Tara has successfully grossed me out. She has an article on the unfortunate consequences of a bikini wax—a massive infection that turned the vulva and perineum into something resembling an over-ripe melon. And the woman who had this problem repeatedly tried to depilate afterwards!

I’ve never quite gotten the appeal of this practice. Is it to appeal to men with pedophilic tendencies? Or is it more of a desire to look like you’ve got a mollusc in your crotch? Everybody has their own little kink, so if hairless pubes appeal to two people, I’m not going to worry about it…but it seems to me it ought to be OK for a woman to want to look like a female mammal, and that individuals ought not to feel obligated to follow a very weird and highly artificial standard of beauty to the point where they suffer severe illnesses.

Some clothing store called Diesel is supposed to have a fashion show tomorrow that will be streamed live to the web. Normally, I wouldn’t give a pickled pucker, but they advertise it as a “journey with us through time and liquid space to a futuristic world of bioluminescence, giant mechanic cephalopods, futuristic aquanauts and mysterious galactic polyps”…and the accompanying images are all of weird jellyfish looking things and strange organic blobs. Hummm. Well. That sounds somewhat interesting.

Denim jeans for squid, do you think?

Maybe skinny naked models draped with ctenophore tentacles, with the welts slowly rising as they strut down the runway to collapse in anaphylactic shock?

Whatever it is, I’m sure my imagination is much better than whatever they’re going to do.

(via Boing Boing)

Nice site, that looks like a home-furnishings catalog to me. But then, I’m always disappointed that “Bed, Bath, and Beyond” lacks anything that is truly “beyond.”

Here’s some fun with demographics — it’s a treasure map! Actually, it’s a map of where the excess single men (in blue) and excess single women (in red) are located.

That east-west split is strange, I wonder what the explanation might be?

Matt asks a weird question: he’s wondering who is the target of the sickest web searches. I should recuse myself, because I thought I got no perverts searching for me: after all, I think searching for “sex with a spider” or “penis tentacles” is perfectly normal. But I took a look at the search terms anyway, and I was appalled—there actually are several very common phrases people use to find their way here that I find objectionable.

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To be honest, I hadn’t been following his career in years, but it’s still sad to see that Pac Man has died. I am pleased to learn that at least he has left his body to science.

Chuck Colson has a list of the three greatest enemies of Christianity right now. They are:

• Islam. It’s “evil incarnate.”

• Atheism. It’s “virulent.”

• Christian coffee shops??!?

OK, that last one is a little strange, but I had an epiphany. I’m sitting in a Christian-run coffee shop right now. It’s great for fairly good inexpensive coffee, it’s got an open wireless net, and some of the conversations around me are inspiring—I write some of my anti-religion screeds while the Bible Study Group meets at a table in front of me.

Gosh. Chuck Colson is right.

I think a nimble-fingered Albanian got a little souvenir. Too bad the market for Bush memorabilia is in the dumpster right now.