March 2007 Archives
In a press release today, the World Health Organization has stated that there is strong evidence from three randomized controlled trials undertaken in Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa that male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men by approximately 60%.
This is suprising news, but my biggest question is how the trials were conducted. Did they take a bunch of guys, give half of them circumcisions, and then had them all have heterosexual intercourse with an HIV infected woman? How long did they wait to test them?
And if they didn't do that, if the process was somehow more ethical, how can they be sure they have accurate data about the impact of circumcision on the probability of AIDS infection?
Check out the press release here.
This woman is rad. I heart her. Go to her website and click on "origamic architecture" on the left.
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So if you're not sure if you can hack it, bail out now before you start rolling your eyes and calling me to let me know how it ruined your day that my first post in ages was such a ball scratching timewaster.
In the interest of mass appeal, I give you dry ice bombs. This is a DIY kit for harmless destruction of plastic bullshit and your precious eardrums : water, dry ice, a soda bottle.
On to the main event...
There are still nerdy Foxtrot strips on my Mom's fridge from my youth.
Notice the hose-and-sink contraption 3rd window from the left.
Goodbye kitten-face!
The amazingly big-hearted Liz Clayman has taken the beautiful little piece under her wing to a beautiful new life in her home! Let us all rejoice that her kind heart had room for a kittie. Thanks to everyone who asked anyone about a home, except that cat killing curmudgeon Stephen (the East River...).
[adult swim] made a video for El-P's Flyentology song, which features Trent Reznor, the guy who likes to mow his lawn in N'orleans. new el-p LP has tvotr and someover odd guest stars as well. i think it samples harry nilsson's the point as well which is a bit odd.
They also have a bunch of tracks to download from other def jux guys. I'm not big into rap.hop.hip but I dig this. New Can ox this year please? Oh, the above stuff is all here.
reznor pre nose job.
I usually have a great dislike for all that is Frat Boyesque, but I have to say these guys are kind of awesome. First thing, look at their Coat of Arms/Logo
They basically seem to be a bunch of pot smoking, beer drinking dudes...who are going to the most remote location in Antarctica. From their mission statement
"The expedition will spend the next 50 days dragging 19stone(120kg) pulks over 1100 miles(1800km) across the Antarctic wasteland in temperatures as low as -50°C (it never gets warmer than -30°C at their destination and thats during high summer!!)."
Even more amazing, it appears they did it, and did not freeze to death while trying to put their friends hand in a bowl of warm water. It is definitely worth a visit.The home page includes a lovely photo montage of them smoking pot, looking at porn and throwing up gang signs, all in the middle of Antarctica.
i interviewed this guy at comic con. Later on I found out he is the editor of Cthulhu Sex magazine. Ever wonder about the road not taken?
A man who, as far as I can tell is the Brittish equivalent of a Larper raided a lingerie store in Northern Ireland, claiming that at the time of the robbery, he may have confused reality with the game, in which he was an elf named
Beho.
Want to find out which show you will be lamenting the cancellation of? Watch The Knights of Prosperity on ABC. Its all online, and tons of laughs. But I get the feeling that it isn't going to last. So watch it, or else it will be replaced with another police procedural. CSI:Extreme Home Edition.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. could be blunt. The worst he would say about George W. Bush in the early going was that he was “an amiable mediocrity.â€
--Robert B. Semple Jr., todays NYTimes.
