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Woman seems to differ from man in mental disposition, chiefly in her greater tenderness and less selfishness.... Man ... delights in competition, and this leads to ambition which passes too easily into selfishness.
— Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

This article on incharacter.org begs the question, who's right, Darwin or Higgins?

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Bo turned out to be a perfect match to be a donor for Luke. But that didn't surprise him. He knew that he would. The doctor admitted him to the hospital and he was given the extra bed in Luke's room. Luke was awake when Bo came into the room, although he was still drowsy. He looked at Bo curiously as Bo started getting undressed.

“What…are you…doing, Bo?” he asked.


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"The current book is a collection of more than 85 couple-tested recipes, aphrodisiac histories, and images of food set on the backdrop of the human body. The 10th anniversary edition is going to be the same, only more and better.

"We're adding more than 50 new recipes to this edition, and we've just about wrapped up the 'regular' recipe testing. Now it's time for the aphrodisiac testing, and we're looking for couples to help—preferably ones that include some combination of partners who like to write, cook, eat, or have sex."

If interested, email martha@terracepartners.com.


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How's this for the best invention ever? The anti-drunk-dialling cellphone incorporates a breathalyser, and stops you accessing certain
number if your blood-alcohol content is
above a certain level.

Disturbing trend of the day: breast ironing. Teenagers in West Africa are having their breasts "ironed" with a heated stone to prevent rape.

CNN says "Fat People Not More Jolly.

Jarvis Cocker, '90s indie sexgod and frontman of Pulp releases a new solo song on MySpace. The refrain is "Cunts are still ruling the world."

And now in the "just because you're paranoid" category: According to surveillance reports, the Department of Defense "monitored e-mail messages from college students who were planning protests against the war in Iraq and against the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy."

In other college news: Radford University will require its music majors to carry iPods.

The Guerrilla Girls are still on the move, newly concerned with the lack of female directors in Hollywood.

The Catholic Church is thinking of excommunicating stem cell researchers. And stem cell researchers who have abortions? Burned at the stake.

That arbiter of cool the Christian Science Monitor says air guitar is the new karaoke.

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2) A freelance reporter for a major women's magazine in New York is looking for ten women between
the ages of 20-40 to talk with her anonymously about sexual
experiments they've introduced into their sex lives. Email s_fairyington@yahoo.com.

3) An editor at another big women's magazine is looking to chart the single life of 6 women for 6 months (2 in their 20s, 2 in their 30s, 2 in their 40s). She's looking for possible subjects who would be willing to keep these diaries (essentially, checking in with me at the end of each week with their activities/lack of activities). Contact khintz@hearst.com.

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"In fact, the entire development of my career has been fueled by my ability to ignore denigrating and trivializing criticism as I realize my dreams and my goals. However there is something compelling about Amazon's willingness to publish just about anything, and the sheer outrageous stupidity of many things you've said here that actually touches my proletarian and Democratic soul."

"I fought a great battle to achieve a status where I did not have to put up with editors making demands on me, and I will never relinquish that status. For me, novel writing is a virtuoso performance. It is not a collaborative art."

"Now, to return to the narrative in question: Lestat's wanting to be a saint is a vision larded through and through with his characteristic vanity. It connects perfectly with his earlier ambitions to be an actor in Paris, a rock star in the modern age. If you can't see that, you aren't reading my work."

And the best of all:

"You are interrogating this text from the wrong perspective."


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It's the fifteenth anniversary of Richard Linklater's Slacker. Salon has a long commemorative article in which various characters from the movie, including the Madonna pap-smear girl reminisce on their lost youth.

Wondering why Nicole Kidman got to marry in the Catholic Church in spite of the fact that she's a divorcée? The Catholic Church said her marriage to Tom Cruise didn't count. Burn.

Sharon Waxman over at the New York Times condemns the proliferation of flip-flops. As the temperature rises and people start hitting the streets in their underwear, Scanner must agree with her on this score: flip-flops should never be worn with a suit. Ever.

Women and men have equal skills online, but women judge their performance much more harshly. Ladies, you should be a little more confident in your Googling.

Congress is thinking about forcing social networking sites to retain users' activity logs. Keep that in mind the next time you check your ex-girlfriend's MySpace profile twenty times a day.

The hot new college major: cell phone design.

One more from Salon: some tough investigative journalism in the land of innocuous mainstream sex props. Apparently with the help of the Liberator cushions you can achieve positions such as "Mama likes to mambo" and "Mister plow."

Not to be outdone, and perhaps as a response to the recent accusations of being too boring and brainy, Slate tackles the how-tos of the penis pump.




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According to this survey, 17% of columnists likened writing a column to sex. And these are mostly suburban men writing, like, police blotters. Just imagine how we must feel.

A new device can record smells to play back later. They're thinking of using it to diagnose disease and sell produce online. And yet, you know the porn industry will be an early adopter.

The "special relationship" the U.S. has with Britain no longer exists according to the International Herald Tribune. Maybe we're just on a "break"?

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