An example of how to do it right!
In order to get street racers off the streets, Florida’s cops will race you at $25,- a pop on a track where it’s safe and legal. Unsurprisingly, this is turning out to be very popular: not just with the racers, but with a whole crowd of other people too.

Coincidentally, I was listening to Lilly Allen’s Fuck You very much when I read this: Amazon has taken down all references to gay, lesbian and transgender literature from their search engines with some “it’s bad for children” bullshit excuse. What are they going to take off their searches next? Anything written by black people?
Fuck you, Amazon, Fuck you very much.

I’ve raised this issue a few times before:
Park attendants being told to question people in parks (especially men) if they have no children
or men in the US refusing to get near children in need due their being afraid of being branded a child molestor whilst in the UK everyone is banned from coming into contact with children without a government permit.

Now the Times asks whether maybe this hasn’t gone a bit far, with especially men refusing to volunteer to do anything having to do with children due to the suspicion and bureaucracy involved.
Are we too afraid of touch? – Times Online

Those totally humourless Australians have branded a man a child pornographer for having cartoons of the Simpsons engaging in sex. That stretches is a bit for me!

AFter 5 minutes of caring, women have had enough when their man is sick. They won’t try to care for him, they won’t take time off for him, whereas men tend to care for their women. Yes. Women are cold hearted, egotistical bitches.

It turns out that static stretching – holding a stretch for 20 + seconds – causes you to lose around 30% of your muscle power. It also doesn’t help limber you up and thereby help prevent injuries. Dynamic stretching – stretching your muscles whilst keeping them moving – is much much better: you don’t lose muscular power and can stretch them further afterwards, allthough the jury is out whether this helps prevent injuries.

Swim between the crocs in Australia in a clear acrylic cage. Sounds like fun to me!

An earlier study in 2006 showed that attractive parents are 36% more likely to have daughters, and that the daughters become more attractive

That study has been validated again recently, but now with the added caveat that whilst it seems that the attractiveness is hereditiary for women and not for men: ie. attractive couples have more children of which the daughters will likely be attractive and the sons likely will not.

Parkour is the original French name for the sport, Freerunning is the name it has taken on. These guys get from A to B using the most original way possible. That means jumping railings, from house to house, doing flips, running up walls, etc etc etc. It’s an art as much as a sport and involves high levels of fitness, power and gymnastic ability.

This is a link to some great basic tutorials

So what do you do when you can eavesdrop without a warrant? In the military you listen to your superiors having phone sex 🙂

Apparently the US military has a high success rate treating post traumatic stress disorder by recreating a sufferers private hell and letting them relive it in a virtual world. They start off without the worst details and add more and more detail as the resilience of the patient goes up.

The Fitzroy Saint Hotel bar in Saint Kilda, Victoria, has caused uproar in the past for hiring a dwarf to pour drinks down patron’s throats, but it doesn’t end there! In a raunchy ad last week, women who took off their panties in the bar got free $50,- drinks cards and if they flashed their bra’s or panties they got free drinks!

For some reason more uproar and this event got cancelled 🙁 Of course it’s hardly surprising that the stopping power consisted of two uptight ugly 75 year old prim virgins. OK I don’t know about the last part, but the bitches come across that way in the article.

Apparently in many cheap brands of wine, there isn’t enough grape content to call it actual wine. Generally low quality grapes are covered by sugar additives and in a few occasions, it’s not just that it’s flavoured alcoholic water that’s the problem, but the additives are actually dangerous, such as hydrochloric acid and fertilisers

To check whether documents where what they purported to be. As there is no accuracy check to wikipedia, they sent a person home without it being clear that there were any grounds to do so.

A collection of how to, instructional and DIY videos %u2013 Life Videopedia – all the videos are short and to my surprise so far they all seem well shot and instructed

This is an odd tourguide to the rooftops of Cambridge

This is an hours’ worth of lecture from a prosecutor and a cop, telling you exactly why you should never open your mouth to the police, even if you’re innocent.

atomkeep is a syncing tool for all your social network accounts – keep your profile, photo’s, descriptions and friends together all over facebook, multiply, twitter and god knows where else.

Uh, wait, what?

Thanks to the internet, you can now pay to watch English girls … smoke.

http://www.englishgirlssmoking.com/

I’m guessing I’m not the only one surprised by this website. Must be Rule 34.

The author of the Laws of Power, Rules of Seduction and Strategies of War has a blog,

http://www.powerseductionandwar.com/.

Interesting reading, add to your feedreader.

Desk and everything else you need around one

After having read ‘the Game’ by Neal Strauss, I decided to look if the internet communities he describes on the pickup game really exists and back up his claims. These guys have taken a good look at what works when picking up women and tried to apply rules to their behaviors, drastically improving their chances of a successful pickup.

The mASF forums are a good source of information,

including their instructions on what to do to get into the community first.

The have the guide – a sort of howto.

Everyone reccomends David D’angelo’s “Double your Dating”. Buy it here.

Cliff’s List is an archive (and still growing) newsletter for the speed seductionist.

Dutch Seduction is the Dutch lair of pickup artists with a lively local forum.

Natural Game has a lively forum going on as well.

The seduction community toolbar by Diabolik is a labour of love, allowing you to search techniques through the community without hitting strange Google results.

Happy sarging!

So if you want to sleep comfortably, one of the ways to get a better sleep is by looking at your sheets.

The factor we all know about is thread count – how many threads per square inch of fabric. Nowadays manufacturers are coming out with 1000 / 1600 thread count materials. This is not the whole of the story though. You need to also look at

– ply
– yarn size
– type of cotton
– how it’s woven

If it’s 2 ply, then it becomes heavier and is kind of cheating, as they up the thread count by first interweaving two threads and then weaving the fabric.

Large yarn is better.

Sea Island, Egyptian (Ashmouni) or Pima (US) cotton is best as the cotton strands (the “staple”) themselves are longest. Some people prefer sateen, which has polyester in it, making it slightly less ‘slippery’ or silky than pure cotton.

There are four main types of ELS (Extra Long Staple) cotton:- American upland , Egyptian, Sea Island and Asiatic.

(1) American upland is a plant with green coloured flowers. It gives a large yield with white fibres 7/8”-1-1/4 inches in length.
(2) The Egyptian cotton has lemon coloured flowers and produces long silky light tan fibres
1-1/2” in length. The American variant of this strain is Pima Cotton which yields fibre of 1-3/8” & above in length.
(3) Sea island cotton is grown in the West Indies . It has yellow flower and is a slow grower and the white fibres are 1-3/4” in length used for high quality textile.
(4) The Asiatic strain produces a low yield of short, coarse, harsh fibre.

Egyptian cotton seems to be grown in Karnak.

For more information:

Soleilmavis on thread count

The ebay guide to terms and differences for cotton linens

Best in Bedding FAQ

about Pima cotton and how it was bred

The four types of cotton

We’re supposed to walk on our feet, but we wear shoes for protection and fashion. This has a drastic impact on the amount of injuries we get as a result of walking the wrong way. This souds a bit wierd, but there’s an excellent article in NY Magazine which had me reading it the whole way through.

So what can we do?

We can wear Vivo Barefoot shoes:

where the sole is so thin that it feels like you’re walking on bare feet but are protected.

This is the store

Or there’s the Vibram five fingers shoes:

which you can buy here

You can buy them from toesocks.nl

Of course if you want to wear socks with them you need toe socks!

or more high tech socks

At feelmax.nl

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