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Paging Dr. Frankenstein... This is so cool. Scientists Planning to Make New Form of Life

I wanted to talk about the Real World (Las Vegas), but was too lazy to write anything again, so I'm posting an IM I had with maya about it... AWhig (9:35:00 AM): are you still watching real world? mayabazar (9:35:17 AM): we've fallen behind. I think we are three or four episodes behind AWhig (9:35:25 AM): oh. mayabazar (9:35:28 AM): hopefully there will be a marathon or soemthing this weekend,so we can catch up AWhig (9:35:31 AM): i watched last nights mayabazar (9:35:40 AM): any good? AWhig (9:35:54 AM): these people...man. they are the real world producer's dream cast mayabazar (9:36:02 AM): :-) AWhig (9:36:13 AM): they have every social issue going on AWhig (9:36:33 AM): can I tell you? mayabazar (9:36:42 AM): sure AWhig (9:37:06 AM): ok. i can't decide who's better, but I'm leaning towards trishelle AWhig (9:37:12 AM): 1. experiments with lesbianism mayabazar (9:37:20 AM): she is so hideous AWhig (9:37:23 AM): 2. enter sex relationship with

This just in from London...I still don't really get how 23% of men said they have faked an orgasm... Brit sex survey proves anticlimactic 'You name it, the British are doing it' Monday, November 18, 2002 Posted: 1:23 PM EST (1823 GMT) LONDON (Reuters) -- Women are not the only ones to turn on the acting abilities in the bedroom, said a survey released ahead of the world's largest adult festival in London. The survey of 2,500 Britons, by organizers of the Erotica 2002 festival, said 23 percent of men claimed to have faked an orgasm, compared to 56 percent of women. Almost half of the participants confessed to enjoying threesomes, the survey added. Erotica said in a publicity statement sent over the weekend its survey had destroyed the myth the British are a nation of prudes. "Orgies, lust, cheating and faking it -- you name it, the British are doing it," the statement said. Organisers of the festival, which begins on Friday, expect

Another excellent story from Snatch... AWhig (4:30:37 PM): hey KELTIX (4:30:57 PM): hi AWhig (4:31:16 PM): did you go to vegas or something? KELTIX (4:31:30 PM): ya AWhig (4:31:33 PM): for some reason i have that in my head KELTIX (4:31:34 PM): just got back yesterday KELTIX (4:31:43 PM): it was kinda weird AWhig (4:31:48 PM): what was the occasion? KELTIX (4:32:26 PM): my friend bolai is in monitor sales and there was a convention there this week KELTIX (4:32:40 PM): she had us join her so we can help entertain her clients AWhig (4:32:47 PM): monitor as in display screens? KELTIX (4:32:53 PM): yes AWhig (4:33:01 PM): you mean kind of like a geisha? AWhig (4:33:01 PM): :-) KELTIX (4:33:09 PM): her company makes them for apple and stuff KELTIX (4:33:15 PM): yes, we were the geishas AWhig (4:33:18 PM): ha AWhig (4:33:21 PM): where were they from? KELTIX (4:33:32 PM): ok, so friday night we had table reservations at light, the club at the bellagio AWhig (4:33:46 PM)

Interesting Japanese TV show. Sounds like something you could get away with on comedy central... We're all hooked on a bizarre TV show in Japan, a "mannequin drama" OH! Mikey, which is filmed with outrageous looking fashion mannequins in place of actors. It's the story of the Fuccon family, father James, mother Barbara and son Mikey, who came from America to start their new life in Japan. In each episode of the show, the Fuccon family undergoes new trials and tribulations as they learn about Japan. It's a kind of parody of foreigners living in Japan, and the fact that expressions on the faces of the mannequins never change adds to the bizarreness of the story.

I love this topic...how they use technology in vegas. Those shows on the learning channel are always playing....you know, the ones about how they use cameras etc. to catch cheats. This one in Popular Science is about how they use networking to make huge payoffs on slots, etc. [More]

uh oh... Study: Lengthy computer use saps energy Japanese researchers publish a study showing that prolonged daily computer use can make you sore and deplete your strength, energy and motivation. [More]

Back in the day, I was a huge Smiths fan. I remember having next to my bed my Smiths stack of cds, next to the Cure stack, which was next to the Police stack... I found a little music rag out of singapore and they had this quote from Morrissey. Serious topic, funny ending... For fans of the Smiths: Meat Is Murder, released in February 1985, was The Smiths' third album. Brilliantly successful, the album occupied the number one position of the UK mainstream charts for 33 weeks, and the number one position of the UK's alternative charts for an unprecedented 64 weeks. Frontman Morrissey, when asked if there was a link between home violence and institutionalized violence like the meat industry and war, said: "It's completely connected. It all weaves in and it's all kind of embroidered to make one overall foul image. From the time that you get hit when you're a child, as covered in a song called Barbarism Begins At Home, violence is the only answer. Conversati

This sucks. I guess anything that really is a "necessity" eventually becomes commoditized MORE U.S. HOMES HAVE OUTHOUSES THAN TIVOS Analysts Mull Future Potential of PVR Ad-Zapping Technology

Panama begins blocking IP ports In an apparent attempt to stem telephone company revenue losses due to Internet telephony, the government of Panama has decreed that 24 UDP ports be blocked by all Internet service providers. Okay, this makes me mad. I'm pretty confident that this won't stay in place. Too much business is done over IP Telephony these days. Those call centers in Latin America that service the U.S. probably go through Panama. Pretty lame move by Panama, in my opinion.