots are learning English from escaped pet birds, though the Norwegian Blue remains strangely mute on the subject  (outsideonline.com) (82)
(ESPN) Asinine Red Sox: Hey, sorry about when you quit and we released a story saying you lost control of the team and you were hepped up on goofballs; please come back for our Fenway 100th birthday party? Terry Francona: LOLNO  (espn.go.com) (124)
(Yahoo) Interesting Rare daytime meteor spotted in Texas explained as being part of "Spring fireball season" . Wow, the weather in Texas really does suck  (news.yahoo.com) (71)
(My Fox DC) Interesting Part of the criteria for being a 'stillborn' baby is being still  (myfoxdc.com) (44)
(Washington Post) NewsFlash US Justice Department sues Apple, publishers for antitrust violations on e-book pricing. Read all about it in an electronic report that costs more than the hardcover  (washingtonpost.com) (432)
(The New York Times) Followup Prepare yourself: The Special Prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case will release new information on the case within 72 hours  (nytimes.com) (892)
(Washington Post) Interesting As if getting your taxes done on April 15th wasn't bad enough, new study shows that traffic fatalities increase by 6% compared to the other days in April  (washingtonpost.com) (21)
(My San Antonio) Amusing Gun shop that Rick Perry once praised for "entrepreneurship and service to the state of Texas" raided by the Department of Homeland Security for knowingly selling guns and ammo to smugglers  (mysanantonio.com) (111)


Tue April 10, 2012
(NYPost) Hero Cool: 102-year-old Bronx man is still parking cars for a living. Hero: And has a girlfriend less than half his age  (nypost.com) (19)
(Buzzfeed) Spiffy Have a seat right over there, and listen to this 8 year old knock Someone Like You out of the park  (buzzfeed.com) (54)
(MSNBC) Weird The most recent conservative to be trampled by the Republican party's rush to the right is "RINO" Dick Lugar  (video.msnbc.msn.com) (137)
(Some Guy) Fail Man sentenced to 7.5 years for making Wild West theme park more genuine  (rapidcityjournal.com) (61)
(CBS News) Followup CBS News mentions FARK as one of the sites which made a little known restaurant reviewer famous. (2nd paragraph)  (cbsnews.com) (0)
(Think Progress) Stupid Alaska Republican refuses to honor Girl Scouts of America because of an internet rumor he read that they are tied to Planned Parenthood (w/video)  (thinkprogress.org) (130)
(Hot Air) Interesting You know those "non-partisan" ABC/WaPo polls everyone quotes? Well they add a 7 point Democrat/Liberal cause advantage. Though by MSM standards that's practically right-wing  (hotair.com) (118)
(ESPN) Followup Bill Parcels ends his shortest NFL coaching gig to date  (espn.go.com) (24)
(Some Guy) Interesting Apparently in Iron Man 3, Iron Man will be battling Gandhi  (collider.com) (83)
(Starpulse) Obvious Hillary Clinton, partying a bit too hard, accused of battery (pics)  (starpulse.com) (50)
(NPR) Silly Titanic is out of print on DVD and retailing for $50, which is apparently a nationwide crisis or something  (npr.org) (72)
(The Raw Story) Dumbass Anyone can troll a website, but trolling an entire city park takes talent. Bonus: cops used as admins  (rawstory.com) (194)
(LA Times) Interesting It's not Godzilla level radioactivity, but radioactive particles from Japan have been detected in kelp coming ashore in California  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (67)


Mon April 09, 2012
(Some Guy) Florida Man wearing boxers assaults construction workers with orange. Apparently there are parts of Florida where this isn't normal  (wpbf.com) (26)
(Telegraph) Dumbass If you're stupid enough to deliberately stand in the jet wash of a plane, be prepared to be blown away  (telegraph.co.uk) (128)
(PennLive) Dumbass Woman accused of setting fire to apartment over domestic dispute with possible Mugshot Of The Week  (pennlive.com) (113)
(Some Guy) Interesting Men eating berries may lower Parkinson's risk. No word on the health benefits of twigs  (medicalnewstoday.com) (37)


Sun April 08, 2012
(PennLive) Followup Farker's daughter found after missing for 4 days. She's safe and back home after several days of partying. Subby thanks those who kept a look out for her and shared her info  (pennlive.com) (579)
(Fox News) Obvious Who's to blame for a 2010 government "conference" in Las Vegas that was basically a taxpayer-funded fark party? Who do you think  (foxnews.com) (154)
(Daily Kos) Obvious Daily Kos contributor Armando invokes the Dennis Green argument for the current Republican Party  (dailykos.com) (95)
(TBO) Florida Department of Highway Safety says elderly drivers are safer  (www2.tbo.com) (58)
(Des Moines Register) Sad Catholic priest dying of pancreatic cancer discovers the news during Lent, refuses to tell his parishioners and ruin Holy Week for them. But he has some words for everyone in what would be his last sermon  (desmoinesregister.com) (298)


Sat April 07, 2012
(web md) Interesting CDC finds that sex education is less prevalent in grades 6-12 ... because at that point half the kids are already parents  (teens.webmd.com) (11)
(The Register) PSA Your grandparents have two years to upgrade their operating system  (theregister.co.uk) (70)
(Des Moines Register) Asinine Police break apart family by taking their pet away from them, claiming it was "dangerous" to allow the alligator to live in the same house as a baby  (desmoinesregister.com) (47)
(Tulsa World) Followup Meth head fuel tanker driver who led cops on 20 mile long, high speed chase, gets sentenced to doing 55. In other news: Apparently you can get a job driving a fuel tanker with 5 previous felony convictions. w/ meth head mugshot goodness  (tulsaworld.com) (36)
(The Eagle Tribune) Amusing Driver of stolen Porsche does donuts in police department parking lot. Steve/Jimmy later takes off for Costa Rica, leaving Fiona behind  (eagletribune.com) (33)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Hey, look... Happy Gilmore is playing golf again  (kptv.com) (40)
(ESPN) Sad 22 year-old University of Minnesota linebacker found dead in his apartment  (sports.espn.go.com) (19)


Fri April 06, 2012
(Yahoo) Sick Department of Education cancels woman's $91,000 student loans due to her total disability. IRS now wants $26,000 in "back taxes" because the cancelled student loans count as income  (gma.yahoo.com) (279)
(The Atlantic) Strange Republicans are now waging war on caterpillars, who are apparently living in the US illegally, not paying taxes, and taking our American jobs and living on welfare  (theatlantic.com) (96)
(Pravda) Cool Man becomes $660,000 richer thanks to nano-particles in the dust that ruined his books  (english.pravda.ru) (35)
(Some Bee) Cool Last Call for NJ Fark Party Saturday April 7th Freehold/Howell. Please let us know if you're planning to attend & whether you're chargin' your lazer or just joining us to imbibe. DIT  (iplayamerica.com) (66)
(The New York Times) Interesting Pro Golf 2012: Rise of the Pornstache  (nytimes.com) (11)
(Some Guy) Amusing Apparently pigs feel the same way most people do about politician's news conferences  (politicalwire.com) (14)
(The Sun) Strange I don't know what parping is, but the mayor of La Toba, Spain has made it illegal, along with farting and picking your nose  (thesun.co.uk) (60)
(Boston.com) Scary Man trying to clear paper jam needs to be rescued by fire department  (boston.com) (25)
(ESPN) Cool Texas Rangers unveil statue at ballpark memorializing fan who died after falling from stands last season  (espn.go.com) (44)
(WRCB-TV) Amusing Park Service seeking volunteers to fire cannon at Civil War battlefield events in Tennessee and Georgia this year. The catch? They need Union volunteers  (wrcbtv.com) (138)
(Some DHS Rascal) Asinine Federal judge eviscerates the Department of Homeland Security with an opinion that scores somewhere between Airplane and Ghostbusters on the "density of quotable lines" scale  (powerlineblog.com) (180)


Thu April 05, 2012
(Daily Mail) Unlikely $200 DIY house would provide a perfect minimalist existence on any $200,000+ parcel of land you might be lucky enough to find  (dailymail.co.uk) (153)
(Huffington Post) Scary You may want to study his current photographs, because Charles Manson is up for parole again, and if he is released he very well might EAT YOUR CHILDREN  (huffingtonpost.com) (137)
(Huffington Post) Asinine Bad: Kid doesn't have class picture permission slip. Good: They let him take part in the class pic anyway. Fark: They cover his face, sort of.... (click to see what may be one of the best uses of Farktography ever)  (huffingtonpost.com) (155)
(Sports Illustrated) Interesting John Calipari says he is not interested in coaching another professional basketball team  (tracking.si.com) (27)
(The Alton Telegraph) Scary One would think that they would stop parking their cars in the same spot  (thetelegraph.com) (84)
(Some Pedestrian) Fail Not news: 14-year-old has driving lesson in parking lot. News: at 8:30 PM, with her family, including the baby, in the vehicle. FARK: she hits another vehicle, air bag deploys, she keeps driving. Then it gets weird  (ksla.com) (44)
(The Daily Beast) Interesting The underlying question behind this years' otherwise entertaining GOP primary season is when (not if) the religious right will move on from the Republican-in-name-only Republican Party  (thedailybeast.com) (90)
(Yahoo) Obvious Michelle Obama appeared on Tuesday night's episode of "The Biggest Loser." Apparently to point at contestants and shout FATTY FATTY  (ca.news.yahoo.com) (55)
(CNN) Followup This may come a a shock to you, but legal experts say that the federal judge who ordered the administration to "clarify" Obama's remarks on judicial review , is a partisan hack who has wildly overstepped his authority  (cnn.com) (284)
(Some Guy) Interesting You thought I was crazy to build an anti-Russia bunker. You thought I was crazy to prepare to fight zombies. Well, who's crazy now?  (heraldsun.com.au) (42)
(Chicago Tribune) Scary Woman severely burned in Wicker Park fire. Lord Summerisle unavailable for comment  (chicagotribune.com) (37)
(io9) Interesting 10 reasons naked mole rats will inherit the Earth. Apparently looking like a wang is an evolutionary advantage  (io9.com) (21)
(Some Body Hackers) Cool Targeted nanoparticles showing success in beating cancer, eating the USS Enterprise  (web.mit.edu) (10)
(CBS News) Asinine Armed Forces Tea Party, for when your politics are more important than your service  (cbsnews.com) (199)
(The Daily Caller) Fail Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter are taking their special brand of hatred and venom--normally reserved for Democrats--and turning on each other, arguing over the biggest idiot in the Republican party  (dailycaller.com) (145)


Wed April 04, 2012
(Fark) Silly I know you guys are sick of hearing about the Vegas Fark Party, but this one contains [OMGOMGOMG] Dinosaurs. LGT original thread  (fark.com) (152)
(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Hero Church school forces high school seniors to listen to talk where homosexuality is compared to bestiality and adopted kids are called "sociologically unstable". Seniors give school history, decorum lessons  (startribune.com) (344)
(Deadspin) Video High school baseball brawl caught on camera by giggly teenage girls. Bonus: Serious irate on-the-field parent action. (language Not safe for work)  (deadspin.com) (47)
(The Daily Show) Amusing Matt Lauer will no longer be invited to Jon Stewart's pool parties  (thedailyshow.com) (79)
(Gawker) Dumbass Rick Santorum claims University of California colleges don't teach American history. Let's see what the (Republican) chair of the history department has to say about that  (gawker.com) (107)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Check out the world's quietest place, where just being there is unbearable and can make you hallucinate. Hint: it's not Kirk Cameron's birthday party  (dailymail.co.uk) (259)


Tue April 03, 2012
(crushable) Spiffy Crushable's story about Audrina Patridge includes a witty observation and headline by a clever FARK submitter (4th paragraph)  (crushable.com) (2)
(News 3 Las Vegas) Cool The week after the World Fark Party II in Vegas, a six-pack of beers gets a seat on Las Vegas City Council. Coincidence?  (mynews3.com) (12)
(USA Today) Scary As the seas continuously rise due to global warming, architects and city planners are exploring creative ways to prepare us all for life in Waterworld  (usatoday.com) (116)
(RealClearPolitics) Obvious Want to see the Tea Partiers have a GOPasm, and watch the Obama campaign go crazy at the same time? Put Condi on the ticket  (realclearpolitics.com) (291)
(Las Vegas Sun) Unlikely Look who else wants a party held in Las Vegas  (lasvegassun.com) (20)
(LAist) Ironic Woman can't read her Steve Jobs biography because 1,600 iPhone-clutching revelers spontaneously hold a houseparty next door: "(Jobs) spirit was here when these kids were out there with their iPhones"  (laist.com) (31)
(Yahoo) Scary Tokyo sushi chefs very upset that the city will no longer require them to be licensed before being allowed to separate the tasty fish from the deadly poison  (news.yahoo.com) (47)
(Forbes) Ironic Tucker Max offers to donate $500k to Planned Parenthood, gets shot down  (forbes.com) (340)
(Some Guy) Misc Calling all Farkers: City of Dacula needs name for new park  (dacula.patch.com) (80)
(Fark) Survey How long should shoes last? Subby bought some decent dress shoes for work about 2 years ago and they're already starting to get separation between the sole and the leather (or whatever material it is)  (fark.com) (282)
(Boston Herald) Interesting From the, "wait, that's illegal?" department: Massachusetts politician indicted for using state funds to support his political campaign  (bostonherald.com) (27)
(Daily Mail) Cool For Rent: Hyde Park flat up for grabs during the Olympics complete with butler and Aston Martin. You too can live like royalty for a mere £11,000 a night  (dailymail.co.uk) (55)
(Daily Mail) Dumbass MIT researcher provides yet another example of why Intelligence and Wisdom are two separate dice rolls  (dailymail.co.uk) (278)
(Boing Boing) Silly I'm a part of your goddamn complete breakfast  (boingboing.net) (35)


