Junk Mail Subject Lines

Here are some hilarious subject lines from spam that I've received. Some of them are slightly dirty so be aware. I'll try to update these daily. Enjoy.

Note: Bad grammar has been left in intentionally.
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• Get rid of the flatness in your pants just in a few weeks.
• Grab one little blue pill and prepare yourself for the night of adventures.
• Where is your male strength?
• Offers authentic-looking fake University_Dip1oma/Degrees....cheap price offer! Limited time!
• Supersize it - don't wait another minute.
• Your stick will be in harmony with her hole.
• Women always are ready to sleep with men who look rich.
• If you have a small bulge, the world around you seems small as well.
• The hard friend in your pants will look up into the sky.
• Keep them coming back with a long schlong.
• Be happy in bed every night.
• Get the Cartier as your portable status symbol.
• Your embarrassment has died instead you have the pride.
• Women will jump in your bed like crazy rabbits.
• Turn your sausage into a wiener.
• Walk with pride around the pool having huge and lovely tool.
• Unzip your pants for some extra meat.
• Don't be ashamed of your tool like you were in high school.
• With that power in your pants you can seduce any women.
• With that pill you can try different experiments in bed.
• The magic blue pill will wake up your little friend in a few minutes.
• Give your male member the strength to remember.
• The life of a man with a small member is often boring and dull.
• Your embarrassment has died instead you have the pride.
• Grow a big one today.
• You will be blessed she will be impressed.
• Your bedroom will be your palace as with that size you will be the king.
• Magnify your love making stamina.
• Women love to be possessed by handsome men who are well-blessed.
• You are strong enough to have it whenever you want it.
• Every man knows: no erection - no party.
• You can forget about hearing the word NO.
• You will be a king not only among average guys but also among big guys.
• Tired of having a peanut in your pants?
• Change your stick from weak to thick.
• Feel your pants expand with the new formula.
• Decorate your body with a huge instrument.
• Every woman will respect you and your best male friend.
• Get King Kong in pants.
• She will really choke - believe us it's no joke.
• Just think of pleasant motions with your new proportions.
• This blue tablet kills ignorance in every woman.
• Lots of girls have the rule - not to go on date without a ruler.
• Women will beg you to walk naked and shake it.
• Women will go crazy from pleasure and men will go crazy from jealousy.
• Huge manhood is your ticket to paradise!
• Displeased with the measurement of your willy?
• Now you can stuff her like a Thanksgiving turkey by giving her more meat.
• Learn how to get a biggie stick very safe and very quick.
• Change the time in your pants from 5:30 to 12 sharp.
• All your dates end up spending the nights alone because of your miserable little friend?
• A small incher kills all the pleasure for both partners.
• You don't have to be green to be incredible.
• Your manhood will return to you like a boomerang.
• Free your small instrument from that big handlock.
• Your phone will not stop ringing - and all calls will be from gorgeous women.
• Now you will not get out of your bed for days.
• With that magic pill you will be magnetic for women.
• Don't keep her waiting - change those ants in your pants to a real beast.
• With every extra inch you climb one more stair on the ladder of masculinity.
• You won't hear "Good-byes" because of your size.
• She would become your property if you just had a bigger member.
• Your python will be able to work for days without a rest!
• Pull down your pants like a real king.
• Your bulge will be so noticeable you will have to wear a kilt.
• Now you can do it no matter how tired you are.
• Tired of your little friend staring at the floor?
• Keep her moaning and groaning all night long.
• Your chick will be impressed when she sees you undressed.
• Pretty women worldwide will know about your big pride.
• Welcome to big monsters in pants.
• Women will flow like a tide to see your biggie pride.
• Every inch of your body can be strong and virile if you want it.
• Your perfect mega beast will be 10 inches at least.
• Turn your bedroom life into a volcano of pleasure.
• Every time you are hungry for an erection, the blue pill can give it to you.
• The vigor in your pants will be unbreakable.
• Turning to Google instead of God?
• Any, even the most dirty desires will come true with our male enhancing set.
• Orgasmic wonderland can be yours.
• Your little guy watches you tie your shoes.
• Provide your girlfriend with a sleepless night.
• Rectify your bed issues, right here, right now.
• Get a pole the Hulk would be proud of.
• Be bigger than ever before now with organ pills.
• Get a pole larger than your forearm.
• Even famous movie stars would give up everything for a bigger tool.
• Women will be losing their minds over your bulge.
• Women don't like it tender they need a major member.
• You can have a mega tool like a horse or even mule.
• Women will be able to read the number of your inches on your forehead.
• Women would love to lick your stick more than a candy.
• Your manhood will become a true locomotive, hot and unstoppable.
• Your nose is hung because you are not hung?
• Women crave men with bigger dongs.
• The secrets of women attraction lie in the size of your male friend.
• Your perfect mega beast will be 10 inches at least.
• A bigger instrument functions much better than a small one.
• Be proud of your biggest achievement that shines in your pants.
• You will be mega cool if you get a bigger tool.
• Your new improved stick will be bigger than the brick.
• Are you a victim of cruel nature because your inadequate size?
• Turn her on like an engine.
• Your jeans will need a stronger zipper as too much meat will be pressing on them.
• Women will stare at your member like at the museum.
• With such a developed huge monster in your pants you can catch a real gold fish.
• The truth is: a fat woman is not attractive!
• Your big tool will be like a soldier: big, strong and always ready.
• Small banana brings small problems, big banana brings no problems.
• Why Young Beautiful Women Can Get You Killed and What You Can Do.
• Your wife always mentions your little dimensions?
• The longer your instrument is, the shorter the ladder to success.
• Your small instrument hurts your whole body and personality?
• You might be making millions by showing your beast in the public.
• If your hair can grow why your member can't.
• Now a large, long and thick member in pants has a name.
• Are you sick because the size of your stick?
• With a giant device you will feel a bigger man.
• Now you don't have to wear bigger shoes to trick women around you.
• here are just so many things that you can do with a bigger member.
• Your member will always get the highest grades.
• Your member will be like a magnet for beautiful women.
• Your stiff wang = her moans.
• She won't need a magnifying glass from now to find your tool.
• We know the method to get your small buddy up.
  
