The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast is to fark what The New Yorker is to National Lampoon.

In other words, it is Tina Brown's internets exercise in pedanticism and her riding the coattails of fark.

What The Daily Beast Stole From Fark

 * the idea for a news aggregator
 * the development for a news aggregator on the internets
 * making news aggregators safe for people too scared to look at 4chan