I feel so dirty. I just bought a Microsoft ® product.

Blech

Well... my good source of Fark gave me this inspiring link. The following is an excerpt from the Washington Post website Right Here


Maxim, the popular men's mag, published a fitness article on how to get in shape by beating people up. It was illustrated by drawings of a muscular yuppie punching, kicking, stomping and strangling a man who looked exactly like Mahatma Gandhi.

O: The Oprah Magazine, whose "Founder and Editorial Director" is, of course, Oprah Winfrey, continued its tradition of putting a picture of Oprah Winfrey on the cover of every issue. The August issue contained a cover line I like to think was added late one night by somebody with a subversive sense of humor: "ME-ME-ME! How to deal with a giant ego."

"When National Geographic published their first-ever swimsuit issue," wrote Dan Skye, the executive editor of High Times, "I figured if they can do it, so can we."

So High Times, a magazine devoted to marijuana, published "Girls of Ganja," a swimsuit issue featuring scantily clad babes smoking joints or rolling joints or just sort of standing there holding piles of pot.

Worried that his readers might feel that "marijuana is tarnished by prurient imagery," Skye offered an unusual defense: "Yes, there are swimsuits in this issue. . . . But it's the presence of buds or a joint or a bong in all these shots that enhances each woman's beauty, not what they're wearing."

It's the bong, not the bathing suit, that makes the babes beautiful? Man, what's this dude smoking?

Meanwhile, Mental Floss, the cheeky magazine of miscellaneous information, published a swimsuit issue that featured pictures of "15 geniuses" in their bathing suits -- including Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and Eleanor Roosevelt. They all look great, although Roosevelt, shown in a rather frumpy suit, probably would have looked better if she were smoking a bong.

Meanwhile, Harper's magazine provided helpful advice for folks who find a dead horse or moose on their property. The advice came from a pamphlet titled "Obliterating Animal Carcasses With Explosives," published by the U.S. Forest Service:

"Place one pound of explosives in two locations on each leg. Use detonator cord to tie the explosives' charges together. Horseshoes should be removed to minimize dangerous flying debris."

Sorry, pardon my French, but here's the scoop.

The day before I left Toronto, it was +9 C, a perfect temperature. Although warm for the season, I couldn't really complain.

I come back to Halifax, and it's been cool, but not cold. I went outside today, thinking it was going to be around -10 C. Alas, I was wrong. It would seem that most of Atlantic Canada right now is about -20 C. With the beautiful windchill, it's a bone-numbing -33 º C outside right now!

What is wrong here?? It shouldn't be -33 C outside right now. Stop using your cars.. all this pollution is killing me! The normals for this time of year is -10, according to environment canada, which begs the question, are we able to play God, by changing the weather patterns (through degradation of the environment)?