• She will not need a magnifying glass from now to find your instrument.
• From no you don't need a crane to lift your tool up.
• Have a look at drugs of high quality but friendly prices.
• You have a dwarf in your pants?
• Your rod will be faultless weapon.
• Drink just one unit and her moans will fill the air with passion.
• Turn your meat battleship on!
• You could be King Kong with a monster dong.
• Extending your male tool means winning a war.
• To the stars your manhood flies when you are happy with your size.
• Every man dies for a bigger size - so you can stay alive.
• You don't have to look like trash even if you have cash.
• Have a bone to pick her?
• Make your rod staying!
• We know the method to wake up your small buddy.
• Now you will be able to please any size-queen.
• Your device is so petite she scarcely finds it in bed.
• Your nose is hung because you are not hung?
• Women love enormous tool and believe us - that's rule.
• Your trunk has shrunk? We know how to renew its size.
• Shove your giant and give her real tension.
• When you would like to feel like a superman, nothing must stand on your way.
• The best way to take revenge on your ex is to make your member bigger.
• Powder for custard launcher.
• Doping for your pork sword.
• Knowing the time is very important. Get a watch.
• If watering your instrument doesn't help it grow we know what works.
• Make your knob firm like steel.
• Bigger penis = Happy girl
• Ladies like long action flatboat hayseed unhandy semipellucid.
• A complete gentleman in bed is all the time ready.
• Deeper in her entrails.
• A fabulous instrument will give you a fabulous reputation.
• If you had a gold fish, you would ask for a bigger instrument.
• You don't need to kill yourself over that fat belly.
• If you had a larger thing in pants, your life would have been better.
• Good shells for your love gun!
• We can't give you charm of Cazanova: But we can give you wood-on of Ron Jeremy!
• Make your zipper knight the best in the whole town.
• Charge your love generator.
• Enhancing your male weapon means winning a competition.
• Nothing makes a man manlier than a few extra inches in pants.
• Being well-endowed is the biggest gift the nature can give to a man.
• Girl seeks fun, Carhart wearing man.
• Make your lovestick your wifes favorite toy.
• Feel the wonder of having a tremendous instrument.
• Want your meaty lever to go up and forward all night?
• Nothing can make your girlfriend luckier than your big rod.
• Your stick will be big not only when you close your eyes.
• Enjoy the delicious taste of having a monster in your pants.
• Having a big beast in your pants will make you a beast in bed.
• Change your little pecker to enormous beast.
• Your sweetheart will be on cloud nine if you enlarge your stick.
• Even the shyest girls like it thick and long.
• The more inches in your pants, the more women in your bedroom.
• Nothing can make your girlfriend luckier than your big rod.
• To bang her without a rest, you just need a little support.
• You can trick the nature and make a monster out of your timid animal.
• With this you will go through your girl like a bulldozer.
• The most passionate lovers are the men with big hoses.
• The longer your tool is the shorter the way to popularity.
• Your girl will love to jump on your super hard pole!
• Women don't care about your money as long as your trunk is long and hard.
• Girls prefer well hung men Women will be singing odes to the majestic monster in your pants.
  

