"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it." - Arthur Schopenhauer

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Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene - "We present a framework for automatically enhancing videos of a static scene using a few photographs of the same scene. For example, our system can transfer photographic qualities such as high resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the photographs to the video. Additionally, the user can quickly modify the video by editing only a few still images of the scene. Finally, our system allows a user to remove unwanted objects and camera shake from the video."
Fortunately this is not mainstream yet, so you can still tell when girls photoshop their pictures by comparing the pictures to videos; if you look at pictures a girl above JC level puts up, there's a good chance they're photoshopped. Which is why you should always check out "Pictures of XXX added by Others" on Facebook.

Man's penis stuck in park bench - "According to reports from Hong Kong, the “lonely and disturbed” Mr Xing told police he thought it would be fun to have sex with the bench, UK’s The Telegraph reported."
Don't miss the video - I thought it was a flash ad at first.
Moral of the story: get a Fleshlight.

Andrea Dworkin and the Social Construction of Gender: A Retrospective - "Dworkin concludes, sex is an expression not of men's love for women but of “the pure sterile, formal expression of men's contempt for women” (1987, 138). Contrary to the views of some feminists, loving one's sexuality is, therefore, far from liberating. It is “diversion into complicity and ignorance” (1987, 125)... In Dracula vampirism becomes a metaphor for intercourse [:] probably a suggestion with which few would disagree... The story is a narrative where the “great wound, the vagina, moved to the throat,” where the throat is as soaked in blood as the vagina is in menstruation and childbirth. Thus the story is also an allegory about oral sex, or what Dworkin calls “throat rape” (119)... Dworkin concludes that Dracula is a story of gang rape, male bonding, and voyeurism (pornography) and that it culminates in this “snuff” scene, where Arthur actually kills his beloved. In sum, Dracula is a story in which we see “the throat as a female genital; sex and death as synonyms; killing as a sex act; dying as sensuality; men watching the slow dying, and the watching as sexual; mutilation of the female body as male heroism and adventure"
"You go out in the street, most women on the street have contempt for feminists. Why? It's because of the excesses of feminism."

Police: Texas Pizza Clerk Beats Co-Worker's Father During Robbery - "Police said a robbery caught on tape turned into a family affair as a clerk beat the disguise off a co-worker's father on Friday. Police in Denton, Texas, said the would-be robber knocked out by a clerk at the Pizza Patron was the father of the cashier on duty, and that her mother and husband were also involved."

Don't set dogs on criminals with allergies, police told - "Police dog handlers will have to consider whether criminals have allergies or a fear of dogs before conducting searches in what has been described as the latest example of "namby pamby" policing. Guidelines being drawn up by senior officers will tell dog handlers they should "avoid offending" people with phobias of animals when dogs are used in drug raids and other investigations... "The whole point of police dogs is to frighten people rigid, at least those who have just committed a crime and would otherwise make a clean getaway. They should have considered the mental trauma and possible allergic reaction caused by 60lbs of foaming Alsatian clamping its teeth to their extremities before embarking on their criminal escapade." A serving dog handler, who asked not to be named, said: "I have never heard anything so ridiculous. What's next? Sparing people custody because they have a fear of enclosed spaces?"

Police: Pickup truck thief carjacked - "Edward Bishop, 33, admitted to police he stole the Chevrolet Silverado truck at about 1 a.m. Saturday, the Salinas Californian reported Monday. However, Bishop said that later that day, a second man -- identified by police as Jomo Sexton, 34 -- entered the truck and pointed a gun at him. He told police Sexton made him drive around Salinas until the truck ran out of gas, at which point Bishop said he escaped and phoned police."

Radio Station's Heroin Score Ends Up As A Downer - "When a guy dressed in a beaver suit can arrive on a Vancouver street corner and score some heroin within minutes, it highlights a serious problem in the city. So says the program director of a local radio station whose morning show performed the bit live on the air. On June 4, CFOX-FM (99.3 The Fox) morning-show personality Captain Scotty went to the notorious Main and Hastings corner in the Downtown Eastside dressed as a beaver, carrying a sign advertising his desire to buy some heroin. Within minutes, a deal had been completed - broadcast live on-air during The Jeff O'Neil Show. Among those listening were two Vancouver police officers out on patrol. They headed to the scene and confiscated the substance, but did not make any arrests."

