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Wed July 23, 2008
(Scientific American) Spiffy In Bizarro world, tobacco is used to cure cancer. Wait? For real? (13)
(Labspaces.net) Cool Go ahead, lick your wounds: Scientists isolate a compound in human saliva that dramatically speeds wound healing (14)
(The Local (Sweden)) Spiffy Swedish researcher claims to have cracked the secrets of intuition, just like submitter had a feeling he would (7)
(CBC) Obvious University of Michigan team wins solar car race for the fifth time (24)
(The Register) Followup Not to be outdone by Amazon, Sony decides to introduce one of the most idiotic tech devices ever conceived. (This message brought to you by last year) (82)
(Network World) Scary Bank websites using swiss cheese for security, university researchers find (42)
(Fox News) Interesting U.S. Navy bails on the stealth destroyer, will limit fleet to the two currently under construction. Research will instead be directed to more-promising Romulan cloaking technology (55)
(AppleInsider) Dumbass Microsoft offers first hints at anti-Apple marketing blitz for Vista... FOR VISTA (172)
(Some Guy) Interesting Louis Letterier spills "Iron Man 2" details, and "Avengers" movie casting thoughts (51)
(CNN) Asinine AT&T not happy enough to overcharge you a little bit, now planning to hire some tough guys to shake you down even more for net access (18)
(PCWorld) Interesting With DNS flaw now public, attack is only days away. Enjoy your Internet now because soon you will have to hold paper signs over real cats in order to caption them (70)
(The New York Times) Obvious Microsoft tries to polish a turd (91)
(NASA) Cool Coolest image of a four-kilometer-high cliff face that you will see all day (24)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious YouTube: 97 percent of our videos are worth less than squat to advertisers (31)

Tue July 22, 2008
(space weather) Cool The Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS) was thrown overboard from the International Space Station on July 23, 2007. Since then, its orbit has decayed and it has become a naked eye visible object (pic) (29)
(Tech-On) Misc JVC headphones are the first to put the speaker drivers inside your ear. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? (44)
(Lifehacker) Misc Google Maps adds walking directions. Walking? What's that? (70)
(Sci Fi) Cool The trailer for the Battlestar Galactica prequel movie, "Caprica" (86)
(Wired) Cool Undead bacteria discovered. Time to buy a really, really tiny chainsaw (81)
(ClusterStock) Obvious As Apple's stock tanks, Wall Street bestows its vast wisdom on the world: When stocks go down, they are cheaper (86)
(The Industry Standard) Obvious Owners of "Internet currency" company in the West Indies: "What makes you think our customers are laundering money?" (25)
(Wall Street Journal) Followup Icahn calls truce in Yahoo war, agrees to return France's sovereignty (14)
(London Times) Scary "Tomorrow, popular software applications like Skype or even Firefox might be declared illegal" (101)
(Telegraph) Obvious Given half a chance, most men would even sleep with a frumpy plain Jane if she had a pair of breasts (138)
(Wordpress) Interesting If history is any guide, a recent shift in a Pacific climate indicator points to two to three decades of global cooling. There goes subby's beach investment in Canada (98)

Mon July 21, 2008
(Some Guy) Interesting Long list of weird science facts. Ilan Mitchell-Smith available for comment... or anything, anything at all, Please, call (84)
(Bellingham Herald) Interesting Here's something you might not think about: Who owns rain? (94)
(VNUnet.com) Interesting Confirming that the Japanese make everything better, NASA considering using Japanese spacecraft in future mission. With unrelated "Millenium Falcon" pic (28)
(Network World) Ironic Slow move to new Internet technology is giving an old Internet technology new life that no one wanted to see (58)
(PhysOrg.com) Cool ♪ ♫ You put the lime in the sea water, you stop the global warming - put the lime in the sea water, the planet feels better ♫♪ (70)
(Sci Fi) Spiffy Sci-Fi Channel to release 36 original movies in 2009, including such future classics as "Phantom Racer," starring Greg "BJ and the Bear" Evigan as a ghostly race-car driver (134)
(Mark's Technology News) Interesting BRB Evolution folding car looks like a Dyson vacuum. This time an upright (28)
(Daily Mail) Scary If you're on Facebook, you could be a porn star. Without even knowing it (55)
(Independent) Obvious Great Britain panel criticizes WHO and warns that a flu pandemic is coming. EVERYBODY PANIC... with grace and poise (22)
(Houston Chronicle) Interesting Massachusetts patient tested for mad cow disease. So, be sure not to eat meat from any Massachusetts patients (31)
(Reuters) Scary Wetlands could unleash "carbon bomb" due to development and dehydration. Submitter unleashed one of his own this morning due to beer and tacos (47)
(PC Magazine) Interesting Twenty-one great technologies that failed. Subby is taking notes on his Newton while surfing the WebTV (141)
(PC Authority) Unlikely That little thing in your right hand? It'll be gone in five years (136)
(News.com.au) Strange Australian donkeys could soon help increase sex drives of Chinese women. Seriously (68)
(Stuff) Interesting Scientists to drill into Australian-Pacific Plate fault in the hopes of catching a magnitude 8.0 earthquake in a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-act-t-t-t-t-tion (16)

