**New article: CNET.

**Lots of Copy Pasta from LJ PR.

Some good points are brought up in this opinion piece on prosecuting Jeffs for coercing teenage girls into having sex with him and other middle-aged men, namely that age-of-consent and age-of-adulthood is still nebulous in our society. I remember seeing that the age of consent is two years younger for girls than for boys in some states, which ( Read more... )

US Court of Appeals (9th Circuit) has ruled that online contracts cannot be changed without notifying customers first.

I do believe that means SixApart needs to do some stretching and get lubed up, because it could be a rocky ride.

(from innocence_jihad)

Baaaybee Octopus!!!

Churches Ad Hoc: a Divine Comedy. It's a series of photos in interesting contexts, complete with witty captions.

My favorite is "the Pope's answer to Luther". (mid-way down page)

Onion Article: Earthquake sets Japan back to 2147.

Crap. It appears that LJ is doing another rampage.

And perhaps because they now pucker at the word "Strikethrough", they are no longer doing that to the suspended accounts - they are simply marked in bold and unlinked. Creepy.

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Three. Background on legal stuff in America that may be inspiring this.

Four. "Rolling ( Read more... )

Light news day today, except for the collapsed bridge in Minnesota.

Seattle School Board enacts new restrictions on military recruiting in schools. Good job, SSB. I hope other districts in the state will take similar steps - while they won't stop all the corrupt recruiting practices I have heard of, it will let recruiters know that school ( Read more... )

** HPV found under fingernails - suggests non-sexual modes of transmission. This is HUGE and ought to turn the whole HPV vaccination debate on its head. No longer is HPV a "virtue virus", one that you are punished with for immoral behavior, but one that even the most virginal girl can get from shaking hands with her priest, her friend, or even ( Read more... )

It is a bad day to be a NeoCon:

* "Hulk pleads 5th" - AK Sen. Ted Stevens' home investigated by FBI as part of corruption scandal.

* Maybe Miers was less of a lemon: Chief (in)Justice John Roberts suffers seizure, collapses. Rumor is he may have epilepsy. I thought the point of placing such a young tyrant on the court was to ensure he'll be ( Read more... )

Learn about the 12 different formats of TV ads. This was quite educational, and includes video clips demonstrating the techniques.

This is highly cool: How walkable is your house? This site uses GoogleMaps and listings to generate a score reflecting how walkable your home location is - how easily can you take care of most of your needs just by ( Read more... )

* You can't get a lighter sentence for raping a woman who may have been a prostitute - Boo F*cking Hoo. Kudos to the Court of Appeals for overruling that disgusting decision.

* Also, you are not allowed to harass a customer or prevent them from obtaining legal prescriptions because in your addled moral system they are undeserving of service. ( Read more... )