Fark NotNewsletter: FOBBV, Tour de France, ISS livestream - What's your favorite livestream cam? Posted by NotNewsletterMonkey at 2025-07-10 12:53:47 PM, edited 2025-07-10 1:01:30 PM (15 comments) | Permalink More: FarkBlog 66 clicks; posted to Main » on 10 Jul 2025 at 12:53 PM (28 minutes ago) | Favorite | Watch | share: Copy Link ________________________ A message from Drew Curtis: ________________________ Hey everyone hope your week's been well. Do you have any favorite live cams? Up until last week we had the bald eagle nest FOBBV Eagle Cam on at our house, but the eagles have successfully grown up and flown off to parts unknown. Now I'm wondering what other live cam to try. I've got a few weeks to find a new one because the Tour de France is on now and does pretty well. (The whole thing's basically an awesome commercial for visiting all over France.) Anyhow, for when that's over what are your suggestions for a live feed to have on in the background during the day? Thursday 4pm it's the Fark News Livestream with the whole crew. We usually have a weekly segment called AI Is Going Great, but that segment might end up being the entire show this week at this rate. Also, aliens, Shakespear, and NHL fights on the golf course. Programming note: after this week, no livestream for the next two weeks. Folks are all over the place. We'll pick back up again in August. ________________________ End Drew transmission ________________________ Top CommentsSome of the top-voted smartest and funniest comments from the past week.If your post isn't here, assume that NotNewsletterMonkey couldn't think of a tagline.(The Smartest and Funniest for the past month are found elsewhere.) Funny:- Demetrius: "They must be Apple people"- Snarfangel gave us the WaFl United States. Smart:- markie_farkie: "What kind of farkwad shoots firefighters?"- fullyautomatic hates when people make infographic maps without adding a legend.- cretinbob knows this is an unfortunately common crowd warning. - edmo marveled at a public figure actually apologizing.- gunga galunga spotted News Media again refusing to cover anything that makes Republicans look bad. PoliticsPolitics Funny:- Devolving_Spud guessed what kind of book report TFG might have written back in school. Politics Smart:- cfreak "On the other hand, the usual suspects folded like the house of cards they are."- Private_Citizen worries that letting bird flu spread freely will lead it to finally mutate a human-transmissible variant.- FormlessOne remembers that, yes, the tariffs the USA is experiencing are retaliations for the ones they sent out.- Marcus Aurelius explained why they're voting for a certain NYC mayor candidate.- rga184 explained another reason billionaires are bad for the economy.- Sabreace22 knows why it's harder to love the USA nowadays. CSB Sunday Morning theme - "That one thing you forgot to take on your vacation"Last week, Farkers were challenged to share the time(s) they forgot to bring things to their vacation getaway.Funny:- Omnivorous packed the underwear for their spouse.- Abox started the plot of Home Alone.- I May Be Crazy But... had to go hiking in sandals.- SunflowerKitten accidentally recreated Home Alone. Smart:- ChibiDebuHage's bus driver saved their laptop.- think_balance noticed someone who forgot their passport in the U.S.- The Headless Horseman's Headless Horse gathered up all the identification they could find.- Dryad recommends going clothes shopping on vacation. Top Contest EntriesSome of the top-voted contest entries from last week, sorted by how likely they are to still be open. Go send in your own submissions, they're fun even if you don't get the most votes! Photoshops: Since there's a lot of these, everybody (and every thread) gets one and only one.- Thoaar knows a tennis ball is only scored after it bounces twice.- starfish01 took the wrong way on this incredibly long waterslide.- Driver found a new movie for the MST3K crew to watch.- I_Am_Weasel knows the true faces of England.- Stephen_Falken added a calculator to their computer.- TxRabbit guessed at the affect Trillium could have on Vulcans.- TheEnglishGuySoCal: "Am I doing this right?"- bawsoot celebrated the smoothest brain.- Yammering_Splat_Vector can't help but see these sand cascades as eyelashes.- SubsequentDamage played a game of professional fusball.- asstamassta depicted a previous incarnation of Fark.- whatsupchuck found the children's mansion of their dreams.- Resident Muslim faced off against the Avatar.- artifishy found a place to LARP.- DrSandyBeech updated the Weinermobile. Now it's a chicken-sandwich-on-a-bun mobile.- Octafrye found the Mask's meetup spot.- Mock26 found someone new to model for The Shadow.- starfish01: "Drop In, Special Edition: Mt. Everest."- pup.socket threw the fish out with the coffee.- Floki created a new page for the Frog & Toad series.- p51d007 had incredibly bad luck when creating this Photoshop. This week, we had a Photoshop Tennis thread: Public Convenience edition.Photoshop Tennis is a fun Photoshop variant where posters add their edits to other Farkers' edits. Captions:"He arrived with an urgent message for all"- MrHormel: "Excuse me, has anyone spoken to you about your horse's extended warranty?"- OtherLittleGuy: "I knew I should have taken a left turn at Catalina Island!" "What lyrics are they singing?"