Sigh. Sometimes you can just SEE the stymied dreams of people through their impassioned YouTube clips.

These fools, who clearly washed out of the video-game developer resume pool, have instead turned their energies toward designing a next-gen GUI called “BumpTop.” Utilizing realtime physics calculations that would probably make your Xbox hork up a lung, BumpTop […]

Let’s face it, heavy metal dudes are a geeky breed. Now I love me some blast beats, double bass and gutturals as much as the next hair-farming, grape-smuggling, collectible battle axe-wielding, flaming skull on the neck-sporting, leather jacket and wrestling shoes-wearing metal maniac, but I do tend to draw the line at allowing my most […]

British researchers have recently determined that betting on World Cup soccer matches can actually result in heart rates well above orgasm level. Soccer more exciting than sex? I guess it makes sense: not only is the World Cup the shit, it only comes around once every four years while your wife/girlfriend is always up in […]

Certain Tankers [*cough*] are known to become frothing geekoid fanboys when it comes to certain B-grade sci-fi conceits. Like… oil-rig ruffnecks-cum-astronauts git sent t’dahn’mite a big fuckin’ rock afore it done smashes into the earth. (Criterion-approved, bitches!) Or… a genetically engineered virus escapes the lab and turns London into a desolate, zombie-ridden hinterland. What could […]

Normally we’re loathe to re-link something that’s been BoingBoinged into the stratosphere already, but this was too good to not shout out. Ira Flatow’s “Science Friday” podcast hosted a barnburner of a segment last week: Chris “The Republican War on Science” Mooney vs. Tom “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science” Bethell in a sci-pundit cage […]

People been sayin’ the U. S. of A. needs a new Sputnik-style bitchslap to get us off our asses and back in the global brain game. Today… we have received that bitchslap.
In the hinterlands of Kazakhstan, eh mighty thunder wez hyeard as the post-Soviet punchline republic launched its first satellite into orbit. Wired News says […]

We at Frinktank are big fans of the girls over at Inky Circus, so much so that we’ll cool it with the crude innuendo and dicktacular double entendres when speaking of them. Though despite our tumescent chivalry, we can’t help but point out something distinctly Frinkish in a recent post of theirs about the rapidly […]

So Stephen Hawking says we should start colonizing the moon within the next century before mankind fubars Earth. Well, my bags are packed. I got dibs on this sw33t crater just a block down from Bob Zubrin’s feldspar duplex. But here I have a fab 700 square foot apartment and a not infrequent hankering for […]

Hell yeah, the World Cup has begun. It’s happening in Germany this year, so I fully expect the US National Team to get all Audie Murphy on the competition. However, according to many washed-up ex-footballers experts, things aren’t looking so hot for the hosts.
So, in a meager, yet wise attempt to distract the planet from […]