Mon April 02, 2012
(Warming Glow) Asinine At the Community wrap party, creator Dan Harmon delivered a "f*ck you, Chevy Chase" speech and encouraged the entire crew to say "f*ck you" to Chevy Chase. Needless to say, Chevy Chase isn't very pleased about this  (warmingglow.uproxx.com) (205)
(Onion AV Club) Amusing Neil deGrasse Tyson informs James Cameron that Rose would not have seen that particular star field floating on a door after Titanic's sinking. Cameron changes it to Tyson's specifications for the 3D rerelease  (avclub.com) (81)
(The Onion) Satire Marlins Park construction crew completely unaware they've been building a baseball stadium  (theonion.com) (17)
(Des Moines Register) Strange Somebody broke into a city park building and stole a package of hamburger patties from a freezer. Police describe the masked suspect as wearing a black-and-white striped shirt, and broad black hat, and muttering, 'Robble, robble'  (blogs.desmoinesregister.com) (31)
(Politico) Interesting Romneybot3000 prepares to load betterhalf.exe which adds a better GUI and more lifelike animations  (politico.com) (53)
(NJ.com) Amusing Apparently the fighting has already begun for one of the winning tickets in the Mega Millions jackpot. Grab your popcorn  (nj.com) (164)
(onlineathens) Interesting Native Americans used a method of dramatically shaping trees in order to mark trails and other important landmarks. Many of these trees, bent 90 degrees and running parallel to the ground, are being rediscovered today  (onlineathens.com) (40)


Sun April 01, 2012
(Mirror.co.uk) Sappy Not News: Identical twins separated by adoption. Newsy: For 55 years. Fark: They've been living round the corner from each other  (mirror.co.uk) (42)
(Fark) FarkParty World Fark Party II - Las Vegas Nevada: March 30 - Apr 1  (fark.com) (lots)
(Jalopnik) Dumbass And the award for Most Inappropriate Parking Space goes to...School-bus in front of Porn Store, let's have a round of applause  (jalopnik.com) (84)
(Some Guy) Asinine Apparently, SC state troopers get pretty grumpy and vengeful when you try to protest the traffic tickets they give you  (wsoctv.com) (150)
(Huffington Post) Scary Some in Congress, including Peter King (R-NY), want to take away the Constitutional rights of people who have not been arrested, charged, or convicted of any crimes. He has bi-partisan support  (huffingtonpost.com) (223)


Sat March 31, 2012
(The Smoking Gun) Silly For those of us that can't be in Las Vegas, we can have our own party with this week's Mugshot Roundup. And it's a good one  (thesmokinggun.com) (86)
(The Newspaper) Followup Man buried in bogus parking tickets by estranged wife's cop friends will be allowed to sue police officers and city  (thenewspaper.com) (72)
(YouTube) Video Hot gymnast in a skin-tight unitard awes the audience with her performance on the parallel bars. Wow  (youtube.com) (42)
(Bitten and Bound) Interesting Fun Fact for Losers: The mega trash generated by 640 million shredded losing lottery tickets would provide sufficient confetti for a grand parade stretching from here to the moon and back  (bittenandbound.com) (37)
(Inquisitr) Obvious Inquisitr reviews feminism on the internet and calls FARK one of the most male-dominated areas of the web (2nd paragraph)  (inquisitr.com) (40)
(QC Online) Sappy The oldest man in the United States, Shelby Harris, celebrates his 111th birthday today. Hopefully the nursing home doesn't throw him a surprise party  (qconline.com) (23)
(NPR) Strange Apparently the human brain has a unique "Jennifer Aniston" receptor  (npr.org) (43)


Fri March 30, 2012
(Think Progress) Asinine Just two legs and part of an arm? That is so 2004. What body part has she give up for her country LATELY?  (thinkprogress.org) (210)
(Deadline) Spiffy Usually, it's a tragedy when an actor and director fight and jeopardize the production of a film. But in this case, it's Human Centipede 3 and it's just wonderful news  (deadline.com) (76)
(The Consumerist) Fail There is no shame in moving back in with your parents, writes person who moved back in with her parents and is ashamed about it  (consumerist.com) (146)
(Some Spoiled Rotten Guy) Dumbass This is why children on airplanes should either be safely secured in a pet carrier, or the overhead luggage compartment  (losangeles.cbslocal.com) (155)
(Slate) Interesting Mother distraught over son being fat, lazy, uneducated ... and completely happy. Apparently, it IS a good way to go through life  (slate.com) (135)
(New York Daily News) Cool Teens filling up the lanes at local archery range after watching Hunger Games movie. Top that, sparkly vampires  (nydailynews.com) (199)


Thu March 29, 2012
(SLTrib) Interesting Utah has nation's highest autism rate. Their parents probably did too much LDS when they were young  (sltrib.com) (82)
(Network World) Obvious What to do for fun at a Nerd convention in Paris? Reconfigure the Hotel networking of course  (networkworld.com) (16)
(Wired) Cool Giant tornado five times the size of Earth demolishes a trailer park on the Sun  (wired.com) (30)
(ABC) Weird Female crash test dummies get injured more often, can't parallel park  (abcnews.go.com) (21)
(NBC Bay Area) Obvious To the people of San Francisco: Subway's $5 Footlong, not yours. Apparently your new minimum wage makes the cost of doing business impossible  (nbcbayarea.com) (481)
(YouTube) Video Hot new band called "Nine Inch Nails" on 1989 Dance Party USA TV show  (youtube.com) (39)
(Kansas City) Spiffy TV producer notices something important missing from the endless parade of reality shows: Beer  (kansascity.com) (47)
(Entertainment Weekly) Stupid Anchorman 2 is a go. Paramount immediately regrets this decision  (insidemovies.ew.com) (123)
(KHOU Houston) Fail Bad: Brawl erupts at party after beer runs out. Worse: Four people shot, two stabbed, two beaten, one dead. FARK: This was a kid's birthday party  (khou.com) (99)


Wed March 28, 2012
(SFGate) Interesting GOP rising star leaves party, adding, "I've fought in a war and I've seen the enemy. We don't have enemies in our political environment here...but in today's political environment, you're expected to play the game"  (blog.sfgate.com) (79)
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) Hero From the I never saw THAT coming department. A wild bear saves a man from a mountain lion attack  (blogs.ajc.com) (93)
(Slanch Report) Dumbass Jose Canseco preaches the good word about global warming and the plight of polar bears. Oh yeah, and apparently he thinks Al Gore is dead  (slanchreport.com) (20)
(Sun Sentinel) Florida Woman plants herb garden containing parsley, rosemary, ex-husband, basil, lavender...wait, what?  (weblogs.sun-sentinel.com) (65)
(WRCB-TV) Amusing Romneybot 2.0 launches talkshow.exe subroutine, attempts to load regularguy.dat into newly formatted partition  (wrcbtv.com) (92)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Man scrawls a huge painted death threat across garage door. "According to the Police Department, he is not breaking the law. The city is not allowed to regulate what people paint on their homes"  (kens5.com) (102)
(YouTube) Cool Bike parkour is the best parkour  (youtube.com) (46)


Tue March 27, 2012
(Fark) FarkBlog Dick Cheney's heart plant surgery, Bob Uecker's statue juuust a bit outside of Miller Park, and a special report from Trevor McSmokingballs: some of Fark's favorite Headlines of the Week for 3/18 - 3/24  (fark.com) (10)
(Some Guy) Plug New book coming out by Zack Parsons, author of "My Tank Is Fight!" This one is called Liminal States, and comes with its own music video  (liminalstates.com) (38)
(Think Progress) Unlikely Friend of Zimmerman defends his use of the slur "coon asses" stating that the phrase is used proudly in parts of the country by people to describe themselves  (thinkprogress.org) (lots)
(Yahoo) Fail Good news: Syria has accepted the UN peace plan, except for the ceasefire part  (news.yahoo.com) (24)
(SFGate) Interesting Apparently FEMA made a study to see if Fallout could happen. "If you are thinking about (a city) being wiped off the face of the earth, that's not what happens"  (sfgate.com) (194)
(Google) Asinine Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown (R) wants voters to know he's not part of the GOP's War on Women, and that he learns a lot from his wife and daughters. What specifically? "How to cook, sew, and clean"  (google.com) (93)
(ESPN) Unlikely Coachless New Orleans Saints throw a Hail Mary to Bill Parcells  (espn.go.com) (80)
(Reuters) Dumbass Bernanke says US needs more growth. Apparently he never checked his spam folder  (reuters.com) (15)
(CBS News) Stupid Come one, who wouldn't want to pay $50 for a picture with a guy who has absolutely not chance of winning his party's nomination?  (cbsnews.com) (52)
(Iowa City Press-Citizen) Strange Derick A. Thoene, 28, walked into Iowa City hall at 11:37 a.m. Thoene allegedly approached the lobby receptionist and said, 'I have your parking attendant in the trunk of my car, do you want him dead or alive?'  (press-citizen.com) (42)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Strange Apparently, Soul Asylum is still around and has signed a new record deal  (hollywoodreporter.com) (95)
(Science Daily) Stupid How movies that make you say "Jesus at least my life doesn't suck THAT bad" make people feel better. Apparently it was a mystery  (sciencedaily.com) (35)
(Iowa City Press-Citizen) Dumbass Man arrested for repeatedly flashing people walking around a park and eating a bag of marijuana. Thank god he wasn't wearing a hoodie  (press-citizen.com) (51)
(PennLive) Dumbass If you want to celebrate getting a new job, particularly in this economy, that's cool. The Harrisburg Police, however, tend to frown on celebrations that involve firing guns wildly into the air  (pennlive.com) (40)
(Sci_Tech Today) Interesting Peking Man fossils that were lost during WWII, while in transit to US for safekeeping, may be buried beneath parking lot in Qinhuangdao China  (sci-tech-today.com) (24)


Mon March 26, 2012
(Fox News) Strange 8 things that stink about spring breakers in Cancun (with pic of what apparently sucks)  (latino.foxnews.com) (244)
(ESPN) Unlikely Kobe upset over fourth-quarter benching in loss to Grizzlies. Coach Mike Brown explains it was all just part of his Metta-game  (espn.go.com) (13)
(Some Bee) Cool Sat. April 7th NJ Fark Party for Sir Cumference the Flatulent. Update: We're still hitting up Iplay America for some laser tag, but food & drink venue has changed DIT  (iplayamerica.com) (98)
(Abc.net.au) Amusing Billionaire trolls Australian media to help get political party elected  (abc.net.au) (15)
(Cracked) Fail Five creepy modern parenting fads: Want to worship your child as part of the coming of a new, superior race? Maybe you'd prefer to "train up" your less-than-one year old baby with a tree branch? Truly something for everyone  (cracked.com) (145)
(NPR) Fail Helicopter parents force cancellation of annual Easter egg hunt. Due to their "aggressive actions" when they swarmed the park last year, determined to get their precious snowflakes the most goodies  (npr.org) (89)
(YouTube) PSA With the World Fark Party II looming, please Farkers, don't let this happen to you  (youtube.com) (26)


Sun March 25, 2012
(The Atlantic Wire) Interesting The average time spent during a visit to an adult site has grown 26% since 2008, to eight minutes and 35 seconds. Congratulations, if you had a partner they'd be proud you're lasting longer  (theatlanticwire.com) (77)
(Cleveland Plain Dealer) Obvious Now is the best time to visit Yellowstone Park. As long as you don't mind all the snow and bears  (cleveland.com) (38)
(Deadline) Followup It's official: The Hunger Games has beaten Twilight at the box office and proven itself to be the better franchise in many ways. TEAM NO SPARKLY VAMPIRES  (deadline.com) (158)
(The Tennessean) Interesting Dolly Parton plans to write her life as a musical, focusing the most part on her fondest mammaries  (tennessean.com) (41)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Stars and stripes bikini? check. Tacky arm bracelet? check. Roller skating on an isolated beach after calling the paparazzi? check. Yes, it's another unplanned Courtney Stodden photo shoot  (dailymail.co.uk) (124)
(Bozeman Comical) Dumbass Not content with convincing parents not to vaccinate their kids, blithering idiots are now trying to stop cities from fluoridating drinking water in an effort to preserve their precious bodily fluids  (bozemandailychronicle.com) (504)


Sat March 24, 2012
(LiveLeak) Fail Never before has such a large amount of parallel parking fail been squeezed into such a little car  (liveleak.com) (56)
(St. Petersburg Times) Photoshop The Republican National Convention is sponsoring a student art contest with the theme "Elephants On Parade." Give the kiddies a break and post your entry  (tampabay.com) (43)
(Fox News) Unlikely Strip club industry prepares once again for customers needing to find a slot to deposit a $1 coin  (foxnews.com) (313)
(Seattle Times) Sappy Ugly ass clouded leopards make their debut at Seattle zoo  (seattletimes.nwsource.com) (36)
(SanDiegoUnionTribune) Cool Katy Perry films "Part Of Me" video at Camp Pendleton, depicting her as a Marine. "Millions of people who probably have no exposure to the Marine Corps got a chance to see our female Marines and what they do"  (utsandiego.com) (108)
(Omaha World Herald) Fail Tired of your parents out partying until dawn? Set fire to their bed and blame cartoons  (omaha.com) (47)
(KTLA) Cool Let's give a loud FARK welcome to Wernerius inyoensis, a thumbnail sized new species of scorpion from Death Valley National Park  (ktla.com) (28)
(The Local (Sweden)) Unlikely Apparently it's so easy to rape someone in Sweden, you can do it in your sleep  (thelocal.se) (50)
(The Sun) Spiffy Rural police have been equipped with night-vision goggles in a crackdown against: A) cattle rustlers, B) smugglers, or C) parsnip poachers?  (thesun.co.uk) (18)
(Wired) PSA Attention, parents, here are ten things you need to know about The Hunger Games. #11: bring snacks  (wired.com) (51)


