Blue's News

This Just In: the Pope Is Still Dead [W. Post]

Nothing else is going on in the world, really. It's about as exciting as the Cherry Blossom Cam.

44 U.S. Troops Injured In Attack on Iraqi Jail [from DN! headlines]

At Abu Ghraib? Well, you reap what you sow.

Telescopes see 'distant planet' [BBC]

Because it is in a young system, the planet is relatively hot.

Young? Hot? I'm totally moving there.

Japan's virgin wives turn to sex volunteers [Guardian]

"The women who come to see me love their husbands and aren't looking for a divorce," [Kim] told the Guardian. "The problem is that their husbands lose interest in sex or don't want sex from the start. Many men think of their wives as substitute mothers, not as women with emotional and sexual needs."

Just when I think Japan is pretty weird, it always gets weirder. I understand losing interest in sex, but never having it ever? Where's the honeymoon period? Man, those people are advanced.

The Best 90 Minutes of My Life [Wired]

Thurston Moore discusses the art of the mixtape and offers a few words on home taping: “Trying to control music sharing - by shutting down P2P sites or MP3 blogs or BitTorrent or whatever other technology comes along - is like trying to control an affair of the heart. Nothing will stop it.”