Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Female Ejaculation but were Afraid to Ask. It's a science article, and so completely SFW.

And won't you have an entertaining topic for the dinner table tonight, eh?

It's like a house cat, with a mouse. The body language of that cat was telegraphing he (she?) was looking to jump something.

To this day I've seen nothing in a lion or a tiger that I don't see every day with our incontinent little monsters. The difference is, of course, our cats don't weigh 300+ lbs. If they did, they'd be just as dangerous and unpredictable as their bigger cousins.

In commemoration of Apollo XI's 40th anniversary, Popular Mechanics has an in-depth retrospective. Being only slightly older than a year at the time, I think what I remember is a clear summer day, my mom flipping out with excitement, and me running back and forth between the bedroom and the den because the sound from the radio was also coming from the TV! It was so cool!

No, I don't think it's a particularly reliable memory either, but it's a quick story that makes me smile.

So, is the Obama administration deliberately targeting Chrysler dealerships who contributed to the GOP for closure, or is it just more paranoid ravings from the right? The Obama administration definitely has the arrogance, and the inexperience, to pull a stunt like this. After all, they doubtless have no expectation of being caught. Certainly the MSM will do nothing until the evidence is so colorful it starts to sell other people's newspapers.

Hey, wouldn't you want to watch a bunch of convicts riding bicycles all over France? There are some ideas out there so dumb only a bureaucrat would think they were good.

Look! The kitten is almost camouflaged in Scott's beard!

Can I get an "Awwwwww".

Spaceflight fans should find this collection of SRB videos made during the last Shuttle launch of interest. Whatever they pay those cameramen, they need to double it. I bet the conditions are damned cramped in there. ;)

Scientists have announced the creation of a new medical compound that could help people with nasty bone fractures be up and around in a matter of weeks. Called "bone putty", the substance is a mold-able lattice that encourages new bone growth to span severe bone injuries. If the substance works as advertised, it sounds like it'll make the current "rods-screws-and-bolts" look positively medieval.

While definitely nifty, I know Olivia would never actually let me use something like this as a computer. He'd end up with hearts and unicorns and, well, Wall-e stickers all over him.

And now, a cat with wings. Swoozy's gonna be sooo jealous!

Dang, man, just dang:

A Russian woman got so upset by the news that her boyfriend intended to leave her that she tied several firecrackers to his penis and exploded them, the Life.ru web-site reports.

It's in the newspaper, so it's got to be true!

The girl was found by her 7-year-old brother on a treadmill in the Phoenix home Monday. She had been strangled by a cord connected to the machine, said Sgt. Andy Hill of the Phoenix Police Department.

"We believe the child was on the treadmill but it was not running at the time. She might have been playing like it was," Hill said.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea defied world powers and carried out an underground test Monday of a nuclear bomb Russian officials said was comparable to those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The incident drew condemnation from Washington to Beijing and set the communist regime up for a showdown with the United Nations.

Time to take that country down.

It's been awhile since I've seen as sly a leftist attack on free markets and liberty as this one. I doubt the author really means it that explicitly, but I calls 'em as I sees 'em, and ridiculing hyper-expensive one-offs as bourgeois excess has been a staple of the left for more than a century.

Let's put it another way. Far from showcasing things "you shouldn't buy," I think this site shows just how industrious entrepreneurs can be in their efforts to separate the rich from their money. When I see things like this I don't view it from the consumer's perspective, a place I'm not likely to ever see, but instead from the producer's, which is a place I most definitely could be, some day. The reason most such things are expensive is because it takes a lot of talented people a long time to produce them, and each time someone very very rich buys one they become less rich while everyone involved in their production becomes more wealthy.

It's also important to understand that the producers of such amazingly expensive baubles live an extremely precarious life. The audience for such items can be counted in the low dozens, world-wide, and what appeals to, say, a hip-hop artist looking to cash their first royalty check today may not appeal to them tomorrow. It may be very glamorous to cater to such people, but it's not very smart.

