shanmonster | Taking Another Dump

I made double chocolate chip cookies last night, with raspberry chocolate chips. They're awfully yummy. So are these links.

Kokigami: "Performance Enhancing Adornments for the Adventurous Man." My favourite part is in the bio section: "Burton Silver is well known for his conservation work with hedgehogs and especially for the very successful "Hedgehog Corking Scheme." In order to prevent these creatures from drowning in private swimming pools, he developed a simple method of providing them with permanent floatation by sticking corks onto their prickles. Anyone who is involved with this painstaking task, as thousands are in New Zealand, will understand how it naturally led to a fascination with the sticking on of a variety of other things" (thanks, cathellisen).

Fatal mystery shakes Vancouver's Goths: Over-the-top article about two dead goths in Vancouver. "Goth followers are better educated and more musically literate than adherents of hip-hop or punk." Way to shore up Hot Topic fans while dissing other music, buddy (thanks, zombienought)!

The Tissue Culture & Art Project: I have a couple of questions. If flesh were grown in a vat and not harvested from a critter, could it be eaten by vegans? Also, if I were to grow human flesh in a vat and then eat it, would that make me a cannibal? Enquiring minds want to know.

Who is the creepiest person you've ever gamed with?: The last one is a real doozie. I'll bet one of the people I once gamed with would fit right in, though. I was playing in a one-off D&D game run by my friend Tony. Unbeknownst to me, one of the players was a psychotic guy. I'll call him George. If I'd known George was playing, I'd never have played. This guy tried to murder my sister in high school, had stalked at least one of my friends in a most creepy way, and had left a collection of loaded weapons in his closet when he moved out (his roommates had no idea he was armed). In the game, my character had a camel named Alice. Well, while George was leering at me and groping my legs in real life, he raped Alice to death in game. Alice the Camel had one too many humps. It was very disturbing.

New Lycra Full Bodysuit: AKA how to make your dog look like Richard Simmons.

Laws Concerning Food and Drink; Household Principles; Lamentations of the Father: "Do not scream; for it is as if you scream all the time. If you are given a plate on which two foods you do not wish to touch each other are touching each other, your voice rises up even to the ceiling, while you point to the offense with the finger of your right hand; but I say to you, scream not, only remonstrate gently with the server, that the server may correct the fault" (thanks, Bill).

At the Medici Court, a gala wrestling match between a dwarf and a monkey; the smart money rides on the dwarf: Oh, those wacky Medicis (thanks, curtana)!

Glad to be asexual: "The limited research on asexual mammals suggests that asexual behaviour is actually not that rare. For example, studies in rats and gerbils done as early as the 1980s have demonstrated that up to 12% of the males in the population are not interested in females." It happens to people, too. I've met at least one asexual guy.

Japanese Art on the Subject of Medicine: Really funky stuff! This picture reminds me of the death of a stereotypical crazy cat lady.

Man oh man, where were these guys when I was still single?