Sun July 20, 2008
(io9) Interesting Five ways reality caught up to science fiction this century. Number five does too count (89)
(Financial Times) Unlikely Sony sets sales goal for PS3 at 150m units. After nearly two years they are barely 10% of the way there (117)
(ohgizmo) Cool Bodycount of Halo 3 exceeds the population of earth. Tron seeking to import alien life for the next round (58)
(The Industry Standard) Interesting Maybe banning the booth babes from the E3 gaming conference wasn't such a good idea, after all (129)
(Science Blog) Obvious Study finds coffee and cigarette consumption are high among Alcoholics Anonymous attendees (55)
(Reuters) Interesting Scientitsts determine that the Easter Bunny is now a polynesian god (21)
(Guardian.com) Scary Hi-tech distractions cause chronic time-wast - hang on, lemme go check my email, texts, Flickr, Facebook, Myspace and RSS feeds before submitting this headline (58)
(Wikipedia) Cool Happy Moon Landing Day everyone (Why isn't this an international public holiday?) (97)
(PhysOrg.com) Spiffy An explanation for altruism in society. Here comes the math (34)
(Denver Post) Interesting A look at the technology upgrades being performed at the Pepsi Center for the Democratic convention. Network will have capacity to run phone and Internet service to the equivalent of 220,000 homes, 100,000 if Bill is downloading his porn (27)
(Telegraph) Cool Coolest pics you'll see today of a hungry leopard and fearsome crocodile. "It just doesn't make sense. The meat you get out of a crocodile is just not worth the risk." (warning: pics of lep-on-croc violence) (133)
(Bangor Daily News) Scary That lobster you eat today could make you sick tomalley (85)
(Engadget) Interesting Quick blurb on quantum computing Quick blurb on quantum computing (16)

Sat July 19, 2008
(Engadget) Interesting Intel celebrates its 40.00000013th birthday (44)
(London Times) Interesting And that's your Great great great great great great ... great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandparents barbecuing uncle Henry (20)
(USA Today) Cool Jimi Hendrix is coming to Guitar Hero. Consumers must supply their own lighter fluid, matches, and brown acid (54)
(CBC) Cool Miniature snowmobile robots could roam glaciers collecting data on melting polar glaciers, build Sara Connor snowmen (12)
(Some Guy) Interesting Tata - the Indian manufacturers of the worlds cheapest car now bring you the air powered production car. 300 kilometer range, $2 to fill. Governments now determining how to tax air (99)
(Kotaku) Asinine Nintendo is "thinking" about raping your wallet for a new set of updated Wii remotes (75)
(Live Science) Interesting Human speech traced to talking fish. Charlie the Tuna wanted for questioning (31)
(STLToday) Unlikely $4+ gas is making it cool to own a scooter again (128)
(Wired) Interesting Interesting stat of the day: Except for the US as a whole, California alone uses more transportation fuel than any country in the world, even China. Also, California gas usage has increased by 50% since 1988 (67)
(London Times) Interesting Scientists say the louder the music the faster you drink. I'd have a funnier headline, but ish too hard to hear in here. "Here here." Dash funny. Y'know what yer prooblem is? I'll tell yer what yer prolbem ish, pal (38)
(InfoWorld) Followup The real story on the San Francisco municipal network "Hostage Situation". Followup narrowly defeats Asinine (34)

