for you, Jean.

someone has invented a working tractor beam.
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an idea for a reality show i'd watch.

A high school substitute teacher was fired after taking off her shirt in class and teaching in her sports bra.

she should have known: if the shirt goes, the bra goes.

''It didn't seem like a big deal, but maybe something's totally wrong with me,'' Gibson said.

it's much more difficult to find photos of a bilby than you'd think.

here's the Australian Bilby Appreciation Society with a photo. even better, they have a cute little plush Easter Bilby.

jokes like this crack me up beyond belief.

i'm a simpleton, i know.

Dark Horizons has a report on a visit to the set of the live action Scooby Doo. no new photos, but there is a brief paragraph recapping a talk with Sarah Michelle Gellar that suggests that Buffne (hey, it's better that Daphy) might do a little butt kicking.

[Michael Elashoff] was assigned to review Relenza, the new flu drug developed by Glaxo Wellcome. He recommended against approval.

"The drug has no proven efficacy for the treatment of influenza in the U.S. population, no proven effect on reducing person-to-person transmissibility, and no proven impact on preventing influenza," Elashoff wrote, adding that many patients would be exposed to risks "while deriving no benefit."

An agency advisory committee agreed and on Feb. 24 voted 13 to 4 against approving Relenza.

After the vote, senior FDA officials upbraided Elashoff. They stripped him of his review of another flu drug. They told him he would no longer make presentations to the advisory committee. And they approved Relenza as a safe and effective flu drug.

the LA Times report on the FDA's changed role in protecting public health by working as a partnership with pharmaceutical companies. the author won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for this article (yes, yes, i'm just now getting around to reading it).

this is interesting: U.S. loses seat on U.N. Human Rights Commission.

i hate work. please, someone volunteer to be my sugardaddy.

have some interesting search referrals:

• Striped s_xy g_rls. i hadn't thought of stripes as being s_xy. i took a look to see what kind of sites come up before i decided that they must have been looking for stripped s_xy g_rls.
  
• Celine Dion Naked photo. why?
  
• ingredients for a meth lab.
  
• Jack Klugman fan club.
  
• vanessa williams tooth
  
• one that i won't name here (though i'll still provide the link!) because i don't want too many people coming here in search of anything related to !ñç꧆.
  
• and of course, i'm still getting lots of hits for S_xy S__di G_rls and S_xy S__di W_m_n. it's 17% of my site traffic. i need to figure out a way to make money off this.

speaking of searches, to the right, i have added a search thingie. it's main purpose is for me, since it only searches my blog, and allows me to indulge in my self-linking fascination (see ninja entry, below), and because i often forget that i've blogged something and end up blogging it again a couple of days months later. i'm absent minded like that.

oh boy! something ninja-ey to keep me occupied.

i never realized how often i seem to mention ninjas and their skills..

Fox will broadcast the unaired last four episodes of Freakylinks in June.

for anyone who missed them (if you're not watching Buffy, you should be), here are some recap/reviews of Buffy and Angel.

you say you want to see a UK mini-series spin-off of Buffy that features Giles back home? maybe you will.

this book was released two days ago and already the publisher has it listed as out-of-stock. i am displeased. i don't have a copy yet. i must have one. i think i know where to get one tonight.

however, i don't know if i should get one. funds are limited right now, so limited that it could be the difference between having food and not. the little Voice of Responsibility (hidden WAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY back in the back of me brain) says in a stern voice "Do NOT buy the book." there's the Voice of Gotta-Have-New-Toys (which is right up in the front part of the brain) says "It's just one book, and twenty bucks really isn't that much, and it certainly can't buy much food anyway." then there's the Voice of Changeling-Product-Consumer-Panic that screams "BUT IT'S A LIMITED PRINT RUN AND AFTER THIS THEY WON'T PRINT ANYMORE AND THE ONLY WAY TO GET IT WILL BE ON EBAY FOR ABOUT A HUNDRED BUCKS, SO YOU'RE ACTUALLY SAVING EIGHTY DOLLARS THAT YOU CAN SPEND ON FOOD AND THAT'S A RESPONSIBLE THING TO DO SO GO BUY THE BOOK." i have to listen to and satisfy all three voices if i want to feel good about my decision, so i throw them all in a big kettle, turn up the heat and simmer for a while to get my answer, which is.... child trafficking, narcotics smuggling and prostituition are excellent ways to get cash for food AND books.

anyone wanna put me in touch with some infertile European couples, drug cartels/DEA/CIA (same thing) or pimps?

an archive on the American Eugenics Movement.
[Khan Noonien Singh created by Memepool]

eeg? Sandra Bullock as Wonder Woman? rumors of George Clooney as the lead in Batman: Year One disputed (thankfully. he's a little too old) and get ready for the funniest thing this side of Genosha: the Fantastic Four!

Bush said today's threats come from "a small number of missiles" in the hands of rogue states "for whom terror and blackmail are a way of life."

yup, rogue states like Nebraska and Delaware, surpassed only by Canada in criminaliness (heh, i like that word).

Bush wants to scrap a thirty year old ABM treaty with Russia.

Black Penn State students demand protection.

condom manufacturers pleased.

something to be proud of: we've just finished the fourth month of the year, and Oklahoma had it's 11th execution last night.

"I expected an apology" from Marilyn Plantz before she died, Cotton [sister of the victim and sister-in-law to the condemned] said. "We did not get it."

had Cotton been apologized to, would she have asked that Plantz be spared?