Yet Another Web Site

I’ve gone ahead and upgraded to WordPress 2.5. Everything pretty much works…

(via Dependable Renegade)

(via Pharyngula)

“Academic freedom” bill promoting creationism has been approved by their senate committee.

(via Captain Carl’s Daily Blarrrg)

For your enjoyment and edification, here’s a list of fetishes:

Pyrophilia – when a person gets sexually excited by watching fire or starting a fire.

Taphephilia – sexual excitement from the thought of being buried alive or even getting excited by cemeteries.

Necrophilia – attraction to dead people. And surprisingly, it is only illegal in 17 states. (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Hawaii, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Pennsylvania & Washington)

Acrotomophilia – the attraction to amputees.

Tetratophilia – becoming sexually attracted to deformed or “monstrous” people.

Macrophilia – a sexual fantasy involving being tiny in the presence of giants.

Dendrophilia – arousal caused by trees.

Archnephilia – sexual attraction to spiders.

Retifism – arousal caused by shoes (not to be confused with podophilia, which is a sexual interest in feet).

Somnophilia – this is known as Sleeping Beauty syndrome. Where a person will get aroused by waking up a sleeping stranger or touching or having relations with their partner when he/she is sleeping.

Agalmatophilia – sexual attraction to dolls, statues, or mannequins.

Plushophilia – sexual arousal caused by stuffed animals or someone dressed in a giant animal costume.

Hierophilia – getting sexually excited by religious or sacred objects.

Doraphilia – getting excited by various fabrics like leather, skin, or fur.

Diaper fetish – getting aroused by wearing diapers or looking at adults wearing diapers.

Which is different from Infantilism – pretending to be a baby.

Cross-eyed fetish – Duh.

Sneezing fetish – it has something to do with the humorous look of a sneezing person’s face.

Coughing fetish – Duh.

Hiccupping fetish – the fact that hiccupping is uncontrollable & causes public humiliation is a turn on to those who have a hiccup fetish.

Blood fetish – arousal caused by watching someone bleed or the sight of blood, usually involving someone licking or drinking blood.

A sub-fetish of that is Odaxelagnia – when a person gets excited by biting or being bitten.

Autoassassinophilia – sexual arousal by fantasizing about staging their own death.

Emetophilia – (a.k.a. Roman Shower) sexual arousal as a result of vomiting or watching someone else puke.

Urophilia – (a.k.a. watersports or golden showers.) getting excited by urine (whether that’s relieving yourself in public, watching someone else relieve themselves, relieving yourself on someone else, or having someone relieve themselves on you).

Corprophilia – these people get excited by going #2 on someone or having someone do the same to them.

Klismaphilia – excitement by receiving or giving enemas.

Eproctophilia –sexually aroused by flatulence. It’s mainly men that have this fetish (really?), & they’re sexually excited by female flatulence in particular.

Good news, everyone! New Futurama Movie in June

As Bender’s Big Score gets set to air in four installments on Comedy Central later this month, Fox Home Entertainment ahs announced that the next adventure in the series of Futurama DVD movies will be available at retail this summer. The Fate of human and robot-kind is at stake when Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs debuts at retail on June 24.

In what Fox is calling the most tentacle-packed Futurama epic, space itself rips open, revealing a gateway to another universe. What lies beyond is a mix of horror and love as the Planet Express crew encounters a repulsive, planet-sized monster with romantic intentions.

The second feature-length Futurama film will be followed by at least two more movies from series creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen. The show’s entire voice cast and most of its main writers have returned to help revive the series, which FOX cancelled in 2003. Groening, who also created The Simpsons, has told us that Futurama is the animated show he’s most proud of. Those who haven’t picked up Bender’s Big Score on DVD yet can catch it on Comedy Central on March 23 at 8 p.m.

More Republican spam found in my inbox. Unlike last time, this one is actually from my congressmen.