Fri March 23, 2012
(WHP 21) Dumbass Sheesh. It's getting to be you can't spread the word of the Lord to kids by abducting them, putting pillow cases over their heads, taking them to your van and interrogating them anymore without their parents getting all pissy  (whptv.com) (134)
(Some Guy) Dumbass City council considers banning smoking in all apartment complexes. Lighten up  (sacramento.cbslocal.com) (145)
(The Raw Story) Interesting When your firing is protested by Planned Parenthood and Texans For Life, you know you may have done something right  (rawstory.com) (105)
(Discover) Interesting Which Wine Goes Best with Semiconductors? A 2009 Beaujolais, Apparently   (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (10)
(Huffington Post) Amusing Noted fiscal conservative Tea Partier Michele Bachmann Owes $1 Million In Campaign Debt  (huffingtonpost.com) (133)
(RealClearPolitics) Interesting If Obama and the Democratic Party will not use their power to close the inequality gap right here in their own playpen, how do they remain credible in Middle America?  (realclearpolitics.com) (112)
(Some Guy) Followup The Hangover Part III will be the merciful end of the series, until the producers realize they can make more money should they make a fourth movie  (vulture.com) (69)
(Some Guy) Amusing Possible Cougar Reported at U. of Mich. Campus... Party at UofM  (myfoxdetroit.com) (43)
(WPTV) Florida When you go to an event described as "500 acres of mud and party" with your wife to see strippers, you know it can only end in blood and tears  (wptv.com) (66)
(My Fox DC) Scary Fed up with local children pilfering candy from your Easter display? You should a) talk to their parents. b) move the decorations closer to the house. c) lace a batch of chocolate bunnies with ammonia and hang them from a tree in the front yard  (myfoxdc.com) (69)


Thu March 22, 2012
(Heritage Foundation) Fail Good news for business owners and taxpayers. The 120 new federal regulations enacted last year will only cost you $1 billion a year for the next 15 years. Bonus: The Department of Justice says "You'll get over it"  (blog.heritage.org) (84)
(PennLive) Asinine Apparently Jerry Sandusky's admission of guilt to one of his alleged victims' mothers wasn't a detail worth mentioning to the case investigator  (pennlive.com) (60)
(Washington Post) Fail Stop me if you've heard this one before; Boehner confident he has votes for DOA Ryan budget despite the Tea Partiers and Dems voting against it  (washingtonpost.com) (43)
(Quad City Times) Fail "If a website can help people connect and find love, why can't a website help people find jobs?" pondered a chiropractic college's student affairs director who has apparently never been online  (qctimes.com) (22)
(Daily Mail) Florida Beware: Serial killer train on the loose in Florida, claims two victims in one day 435 miles apart. With helpful picture of what a serial killer train may look like  (dailymail.co.uk) (30)
(Stylist) Cool New York has the Statue of Liberty, Paris the Eiffel Tower, London has... FREE CAKES FOR EVERYONE AT BUS STOPS  (stylist.co.uk) (57)
(Hot Air) Asinine California Union wants to force parental school volunteers to unionize. But remember, it's all about the children  (hotair.com) (207)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Paris Hilton's poolside Miami appearance reminds onlookers that they've probably got some ironing to do  (dailymail.co.uk) (95)
(NBC DFW) Stupid When posting an invitation about your "Crazy Project X Type Party", please remember that the police read Craigslist, too, kiddies  (nbcdfw.com) (46)
(ESPN) Spiffy Brewers to honor Bob Uecker with statue just a bit outside of Miller Park  (sports.espn.go.com) (88)
(WPTV) Florida Trying to get your wife drunk because she won't leave you alone and then calling 911 so you can go on Facebook is apparently frowned upon by authorities  (wptv.com) (15)
(Daily Mail) Fail Parents leave their 9-year-old daughter and the-12-year-old son alone to fend for themselves while they go to Vegas. Thankfully the police have a problem with this  (dailymail.co.uk) (125)


Wed March 21, 2012
(News.com.au) Stupid Teenagers are learning how to iron, sew and make the bed as part of a school curriculum designed to turn boys into "men". Pretty men with soft hands and delicate smiles that we know get all the girls  (news.com.au) (280)
(Some Glowing Guy) Photoshop Photoshop this sparkling water  (muz4in.net) (21)
(Political Wire) Unlikely Romney adviser compares Mitt's campaign to an Etch-A-Sketch: "You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again"  (politicalwire.com) (219)
(Yahoo) Asinine Chicago lawmaker caught on tape by the FBI accepting a bribe, still wins his party's primary with 76% of the vote. Officials say this being Chicago, the bribery charged may actually have helped him  (news.yahoo.com) (45)
(TMZ) Dumbass Larry David gets trapped in a parking garage. Man, I loved that episode of Seinfeld  (tmz.com) (33)
(Breitbart.com) Obvious Breitbart demands Barack Obama apologize for the fact that Tom Hanks and Glenn Frey appeared on stage with a man in an Afro wig at a 2004 fundraiser for St. Matthew's Parish School in Pacific Palisades, California  (breitbart.com) (117)
(Bitten and Bound) Sick Attention all Jersey Shore fans ... we have a SITUATION. Mike Sorrentino has partied himself into a treatment facility that his handlers would have you believe is not drug rehab. If it looks like a duck  (bittenandbound.com) (57)
(Haaretz) News Man responsible for the Toulouse shootings has been cornered in an apartment building and is currently in stand-off with the police, claims to be an Al Qaeda member  (haaretz.com) (425)
(Waterloo Courier) Fail "Yes, 911, I have an emergency. There is a woman in my apartment and OH MY GOD SHE'S WEARING LIPSTICK SHE HAS ON LIPSTICK OH GOD OH GOD NO"  (wcfcourier.com) (40)


Tue March 20, 2012
(Talking Points Memo) Asinine Intent on going down in the biggest blaze of glory ever, Rick Santorum now taking shots at President Obama's parenting skills  (2012.talkingpointsmemo.com) (166)
(BBC) Dumbass Harry Potter actor jailed for his part in London riots. Typical Slytherin  (bbc.co.uk) (69)
(MSNBC) Followup Housing starts for February were really bad, but construction permits are way up as builders switch to building apartments. This means housing is getting better, right?  (economywatch.msnbc.msn.com) (55)
(WTKR) Scary You know it was en epic fight with your wife when she rams your car in the parking lot as you try to flee, chases you the wrong way down a highway and rams your car into a utility pole  (wtkr.com) (51)
(Pensito) Scary U.S. 'free enterprise' employer-based health insurance system 'coming apart at the seams'  (pensitoreview.com) (116)
(NYPost) Obvious Science Channel joins SyFy, A&E, History and TLC in "name does not describe our programming" game, airs conclusion of two-part series on how man would react to alien encounters. Bravo  (nypost.com) (87)
(Liberty Republican Forum) Interesting Liberty Republican Forum illustrates their article about Missouri party voting with a jaw-dropping photo courtesy of FARK  (fontcraft.com) (0)
(Telegraph) Interesting Apparently, William Shakespeare spoke Amurikun. FARK yeah  (telegraph.co.uk) (253)


Mon March 19, 2012
(BBC) Scary Fishery closed by killer lice. Apparently those little combs and shampoos don't work on trout  (bbc.co.uk) (23)
(Kansas.com) Obvious If you've been killing people in video games since you were 2 it will help prepare you for the cutthroat world of Corporate America  (kansas.com) (53)
(CBS News) Scary Apparently the Mark of the Beast is actually ABBA  (cbsnews.com) (95)
(Sun Sentinel) Florida Florida's governor expected to sign a bill doubling and tripling fines for parking illegally in handicap spaces, which in Florida will impact no one at all  (sun-sentinel.com) (74)
(Daily Mail) Strange When the son of a celebrity turns 25, they usually receive a new car, vacation home, or at least have a huge party. But then, if you're Kris Jenner, you give your son a mostly-nude pic of yourself. "Gee, thanks Mom"  (dailymail.co.uk) (51)
(Wall Street Journal) Silly Volvo signs someone named Jeremy Lin to an endorsement deal. Apparently, he was a big deal a while back  (blogs.wsj.com) (36)
(PhysOrg.com) Obvious Spain's solar energy plant keeps working at night due to the addition of a buffer, which is apparently a totally new and unique concept never before attempted in any intermittent system anywhere  (physorg.com) (157)
(Jacksonville.com) Florida Good: Going to Bottoms Up to watch strippers. Bad: Getting carjacked in the parking lot. Farkworthy: Having to put on a show for the ladies as you watch your car ride off in to the sunset  (jacksonville.com) (31)
(Salon) Interesting How is boddy died? How is boddy died? How life get departed. They need to do way in stained brains who kill thier boddys. because these boddy can frigth back?  (salon.com) (74)
(IndyStar) Dumbass Those sexually explicit emails I sent my secretary were all part of a brilliant plan to expose corruption. You should all be thanking me  (indystar.com) (107)
(Fox News) Asinine Three years into the Most Transparent Administration Ever, how many states get an "A" grade for transparency, accountability, and low corruption? How does "zero" sound? And you'll never guess who actually ranks highest  (foxnews.com) (91)


Sun March 18, 2012
(Some Guy) Scary The phrase "no good deed goes unpunished" is apparently taken as law in Illinois  (chicago.cbslocal.com) (279)
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Amusing Joe Biden runs the entire Pittsburgh St. Patrick's Day Parade, dead lifts 500lbs., eats a side of beef for lunch  (post-gazette.com) (94)
(Some Guy) Cool Ice cream parlor honors a coupon issued 26 years ago, according to the reporter who got the scoop  (billingsgazette.com) (51)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass Running ads mocking the people responsible for 25% of your purchases isn't particularly good for business  (huffingtonpost.com) (58)


Sat March 17, 2012
(KVAL) Silly "Armed with a box of crackers, Eyewitness News went to the park to see how the squirrels acted"  (kval.com) (35)
(MSNBC) Hero Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) vetoes anti-sex education bill: "I am unwilling to conclude that the state knows better than Utah's parents as to what is best for their children"  (usnews.msnbc.msn.com) (183)
(New York Daily News) Amusing New upscale baby name guides help educated parents who don't even OWN a TV to choose baby names from canon of great Western literature instead of trash television  (nydailynews.com) (191)


Fri March 16, 2012
(Elliot Wave International) Obvious Elliot Wave International compares FARK's non sequitur headlines to the reporting by the financial news media (3rd section)  (elliottwave.com) (0)
(Some Guy) Sick If the school won't release your kid to you, stripping off and singing religious songs in the parking lot may not help your cause  (delcotimes.com) (51)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass Arizona Republicans remove "circumcision requirement" from bill, keep the stupid part  (huffingtonpost.com) (116)
(Gizmodo) Cool Fricken laser beams sold separately  (gizmodo.com) (16)
(Big 1059) Obvious "Joe Biden is TOTALLY unprepared for the Presidency" according to: (a) Romney (b) Gingrich (c) Osama bin Laden  (big1059.com) (163)
(ABC) Interesting Latvians celebrate the memory of their soldiers who fought in WWII. Difficulty? They were part of the SS and fought for the Germans  (abcnews.go.com) (224)
(News.com.au) Interesting What can you do with heavy-duty suction cups, a heat gun and guitar picks? Take apart the new iPad 3, of course  (news.com.au) (35)
(Bitten and Bound) Fail Skateboarder Ryan Sheckler brought a female acquaintance back to his Vegas hotel room. While he snoozed, she helped herself to $100K in parting gifts  (bittenandbound.com) (53)
(Sun Sentinel) Florida Floridians afraid that Movies like "Project X" are making kids want to party, get drunk, do drugs, and break things. "They never would have came up with that idea themselves"  (sun-sentinel.com) (65)
(Talking Points Memo) Interesting MN Senate Majority leader has affair with staffer, staffer is fired. Staffer now suing for being fired for gender; threatens to release names of other staffers having affairs with legislators. Diffculty: Guess party and genders involved   (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) (54)
(Chicago Tribune) Obvious We are Romney. Lower your expectations and surrender your votes. We will add your political distinctiveness to our own. Your Tea Party will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile  (chicagotribune.com) (35)
(Some Guy) Fail Marijuana grow lamp sparks house blaze, firefighters able to knock down the flames once they dispersed the large crowd that had gathered downwind  (wdsu.com) (35)