In a market economy with a thriving middle class, the smart producer seeks to maximize the appeal of his or her product by making it affordable to as many people as possible. People like you and me. There are just so many more of us. An entrepreneur who caters to the Paris Hiltons of the world will never ever be richer than one who caters to the Joe and Jane Sixpacks of it. And so they do, and so we are the ones who benefit.

The hyper-rich have had their needs met since the beginning of time, and they always will. Attempts to "rectify" this "injustice" only serve to make the rich more clever about how they hide their money, and unlike you and me the rich can hire smart people to do this for them. The end result only makes it harder for smart entrepreneurs to reach the rest of us.

The danger is that, if we allow our governments to make it hard enough in a misguided attempt at "justice", smart entrepreneurs will stop trying.

Jeff gets a swirling no-prize Ellen will want to chase for bringing us news of the latest-and-greatest tornado chasing project. The article also includes 2 other bits of good news: Storm Chasers is on track for a third season, and they're going to be covering this project, at least for one episode.

I'm not sure it ever would occur to me that ebay was even in competition with sites like Facebook and MySpace. The former is for shopping, the latter for chatting. I troll ebay because I own an obscure pair of cars for which parts are difficult to find. Picking up weird stuff for fair prices was always what I thought ebay was for.

Aviation fans may find these 10 "random things" learned at a recent F-35 factory tour of interest. I don't know exactly who the author is, but I found it via AvWeek's Ares, so I'm thinking it's authoritative.

While I'd known of most of these "10 Geological Wonders", it was still neat to look at. And guess what... the Soviets created at least one of them.

Oh, come on. You know you've thought about doing this:

A passerby pushed a would-be suicide jumper off a bridge in southern China because he was angry at the jumper's "selfish activity," Chinese media reported Saturday.

Of course, thinking isn't the same as doing.

Hopefully they won't park it in the convention center garage:

The Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione is one of Fiat Group's latest and most ambitious supercar projects. Sold by the team at Maserati of Baltimore, the exotic modern classic is sure to become a legend in the motorsports world for it's sharp design. As a new resident in Baltimore, she will hopefully be the photo focus of exotic spotter cameras and video sightings all around the charm city region and Washington DC Metro glam nightclubs.

If nothing else, it greatly increases the chance one will be around next year's Owner's Club convention, which is happening in Maryland.

With bells on, baby, with bells on!

Cracked, in its own inimitable way, is featuring this look at "7 WTF Military weapons". Being an armchair student of all things various armies have attempted over, well, all of detectable history I suppose, I'm not at all surprised things like this got built. I'm actually rather surprised that any of them survived.

Ghost Busters III may be coming to a theater near you next summer. Original cast and everything, it would appear. I wonder who Ray Parker's gonna steal from this time around?

Policy wonks: the real solution to increasing and increasingly deadly mortar and rocket attacks is lasers. Which is all well and good, but nobody's managed to make an SSL that'll meet all the criteria for an effective defense. They're beavering away at it, so it may just be a matter of time.

"Icanhaz" captions are released to the wild immediately. We'll see if this one gets loose...

Looks like Hajji the Mighty Pirate may be picking up some new toys for the next season. According to the comments, manpad SAMs may not be all that much of a threat. Which is fine to say sitting behind a computer far away from the action. To a pilot who sees one whooshing his way, maybe not so much.

Wow....ouch.

Makes you look in the mirror and be thankful for what you have.

And that's the end. Hopefully the best was saved for last. If you get the opportunity to see them, do not miss the Thunderbirds. This is the best they've been in quite some time.

It has been 3 long years without you Teddy. Mommy still loves you.

