] I hate to admit it but, as many times as I have dry
] humped, I still don't know when it is coming. The
] situation is always the same: the lights are out, we're
] kissing, I am on top, starting to get into it and then -
] WHAM. Her legs turn into clamps and we're dry humping.
] There are honestly times when I've thought to myself: "It
] is going to take the Jaws of Life to get out of this."
] And then, before I know it, it's over. Most times, it
] isn't just the dry humping that ends; it is the hookup
] altogether. So I am left lying in bed exhausted,
] frustrated and sore - the latter two I wish to talk about
] in more detail.

For all the single guys.

The Michigan Daily - Clamping down on dry humping and blue balls

Great political cartoon about the anti-war movement of today.

A Reluctant Warrior (Reason Magazine)

] The Bush administration signed off Friday on the final
] version of the United States' strategy for protecting the
] Internet and securing information systems.

Well, actually, he signed off on it a couple weeks ago, but he released it today. I haven't read it yet. Apparently all the crazy surveillance stuff that people were going nutzo about last year has been removed. However, this is supposedly a very different document from the September version in other ways. I'll try to find time to take a look at it soon.

News: Bush unveils final cybersecurity plan

] BOHN, GERMANY- Face it. Valentine's Day is a sham. If
] you've been married more than a year, the traditional
] idea of romance lost its meaning long ago. So,
] Valentine's Day of Emotional Obligation looms, and years
] of stifled arguments and shattered ambitions have left
] you without the ability to express your emotions, real or
] not. Not to worry.
] As with most things subtle and delicate, we boorish
] Americans needed the assistance the Europeans.
] Ridiculopathy-Dot-Com has partnered with Grußkarte, Inc.,
] a greeting card design and production firm based in Bohn,
] Germany. Together, we have worked for months to create
] the right emotional serrogates to tell that dark lump on
] the couch next to you of your overwhelming angst,
] dispare, and desperation.

Ridiculopathy.com: Achtung, Valentine!

] Two weeks ago it was revealed that Microsoft's MSN portal
] targeted Opera users, by purposely provided them with a
] broken page. As a reply to MSN's treatment of its users,
] Opera Software today released a very special Bork edition
] of its Opera 7 for Windows browser. The Bork edition
] behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. Users accessing
] the MSN site will see the page transformed into the
] language of the famous Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show:
] Bork, Bork, Bork!

You have to love this!

Opera Press Release: Opera releases

What happens when you play Counterstrike too much? You end up with a potty mouth. And some enemies:
So, the story goes that co-worker A got sick of co-worker B's constant profanity whilst playing Counter Strike. Co-worker A then hid a microphone next to co-worker B's desk, and captured this stream of rantings. Then, as co-worker A was a member of an electronic music-making concern, he endeavored to edit it all together. The end result was this: The Terrible Mr. G.

The Terrible Mr. G

and the beat goes on.

Survey: Web use trends ever upward

Rice Rice Baby

War of the Wheels

] Japan has given a warning it would launch a pre-emptive
] military action against North Korea if it had firm
] evidence Pyongyang was planning a missile attack.
] Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba said it would be "a
] self-defence measure" if North Korea was going to "resort
] to arms against Japan".
] Mr Ishiba said it would be too late if a North Korean
] missile was already on its way.
] His remarks were the latest in the international row over
] Pyongyang's nuclear intentions, and followed a North
] Korean warning that it had the ability to strike American
] targets anywhere in the world, if provoked.

Kudo's to Japan!

Japan threatens force against N Korea

] Art vs. engineering. Aesthetics vs. usability. Usability
] experts are from Mars, graphic designers are from Venus .
] The debate between design (of the visual sort) and design
] (of the technical sort) remains ongoing. A website,
] however, can't take sides: it needs both to be
] successful.

This is for my own reference but feel free to check it out.

Boxes and Arrows: Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization