Researchers have discovered that s3x with a partner is much better than m@sturb@tion. What would we do without researchers?
A Girly Man
That’s what they found to play the latest James Bond:
An insider is quoted in Britain’s Daily Star newspaper as saying: “They’ve started shooting here and are using the old DB5, which is absolutely sensational. It was shipped over and was ready to go but then we found out he can’t drive a manual car.
“So we have had to adapt it so it’s like an automatic. You don’t expect that with James Bond, to be honest.”
Last year, Craig admitted he is struggling to overcome his biggest fear to play Bond – he’s terrified of guns.
Who’ll be the next one? Boy George?
Missing In Action
Jim Geraghty isn’t impressed by the response to the Danish cartoon controversy by the left regions of the blogosphere:
The one common refrain on the blogs of the left has been to compare the rioters, the imams threatening violence, and embassy-torchers to prominent members of the religious right. Oliver Willis huffed,
SpaceWar.com Off Google
Simon Mansfield reports that his publication SpaceWar.com, one of his SpaceDaily family of web sites is no longer having its pages served by Google. Strangely, if you search for “Space War” you find lots of sites linking to http://www.spacewar.com, but if you search for sites linking to www.spacewar.com, the search comes up empty. To enforce Google’s “Don’t be evil” policy, I don’t think Google’s robots are smart enough to parse the following:
<META NAME=”keywords” CONTENT=”war, death, destruction, ruin, hate, bad bad bad”>
which have been in the keywords section for years. (Load this page and view source to see it last year.)
Space.TV corp, SpaceWar.com’s parent isn’t taking this lying down. “We consider the ban a violation of the recently enacted US-Australia Free Trade Agreement.” We wish them a fruitful trade war.
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2006-02-25 09:55 Update: It’s back up and running. See Simon’s comment.
Selective Sampling?
Hey, I’m as big a critic of the MSM as anyone, but this strikes me as a little underhanded:
…regarding the Gillette Fusion, some men clearly will like it and others won
Woody Guthrie, Call Your Office
Just On The Other Side
Victor Davis Hanson just came back from Iraq, and he says that the media can’t tell the winners from the losers:
It is an odd war, because the side that I think is losing garners all the press, whether by blowing up the great golden dome of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, or blowing up an American each day. Yet we hear nothing of the other side that is ever so slowly, shrewdly undermining the enemy.
I wonder why that is?
Not All Of The American Press Are Wimps
EclectEcon has gathered all of the blasphemy together in one place. Peace Be Unto Him.
Can You Imagine The Howls From The Left
…if the judge grants Scooter Libby’s request for dismissal? The Merry Fitzmas would be officially over.
Filing such things is pro forma, of course, and I’ll be surprised if it’s granted, but Fitzgerald’s stonewalling on the evidence doesn’t make his case look very good. It also seems to be on novel grounds.
Do You Defile Books?
This post (related to e-books) brought up an interesting subject in comments. There are people who think nothing (and in fact find it necessary) to highlight or make margin notes in books, and there are others (like me) who consider this sacrilege, and would never consider doing such a thing. I remember being in awe of books as a child, and even though they’re now mass produced, and it’s not a rational thing, I still can’t bring myself to write in one (except perhaps to sign it, if I were to write one myself). And frankly, I never found it useful as a study aid, so there was never much pressure for me to do it.
It’s not something that anyone ever taught me, or lectured me about, it’s just a visceral repugnance at the thought. How weird am I (always a dangerous question with this crowd, I know…)?
The comments section is open.
[Update in the early evening]
Look, just to clarify here, I’m not saying that my position is rational, or anything. I’m just curious to see how many share it. It’s really psychology research. I guess I’m wondering if it’s some kind of intrinsic personality trait (like being interested in space) that’s not (obviously) explainable either by upbringing or genetics.