Yes, yes– we know our tagline has sort of acquired a lying stink over the past month or so. We apologize for our less-than-prodigious output.
But there is a reason. You see, we’ve been busy with some things that will turn the ‘Tank into some truly Next Level Shit. We have plans.
(What kind of […]

“There is good chance that there is a scientific basis to the observed phenomenon that children with highly analytical parents are more likely to be autistic,” says a Slashdotter.
See? I’m doing it for the children. I’m an altruistic sonofabitch.
Scientific brain linked to autism | Slashdot

Seriously. Unless he can hire another kid as a human shield during school hours, this young bloke hasn’t got a chance in hell.
There’s just… so much wrong here, we nearly didn’t know what to do with ourselves.

Heads up party people, word on the street is that scientists just discovered two insane new lakes, previously on the down low beneath more than 2 miles of Antarctic ice. According to my sources, they represent the second and third phattest bodies of water in the region’s trendy subsurface liquid scene.

The larger of the two, […]

Hey. Yeah, you– with the limp wrists and shaky knees. Put down the mineral water and grow a pair, wouldja? It’s not *you* there on the table with your gut flayed open like a wet slab of sashimi–and your quaking pansy ass is just making it worse for her. Jaysus. When a screaming woman in […]

So a year ago some kid dug into his McDonalds sundae and said it tasted like blood. The li’l vampire’s mom stormed back into the restaurant and allegedly made something of a ruckus, leading the shift manager to “admit” that the sundae had been prepared by a McPloyee with a cut finger. Now the mom […]

A British TV show will claim that acupuncture works by deactivating the area of the brain governing pain.
The usual: Blah blah brain scan blah “light up” yada yada see that proves it doo de doo de doo.
A pain specialist grudgingly admits this “may be possible,” but only with the caveat that “it is a […]

So I think I saw Christopher Hitchens at Guy & Gallard deli in midtown this morning. He was inhaling a peach scone and being most polemical with the counter guys. He also looked like he slept in his car. But it might not have been old Hellbound after all; I understand this area of town […]

Rejoice, PR droids/heiresses/sundry douchebags: The British Medical Journal says mobile phones won’t tumorize your underworked little cerebrums.
So what are ya gonna do with all those extra untouched neurons to celebrate? (Oh, don’t worry–we would too.)
Mobiles ‘don’t raise cancer risk’ | BBC