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Via Secular Blasphemy: Muslim veil is unhealthy for women… A new book about to be published in Denmark, “Maskeret tvang” (~”Veiled Submission”), written by women doctors and other health workers, argues that veils have a negative effect on Muslim women’s health. Whether covering the whole body or just the hair, there is a health penalty Continue reading No kidding…

Meet my new pet!

Well, something to put on the wish list, anyway…. Baby albino giant salamanders in Hiroshima: A pair of baby albino Japanese Giant Salamanders (Andrias japonicus) discovered this past spring in a mountainous area of Hiroshima prefecture are being kept at Hiroshima’s Asa Zoo for the purpose of ecological research. The two specimens were found along Continue reading Meet my new pet!

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Quotiki.com – Search and Share Your Favorite Famous Quotes “I hope this isn’t a return. Everyone wants petrified hamsters and they’re never happy with them.” — Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

How not to write

Find these fonts in your system. Rip them out. LMNOP: America’s Most Fonted: The 7 Worst Fonts Ugly fonts, cutesy fonts, unreadable fonts, bad fonts . . . they have terrorized us for far too long, infiltrating our homes via e-mail, IM, and low-rent ValPak ads. Here, LMNOP presents the seven worst fonts–and the people Continue reading How not to write