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links for 2007-08-24

• Book Retailing on the Internet - Market Assessment
  Market research summary from 2004 on state of online and ebook industries -- UK
  (tags: ebooks books e-books)
• Newsberry.com — Home Page
  Another email app -- very much like MailChimp.
  (tags: emailmarketing marketingtools email marketing)

Candidate for a Pulitzer

I'm not even sure how to summarize this story from the Nashville Scene other than to say read it. All of it. Please.

Excerpt from "Why Lapdances In Nashville Are Illegal But Group Sex Isn't":

“Now let’s talk about the bikini bottom,” Herbison says, his Mickey Mouse tie flapping as he turns from his table to face Sutton. “Did it cover her genitalia?”

“I was able to see the cleft of her butt.”

“Did you see her anus?”

“I did not see her anus.”

“Did you see any part of [the customer’s body] enter her sphincter?

“No.”

“Are you familiar with the term dry humping?”

Doin' It To Death: Survey Finds Elderly Remain Sexually Active

Here's an interesting study:

Old folks still doing it - study
Independent Online - 7 hours ago
Washington - Ageing people in the United States are still having active sex lives, unrestrained by age-related sexual problems affecting around half of them, according to a major nationwide report published Thursday.
With Age, Sexuality Becomes Ember of Its Former Flame MedPage Today
Sex, sexuality and the over-60s Times Online
Medical News Today - USA Today - Forbes - New York Times
all 133 news articles »

[What they don't mention, of course, is what percentage of the researchers got slapped in the face with purses while in the field.]

Biggest frog in the pond

I brought home a new bog plant from the nursery the other day and as I pulled it out of its pot -- HOP! -- out sprang a very large, one-eyed frog. He is now the largest frog in the pond, not counting Lula.

 

When you wake up you'll feel exactly the same...

According to the New York Times, Friday brings us yet another chapter in the evolution of what is arguably the modern era's most powerful fairy tale: Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

This version, title "The Invasion," stars Nicole Kidman and appears to deliciously mingle the besieged individualism of the previous film versions with the kindred biological paranoia of the zombie film, another archetypal genre.

[Update: Apparently when the movie is over you'll also feel exactly the same, only slightly worse. Acccording the NYT's Manohla Dargis, "“The Invasion” lurches and drags and teeters on the brink of death from scene to scene; it plays as if it had been made by someone in a trance, though not a cool one."]

links for 2007-08-03

• Color Schemer | Create matching color schemes at the click of a button
  Nifty tool for developing and analyzing color schemes.
  (tags: webdesign design color tools)
• Webstruments 2.0 > Home
  Design agency -- looks like a good one.
  (tags: webdesign design agency)
• RangeRoamer > Home
  Sells bundled travel phone packages consisting of an unlocked mobile phone, Sim card and prepaid minutes.
  (tags: phone travel mobile)

links for 2007-08-02

• College Students Could Save a Tree Per Year Using E-Textbooks
  Save trees as well as money on textbooks.
  (tags: ebooks e-books textbooks cafescribe)