"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other." - Eric Hoffer

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The American Spectator : Show Me the Money (Quote), Khatami! - "Yet, while Khatami's demeanor fit the storyline, the rhetoric most certainly did not... KHATAMI'S DEFENSE OF Hezbollah was doubtless not the only uncomfortable moment for those bound and determined to see him as an agent of tolerance in the face of American extremism. One such moment came when a student pointedly brought up the persecution and prosecution of gays in Iran, to which Khatami answered simply, "homosexuality is a crime in Islam and crimes are punishable"... Can you guess what CNN's headline on the Khatami visit is? Do you think it was "Khatami: 'Society Cannot Run' Without Punishment of Homosexuals" or "Khatami Slams bin Laden"?"

Overthinking 'disrupts golf putt' - "St Andrews University and US scientists said they had established that too much analysis made the golfer's game worse. They said thinking too much about the previous shot can disrupt performance... "This effect was especially dramatic in skilled golfers""

Sex drive warning to vegetarians and elderly - "Elderly and vegetarian men are being warned about the effect of low protein diets on their sex lives in later years. Researchers say people who do not eat enough protein are at risk of low testosterone levels which can cause a decline in sexual function as well as muscle loss, reduced red blood cells and damage to bones."

Messy? I'm an artist! - ""If she is being obsessively tidy or he is being very slovenly, it usually points to some underlying problem to do with anger or trying to have power over the other person. It can stem from unhappiness."... The tidy person, for instance, tends to assume that he or she is right. But look at tidy people in history and who do you see? Dictators, secret policemen and oppressors... Organisations that put the greatest premium on tidiness put the least on creative thought - the Army, for instance. Advertising creatives, visionaries and academics (and, er, tramps) are notoriously scruffy. Dr Roderick Orner, a consultant psychologist and expert on obsessive compulsive disorder, says that tidiness is fundamentally about control - whether you want it and why you need it... a study by researchers at Columbia Business School found that people who kept a neat desk spent 36 per cent more time looking for things than people who kept a "fairly messy" desk." One comment: "Men are messy because they're doers. People who spend their lives cleaning never achieve anything. Their evolutionary purpose was to distract smilodon while the doers built civilisation."

YouTube - Zombie snails - "mind-controlling parasites... this parasite is called Leucochloridium paradoxum. There are many other "mind-controlling" parasites such as the Spinochordodes Tellinii which infect grasshoppers and forces them to drown themselves... (Where the worm reproduces). Oh and one of my favs is the Toxoplasma Gondii found in cats intestines. But I'll let yall look it up. Savor the knowledge my children."
The pulsating tentacles are cool

STREET WITH A VIEW: a project by Robin Hewlett & Ben Kinsley - "Street With A View introduces fiction, both subtle and spectacular, into the doppelganger world of Google Street View. On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more..."

CAP ... Study: Comic Book Superheroines 'Improbably Busty' - "The study, which looked "very closely" at more than 100 female superheroines and sidekicks, found the average character's cup size to be closer to 38DD than to the national average of 36C, says Dr. Francis Spitznagel of the Pew Center... Spitznagel pointed out that his researchers found characters like Ms. Marvel, Dawn and of course Wonder Woman to be "improbably busty," to the point where, if they actually existed, their prodigious bosoms might actually interfere with their ability to fight crime... "Our researchers would carefully measure the breasts of the characters using an adjustable utility micrometer," explained Spitnagel. "They would then do the same for the female models and compare the results." The work was fairly grueling, said Spitznagel... "Usually they'd each go off by themselves for a few minutes of alone time and come back much more refreshed.""
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Do vegetarians really have better sex? - "PETA noted that meat makes people "fat, sick, and boring in bed"... vegetarians are, in general, more health-conscious. An avowed vegetarian who ate nothing but french fries, after all, would run a high risk of both obesity and heart disease... Vegetarianism also may have some negative effects on sexual desire. Vegetarian diets tend to correlate with higher rates of zinc deficiency, which is closely associated with lower testosterone levels and depressed sex drives. Vegetarian women are also more likely to develop amenorrhea (loss of periods), a condition that's usually accompanied by low testosterone, vaginal dryness, and poor libido. Finally, the notion that overweight people are less sexually active isn't entirely accurate (for women, at least): A recent analysis published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology shows that overweight women might, in fact, be slightly more active. Historically, vegetarianism has been linked more closely with chastity than with licentiousness."

Roadside Ass-sistance - The second episode of PG Porn is out!!!

YouTube - Classic Hits by Microsoft Songsmith: "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor - "Here's what Survivor's hit "Eye Of The Tiger" would sound like if they'd used Microsoft Songsmith. Original vocal track from the 1982 recording, everything else by Microsoft Songsmith."
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