Tattoo gone wrong: Stars and gripes forever?

Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:04am EDT

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian teenager has told police how she emerged from a tattoo parlor with 56 stars over one side of her face, rather than the three she had asked for, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

"I said this part, the top, is ok, but not the rest," Kimberley Vlaeminck from the city of Kortrijk, 90 km (56 miles) northwest of Brussels, told Belgian broadcaster VRT.

The 18-year-old said she fell asleep during the procedure, and woke up in pain when her nose was being tattooed.

A spokesman for Kortrijk prosecutors' office said police were investigating after a complaint from the teenager.

The tattoo artist said Vlaeminck had agreed to 56 stars.

"She agreed, but when her father saw it, the trouble started," Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws quoted the man as saying.

Vlaeminck said she wanted to keep the tattoos on her forehead but would have the rest removed.

(Reporting by Antonia van de Velde)

Afgan musicians attacked at wedding!?

Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:37am EDT

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban fighters beat musicians, shaved their heads and left them tied to trees overnight because they performed at an Afghan wedding, a village tribal chief said Monday, a sign of the fighters' growing influence.

While in power from 1996-2001, the Taliban banned music as un-Islamic.

The militants have returned to areas in the east and south of the country, where violence has sharply spiked in recent years. They attack government officials, Afghan police, foreign troops and schools that teach girls, another practice they forbid.

"A party was going on when a group of Taliban grabbed five musicians and started beating them and smashing their musical instruments," said Rahmatullah Khan, a head of Merke Khel village in the east of the country.

"The musicians were tied up with rope to trees last night and villagers found them in the morning when going out for prayers," Khan said.

Khan said Taliban fighters shaved the heads of the musicians and made them take oaths in the presence of villagers that they would not sing or play music at weddings again.

Afghan weddings and engagement parties in rural areas are traditionally celebrated with hundreds of guests, music and singing that often continues until late at night.

(Reporting by Rafiq Sherzad; Writing by Hamid Shalizi)

Slippery Slope of Gay Marriage (Reaction & Re-post)

Wow, Pat Robertson is now most definitely swimming eyebrow deep in his own arrogant bigoted BULLSHIT! Is this guy fu@$ing for real? My head hurts just contemplating the fact that people actually listen to this shite standby and believe in it! REALLY!? How does this piece of shit live with himself!? Who are these people that support him? "Slippery slope" leading to polygamy!, bestiality!, child molestation! and pedophilia! WTF! REALLY!?

That is beyond preposterous to even have a thought such as this. Come on! Just because no other society has legalized same sex marriage doesn't mean that WE as the great nation of the United States of America can't be the leading trailblazers of social equality in the world. God damn you filthy socially conservative prats for even considering this so called "slippery slope" that Mr. Robertson is suggesting. Your ignorance of legally documented love is completely unjustified with NO merit in this ever changing world. Tell me this, what is someone who loves, truly loves, someone else of the same gender going to matter in YOUR life? They aren't taking your money, physically harming you or enslaving you to build monuments to some demonic god!? What is the problem? I truly DO NOT understand.

How the hell can it be better to have two people who are NOT in love be married and not allow two people who genuinely ARE in love suffer because the ignorant conservative pricks on the right have the power to keep it that way...for now.

There is NO logic what so ever conveyed by the denial of same sex marriages. The only thing that I see here is complete and undeniable; ignorance, arrogance, closed mindedness, brain washing, fear, mental simplicity, de-evolution, failure, unwillingness, ugliness, evil, bigotry, hatred, immorality, Nazism, Fascism and above all LACK OF PATRIOTISM.

