Another good link from the Hunjang, this time on livelihoods in North Korea. Basically, sanctions won’t hurt many of the average people, but they will hurt the hell out of the ruling class.
Month: November 2006
Oxygen Feed in Hotel?
One of the feeds I’ve re-subbed to is the Asian Sex Gazette, a newsfeed on sexual culture issues in Asia. Anyway, this rather fluffy article attracted my attention not for the promise of “surefire ways to lure the ladies” but the description of a pipe into the room, pumping pure oxygen for you to inhale and apply to your skin. You know, I really hope that some idiot doesn’t light up a cigarette in bed while his girlfriend has the oxygen pipe open, because, well, that could be really bad. Sounds like the opening scene in a cyberpunk novel or …
The Sonic Hedgehog Gene. No Kidding.
There is a gene called the Sonic Hedgehog Gene. I’m not kidding. It’s kind of sad. For more information, go see the post at Mssv.
Babies? Well…
Another good installment of the wonderful column domestic disturbance series, by Melissa Lipscomb, is up. About how she doesn’t really miss having a baby.
The Wrong Guy
I’m probably the wrong guy to be teaching about punk rock & the Sex Pistols. The most wrong guy that could ever be found, perhaps. But I’m doing it anyway, and boy am I grateful that I ordered that Greil Marcus book Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century. And that I didn’t get rid of it the first time I tried (unsuccessfully) to read it. I may actually meander my way through the whole thing sometime soon. It’s interesting, if a bit circumstantial at points. UPDATE: As if on cue, I came across something at Antti’s site, …