You may have missed this, since it was announced on Jesus’s birthday, but apparently the Healthy Penis campaign–an effort to alert gays that getting syphilis is no mere tragic anachronism–was a resounding success.
That’s great and all, but mostly I’m just glad someone finally dug up an excuse to send a cock & syphilis sore marching […]

Oh geez, Seed Magazine EIC and Peter Principle posterboy Adam Bly is talking again, and we, like untold dozens of others, are listening—mostly to see if he actually says anything relevant, or just repeats his little catchphrase “science is culture” over and over again like a less-dapper Rain Man with echolalia.
Bly’s latest editor’s letter was […]

Now that Colonel Sanders’ Alzheimers-y visage leers greasily into the infinite cosmos, we can surely expect a benevolent visitation from scores of heretofore diffident extraterrestrial races emboldened by the promise of adiposity. “If there are aliens in outer space,” said heart attack purveyor Gregg Dedrick after mumbling something about human colonization and buffalo tibia strips, […]

We kid, but this is pretty damn amazing. Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert (and occasional reader/commenter of this blog - REPRAZENT!), lost his voice a year and a half ago to a strange neurological condition called spasmodic dysphonia. His doc told him it was incurable. Adams said, “Eff y’all wack-ass bitchez.”

Just because no one […]

Former American Idol songbird and full-time Internet predator Clay Aiken has been named to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, presumably for his work with the Bubel Aiken Foundation, a charity he founded to help those with autism. A deft political move Mr. Bush, but your underlying neocon agenda hasn’t eluded me. You […]

Maybe some of us here at FT central don’t do things “reliably” or “on time” the way the Man wants us to. Or maybe we just do believe in second chances. Sometimes, when a Frinker has to choose between gettin’ the job done and delectable post-doc tail, he chooses gettin’ the job done…with the tail. […]

Hear ye, hear ye. This latest commencement of Ye Olde Tangled Banke shall now come to order. Les Auteurs FrinkTank, presiding. The quicker we blow through these, the quicker we can get on to the real reason we’ve all congregated here: Hookers ‘n Blow. So let’s get to it…
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Perfect Vulva Every Time is certainly not […]

Er… we mean, “Bank.”
By now you fools know the drill - send us the best science-related money-shots from your blog, or elsewhere in the interwebs, and we’ll pick the best ones and post ‘em all on August 16 as a Very Special Post entitled Boner Jams ‘03 Tangled Bank #60.
Send your shizznit […]

As NYC continues to choke on its own salty sweat, Gawker (our new BFF - watch this space for less science, more Lohan!) notes an oddly magnanimous gesture from Omni Consumer ProductsStarbucks: Free iced coffee today!
But before you shiv that dude in front of you in line to get one step closer to your sweet, […]