– This story in femail.co.uk (via File13 Amish Tech Support) made me think of a couple of guys I know, one of whom had prostate cancer. Scientists have developed replacement balls, using cartilage cells and silicone:
They then injected it with the male hormone testosterone, which slowly leaks into the tissue surrounding the testicle and eventually [...]
– The Daily Pundit, Bill Quick, has converted his blog to Movable Type and undergone a redesign in the process; temporarily reachable at http://64.247.33.2/~icebergw/ until DNS catches up.While the new design is more fetching to the eye as an aesthetic object, it’s a step backward in terms of accessibility. There’s a large banner on top [...]
– Berkeley now offers a course on Weblogs:
Weblogs are a new form of online publishing that have rapidly become a popular way of getting news and information on particular topics. Some are run by journalists, while others operate in competition with journalists. In this class students will create a Weblog to explore the subject of [...]
– According to Alexa, , people who read my blog also read:
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Lgf: Would You Like Fries With That? www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
Live From The Wtc www.janegalt.net/
Protein Wisdom www.creatical.com/weblog
On The Third Hand…by A Bellicose Woman site-essential.com/
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– Live from the WTC comments on teen sex, maturation, and the idea of going back to the farm days. One of the issues she highlights is the early onset of menstruation (illustrated by our story of the 11-year-old mother in the next article.)
Girls also menstruated at 14 or 16, and probably ovulated irregularly for [...]
– Police Charge 75 Year Old With Impregnating 10 Yr Old
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) City police have accused a 75-year-old man of impregnating a 10-year-old girl he met at his senior center.
Jimmy Kave of Bridgeport admitted having sex with the girl several times, but claims she had enticed him, police said. He turned himself in Wednesday [...]
– Too Close to Home: Dioxin Contamination of Breast Milk and the Political Agenda is a fascinating analysis of the suppression of information about breast milk contamination by La Leche League, Greenpeace, and others:
Environmentalists may well have reacted with alarm to the hidden, irreversible, and
dreaded characteristics of dioxin contamination of breast milk, but for the [...]
– Personal RSS Aggregators
Has RSS run out of steam? Quite the opposite. There’s more action than ever, but it’s shifted into a decentralized mode. That’s just what the RSS network needed to do in order to truly operate at Internet scale.
RoboPundit uses Peerkat, described in this article.
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– AlterNet — We’re Losing Our Civil Liberties for Nothing
Last September, Attorney General John Ashcroft demanded that Congress give him unparalleled powers of surveillance and detention.
“Law enforcement tools created decades ago were crafted for rotary telephones, not e-mail, the Internet, mobile communications and voice mail,” he told lawmakers. “I regret to inform you that [...]
– Yahoo! News – Bush Takes Tough Line on Pakistan
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush (news – web sites) took a tough line toward a major ally in the war on terror Thursday, demanding that President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan “live up to his word” and crack down on extremists’ cross-border attacks that could lead to [...]
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