*sigh* As if students didn’t have enough promiscuous sex already.
Students Asked to Test-Run Condoms
“LONDON (Reuters) – British students are being recruited to test condoms, rating them for their pleasure, comfort and performance qualities. “
America has more than its fair share of problems and failings, but we have more freedoms than Europeans, as evidenced by this article.
Report: Sites Missing From Google
By ANICK JESDANUN
"What you get through Google's powerful and popular search engines may depend on where you live."
"A report Thursday from Harvard Law School found at least 100 sites missing from search results when accessing Google sites meant for French and German users."
"Most of the missing sites are ones that deny the Holocaust or promote white supremacy. France and Germany have strict laws banning hate speech, while the United States favors freedom of expression even for unpopular viewpoints."
"The sites themselves were not blocked. But the effect is the same when users cannot find them, said Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch.com."
Millions of people are starving around the globe, but I need my platinum cell phone, so let them eat cake.
Ah…You know how if you want to destroy someone's credibility, you inflate certain things they say and create a strawman? Well, some people kindly do that for you, and advocate such crackbrained things you just have to tell the truth and people who aren't complete knobs will be appropriately disgusted/angered/contemptuous.
Well, ladies and gentleman, Peter Singer of Princeton is one of those people, and this time our lionized Princeton ethicist claims that SUV drivers are morally equivalent to the 9/11 terrorists. This link was courtesy of the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web page, which has had some real gems before.
Blondes Headed for Extinction? UN Agency Demurs
“UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – In the end, it seems it was just another dumb blond joke. The World Health Organization, the Geneva-based health arm of the United Nations, insisted on Tuesday that despite the many media reports to the contrary, it had never conducted a study predicting the extinction of the natural blond hair gene. This despite stories around the world citing WHO research stating that natural blonds would become extinct by 2202.”
If blondes did become extinct, might we see a gradual increase in human intelligence? 😉