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 […]

Do you want to watch the World Series but find it difficult because you don’t give a rat’s ass who wins? Well, here’s some non-sporting incentive to pick sides: Cardinals pitcher Jeff Suppan, who’s scheduled to start Game Four tonight, will appear in an ad to be televised during this evening’s contest urging voters to […]

It’s one of those brilliant ideas that only seems like a headslapper after it’s been invented — the Googleborg has just granted people the ability to design “bespoke” search engines that search only the websites they want. Sure, it’s an obvious boon to magazines and merchants, but according to the BBC, it’s also a sweet […]

XKCD is one of the few (OK, probably the only) web comics on science that is worth a damn:

Although occasionally Diesel Sweeties does the medium justice. (And another.)

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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A pair of intrepid Muscovite newsmen hehv resyolved to shyow wyorld how cell phones cehn cook brain cells lyike batch of bad borscht. Their bulletproof experimental paradigm? Prop two cellies up inside empty cigarette cartons, slap an egg between ‘em, and time how long it takes to cook.
(Btw, these are the people who’re now […]

I just stumbled upon a pretty amazing Flash animation which purports to essplain just whatthemotherfuck those nutty string theorists mean when they start wanking off about ten-dimensional space. Having read the bruh-HILLIANT nerd-tween novel “The Boy Who Reversed Himself” when I was a nerd tween - in which an awkward East European impresses a chick […]