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Friday, December 7th, 2007

One of the worst things to have come out after your death: (thanks Bill at DQ)

Bill Ash, a former assistant to Mr. Tobias, said he had told the police that Mrs. Tobias confessed to him that she had cajoled her husband into the water while he was on a cocaine binge with a promise of sex with a male go-go dancer known as Tiger.
Pharyngula objects to the wild claims that new movie The Golden Compass is a plot to convert children to atheism. I post it here because I concur with the objection
Nearly 7 years ago, The Onion had a Presidential satire piece that seems almost prescient now
The ultimate home-decoration idea - a personal ball-pit in the corner of the room
Philadelphia kicks the Boy Scouts off city property for being a disciminatory organization

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Yes, there are people out there who object to the ever-growing problem of whoring-up little girls

We have the fashion industry selling the look of prostitutes and re-enforcing the idea that women are for sale. As a culture, we don’t recognize the extraordinary harm in this.
Some information on people who have lost weight and succeeded in keeping it off over the long term
PC World points out the most-anti tech companies in America

5. Large Wireless Carriers and the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA); TV Broadcasters and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
Microsoft seems excited to find Vista is pirated only around half as much as XP. Of course, they don’t mention that could be a result of Vista being only around half as good as XP for the typical user
A huge (and somewhat unwieldy) collection of retro remakes and retro-style new games
Can a game really teach you to be ambidextrous? Folks at Majesco seem to think so, and they offer Left Brain Right Brain as their game to do just that on your Nintendo DS