- Petey4335 walked the dinosaur.- dionysusaur remembers the folly of man.- northgrave knows it'd totally be LSD enthusiast Timothy Leary's Beatles cover campaign song. "What is this tour guide's pitch?"- Badmoodman: "We're underwater, but our tours are FREE!" No wonder their business is in debt.- SBinRR: "You may have seen this next one as a Zillow link on Fark's Main tab. Ignore the comments!" "Name this band"- magneticmushroom: "The Machine Against Which to Rage."- Don the Plastic Shroud: "The Pillage People" "Caption this lecture"- gilatrout: "My eyes are up here"- KC Dutchman: "We're watchin' your punk ass! There's a Gundam waitin' just outside those doors, ready to stop your sorry ass into scrap! You feel me?"- Driver: "We're gonna kick your shiny metal ass and you'll have to be carried out on a stretcher and made into a FARK 'Injured Robot' photoshop!" Farktography theme: "In the Summertime"Last week, Farkers were challenged to show us pictures of summertime.- Lovesandwich found a bee in a flower.- gorrck visited Crater Lake.- All Latest marveled at how many summers this old barn has seen.- Elsinore didn't forget the fireworks. Upcoming Fark Parties It's easy to plan for a Fark Party - you're effectively saying that "I'm going to be here at this time, come hang out." Submit one! Fark Headlines of the WeekA selection of some of the top headlines from last week. A limb away, a limb away, a limb away Chapel Hill flooding leaves apartments, stores, cars full of water. If only there were a large source of suction somewhere just up the highway Unlicensed teen kills 2 while racing new vehicle his Grandma bought him. Fark: He was racing his Grandma On this day in history, in 1959, the first US troops were killed in South Vietnam. Also on this day, in 1969, the first US troops were withdrawn from South Vietnam. It's a good thing we used that decade productively This public service announcement brought to you by Marion Cran Fark Weird News Quiz (brought to you by ox45tallboy)Another fun time on the Quiz this week, where we learned that American traditions can come from cheapo oligarchs trying to make a buck off their trash, and guys screwing around on the job site. On the Quiz itself, Blackstone and rick42 tied for the top spot with 1009, followed by meatwhistle in second with 967 and The Third Man in third with 954. WoolyManwich made fourth with 927, and utilaholic takes the number five spot with 904. The hardest question on last week's Hard Quiz was surprisingly about our friendly neighbors to the North and their foundational national holiday. Only 24% of quiztakers knew that Canada Day marked the anniversary of the day in 1867 when Canada was confederated under one government, with the colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada (what is now Omtario and Quebec) united as "Canada". The anniversary of the Statute of Westminster on December 11, 1931 and the anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on April 17, 1982 are both observed, but are not public holidays. They probably have mattress sales or something. The easiest question on last week's Hard Quiz was the geography question. 84% of quiztakers knew that Tuvalu, which will soon be mostly underwater at high tide, is in the South Pacific Ocean. São Tomé and Príncipe is in the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Gabon, and Comoros is in the Indian Ocean just northwest of Madagascar. While both have a steeper topagraphy than Tuvalu, it's worth noting that 90% of the beaches in Comoros have disappeared in the last 20 years and São Tomé and Príncipe is looking at a 30 cm (~1 ft( rise in sea level within the next 25 years. The hardest question on last week's Easy Quiz was about which artist nearly got tossed out of her giant hamster ball floating over the audience during a concert weekend before last. Only 61% of quiztakers recognized "Chained to the Rythm" as a 2017 hit by Katy Perry. Considering that Beyoncé nearly fell out of her flying car when it suddenly tilted over the audience only a few days prior, I'm gonna stay out of the floor seats in concerts until this fad dies down. The easiest question on the Easy Quiz was about which restaurant chain is "de-cluttering " all the crap on their walls that gave it its charm and is now going for a more "modern" look. 94% of quiztakers knew that Cracker Barrel was the place you went with your grandfather so you could point to old shaving equipment and ask "what's that?" and he would tell you because he used to use one just like it. Their new "modern" look of "organized" collections of washboards and coal scuttlers and hat brushes neatly lined up in frames seems kind of... strange, like they're trying to upcycle old junk rather than present items with real history and promote discussion about how they were used in the home. If you missed out last week, now is a great time to catch up on the Fark Weird News Quiz now that you know a few of the answers. Congratulations once again to the winners, and we'll do it all again on Friday. (view entire blog) Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. View Voting Results: Smartest and Funniest Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. View Voting Results: Smartest and Funniest Redisplay/refresh comments