Odds and sods I look at regularly, just because they amuse me. I hope they do the same for you. Incidentally, I found this page’s title on Greg Ross’s Futility Closet (it’s somewhere on this page) in a mini-article which also includes the delightful sentence in Icelandic: Barbara Ara bar Ara araba bara rabbabara. Ross points out that this, “besides being fun to say, is spelled with only three letters. It means “Barbara, daughter of Ari, brought only rhubarb to Ari the Arab.”
Fark.com RSS » The United States Postal Service? Delivering groceries to my door daily? It's more likely than you think [Interesting]
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FMyLife » not on life, that's for fucking sure says FML
Today, I went to a big job interview. As I walked in, I tripped and fell flat on my face. Other highlights include my voice cracking multiple times, sweating profusely and getting uncontrollable nervous giggling. The interviewer eventually stared at me in disbelief and asked if I was high. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I met my neighbors for the first time, as they helped me carry my dead cat off the road. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I found out what it's like to drive seven hours home with a woman who just brutally rejected your marriage proposal. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Ukraine is steeped in corruption, has Russia breathing down its neck, faces its economy collapsing, and has an election looming. But hey, at least there are no Ebola cases there [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Frank Serpico calls out the lawlessness and corruption of the police. Sadly, this is not a repeat from 1971 [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Have two moms in Texas? No driver's license for YOU [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Stefanie Woods, the so-called "Cookie Monster" who stole cash from Girl Scouts, will spend the next six years trying to hide her Samoas in prison [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this target viewer [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Twenty-three products you need to survive the coming Ebolapocalypse [PSA]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my mom called and casually let me know she'd wrecked my iPad after putting it in the dryer with my bed sheets. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I was making love to my boyfriend. In the heat of the moment, I said his name. He immediately stopped, gave me a deadly serious look and said "Huh? What?" FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Four-year-old, dying from Leukemia, has his whole town celebrate Halloween a week early to make sure he's still around to enjoy it one last time. Farking dusty in here [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » Weekend Links: Bookish Jack-O-Lanterns
Less scary, more literary: book-inspired jack-o-lanterns are in this year. * The '90s was truly a great decade for witches in pop culture. * With only six northern white rhinos left on Earth, it's best to learn about them sooner rather than later. * Broadway buffs and Meryl Streep fans trying to forget about Mamma Mia! will be pleased to … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Canadian Government decides on what new powers to give police. Super speed would be cool, but no capes [Misc]
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Fark.com RSS » It's all fun and games 'til a 16-year-old girl has to be tased and a 16-year-old boy arrested after two fights break out during a fire drill [Fail]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I ran a hand down my freshly shaven leg to appreciate the smoothness, only to come up with a hand covered in blood. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my husband told me he cheated on me two years ago with his ex-fiancée. In the process, he got her pregnant, but said it was okay, because she didn't keep it. FML [Link]
Weird Universe » Bonus ONION Video for Saturday
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Fark.com RSS » Nothing says a day at the beach like seeing narcotics wash ashore, especially when it's twenty kilos of cocaine and twenty pounds of marijuana [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Squirrel winds up in back seat of police car, most likely after refusing to comply with an officer's order to cover his nuts [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Having successfully taken over the taxi industry, Uber now sets its sights on the snowplowing business [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Photographing the Grand Canyon from Space
John Flaig uses weather balloons with cameras attached to make amazing photographs. Known as Near Space Ballooning, his technique entails creating a custom box crammed with cameras and sending it to the edge of space, then waiting for the balloon to pop and send the package back home. The result is beautiful and eerie. My favorite part in this video … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » ACLU of Delaware director Richard H. Morse claims first amendment right to flash headlights in a coded sequence must be upheld. Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only please [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » In one Amazon tribe, a boy does not become a man until he can put his hands into gloves lined with angry bullet ants. Meanwhile in America he just has to learn how to work a washing machine before going to college [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Family of infant scalded by hot coffee at Denny's wins $500,000 lawsuit. Jackie Chiles impressed [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Australia is full of things that can kill you. But it's also home of a rare berry that can cure you [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this blue net group [Photoshop]
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Weird Universe » Farewell, Alvin Stardust
RIP.