That is all.

~ Ky

Repost from www.dailykos.com

Slippery Slope of Gay Marriage: It's all about contract law

by CatM

Sat May 09, 2009 at 10:07:30 AM PDT

How many conservatives have claimed that permitting gay marriage constitutes some sort of "slippery slope" that will extend rights to perversions such as bestiality and pedophilia?

This past week, conservative evangelist Pat Robertson made the slippery slope argument:

On the Christian Broadcasting Network today, Pat Robertson responded by claiming that the "ultimate conclusion" of legalizing same-sex marriage would be the legalization of polygamy, bestiality, child molestation and pedophilia. "You mark my words, this is just the beginning in a long downward slide in relation to all the things that we consider to be abhorrent," said Robertson.

And who can forget former Republican Senator Rick Santorum's comments in 2003 on gay marriage:

In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be.

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In supporting a Texas law against sodomy, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote:

State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity are likewise sustainable only in light of Bowers’ validation of laws based on moral choices.

Mike Huckabee in 2008:

Well, I don't think that's a radical view to say we're going to affirm marriage. I think the radical view is to say that we're going to change the definition of marriage so that it can mean two men, two women, a man and three women, a man and a child, a man and animal. Again, once we change the definition, the door is open to change it again. I think the radical position is to make a change in what's been historic.

These are only a few in a long string of arguments absurdly asserting that gay marriage will somehow lead to the legalization of such degenerate acts as bestiality and pedophilia.

What is marriage? Marriage is a legal contract, entered into by consent of two people. Let's address some of their arguments.

Bestiality:
Can dogs, horses, goats, or any other animal enter into a legal contract in the United States? No.

Pedophilia:
Can children enter into legal contracts of their own accord? No. Can pre-adolescent children get married even with parental consent? No.

There is, therefore, no reason to think that marriage between two consenting adults equates with marriage between one consenting adult and a non-consenting animal or child.

Polygamy:
Marriage equality implies a legal right for two adults of any sex (two men, two women, one man/one woman)to elect to enter into a legally binding contract that confers certain rights and obligations. If the law does not permit more than two people to enjoin into this contract, gay marriage will never lead to legalized polygamous marriage. People with polygamous inclinations retain the option everyone individual has--to marry one person of their choosing.

Incest:
The law prohibits people of certain genetic relationships from entering into a marriage contract, regardless of gender. Gay marriage does not nullify this legal provision. What if an adult brother and sister want to marry one another? Can the law refuse or does that deny them marriage equality? Prohibiting incestuous marriages does not violate marriage equality, because the incestuous person is not prevented from marrying someone--of either gender--but only from marrying family members.

If gay marriage is legalized, a brother cannot marry his brother nor can a sister marry her sister, and so on. Even gay incestuous people will not be able to marry. This is marriage equality.

There is no evidence to suggest incestuous people are only able to form relationships with the small number of people in their family. For example, if the incestuous person's family died suddenly or was not receptive to his/her advances, it is doubtful that person would remain celibate lifelong, unable to partner with anyone else. It is not that he/she is only able to have incestuous relationships but that they have developed an intense attraction to one specific person. A mental state of only being able to be attracted to one person, no matter what (if they died, rejected you, etc), by nature indicates a mental health problem. Gay people do not have that problem.

The Dominos Collapse:
Any argument that legalizing gay marriage means legalizing every type of union between consenting adults is inherently flawed. The only way this argument has validity is to operate from the perspective that homosexuality is a willful deviancy. Of course, the conservatives above and those making these arguments have adopted that view.

Most of us who know gay people, however, know they are not deviants and that homosexuality and gay marriage is about more than sex. Homosexual relationships do not consist of one person forcing him/herself on someone/something incapable of consent or being psychologically restricted to forming a relationship with only one other person, ever.

Who knows whether there is an inherent "right" to marry. Contracts, after all, do not exist in nature. If the US government, in its wisdom, has decided to legalize contracted unions between two people, however, everyone in the US should have the opportunity to enter into these contracts for a (theoretically) lifelong partnership.

While the government can set conditions on who can enter into a marriage contract, the decision to force homosexuals to choose a partner from among the opposite sex denies them the opportunity to select someone with whom they could potentially build a lifelong relationship and is therefore discriminatory.