Are they called lure floats? It's been so long I've forgotten. Those red-and-white spheres you stick on the end of your fishing line to hold up... bah, nevermind. Anyway A NASA-designed probe is being used to plumb the depths of Antarctica's mysterious Lake Bonnie, an ice-capped body of water in that continent's McMurdo Dry Valleys region. The hope is the lessons learned will help the design of a future Europa probe. Considering this particular analog weighs in at half a ton, it'll probably be awhile before the (presumably) aquatic critters of that moon have to worry about robot probes sent from nosy apes.

Now that I've found this superb real-time regex tester, my spam filters should tighten up considerably. If you find yourself being caught out by something, be sure to let me know. I'm much more willing to delete filters that work but are too general now that I have a tool which will let me reliably make them much more specific. For example, the gmail filter is now gone.

Ruh-Roh:

Doctors have issued a warning about excessive cola consumption after noticing an increase in the number of patients suffering from muscle problems, according to the June issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice.

So says the admirably scare-mongering headline. A close reading reveals that an undisclosed number of people who drank two to nine liters of soda a day suffered a variety of ailments one would presumably expect from a population consuming orders of magnitude more sugar and caffeine per day than the general population.

Using such an observation to preach a back-handed sermon on our bourgeois lifestyle makes for admirable watermelon-rolling, but not particularly informative journalism.

All those times I called the area where my in-laws lived "quiet" and "boring"? I take them back:

Four men due in court Thursday to face charges of plotting to bomb Jewish sites and shoot down military planes were arrested after planting what they thought were explosive devices near a synagogue and community center, authorities say.

Officials told The Associated Press the arrests came after a nearly yearlong undercover operation that began in Newburgh, N.Y., about 70 miles north of New York City.

Still not gonna move there. :P :)

The way most people get arrested is because of what they say to the cop. It gets interesting when a state law makes it permissible to say incriminating things to the cop, without getting in trouble. See, Ellen... all those times I've babbled at the TV about circumstantial evidence? I was right! The Mentalist, FTW!

Shades of that scene from Little House on the Prairie:

A destructive menace is heading west on I.H. 10 with San Antonio in its sites. It's the crazy Raspberry ant that was first spotted in Houston in 2002. No one knows where it came from or how to control it but it reproduces faster than any insect experts have ever seen.
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Raspberry tells this story of a woman who called his office two weeks ago.

"While the lady was talking to us she was telling to her 2 year old honey it's ok they won't bite you, They were crawling over over her baby, " he said.

Texas... it's like a whole other country planet!

The Sarah Conner Chronicles have been, well, terminated. Not a real surprise, unfortunately, since the series was likely quite expensive and was not doing well this season. Still, the writing had improved immensely during the last half of the season, and it was quite interesting to watch. I could never predict exactly where they were going, which is a big plus for me with TV shows. Perhaps Sci Fi or some other independent network will pick them up?

Where is Ron when we need him!

Airshow: free. High performance aircraft: $$$. Watching grownups steer their expensive airplanes into puddles just to make a splash: priceless.

Nothing like having the exchange server quietly filling its disk until it dies to brighten an afternoon. Three disk monitors failed to spot the problem. Logs are cleared now, that gave me breathing room, and tomorrow it'll be fixed permanently. Gah.

Those not satisfied with Space Shuttle pictures may find this collection of newly-discovered animal oddities of interest. No, Ellen, you can't have any.

Artificial Owl seems to be a website dedicated to pictures of abandoned things. It's surprising that, even in the modern world, ruins have both power and beauty. Case in point, the SS America, which is the subject of one of the remarkable pictures on the masthead of the Owl site. Sadly, America seems to have been pounded to bits now, and no longer stands sentinel over that lonely bit of beach.

There's no better way to start the day than looking at a whole passel of shuttle pictures. I think the shot with both of them mounted on their pads is the most impressive. That would've made our visit to the cape a lot more interesting. Unfortunately I think they wouldn't've let us get even that close if the shuttles had been out then.

This year was the first time I'd ever seen a precision stunt quartet flying. "The Collaborators." No, really! If you get the chance, go see 'em.

