This & That, Ceci et Cela

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Calling Deuce Bigalow and gigolos everywhere: Heidi Fleiss needs you. The former Hollywood madam plans to open a "rooster ranch" - a brothel catering to women - in Nevada. "I am opening up a stud farm," Ms Fleiss told the Associated Press. "I'm going to have the sexiest men on earth. Women are going to love it." Female clients would be charged $250 an hour. ...

Everybody says it’s a sign of much colder times to come. Great! ;( Update: Well it melted by noon, thank God!

Viewers tuning in for the evening news in Kailaras, India were shocked when they were left watching a Russian porn movie. The residents were apparently so outraged that they took to the streets, saying the tv technicians must be sacked. Oh, the outrage, the nerve!  Yeah, but how many of the viewers probably tried out some of the "moves" that they ...

Assuming it doesn't turn out to be just an over-fermented dream.   Kim-chi, Sauerkraut, its all in the cabbage.  Scientists in Seoul believe the German cabbage contains a bacteria that fights the disease.

"Big buzz over iPod sex toy; Boffins have invented iBuzz, a sex toy that connects up to an iPod and vibrates in time to the music."  Well OKAY!  Time someone addressed our real needs (*snort*)

Funny stuff from Kurtlow: "It’s approaching crisis levels, and our dignity as an ethnic group is at stake. I am talking about this disturbing trend of us Chinese Asians giving ourselves English names that sound like bowel movements, names like Solon So, Affrick Fung and Oxide Pang, that are slowly, but surely, eating away at the very fabric that holds our society together, which we all agree is ...

Interesting insight to the socio-political landscape that frames the riots.  Specifically: "A French employee works 30% fewer hours than a British worker, and a much smaller percentage of the French population than the British works at all, yet total French output is very nearly equal in value to British. In other words, the French are much more efficient economically than the British. But their relative efficiency has been bought at a ...

Dang y'all, who knew we were still in the Captain Hook age? Pirate attacks on luxury liners by Somalia's coastline: You might shit your draws (or at least reconsider that cruise to the far east/west/north/south) when you see how widespread this issue actually is (BBC).

It's funny to note that a friend in Paris didn't even know that the riots had spread outside Paris and across the country; metro-boulot-dodo (expression referring to daily grind of work-home/sleep) routine had prevailed as usual. See more details including the riot occurrence timeline and map of riots areas.