Civil Unions:
Calling marriage between gays something else (civil unions) is silly. If one person who gets breast implants calls it a boob job and another person calls it breast augmentation, does it somehow mean they had different procedures? It is an artificial distinction and therefore unnecessary.

Conservatives love false distinctions. Calling torture "enhanced interrogation" does not make it any less torture. And giving gays all the rights of marriage but calling it Civil Union does not make it any less a marriage. The reason the distinction is objectionable is that it is unnecessary and has its roots in bigotry.

Applying the label "Civil Union" is nothing more than an effort to signal homosexuals out as somehow less than "real" Americans and so that bigoted heterosexual people can assure themselves that their marriages mean more than those deviant "civil unions."

True Equality:
Telling gay people they cannot fornicate with animals or children, they cannot marry more than one person at a time, and they cannot marry a close relative is not discriminatory. These rules hold true for all Americans, gay and straight.

Letting gays marry does not force us to abandon all moral justifications for objecting to things that cause others or society harm. So far, the only individuals who seem to be harmed by the existence of homosexuality in our society are homosexuals, thanks to the bigotry of some heterosexuals.

**UPDATE**
A lot of people seem to have difficulty with the argument I have made on polygamous marriage, so I want to clarify.

1. First, you cannot equate polyamory with gay or straight. A polyamorous person is a gay or straight person, which means that polyamory is a subset of heterosexuality/homosexuality, not an equal third class of marriage partners.

2. I take no position on the morality of polygamy. One could argue it is Biblical and allowed in some societies and therefore not immoral. The morality of it is not relevant to the argument.

3. My argument is that denying people who want to marry more than one person the right to do so does not deprive them of the right to enter into a contract with someone with whom they plan to form a lifelong, fulfilling relationship. A polygamous person forms one relationship at a time. One marriage comes "first." Therefore, that person does first select some one with whom they believe they can share a life, independent of a prospective subsequent marriage. Refusing to allow all people the right to marry a second person with whom they believe they can share a life does not violate the principle of marriage equality.

4. Denying a gay person the right to marry another gay person absolutely denies this segment of the population the right to enter into a marriage contract with a person with whom he/she has the possibility of forming fulfilling lifelong relationship. Ergo, you violate the principle of marriage equality.

Playboy TV fined over explicit content

Thu Apr 2, 2009 10:57am EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - British media regulator Ofcom has fined Playboy TV 22,500 pounds ($32,990) for airing sexually explicit images in breach of broadcasting rules.

It said on Thursday the free-to-air channel Playboy One had broadcast unencrypted raunchy, and what the watchdog deemed offensive, material until September 2008.

Ofcom had received five complaints relating to seven late night programs broadcast between September and December 2007.

Shows investigated included: "Sexy Girls Next Door," "Sexy Urban Legends" and "Adult Stars Close-up."

"Depending on the individual breach, the explicitness, strength and, or, sustained nature of the sexual content and language was unacceptable for broadcast on an unencrypted free-to-air channel," Ofcom ruled.

It said Playboy TV UK/Benelux Ltd had failed to ensure adequate protection for viewers from "potentially harmful or offensive material."

(Reporting by Stefano Ambrogi; Editing by Steve Addison and Paul Casciato)

Verizon doesn't understand simple math

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, March 19, 2009 11:06 AM |

Verizon told George Vaccaro that bandwidth charges in Canada were .002 cents per kilobyte, but billed him at .002 dollars, or 100 times as much as he was quoted.

But Verizon customer service insists there's no difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents. Here's the recording of the call. George was incredibly patient with the Verizon customer service supervisor, who just couldn't understand the many examples George gave him to explain the difference between .002 cents and .002 dollars.

VerizonMath (Thanks, Jim!)

Utterly Nuts, but Sane Enough to Execute in Texas

Posted by Dan Gillmor, March 20, 2009 9:05 AM |

A court ruling for the (dark) ages:

A condemned Texas inmate who removed his only eye and ate it in a bizarre outburst several months ago on death row is “crazy,” yet sane under state law, a judge wrote in an appellate court ruling today that rejected his appeals.

Andre Thomas raised 44 claims in his petition to the state’s highest criminal court, challenging his conviction and death sentence for the murder of his estranged wife’s 13-month-old daughter five years ago in Grayson County in North Texas.

