"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." - Alfred Korzybski

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Facebook | I don't smoke. There are cooler ways to die. -"Why don't you...like... die in a parachute accident? Or... maybe build a ramp 50 feet high and hit a tree on the way down? At least it would make a more interesting story... "Please don't throw your cigarette ends on the floor. The cockroaches are getting cancer.""

Facebook | F.I.N.A.L.S (Fuck, I Never Actually Learned this Shit) - "Those damn finals that you have to go to or we can't pass the class. The first thought that comes to our head is not "I know this" but rather "Fuck, we never covered this in lecture""

CDTL Brief: Student Assessment - The Bell Curve - "The problem lies with the fact that this is not Cambridge University, U.C. Berkeley or Stanford, where every Asingle teacher can be safely empowered and the student abilities are also more homogeneous. Here, past experience has shown that the moment we relax, there are misuses and problems. Let me give you some indirect evidence to show that people need time to adjust to the flexibility of empowerment. When I was a head of department, I removed the need to record xeroxing. One month later, xeroxing cost went up by 300%. Some staff were actually bringing their children’s music books to copy. The problem is that the moment you give that kind of freedom some staff will suffer."
Nice evasion.

Year of Mozart means overtures and overkill -"Tours and events were extended to inns where Mozart slept and ate, and some even included a visit to the "Pinkelstein," a stone memorial on a road between Vienna and Prague commemorating the spot where, so the lore goes, Mozart stepped out of his coach to relieve himself... Mozart was suddenly a milkshake and a sausage--Mozartwurst, a "composition" of ground beef, pork and pistachios."

Woman Enters Record Book For Having 24 Feet 7 Inch Long Nails - "A woman with fingernails that are 24 feet 7 inches long has won a spot in the latest edition of Guinness World Records. Lee Redmond, 65, said she soaks her nails in olive oil to take care of them. She told Reuters the effort is worth it."

Dressed to kill - "Women, it must be said, rarely give themselves an easy time. What is puzzling is that post-emancipation, post-parity in many workplaces, post-Isadora Duncan and her unfortunate scarf incident, post-Gloria Steinem, Susie Orbach and Naomi Wolf, women persist in wearing clothes deleterious to their health."
I thought tiny handbags were in fashion. At least the big ones can hold things.

The Post-Rapture Post - Send Messages to Loved Ones! - "Just write your letter and it will be hand-delivered immediately following the exodus of the pure from the Earth. But you must be thinking to yourself, "How can the letters be delivered after the Rapture?" The answer is simple. The creators of this site are Atheists. That's right, we don't believe in God. How else would we be able to deliver your correspondence after the Rapture?"

Pork Contains Worms and Causes Disease? - "There are no magical properties in Coca-Cola that will cause some grotesque transformation in pork or any other meat. In fact, about the only thing pouring Coke on a piece of raw pork will produce is a yummy-sweet marinade for grilling or roasting."

Homemade Sex Toys - "Too embarrassed (or too cheap) to buy sex toys? This site shows you how, step-by-step, to build them yourself. Got ingenious inventions? Don't be shy, share them below."

Cannabis and the Brain: A User's Guide by Paul Armentano - "But what about claims of cannabis' damaging effect of cognition? A review of the scientific literature indicates that rumors regarding the "stoner stupid" stereotype are unfounded. According to clinical trial data published this past spring in the American Journal of Addictions, cannabis use – including heavy, long-term use of the drug – has, at most, only a negligible impact on cognition and memory... Imaging displayed "no significant differences" between heavy cannabis smokers compared to controls, the study found. Previous trials tell a similar tale."

