Pervy Geeks

It's hard not to imagine some pervy geek over at Wired scanning the news and thinking to himself when he saw this headline, "Heh, he said lesbos." I can't think of any other reason why this story would make the breaking news headlines section of a TECHNOLOGY NEWS website.

"LONDON (Reuters) - A love poem written 2,600 years ago by Sappho, the greatest female poet of ancient Greece, was published on Friday for the first time since it was rediscovered last year.

Sappho's verses expressing love for her female companions on the Greek island of Lesbos have either shocked or delighted generations of readers ever since they were first composed."

See the poem itself here.

This is just so wrong.

The whole world's gone mad. "Deep Throat" Mark Felt is being called a traitor. Meanwhile, G. Gordon Liddy, one of the architects of the break-in is being voted on as the World's Sexiest Vegetarian!

Lawyer and Bush aide with a BS in econ and no scientific training rewrites climate research

What's next?

How the original article reads:

A comet actually has two tails: one of dust and ice, and another of charged molecules called ions. Each can reach tens of thousands of miles in length, and trails the comet like long streamers on a bike pointed into the wind.

How it would read as written by Phillip A. Cooney:

A comet actually has two tails: one of dust and ice, and another of charged molecules called ions. Each can reach tens of thousands of miles in length, and trails the comet like Ann Coulter's hair on a Harley pointed into the wind.

Submit your own examples of Cooney rewrites!

Yes, but is it hot?

'Computational Couture' at MIT

(AP) -- A recent fashion show at the MIT Media Lab combined things of beauty with rules of math.

There was a weighted inflatable dress powered by a hacked vacuum cleaner, a purse designed using a Russian theory of inventive problem solving and a necklace made from 125-volt fuses.

Some pieces at the MIT show were more conceptual than others, such as a "reactive undergarment" that logs the experience of an airport pat-down, and a "kitty skirt," which has motors that turn tendrils on the skirt into cat toys. The skirt is meant to play on the predator/prey relationship, according to a description by its creator, Gemma Shusterman. - LINK.

We could have thought up more interesting designs for items named "reactive undergarments" and "kitty skirts."

Study: Cigarette makers targeted women

[Tobacco] firms also considered putting appetite suppressants into cigarettes so they could promote them as weight control products, they said.

Hell, why don't they add appetite suppressants to chemotherapy and promote that as a weight control product, too.