Thu March 15, 2012
(Toronto Star) Hero Parents of six-year old boy find out he has only 12 weeks to live, mother asks the Everquest 2 community to help decorate the little boy's in game island. Over 300 people answer the call creating an amazing virtual playground  (thestar.com) (98)
(Mother Nature Network) Strange Teen gets busted for throwing a party while her parents are out of town when her dad remotely checks on the home's energy consumption. This never happened in a John Hughes' movie  (mnn.com) (97)
(Washington Post) Obvious If the parents on trial for their kids' excessive tardiness had spent as much time back then getting their kids ready as they're spending on their defense now, they would never have had a problem  (washingtonpost.com) (90)
(Huffington Post) Amusing "As Fark aptly notes, 'The story is unremarkable. The mug shot is unforgettable.'" Dude, we aptly note stuff ALL THE TIME. (shoutout in 4th paragraph)  (huffingtonpost.com) (7)
(Herald-Leader) Dumbass Drive on a parkway, park on a driveway, _______ on a walkway  (kentucky.com) (67)
(Quad City Times) Amusing GOP candidate addresses local Democratic party convention by mistake  (qctimes.com) (62)
(The New York Times) Asinine You'll never guess which party opposes renewing the Violence Against Women Act  (nytimes.com) (535)
(New York Daily News) Obvious Mittbot 2.0 is apparently unable to run NCAA.exe on his current operating system  (nydailynews.com) (141)
(TMZ) Dumbass Russell Brand grabbed a paparazzi's iPhone and threw it through an office window because c) it was a tribute to Steve Jobs  (tmz.com) (43)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Lubbock Planned Parenthood CEO arrested for taking his little Richard out to play at the park  (kcbd.com) (101)


Wed March 14, 2012
(ktvb.com) Obvious Bomb scare in trailer park threatens to cause tens of dollars in improvements  (ktvb.com) (24)
(Daily Kos) Amusing Since VA lawmakers are keen about telling women how to handle their lady parts, women have flocked to Facebook to ask them for health advice and reproductive opinions  (dailykos.com) (131)
(Washington Post) Unlikely 34 percent of DC singles rate themselves "heavy drinkers," the highest among US cities surveyed. Which reminds me -- when's the next DC Fark Party?  (washingtonpost.com) (129)
(Yahoo) Asinine My client wasn't drunk, your honor, when he ran a stop sign and hit the other vehicle, but his Bentley apparently was  (gma.yahoo.com) (80)
(Abc.net.au) Cool In today's photojournal challenge, the ingredients are: grassy park, Maasai warriors, and cricket bats  (abc.net.au) (13)
(USA Today) Obvious It might have been a Bipartisan Payroll Tax Cut, but it's going to raise the Obama Deficit  (content.usatoday.com) (63)
(MIT) Unlikely MIT wants to build a better parking lot  (web.mit.edu) (105)
(LA Times) Dumbass Teacher tells student to urinate in a bucket after refusing to give bathroom pass. Parents extremely pissed  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (135)
(The New York Times) Hero Departing Goldman Sachs exec not only burns bridge, but hunts down bridge designer and sets fire to river with op-ed piece  (nytimes.com) (364)
(New York Daily News) Spiffy New York Daily News loves the mocking tone of FARK's recent culinary headline (next to last paragraph)  (nydailynews.com) (0)
(ESPN) Fail Already filled out your brackets? You might want to double check that, particularly if you had Syracuse winning it  (espn.go.com) (47)
(Deadline) Sad Paramount announces plans to ruin this Christmas and next Christmas  (deadline.com) (37)
(Kotaku) Amusing COD kid going nuts on his mom to the left, parenting and audio authentication experts to the right  (kotaku.com) (133)


Tue March 13, 2012
(Chicago Tribune) Fail Someone finally figures out that selling John Wilkes Booth bobble-heads in the Gettysburg National Park gift shop might be in bad taste  (chicagotribune.com) (80)
(Bloomberg) Asinine Stop me if you've heard this one before: Bi-partisan bill promising economic growth aims to roll back depression-era regulatory safeguards and disclosure requirements  (bloomberg.com) (53)
(Yahoo) Scary The bite caused her to lose part of an ear; hear no evil. She nearly lost her eyesight; see no evil. But she could speak and when she did she said SPIDER  (gma.yahoo.com) (100)
(WebProNews) Interesting "Websites such as the indispensable Drudge Report, Times 24/7, Real Clear Politics, Digg, Fark and Reddit collect news from sources spread across the Web." Wait... are we indispensable now? (4th paragraph)  (webpronews.com) (15)
(Press Herald) Amusing Fark credited for embracing food critic's down-home sweetness and racking up many views: "I had never heard of going viral before and I didn't know what that means, so I'm just taking it all in my stride" (5th paragraph)  (pressherald.com) (6)
(Cleveland Plain Dealer) Amusing Cleveland.com recognizes Fark's snark for an Olive Garden reviewer (10th paragraph shoutout)  (cleveland.com) (3)
(TechEBlog) Weird Another day, another five theme parks you've never heard about  (techeblog.com) (11)
(Politico) Amusing Sarah Palin says Obama campaign took her words "out of context" and "heavily edited" them in new ad. In other news, Palin is apparently unaware of how political ads have worked for the past 5,000 years  (politico.com) (112)
(Fox News) Obvious First two days of NCAA tournament to cost $175 million in lost productivity according to studies put out by Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc and Department of Pulling Random Numbers out of our Asses  (foxnews.com) (24)
(MSN) Hero Apparently this helicopter parent is flying Airwolf. Tag is for parent  (now.msn.com) (78)
(Some Guy) Dumbass If you're on parole for having sex with a student, it might be best if you don't have that same student in your closet when your parole officer stops by for a visit  (necn.com) (52)
(BBC) Spiffy Pedro Pimentel Rios is sentenced to 6,060 years in prison for his part in the massacre of 201 people in Guatemala, but with good behavior he'll be out in half that time  (bbc.co.uk) (28)
(USA Today) Hero More and more doctors are standing up to parents who refuse to vaccinate their children and telling them to go fark themselves  (yourlife.usatoday.com) (433)
(Stuff.co.nz) Sick "Even the mayor of Hokitika, Maureen Pugh, didn't shy away from the stallion juice: 'I thought it would be creamy and curdled. The grossest part was it hitting me in the face'"  (stuff.co.nz) (60)
(USA Today) Dumbass Your 6th grade son's team loses their basketball game. Do you: c) beat the crap out of the opposing team's coach and bite off part of his ear?  (content.usatoday.com) (46)


Mon March 12, 2012
(KMBC) Interesting Man dies at own bachelor party, dodges major bullet  (kmbc.com) (96)
(Aggrogate) Interesting Mass Effect 3 handles gay people better than any other game, because it focuses more on the "people" part than the "gay" part  (aggrogate.com) (259)
(Huffington Post) Sad Apparently, they don't make large 14th century Gothic castles like they used to  (huffingtonpost.com) (72)
(Yahoo) Cool Fark NCAA Pick'em Pool - May the drunkest participant win   (tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com) (97)
(LiveLeak) Cool Paralyzed dog learns to walk, then run, with his owner's love and patience. Damn dust  (liveleak.com) (25)


Sun March 11, 2012
(YouTube) Cool This week SHMHC goes retro with Black Sabba... wait... uh... that's not Sabbath? Really? Eh, whatever, the song kills, let's party like it's 1973  (youtube.com) (57)


Sat March 10, 2012
(Telegraph) Amusing Apparently fed up with constantly needing the US Navy to rescue its sailors from pirates, Iran is training a force of 3,000 ninjas. Bonus: An all female force of 3,000 ninjas  (telegraph.co.uk) (176)
(Telegram) Spiffy Worcester Telegram recognizes the latest internet sensation caused primarily by FARK's humorous restaurant review (paragraph 10)  (telegram.com) (1)
(Some Guy) Asinine For the second time this week, parents test Chuck E. Cheese's "No Child Left Behind" program  (kens5.com) (63)
(The Raw Story) Asinine Republican party finally sees the error of their ways and quietly lets the war against women drop... JUST KIDDING, a Georgia State Representative compares pregnant women to cattle and pigs  (rawstory.com) (334)
(ABC) Interesting American Auto Bailout - Part Deux  (abcnews.go.com) (121)


Fri March 09, 2012
(Mirror.co.uk) Stupid Gerard Depardieu reveals friendship with Fidel Castro based on common fondness for eating. (w/ less than flattering pic)  (mirror.co.uk) (32)
(Mr Outre) Dumbass Hey you Got a spare £11.50 cluttering up your bank account? Want to ingest nicotine via a really, really pompous cocktail? Introducing the "Cig'nature". Or as some call it, the BLEAUGH  (mroutre.com) (22)
(Yahoo) Asinine Wednesday March 7th, 2012: The first sighting in the wild of the "If candidate X can't stand up to {name of domestic partisan blowhard} how can he possibly stand up to {name of scary foreign leader}?" line in the 2012 campaign  (news.yahoo.com) (147)
(Entertainment Weekly) Dumbass Bill O'Reilly does his best to get NBC's "Parenthood" renewed for another season  (watching-tv.ew.com) (40)
(Grand Forks Herald) Spiffy Grand Forks Herald thanks FARK for the numerous page views after a tasty story about the Olive Garden restaurant. "Popular websites such as Fark posted the story, setting off a barrage of comments" (3rd and 5th paragraph)  (grandforksherald.com) (9)


Thu March 08, 2012
(Some Bee) Cool NJ Fark Party - Come meet ex-pat Sir Cumference the Flatulent while he's back in the states Join us for some video games & laser tag @ iPlay first & then onto dinner & drinks @ Moore's Tavern (Freehold) Saturday April 7th  (moorestavern.com) (69)
(IGN) Interesting Fox's failed attempt at Jurassic Park to be revived by InGen, er Netflix  (tv.ign.com) (71)
(Yahoo) Obvious What part of OLRTXT HARW DPR REC NAMEC CASE1 EMRG HK US CN HDWR NEWS ENT;0334.HK AAPL.O do you not understand?  (news.yahoo.com) (59)
(Smithsonian) Interesting Top pics from the 9th annual Smithsonian photo contest. (Prepare for slideshow rage)  (smithsonianmag.com) (18)
(AZCentral) Followup "The Sheriff's Office insists in court documents that the use of a tank, a bomb robot and 40 deputies was part of its normal course of duties" in arresting a man for owning chickens  (azcentral.com) (72)
(Fark) FarkParty Dallas Fark Party, TONIGHT at Jack Daniels Bar and Grill. Starts 6PM - Drew will be there - ALL WELCOME  (fark.com) (218)
(ESPN) Scary USC defensive tackle DaJohn Harris issues holehearted explanation for his non-participation in NFL rookie combine  (espn.go.com) (11)


Wed March 07, 2012
(LA Times) Fail School District to Parents: We've suspended the hot middle-school science teacher who appears in pr0n. Also? It would be helpful if you'd discourage your child from watching her extracurricular activities online  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (144)
(Some Guy) Asinine The Wisconsin Senator who wants to make single parenting illegal wishes to clarify his stance. He is only doing it because women are "trained to lie about planned pregnancies" and need to be held accountable  (rightwingwatch.org) (737)
(Some Guy) PSA Kids: You need to MAINTAIN at the party. If you pass out, your drunken friends will carry you to the car and kill you on the way home. Actually, they'll kill you and themselves, along with some other random drunk guy. This story is a mess  (hometownannapolis.com) (103)
(Slate) Stupid Mitt Romney is the Galactus of the GOP primaries, apparently because he has the power to consume and drain the life out of everything he touches on a planetary scale  (slate.com) (63)
(YouTube) Spiffy Brazilian late-night shows are a far sight better than their American counterparts: Exhibit A  (youtube.com) (106)
(USA Today) Spiffy Good news, TFettes: Here's a list of all the Vegas party pools where you'll be able to go topless for the Fark Convention March 30-April 1  (travel.usatoday.com) (117)
(Post City) Cool Earth's most powerful civilizations -- the Romans, the Greeks, the Chinese -- all made a big deal about eating an entire suckling pig as part of a magical ritual. Now the Canadians are discovering the allure  (postcity.com) (38)
(Deadline) Cool Parks & Rec films two season finales to throw everyone off the scent of whether or not Leslie Knope wins the election  (deadline.com) (44)
(Democratic Underground) Obvious Imagine a country where there's: No Obamacare, No income tax, A complete free market, No Unions, No Govt involved in Business, Health Care, Labor matters or pretty much anything else except national security. Here's the Tea Party Heaven  (democraticunderground.com) (226)
(AL.com) Silly Imagine your job involves flying across the Atlantic to personally verify the world's largest bikini parade  (blog.al.com) (104)


Tue March 06, 2012
(The 814 Times) Spiffy The third part of a movie series that started in the 1980s is just about ready to get filmed. No, not that one, the other one  (the814times.com) (80)
(The Week) Scary So apparently NASA is about as secure as a 14-year-old with braces  (theweek.com) (26)
(BBC) Scary Pardon sir, but we would like to stay at your farm as the rest of this area is flooded. I hope you do not mind that we are THOUSANDS OF SPIDERS  (bbc.co.uk) (301)
(Gizmodo) Interesting IBM's Watson expert system computer has moved from dominating at Jeopardy to dominating Wall Street. Now if it only knew the equation for love  (gizmodo.com) (98)
(Some Guy) Followup In Georgetown Journal of Gender and Law's 2011 annual review, nonpolitical nonpartisan anonymous student Sandra Fluke wrote an article advocating that health insurers cover gender reassignment surgery  (mrctv.org) (457)
(UPI) Interesting W boson mass measurement alludes to the discovery of the Higgs boson particle  (upi.com) (119)
(Some Guy) Cool Welcome to an ancient movie-making era lost in the mists of time, with these behind-the-scenes videos of Stan Winston's animatronic dinosaurs for Jurassic Park  (joblo.com) (14)


