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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 […]

Sorry, I just saw Borat and am still channelling the lingo a bit. But nevertheless, the scurrilous lies of Anne Casselman must be corrected. A sampling of her libelous logorrhea:
I’ve met three of them: Mr. Orange, Not Hitashi [sic], and Alexander Blaisdell. In the flesh. And they’re normal. …they aren’t a bunch of horny […]

Being a lover of the arts and of foppish dandies, Mr. Orange can totally get behind the Mcsweeney’s-esque funny-weird of Dave Ng and Benjamin Cohen over at The World’s Fair (and the Science Creative Quarterly).
So it was with great avarice that he discovered, via Inky Circus, that said gainfully employed scientists (and science “humorists“) are […]

WE WILL NEVER FORGET
Truth to power.

It’s been a while since the last Wikipedia-related brouhaha, but maybe it’s time for another one. In a little-seen screed for the subversive pamphlet Chemistry World, SUNY chemistry professor Martin Walker declared Wikipedia as the preferred platform for disseminating his mad plans for world domination over the next 5-10 years. Before bragging about the dedication […]

No doubt inspired by our own pilot study, the poobahs at Nature decided to see for themselves whether this whole Wikipedia flap is worth crinkling their knickers over. So they did a study comparing the Whore of open-source Babylon to that Madonna of dead-tree research materials, the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The result? It may be easier to […]

OK, color us impressed. A Dutch infocop detected our presence and neutralized the evidence in 17 minutes flat. At nearly “20,000 namespace edits,” this guy is fricking intenso, man.
So, what have we learned from this little experiment?
1. Information that has any kind of relevant currency whatsoever, from Roy Orbison to the polymerase chain […]

The mediaphiles among us probably know about the cyber-tempest in a cyber-teacup that struck Wikipedia last week, when the NY Times ran a story about some old dude from the Kennedy administration getting slandered in the Wikipedia entry about him. In response, the Wiki-overlords have instituted new rules requiring people to register with them before […]