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The Late Night Pick-Up Line
Why it might work: Ask a straight man, "How do you like your women?" and it’s unlikely he’ll answer, "Dumb and sleepy." But according to new findings, these... Continue reading »
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Hathos Alert
Yay Sweden! Yay Guardian Eurovision live-blog! It just has that indispensably snarky British spin on it all, as in:Standard drinking game rules apply tonight – a swig of whatever you fancy every... Continue reading »
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Sleeping With A Jerk
A look at the science of the spasms that strike as you doze off, known as hypnic jerks: As sleep paralysis sets in remaining daytime energy kindles and bursts out in seemingly random movements. In... Continue reading »
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Will Fracking Ruin Beer?
The Brooklyn Brewery fears so: The brewmeister of Brooklyn Brewery says toxic fracking chemicals like methanol, benzene, and ethylene glycol (found in anti-freeze) could contaminate his... Continue reading »
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The View From Your Window
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Quote For The Day III
"There are two kinds of fighting—narcissistic fighting and Oedipal fighting. Oedipal fighting is father and son rolling up their sleeves and duking it out. Narcissistic fighting is putting... Continue reading »
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Quote For The Day III
"There are two kinds of fighting—narcissistic fighting and Oedipal fighting. Oedipal fighting is father and son rolling up their sleeves and duking it out. Narcissistic fighting is putting... Continue reading »
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Sex In A Hospital Bed
Mike Ervin, aka Smart Ass Cripple, weighs the pros and cons: When you think about it, hospital beds can be excellent kink vehicles. They contort into all kinds of positions. Some have trapezes.... Continue reading »
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Mental Health Break
Abstract shapes never felt so NSWF: Continue reading »
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Building A Better Bookstore
Tony Sanfilippo reimagines the bookstore as a place with bestsellers up front, a print-on-demand machine in the middle, and a scale of pricing options for how to buy or rent the books in the... Continue reading »
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Quote For The Day II
"What we thought was that Japan was a cautionary tale. It has turned into Japan as almost a role model. They never had as big a slump as we have had. They managed to have growing per capita... Continue reading »
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If You Want Another Debt And Spending Binge, Vote GOP, Ctd
The AP now weighs in, ultimately relying on McCain economics adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin as a neutral arbirtrator. But it's another helpful run-through of the numbers. The first question, as I... Continue reading »
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Face Of The Day
Pinar admires Isaac Cordal's recent project, Cement Bleak: His medium of choice? A strainer. Cordal manipulates metallic colanders to look like three-dimensional faces popping out.... Continue reading »
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To Profile Or Not To Profile?
Sam Harris debates Bruce Schneier - in a rare example of light defeating heat on this question. Continue reading »
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The Life Of A Writer
If you're asking if you should become one, you shouldn't. A classic old letter from Malcolm Cowley: Continue reading »
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Quote For The Day
“Pot smokers, cops, I got everybody. And everybody was lovely," - John Waters, after a cross-country hitch-hiking experiment he survived intact. Lovely, lovely story. Continue reading »
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Can't Look Back
Science fiction author William Gibson confesses: It’s harder to imagine the past that went away than it is to imagine the future. What we were prior to our latest batch of technology is, in a way,... Continue reading »
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A Poem For Saturday
"I'm So Busy" by P.G. Wodehouse I always said That the man I would wed Must be one who would work all the time. One with ambition, Who'd make it his mission To win a position... Continue reading »