Mon March 05, 2012
(ABC) Obvious Goldman Sachs releases statement denying they are speculating on oil and gas and thereby driving up gas prices. Unfortunately the statement is unreadable as they were apparently giggling too much to type legibly  (abcnews.go.com) (53)
(SB Nation) Cool Pirates bust out the checkbook, delay Andrew McCutchen's departure a few years  (pittsburgh.sbnation.com) (42)
(Some Guy) Interesting Researchers aim to fill zoos with extinct species brought back via cloning. DID NONE OF THESE PEOPLE SEE JURASSIC PARK?  (thenewsstar.com) (148)


Sun March 04, 2012
(Daily Kos) Sad "Apparently I'm a slut- a whore- a biatch who is screwing every guy in school"  (dailykos.com) (639)
(Daily Mail) Spiffy For sale: One slightly used town in Montana. For only $1.4 million you get a small trailer park, general store - which is currently closed - and the newly government-built post office. Serious inquiries only  (dailymail.co.uk) (109)
(Bleacher Report) Sad Former pro wrestler Doug Furnas dead at 50 from Parkinson's. He'll no longer be able to get any heat  (bleacherreport.com) (39)
(KPTV) Scary 3-year-old swallows 37 magnets, parents unable to explain the attraction  (kptv.com) (60)


Sat March 03, 2012
(CNN) Stupid Houston pastor who doesn't know his Bible very well asks parishioners to get tattoos for Lent  (religion.blogs.cnn.com) (197)
(SlashFilm) Cool The coolest way to make 500 bucks disapparate you'll see today  (slashfilm.com) (38)
(Daily Mail) Cool While the "music" part continues to elude her, Avril Lavigne gets the "video" part down pat  (dailymail.co.uk) (55)


Fri March 02, 2012
(Some Guy) Silly Miley Cyrus quotes Laurence Krauss on Twitter, her fans skip the "startdust" part and go directly to the "forget Jesus" past with obvious results  (thegoodatheist.net) (103)
(Talking Points Memo) Hero President Obama calls up Sandra Fluke, the woman whom Rush Limbaugh maligned, telling her that she should and her parents "should be proud"  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (511)
(Time) Asinine For $86,500, you can buy a one bedroom house that will be missing two screws, take forever to build with incomprehensible instructions, and fall apart after one year  (newsfeed.time.com) (175)
(USA Today) Interesting Royal family scheduled at 2012 Olympics. Queen Elizabeth II to open stadium events, Camilla Parker Bowles to open the equestrian events with Charles riding her over the ceremonial first jump  (usatoday.com) (19)
(AZCentral) Stupid Police cut straight to the heart of the Arizona criminal gambling empire when they raid elderly women's poker party and summon 98 yr old and 40 others to court  (azcentral.com) (40)
(CNBC) Asinine It's 2012. Increased demand for technical and medical workers, so as a state what do you logically do? Why start closing entire engineering, computer science departments and whole colleges of course  (cnbc.com) (71)
(Smart Money) Fail Apparently, the majority consumers are too dumb to realize that stores use various pricing gimmicks to make it seem like they're giving discounts when they're really not, like the old $20 to $19.99 "sale"  (smartmoney.com) (41)


Thu March 01, 2012
(The Hollywood Reporter) Obvious You say "grimly depressing, glumly unfunny teensploitation comedy about an epic all-night party that devolves into anarchy" like it's a bad thing  (hollywoodreporter.com) (77)
(Daily Mail) Dumbass Man rescued from crevasse in Arizona's Superstition mountains. If only he listened to that old superstition about not putting your parachute on backwards  (dailymail.co.uk) (57)
(CVG) Cool Assassin's Creed 3 cover image leaked, apparently will take place during Revolutionary war. Subby is back to the shower, since he's no longer clean down there  (computerandvideogames.com) (139)
(Some Guy) Fail Tea Party under attack from (a) Dem. politicians (b) Left wing bloggers (c) The IRS  (mega949.com) (74)
(Some Guy) Strange Are you a single parent in Wisconsin? Well, you'd better get married to some homeless guy, because being a single parent may soon be considered child abuse  (addictinginfo.org) (110)
(Something French) Photoshop Photoshop this partial pastry  (4.bp.blogspot.com) (36)
(io9) Ironic NBC can parody a show, but if you try to do a parody of a parody, that's a suing, and a regeneration  (io9.com) (47)
(Fox 8 New Orleans) Spiffy Fox 8 (New Orleans) notices that their story about police department target practice got national attention thanks to FARK (6th paragraph)  (fox8live.com) (3)
(WPXI) Misc In what could be an idea for the next Coen brothers movie, Pittsburgh armored car driver kills his partner and disappears with 2.3 million in casino money  (wpxi.com) (74)
(Farktography) Farktography Theme of Farktography Contest No. 356: "Parking Lots" Details and rules in first post. LGT next week's theme  (farktography.net) (138)


Wed February 29, 2012
(Nerve) Amusing Planned Parenthood gives out thousands of condoms with QR tags so that users can "geotag" their encounters. Insert "your mom's house" joke here  (nerve.com) (84)
(CTV) Asinine "Parents' Voice says someone needs to watch out for students who aren't represented in Gaga's message about inclusiveness, such as children who can't dance or are obese"  (ctvbc.ctv.ca) (118)
(Wimp) Video Apparently, this is a sport. Also of note, my six-year-old's hobby has a chance at a world record  (wimp.com) (30)
(SlashFilm) Followup It's confirmed; Bill Murray is not participating in Ghostbusters 3  (slashfilm.com) (109)
(This is Lincolnshire) Stupid Seven-year-old boy gets his parents into trouble over piracy  (thisislincolnshire.co.uk) (51)
(Foundry Music) Dumbass David Lee Roth slams new artists; Compares Van Halen to "Watching 'Dragnet' on your iPad"  (foundrymusic.com) (59)
(Boston Channel) Stupid Parents are outraged when the school cafeteria decides to serve chicken on Friday--but only the white meat  (thebostonchannel.com) (113)
(Some Guy) Dumbass You think your girl friend is cheating on you. Do you a) hire a private detective? b) follow her to see if she is really "cheating" on you? or c) report a gas leak to see who comes running out of her apartment?  (wtae.com) (70)
(Yahoo) Sad The Most Dangerous National Park in America: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, where the Park Rangers take you on tours armed with M14 rifles, Yogi  (news.yahoo.com) (98)


Tue February 28, 2012
(CBC) Amusing When Punking™ a Federal Election®, registering the cell phone to a "Pierre Poutine" of Separatist Street, Joliette, Que., is the coup de grace  (cbc.ca) (41)
(Daily Kos) Ironic Mitt Romney decries despicable tactic of voting in other party's primary, used by such miscreants as Mitt Romney  (dailykos.com) (96)
(STLToday) Amusing It is now completely legal for you and your passengers to extend body parts out of your car. And border collies are being paid $3500 to get the flock out of town  (stltoday.com) (25)
(YouTube) PSA The bears know kung-fu, I REPEAT, the bears know kung-fu. Prepare battlestations  (youtube.com) (25)
(Slate) Sad "Rick Santorum, meet my son; he has a degenerative disease that's left him blind, paralyzed, and increasingly nonresponsive. If I had known before he was born, I would have saved him from suffering"  (slate.com) (572)
(Click Orlando) Scary Just when you've come to grips with rising gas prices, prepare yourself for water tripling in price  (clickorlando.com) (159)
(Some Guy) Interesting Long-delayed Acme park on the verge of approval. Attractions include: The Rocket Sled, The Catapult, The Anvil Drop and Exploding Tennis  (bellinghamherald.com) (28)
(LA Times) Followup Paramount Pictures is suing to stop the publication of a Godfather prequel novel, claiming they want to protect the integrity and reputation of the franchise. Obviously, they forgot that they made Godfather 3  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (61)
(Aggrogate) Cool Finally, a Star Trek wall intercom that makes your door go "woosh." With video of a one-man nerd parade  (aggrogate.com) (27)
(CNN) Interesting Gordon Gekko has filmed his PSA as part of his release  (cnn.com) (20)
(Tulsa World) Obvious Police describe meth-lab blast as particularly violent. Apparently where they're from, most blasts are little fuzzy cuddly things and quite docile  (tulsaworld.com) (15)
(TechEBlog) Interesting Five bionic body parts that can turn you into a real cyborg  (techeblog.com) (23)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Okay. Now don't laugh. I can barely get through the sentence as it is...but...apparently, Rick Santorum robocalls are seeking Democrat support for him  (detroitnews.com) (140)
(SLTrib) Ironic Republican Party started out anti-Mormon. Tomorrow will reveal if it still is  (sltrib.com) (39)
(Daily Mail) Weird Even Albuquerque PD aren't immune to true love; delay hauling him in for a parole violation long enough to let him get married at a Chevron station  (dailymail.co.uk) (22)
(Slate) Obvious Apparently enough kids drink energy drinks in elementary schools to warrant a whole article about why they should be banned  (slate.com) (52)
(Washington Post) Strange "Hello jet engine on a truck. My name is Juan Pablo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die"  (washingtonpost.com) (162)


Mon February 27, 2012
(onlineathens) Dumbass Not News: College student gets his probation revoked. News: Because he was perched on a parking deck peeing on bar patrons below. FARK: He was on probation for painting LOTR graffiti all over campus  (onlineathens.com) (34)
(BBC) Asinine Apparently if you visit the Falklands you can't go to Argentina. In other news there are apparently people who want to visit the Falklands  (bbc.co.uk) (60)
(New York Magazine) Interesting Why the Republican party is a dying entity  (nymag.com) (317)
(BBC) Obvious Would dropping a couple of Tomahawks on the Argentine parliament building count?  (bbc.co.uk) (138)
(The New York Times) Interesting Research has determined that politcal parties that are against sex do not gain votes. Turns out that sex is popular  (nytimes.com) (76)
(Daily Mail) Interesting So far, Earth's radio broadcasts have penetrated 200 light years into the cosmos. For a comparison of that to the galaxy, find the tiny yellow dot  (dailymail.co.uk) (121)
(KNBC 4 Los Angeles) Video Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin shouted "fark" live during the Academy Awards. TV censors apparently didn't give a merde  (nbclosangeles.com) (17)
(Viral Footage) Video Tilt shift of the Carnaval party in Rio de Janeiro  (viralfootage.com) (16)
(TBO) Florida What happens when you park a small car at the Red Neck Yacht Club? It gets flattened by a van with 5-foot tires, of course  (www2.tbo.com) (71)


Sun February 26, 2012
(Huffington Post) Sick The separation of church and state - one of the core tenets of American democracy - makes Rick Santorum "want to throw up"  (huffingtonpost.com) (519)
(Talking Points Memo) Stupid On today's "This is Your Republican Party," Rick Santorum calls Obama a "snob" for wanting people to go to college   (livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (432)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Restaurant prints a disclaimer on their menus asking parents to remove their unruly children from the restaurant. This is good news for everyone  (news.yahoo.com) (227)


Sat February 25, 2012
(Independent) Interesting After 156 years, Paris' Notre Dame cathedral is getting new big brass bells. I've got a little hunch that this may cause some controversy  (independent.co.uk) (41)
(Columbus Dispatch) Asinine Ohio would like to arrest you if your car has "secret compartments" whether or not they contained drugs; while a felony, sentence would be only double secret probation  (dispatch.com) (270)
(Some Guy) Dumbass In the cool early morning hours, John Columbus Beane lay in the parking lot of Linda's Sports Bar, the distant police sirens signaling an end to a day filled with what had proven to be a string of very bad decisions  (wvgazette.com) (84)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass Mr. Pink apparently became a banker in California  (huffingtonpost.com) (208)
(Fark) FarkParty Fark Party in Asheville, NC area on Saturday at 7:30  (fark.com) (108)
(Nola.com) Hero Bad: Drunk jerk at Mardi Gras parade harasses autistic girl, sends her home in tears. Good: Girl's story goes viral, leading to massive outpouring of support. Fark: New Orleans restages Mardi Gras just for her  (nola.com) (154)
(Huffington Post) Asinine Woman banned from church for breastfeeding her baby. Pastor compares it to a stripper performing  (huffingtonpost.com) (438)


Fri February 24, 2012
(Some Guy) Dumbass Three men participate in fraudulent hand job for insurance money. Hand still solo. Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker unavailable for comment  (charlotte.cbslocal.com) (42)
(New York Daily News) Fail You're not going to believe this but Paris Hilton's new single "Drunk Text" and the accompanying video may possibly be the worst thing in the entire history of ever (w/video)  (nydailynews.com) (119)
(Guardian) Cool A new vaccine could drastically reduce heroin addiction, rummaging through parents' LP collection for Velvet Underground  (guardian.co.uk) (16)
(USA Today) Fail The movie "Wanderlust" does not do the authentic hippy justice and instead reduces its hippies to caricature, stereotype, and near parody. C'mon, Hollywood, our hippies deserve better than this  (usatoday.com) (40)
(Miami Herald) Florida Riot police sent to Orlando mall because people there were A) part of the Occupy movement, B) protesting the war in Afghanistan, or C) trying to buy glow-in-the-dark shoes  (miamiherald.com) (65)
(Omaha World Herald) Cool Now you too can prepare for the non existent zombie threat with real Hornady bullets. Subby is waiting for cherry PIE ammo  (omaha.com) (122)
(Some Guy) Stupid Why don't you little punks get off my lawn and tune your Walkmans to hear what you apparently call "filthy dubstep"  (boxtu.com) (59)
(Mediabistro) Sad Apparently female reporters are using XX sexy pics for their Twitter accounts. Tag is for what author thinks constitutes sexy  (mediabistro.com) (117)
(BBC) Sick Asinine: Councillor celebrated his re-election by sexually assaulting a schoolgirl at a drunken party. Classy: Blames his sons and their friends for child porn on his PC. Bonus: Was Chairman of Child Welfare Committee  (bbc.co.uk) (22)
(The New York Times) Fail Romney: The car companies should have been bailed out by private capital instead of the government. Former car czar: Uh, we talked to every single possible private financer and nobody wanted any part of it  (nytimes.com) (177)
(Reuters) Spiffy Ford adds $3.8 Billion to their pension plan. Apparently, investing in Mazda stock has really paid off  (reuters.com) (17)
(The Raw Story) Stupid "Jon Huntsman calls for third party" Uh, how about America First Party, American Party, American Populist Party, American Socialist Party, American Third Position Party, or the America's Party. And that's just the A's Jon  (rawstory.com) (189)
(Kotaku) Amusing How gamers argue religion: Paradise Lost becomes "non-canonical fan fiction"  (kotaku.com) (32)
(Fark) FarkParty NorCal Vegas Liver Warm-Up party: Friday, Feb 24th @ 7:30 PM @ Lefty O'Doul's. Drew will be there  (fark.com) (80)
(carl lavin.wordpress) Obvious FARK is not "for readers who take offense readily or who take sarcasm or hyperbole as literal statements of truth" (6th paragraph)  (carllavin.wordpress.com) (23)