Problem: Doping official shows up to your bodybuilding contest.

Solution: Run like hell:

The Belgian bodybuilding championship has been canceled after doping officials showed up and all the competitors fled.

A doping official says bodybuilders just grabbed their gear and ran off when he came into the room.

Ha-ha!

This month marks the 40th anniversary of Apollo 10, who's lunar module Snoopy orbits the sun to this day. Now that would be an interesting snag for some future space archeologist!

It would seem at least one of the causes of Neandertal extinction was that they were tasty, and good with BBQ sauce. All jokes aside, it's my understanding from the various Discovery documentaries I've seen that there is strong evidence for cannibalism in ancient H. sapiens of all sorts. In other words, our ancestors were pretty much like any other animal, willing to eat absolutely anything that wasn't poisonous or trying to eat them first.

While long on hyperbole and a bit short on actual facts, this account summarizing the theft of some of NASA's precious moon rocks is still worth a look. Considering how expensive NASA programs really are, I can't see how selling even previously contaminated rocks would make a difference. The feds took a dim view of someone using that excuse as a defense in fencing some stolen samples.

They're funny that way, eh?

Another year, another airshow. Special guest star: Ellen! No, really! I just never got a picture of her that was in focus. Must be the aura.

But what direction?

Olivia's 1st School Musical!

Nothing like a little back-light to really punch up the shot. There must be some reason why nobody's ever tried this with the ISS, which is a lot bigger than either of these things.

This can't be right. It' doesn't have "bad makeup", "dramatic sighs at jailbait", or "form ridiculous love triangle with jailbait and weirdo reservation escapee." Don't even get me started on the wacky baseball skills...

Those fancy space telescopes we linked up yesterday seem to have made it to orbit safely. It'll be a couple of months before any pictures are sent, but the devices are so sophisticated it should be worth the wait. KTHXBAI!

Turns out it's just as interesting to stare into other people's refrigerators. Hopefully that critter was dead before he was put in the freezer. I'm not holding out a lot of hope, though.

This is why, when Ellen takes her dream storm-chaser vacation, she's doing it on her own. To paraphrase, "what good's a life insurance policy if you're not around to use it?"

No, really, when gypsies attack:

A group of travellers wrecked a multi-million pound police helicopter which was being used to spy on their site.

The gang used axes to smash the £5million aircraft, after they leapt over a 4ft wall surrounding Surrey Police force’s helipad at Fairoaks airport, near Woking in Surrey.

Mickey O'Neil unavailable for comment...

After a long, drawn-out battle, my workstation finally lost its fight with spyware. This pause brought to you by the necessary reload. Now the long rebuilding begins...

Those kooky scientists at Hong Kong University are at it again, this time coming up with a cloak that makes one object look like another. In their example, it involves making an elephant look like a mouse, and visa-versa. Personally, I've had it with all these neat descriptions. To paraphrase, Products, or GTFO!

The crack reporters who filed this story are accepting the local sheriff's department conclusion that the woman suffered "an accidental death due to inappropriate use of a jackhammer*." Me, I think if this had come out of Asia they would've called it what it seems to be from here... a particularly bizarre and spectacular suicide. But hey, that's just my opinion, wtf do I know?

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* Read the article, or do the math.

Mark gets a very high resolution no-prize for bringing us news that two new telescopes are about to be launched into orbit. I can remember a time when everyone just talked about how cool it would be to have a single telescope in space. With these two, the ones that've been launched must be creeping up past a dozen.

Sometimes the pedophile is a person you'd never suspect. Other times, well, not so much. Why, yes, I do think the reverse can also be true. Stop mumbling "pot, kettle, black" under your breath! I can hear you!*

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* It's a complicated joke. Think about it, then laugh.

Blue whales are returning to northern grazing areas they'd been hunted out of decades ago. The reasons behind the move are unclear. Surprisingly, this lack of data meant blaming climate change came in second to "that's where the food is." The first crack in the watermelon's armor? We'll see...

