never call her name

I feel lucky that I came upon this: "Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected." It seems to confirm what I've held for years, and was nicely quoted in the comments: "Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Pasteur" (Article at BBC via metafilter)

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boing-boing-boing-boing-boing-boing

Six schoolboys took viagra during school hours, and were somehow caught. How could they tell these boys apart from any other 13-year-old? I thought persistent priapism is normal during that age, right?

jerks gone wild

It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to find out that the guy behind Girls Gone Wild is a jerk. It is surprising to find out just how much of a jerk he is: Joe Francis, the founder of the Girls Gone Wild empire, is humiliating me. He has my face pressed against the hood of a car, my arms twisted hard behind my back. He’s pushing himself against me, shouting: “This is what they did to me in Panama City!” It’s after 3 a.m. and we’re in a parking lot on the outskirts of Chicago. Electronic music is buzzing from the nightclub across the street, mixing easily with the laughter of the guys who are watching this, this me-pinned-and-helpless thing. Francis isn’t laughing. He has turned on me, and I don’t know why. He’s going on and on about Panama City Beach, the spring break spot in northern Florida where Bay County sheriff’s deputies arrested him three years ago on charges of racketeering, drug trafficking and promoting the sexua...

Tony diTerlizzi and classic D&D monsters

The sixth entry of his series on drawings of classic D&D monsters is up. He's one of my favorite fantasy artists. His work tends toward the charming and cozy, rather than others' focus on machismo or melodrama.

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