Thu February 23, 2012
(Spinner) PSA Meat Loaf wants you to know two things: he prefers being called Meat, not Mr. Loaf; and he has had several paranormal encounters in his lifetime  (spinner.com) (67)
(U.S. Naval Institute) Cool On Feb 23, 1945, a photo was taken that would become the most copied and parodied image in history. Don't believe it? Just take a look at the examples  (usni.org) (95)
(Some Guy) Interesting U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency director: China is preparing for space warfare and they've copied the plans for a Death Star from a Lego kit  (freebeacon.com) (59)
(USA Today) Interesting Jennifer Love Hewitt (moderate stiffening) to star in TV show about prostitution (full rigidity) on Lifetime (some softening) with Cybill Sheppard (complete flaccidity)  (content.usatoday.com) (47)
(MSNBC) Obvious Scottish member of the UK Parliment gives a Glasgow kiss to a fellow MP. Why yes alcohol was involved, how did you guess?  (worldnews.msnbc.msn.com) (30)
(Foreign Policy) Stupid Meet the British lawyer fighting Islam, one parking ticket at a time  (foreignpolicy.com) (55)
(Washington Post) Cool Come for a party with the stars in the Florida Keys. No, not stars like Lady Gaga and that Bieber thing. Real stars  (washingtonpost.com) (12)
(Yahoo) Sad 14 year old girl dies at party from inhaling helium, party guests tried to revive her by pinching her lip corners and letting the helium out with little squeaks to no avail  (news.yahoo.com) (102)
(WTOP) Hero Maryland lawmaker proposes that drunk driving asshats be mandated to participate in the ignition interlock program, even on a first offense, if their DUI happens while there are children in the car  (wtop.com) (86)
(WRCB-TV) Obvious It may be hard to believe, but apparently a few of the statements made during last night's GOP debate were a just a tiny little off the mark in the truthiness department. Fact checking, how does it work?  (wrcbtv.com) (88)
(Madison East) Amusing If you are going to be an impostor do you: a) become an airline pilot, b) weasel your way into a party at the White House, or c) become general manager at Denny's?   (madisoneast.channel3000.com) (26)


Wed February 22, 2012
(Some Guy) Stupid Ever flirt with someone in a park? Congratulations, you're under arrest  (gay.americablog.com) (114)
(Washington Times) Asinine Former DNC chair to buy the two most prestigious and influential newspapers in a critical swing-state with funds provided by Democratic donors. Of course the newspapers will remain legit and non-parti..Ok I couldn't not laugh  (washingtontimes.com) (80)
(SacBee) Asinine Want season club seats in the new 49ers stadium? Prepare to cough up between $20,000 - $80,000 for a seat license. Hopefully you won't want a pair of seats  (sacbee.com) (17)
(Scientific American) Obvious Warmer planet could be dominated by mosquitoes, ticks, rodents, jellyfish, tea party  (scientificamerican.com) (44)
(Some Guy) Followup Grandfather who accused Austin PD of overreacting to him "babysitting while white" forced to recant part of his blog post after police release dash cam video of the incident  (thegrio.com) (134)
(Washington Post) Silly Apparently women are addicted to some website called Pederast or something  (washingtonpost.com) (61)
(Huffington Post) Ironic Georgia Dems propose vasectomy ban in response to anti-abortion bill. Republican men look prepared to start a "My vas deferens, my choice" movement  (huffingtonpost.com) (147)
(The Atlantic) PSA "When skeptics complain that global warming activists are apparently willing to go to any lengths--including lying--to advance their worldview, I'd say one of the movement's top priorities should be not proving them right"  (theatlantic.com) (88)
(The BigLead) Amusing Cubs fan buys domain name for Red Sox new spring training park and redirects it to the Yankees homepage. In other news, only three more weeks until the Cubs are mathematically eliminated from the post-season  (thebiglead.com) (20)
(IndyStar) Hero Indiana's Speaker of the House Brian Bosma (R) responds to Rep. Bob Morris' absurd claims about the Girl Scouts connections to Planned Parenthood by passing out Girl Scout cookies on the floor of the House  (indystar.com) (96)
(Some Guy) Weird Man arrested for setting his mouse on fire. And no, that's not a typo. However apparently it is news  (kjrh.com) (47)
(WTOP) Interesting Church to Ash Wednesday parishioners: Would you like fries with your penitence?  (wtop.com) (21)
(Yahoo) Weird With all other crime taken care of, Rio de Janeiro takes aim at Carnival urinators. Fark: The first part of that sentence is actually close to being pretty accurate  (news.yahoo.com) (24)
(YouTube) Spiffy Band plays intro theme for Game of Thrones at house party  (youtube.com) (21)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Mark Cuban saves St. Patrick's Day parade. "I just thought it was fair that other people should be able to kill as many brain cells on Greenville Avenue as I have in my life"  (irishcentral.com) (26)
(Huffington Post) Stupid Santorum: "There's no such thing as a liberal Christian." Apart from Christ, apparently  (huffingtonpost.com) (411)
(Bitten and Bound) Fail Bam Margera got cuffed and stuffed in New Orleans for Mardi Gras transgressions that were apparently limited to swimming with his clothes on in a pool. #lame, #jackass  (bittenandbound.com) (24)
(Some Guy) Obvious Writer insults zombies by comparing them to American Idol's slow pacing   (theclicker.today.msnbc.msn.com) (22)
(YouTube) Amusing Little Green Footballs hears about Heartland threatening to sue them over illegally obtained info. (Yeah, Downfall parody)  (youtube.com) (21)
(Some Guy) Photoshop Photoshop Theme: Fark Vegas World Party 2012 predictions  (pledgebank.com) (24)


Tue February 21, 2012
(Slate) Interesting In the future, will you feel bad if you send your parents to a nursing home staffed by robots?  (slate.com) (53)
(Statesman) Interesting Scientist makes paralyzed rats walk again. Still no cure for cancer  (statesman.com) (20)
(WTSP) Florida Apparently, the idea of calling 911 repeatedly to ask for a taxi hasn't gotten old for homeless guys in Hudson  (wtsp.com) (19)
(LiveLeak) Spiffy Ukranian parkour dog. With much wagging happy crazy jumpiness  (liveleak.com) (19)
(MSNBC) Dumbass Dominic Strauss-Kahn, who definitely didn't rape that maid in New York, or the other several women who alleged it, nor has he frequented prostitutes, is now being held on suspicion of using company funds for prostitute sex parties  (msnbc.msn.com) (47)
(New York Daily News) Fail Apparently former VP Dan Qualye has taken a new gig at the White House press office  (nydailynews.com) (31)
(Short List) Fail Cinema accidentally shows trailer for The Devil Inside to toddlers. Number of angry parents already surpasses those who have actually seen the whole farking movie  (shortlist.com) (60)
(YouTube) Video Alan Rickman, he of the ladypart-melting voice, turns 66 today. Here's his reading of Sonnet 130, known on Fark as "Ode To A Girl With Sharp Knees"  (youtube.com) (39)
(Thanks but no tanks) Spiffy Thanksbutnotanks.com: "The commenters are the best part of FARK"   (thanksbutnotanks.fr33agents.com) (27)
(YouTube) Spiffy 21-year-old Norwegian makes chess cool and earns 1.5 million a year in endorsements. Bonus: video includes a segment where he walks away from a game vs Garry Kasparov because he was BORED  (youtube.com) (59)
(Salon) Misc In the American healthcare system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the TV shows which write plots about diseases, and the viewers who diagnose themselves from them. These are their stories  (salon.com) (24)


Mon February 20, 2012
(KTLA) Scary Knife-wielding man at Hollywood tattoo parlor sought for providing unwanted body modification  (ktla.com) (10)


Sun February 19, 2012
(Time) Weird Undecided about vacation this year? Maybe Time's list of the world's 10 weirdest amusement parks can help you decide  (time.com) (88)
(The Raw Story) Fail Even the Westboro Baptist Church apparently has it standards and voluntarily travelling to NJ is beneath them. So they have to resort to photo-shopping their protesters into pictures of Whitney's funeral  (rawstory.com) (100)
(Some Guy) Asinine I keep seeing enormous squirrels around my neighborhood. They keep eating in preparation for a winter that hasn't materialized. Will there be a big problem with diabetic squirrels soon? Can squirrels get diabetes? Where's Brimley?  (mn.gov) (163)
(CNN) Interesting How do you stop your kids from stressing out? Oddly enough, none of the "solutions" are to stop helicopter parenting and letting kids be kids  (thechart.blogs.cnn.com) (133)
(Bloomberg) Obvious Gore and Blood compare greenhouse gas emissions to subprime debt, vow to annihilate Demolition for the WWF tag team belts  (bloomberg.com) (20)
(MSNBC) Obvious (Insert party out of power) ready to hit (insert President) on the soaring price of gas. Not a repeat from every election year in the 21st century  (msnbc.msn.com) (239)


Sat February 18, 2012
(Some Guy) Stupid In latest hip trend, hipster parents getting their toddlers a head start in douchebaggery by buying them "babyccinos" at hipster coffeehouses  (pursuitist.com) (197)
(New York Daily News) Spiffy The question shouldn't be what were three Victoria's Secret models doing in A-Rod's mansion parading around in their underwear while A-Rod was away but should be why the heck wasn't A-Rod there  (nydailynews.com) (22)
(Denver Post) Strange Before dumping your garbage down your apartment's trash chute, please make sure to separate all your glass, papers, and dead bodies  (denverpost.com) (32)
(Talking Points Memo) Stupid Despite being slathered in parsley butter and accompanied by a bloomin' onion, New Jersey marriage equality bill is still vetoed by Governor Chris Christie   (livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (202)
(Rolling Stone) Cool Tina Fey and the Cult of Liz Lemon. If they ever got her to run for politics, she could start her own offshoot Lemon Party  (rollingstone.com) (52)
(Some Guy) Asinine Department of Corrections to retiree: "Yeah, those sick days we told you you had and you took 8 years ago? You actually didn't have them so if you could send us a check for them that'd be great"  (theday.com) (104)
(Pensacola Business Journal) Obvious Jimmie Johnson's car caught with illegal parts. This is not a repeat from damn-near every year in his career  (pnj.com) (149)
(Orlando Sentinel) Florida Every year Florida police are involved in 7,400 traffic accidents and are at least partially at fault in 25% despite almost never being charged. "it's more dangerous to give an officer a car than a gun"  (orlandosentinel.com) (79)


Fri February 17, 2012
(Some Guy) Amusing Problem: Your towns St Patrick's day parade has been turned into a drunkfest. Solution: Cancel the parade. Result: Internet organizes a bar crawl with 13,000 people attending  (hudsonreporter.com) (120)
(Yahoo) Amusing Semi-professional con man, White House party crasher, and reality TV star Tareq Salahi sues his wife for $50 million saying her affair with Journey's guitarist "made him look like a buffoon". Yeah, you were golden until then  (news.yahoo.com) (37)
(Forbes) Scary Target learns that women tend to get a little creeped out when you start sending them coupon booklets congratulating them on their first pregnancy when they haven't even told their parents yet  (forbes.com) (67)
(Talking Points Memo) Fail In one day, the GOP managed to set back the party's position on women back to the 1950s. Good luck getting out of this PR nightmare   (2012.talkingpointsmemo.com) (397)
(Sun Journal (Maine)) Fail Paris selectman and treasurer for the Oxford County Republican Committee gets a second OUI charge. Some people just can't say NON  (sunjournal.com) (11)
(Chicago Tribune) Unlikely Rick Santorum, emphasizing the importance of two-parent families in ecomonic recovery, says strong families will help the poor get back on their feet; critics say it will cost too much to provide every single mom with a new dad  (chicagotribune.com) (71)


