Old Sisters in high rotation on the phone.

Saw something this morning on the train. Seems the Samoan Church wants to charge each member, including all babies, twenty dollars. Now the congregation of the Samoan church tends to be Samoan. Who tend to be at the lower end of the economic spectrum. Who often have large families. How can a church put ( Read more... )

• xkcd is now mainstream. Glad they can make a living from it, it certainly amuses me.
• Case mods
• Go to Japan and collect your free cannabis.
• Shooting the Moon

"How you appear in the virtual world could affect your behaviour in real life" says Stanford's Bailenson (5min audio)

How does that work again? :) Oh, it was so hard to choose which icon to use for this! I spent a while tossing up between Tyler Durden, Captain Jack, the nekkid cat girl, the Desert Peach, the Power of Three, Death, etc... in the ( Read more... )

• The Office of Government Commerce in the UK makes an unfortunate logo from their initials. And El Reg makes fun of them
• Wiis are more green than X-Boxen & Playstations
• True devotion to Net Neutrailty, good if you're a virgin anyway
• Finally, for those HP fic fans on my flist, (in case they haven't seen it, because I really think they should,) trickofthedark's ( Read more... )

Had a fun BBC/TNC last night, the presence of both adrexia and allyn resulting in some significant reminiscing seeing as the last time that happened was about three years ago just after allyn arrived in country and richdrich also providing much amusement value. I sure can't eat as much as I used to be able to though!

Found out today that due to a big win, all next week is ( Read more... )

So if you read \. or Digg you'll have seen these, but

I guess we need robots for Ronny.The interesting thing in the linked article, for me at least, is not that there are a lot of robots in Japan, but that it is government policy to replace their workforce with robots, and that the reason for this is the rapidly shrinking workforce as Japanese ( Read more... )

Sounds like pr0n, but I'm actually describing the first two stories in a fun little article on the stories of several famous toys.

The same site, Mental_Floss has a number of other fun articles, such as this one on home decor of a morbid kind. I've seen the knife block in a shop in Christchurch with seraphs_folly, and for the drunkards amongst us, a whole ( Read more... )

• The Truth Machine - mind-reading by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI): He cannot tell what the undergrad is looking at just by peering at the dance of neuronal firings inside his head. So Tong extracts the data from the scanner, takes it back to his lab and runs it through his processing software. After several hours he has a ( Read more... )

Laurel gives you ten. Laurel also tells me why I like spicy food :
University of New York at Buffalo scientists found that capsaicin (hot-factor in chilis) triggers the pain receptors in your mouth,causing your brain to release endorphins and improve your mood.

Recently I posted about the Father's Day present wasup_bro gave me. Go and have a look at it, and then go look at this Lamborghini.

So wasup_bro, if you get tired of being a vet, you can always get employed to paint Lamborghinis!