Nature 412 had an amazing article on very novel development, "Parasitic Computing". Simply put, some guys at Noterdame found a way to utilize/exploit the TCP error-checking algorithm to make users that you are communication with do useful computaitonal work for you. This is technique can be done effectively, we're talking about some very impressive computational resources at one's disposal.

New Technique: Parasitic Computing

The South African version of the popular children's show "Sesame Street" has introduced Kami, an upbeat and brightly colored yellow puppet who enjoys education, learning, and carrying the AIDS virus. The character was created in response to the South Africian governments attempts to remove some the social stigma associated with carrying the AIDS virus.

Kami, the HIV-Carrying Member of Sesame Street!

Your daily dose of evil for those of you that enjoy the more extreme sides of medical-related things -- with photos. I recommend especially the "Nevus pigmentosus (Mole)".

Rotten-esque medical photos

Words just can't express the love of a rabbit for a stuffed bunny.

bunnylove

Your daily dose of evil for those of you that enjoy the more extreme sides of medical-related things -- with photos. I recommend especially the "Nevus pigmentosus (Mole)".

Rotten-esque medical photos

A very short (4 question) temperment [FYI: personality=current patterns of behavior, is subject to learning. temperment=innate trends in patterns of behavior set at birth, generally people are more comfortable when they act in accordance with their temperment] test based on Myers-Briggs/Keirsey temperment tests.

Definitely nothing new here, but it's only 4 questions, uses the same basis as the rest of them, and provides nifty links for more information at the end.

Shortest/Best Personality Test

Pictures of Magnetic Liquids being pulled around by electro-magnetics. Pretty interesting images of the topography of magnetism. Site is slow, good things come to those who wait.

Magnetic Fields

Dementia wrote:
] ] Clothing shops and factories have been given a written
] ] order to stop producing clothes that stray from the
] ] strict female dress codes, the head of a clothing trade
] ] union in Tehran told a local newspaper.
] ]
] ] Long, shapeless black coats and head coverings have been
] ] mandatory women's wear - regardless of religion - since
] ] the country's Islamic revolution 24 years ago.
] ]
] ] However, in recent times some Iranian women have been
] ] sporting shorter, paler coats that end at the knee and
] ] hug the body.
] ]
] ] Some don colourful headscarves that allow their hair to
] ] spill out from underneath.
] ]
] ] But now dress shops have been told they have a month to
] ] clear their shelves of items that do not conform to the
] ] code.
] ]
] ] Some traders in various shopping districts in Tehran told
] ] news agency AFP they had already been raided by police.
]
--
] I know - I just don't understand the culture. Still, I
] consider this moronic. So your women _want_ to look beautiful,
] and you won't let them? Idiots caging birds and not only never
] letting them fly, but covering them so no one can appreciate
] their beauty.

I'll take a shot at an attempt to understand it. From what I understand (mostly from 3rd party academic analysises of the religious texts), that women would want to be beautiful and the men denying them this fits well with the Koran. I recall specifically from the Koran that, "There were 10 parts of [sexual] desire, of which 9 were given to women." Some detail is gone into that most women are primarily sexual tempetresses to ensnare and distract men from other better (more holy?) persuits.

I guess if you accepted this it would seem rather reasonable to want to restrict womens' clothing in the manner described.

-Virgil

RE: BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iran tells women to button up

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