The brief safe. ...even the most hardened burgler or most curious snoop will "skid" to a screeching halt as soon as they see them.

Confess your sins, then buy the book. If you couldn't get enough of grouphug.us, here's more anonymous confessions for you. Tackier than ever before!

Georgia bans genital piercings for women. A bill banning women or parents of girls from any form of genital mutilation will hand out a two to twenty-year sentence to any woman getting a genital piercing.

Fruit labels through the ages. more inside

Informative articles dedicated to superstitions and odd traditions. Did you know the colour blue was originally felt to protect a male child? New spiderwebs where you'd just cleaned means someone is plotting to hurt you or your family. You throw spilled salt over your shoulder to hit the devil in the eye, you know.

The York Atmospheric Chemistry Club's Curry House Review.

Life after the oil crash. 25 year old law graduate tells it like it is about the fossil fuel shortage and how we're all going to die. No, wait, this site will tell you how we're going to die. For some moderation on the topic, M. King Hubbert can help out, as can Dr. Albert Bartlett. Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit looks like it might help too.

Lord of the Rings is set to become a "lavish stage musical" next year. Dozens of actors will perform complex battle scenes! Obviously you'll want to see the official site. It apparently has the support of the Tolkien Society, since they've issued a press release on behalf of the production.

Researchers reverse effects of sterilising cancer treatment in women Women who previously were made sterile by chemotherapy or other cancer treatments may still be able to have children later by removing ovarian tissue before treatment, freezing it and later implanting it under the skin. Sounds awful, but this has amazing potential.

PETA activists protest by having a pillowfight naked in the snow. "This is nothing compared to what the animals go through," one protester said.

Star Wars (by which I mean Episode IV) in asciimation.

Fifth graders' opinions on the Martha Stewart trial And for anyone who cares, Martha herself is looking forward to returning to being America's domestic diva.

Administrator, please hope me! What do you do when you can't remember your MoFi password? Passwords are a thing of the past, anyway. How about giving us your fingerprint? Or a retina scan? Maybe we could have a MonkeyCard that plugs straight into the computer. In any case, I'll be asking for samples of your DNA before you can log in again.

League player found guilty of...er, "poking". In the end the NRL Judiciary had little trouble differentiating between a "wedgie", a "finger up the arse" and the area between the "arse and the nuts" before finding Hopoate guilty. (SFW, just grotty.)

Where is your line in the sand? This site appears to be written by a prime example of a paranoid schizophrenic, who believes secret government agencies are out to control our minds via street theatre, killing pets, and sabotaging underwear. more inside

Aging band pose as teens to sell single. Welsh band The Alarm renamed themselves The Poppyfields (top right) and got teenagers to mime their single, 45RPM, for the video, supposedly as a statement on the importance of image in selling music. more inside

Spoofpark Southpark-style spoofs of popular TV/movies. (Via Whedonesque.)

Rest Stop, Stephen King's latest story, available online. Here too is the transcript of King's National Book Foundation's Distinguished Contribution award acceptance speech. That's more directly related to this ancient thread.

For the daddy who needs help. Instructions for Dads when looking after their children, by MomMum.

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