More boring stuff from the Net :|

• Amnesty International: "The virus of Internet repression is spreading"
  Arguing that censorship is a "virus" affecting the health of the Internet, Amnesty International UK yesterday sponsored a conference called "Some People Think the Internet Is a Bad Thing: The Struggle for Freedom of Expression in Cyberspace." Unless somet
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• Pupsam SelfKiss
  If you could kiss yourself, would you? These photos make it happen, and the results are … disturbing. Site is in French.
  (tags: crazy)
• Do you suffer with MADD (Male Attention Deficit Disorder)?
  Many years ago a man, who had been married longer than I, explained to me how to get out of one of the most deadly husband-to-wife encounters. When your wife points to a woman who is more attractive than her and asks you if you find that woman attractive
  (tags: life)
• Viagra For Kids!!!
  Doctors are giving infants and babies the anti-impotence drug Viagra to save them from a life-threatening lung condition even though it has not been tested on children, a magazine said Tuesday.
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• AlterNet: MediaCulture: Female War Reporters Hide Sexual Abuse To Continue Getting Assignments
  She was pushed into a ditch, where several men set upon her, tearing at her clothes and baying for sex. They ripped the buttons off her shirt and set to work on her trousers. "My first thought was my cameras," recalls the photographer, who asked to remain
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• Play Again Games – Pacman
  Rubik Cube Art
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• Getting Finances Done » Why you shouldn’t trust home mortgage lenders and mortgage calculators – A better way to calculate how much mortgage you can afford
  The size of your mortgage can literally make the difference between financial happiness and financial misery. The term “house poor” means that you have such a high mortgage payment, you can hardly afford your living expenses let alone anything purely
  (tags: money mortgage)
• Massive Personal Finance Resource List | The Frugal Law Student
  massive list!
  (tags: money personalfinance)
• It's not just you: rich don't save either – MarketWatch
  "It's clear from this survey that savings hurdles transcend income levels and that savings requires more discipline than we may realize, regardless of household income," said Kevin Martin, senior vice president, HSBC Bank in the U.S. "The data revealed re
  (tags: money)
• The CIA's favorite form of torture | Salon News
  If waterboarding goes the way of the Iron Maiden, what "tough" techniques will the CIA use on its high-value detainees? The answer is most likely a measure long favored by the CIA — sensory deprivation. The benign-sounding form of psychological coercion
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• Why Dutch women don't get depressed – International Herald Tribune
  French women, says a recent bestseller, don't get fat. Japanese women, says another, don't get old or fat. But their sisters in the Netherlands may have one up on both of them. That is because Dutch women, don't get depressed.
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• Jelly in the Belly: A Diet Pill That Expands So You Don't
  Italian scientists are testing a new diet pill that turns into a clear, gelatinous blob the size of a tennis ball that may help shrink waistlines by giving dieters a sense of satiety. The pill, currently undergoing clinical trials at Rome's Policlinico Ge
  (tags: diet)
• Wicked Crispy: Jabba likes what he sees…
  Wicked Crispy is the personal site of artist & animator Jeff Victor, who draws Star Wars characters (among other things) in adorable bobblehead style. Found via Drawn.
  (tags: art)
• The 6 Myths Of Creativity
  The fact is, almost all of the research in this field shows that anyone with normal intelligence is capable of doing some degree of creative work. Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an a
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• TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Photosynth demo (video)
  Amazing!!! …and it's from Microsoft!

  Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. Its arch

  (tags: tech)
• Has OPEC Lost Its Moorings?
  It appears that the members of the OPEC cartel would like to have their cake and eat it too. At mid-week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the organization's new secretary-general had stated that the oil-producing nations may need to attract foreign
  (tags: oil)
• 106 Tips to Become a Master Connector » Life Optimizer
  Ping all the time
  80 percent of building and maintaining relationships is just staying in touch (or “pinging”). Pinging takes effort. You have to keep pinging and pinging and pinging and never stop. You have to feed the fire of your network or it wi
  (tags: career)
• 7 Brilliant Free Fonts: Faceplate, Sling, Cicle | Smashing Magazine
  nice!
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• The Simple Dollar » How To Make Your Own Laundry Detergent – And Save Big Money
  Basically, I made a giant bucket of slime that works incredibly well as laundry detergent at a cost of about three cents a load. For comparison’s sake, a jumbo container of Tide at Amazon.com costs $28.99 for 96 loads, or a cost of $0.30 a load. Thus, w
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• Psychology Today: Five Shocking Stats About Men and Sex
  According to the Kinsey Report (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male), 54 percent of men think about sex every day or several times a day, 43 percent a few times a week or a few times a month, and 4 percent less than once a month. Even though the Kinsey Repo
  (tags: relationships)
• What A Fly Move (from Evening Times)
  GLASGOW'S clean-up squads are tackling illegal bill posters with a little creative vandalism of their own. Council staff have started painting out illegal adverts which make the city look run down, to ensure the companies who produce the ads are just wast
  (tags: smart)