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 » TSA Director Leslie Knope dispatches clowns, Li'l Sebastian to calm down angry travelers at Cincinnati airport [Strange]
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Mental Floss » Ian McKellen Wants to Teach You About Shakespeare
A new app series lets users experience the work of The Bard like never before, with some help from Sir Ian. [Link]
Mental Floss » You Can Now Solve Murders With 'Game of Thrones Clue'
Figure out whodunnit in the Red Keep or in Meereen. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Just because you don't like the shirt your teen daughter is wearing doesn't mean you need to sacrifice the family poodle in your smoker [Sick]
[link] [177 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 360-Degree Photos Are Coming to Facebook
And you won't need a fancy camera to create your own. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Know any wounded veteran from Afghanistan, Iraq or elsewhere, or are one yourself? Submit candidate for Raytheon No Barriers Warriors, hiking, rafting wilderness expedition in Grand Canyon in October 2016. (LGT details) [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Good news everybody, they found Sinead O'Connor. We can go back to not caring where she is [Followup]
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Mental Floss » Cadbury Is Bringing a Classic Candy Bar Out of Retirement
After 13 years off the shelves, the Cadbury Dairy Milk Tiffin is making a comeback. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » La dee dee, one two three / Eric the half a bee… er, goat [Strange]
[link] [20 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The least true statement ever written: "There needs to be more weed in Florida" [Florida]
[link] [28 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » The International Space Station Has Made Its 100,000th Orbit
The spacecraft reached the major milestone after 17 years in space. [Link]
FMyLife » LucyLollipop says FML
Today, my obnoxious roommate who always blasts crappy music day in and day out as loud as he can has reached an all time low. He has now started blasting Christmas music. It's May. FML [Link]
FMyLife » ER1C says FML
Today, as I was walking my dog around the block, I fell in the splits position on wet dirt and ripped my pants right on the front. I then had to walk home casually holding a chihuahua on my crotch hoping I would not run into anyone. FML [Link]
FMyLife » gavthewarealpaca says FML
Today, my mattress has gotten so old and trashed that I was woken up by two springs ripping through my bed sheets and stabbing me in the leg and abdomen. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » What's the newest hot commodity? Gold? Bitcoin? How about Zimbabwe's 100 Trillion Dollars. Admit it, you read that in Dr. Evil's voice [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Venezuelan President threatens to throw beer manufacturing executives in prison over a shortage of beer. I think this is one time every red-blooded Farker can support him [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » DC exploring creation of dirt bike park, which is all they could afford for the Batman vs Superman sequel [Interesting]
[link] [22 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Archaeologists Plan to Restore Emily Dickinson's Gardens
The famous poet had a green thumb. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "A new study suggests our nation's children would be better off learning about consensual sex from dungeon masters than their awkward gym teachers." Well, that's a lovely idea (sfw) [Unlikely]
[link] [101 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Report: Living Past Age 100 Is Becoming a Lot More Common
In 2015, there were half a million centenarians in the world. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Tired of Jesus getting all of the attention? Here is a puddle that looks exactly like the Queen celebrating her long rain [Silly]
[link] [23 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Stop me if you've heard this one. Wildfire forces evacuation of north Alberta town [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Tourists' attempt to save bison calf in Yellowstone results in its death. Facepalm, ironic, dumbass, stupid, and asinine tags all burst into flames [Followup]
[link] [205 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » First successful U.S. addadictomy performed [Repeat]
[link] [68 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » What a silly thing to ask of America about what to do with 1.19 billions pounds of surplus cheese … of course we would want to stick it between our toes [Obvious]
[link] [39 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this pooch and catch [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Local Brits baffled after HUGE beast washes up on beach, probably not realizing it's just a another dynamited whale [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Even in this high-tech world that we live in, there are still ghost ships floating the world's oceans without a crew. Zoinks [Creepy]
[link] [74 comments] [Link]
FMyLife » dad, please says FML
Today, I had a mini heart attack as my dad stopped in the middle of the street and said, "I wonder what'd happen if I just dropped my pants right now and started jerking it in front of all these motherfuckers." FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I had to sit through the wedding of my best friend and the love of my life, and pretend to be happy for them. FML [Link]
GraphJam » Reasons why People go into Brookstone
