It’s a headline just begging for a cheap joke (and who am I to refuse?): Op can boost size of micro-penis. I’ll leave most of the examination of societal attitudes alone, but I at least have to mention the equating of "proper" urination with "standing up." It also seems like there would be implications for FTM folk, but the BBC doesn’t mention any.

The BBC’s discussion of Brian Wilson makes that Barenaked Ladies song make more sense.

Telehaptics "combines virtual touch technology with networking to allow people to feel things locally that could be happening miles away." Teledildonics (probably worksafe) is more specific (probably not worksafe).

Some time ago, I deactivated fpcraig at this domain, after entering it into a "remove me" page. The spam bots are still hitting it—my mail host bounced ten messages in the last month—but even more troubling than that is that my gmail account with that alias is getting spammed. I can only infer that eventually every alias that has ever been identified at any domain will be tried at gmail.
As an experiment, I think I’ll set up an fpcraig alias in another domain I have access to, and which I know gets dictionary-spammed, to see if fpcraig is now just part of the spammers’ alias dictionary.
Update: five years on, I believe the gmail spam was due to some invitations I sent: I have not seen spam to fpcraig at any other domains I have access to.

If you live in a western state, you may, as of today, go to www.annualcreditreport.com to try to examine your credit report at any of the three major credit reporting agencies. So far, Experian’s server failed (the NSAPI plugin says "No backend server available for connection"), and both Transunion and Equifax have been "unable" to show me my report on the web. Less than wholly satisfying. I’d be interested in hearing other folks’ experiences.

If this blog had categories, this would be in the "shut up and think what I tell you" category.

But some things are universal, or maybe it’s just that our brains are pattern-seeky.
Y’know, when you’re in love, you think every boil-on-the-ass story is about you.

Another piece of spam caught my eye today, and a brief examination of its target link confirms that eMarketResearchGroup (or maybe eMarket Research Group) is indistinguishable from the Consumer Research Corporation. It’s unlikely you’ll get your free tv, and it most assuredly won’t be free by the time you get it.

Andy Richter rocks.

Hard on the heels of the Meryl Streep anniversary, another tragedy may have been averted by a brave, alert sibling. And really, how surprising is it that the sister didn’t just hand the infant to the dog and say “good riddance”? Oh, she might have regretted it later, but now she’ll be kicking herself for years at having missed the opportunity.