some links

[spoonless]

5 Years After Portugal's Decriminalization of Heroine, drug-related HIV infections have dropped significantly:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=portugal-drug-decriminalization

Derren Brown - Subliminal Advertising (anybody know if this guy is cheating somehow? is this for real?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQjr1YL0zg

Poly as social evolution:
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/enlightened-living/200903/consideration-polyamorous-relationships-social-evolution

The Trouble with Twitter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w

Ridiculously muscular guy (myostatin deficiency):
http://www.who-sucks.com/wp-content/uploads/icons//2007/07/freak.jpg

Ridiculously muscular dog (myostatin deficiency):
http://www.who-sucks.com/wp-content/uploads/icons//2007/07/wendy1.jpg

Is Sheldon from Big Bang Theory based on Lubos Motl?
http://physics.about.com/b/2009/03/04/big-bang-theory-emmy-movement.htm

The Internet as envisioned in 1969 (why does Mother's internet look like a lot more fun than Father's?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0pPfyYtiBc&NR=1

Gay ducks derail depopulation plan:
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=gay-ducks-derail-repopulation-plan-2009-03-10

Slug Sex:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSW9kWIRCOQ

Hitler & Eva Braun, Family Guy style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCn7Xk_6sb8&feature=related

Illinois declares Pluto a planet:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/05/illinois-plutocrats/

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

Scary Hitler speech to 65,000 Hitler youth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuxkq1zIWDY&NR=1

Little Mr. Conservative:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/fashion/08conserve.html

ONN - Courageous Man Refuses to Believe he has Cancer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwFvNYSCmhM&sdig=1

ONN - First Female Dictator Hailed as Step Forward for Women:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEtw3XJoJrE&feature=channel

ONN - Child Bankrupts Make a Wish Foundation by Wishing for More Wishes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2OObOM3R_U&feature=related

XKCD on Neutrality:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/neutrality_shmeutrality.png

Percentage growth over the past decade of non-religious people for each state in the US (strangely, California is way behind, almost as slowly growing as Georgia... maybe because there were already enough secular people in it when the decade started?):
http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/04/03/secularizing-america/

The Physics of High Heels:
http://www.thesciencebabe.com/

Transcendant Man trailer (documentary on Ray Kurzweil):
http://www.transcendentman.com/

The Pleasure Principle (an article on One Taste, a group some friends of mine have been involved with for various periods of time):
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/fashion/15commune.html?em

Former Nazi camp guard charged with 29,000 counts of accessory to murder:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-demjanjuk12-2009mar12,0,2333016.story

Atlas Shrugged sales as a function of government intervention policy:
http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13185404

World Builder short film:
http://vimeo.com/3365942?pg=embed&sec=

America becoming less Christian, but more atheist and more fundamentalist:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/09/us.religion.less.christian/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Star Trek fragrances:
http://trekmovie.com/2009/03/04/trek-spring-collection-preview-first-look-at-gen
ki-star-trek-fragrances/