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Fark.com is a community website created by Drew Curtis allowing users to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. Most links are submitted by Fark readers, which are then approved for posting on the main page by admins. Fark is one of the most widely read community sites of its type on the internet. Download high resolution version (1004x586, 127 KB) This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ...
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TotalFark.com is a premium version of Fark. Members are able to see, and comment on, all submitted articles (not just "greenlighted" articles on the main page). TotalFark requires a monthly fee to join, unlike "regular fark", or "Fark lite," which is free. Members of TotalFark have established an online community and frequently participate in "TotalFark discussions", which are submitted links not meant to be greenlighted, but rather commented and discussed by TotalFark members only. Members of TotalFark often refer to themselves as "TFers" (male) or TFettes" (female), while members of regular Fark refer to themselves as "Farkers" or "Farkettes". Often TotalFarkers refer to regular Farkers as "liters" (pronounced "lighters") because they only participate on "Fark lite". Some have gone as far to call TotalFark the "center of the Internet Universe" due to its large and active community.
History
Originally, the web server on Drew Curtis' fark.com domain (Fark being a euphemism for fuck) contained no content, except for an image of a squirrel with large testicles. Later, in 1999, the site introduced what would evolve into its current format, as a way for Curtis to share what he considered interesting news postings with his friends rather than sending them numerous emails. Features such as link submission and forums have slowly been added over the years, as popularity and participation grew. Drew Curtis (b. ...
A euphemism is an expression intended by the speaker to be less offensive, disturbing, or troubling to the listener than the word or phrase it replaces. ...
Fuck is a strong and generally provocative swearword in Modern English and is one of the best-known vulgarisms in the English-speaking world. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Tags The signature of Fark has always been the "tags" given to stories by submitters -
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 - which are displayed prominently alongside often witty headlines and a link to a forum to discuss that specific article. Articles discussing Wil Wheaton, a prominent member of the Fark community, are given the "Wheaton" tag. Articles discussing Christopher Walken are given the "Walken" tag, though Walken has never participated on Fark. Tags that say
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 are used for threads where digital content is edited for a humorous or artistic effect. Tags that say
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 are used to post adult content. Finally, the
 tag is used for news which is a matter of important breaking news and an email is sent to the administrators notifying them that someone has submitted a "Newsflash". Members are told to use this tag very sparingly and only for matters of extremely important breaking news. All of the links which are posted on Fark are submitted by users and "greenlighted" by unpaid administrators or Drew Curtis himself. The administrators are personal friends of Drew, as are the moderators. The tags next to the articles represent the submitter's feelings on that article and do not necessarily represent the views of Fark or the administrator who greenlighted the article. Image File history File links Fark_Stupid. ...
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Wil Wheaton (2001) Richard William (Wil) Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972 in Burbank, California) is a writer and father as well as a former child actor. ...
Christopher Walken in The Dogs of War (1981) Ronald Walken (born March 31, 1943), known professionally as Christopher Walken, is an American film, television, and theatre actor best known for playing menacing or psychologically damaged characters, but has occasionally used that image for comedic effect. ...
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Next to an article on Fark appears a number in parentheses that looks like this: (105). Clicking on this number goes to the discussion about the article. The number in parentheses is the number of comments users have made. The discussion part of the thread is where readers are encouraged to comment, discuss, and often argue the content of the link. Sometimes, when there are a lot of comments associated with an article, an administrator changes the number into something humorous such as "(∞)", "(ℵ0)", or even "(√-1)". Infinity is a term with very distinct, separate meanings which arise in theology, philosophy, mathematics and everyday life. ...
In the branch of mathematics known as set theory, the aleph numbers are a series of numbers used to represent the cardinality (or size) of infinite sets. ...
In mathematics, the imaginary unit i (sometimes also represented by j, but in this article i will be used exclusively) allows the real number system to be extended to the complex number system . ...
Farkisms Like many online communities, Fark.com has developed its own in-jokes known as "Farkisms" or "Fark.com clichés". For example, "Fb- is the father" is often added to any report involving birth or pregnancy or "Duke sucks" is added after a sports headline. And of course by "often", we mean "after every single headline." If you like mindless repitition, you'll love it. One of these in-jokes also serves another purpose, a clever way of preventing "first post" messages: if a message contains the words "first post", its time stamp is changed twelve hours into the future (making it one of the later posts), and the words "First Post" are turned into "Boobies." The prase "Last Post" is moved back 12 hours and is replaced with "Weeners". However, new users occasionally fall victim to this, and post a message that ends up saying something like: "This is my Boobies on Fark". The filter also censors out certain swear words and replaces them with more toned down versions. A virtual community is a group whose members are connected by means of information technologies, typically the Internet. ...
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First Post! is an internet phenomenon on internet discussion groups (notably Slashdot and LiveJournal), where participants strive to be the first person to post a comment to a new article or discussion thread. ...
