It's Not News, It's Fark

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It's Not News, it's fark: http://www.fark.com/2007/book/ Not like the book said anything original, but it has some truly hilarious examples taken from years for following silly stories.

It's Not News, It's FARK by Drew Curtis Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

In Drew Curtis's book It's Not News, It's Fark , he talks about how more than anything, the media loves talking about media, because they understand it the most. That means any huge story almost inevitably turns into reports of "Has the media gone too far?" and "What role do we have in stories' getting out of hand?" I see no reason why this wouldn't apply to mass-market tech blogs.

… appears as beautiful formatted text, like magic. Almost like the PDF format is designed to be flexible enough to adjust to other mediums. First off, never underestimate the public domain. The funniest and greatest books ever written are all public domain. Hell, it's worth it to get the complete Shakespeare in accessible format alone. Meanwhile, most .lit sales come with no DRM whatsoever. Opening my Kindle right now, the following files are on the front page: A Confederacy of Dunces, one of the funniest books ever written; My Man Jeeves, ditto; Infinite Jest, one of the great novels of the 90s; The Woman Who Rides Like A Man, a young adult novel from an author I'm nostalgic for; Ulysses, the greatest novel of all time; 2BRO2B, by Vonnegut; the complete Shakespeare; Neuromancer, The Bible, and It's Not News, It's Fark. Over half of those …