One of the internet’s oldest spots for weird links turns 25 this month, and it all started with a photo of a squirrel with giant nuts. In October 1999, Fark.com began posting links to wacky stories ...

One of the wonderful things about Fark, the weird/funny/stupid news aggregator, has always been its utter simplicity. Fark.com is little more than a running scroll of cleverly worded one- or ...

Ever wonder where those morning radio shows get all that wacky news they read on the air? Odds are their sources include a website called Fark.com. Loyal Farkers say they’ve heard DJs read straight ...

A recent deal between a heavyweight newspaper Web site and a popular edited news aggregator site shows the increasingly blurred boundaries among social media platforms, mainstream news and blogs as a ...

In a hopeful gesture toward making the Internet a somewhat less depressing place, the news and community site Fark.com announced this week that it’s “Adding misogyny to Fark moderator guidelines.” ...

Abbreviations, acronyms, and memes fall in and out of fashion on the Internet all of the time. Today's "I can has cheeseburger?" is often tomorrow's "All your base are belong to us." Some stand the ...

Here’s your dumb media theory of the day. Fark is the center of the “weird news” universe. The editors churn through over 2,500 submissions a day to find the strangest news stories, and then label ...

Fark.com's move to trademark the widely used internet warning label "NSFW" has many in the blogosphere asking WTF? Drew Curtis, founder of the off-kilter social news site, filed an application several ...

If you’d forgotten that Fark.com is a thing, here’s a reason to remember: The site just became one of the first original link aggregators to ban misogyny from its community. According to a message ...

Drew Curtis, founder of the offbeat news site Fark.com, announced Monday that he’s running for Kentucky governor, entering a highly competitive race as a first-time candidate. The 41-year-old Curtis ...

There are millions of home-grown Web sites out there, but only a few people actually make money off of them — people like Drew Curtis. For the past five years, he has run Fark.com as a full-time job.