2 shot in bicycle drive-by outside South Los Angeles house

Case vs. Brockton boy stuns officials - "A 6-year-old Brockton boy's suspension on accusations of sexual harassment startled some school officials in the region yesterday... The Brockton first-grader was suspended for three days Jan. 30, after school officials said he had put his hand inside the waistband of a girl's pants and had touched the skin on her back, said his mother, Berthena Dorinvil. But she said her son had told her that the girl had touched him first and that he had responded by touching her over her clothes, not on her skin."
We need zero tolerance of sexual harassment and the objectification of women which leads to misogyny

eBay insect fossil is new species - "Dr Richard Harrington, vice-president of the UK's Royal Entomological Society, bought the fossil from an individual in Lithuania... The bug has been named Mindarus harringtoni after the scientist... "I had thought it would be rather nice to call it Mindarus ebayi," said Dr Harrington. "Unfortunately using flippant names to describe new species is rather frowned upon these days.""

The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer - "It may seem strange that a wage-working loot farmer would still care about the freedom to play. But it is not half as strange as the scene that unfolded one evening at 9 o’clock in the Internet cafe on the ground floor of the building where Donghua has its offices. Scattered around the stifling, dim wang ba, 10 power levelers just off the day shift were merrily gaming away... [they] had chosen, to a man, to log into their personal World of Warcraft accounts and spend these precious free hours right back where they had spent every other hour of the day: in Azeroth. Such scenes are not at all unusual. At the end of almost any working day or night in a Chinese gaming workshop, workers can be found playing the same game they have been playing for the last 12 hours... Fan himself is a striking case of how off-hours play can serve as a kind of unpaid R. and D. lab for the farming industry. He is that rarest of World of Warcraft obsessives, a Chinese gold farmer who has actually bought farmed gold."

Sexuality at Hand - "According to Kenneth Zucker, a researcher at the University of Toronto's Center for Addiction and Mental Health, homosexuals are more likely to be lefties than heterosexuals... The study raises a red flag for Bonnie Spanier, director of women's studies at the State University of New York in Albany. "What biases do these researchers take with them in the lab?" she asks. "There is a long history of using biological differences to call people superior or inferior.""
Feminists have nothing better to do.

The New Trophy Wife - "New trends in the mating game—marrying someone like yourself—plus an unstable economy breathe new life into the term "peer marriage." In previous generations, successful doctors, lawyers and bankers sought wives who looked good, were well-bred and made a mean Stroganoff to boot. Now, more and more alpha males are looking for something else from the A-list: accomplishment... Psychologists agree that difficulties most often arise not because a man feels emasculated by his wife's star power ("No one can emasculate you except you," avows Pak), but because the woman grows disappointed with her partner. "If a woman is powerful, smart and ambitious, her expectations for her husband, and for the relationship, rise," says Nando Pelusi, a New York City psychologist who has counseled plenty of alpha-alpha pairings. McCarthy says it's the primary reason that middle-class marriages fail in the first five years: The woman feels her spouse is not keeping his end of the pact."
No one can oppress you except you.

Friendship: The Laws of Attraction - "Most of us would prefer to think that we love our friends because of who they are, not because of the ways in which they support who we are. It sounds vaguely narcissistic, and yet the studies bear it out. A corollary for many people is the impetus to change best friends when life throws us a curveball or alters us in basic ways. There's no better example than former members of breast cancer support groups whose diseases have been cured. Though the women no longer have breast cancer and have continued with family and careers, their social identity as survivors often remains so powerful that their primary bonds of friendship are with other survivors, the only people who can understand what they've been through and grasp their perspective on life. After such major life events as marriage, parenthood, and divorce, we may easily switch up our best friend as well."

Priest to hold nun beauty pageant - "An Italian priest says he is organising the world's first beauty pageant for nuns to erase a stereotype of them as being old and dour... "Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift from God," he told Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper... He added that the idea of staging such a contest had been suggested by nuns themselves."