Month: July 2009

  • Sex Sells

    When people say “sex sells” what they mean is “exploiting women’s bodies sells.” via Commenter on Jezebel.

  • 20 Technothriller Tropes

    6. Your entire story should not revolve around a missing tape/USB drive/piece of footage/surveillance photograph. That is not a plot. It is a MacGuffin. via 20 Technothriller Tropes We Hope Never to See Again

  • Looming Liabilities (Chart)

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  • Barf

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  • Corrective Rape

    Thirty-one lesbian women have been reported raped and murdered in homophobic attacks in South Africa since 1998. But according to Triangle – a gay rights organisation – only two cases of “corrective rape” have ever made it to the courts; there has been only one conviction. “This is a sad fact in this country generally, […]

  • A Bird Grieves

    Recent image by jaythikay99 on Photobucket.

  • Bolivia Bans All Circus Animals

    Bolivia has enacted what animal rights activists are calling the world’s first ban on all animals in circuses. A handful of other countries have banned the use of wild animals in circuses, but the Bolivian ban includes domestic animals as well. The law, which states that the use of animals in circuses “constitutes an act […]

  • Take Back the Beep

    These messages are outrageous for two reasons. First, they waste your time. Good heavens: it’s 2009. WE KNOW WHAT TO DO AT THE BEEP.Do we really need to be told to hang up when we’re finished!? Would anyone, ever, want to “send a numeric page?” Who still carries a pager, for heaven’s sake? Or what […]

  • Entire Bacterial Genome Discovered Inside Fruit Fly

    Now, Julie Dunning-Hotopp from the J. Craig Venter Institute and Michael Clark from the University of Rochester have found an even more drastic strategy used by Wolbachia to preserve its own immortality – inserting its entire genome wholesale into that of another living thing. via  Not Exactly Rocket Science.

  • Slowing Light Down to 38 MPH

    But in 1998, Hau, for the first time in history, slowed light to 38 miles an hour, about the speed of rush-hour traffic. Two years later, she brought light to a complete halt in a cloud of ultracold atoms. Next, she restarted the stalled light without changing any of its characteristics, and sent it on […]