LoL by: Sleepinlight Tagged: brookstone , browse , chairs , massage , purchase , shopping mall , stores Share on Facebook
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GraphJam »
Graph by: Heist Tagged: Bar Graph , chores , dirty , dishes , dishwasher , kitchen , narnia Share on Facebook
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GraphJam » When I floss
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: dentist , floss , Line Graph , mouth , teeth Share on Facebook
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GraphJam » What I Remember From My Childhood
Graph by: inkytabitha Tagged: childhood , nostalgia , Parenting Skills , Pie Chart Share on Facebook
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Fark.com RSS » Most road rage incidents happen around 6:00 pm on Friday. Especially in Los Angeles, where people tend to get angry after not moving from the same spot on the 405 since 10:00 am on Wednesday [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » "Two paintings worth more than £1,000 were stolen from a Nottingham art gallery after staff were distracted by an overweight woman repeatedly hitting herself on the head with a plastic bottle" [Weird]
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Mental Floss » Google Will Pay You to Test Its Self-Driving Cars
The company is looking for Arizonans to help it gather data on its autonomous cars. [Link]
Mental Floss » Doctors in Massachusetts Perform First U.S. Penis Transplant
The procedure is only the third known successful transplant in the world. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Apparently identity thieves are the only ones who want to be associated with Alabama [Murica]
[link] [10 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie in All 50 States
Whether you like them chunky and gooey or thin and crispy, these 50 bakeries really roll out the goods. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Newspapers are experimenting on Facebook Live by eating cheese: "It's turning journalists into bad Jackass copycats" [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark NotNewsletter: It's a good thing Farkers love change [FarkBlog]
[link] [48 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Guillermo Del Toro's Memorabilia Collection To Become a Museum Exhibit
'Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters' will be at the Los Angeles County Museum Of Art all summer. [Link]
Mental Floss » Video: How Psychedelics Went From Counter Culture to Medical Therapy
LSD has a complicated scientific and social history. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The fabulous cake was a lie [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » The moral of this story is: Don't move your hives just to do a little landscaping [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Well, now we know why the town was called "Turbo" [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » The Best Amazon Deals We Could Find Today, May 16
As a recurring feature, our team combs the Web and shares some amazing Amazon deals we’ve turned up. Here’s what caught our eye today, May 16. [Link]
Mental Floss » How One Company Is Using Chemistry to Cleanse and Recycle Egg Shells
A businessman developed a new recycling method to save himself $64,000 a year. [Link]
Futility Closet » Language Arts
A replacement for the Turing test has been proposed. The original test, in which a computer program tries to fool a human judge into thinking it’s human during a five-minute text-only conversation, has been criticized because the central task of devising a false identity is not part of intelligence, and because some conversations may require relatively little intelligent reasoning. The … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Sinead O'Connor missing. Cyborg from the future sought by police [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark Store Daily Deal: FEZ Vaporizer. Interesting. NOT a specialized device for a Shriner's convention. (Sponsored Link) [Plug]
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Fark.com RSS » Man hit with bear spray and it turned out not to be the worst thing that happened to him that day: "The victim testified the fumes he'd carried in on his clothing got into the toilet paper in the bathroom with painful consequences later"
[link] [59 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 13 Fabulous Facts about Liberace
The lavish Liberace truly did laugh all the way to the bank. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Jenkins
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Fark.com RSS » Voters overwhelmingly favor legalizing recreational and medicinal marijuana, which, if it were to happen, would inevitably result in ten times as many Florida tag submissions [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Site of Jesus' baptism to be cleared of mines after 50 years (autoplay video – it's Chicken Noodle News, after all) [Unlikely]
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FMyLife » Confession says FML
Today, I've been begging my boyfriend to get us a dog for months now. This morning, I noticed he'd bought some toilet paper with dogs printed on it. I asked him if it was a sign. He replied, "Yeah, one you can stick up your ass." FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Policewoman suspended after arguing with a subordinate over who had the better breasts [Strange]
[link] [124 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Welcome to the Danger Zone: The Story Behind Kenny Loggins's 'Danger Zone'
The 'Top Gun' tune hit a bit of turbulence. [Link]
Mental Floss » 25 of the Craziest Burger Toppings in the U.S.
