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Friday, August 26 2005

HomeLandHugs

Website. Yahoo Group.

"A non-religious, non-political, non-affiliated chat group encouraging Real-Time, Internet Communications 24/7 from America to Iraq, to Afghanistan and to wherever American Armed Forces are serving!
"Specifically providing unconditional support, virtual companionship, live conversation with video conferencing, news, laughter, good cheer and most of all virtual Hugs from the HomeLand to Troops and Civilian Support, currently or previously deployed In-country Iraq, Afghanistan or anywhere the Internet reaches deployed Americans."

Cryonics

Cryonics: a longshot. Maybe after being frozen you'll wake up to a wonderful new life hundreds of years from now; maybe you'll be wakened by hungry aliens or used for slave labor. Or maybe it just won't work for you:

"In layman's terms, those would be the audible cracking noises made by the brain and other internal organs as they shatter from the effects of the extreme cold.
"'It's exactly that kind of noise when you drop an ice cube into a glass of Coke,' explained Tanya Jones, Alcor's director of technical operations... 'It should just be a matter of stitching them back together,' Jones said. 'You might be able to glue them together, but we don't have repair technologies on that scale yet.'"

Wednesday, August 24 2005

Say you are chained to this person

Carey Tennis, the Ann Landers of Salon.com, with a fairly novel way of thinking about suicide:

"So say, as you suggest, that there is an awful, irritating person that you have to spend 24 hours a day with. Say you are chained to this person. Say you hate this person... Take this awful person to a practitioner of behavioral change, of whatever stripe is available, and say, with a straight face, that you'd like to rehabilitate this awful person who's been tormenting you, because if you can't rehabilitate him, you're going to have to kill him."

Tuesday, August 16 2005

Signposts in Cyberspace: DNS

The National Research Council issues a new report on the DNS system - its security and stability, how DNS governance intersects with the issue of Internet governance, and the pressures on and pressures exerted by those entities which currently control DNS (the U.S. Department of Commerce and ICANN).
Geeky stuff, and the website is just a teaser for a report that costs money, but still...

Stereotype Threat

Stopping stereotype threat by talking about it.

"For example, when boys and girls are given a math test and told that its purpose is to determine whether boys or girls are better at math, girls will do worse than when they take the same test and aren’t made aware of any stereotypes."

Monday, August 15 2005

Vegan Condoms

German condom makers Condomi produce a vegan condom - using cocoa instead of casein for their latex.

Thursday, August 11 2005

Queen of alt.sex.stories?

SFGate on "Mary Anne Mohanraj, the daughter of Tamil immigrants," who (they say) was relatively well-known online a few years ago for her amateur erotica, and is now writing more mainstream stuff.
I dunno - searches at the asstr search engine don't come up with much.
(Yes, sex sells.)

Tuesday, August 2 2005

Debra Dickerson, Movie Crasher

Debra Dickerson's article on The Wedding Crashers is somewhat interesting:

"That happy Vesuvius of perky breasts, firm thighs and concave tummies was a tribute to youth, to the search for adventure and to our enduring belief in romantic serendipity... But, somehow, by the end of the parade of weddings crashed and women laid, I realized I was sad... The crashers seduced their way through every culture and every ethnicity but mine. Why don't Owen and Vince want to seduce me, too? Why don't they want to dance with my nana at a wedding?"

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This is the personal web site for Edward (Ed) Piou. Consisting mainly of a blog (operational since 1999) and various photos.

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