Interview with Milton Friedman on the Drug War - "I see America with half the number of prisons, half the number of prisoners, ten thousand fewer homicides a year, inner cities in which there's a chance for these poor people to live without being afraid for their lives, citizens who might be respectable who are now addicts not being subject to becoming criminals in order to get their drug, being able to get drugs for which they're sure of the quality. You know, the same thing happened under prohibition of alcohol as is happening now. Under prohibition of alcohol, deaths from alcohol poisoning, from poisoning by things that were mixed in with the bootleg alcohol, went up sharply. Similarly, under drug prohibition, deaths from overdose, from adulterations, from adulterated substances have gone up... What scares me is the notion of continuing on the path we're on now, which will destroy our free society, making it an uncivilized place. There's only one way you can really enforce the drug laws currently. The only way to do that is to adopt the policies of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, which some other countries adopt, in which a drug addict is subject to capital punishment or, at the very least, having his hand chopped off. If we were willing to have penalties like that--but would that be a society you'd want to live in?"
The video of the interview

The Art of Seduction: Strip Show - "A web cam girl who will do anything to fulfill her online clients' every fantasy, no matter how odd."
SFW (though I think I saw the hint of a nipple for a split second). Sent to me by Duck.

OhMiBod Music Powered Vibrator - OMB 411 - "The OhMiBod vibrator is a whole new way to enjoy your iPod® or any other music player. Everyone loves music. Everyone loves sex. OhMiBod combines music and pleasure to create the ultimate acsexsory™ to your iPod."

Elite Todai co-ed gets cherry popped on camera -""The University of Tokyo Virgin Inspection: Painful Entry through the 'Red Gate,'" from a distributor named @JUNKIE... The film stars "Ukaru Todaiji" (a pseudonym), age 21, who relinquishes her virginity in the course of her first porn performance... "It was the first time in the AV industry's history that such a performance was attempted," says Kemuta Otsubo, an AV scenario writer. "Just imagine -- a real University of Tokyo co-ed losing her virginity on camera. Todai girls have previously appeared in AV productions, but none had ever lost their virginity like this. It's mind-boggling.""
Damn Japs.

Doctor Love aims to make Singapore sexy - "He attributes high divorce rates to a sexual disconnect. "Babies should be born into a sexually and emotionally stable environment," he said. "That way the marriage will last.""

Dating and doing 5 hunks simultaneously - "Everytime she went out on dates with new potentials, they could hardly keep themselves from gawking at her size 36D. So gf is rather pissed with dating these lustful fellas. She reached into her study drawer and pulled out a hentai magazine... Thank goodness for our lazy customs who didn’t bother to check my bags. Rather they were too busy checking out my chest, heh heh.
I like this comment: "now, lets face it, hunky divine hunk? chances are they will be too much into themselves that they might just look into the mirror all the time. and if you put 5 of them togehter, they are either: 1. porn actors 2. gays."

Sexing up Singapore - "Religiously observant Muslims and practicing Catholics don’t seem to have a fertility problem. It’s not because they’re watching Sex and the City or paging through Playboy. It’s not because they spend more time beneath the sheets than the Russians or the Hungarians. It’s not because they give and get massages in the bathtub. It’s not because they’re eating heart-shaped pizzas. It is because they are open to having babies—actually bearing and rearing children!"
Nonsense about "a mentality of suicidal selfishness" being behind contraception, abortion, and sterilization, yes.

The Glenn Gould Chair - "During an evening of September 2005, in Venice, the idea of « re-creating » the Gould chair was born. René Bouchara had always dreamed of this reproduction, so that he could share with his friends the double passion of design and the passion for Glenn Gould. The enthusiasm of Cazzaro, a prestigious Italian furniture manufacturer, has bestowed this project the possibility to assume a concrete dimension."

Sitting atop a reclining tiger - "Rumour has it that feng shui played a significant role in the construction of NUS and its shift to the Kent Ridge campus in the 1980s... "Students will feel comfortable in NUS and they are unlikely to change
school once they are in," she said."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

According to a researcher (sic) at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without problem. - "This is clearly wrong. For instance, compare the following three sentences: 1) A vheclie epxledod at a plocie cehckipont near the UN haduqertares in Bagahdd on Mnoday kilinlg the bmober and an Irqai polcie offceir 2) Big ccunoil tax ineesacrs tihs yaer hvae seezueqd the inmcoes of mnay pneosenirs 3) A dootcr has aimttded the magltheuansr of a tageene ceacnr pintaet who deid aetfr a hatospil durg blendur"
Also: Raed Tihs! | Firefox Add-ons - "Scrambles all text on the current tab's page, but you will still be able to read it!"