Cancer research - something that works.

Breakfast breads baked for bread baking day. Brioches (what is the plural of brioche anyway?), crumpets, cinnamon rolls - yum. Bookmarked.

The 7 Deadly Sins. Interpreted as wine glasses. I love pride.

Sudoku in the court - a trial run. A drug trial has been aborted after three months when the some of the jury admitted to doing Sudoku rather than paying attention. The judge had previously complimented them on their copious notetaking, apparently not noticing that they were writing up and down as well as side to side.

Little black notebooks. And some pens. And more notebooks.

Good news.

Mall Ninja! Cos malls are DANGEROUS people. You don't know it but shit goes DOWN in malls like you wouldn't believe. Well, I feel like scrubbing my eyeballs safer. via.

The Great South West Walk - a 250 km loop in the south east (work with me here) coast of Australia, it follows the coast between Portland and Nelson before swinging inland and back to Portland. It's....a little obscure.

The oil shock of 2008. A (US-centric) guide to why GM is closing plants. SUV depreciation - ouch!.

How a small town loses a bank.

Michael Johnson talks about his decision - to hand back his 4x400m gold medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics. A team mate on the relay team has recently admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs during that time.

McClatchy to Scott McLellan - here's what happened.

Carefully calibrated coitus. "The finest theologians soon began devoting a great deal of thought to which coital positions were more pleasurable — and thus more evil — and special handbooks were distributed to Church confessors." As an exercise in projection - the mind boggles.

How to take a shower.

Like it says on the label - photos of TV Unexpectedly amusing.

Sente. Sente is a novel use for mobile phones; the informal practice of sending money via mobile phone minutes has evolved to allow money (albeit, small amounts) to be transferred from one place to another. Apparently first noted in Uganda, it is mentioned in passing here, as an intriguing example of how powerful networked communications can be, when suitably portable and accessible.

Pirates in the 21st Century.

Chicken sexing! see also some of the comments here. You guys *eyeroll*

Two Lawyers - the Yale Commencement Speech (pdf) - via "This was my last chance to teach you some law, Yale style. These were my final two slides: one bad lawyer, one good. What made the bad one bad wasn’t that he knew “less law.” It was that he, unlike the good lawyer, refused to take moral responsibility when he found himself in a position where his individual actions as a lawyer were likely to have a decisive role in shaping our profession’s situation sense, and thus in shaping the law itself." more inside

See, there's a line that needs to be drawn. And I'd say it needs to be drawn, oooh, over THERE. Not here. Eight year olds do not need bikini waxes. Just....no. (Link (should be) SFW).