Thursday, October 20, 2005

Happen to Life.

Monday, October 17, 2005

Future Reality Creation

Rather than trying to predict the Future - Create it.

Sunday, October 16, 2005

Prostitute & Politician?

The difference between a prostitute and a polititian is that the former sells her body and the latter frequently his soul.

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Absolute power corrupts.

God is all-powerful.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

"The abuse of power should come as no surprise." - who said that?

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Own your own soul.

Friday, September 30, 2005

Love´s function

"The highest function of love is to make the loved one unique and irreplaceable." - Tom Robbins

Monday, September 05, 2005

Time-flow

Apply cash-flow wisdom to time-flow.

Do not live on credit-time.

Scott McCloud wisdom...

scott mccloud says, to make it, you need to...

Learn from Everyone.
Follow No One.
Watch for Patterns.
Stay Real. (Gerry's addition)
Work like Hell.

Monday, August 29, 2005

"I can't should've."

Sunday, August 28, 2005

One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers

One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers: "One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers

Background

Jerry MaddenJerry Madden, Associate Director of the Flight Projects Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, collected these gems of wisdom over a number of years from various unidentified sources. Rod Stewart of Mobile Data Services in Huntsville, Alabama edited and updated them. I found and kept a copy of these during the early nineties. Over time, the NASA link disappeared, so this version of the rules was posted to make sure that it stayed available.

Jerry was apparently well respected at NASA, and his list continued to circulate. One NASA site includes these comments: 'Madden retired from NASA in 1995 as Associate Director of Flight Projects at Goddard Space Flight Center. Considered by many of his peers to be one of NASA's premiere project managers, Madden's reputation for frank, on-target observations of project management continues to be celebrated today, as his list of lessons is handed down to a new generation of project managers. Naturally, not all of Madden's wisdom made it into his '100 Lessons Learned for Project Managers.' Marty Davis, who worked under Madden at Goddard, recalls one of the unwritten lessons: 'Show up early for all meetings; they may be serving doughnuts.''

The version that NASA has re-posted is a little different, including some additions."
"People who don't get carried away, should be."
Rules are contextual.
Change is the only constant.
Reality isn't.

Saturday, August 27, 2005

Jack Welch's Six Rules

  • Control your destiny or someone else will.
  • Face reality as is; not as it was or as you wish it were.
  • Be candid with everyone.
  • Don't manage; lead.
  • Change before you have to.
  • If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Friday, August 26, 2005

Will browsing business and porn simultaneously make you blind?

Friday, July 22, 2005

Slashdot | FDA OKs Brain Pacemaker for Depression

Slashdot | FDA OKs Brain Pacemaker for Depression: "FDA OKs Brain Pacemaker for Depression

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 21, @01:27PM
from the shocking-developments dept.
Duke Machesne writes 'On Friday, the FDA approved a new therapy for the severely depressed who have run out of treatment options: a pacemaker-like implant that sends tiny electric shocks to the brain. The Food and Drug Administration's clearance opens Cyberonics Inc.'s vagus nerve stimulator, or VNS, as a potential treatment for an estimated 4 million Americans with hard-to-treat depression - despite controversy over whether it's really been proven to work.' "

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Japanese bank combines ATM with slot machine : Mail & Guardian Online

Japanese bank combines ATM with slot machine : Mail & Guardian Online: "Japanese bank combines ATM with slot machine

Tokyo, Japan

20 July 2005 05:41

Japanese people hoping their bank accounts carry a bit more cash could see their hopes come true with an automated teller machine (ATM) that doubles as a slot machine, a regional bank said on Wednesday.

Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank, based in Ogaki city about 300km west of Tokyo, will on August 8 introduce slot games that run during the wait as cash machines process transactions.

A user who hits three straight sevens using the 'stop' button on the ATM screen will get 105 yen (about R6) to cancel the customary fee for using the machine outside regular hours.

The bank customer can even strike a jackpot of 1 000 yen (R60) if the slot machine gives them a set of 'gold' or 'super gold' images, named after the accounts the bank has been offering.

To collect the prize, the winner has to come up to the bank counter.

'We want our customers to enjoy a little excitement during the waiting time when they operate an ATM,' a bank spokesperson said.

'We also want people to come to our outlets as we have been offering various products and services,' he said.

The slot game is not available during regular business hours when money withdrawal is free of charge.

Depositors with other banks' cards can also use the slot-game ATMs of Ogaki Kyoritsu -- but will be charged a fee of 210 yen.