Me, I always thought the whole point of stilted family photographs was to make people look silly. That, and provide a straightforward gift for the relatives. People change, fashions change, why not chronicle it?

Say what you will about progressives... they still retain the power to surprise:

Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez has just done what no other cellphone company in the world would dare do. Chavez has launched the first ever “penis” phone.

This one's just too weird to be true, but there's a picture!

The good news: The Obama administration is acting exactly as they said they would, and as the majority of the American people want them to act.

The bad news: The Obama administration is acting exactly as they said they would, and as the majority of the American people want them to act.

Populism is all well and good, until it's realized the corporations being attacked are the ones that employ you, and the rich people being soaked are the ones who's bank accounts provide your loans. What I see, and what almost none of the rest of you seem to understand, is that rich people are the only sort of people who absolutely can, and therefore will, take their money to a place it won't be sucked away to finance "economic justice." Big corporations are the only ones who can, and therefore will, close up and move shop to do the same. Then it'll be the rest of us who'll be left holding the bag.

If the past is any guide, it'll take three to five years for the destruction these policies will wreak to become impossible to ignore. And no, I don't think it'll be the end of the world, or the end of the nation, or even the end of Our Way of Life. Watergate was a much bigger disaster than the Bush administration, and Republicans managed to recover from that to rescue us from the last Democratic super-majority, back in 1980. I'm sure they'll be able to swoop in again to save us from this one. Eventually.

Which will, of course, simply re-set the alarm. Whenever there are enough voters with no memory of what happens when progressives are given power, who forget economic justice is incompatible with personal liberty, and who actually listen to people who've never done a real day's work in their life, it's just about inevitable the Democrats will be there to ride their naivete back to power. Which merely serves to give the wheel another turn.

It's all about keeping the bicycle balanced, I suppose.

While sinking a zodiac-like inflatable boat at 100 yards via remote control sounds pretty nifty, it's when they start talking about mixing pepper spray into the stream that it suddenly turns into a lot of fun. Well, if you're not a pirate, at any rate.

If the ship already has high pressure water available, I can literally see no down side to this, other than perhaps expense. Now that insurance rates for shipping through pirate-infested waters is presumably on the rise, I'm not sure that impediment will hold out for long.

No, it's not quite as satisfying as picking them off with a Barrett .50, but it has the advantage of shutting up all the bleeding hearts in Berkeley and Brussels. Anything that puts a cork in those particular bungholes is all right by me.

Pat gets a no-prize the likes of which will not be seen again for giving us this kinda-sorta retrospective on what this Hubble service mission means for the Shuttle. One down, nine to go, and that'll be it for the type. I think it will be a little sad when it launches for the last time, but in my opinion and from other things that I've read in places like Aviation Week, the thing is a monument to what happens when reach exceeds grasp, and political exigencies and inertia triumph over common sense and consistent goals.

Oh noes! The Mars rover Spirit has sunk nearly to its axles in soft ground. Will this be the end of the intrepid little probe? Nobody's sure, but they're definitely trying to figure out if it can dig itself out. It'll be a helluva long time before a tow truck can get out there otherwise.

Nothing like giving birth to your identical twin brother 30 years after he died in the womb to ruin your day. Now that's going to be one helluva bar bet he'll be able to win from now on.

You think cats and dogs sleeping together is bad, now they're raising each other. Those kittens are just about the same age as the ones we're fostering right now. They're all cut and fuzzy, until the poop starts to come.

Today's "clever bit of nature iddinit?" comes from the Hawaiian Islands. "Happy face" spiders are all well and good, but can they dance?

