no sexual harassment = no children

Only three women have ever successfully brought a sexual harassment case before a court in Russia. A Russian judge dismissed the recent third woman's case stating, "If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children." The poll results at the bottom of the article are also pretty shocking. I wonder what a similar survey would report in the US.

Most effed up Claymation Ever

NOT FOR THE FEINT OF HEART



Somehow, I wasn't surprised that it was Japanese.

Paris Hilton Doesn't Take It Lying Down (for once)

So McCain came out with the attack ad calling Obama too much of a rockstar, which I felt was totally fair: who wants a President that inspires people and people think is cool? I would much rather look at John McCain's deformed face. God I am sick of seeing it, it is starting to seriously creep me out.

Anyway, so Paris came out with her own ad as she now believes that she is part of the presidential race, which I think would actually be an interesting development. I would seriously consider voting for her just to show how little I want to vote for McCain.

Switzerland

I won’t detail the things I had to do in order to get a decent DSL connection to my place; suffice to say that whatever it was, it was worth it, because cable companies are notorious for capping bandwidth that you pay for. This awesome little app lets you know whether your ISP is being an asshole about bandwidth usage, blocking p2p, and otherwise slipping in other ways to screw the clueless customer. Of course, if you use Comcast or Optimum, you already know the answer to that question, and probably walk funny as a result.

Afro Ninja: The Movie

Remember this guy? Turns out he’s not only an award winning professional stuntman who just happened to be having a bad day (in fact, he took a break, then nailed that backflip and the audition as well), but is now starring in his own movie based on the clip, wielding those same nunchaku that he so valiantly whipped around in the original video.

Kevlar Bras

PICS OR GTFO. The long awaited update of the chain-mail bikini has made its debut in Deutschland. Not exactly meant to be worn as armor on their own, these things are designed to prevent impact from outer body armor turning the metal clasps and wires on traditional holdings into shrapnel. The best part would have to be the fact that they have even gone as far as to print Polizei on the things.

Korean scientists clone pets (read: renewable food supply)

A Korean company called RNL Bio has successfully cloned Booger, the pet dog, for an American woman, Bernann McKinney, pictured here. This marks the first instance of a commercially cloned pet. In 2005 the team first cloned a canine and has since cloned roughly 20 animals each verified as genuinly cloned. The lead guy at RNL Bio is a former colleague of Hwang Woo-suk, the Korean scientist who falsely reported cloned human stem cells in 2005 which seems a bit sketchy, but apparently the dog stuff is legit. RNL Bio is going to charge up to $150,000 to clone each dog and expects to do roughly 300 a year.

McCain hates Tallahassee

Add this to the list of reasons Sen. John McCain would make a terrible president: He is not a fan of Florida's capital. Sure, he'll go to Panama City and Tampa and Miami to campaign. Nobody really minds when he skips Tallahassee; he's not likely to pick up many new votes in liberal Leon County anyway.

But where's the outrage when, at a campaign stop in Panama City, he kicks out the Tallahassee Democrat reporter, who just wanted to do a story? (OK, so there's been some outrage, but here's more.) The Democrat also tossed it in their piece that Stephen Price, the writer in question, was the only black reporter there, but I think it's more an anti-Tallahassee bias than a racial bias that motivated this heinous act.

The campaign has apologized for the incident, and the Democrat's top editor, Bob Gabordi, seems prepared to put the matter behind him. But in my mind, this is a great chance for the newspaper—and indeed, the whole Big Bend area—to call out McCain for his unjust treatment of their beloved region and let him know that he's not welcome in Florida if he insults the capital in this way.