The odds of winning are 'good', according to the bank, being one in 10 for the 105-yen fee cancellation and one in 500 for the 1 000-yen cash prize. -- AFP"

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Brits Ok Bestiality Documentary

PervScan - Brits Ok Bestiality Documentary: "Brits Ok Bestiality Documentary
- From the Bestiality Department
A Channel 4 documentary about bestiality, which received 75 complaints from viewers, has been cleared by television watchdogs. Animal Passions, broadcast last month, featured a man who married a horse and a woman who had sex with her pet dog. But the regulator Ofcom has ruled that it was a serious documentary which did not breach taste and decency guidelines. Ofcom said: "There was nothing in the programme that was visually explicit concerning human/animal sexual contact." This was a serious documentary exploring a rare minority sexual orientation. Although the programme gave an opportunity for zoophiles to express their opinions, the effect was neither to sensationalise nor normalise their behaviour. Viewers had been concerned the film normalised bestiality and could prompt people to emulate the sexual practices explored in it. Of the 75 viewers who complained to Ofcom, around half had not watched the programme but objected to the subject being aired on television. -Daily Telegraph (UK)
It's hard to comment on a television program that you haven't seen. But so far as can be made out from the reviews, the really interesting thing about this documentary is the fact that it was filmed in the United States but broadcast in Britain. Does that not somehow define an essential contrast between the two countries? Granted, you have to be cautious about making generalizations, and yet it's tempting to see some truth in the disparity between what we Americans do and those Brits only watch. America is the land of the free - bestiality is actually legal (or would it be more precise to say not illegal?) in about half of the fifty states - and yet people get into a dither if something overtly sexual is broadcast on"

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Fat Girls and Feeders

PervScan - Fat Girls and Feeders: "Fat Girls and Feeders
- From the Fetish, BBW - Big Beautiful Women Department
Welcome to the weird world of fat erotica, a sexual subculture where FAs (fat admirers) seek out huge women. Fair enough - different strokes for different folks. A welcome antidote, even, to society's obsession with thinness. And the women here do talk of how liberating it is to be considered attractive after years of being mocked and shunned. But there's a dark side to all of this. Within the FA community there are men known as 'feeders', who encourage their partners to gorge themselves to become as fat as humanely possible. And the fatter these women get, the more dependent they become, relying on the men to wash them, move them and, of course, feed them. It's all about control and dominance - the familiar dynamics of any abusive relationship. - Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
(Thanks to alanr for the link. Alanr also points out that there is some interesting background in the 'About Feeder'section of this feeders web site.)
At first sight there is something deeply shocking about fat girls and feeders. It's one thing to admire girls with Rubens-like figures, it's another to want them to become human behemoths, mountains of flesh. Who could find that attractive? Is there something sexual about it? How do the feeder and the fat girl consummate their relationship? Do they have sex? How do you find an orifice hidden in those mounds of flesh? Or does the guy just jerk off in front of her, like a sculptor in love with his creation?
On reflection, though, the shock wears off. It is not as though this fetish is without parallel. It calls to mind Chinese foot-binding, in that it incapacitates a woman in order to fetishize her. It also calls to mind necrophilia and coprophilia"

Animal Style

Animal Style

Judson spent four years writing her book in an effort to show humans that they can learn a lot about sex from other creatures. We are engaged in only a small part of the sexual behaviour on the planet. In fact, ours is rather pedestrian when you look at other species. If it wasn't for the fact that it's ours, I doubt that we'd give it much attention. Who can argue with her after reading her descriptions of homosexual manatees, lions who copulate 75 times a day and penis-fencing among flatworms? - Daily Telegraph (UK)
This sounds like a pretty great book. Maybe it really will introduce animal variations into human sexuality. Instead of giving courses in pornography and S&M, colleges could introduce penis-fencing - possibly as a spectator sport. (Naturally this would be 'safe' penis-fencing, ie participants would wear condoms. If the action gets violent, you don't want penis blood spurting on the spectators.) Presumably there would also have to be separate leagues for men and women, since you wouldn't want women smashing their strap-ons into the more fragile members of the male teams' One thing that's unclear, though, is this: In penis-fencing, how do you know who wins? Is there a point system? A duel to castration or death?
Posted on May 28th, 2003 at 12:08 am

Telegraph | Arts | How I discovered the beast within

Telegraph | Arts | How I discovered the beast within: "How I discovered the beast within
(Filed: 13/05/2003)

Biologist Olivia Judson has taken America by storm, thanks to her sex-obsessed alter ego and the mating habits of spoon worms. Michael Shelden reports

Giving sex advice to lovesick grasshoppers, gender-bending hyenas and bisexual bedbugs seems an unpromising way to win fame and fortune.

Animal magnetism: Dr Olivia Judson's book offers sex advice for all creation

But don't tell that to Dr Olivia Judson - a young evolutionary biologist and research fellow at Imperial College, London - whose quirky manual, Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, is a surprise bestseller in America and has recently made the shortlist of the �30,000 Samuel Johnson non-fiction prize.
Her book provides entertaining but scholarly answers to questions posed by confused species up and down the food chain, including one from 'Perplexed in Cloverhill', who writes:
'Dear Dr Tatiana, I'm a queen bee and I'm worried. All my lovers leave their genitals inside me and then drop dead. Is this normal?'
In a typically deadpan reply, the good doctor patiently explains that the male bees are simply trying to prevent the queen from mating with other fellows, concluding, 'Alas, Your Majesty, your lovers explode on purpose.'
The creator of this anthropomorphising agony aunt is a 33-year-old fair-haired overachiever who has a degree from Stanford University in California and a doctorate from Oxford, and who gave up a career at the Economist to do scientific research at Imperial College.
For the past few weeks, she has been touring America, promoting her book on chat shows, where her good looks and plummy"

Pravda.RU Long Live Russian Sex!