Can't see how we missed this one: on Friday it was announced the songwriting duo behind ABBA have reunited, albeit only for one song. If loving kitschy pop songs is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Mathematicians have discovered a new pattern in prime numbers. Turns out there's another way that they're not random. What does it mean? I dunno, math never was one of my strengths. It does sounds pretty neat though, in a "ahhhuuah??" way

One of the largest free-standing sculptures in the world is set to become one of the largest collapsed statues in the world. What was that? Something the Soviets built as a grand monument is getting ready to collapse, and they can't fix it because people keep stealing the money? Say it ain't so!

One of the few people still relying on a full-body iron lung for breathing assistance has died. I remember when these things featured prominently in any number of TV shows or movies, mostly from the 60s. As noted in the article, nowadays it seems almost nobody uses them.

*Learning how to eat their own toes.*

The first 72 hours and they are already biting Scott.

[Ellen]: “Is it pretty?”

Dude: “What is?”

Me: “The engine. Is it pretty?”

Dude: “Why do I want to see if the engine is pretty?”

Me: “Exactly.”

Funny because nobody got hurt: big rocket turns into giant lawn dart. If one of your hobbies is not actively dangerous, you're not a Real Guy.

Every time I think I've seen furries at their weirdest, I'm proven wrong. I dunno, I guess hot, itchy sex is better than no sex at all.

Happy Mother's Day!

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Thing is, humanity's spent 90% of its existence living with these things living inside them. Those smelly leftist hippies who think the only thing wrong with us is that we're too modern? Yeah, let's stick 'em on a boat to Worm Island, see how much they like it.

Nature is only fun if there's a hot shower and a cold beer at the end of it.

It would appear Kitten Season^tm is now upon us. Expect Head.Explode(Candy) cuteness from Ellen later tonight. This time, there'll probably be video.

Nothing like your workplace going up in a fireball to ruin your whole day. Fortunately nobody was injured. Ron gets a no-prize with a funny, dangerous smell for bringing us something that happened in one of his former back yards.

If only the second set of movies had been this clever. I guess we'll have to go out and see this at some point. If we ever get back to Florida (it is in Florida, right?), that is.

Scientific American is featuring this in-depth look at how growing organs is progressing. Don't have time to go through it here at work (shocking, I know), but it's definitely on the list for tonight.

So, do you think relativity's a bunch of hooey now? Took me two run-throughs just to figure out what the guy was trying to accomplish. Oh, and leaving a car idling for two days? Yeah, he knows physics a lot better than auto mechanics.

Hard to believe it's been 5 years since the Flores "Hobbits" were discovered. Fortunately, the science keeps rolling on. The article passes over it only briefly, but it would seem the hobbits not only had small brains, they also had big feet.

In the "can haz, not can haz" tennis match of faster-than-light (FTL) travel, today's service comes from the can haz team. Back in college some physics majors, after an admittedly considerable amount of beer, explained it would be quite simple to create things like time machines and FTL drives. One need only create an object about five times as massive as the sun and spin it up to a rotational speed of about 70% the speed of light. All sorts of strange travel becomes very easy when you have one of those, they said.

The first private US operator of SU-27 aircraft is expected to be operational some time later this year. The parent company appears to be dedicated to providing service to military customers, so it doesn't seem as if the opportunity to fly one of Russia's finest is just a (very large) personal check away, but that's not completely clear. Ah, well. If nothing else it'll give those right wing "new world order did you know there are Soviet aircraft operating from US soil did you DID YOU DID YOU!?!?" nutballs something new to twirl about. I love it when they do that.

So, can you pick the perp? Best I could do was exactly 1 in a row, and I gave up after about ten tries. Then again, I'm not known as the most perceptive person in the world. I'm sure you'll do better!

In the ongoing tennis match between volcanism and impact theories about the extinction of the dinosaurs, it would appear today's serve comes from the Deccan Traps. The article's not particularly good at summarizing just what the scientist means by all this, Wikipedia's entry is, naturally, more informative.

Seems to me the most likely explanation would be the dinosaurs barely struggling through this awful millenia-long volcanic disaster, only to have the sky fall on them in the end.