Fri July 18, 2008
(Wired) Sick Environmentalists have recently shown / What rednecks have long known / Eating a pigeon / Could help earth just a smidgen / After all, they are locally grown (39)
(London Times) Unlikely "Richard Dawkins is that rare specimen, a public intellectual, a knight of the mind who goes into battle against the ignorance and foolhardiness of the populace" (255)
(Jalopnik) Spiffy 2010 Camaro finally "officially" revealed. Cue 3 months of excitement followed by 15 years of secretaries and high-school kids driving them recklessly (71)
(The New Yorker) Sad Get off my $40 billion lawn (41)
(Wired) Interesting 300 people wanted to re-attempt Mythbusters Archimedes death ray again... For the third time. People with giant moustaches and berets need not apply (50)
(Discovery) Misc Archeological dig reveals 18th century New Orleans. Because you can't see any 18th century buildings or decor anywhere in New Orleans at all (21)
(News.com.au) Interesting American Physical Society sails to the edge of the world and debunks anthropogenic warming (104)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious Who's watching "Family Guy" on Hulu? A bunch of dudes (59)
(some pirate) Ironic You're Ubisoft and your video game doesn't work, do you: A) get your programmers to fix the problem, or B) Download the pirate's crack and release it as the 'Official Patch?' (64)
(Discovery) Interesting Scientists describe how to create an invisible carpet, so when your cat drops its invisible sandwich you won't have to worry about people seeing the invisible stain (9)
(BBC) Spiffy Scan detects OCD. They wouldn't have found out about it but the guy administering the scan had OCD and he kept doing it over and over and over and over again (3)
(Reuters) Dumbass GoDaddy offers .me domain name registration. But they didn't think their cunning plan through (71)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Interesting Never mind this Yahoo business: Microsoft's real problem is the second coming of Apple (59)
(The Register) Amusing After calling OpenBSD developers "masturbating monkeys", Linus Torvalds refers to Digg users as "wanking walruses". Next up: "fapping Farkers" (36)
(Fox News) Cool General Motors researchers are working on a windshield that combines lasers, infrared sensors and a camera to give old people's cars F-16 like capabilities. Targeting farm markets and crowds will be easier than ever (38)
(Telegraph) Interesting Scientists find why we need to re-read a page. Scientists find why we need to re-read a page (21)
(Bangor Daily News) Spiffy Teen boy gets a robotic hand. Assures doctors it will get a workout two, three, maybe four times a day (43)
(Telegraph) Weird How to build your very own 17ft cardboard Gandhi, you know, just in case you want to (29)
(Wired) Sick Olympians: On your mark, get set, cough (41)
(NASA) Cool Coolest pics/video of the Earth and moon from 31 million miles away that you'll see all week (35)

Thu July 17, 2008
(Slashdot) Interesting Humans have intellgently designed more creatures in Spore than exist in real life (86)
(Aint-It-Cool-News) Cool Q: Who watches The Watchmen? A: Whoever has YouTube (175)
(IMDB) Unlikely Story the media is suppressing: Apparently there are 134 people in "The Dark Knight" who are NOT Heath Ledger in ANY WAY (72)
(Some Guy) Interesting Jesus H. Tap-Dancing Christ: "Iron Man" has passed the half-billion dollar mark (69)
(The Industry Standard) Unlikely The Business Software Alliance says that if you didn't pirate Microsoft Office, there would be more cops on the streets (39)
(Mercury News) Followup Sony lowers price on PS3 from "Oh, hell no" to "Meh, I'll stick with a Wii for now" (148)
(Ars Technica) Scary Christian radio warns FCC that "local community standards" rule could force them to take programming advice from morans who don't believe that Earth is 6000 years old, Jesus rode dinosaurs or gays are destined for hell (111)
(Themovieblog) Asinine New live-action "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie in the works and set to be released in 2010. Vanilla Ice said to be overwhelmed with excitment at the prospect of potential employment (67)
(C|Net) Interesting Apple must win its case against Psystar -- or else something really bad will happen: People will buy the same hardware at much lower prices (232)
(Slashdot) Amusing Just when you thought the SCO case couldn't get any stranger, a man who has previously sued The Thirteen Tribes of Israel, 'Various Buddhist Monks,' Mein Kampf and Plato offers to take over the case (26)
(Some Blogger) Followup Dallas commissioner adds "blogs" to his list of stuff he doesn't understand. Bonus: He's on the I.T. committee (44)
(Labspaces.net) Obvious Scientists announce a new way to weigh black holes. Expect protests from Dallas Commisioner John Wiley Price any day now (106)
(BBC) Interesting The Gamecube sold 22 million consoles in seven years. The Wii has sold 28 million consoles in two years. It appears Nintendo has found the solution to its console woes: Not sucking (213)



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