Who says you can't put hot fudge or pizza on your burger? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Seven years ago, Richmond started paying its criminals to not commit crimes. So is it working, or not? [Followup]
[link] [122 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fisting site members concerned with backdoor breach, Panthrs rsign Jagr, and a Sue Goog Seuss headline: a few of Fark's favorite Headlines of the Week for 5/8 – 5/14 [FarkBlog]
[link] [3 comments] [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I nearly got shitcanned for falling asleep on the job. The only reason I was so dead tired was because my idiot roommates decided to get high last night and loudly argue for hours about stupid crap like "Is it gay to screw a clone of yourself?" I got less than 2 hours of sleep because of them. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Surfer freed from ahole [Scary]
[link] [46 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Ohio school district is teaching creationism using a video from a Muslim sex cult [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Early Demo Versions of 11 Hit Songs
Every great song has to start somewhere. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Russia to Syria: Just to let you know how serious we are about military action, here is a scene from the video game Command and Conquer [Amusing]
[link] [36 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Animal rights activists are vowing to shut down Whacking Day [Interesting]
[link] [59 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » What Does That Little Chip On My Credit Card Do?
They're old news for Europeans. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Damning new satellite images appear to confirm the exact time and location of the air defense system used in the downing of MH17 over eastern Ukraine – and it's not good news for Russia [Obvious]
[link] [47 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Texas Republicans rescind a resolution to secede from the U.S. Apparently the tipping point was when the federal government ordered them to install transgender bathrooms at the Alamo [Followup]
[link] [201 comments] [Link]
Overheard In The Office » I'll “Fluff It”, If You Will.
PR guy to marketing guy: You know, I'm just going to massage it a little. I just want to get it into your hands as soon as possible, you know? Chicago, Illinois Overheard by: the girl who cannot hear [Link]
Mental Floss » This Fire Alarm Texts You When It Senses Smoke
And if there's a false alarm, you can turn it off by tapping your phone. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » U.S. Social Security Administration: "You're dead." Nebraska man: "No, I'm not" [Fail]
[link] [67 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Pick your favorite element of this story about the first successful penis transplant: Doctor's name, age of recipient, or wild card [Spiffy]
[link] [63 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this deadly weapon of war [Photoshop]
[link] [29 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Vertical Turntable Puts a Fresh Spin on the Classic Record Player
See your vinyl in all its glory as it plays your favorite tunes. [Link]
Mental Floss » 10 Animal Webcams You Can Watch Right Now
Keep your eye on these animals, no matter where you are! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Paralympic athlete is reunited with her legs after somebody ran off with them [Spiffy]
[link] [27 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Restored 'Warriors' Soundtrack Re-Released on Vinyl
Wax Work records has re-released the soundtrack from 'The Warriors.' [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Warning: Smoking may be hazardous to your health [Scary]
[link] [33 comments] [Link]
Weird Universe » The Case of the Confused Tourist
October 1977: German tourist Erwin Kreuz took a flight from Augsburg to San Francisco. When it landed in the United States, he got off.