Xeni on the road in West Africa: Ritually Stolen Penises and Vaginas - Not a Joke Here.

Posted by Xeni Jardin, March 18, 2009 9:44 AM |

Jeez, where do I start with this one. So -- there is an odd cultural phenomenon in West Africa involving panic over the belief that one's genitals have been "stolen" through witchery. Usually it's reported as "penis theft," but there's a female version too -- the belief that witches can also make "normal" adult female genitals shrivel up and dry "like old lady parts."

Pesco has blogged about this before on Boing Boing. During my visit to West Africa this month, I fearlessly followed up on this urgent news imperative for our blog, in person. Bottom line, yes, these mass "penis theft panics" do happen from time to time. Seem to occur more often in Nigeria than anywhere else, but below, a scanned news article from one local newspaper in Benin about a craze in 2006 which left a number of people dead (large size here), and here, a news report about what was probably the biggest-ever penis-thievery-crisis in recent history, back in 2001.

Over dinner in Cotonou this Monday night with two foreigners working in Benin, I heard the story of that big 2001 scare like this:

On a busy November day in a bustling public street market in Cotonou, some Beninese people started shouting that their man-junk had been stolen by a group of men nearby, who happened to be Nigerian. A mob soon formed, things got hysterical fast. The mob poured gasoline on the accused and set them on fire, killing them. BTW, the first rule of being accused here of witchcraft penis theft (or even regular old petty theft) is: run to the police as fast as you can, because a mob will form and try to kill you. After this initial freakout, about 9 more copycat incidents soon followed, in which the accused schlong-stealers were either burned alive or hacked to death.

One of the expats in Cotonou Monday night told me the bittersweet punch line was -- the men who claimed their penises were stolen and caused all the mayhem were later apprehended by police, stripped of clothing, and paraded in front of television news crews totally naked, to show that yes, their wedding tackle remained intact and the whole thing was BS.

Someone (either a cop or a TV reporter) on camera asked one of the chained, naked, still-be-penised guys "So! What do you have to say for yourself! Obviously it's still there!"

To which the guy replied -- "Well, it was a lot larger before."

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Update: Oh, interesting, there was a Harper's article about this phenomenon not long ago. "A mind dismembered: In search of the magical penis thieves," by Frank Bures (thanks, Nach0s).

A dozen bizarre devices from medicine's dark past

These extraordinary objects are among 2500 featured in Brought to Life, the London Science Museum's new multimedia website exploring centuries of medical history.

Jugum penis, United Kingdom, 1880-1920

Guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes of at least half our readers, this device was intended as a treatment for "nocturnal incontinence" and to prevent masturbation. It was designed to deter nighttime emissions by causing enough pain to waken the sleeper if an erection threatened.

Until relatively recently, masturbation was considered a moral weakness and at least partly responsible for a whole range of debilitating medical conditions. Now there is some suggestion that the opposite may be true: frequent self-pleasuring could protect against prostate cancer.

Click here to see/read the rest of this article

Fish with transparent head

Posted by David Pescovitz, February 25, 2009 8:45 AM |

Since 1939, scientists have thought the "barreleye" fish Macropinna microstoma had "tunnel vision" due to eyes that were fixed in place. Now though, Monterey Bay Aquarium researchers show that the fish actually has a transparent head and the eyes rotate around inside of it. From the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute:


(Bruce) Robison and (Kim) Reisenbichler used video from MBARI's remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to study barreleyes in the deep waters just offshore of Central California. At depths of 600 to 800 meters (2,000 to 2,600 feet) below the surface, the ROV cameras typically showed these fish hanging motionless in the water, their eyes glowing a vivid green in the ROV's bright lights. The ROV video also revealed a previously undescribed feature of these fish--its eyes are surrounded by a transparent, fluid-filled shield that covers the top of the fish's head.

Most existing descriptions and illustrations of this fish do not show its fluid-filled shield, probably because this fragile structure was destroyed when the fish were brought up from the deep in nets. However, Robison and Reisenbichler were extremely fortunate--they were able to bring a net-caught barreleye to the surface alive, where it survived for several hours in a ship-board aquarium. Within this controlled environment, the researchers were able to confirm what they had seen in the ROV video--the fish rotated its tubular eyes as it turned its body from a horizontal to a vertical position. "Researchers solve mystery of deep-sea fish with tubular eyes and transparent head" (Thanks, Justin Ried!)

