Six Years Since 9/11
…so can someone please give me a good reason why the pigfucker behind it still hasn’t been caught?
Octogenarian Sex
By now, I think everyone’s heard the news that older people are having a lot more sex than one might think. But am I the only one who thought “good for them!” rather than “ewwww!”?
No, a random sixty- or seventy-year-old woman doesn’t fire up my libido, but:
a) No one’s making you look at photos of naked grandparents. And if you don’t like the mental image, think of something else, get over it, and move on.
b) In the majority of cases, I’m sure we’re not talking about random people. Most of these people are in a relationship, either marriage or friendship or something. If you think it’s normal for a boyfriend and girlfriend to have sex, why should that change just because they’re in their sixties or beyond? And yes, this is personal: my grandmother found a boyfriend after my grandfather died, and they were good for each other. If they wanted to get it on, who am I to say they shouldn’t? Sex is fun. Why shouldn’t grandma get some? Hell, I don’t care if she’s into leather and butt-plugs.
c) I hope to grow old some day (it sure beats the alternative), and I don’t plan on giving a rat’s ass what anyone thinks about my sex life.
The real news in the report, from my point of view, was that the sex drive doesn’t diminish as rapidly as I (and probably many others) had thought. If this grosses you out, get over it. Oh, and your parents had sex, too. Once again, get over it.
Why Is Faith Considered A Virtue?
Because without it, people wouldn’t believe in God.
As far as I can tell, it really is that simple.
A Number of Playlists
Albums
- 7, Apoptygma Berzerk
- 18, Moby
- 154, Wire
- 90125, Yes
Songs of the Year
- 1921, The Who
- ’39, Queen
- 1959, The Sisters of Mercy
- 1963, New Order
- 1981, Public Image Ltd.
- 1984, New Model Army
- 2000, Tuxedomoon
Others
- 13, They Might Be Giants
- 18, Moby
- 39, The Cure
- 40, U2
- 9-9, R.E.M.
- 107, Orgy
- 225, New Model Army
- 5 8 6, New Order
- 1010, Ministry
- 6794700, Birmingham 6
- 6060-842, B-52s
- 8675309, Tommy Tutone
Update, Sep. 10, 2007:
Not sure whether it qualifies
- M, The Cure
Sony Learns Nothing From Its Mistakes
Remember back in 2005, when Sony decided it would be a smashingly brill idea to include a rootkit on one of their CDs? Well, now they’re selling USB keychain drives with built-in fingerprint scanners, and they figured it’d be totally rad to include a rootkit with that as well.
As the old saying goes, subvert my security to prevent the inevitable release of your IP onto the net by 15 minutes, shame on you; subvert my security etc. twice, shame on you still, dumbass.
The Further Adventures of Ted “Completely Heterosexual” Haggard
Remember Ted Haggard, the right-wing preacher who got busted for having sex with a male prostitute, and buying meth from him?
If Bonnie Goldstein at Slate is right, he might be entering the lucrative field of financial shenanigans (a career for which his experience as a preacher prepared him well) (maybe he can share a cell with Kent Hovind).
The nutshell version: he doesn’t have his old salary, and in the current housing market, he can’t sell his $700,000 house, so he sent out a letter asking people to donate to Families With A Mission, which will pass on 90% of donations to Haggard, and keep 10% for administrative expenses.
However, it appears that Families With A Mission was dissolved in February 2007. And its registered agent was a sex offender.
So something funny’s going on.
/kernel.el
From an Ubuntu security advisory:
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart emacs to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Hendrik Tews discovered that emacs21 did not correctly handle certain GIF images. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted GIF, a remote attacker could cause emacs21 to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
Gosh, they make it sound as if Emacs is a daemon, run from an init file, running all the time and… oh, wait. Right.
China Regulates Reincarnation
From Newsweek:
China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is “an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation.”
This may seem silly, but I think a country that executes as many people as China does would want to regulate reincarnation. It’s only a matter of time before Texas does the same.
Summer Movie
http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1770138
I either really really want to see this movie, or I really really don’t. I can’t tell which.