The Voco alarm clock people have a new "Good morning, madam" clock to go with their "Good morning, sir" clock. They've also released ten samples from each under the creative commons license.

Take a look at the downloads page. Notice anything?

The "madam" clock's messages are not only longer, the content is different too. "Sir's" alarm clock ( Read more... )

I don't know if I'd call this guy a hero, but I'd definitely call him a man. At first he just seems like another bystander goofus, the kind you always see on television, but he wanted to get involved, and to the best of his ability he did get involved, and you can see it hurts him that he couldn't do more. That's the kind of character I don't mind ( Read more... )

As a childfree man, this issue is personally moot, but as an observer of cultural institutions, it's fascinating.

Mommy's little secret

The notion of a woman carrying the child of someone other than her partner is older than the Christmas story itself. No geneticist believes non-paternity to be purely the product of modern immorality; they have been ( Read more... )

Socks off.

Man Law.