Subject: Akin Newsletter 3-19-08
From: Congressman Todd Akin <todd.akin@houseenews.net>
Reply-To: 1999909324.12748.2@houseenews.net
Date: 19 Mar 2008 11:45:05 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Friends,

I am pleased to announce my new web site and e-newsletter which will better serve you.

I’m pleased to announce that you’re a spammer and you will never get my vote.

This new e-newsletter with enhanced capabilities will let you know more quickly what is going on here in Washington, DC. This new technology will also increase the number of constituents I can reach on a regular basis and adds the ability to elicit direct responses on legislation and issues of the day.

By utilizing the new e-newsletter features we are able to communicate at a lower cost to taxpayers than ever before.

I hope that you will find this new e-newsletter easier to read, easier to respond to and most importantly more timely and informative. I am eager to hear from you as we take advantage of this new program.

I hope that you will find this new e-newsletter easier to read, easier to respond to - <sarcasm> I’m sure you won’t make available the email addresses of the respondents to other bulk emailers. </sarcasm>

Sincerely,

Congressman Todd Akin

Unlike the email from Mr. Akin’s colleague, this email doesn’t have any obvious misspellings.

This email was sent from the domain, politicalsystems.net with an email address in the houseenews.net domain.

Foreign policy expert John McCain can’t be bothered to learn some “minor” details about the war he so enthusiastically supports.

A McCain Gaffe in Jordan:

Sen. John McCain, traveling in the Middle East to promote his foreign policy expertise, misidentified in remarks Tuesday which broad category of Iraqi extremists are allegedly receiving support from Iran.

He said several times that Iran, a predominately Shiite country, was supplying the mostly Sunni militant group, al-Qaeda. In fact, officials have said they believe Iran is helping Shiite extremists in Iraq.

Speaking to reporters in Amman, the Jordanian capital, McCain said he and two Senate colleagues traveling with him continue to be concerned about Iranian operatives “taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back.”

Pressed to elaborate, McCain said it was “common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that’s well known. And it’s unfortunate.” A few moments later, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, standing just behind McCain, stepped forward and whispered in the presidential candidate’s ear. McCain then said: “I’m sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qaeda.”

Let’s just remember this “gaffe” every time the media tries to tell us that John McCain is a foreign policy expert.

Another scam email gets by the spam filter…

From: Mrs Marie Catherine <mrscarthrinej2@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: mrsdcarthrine@yahoo.co.in

Japan (.jp) or India (.in)? Make up your mind!

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:47:08 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Greetings From Mrs Marie Catherine.

From Mrs Marie Catherine.
Dearest,

With Due Respect And Humanity, I was compelled to write to you under a humanitarian ground. My name is Mrs Marie Catherine, I am married to Mr Jean-Claude ROLAND a director in a trading company here in Cote d’Ivoire.We were married for 36 years without a child. He died after a Cadiac Arteries Operation.

Cue the violins.

And Recently, My Doctor told me that I would not last for the next six months due to my cancer problem (cancer of the liver and stroke). Before my husband died last year there is this sum $2.8 Million Dollars that he deposited with a Private Finance Company here In Ivory Coast.Presently this money is still in the Vault of the Company.

You wouldn’t happen to be a friend of Ms. Esther Jacob? She sent me an email claiming she “may not last for the next six months” and had a similar “business proposal.”

Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to any good God fearing brother or sister that will utilize this fund the way I am going to instruct herein. I want somebody that will use this fund according to the desire of my late.husband to help Lessprivilaged people, orphanages,widows and propagating the word of God. I took this decision because I don’t have any child that will inherit this fund, And I don’t want in away where this money will be used in an unGodly way. This is why I am taking this decision to hand you over this Fund.

I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going.I want you to always remember me in your daily prayers because of my up coming Cancer Surgery.Write back as soon as possible any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing another person for this same purpose, Hoping to read from you asap.

I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. To Hell.

God bless you as you listing to the voice of reasoning.

Mrs Marie Catherine.

For someone suffering from cancer Ms. Marie Catherine sure gets around. She apparently sent this email from a computer in Japan

Hello, GORRY-O!! I'm a GENIUS from HARVARD!!