By the year 1990 there could be as many as 10,000 computers in britain.

Experts like Computer Jones will eventually become irrelevant as, by then, computers will be able to program themselves, clean their own laser ribbons and will even be able to help us organise trade union ballots. -- From Look Around You: Computers

Look Around You is brilliant. It is like a technology magazine TV show from an alternate reality 25 years ago. I can't express my love of it enough. Do whatever you must (Bit Torrent?) to find any of these episodes. The most insane and insanely cool thing I've seen lately...

The Time Traveler Convention
May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)

What is it?

Technically, you would only need one time traveler convention. Time travelers from all eras could meet at a specific place at a specific time, and they could make as many repeat visits as they wanted. We are hosting the first and only Time Traveler Convention at MIT in one week, and WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Why do you need my help?

We need you to help PUBLICIZE the event so that future time travelers will know about the convention and attend. This web page is insufficient; in less than a year it will be taken down when I graduate, and futhermore, the World Wide Web is unlikely to remain in its present form permanently. We need volunteers to publish the details of the convention in enduring forms, so that the time travelers of future millennia will be aware of the convention. This convention can never be forgotten! We need publicity in MAJOR outlets, not just Internet news. Think New York Times, Washington Post, books, that sort of thing. If you have any strings, please pull them.

Great idea, I'd love to help! What should I do?

Write the details down on a piece of acid-free paper, and slip them into obscure books in academic libraries! Carve them into a clay tablet! If you write for a newspaper, insert a few details about the convention! Tell your friends, so that word of the convention will be preserved in our oral history! A note: Time travel is a hard problem, and it may not be invented until long after MIT has faded into oblivion. Thus, we ask that you include the latitude/longitude information when you publicize the convention.Quoted from: The Time Traveler Convention - May 7, 2005

Well, I'm not going this time around, but I'll catch it again when they invent time travel. I think I've got this immortality thing down now. 30 years strong, and still feeling good!

With every point I expressed that ran counter to a view she held, she removed one article of clothing. Soon she sat on my couch naked, gently pulling at her untrimmed pubic hair, staring intently but not quite invitingly at me. The growing hard lump in my throat was just outpaced by the one in my pants. I was a little nervous because we had agreed on the last two points--the need to reconsider the option of nuclear energy, and drilling in the Arctic--and I noticed her oversized nipples were no longer hard. Luckily, she was, by this point, determined.
"What do you think" she began provocatively, "of the President's plan to privatize Social Security?"
I sighed with relief; this was as sure a promise to seal the deal as her asking if I had a condom.Quoted from: I Fucked Ann Coulter in the Ass, Hard

No, not me. Some other guy. I just found this link. And it made me giggle with evil glee because Ann Coulter is really a bad, bad person.

Just when you think nobody is reading...

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OK, OK, so I will concede I wrote too hastily and forcefully about FGM. Still, I do believe that the true extent of the damage done to infant boys in circumcision is seriously misunderstood and underrated. All those videos of it last night just pushed me over the edge. The screams!

And when I mentioned female circumcision in haste, I was not thinking of clitoridectomy, which, as I understand from reading, is generally included in the procedure. And, yeah, I agree this must be like having the head of your penis lopped off along with the foreskin.

But I'm so glad to see that most (e:peeps) wouldn't damage the boy. Good on all y'all.

    The National Organization of Restoring Men is a non-profit support group for men who have concerns about being circumcised, are considering foreskin restoration, or are in the process of restoring their foreskins. Our aim is to help men regain a sense of self-directedness -- physically as well as emotionally.Quoted from: NORM - The National Organization of Restoring Men

Last night Penn & Teller's third season of Bullshit! (http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/home.do) started with an episode addressing circumcision. This is a topic that is dear to me (http://www.wdog.com/rider/mannish), especially since one of the early mythologies of my life is how the doctor botched my own circumcision, leading to an extended recovery period (although, no disfiguration beyond the intended disfiguration).

Here's a question, and I mean this as a serious feminist: Why is female circumcision widely reviled as barbaric and often listed as a human rights / civil liberties threat (and rightfully so), but male circumcision happens millions of times every day in "developed" countries all over the world, and nobody cares? Seriously, the difference, as I see it, is that female circumcision is advocated by religions and cultures that are considered inferior to western religiion (Judeo-Christianity) and western cultures. That's the difference. Those people who circumcise women are "savages" and "witch doctors" but the people who circumcise males in western culture are "doctors" and "rabbis".

STOP CIRCUMCISION NOW. Tell me you circumcised your boy and I will consider you guilty of mutilation. Lots of people are guilty, but that's no excuse. Just quit it.

The website linked above links to lots of info about restoring foreskins using nonsurgical methods. A little extra attention in the shower each day can see significant results in 2-3 years towards restoring the foreskin. Don't believe me? Look at the photos on these sites (this link is SFW and warns when any nudity is coming up, but then again, have you ever seen a circumcision? If you think a foreskin is ugly... *shudder*).