or at least people who use a bris-o-matic. I mean, why would you get an automated circumcision tool? My God. From the wonderful world of cory doctorow over at boing-boing, of course. I finally got my hands on one of his novels and I’m excited.

Aww, isn’t this shy girl so cute? Er, not.

…to waste some time.

John Wendel sent me a link for a fascinating article by one Dave Cullen titled: The Depressive and the Psychopath – At last we know why the Columbine killers did it. . Seems as if everyone, from the popular media to the schoolmates, got it wrong. This wasn’t really a case of neglected kids, or amplified revenge. One kid was just depressed… the other, well, nobody could have done anything about him. So say the FBI psychiatrists. Go read it for the whole story.

It seems, according to the Discovery Channel website, as if women baring their breasts in public was neither objectionable nor unfashionable during several periods of British history, including the 1600s. Funny how conservatively we portray history, compared to how it really was. And they would be amused, wouldn’t they, at the shock and scandal over such a little, insignificant thing as Janet Jackson’s breast on TV? Take that, smug sense of modernity. (Image credit: The image is taken from Discovery Channel’s website and the link and intended as no infringement of copyright. To see a closeup of the pic, click …

Over at Metroactive, there’s an interesting article on Undercover Marketing. I don’t know what I think about teenagers being hired to do this kind of work, to be honest. I have some qualms about whether they really understand what they’re involving themselves in. Then again, I don’t suppose most adults who do so really understand it either. In any case, it reminds me of the segment in the documentary The Corporation about undercover marketing, and I found it pretty interesting. Of course, the net may seem unruly now, but once we have a working reputation system in place (something like …

I just got this from my friend Patrick, in Montreal. Don’t click “continue reading this” if you’ve heard it already. WIFE: What would you do if I died? Would you get married again? HUSBAND: Definitely not! WIFE: Why not – don’t you like being married? HUSBAND: Of course I do. WIFE: Then why wouldn’t you remarry? HUSBAND: Okay, I’d get married again. WIFE: You would? (With a hurtful look on her face.) HUSBAND: (Makes audible groan.)

Over at Slate, Jon Katz has an article up about the romanticization of dogs, and about what you should think about before buying one. The article is called Finding the Perfect Dog – There is no such animal. So, stop looking, and it comes complete with a series of questions for reflection that you ought to think over before you go out and get a dog. The peddling of Perfect Dogs amounts to a multibillion dollar business in the United States. You’ll never see images of ugly dogs vomiting in the living room or terrorizing the letter carrier on dog food …

Remember this? Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelms. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. There’s a great info page on how this little thing spread not only from language to language but also on the science involved. I found the link over at the …