The Amazing Changing Faces of HAL 9000

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:00:00 EDT

The people at the Fark forums have run a Photoshop contest on HAL 9000, twisting the ominous red eye of the psychopath mainframe into all sorts of funny variations. From HAL 9000 to PAL 9000 to HEIL 9000 to the obligatory GLORY HAL, the resulting gallery is hilarious.

If you think you can best the Fark crew, here's the original. You know where to send it.

[Fark Forums]

Fark Attempts to Trademark NSFW, Gizmodo is Like 'WTF? TFSU!'

Adrian Covert — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:58:58 EST

Drew Curtis and his company Fark, in their quest to rulzor teh internetz, filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office to lay claim to the acronym NSFW. Seeing as we like to use the acronym to prevent employed and/or righteous gadget freaks from becoming enraged, we take an interest in the all-encompassing control they want over the term.

According to the app, the trademark rights would cover all of the following:

Entertainment Services namely providing a web site featuring photographic, audio, video and prose presentations featuring comedic captions regarding current events and online discussions and/or reviews of web materials of an adult nature; Entertainment services, namely, providing a web site featuring musical performances, musical videos, related film clips, photographs, and other multimedia materials; Entertainment services, namely, providing on-line reviews of photographs and /or web postings of an adult nature.

So let me get this straight – Fark wants to take a vague, general acronym they didn't create and receive the online rights to it? Hmmmm...good luck with that. I think I'll go and trademark LOL and BRB now. [Fark Trademark Application via Valleywag]

Gizmodo: fark

The Amazing Changing Faces of HAL 9000

Fark Attempts to Trademark NSFW, Gizmodo is Like 'WTF? TFSU!'