Three days later, he realized he wasn't actually in San Francisco. Instead, he was in Bangor, Maine, where the plane had stopped for refueling. Kreuz realized his mistake when he got bored of wandering around what … [Link]
Weird Universe » Follies of the Madmen #282
Chimps improve every product. [Link]
Mental Floss » These Posters Pay Homage to Iconic Movie Sneakers
Can you name which films these kicks appeared in? [Link]
Mental Floss » Jenkins
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Mental Floss » Instagram Baker Makes Amazingly Adorable Doughnuts
Doughnuts that smile back. [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I gave my cat a little kiss on the head. Just as I was about to tell him I love him, he sneezed directly into my face. It's been two hours and I still can't get the taste of cat snot out of my mouth. I probably need to get a life. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my college instructor told me I hadn't actually failed a big exam as he originally said. It turns out he'd mixed me up with another student. Now thanks to the power of gossip, half my class thinks I slept with him so he'd switch my grade with the other student's. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: On the 'Assassin’s Creed' Set
Gdet the week started right with these links! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Two shot at HS graduation in Kansas, when responsible gun owner tries to adjust handgun in his sock [Fail]
[link] [362 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 40 Super S-Words To Supplement Your Vocabulary
'Scrouge' means to crowd someone. Worth remembering for the morning commute. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » So the bomb at the Manchester United match was actually a bomb. A training bomb. Left behind by a private security company on Wednesday [Followup]
[link] [87 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 50 Tools Every Homeowner Should Have
You'll need these pieces of equipment to keep your home in tip-top shape. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If at first you don't succeed, fail, fail again: "Emergency workers said the same car and the same woman crashed through the same crossing arm two weeks ago" [Facepalm]
[link] [48 comments] [Link]
GraphJam » With Donuts!
Graph by: (via I Love Charts) Tagged: best of week , donuts , facebook , social media , twitter Share on Facebook
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GraphJam » Geometry
LoL by: happysmiley Tagged: education , geometry , math , school Share on Facebook
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Mental Floss » New App Lets You Virtually Visit a Famous Anatomy Museum
Medicine might not be the first thing you think when you think of Edinburgh, but it should be. [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I found out it's possible to dislocate your jaw just by yawning. Now I'm in the ER, looking like a total psycho. FML [Link]
FMyLife » emancipate me says FML
Today, my mom was in a really bad mood, so I stayed in my room to avoid her. It didn't take long before she barged in and started bitching about my dog, who'd pissed her off by acting too happy. Yes, she's actually that insane, and I have to deal with it on a daily basis. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » 12 Habits That Are Costing You Money
Presented by Allstate. [Link]
Futility Closet » Apollonian Circle Packings
Image: Wikimedia Commons In 2014 I described Descartes’ theorem, which shows how to find a fourth circle that’s tangent to three “kissing circles.” Descartes’ equation refers to the “curvature” of each circle: this is just the reciprocal of the radius, so a circle with radius 1/3 would have a curvature of 3. (This makes sense intuitively — a circle with a … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In other news, apparently it is possible to vandalize a paint-ball park [Strange]
[link] [22 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Tourists visiting Yellowstone NP from overseas load bison calf in their SUV, carry it to ranger station because they think it's cold. Hilarity ensues [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » WWI Centennial: Austrians Launch “Punishment Expedition” Against Italy
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 235th installment in the series. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Woman goes to hospital with a shark attached to her arm [Florida]
[link] [79 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In a bid to stay on the cutting edge of tax evasion, Swiss city now accepts payments in bitcoin [Spiffy]
[link] [29 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 15 Castles You Can Stay In
These castles are the perfect places to visit when you're looking to get the royal treatment. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Apparently it is illegal to sell your laptop while black. Even if your mom is a well-known TV personality [Murica]
[link] [277 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Let's all feel sorry for The Edge, who can't develop "Eco-Friendly" mansions on his Malibu land because of greedy environmentalists [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Oversized, overcrowded, overloaded, overpriced…and soon to be over here [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this dirty little hipster [Photoshop]
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