Thu February 16, 2012
(Labspaces.net) Strange Scientists who are are apparently unclear on the whole concept build a working brain tumor  (labspaces.net) (11)
(The Raw Story) Asinine GOP Congressman: Democrats engage in "the most insidious form of slavery remaining in the world today." Apart from actual slavery, apparently  (rawstory.com) (424)
(Some Guy) Strange School goes on lockdown because of A) a bomb threat B) reports of a student with a gun C) a parent dressed as Mickey Mouse  (vindy.com) (71)
(MyFox Twin Cities) Amusing Neighbor from Hell wears sunglasses at night, flashes crotch at kids birthday party, flips the bird to news reporter  (myfoxtwincities.com) (187)
(NYPost) Obvious Panasonic to stop manufacturing VCRs for Japanese market. If you're unsure what a VCR is, ask your parents  (nypost.com) (152)
(NPR) Amusing Chinese fans of Lin won't let facts stop them from claiming him as their own "He's from China" "No, he was born in the US" "Well his parents were" "No they're from Taiwan"  (npr.org) (113)
(SFGate) Interesting HBO to Netflix: Fark You. Netflix to HBO: Right back at ya, pardner  (sfgate.com) (92)
(Some Guy) Interesting Apparently CPAC was full of trollops and whoors and is called 'The Mardi Gras of the Right'. Well, there were a lot of boobs openly displayed, so bring beads next year  (damndirtyrino.com) (57)
(Space) Cool World's first space robot signs "Hello, World". Expected to find Sarah Connor, solve FizzBuzz in less than twelve parsecs  (space.com) (26)
(The Local (Germany)) Amusing Teenager discovers Internet video of her parents at a swinger club. With helpful pic of what "swinging" parents might look like  (thelocal.de) (76)


Wed February 15, 2012
(ESPN) Dumbass TCU continues its preparations for joining big time college football by having four players arrested on drug charges  (espn.go.com) (27)
(Click Orlando) Sick Rick Flair apparently stole $4,000 from her son while he was deployed  (clickorlando.com) (104)
(Daily Kos) Asinine "Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?" Is this A)a booth title at CPAC B)a talk radio topic or C)a hearing of the US Congress  (dailykos.com) (426)
(Starpulse) Unlikely Ke$ha says the "clothing-optional" parties she often throws are not a "weird sex orgy thing"  (starpulse.com) (107)
(Some Guy) Obvious What part of Heart Attack Grill did he not understand?  (fox5vegas.com) (161)
(NYPost) Interesting Michelle Malkin's top Tea Party favorites for the upcoming election. Some of them can even read  (nypost.com) (33)
(KTRK) Ironic Singer whose biggest hit is about blowing away her boyfriend with a shotgun wants to know why the Grammys apparently condoned domestic violence by allowing Chris Brown to perform  (abclocal.go.com) (108)
(Talking Points Memo) Amusing From the Department of Everyone Loses: Santorum compares his social issues beef with Romney like "Ryan Seacrest going toe to toe with Mike Tyson"  (2012.talkingpointsmemo.com) (45)
(Guardian) Interesting Chavez campaign goes negative. Apparently, he really wants to increase his 99% share of the vote this time  (guardian.co.uk) (19)
(Variety) Silly Hollywood is out of ideas: Paramount to develop feature film over one-minute YouTube video of guy talking to his dog  (variety.com) (49)


Tue February 14, 2012
(Talking Points Memo) Stupid Not news: GOP tries to get amendment into bipartisan highway bill. Awjeeznotthisshiatagain: Allowing all employers to deny paying for birth control related health services   (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (620)
(My Fox DC) Interesting I don't expect witty repartee kid, just give me a sign when the diaper is full so I can wait it out in the basement  (myfoxdc.com) (15)
(Slate) Ironic Apparently, it's good for democracy that billionaires can buy the president with a few million dollar super PAC contributions  (slate.com) (57)
(Vimeo) Video After 32 years, subby discovers his hippie parents were the subjects of a weird documentary about restoring a historic tugboat. Bonus: Dad was the dump truck driver killed in the opening scenes of "Maximum Overdrive"  (vimeo.com) (41)
(WRCB-TV) Obvious Santorum calls Occupy protesters 'radical element', apparently unaware that the Occupy movement is so 2011  (wrcbtv.com) (134)
(Boston.com) Unlikely Airline almost nobody even remembers, and nobody misses, prepares to return from the dead  (boston.com) (37)
(Entertainment Weekly) Followup Greg Brady, Danny Partridge, Sherilyn Fenn, Johnny Fever, Alice Cooper, and Bigfoot. Together finally  (insidetv.ew.com) (39)
(Ogden Standard-Examiner) Amusing Dads, before showing "The Smurfs" DVD from your laptop at your kid's birthday party, make sure you didn't store porn movies on it as well  (standard.net) (87)


Mon February 13, 2012
(Huffington Post) Followup Whitney Houston's death may be third biggest thing to fall into Dolly Parton's lap  (huffingtonpost.com) (39)
(LA Times) Cool The Marines are apparently doing things we think only happen in Rambo movies  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (112)
(Houston Chronicle) Strange History will remember George H.W. Bush for his part in the first Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and his fabulously colored socks  (chron.com) (79)
(Some Dad With A Gun) Followup Remember that YouTube Dad who shot daughter's laptop? Apparently some of the local city leaders had a problem with it  (wsoctv.com) (317)
(Daily Mail) Scary Val Kilmer preparing to play Axl Rose. Ben and Jerry's stock skyrockets  (dailymail.co.uk) (82)
(Washington Free Beacon) Sad A look into how the most transparent administration in history functions  (freebeacon.com) (134)
(The New York Times) Obvious Get ready for Occupy @ part 2  (nytimes.com) (430)
(Huffington Post) Followup Ellen Degeneres' recent controversy over her partnership with JC Penney is prompting protests from the LGBT community, presumably over one of their own wearing clothes from JC Penney  (huffingtonpost.com) (138)
(BBC) Followup Greeks ecstatic after parliament finally passes austerity package guaranteeing €130 billion international bailout. Just kidding, they attacked police with rocks and set half of Athens on fire  (bbc.co.uk) (137)


Sun February 12, 2012
(Some Guy) Asinine Not news: white granddad takes his black 5-year-old granddaughter for a walk in the park. News: nine cops draw Tasers, handcuff him, and take granddaughter in a patrol car. Fark: this isn't the first time this has happened to them  (gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com) (462)
(News.com.au) Dumbass Teens attack police at rowdy party, with predictable results  (news.com.au) (32)


Sat February 11, 2012
(Yahoo) Obvious Shockingly, that towering icon of civic virtue, competence, and incorruptibility, former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is apparently under investigation by the FBI  (news.yahoo.com) (83)
(Breitbart.com) Silly "Star Trek: The Original Series is the one time Hollywood got conservative ideas right." Yeah, pretty sure Republicans weren't too happy about the interracial kiss or sparing the Halkans  (bighollywood.breitbart.com) (186)
(Des Moines Register) Followup Catholics are still pissed at Obama. Apparently, they won't be satisfied until they nail him to the wall  (desmoinesregister.com) (410)
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) Obvious The National Park Service announced its plans to remove and change the inscription on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. Obviously some people have a problem with this  (ajc.com) (131)
(Nola.com) Spiffy New Orleans Mardi Gras parade organizers finding new, creative ways to get women to flash their boobies  (nola.com) (122)
(News.com.au) Sad Experts say using Facebook is like attending an online party -- one where you want to leap from the balcony  (news.com.au) (37)
(Daily Mail) Spiffy Emma Watson wears sheer red lace dress to Lancome party. This is relevant to your interests  (dailymail.co.uk) (138)


Fri February 10, 2012
(The Daily Beast) Asinine Get this: according to recently departed Susan G. Komen exec. Karen Handel, Planned Parenthood is a "bully" that broke a "ladies' agreement" to keep quiet about their funding cut  (thedailybeast.com) (406)
(Slate) Interesting While Mitt, Santorum and Newt are busy ripping each other apart, Ron Paul is quietly amassing delegates. Stop snickering  (slate.com) (198)
(Search Engine Land) Amusing Search Engine Land gives credit to Fark for giving a whole new meaning to "Romney" (3rd paragraph shoutout in the section "The Linking Campaign")  (searchengineland.com) (0)
(Some Guy) Amusing Now that gay marriage is legal in California, the state's Health Department thought it was necessary to print a "how to have gay sex" manual  (fox40.com) (210)
(ABC) Interesting Vietnamese police trying to force farmer off his land find out the hard way that the war wasn't all that long ago, and guerilla warfare is apparently like riding a bicycle  (abcnews.go.com) (37)
(Washington Post) Amusing George Will nearly fogs up his wire rimmed glasses in a rage: "Republicans who think America is being endangered by "appeasement" and military parsimony have worked that pedal on their organ quite enough" Oh snap  (washingtonpost.com) (61)
(Yahoo) Sad Tennis pro Arantxa Sanchez Vicario says $60 million in career earnings are gone, alleges parents' racket took her net profit  (sports.yahoo.com) (12)
(International Liberty) Obvious The more a government spends the worse off the economy. Part 2  (danieljmitchell.wordpress.com) (56)
(International Liberty) Obvious The more a government spends the worse off the economy. Part 1  (danieljmitchell.wordpress.com) (12)
(YouTube) Hero Not news: Teenager trash-talks parents on Facebook. News: IT Dad finds said post while upgrading teenager's laptop. Fark: Lectures her and goes "Dirty Harry" on the offending computer  (youtube.com) (392)


Thu February 09, 2012
(Some Guy) Stupid Problem: You have a city full of people who have no ability whatsoever to parallel park. Solution: Stop testing parallel parking on the driving test. Ta-Da, problem solved  (dcist.com) (126)
(New York Daily News) Obvious Rep. "Shoulder thing that goes up" may be redistricted out of Congress by her own party  (nydailynews.com) (43)
(Fark) FarkBlog WORLD FARK PARTY II: Mar 30 - Apr 1 in Las Vegas - see comments for details  (fark.com) (355)
(NYPost) Amusing Giants fans were holding more then their breath until after Tom Brady threw that Hail Mary toss according to the Department of Environmental Protection  (nypost.com) (33)
(Reading Eagle) Dumbass Former PA State Senator compares driver's licenses to slavery, immediately jumps to third in GOP primary  (readingeagle.com) (39)
(MacRumors) Dumbass The most creative company in the world apparently isn't creative enough to come up with a password better than "foxconn2"  (macrumors.com) (31)
(Talking Points Memo) Followup The reason behind Planned Parenthood's counterattack against the Komen Foundation   (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (631)
(First Coast News) Dumbass Party City isn't supposed to be about a party in your pants but surveillance video shows that's what it's become for shoplifters  (firstcoastnews.com) (20)


Wed February 08, 2012
(Huffington Post) Strange Gov. John Kasich, eschewing teleprompters like any good republican, delivers bizarre off-the-cuff speech during which he mocks Parkinson's sufferers, cries like John Boehner, and insults the entire state of California  (huffingtonpost.com) (102)
(SFGate) Strange Man barricades himself in apartment after concluding that someone stole and ate his chicken meal  (blog.sfgate.com) (33)
(Yahoo) Asinine Mitt Romney's latest proposal has been denounced by TEA party leaders, The Club For Growth, and the US Chamber of Commerce and described as "class warfare". The proposal? Making sure the minimum wage keeps up with inflation  (news.yahoo.com) (286)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Prince Frederic von Anhalt throws lavish 95th birthday party for Zsa Zsa Gabor, complete with buffet and 130 guests. Zsa Zsa spends day wishing for sweet embrace of death to finally come claim her. (with sad pics)  (dailymail.co.uk) (56)
(The Hindu) Unlikely TV cameramen zoom in to bust a politician in session watching porn on his cell phone. He claims in a press conference since the House was discussing rave parties at the time, he was just studying an example of 4 women dancing, being gang-raped  (thehindu.com) (60)


Tue February 07, 2012
(CBC) Dumbass Apparently, you can't just use Febreze on those little shiats you teach in class  (cbc.ca) (101)
(WTOP) Dumbass Parent of the year can't figure out why failing to get his kids to school 150 times in the past two years is an issue  (wtop.com) (115)
(BBC) Interesting Flipping the middle finger dates back to the ancient Greeks and Romans and is part of US Italian heritage  (bbc.co.uk) (48)
(Viral Footage) Video Shredding an Abandoned Waterpark  (viralfootage.com) (35)
(Mercury News) Dumbass Mitt Romney comes out from under his rock to prove just how out of touch he really is: in the battle of Komen vs. Planned Parenthood, he's still rooting for Komen  (mercurynews.com) (61)


Mon February 06, 2012
(Starpulse) Interesting Lana Del Rey's album is #1 in Britain. Apparently, they don't get "Saturday Night Live" over there  (starpulse.com) (57)
(My Northwest) Unlikely Amazon hopes to satisfy customers that enjoy long lines, crowded parking lots, and surly retail clerks  (mynorthwest.com) (28)
(Daily Mail) Spiffy Daredevil, who obviously has a death wish, is preparing to break the sound barrier with a leap from the edge of space from 23 miles high, not deploying his parachute until he's 5000 feet from the ground  (dailymail.co.uk) (198)
(Daily Kos) Asinine Not news: Conservatives hate Planned Parenthood. WTF: 51% of them oppose them for cancer screenings too  (dailykos.com) (376)
(NJ.com) Cool High school student tests her own genetic abnormality in order to reassure her parents. Turns out she's just a teenager  (nj.com) (30)
(Uproxx) Dumbass Louisiana congressman thought an Onion story about Planned Parenthood opening an "$8 Billion Abortionplex" was real. Hey, at least he can read  (uproxx.com) (129)
(Washington Post) Fail Susan Komen foundation hiring Ari Fleischer to rebuild trust, dispel charges of partisanship. What a bunch of boobs  (washingtonpost.com) (187)
(Some Guy) Amusing Sex Week vs. True Love Week, otherwise known as the loose free for all's against the prudes sparks debate on Yale campus  (nbcconnecticut.com) (127)
(Bleacher Report) Cool Have too many limes left over from your Super Bowl party? Save them for Monday Night RAW, tonight at 9pm EST  (bleacherreport.com) (2283)
(Omaha World Herald) Followup Average Super Bowl viewer spent $63 on game related merchandise, apparel and food ... easily coming in ahead of those at Lucas Oil Stadium who paid $6,300 for the same thing  (omaha.com) (52)
(BattleSwarm) Spiffy Remember unrepentant SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith (R-MPAA)? He now has a primary challenger. Prepare to taste the fury of a fully operational Internet  (battleswarmblog.com) (43)
(610 WIOD) Florida Be on the lookout for the missing Department of Corrections offenders; all 30,000 of them  (610wiod.com) (24)


