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The Well Project
The first of its kind: The Well Project is an online “community for women with HIV and the people who care for them.” It offers “the latest information on living with and managing HIV disease for HIV positive women, healthcare providers, and advocates.”

found on ERICHIAN

Moofeus: “Have you heard of THE MEATRIX? Do you want to know what it is?
The MEATRIX is all around you.”

Brilliant!!!

We never seem to learn, do we?

“Speaking of learning, tomorrow is Remembrance Day here. A day where we remember those who died for our freedom. While I am saddened that people did lose their lives during the wars, weren’t these days also to remind us why war is bad? So that it would never happen again? It appears not because war continues to this day.

So, tomorrow, I will remember the veterans but I will also mourn that we have learned nothing from it.

What about freedom? Do we really have it? That is truly debatable.”
~ lola

News of the Weird
In Easton, Pa., in July, Robert Peters Sr., 47, became the latest man to be acquitted of indecent exposure by convincing a jury that his penis is too small to have been seen by the complaining witness. A woman testified that she had seen “3 inches” of erect penis beyond the bottom of his shorts while he was working in her home, but via photographs and a brief trouser-dropping in the courtroom, Peters convinced the jury that he is very modestly endowed and that she must have seen something else.

Reviving an extinct tiger
More than 60 years after its extinction, the museum launched a project to clone the Tasmanian tiger, more correctly known as the thylacine, a lost icon of Australia’s island state. This pup’s DNA was the starting point, due to its remarkable state of preservation.

From its vault in Sydney’s Australian Museum, a pickled Tasmanian tiger pup has brought the prospect of reviving an extinct species to the verge of reality, bringing mixed reactions of wonder and terror.
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Baghdad George
“He keeps repeating that canard that ‘terrorists hate freedom.’ Nonsense. There is no terrorist in the world who is a terrorist because he hates freedom. By far, the majority of terrorists are fighting for freedom of some group that doesn’t have it. In the case of Iraq, it is freedom from American occupation; with the Irish Republican Army, it was freedom from British rule; with the Palestinians, freedom from Israeli occupation; and so forth. It is absurd to suppose that a human being sitting around suddenly stands up and says: ‘You know, I hate freedom. I think I’ll go blow myself up.’”

found by bsti on Chapel Furnace – Political Wing Of Chapel Perilous

Naked Protesters & Nude Activists:
Public Nudity in the Public Interest
(via geisha asobi)

FORTEAN GALLERY: PARANORMAL
Is this the only known photograph of a zombie?

The Motivated Marketing Letter – Howie Jacobson

Learning Dog-lish
‘For the last 10 months, my dog, Layla, has thought that I’m a clueless, blubbering moron. I say “stay” when I mean “come,” I say “jump” when I mean “lay down,” and I say “nibble playfully at my hand” when I mean “walk next to my knee in a dignified manner.”

But I just finished reading a remarkable book about dog training that has turned my communication style completely around. Now Layla understands most of what I say the first time, and has begun treating me with a good deal more respect. So now when I want Layla to sit, or stay, or come, I use my body like a dog would. I lean, I use eye contact, I use noises and cadences. And here’s the absolutely mind-blowing thing: she obeys, without any training. She understands me, because I’m finally speaking her language.’

Are you marketing in You-lish or They-lish?
‘When I start marketing a product, I naturally start by talking to myself. I write sales copy that appeals to my values. I argue the price/value question in ways that I find convincing. I use layouts and pictures that affect me.

Bad Howie.

Unless my market is very much like me (which rarely happens, believe me), I’m going to fail. I’m speaking Gorilla-ish to Dogs. To me, I’m saying “Buy my stuff,” but they hear, “Run away! I’m a Dork.” I’m not going to succeed in teaching my prospects Howie-lish. If I want to communicate with them, I have to learn their language.’

This is SO COOL! Firda is so clever.

Firdamatic™ is an online tableless layout generator that allows you to create and customise layouts easily only by completing forms, making creating skins for your Firdamatic-based layout a breeze.

Produces valid XHTML and CSS. So simple! I cant wait for the new book of styles. Firdamatic is only a taste of what’s to come!