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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:00 AM

News you can abuse

As the man behind Fark.com, Drew Curtis sifts through the wackiest stories online, from sex scandals to freak accidents. Is this master of the bizarro now turning his back on dumb fun?
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:30 AM

    Fark is Fark

    Nothing more, nothing less. It has no greater meaning as a phenomenon beyond what it is: an endless crawl of momentarily entertaining links that scroll off into oblivion without impacting our culture or our lives in the slightest. There's nothing wrong with that - but there's nothing TO it, either.

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