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Weird Universe » The Sincerity Machine
Artist Jesse England converted a typewriter to type in Comic Sans, "the most popularly despised font of modern times." He says that he hopes this will provoke thoughts about how we "create, consume, store (and fetishize) media." More info at his website.
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Fark.com RSS » "Americans need to be more productive during their morning commute; all they do is sit mindlessly behind the wheel in traffic" [Fail]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I was waiting at a traffic light next to an ice cream van. The man in it turned to me and winked, making sexual hand gestures. I felt my childhood die horribly as I watched. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Drinking soda daily ages you as much as smoking daily [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Canada's Sergeant-at-Arms is farking hardcore: "In one motion, he dove to the floor around the pillar, at the feet of Bibeau, turning on his back as he landed and simultaneously firing his weapon upwards at Bibeau" [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Two little kittens trapped in a storm drain, might have drowned if it had rained, but they were rescued by people who went out of their way, to make sure all would be well on Caturday [Caturday]
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Fark.com RSS » This story has everything – the surveillance video of the woman "just sitting down," the woman's claim that she fell and hurt her back, a Target worker who happens to speak Dutch, and the ambulance company that wasn't buying it [Flori
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Fark.com RSS » Angry mob gathers outside mosque in Alberta – and helps clean up vandalism [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » The same team of criminal investigators that cracked the Boston Marathon bombing are now hunting the National Park Vandal [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » It's raining nerds as a computer engineer breaks Felix Baumgartner's free fall record [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Unlimited vacation time: Good idea, or best idea? [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » NY news anchor: "If you don't want Ebola, don't eat da poo poo" [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Al Capone's home is on the market in Chicago. Geraldo Rivera seen packing a camera and an axe [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » I'll take $20 on pump 7, and does anyone want to buy this 10-year-old girl? [Sick]
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Futility Closet » Illumination
Starting in the 1970s, neurobiologist Otto-Joachim Grüsser spent 10 years collating the light sources in 2,124 paintings selected at random from Western art originating between the 14th and 20th centuries. He found that in most paintings considered Western works of art, especially those painted around the time of the Scientific Revolution, the light falls from the left. “At the beginning … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Ladies and gentlemen, if you look out the left side of the aircraft you'll see a bunch of paper lanterns. And if you look out the right side of the aircraft you'll see more paper lanterns. And now thanks to the paper lanterns we must reroute
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Mental Floss » 10 Food Misconceptions—Debunked!
Elliott Morgan dispels some misconceptions about what you're eating. [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, after my first day at work at a local daycare, I found out that I'm not entitled to breaks because I'm the only worker there who doesn't smoke. My boss asked me, ''What do you need a break for?'' FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » What are your qualifications for mayor? "Well, I was arrested once for beating a drag queen with a tiki torch while dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan" [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Fire at private school called "suspicious" by authorities. And by "suspicious," they mean "here's security camera footage of a kid roaming the halls the night of the fire with a 5-gallon gas can" [Strange]
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FMyLife » RyoKioKio says FML
Today, I'm horribly out of shape. My arms are sore, almost like I'd been doing heavy lifting yesterday. Nope. It just was from squeezing cupcake icing out of a tube. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Instead of spending hundreds on a fancy decanter, here are some free ways to make your box wine taste less cardboardy [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » "Defendant is living under the delusion that someone stole his semen and used it to create the current membership of the Campus Christian House" [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Beware of the pot prohibitionists, for they are inventing marijuana deaths with science [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Not to get anyone in a panic, but we're about to get hit with a global blackout from a Sun spot that's 11 times the size of the Earth. So yeah, no need to panic until it hits which it could at anytime [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Student eats a pop-tart into the shape of a gun? Ah, hell naw. Sikh student wants to carry a real dagger to school? Sure, no problem [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Soldier killed in parliament shooting honored through procession along highway of heroes [Hero]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, someone stole my coat. I can only imagine their surprise when they find the $3,000 engagement ring I bought earlier. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » For the record, getting a tattoo of the Bentley logo on your forehead doesn't make you any classier [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Caption what Obama is thinking as he leans in for a hug with Ebola survivor, nurse Nina Pham [Caption]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this browser [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » 16 Things You Might Not Know About 'The Terminator'
The low budget movie from a Roger Corman disciple that became a huge movie franchise. [Link]
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