Archive for November, 2006

Peals of hyena-style laughter, numerous spit-takes, and effluviated Bronx cheers erupted throughout the FrinkCave when we read this:
Blogs and other internet sites should be covered by a voluntary code of practice similar to that for newspapers in the UK, a conference has been told. …unless there was a voluntary code of conduct there would be […]

Remember the Curse of King Tut? It’s baaaaaaack. Consider the bone-chilling facts: on their way to examine the boy king’s mummy with a CT machine recently, a University of Cairo research team struck a child with their vehicle…almost. Then…a huge storm hit. Should I go on? Very well…next, one scientist was afflicted with a coughing […]

On November 1 British medical journal The Lancet published a series of papers deconstructing global sexual and reproductive health issues, with an emphasis on the subjugation of developing nations to ideologically implacable American policies such as the president’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Gag Rule. As bleak as the outlook sometimes is, […]

It took 100,000 years, but modern humans have finally figured out how to organize information in the sexiest (and least practical) way possible. If you thought the mountain of slash fiction that Gillian Anderson inspired was a crime against more astute eroticism, you ain’t seen nothing yet: meet Microsoft’s answer to the Godaddy girl: […]

In an eerie parallel to the results of the unfortunate Bruce / Demi coupling, it appears that an escaped farm elk may have crossed with a native red deer, resulting in god only knows what.
The product of a mass escape of 160 farmed elk, all of whom are being vigorously shot at by hunters who […]

According to a new poll conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, our nation’s more rationally minded citizens are increasingly going online for their science news. Television remains the preferred source by a small margin, yet it’s unclear whether pollsters factored in the untold thousands who regularly get baked and watch the Discovery […]

Attention everyone, there is an emergency situation happening in South Florida as you read this. The Sun-Sentinel informs us, in a breezy 3,000 words, that faulty remote car locks are denying countless Floridians vehicular ingress. A harsh and fickle mistress, technology thinks nothing of singeing tallywackers and decimating cities, but now she’s just being petty, […]

This one reminds me of Disney’s predilection for depicting jazz musicians as monkeys. (Even when the same film is transplanted to Broadway.)
>> Got Rhythm? Animals Do Too | Discovery News

Here it is folks, what you’ve all been waiting for - the first-ever image of the Frink clan “out in the wild.”
I believe in this scene we’re being chased by the exploding fireball caused by an errant RPG fired at us by the sectarian militia belonging to an irate ibanker, when he discovered the guardians […]