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Fark clichés also tend to be placed into the submitted news headlines. A few examples are: "find Sarah Connor" (from the Terminator movies) for technology news headlines (Example: "New robot will explore the surface of mars, find Sarah Connor"), "Duke sucks" (the basketball team) for sports news headlines, and "jailarity ensues" for headlines involving stupid people triggering intervention by authorities (Example: Woman makes joke about bomb in her suitcase to airport security screeners, jailarity ensues). "Glass parking lot" is the term given to an area of sand after a nuclear bomb is detonated over it. This term is usually used to advocate a nuclear-based solution to problems in countries in the Middle East. "Still no cure for cancer" is a cliche often used for scientific stories claiming a recent discovery or scientific conclusion which is usually already quite obvious to the average reader (in lieu of say, being productive and actually "curing cancer"). One of the newest, but still popular, clichés is "Pray for Omarion", a reference to the R&B singer's request for fans to pray for his safe return from London after the 2005 bombings (which he was nowhere near). It is now used as a reference to any disaster to which the rapper has no connection, for example: "Nuclear Reactor in North Korea melts down: Pray for Omarion". Other examples include "It's a Trap," "Hot Cocoa Sampler Box," or the new questionable favorite automatic threadjack "I work for..." started in [1]. See how humorous? "Hot cocoa sampler box".. the hilarity never stops ensuing. Sarah Connor Sarah Connor is a fictional character in the Terminator series of films, played by Linda Hamilton. ...
The Terminator is a 1984 sci-fi action film which became the break-through role for former body-builder Arnold Schwarzenegger. ...
Duke Chapel Duke University is a private, coeducational, research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Although founded only in 1924, Duke traces its roots back to 1838. ...
See suction for the meaning of sucking (e. ...
The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the hypocenter. ...
A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...
When normal cells are damaged or old they undergo apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. ...
When normal cells are damaged or old they undergo apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. ...
Cover of Omarions album: O Omarion on MTVs Punkd Omarion (born Omari Ishmael Grandberry on November 12, 1984 in Inglewood, California) is an African-American pop singer and the former lead singer of boy band B2K. Omarion was the last member to join B2K, at age 16. ...
Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ...
Farkisms are ever evolving. Sometimes something becomes a farkism for a few months and then dies out, other Farkisms are currently no longer used such as "fb- the father". There are some Farkisms which are specific to TotalFark, which are discussed in the Fark n00b guide. Other farkisms include adding "DIT" to the end of a submission which means "Details in Thread" or "LGN" which means "Link Goes Nowhere". If a submitter writes # at the end of a link, it means that the link goes nowhere and there are details in the thread.
Farking The term "farking" is also used as a verb; many smaller websites referenced by Fark headlines have been "farked", meaning they have received so much traffic that they have stopped responding completely. This is also known in some internet circles as the Slashdot effect. The Slashdot effect is a particular example of how incoming links from a popular website can cause a smaller site to slow down or even temporarily close due to the increased traffic. ...
Photoshop contests Fark.com also features regular "Photoshop contests" where users use a graphical editing program (such as Adobe Photoshop, from which the contest draws its name) to create various funny pictures derived from an image provided by the creator of the contest, or less commonly, according to a set theme as set out in written form. Image File history File links HA! HA! guy original. ...
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A Photoshop contest, or sometimes photochop contest, is an online game, in which a website or user of an Internet forum will post a starting image — usually a photograph — and ask others to manipulate the image using some kind of graphics editing software, such as Photoshop, The GIMP, Paint Shop...
Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editor (with some text and vector graphics capabilities) developed and published by Adobe Systems. ...
Clichés (really, in-jokes) are common in the resulting works; some of the most common recurring clichés include: the "HA! HA! guy", an engraving of an 18th-century Quaker or Anglican minister, used in an advertisement in an unknown 19th-century newspaper (along with the words "HA! HA!"), which is excessively submitted with custom remarks, Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars yelling "It's a trap!", the killing of kittens, Bat Boy, the Mustard Man, Bubb Rubb, the aforementioned large-testicled squirrel, and Domo-kun, a squarish toothy brown monster from Japan (who also originated the kitten-killing cliché). Often in entries that are offensive or sacrilegious (or, especially, entries involving the September 11th terrorist attacks) the submitter will kiddingly ask for a "one way ticket to hell, please". This is often abbreviated, so a poster with an obviously disrespectful topic may just say "one ticket, please" or even simply "aisle seat". Fark. ...
The original engraving HA! HA! (also known as HA! HA! guy or The HA! HA! Quaker) refers to an Internet phenomenon featuring a picture of a laughing colonial man with a customized subtitle of what he is saying. ...
Admiral Ackbar is a fictional character in the Star Wars movies and novels. ...
Star Wars began with a 13-page treatment for a space adventure movie which George Lucas drafted in 1973, inspired from multiple myths and classic stories. ...
There are a number of notable lines in the Star Wars series that have gained currency as catch phrases in the outside world, or are significant within the canon itself. ...
The original image Every time you masturbate… God kills a kitten is the headline of an image created in 2002. ...