Octuplets mother offered $1M porn contract

(02-25) 10:34 PST Los Angeles, CA (AP) --

The Southern California mother of octuplets is being offered $1 million to star in hardcore porn.

Vivid Entertainment spokeswoman Jackie Martin says the offer also promises a year of health insurance for Nadya Suleman and her 14 children.

Suleman gave birth to octuplets at a Bellflower hospital on Jan. 26, and already had six other children. The home the unemployed single-mother lives in is facing foreclosure.

Vivid says the offer was sent Tuesday via overnight mail and there has been no immediate response.

The offer letter says Suleman's video would be distributed under the Vivid-Celeb imprint, which has released videos starring Pamela Anderson and Kim Kardashian.

MLB urns and caskets for the seventh-inning slump-over

Posted by Joel Johnson, February 16, 2009 5:28 AM |

From the company that brought you Star Trek urns and caskets comes this new line of funereal accessories inspired by Major League Baseball. $800 for the urn, $4,500 for the caskets, each with the livery of your favorite teams, as well as a dispassionate plaque stating that the MLB has recognized you as a "lifelong fan". [via GirlHacker]

"Loose" women to send knickers to Hindu group (Reuters Oddly Enough)

By Rina Chandran

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Thousands of Indians, many fuming over a recent assault on women in a pub, are vowing to fill bars on Valentine's Day and send cartons of pink panties to a radical Hindu group that has branded outgoing females immoral.

A "consortium of pub-going, loose and forward women," founded by four Indian women on social networking website Facebook has, in a matter of days, attracted more than 25,000 members with over 2,000 posts about the self-appointed moral police.

The women said their mission was to go bar-hopping on February 14 and send hundreds of pink knickers to Sri Ram Sena, the militant Hindu group that has said pubs are for men, and that women should stay at home and cook for their husbands.

The same Hindu group was blamed for attacking women in a bar in the southern city of Mangalore in January, an incident that sparked a national debate about women's freedoms in India.

Collection centers have sprung up in several cities, with volunteers calling for bright pink old-fashioned knickers as gifts to the Sri Ram Sena as a mark of defiance.

"Girl power! Go girls, go. Show Ram Sena... who's the boss," reads one post on Facebook from Larkins Dsouza.

There is a separate campaign to "Walk to the nearest pub and buy a drink (and) raise a toast," that has found supporters from Toronto to Bangkok to Sydney, with even teetotalers saying they will get a drink on Saturday to show solidarity.

"Though I don't promote smoking or drinking for both sexes, we definitely don't need hooligans telling us what to do and what not. Best of luck!," reads one post from Iftehar Ahsan.

There are more heated discussion threads as well that range from the limits of independence to religion and politics, reflecting the struggle facing a country that has long battled to balance its deep-rooted traditions with rapid modernization.

Growing numbers of young and independent urban women have become an easy target for religious fundamentalists and aging politicians trying to force traditional mores on an increasingly liberal, Western outlook.

Not to be outdone, the Sri Ram Sena, which has cautioned shops and pubs in southern Karnataka state against marking Valentine's Day, has promised to gift pink saris to women and marry off canoodling couples to make them "respectable."

(Reporting by Rina Chandran; Editing by Alistair Scrutton and Miral Fahmy)

RE: No iPhone Nano, No Apple Netbook – Deal With it!

In regards to the PC World article "No iPhone Nano, No Apple Netbook – Deal With it!"

Daniel Ionescu, PC World
Jan 22, 2009 6:23 am

Take the case of the iPhone nano: the rumor started back in 2007 and continued throughout 2008 and still lightly hovers. Thankfully though, Tim Cook stressed yesterday that Apple won't produce low-end phones and that it doesn't want to be the market leader when it comes to the number of unit sold. Crystal clear for me, but let's see how analysts take it.

Apple fanboys (and why not, fangirls) have their own fault in propagating this rumor bonanza also. Their case is the Apple Netbook, which has been rumored all round 2008, and of course, never materialized. And it won't either, as Tim Cook said yesterday, yet again, Apple doesn't know how to build a sub-$500 computer that is not a piece of junk. Oh well, give it a month or two and surely some new mockups will make their way on the web. Can't wait for that!

