I remember her Encyclopedia Dramatica page.

There's stuff there that you do NOT want so see. *shudder*

Grrr.

Bad science articles make Brammi angry!

BRAMMI SMASH!!!

I thought this was a cute idea...

... Until I turned on my speakers. Now I have to go and pour some bleach in my ears. I'd take Boxxy over this saccharine menace!

I got two incorrect.

I agree that schoolkids don't know about average duration of an orgasm OR the female prostrate.

It mightn't be a bad thing to learn, though. Certainly something to take your mind off of the heinously scary STD statistics for a little bit.

Another Belle here.

(Is it any surprise that Neatorama readers score big on "I'm socially responsible, like weird stuff, and are ADDICTED TO BOOKS"?)

Neurology and biotech news that means life (can) get better!!!

Bonus if there's plans implemented to apply them at low cost!!!

Maybe I'm just too much of a self-taught chemist/physicist/biologist, but when I finally got my grubby hands on this book, I was a bit disappointed.

I'm so sorry. I feel terrible saying it. There was a good thing here and there, but whatever I didn't already know by websurfing, I knew by understanding the physical properties of the things around me. :(

The part where they claim to not be able to get and KEEP volunteers is what raised a red flag for me.

Nothing screams "mismanagement" and "hostile work environment" like a cage-free no-kill shelter full of lovable kitties that somehow can't secure volunteers at a time when volunteer organizations are bursting at the seams with jobless folks looking to do a good turn.

Aha! Google has the answers yet again!

http://toyohara.com/inaka/somen-e.htm

I saw somen noodles being eaten like this once in an anime... I was under the impression that catching noodles with chopsticks on a "waterslide" was a novelty that's been around for a while over there.

My mother, a German ex-pat, owns a dirndl that she bought back in the 70s, and OH how I loved it. The matching blouse had great big swirls of chocolate-hued embroidery and the bodice didn't sag or bunch in the slightest.

It was made by one of the big authentic folk costume suppliers in Nuremberg, and quite the breathtaking souvenir in it's day.

But *authentic*? Hardly. The embroidery floss was polyester, the blouse's neck and cuffs were elasticized, and the dress itself was cotton (trying to evoke homespun wool). Oh, did I mention that it closed with a nylon/plastic zipper?

If you want authenticity, it's a DIY hobbyist thing and has been since the 50s, if not earlier. Nobody wants authenticity on a commercial scale anymore; they want plastic zippers.

Prepare to do a lot of guesswork too-- these peasant fashions didn't work off of standardized patterns, and your fabric-greedy Simplicity patterns are almost certainly dead wrong.

I'm trying to stave off the disappointment of ageing with replacing "anything is possible, I can be whatever I want" to "anything is possible, look at all the possibilities being explored".

Essentially, delight in what is around me and don't get so wrapped up in what "I" am.

NEW RULE FOR 'WHAT IS IT' GAME:

The answer should NOT be in the Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook sitting within arm's reach of 89% of your readers.

LONG overdue, but I'm delighted to see him doing so well. He's really changed how I think about dementia and Alzheimer's.

correction-- *temporarily* blinded.