Everyone please stand for the fat lady to sing her song:

Chrysler LLC today announced that, as a result of the comprehensive restructuring plan agreed to by many of its stakeholders, it has reached an agreement in principle to establish a global strategic alliance with Fiat SpA to form a vibrant new company. It will allow Chrysler and Fiat to fully optimize their respective manufacturing footprints and the global supplier base, while providing each with access to additional markets. Fiat powertrains and components will also be produced at Chrysler manufacturing sites.

The MSM is finally glomming onto the fact that Fiat really never has made particularly sturdy cars. Truth is, Italians don't consider screwing a car together correctly all that important. Design, beauty, performance, and heritage are all far more important. If it means the trim falls off, well trim doesn't make it go faster now, does it?

Thing is, Americans will put up with a surprising amount of this sort of foolishness as long as they feel they're being taken care of, and the whatever it is doesn't keep breaking the same thing over and over again. Fiat's quality is supposed to have picked up dramatically in just the past four years or so. Will it be enough? Who knows?

I'm just happy they're back!

It would appear cats really are important to the Internet. Around here "child", "bird", "turtle", and "snake" bars would also have to be added.

Hmm? Husband? You do read this site, right?

Scientists have sequenced the proteins of another dinosaur. This time, it's a hadrosaur species from a fossil much older than that which produced the T. Rex sequences last year. It sounds like they're a very long way indeed from getting an entire genome, but who would ever have thought they'd be able to sequence any organic matter from 65 million-year plus rocks?

Today's "Yet Another Reason Not to Move to Australia" filing comes courtesy Queensland, Australia:

Australia is known around the world for its large and deadly creepy crawlies, but even locals have been shocked by the size of the giant venomous spiders that have invaded an Outback town in Queensland.

With "six cm of creepy goodness" picture!

Mark gets a novelty no-prize for bringing us the perfect gift for the breakfast- and gun-lover in your life. Only problem I see is that it appears to be made out of hard metal, which is a big no-no when dealing with no-stick surfaces.

I guess Asian song birds must not make as much noise as parrots. If you tried to strap Swoozie to your leg it'd sound like you had a car alarm taped to your ankle.

Hopefully there warn't anyone inside it when the rock hit the windshield. Meh. It'll buff out.

And yes that is... well, was... a Milano.

No, really, when impressionists attack:

Vincent van Gogh did not cut off his own ear but lost it in a fight with fellow artist Paul Gauguin in a row outside a brothel, it has been claimed.

Mark gets a no-prize that'll get all stabby if he gets it drunk for bringing us yet another "conventional wisdom ain't so conventional after all" story.

Hey... I'm only disappointed if it's accessible. I have a hard enough time with comprehension as it is.

While we missed the originating article, this rejoinder to criticisms about why the human penis evolved into its present shape was still pretty interesting. The original article is linked in the reply, so it's easy to get caught up. Heheheheh... I said, "up."

So, do you believe a female Russian hair dresser foiled a robbery attempt on her store and then held the robber captive as a sex slave for the next three days? Yeah, I don't either. Still, it makes for a fun story!

Scientists are using a rather interesting test to determine if expensive vintage whiskey really is, well, expensive vintage whiskey. The hook? Turns out all the open-air nuclear testing back in the 50s and 60s flung enough radioactive crap into the air to detectably alter whiskey distilled after that time. So now it would appear to be very easy to tell if, for example, a whiskey advertised as distilled in 1856 was actually made in 1956. There may or may not be a difference in flavor, but it definitely makes a difference in the price.

Which also answers a question I've had for years. Beer and wine will age to a certain point, but after that they spoil or go to vinegar. It would appear whiskey, at least, does not have this problem.

After the car was hit by the van, there was a loud scream from the woman whose mouth was covered with blood,” he said.

The woman later followed her lover to the hospital with part of the sexual organ.

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