         I just cringe at how God damn arrogant the higher ups are over at Apple!!! What the hell is their problem!? Have they never heard of the age old phrase "The customer is ALWAYS right"!? Regarding iPhone nanos; Why would Mr. Cook even think for a second that it had anything to even do with units sold!? You dumb shit, have you looked at the economy lately? Seriously? The people want something of reputable high quality at a REASONABLE price. What's wrong with that? Isn't supply and demand the basis of our capitalistic society?

         I believe that the people should have the OPTION to get a product of the same high quality they receive from Apple, BUT still be able to get it without all of the bells and whistles that make the price so high. It's really not asking much to listen to what the the customer would like to see and NOT just what Steve Jobs wants the world to have.

         As far as Netbooks go the statement Mr. Cook gave is pompous and inexcusable.

"...the Apple Netbook, which has been rumored all round 2008, and of course, never materialized. And it won't either, as Tim Cook said yesterday, yet again, Apple doesn't know how to build a sub-$500 computer that is not a piece of junk."

         I am no expert on the matter by any means, but Netbooks seem to be the new thing. People want a reasonably priced product that is very stripped down without all of the extra unnecessary knickknacks that are typically bundled and bog your system down. And I think that it is preposterous to think with all the incredible intelligence and technology that Apple has that they don't "...know how to build a sub-$500 computer that is not a piece of junk." Really sir? That's the best statement you could come up with defending Apple's reasoning NOT to develop an essential piece of technology for world in economic strife. Wow. Brilliant. I am NOT impressed.

Porn kings Larry Flint and Joe Francis go begging for a bailout

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BY CATEY HILL
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, January 7th 2009, 11:51 AM

Is the porn industry up next for a bailout? If porn titans Joe Francis and Larry Flynt have anything to do with it, it will.

Yes, ladies and gentleman, the titans of pornography are begging for a bailout.

Joe Francis, creator of the "Girl's Gone Wild" video series, and Larry Flynt, founder of Hustler, will ask Congress for a $5 billion bailout, according to TMZ.

Why does the porn industry need a bailout? Because apparently even porn is getting smacked by the recession.

XXX DVD sales have taken a hit - about a 22% hit, according the TMZ.

"With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind," Flynt is quoted as saying on TMZ. "It's time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America."

Francis thinks that the porn industry deserves a bailout just like the auto and financial industries got, and he said he'll go to DC to get it, according to TMZ.

"Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation's most important businesses; we feel we deserve the same consideration," Francis is quoted as saying on TMZ.

Is the porn industry really experiencing a severe downturn? It depends on who you ask.

Francis Koenig's fund AdultVest, which invests in porn-related assets, was up 50% in 2008, according to Tom Johansmeyer's article in next month's Atlantic (as reported by The Huffington Post). But video sales are down.

"The industry's not going anywhere," Koenig says. "You've got 6 billion people on the planet," he laughs, "and they're all horny."

The porn industry generated about $12 billion in 2007, according to the Atlantic article.

"What are you doing here?": man asks wife at brothel

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0910395120080109

Wed Jan 9, 2008 10:23am EST


WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment's employees.

Polish tabloid Super Express said the woman had been making some extra money on the side while telling her husband she worked at a store in a nearby town.

"I was dumbfounded. I thought I was dreaming," the husband told the newspaper on Wednesday.

The couple, married for 14 years, are now divorcing, the newspaper reported.

(Writing by Chris Borowski, Editing by Matthew Jones)

© Thomson Reuters 2009 All rights reserved

Blackout looms as Time Warner, Viacom talks stall

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ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!

Attention Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks customers, starting tonight, you will lose your favorite Comedy Central shows on TV and online because of a dispute with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. You can stop this! Time Warner Cable customers call 1-800-762-3786 and Bright House Networks customers call 1-866-309-3279, AND DEMAND THEY KEEP YOUR CHANNEL!

The channels that would be affected are: Comedy Central, CMT: Pure Country, Logo, Palladia, MTV, MTV 2, MTV Hits, MTV Jams, MTV Tr3s, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Nick 2, Nicktoons, Spike, The N, TV Land, VH1, VH1 Classic, and VH1 Soul.