Pravda.RU Long Live Russian Sex!: "17:14 2002-06-25

Long Live Russian Sex!

There is a rocking chair on stage, a common rocking chair, in which grandmas and grandpas like to sit. But then you can see a bright topless babe jumping on it and doing such things that you could never dream of! She takes the positions that Kama Sutra pales in comparison. Then there is a partner coming out for her and the erotic show continues. These events were happening at the presentation of erotic furniture at the exhibition that was called Eros Moscow. Humble collaborators of the sex industry decided to show it to everyone - there is erotica in Russia. Doctor Sergey Agarkov said that the year 2002 celebrated ten years of the Russian erotica: 'The first sex-shop appeared in Russia in 1992, erotic magazines, night clubs appeared one by one later. Of course, it is late, but better late than never, a sex mission is a lot harder than a mission to outer space.'

The atmosphere of the exhibition could make a dead man get an erection: beauty girls wearing very scanty clothes were everywhere around, everybody could get a treatment of charm therapy, when caresses were used as remedy, because caresses could save a human being from stress. The people rushed to see the stands too in order to see what new they could buy for varying their love lives. There was really a wide choice: whole bunch of dildos, erotic oil of great odor, lubricants and so on and so forth. Everybody could have free condoms. There was a tattoo salon nearby, presenting the latest achievements and developments of erotic piercing. Peep-shows, sadomaso performances, erotic massage classes were left for the evening and the entire extravaganza was over with the glamorous strip show. Orgasmic!

Erotic News "

Pravda.RU New Zealand cats to share fate of Korean dogs

Pravda.RU New Zealand cats to share fate of Korean dogs: "15:19 2002-06-20

New Zealand cats to share fate of Korean dogs

Cats in New Zealand are horror-stricken as they are soon to be used for barbecue. This is to happen because of citizens of a New Zealand town who are anxious about birds, that are traditionally considered food for cats. A member of the city council suggested that cats should be eaten to keep the cat population under control. The congenial idea struck the woman during discussion of a problem whether cats of New Zealand town of Nelson should be registered or not.

The problem is that cats of the town have started active hunt for local birds, that makes some bird populations extinct. Eating of cats was suggested as kind of alternative for settlement of the problem. The idea is believed to preserve populations of some birds. Joe Rainy stated at that: 'It is not a joke, but a very serious suggestion.' As an argument to protect the idea the woman mentioned Korea, where dogs are not only friends to people but also tasty meat. Another council member, Mike Cotton, who supported Rainy's idea, remembered a good old tradition of Borneo island which he once visited. The matter of the fact is that when dogs became too abundant in some places, a Dog's Day is declared there. People of the settlement or town go into the streets and shoot off those dogs they meet. It is believed to be the best way to settle problems of the dog population.

Mike Cotton suggests that it would be nice to declare a Cat's Day in Nelson that is sure to solve all problems at once. On the contrary, organizations for animal protection turn such bloody ideas down and suggest a more effective idea. They say, all cats of the town are to be put collars with bells on. The collars should be fastened rather tight, so that cats could not take them off, but"

Pravda.RU Hole in One

Pravda.RU Hole in One: "11:03 2002-06-19

Hole in One

A private golf tournament in the USA had everything to cater for the comfort of its players, including tents with prostitutes to soothe away the stressed golfers eager for the birdie on the ninth green.

The tournament took place on the Hidden Valley golf course, California. Unfortunately, as golfers tried to score on and off the course, there was a police raid. 100 people were detained for questioning, while six were arrested for prostitution, pimping and drug abuse.

Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
PRAVDA.Ru"

Pravda.RU Condoms cause depression

Pravda.RU Condoms cause depression: "Condoms cause depression

According to US investigators, sperm penetrating into female organism makes the woman happier. The scientists are persuaded that testosterone and estrogen hormones the sperm contains, while soaking by vagina's sides, better the woman's spirits. Though, the investigators advise not to neglect safe sex.

Gordon Gallup and his colleagues from New York university divided 293 women into groups depending on how often their sexual partners use condoms. Having carried out standard psychological tests, they learned the spirits of the women and the degree on their happiness. The investigators found out that women whose partners had never used condoms were the happiest. The next group was made up of women whose partners used condoms from time to time. The women whose partners always used condoms were the least happiest of all.

The investigation also showed that lack of sex often caused depression. The women whose partners never or sometimes used condoms felt depressed as often as long they were deprived of sexual contact. It was even found out that depression and suicide attempts were more often observed among women whose partners always used condoms.

Gallup also noticed that these results were also confirmed in a wider investigation, carried out among 700 women. He added that such factors like frequency of sexual contacts, the deepness of intimacy, individual qualities and use of oral contraceptives did not influence the results. Gallup supposes these results could be used towards women who practice oral and anal sex. Though, he added that in this case additional investigation is necessary.

Mednovosti.ru"

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Tiger for a bike...

'If you kill a tiger, you can buy a motorbike.'
Anonymous hunter in Laos, on the money to be made selling tiger pelts to the Chinese market (The Independent, London, 13 June)