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Month: December 2006


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File under DUH: Obese kids more likely to have low self-esteem

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Wow, stunning. Obese children, particularly girls, may be more likely than their peers to suffer from low self-esteem, research shows. Feel free to leave your own follow-up research project ideas. Personally, I’m gunning for the lucrative “people who consume alcohol get drunk more often than teetotalers” NIH funds.[via Reuters ] (?!?!)

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Christmas in Chelsea

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Let’s hit the major stuff. What’d you do? Not a damn thing. J– and I stayed home, no family, no friends, just us and the pets. We got up on time and opened presents (more later), had cinnamon rolls for breakfast, and then farted around all day. For dinner, we made a prime rib using […]

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Get Raped in Second Life

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No, seriously. This time it’s not trading real money for fake property or fleecing some media company into opening a bureau in the game. Nope, this time it’s honest-to-simulated-God avatar rape. You even get of a Choose Your Own Deviant Sexual Adventure feel as well. There’s Victim, Rapist, or Participant, where you get to help, […]

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Second Life Sucks – Someone Calls BS

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Clay Shirky pegs the issue with the graphically-awful, over-hyped, socially-devoid virtual life that is Second Life. Finally, the current mania is largely push-driven. Many of the articles concern “The first person/group/organization in Second Life to do X”, where X is something like have a meeting or open a store — it’s the kind of stuff […]

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Just What a Young Facist Needs for Christmas

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Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer and self-appointed censor of many bad words in others’ products, has been carrying a Nazi-logo’d T-shirt for months, now into Day 22 since they said the shirts would be removed. You can follow the whole saga at The Consumerist (warning, Gawker site; get your Adblock on.) Can’t have a Sheryl […]