Bat Boy is a fictional character whose antics often appears in the pages of the Weekly World News. ...
The Mustard Man The Mustard Man is an Internet meme that first gained prominence on Fark. ...
Bubb Rubb is an Internet phenomenon started by a television broadcast on KRON in San Francisco, CA. The news broadcast was about whistle tips, devices welded into a cars muffler to cause a loud whistle as the exhaust gas goes by. ...
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Criticisms Fark is often criticized for running headlines and articles that are politically biased. However, they are accused of having both a conservative and a liberal bias. Drew has stated that rather than trying to keep it in the middle, admins enjoy running both far-left and far-right articles.[2] The top four hated "groups" on Fark.com are (in no particular order) PETA, child molesting Catholic priests, the French, and Duke, according to founder Drew Curtis.[3] For the SI unit of measurement, see Peta People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world. ...
Holy Orders in the modern Roman Catholic Church and in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Assyrian, Old Catholic, and Independent Catholic Churches, includes three degrees: bishop, priest, and deacon. ...
Fark has been accused of selling preferential placement of story links on the main page.[4] Drew responded to this by saying he had considered selling links he was already going to post to servers that could handle the bandwidth, such as CNN or ABC. The only type of links that are paid are some of the adult content (usually "boobies") links, which are clearly labelled as being sponsored. Thus far the only sponsored links have only been clearly labelled adult content links. This is done to ensure the links are trojan-free, spam-free, and spyware-free. Adult content links that aren't labelled as sponsored links are not paid for and were submitted by individual users. According to Drew, there is currently nothing in the works to sell links to sites such as AP, CNN, or anyone else. The Cable News Network, more commonly referred to as CNN, is a cable television network that was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner & Reese Schonfeld [1] [2] (although the latter is not currently recognized in CNNs official history). ...
// Look up ABC and abc in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Associated Press logo This article concerns the news service. ...
Many people also complain that Fark will not publish their link to their main page or "greenlight" their articles. All of the links submitted on Fark.com are submitted by individual users and are approved based on content by administrators. Articles which are posted to the main page are selected based on the content of the article, how funny the headline is, and sometimes how much bandwidth the server can hold [5]. All sites wishing to be posted on the main page of Fark.com are advised to submit links through the Fark queue and follow the posting guidelines instead of emailing the administrators. The administrators will never greenlight an article because they were emailed and asked to do so.
Sites not linked to There are certain sites which Fark.com will not link to such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, or Ananova.com. The reason for not linking to the New York Times and Washington Post is that these sites require a user registration, something which annoys most readers of Fark. Submitting any link which requires registration is frowned upon by the Fark community. Members can post links to the New York Times or the Washington Post in the forums during a discussion but may not submit these links directly through the queue. ...
The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...
Fark does not link to Ananova because the website was posting Fark's headlines without giving credit in addition to posting many inaccurate articles. Ananova was receiving a great deal of traffic due to Fark's links while refusing to acknowledge Fark and reciprocate the gesture. While Ananova claimed to not be using Fark's headlines, Drew specifically put a few "fake" links on the main page which Ananova then posted. Drew decided to not accept links from their website.
Similar sites Fark and Something Awful have long been alleged rivals of sorts, culminating in a Photoshop Contest between the two sites, judged by celebrity Wil Wheaton. Contrary to popular belief, there actually is no real rivalry between Fark.com and Something Awful. This rivalry was propagated mostly as an inside joke by Lowtax, the owner of Something Awful. The joke comes from the fact that Drew and Lowtax are close friends and that Fark.com and Something Awful share about 90% of the same readership, thus making the readers rivals with themselves. Something Awful, sometimes abbreviated to SA, is a cynical comedy website based in the United States. ...
Wil Wheaton (2001) Richard William (Wil) Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972 in Burbank, California) is a writer and father as well as a former child actor. ...
Another website, Fazed.net, is a rival despite members sharing both sites' cliches and Farkisms. Also, Fazed has a Fark counter in the sidebar which contains an RSS (file format) feed of Fark.com links. Fazed is built like Fark in that visitors may submit links, but these links generally go to games, logs and various other stuff that Fark does not usually run. Fazed also has different tags for its links, such as "Owned," "WTmotherF," and "Oh Snap!" It has been suggested that RDF Site Summary be merged into this article or section. ...
Fark.ru is not an official Russian version of Fark, but rather a Russian version of Fark run by Pravda.ru with Drew's permission. The stories are different and it's not a word-for-word translation of Fark.com, as the links on Fark.ru go to other Russian sites. Drew has been told that it is the #1 website in Russia but there is no way to actually confirm this.
The Fark Travel Guide is a database of places to go that is run by, maintainined by, and contributed to by Fark's readers. The guide is unabashedly geared toward FARK's readers, who, when travelling, typically want to know the following: 1. Where's the beer? 2. How much is the beer? 3. Can I get a beer? 4. Can I get another beer? 5. Where's the bathroom?
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