Sun February 05, 2012
(LA Times) Interesting Kansas City is being torn apart by a chocolate beer. Of course it is  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (87)
(ABC) Strange "The power of Christ compels you" apparently works on home intruders, as well  (abcnews.go.com) (60)
(Fark) Advice Bacon - Best prepared via pan fried, baked or microwaved?  (fark.com) (396)
(Gothamist) Fail When working as a garage attendant, if you park a $400,000 Bentley it's probably best to take the keys with you. FARK: Bentley was owned by college student  (gothamist.com) (85)
(Clarion Ledger) Amusing Boy wears "I Heart Boobies" t-shirt to skate party. Then things get weird  (clarionledger.com) (193)
(WTSP) Florida Eight arrested for soliciting undercover male police officers in park include Denny's consultant. Maybe he shouldn't have asked for the "Sausage Slam?"  (wtsp.com) (93)


Sat February 04, 2012
(Inquisitr) Interesting "Mother Nature Network even made the front page of Fark, another indicator of a meme becoming increasingly viral." We're a positive influence, people. (3rd paragraph shoutout)  (inquisitr.com) (5)
(Daily Gazette (Schenectady)) Sick Parents and sons accused of stealing blind and deaf grandparents' credit card and ringing up $12,000 in purchases. W/ all in the family white trash mugshots  (dailygazette.com) (122)
(News.com.au) Scary Scientists want to engineer designer babies with three parents. MU-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA  (news.com.au) (63)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Spiffy Let citrus turn your next dinner into a lemon party  (suntimes.com) (76)
(Stuff.co.nz) Ironic Driver of parking ticket "spy car" wins court order protecting him from photography  (stuff.co.nz) (58)
(NYPost) Asinine Having solved all other crimes, Staten Island cops now cracking down on the evil malcontents who park outside the lines  (nypost.com) (98)
(hampton roads) Spiffy Hampton Roads (Virginia) thinks that their recent odd news deserves a dedicated FARK icon, just like Florida (10th paragraph)  (hamptonroads.com) (5)
(Telegraph) Cool The annual Retromobile show in Paris is underway. Come for the 1959 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder, stay for the last Facel Vega ever built  (telegraph.co.uk) (77)


Fri February 03, 2012
(Some Guy) Followup Last week: Tennessee state senator claims that AIDS was the result of one guy who had sex with a monkey and then had sex with other guys. Let's run it through PolitiFact's Truth-o-Meter and...uh oh, call the fire department  (politifact.com) (214)
(Pro Football Talk) Dumbass Because he hasn't said anything stupid for almost 24 hours, Jim Irsay would like to remind everyone that he remains close with...Parson? Patton? Peyote? What was that kid's name again?   (profootballtalk.nbcsports.com) (48)
(Huffington Post) Scary All right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what has infrastructure done for us?  (huffingtonpost.com) (176)
(Jezebel) Dumbass "Cry me a freaking river," says Komen's new CEO about totally coincidental new policy to defund groups beginning with 'P' and rhyming with "bland parenthood"  (jezebel.com) (147)
(Some Guy) Amusing Danny Bonaduce and Barry Williams to star in new SyFy original movie. Surprisingly, it's not a movie about traveling back in time to when people would want to see Greg Brady and Danny Partridge  (tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com) (16)
(Mother Jones) Interesting Susan G. Komen: Defunding Planned Parenthood was not politically motivated but a new policy against donating to organizations under investigation. Media: What about the $7.5M you gave Penn State? Susan G. Komen: *crickets*  (motherjones.com) (183)
(KTLA) Amusing Jack Sparrow injured "in the fight that included Cat Woman, an alien and a second pirate"  (ktla.com) (10)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Sad Woman dies on her 110th birthday. Perhaps the surprise party was a bad idea  (suntimes.com) (29)
(Mirror.co.uk) Interesting Crematorium to broadcast funerals live on the internet, allowing you to toast the dearly departed in your bathrobe  (mirror.co.uk) (22)


Thu February 02, 2012
(USA Today) Followup Susan G. Komen foundation says the whole Planned Parenthood thing is a just a silly misunderstanding and to please not stop sending them money and don't boycott their sponsors  (content.usatoday.com) (202)
(DCist) Stupid Three Occupy DC protestors are on the fourth day of a "sleep strike" to protest the Park Police's ban on camping in McPherson Square and the bugs BURROWING UNDER THEIR SKIN  (dcist.com) (165)
(Politicker) Followup Mayor Bloomberg to Personally Donate $250,000 to Planned Parenthood in Wake of Komen Controversy  (politicker.com) (129)
(The Atlantic) Followup Susan G. Komen Foundation's top public health official resigns over new anti-Planned Parenthood policy  (theatlantic.com) (777)
(Yahoo) Interesting Online singles seek parenthood but no sex, which is like going to a strip club only for the beer prices  (news.yahoo.com) (121)
(Sum Gai) Obvious Chinese restaurant catches fire. Fortunately there were no injuries, as everyone had prepared for such an event by running around their cars at red lights  (woodtv.com) (32)
(UPI) Spiffy U.S. manufacturing activity gains in January. In related news, apparently there is still some U.S. manufacturing activity  (upi.com) (50)
(Yahoo) Misc Lions apparently not enough to keep intruders out of animal refuge, may have to switch to the Cover-2 defense  (news.yahoo.com) (17)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Not News: Man arrested after attempting to move the vehicle blocking his car. News: It was an ambulance. Fark: Paramedics were loading it with a patient at the time  (y100.com) (76)
(WTSP) Florida Apparently, the idea of pretending to be a federal agent and pulling people with Ontario plates who visit strip clubs so you can check their car for bombs hasn't gotten old in Hudson  (newportrichey.wtsp.com) (37)
(SBNation) Sad Much like Peyton Manning, Roy Oswalt is in search of a home for after rehabbing from an injury that could jeopardize his career. To really drive the similarity home, we have an pic of Oswalt making a Manning face  (mlb.sbnation.com) (38)
(WTOP) Interesting Virginia may be about to pass a law that separates school year planning from King's Dominion's schedule. In other news, Virginia currently plans its school year around King's Dominion's schedule  (wtop.com) (108)
(MSNBC) Interesting Researchers say scratching feels better on certain parts of your body. Sounds like junk science to me  (bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com) (12)
(Fark) Unlikely You've traveled in time from the present to 1985. Paradoxes aside, how would you explain the world of 2012 to a group of high school kids?  (fark.com) (402)


Wed February 01, 2012
(Some Guy) Scary A little kid kicks dirt on your car, do you A) tell him to get lost B) Threaten to tell his parents C) Pick him up and dangle him over an aggressive, chained pit bull?  (charlotteobserver.com) (94)
(The Daily Beast) Dumbass The FBI likes to intimidate suspects by using a chainsaw to go through apartment doors, a technique that's especially intimidating when they saw through the wrong door  (thedailybeast.com) (208)
(Huffington Post) Obvious The Super Bowl is almost here, so here's Huffington Post to rain on your parade by telling you that your gametime snacks are going to kill you  (huffingtonpost.com) (23)
(Slate) Scary Anthrax mailings, once the tool of domestic terrorists, are now being used by wannabe rappers and apartment hunters  (slate.com) (37)
(Some Guy) Obvious The "electability" argument is bankrupt on both philosophical and practical grounds. It destroys the party's soul and guarantees defeat  (spectator.org) (104)
(CNN) Cool Inner-city school enters NASA contest. Apparently, there was some kind of misunderstanding when the students were asked how high they'd like to get  (schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com) (25)
(Fox News) Unlikely Police seize 1500 pounds of pot from NY apartment, estimate its street value at $7.5 million. Dude, $5000 a pound? In New York? Must have been some crappy stuff  (foxnews.com) (56)
(USA Today) Followup Salvation Army kettles collect a record $147 million at Christmas as people apparently will pay whatever it takes to stop the constant bell ringing  (content.usatoday.com) (11)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Stupid Hasbro negotiating to move their Candy Land movie starring Adam Sandler from Universal to Sony. I don't think there's a single part of the previous statement that doesn't fill me with rage  (hollywoodreporter.com) (52)
(Talking Points Memo) Dumbass Mitt Romney follows up his decisive Florida primary win with another shot to the foot: I'm not concerned about the very poor...that's what the Democratic party is for  (livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (291)
(The Superficial) Cool Steve-O prepares for his next stunt ... to see how fast he can nail Elisabetta Canalis  (thesuperficial.com) (31)
(Science Daily) Spiffy Not to alarm anyone, but deep space particles are invading the solar system. And they're definitely not self-assembling near Jupiter into an autonomous, horrifying death ship of staggering power  (sciencedaily.com) (28)
(New York Daily News) Spiffy Backlash: Osama Bin Laden death photos may be released after all. Judicial Watch has sued for release of the materials under Freedom of Information Law, and they apparently have a case  (nydailynews.com) (237)


Tue January 31, 2012
(NJ.com) Obvious Lazy New Jerseyans don't like pumping their own gas or using parking meters where you have to walk back to your car to put the receipt in the windshield  (nj.com) (114)
(Bloomberg) PSA Economies of midwest states, particularly Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, have improved faster than the rest of the U.S. since 2009. Not that this fact has any particular relevance in this particular year  (bloomberg.com) (171)
(MSNBC) Unlikely Study finds women are better at parking than men, but only because other cars on the street flee in terror at their approach  (bottomline.msnbc.msn.com) (31)
(Stuff.co.nz) Strange Why not spice up your stale sex life with some hot threesomes between you, your husband and your 15 year old cousin? Apart from the court case and the awkward family dinners of course  (stuff.co.nz) (70)
(Mother Nature Network) Strange Alaska gears up for a hostile takeover of Central Park  (mnn.com) (75)


Mon January 30, 2012
(Washington Post) Sad Missing community activist found. Apparently, he fell down a well. Onto a bullet  (washingtonpost.com) (65)
(Kitsap Sun) Dumbass Drunk 21 year old enters wrong apartment, climbs into bed with 80 year old woman. He told police nothing happened, at least nothing he wanted to admit  (kitsapsun.com) (35)
(Yahoo) Unlikely New study shows that Americans' political views are not that far apart. In other news Yankees and Red Sox fans have friendly get together  (news.yahoo.com) (53)
(The Register) Strange RIM tops smartphone sales chart in 2011 in the UK, where it is apparently still 2001  (reghardware.com) (31)
(CTV) Scary Not saying there is any need to panic or anything, but apparently just using one arm to measure blood pressure COULD END UP KILLING YOU  (edmonton.ctv.ca) (61)
(Courier Mail) Sad Another Club Med closes, narrowing the list of vacation destinations for balding, hairy-backed men hoping to get invited to a swinger party as they wander about the beach sucking down pina coladas while in the full throes of a mid-life crisis  (couriermail.com.au) (42)
(Daily Mail) Asinine Supermarket IDs woman buying pack of spoons, because spoons can be used to shoot heroin. With helpful instructions on how to prepare heroin with a spoon  (dailymail.co.uk) (68)
(News.com.au) Weird From the "This Will Not End Well" Department: Scientists make human brain cells using the skin of schizophrenic patients  (news.com.au) (14)
(Mirror.co.uk) Fail CNN graphics department doesn't know where London is  (mirror.co.uk) (83)
(WBIR) Dumbass Tennessee Tea Party wants to remove slavery from textbooks. But don't you dare call them racist  (wbir.com) (345)


Sun January 29, 2012
(The Sun) Sappy How does a paralyzed man end 19 years of silence? With the phrase: "I love you, ma"  (thesun.co.uk) (43)
(Fairbanks Daily News-Minus) Cool How many people are willing go through with a 10k fun run at -49 degrees? Six, apparently  (newsminer.com) (57)
(Wikipedia) Survey Parking Wars, Cupcake Wars, Storage Wars, etc... What kind of _____ "Wars" show would you want to see?  (en.wikipedia.org) (304)
(News.com.au) Obvious Teachers to parents: "We've had enough, it's time to raise your own kids"  (news.com.au) (209)
(Some Guy) Fail Newt Gingrich thinks college students should get part-time jobs to pay for their tuition. As opposed to when he was in college and begged his family for money instead of looking for a job. "I want all my time for my studies"  (syracuse.com) (347)
(ESPN) Interesting Aussie Open ends with the worst tennis match in modern history, lasting 6 hours. In some parts of the world they call that a cricket  (espn.go.com) (33)
(Starpulse) Asinine Tuition paying parents of Rutgers students now thrilled to hear that their kids can earn three credits taking Beyonce 101  (starpulse.com) (52)
(LA Times) Walken Walken didn't want to act with a cowbell, so Frank Langella took the part  (theenvelope.latimes.com) (31)

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