Looks like they’re selling performance-enhancement pills for men. I was hoping it was something different, like the “gyaku enjo” ads that have started popping up again in my Japanese spam.

From:  [비ㅡ아ㅡ클ㅡ리ㅡ닉]
Subject: 정품. 저렴하고 빠르게판_매합니다...[비ㅡ아ㅡ클ㅡ리ㅡ닉]
 
♣　사이트접속후 관리자에게 실시간 문의도가능합니다.
♣　당일배송을 원칙으로 합니다
♣　FDA허가된 상품이되 처방전없이 구매가능합니다
♣　건강한 性생활을 드립니다.
 
♣　묶음상품은 더욱 저렴하게 드립니다..^^ 

Will more cosplayers choose LOAD-kun or Utsutsu-chan?

(setting aside the issue of being arrested for faithful Utsutsu-chan cosplay…)

Lowell Observatory's Putnam wants to name asteroid for Trayvon Martin

The victims of media-instigated “justice for trayvon” attacks will be required to time-share a small rock tentatively named “Fuck You Whitey”.

Why was a SWAT officer showing off tactical gear at a children’s book fair in the first place? And why was a small child able to walk up to him, reach into his holster, and fire his sidearm?

I love the quote from the department: “The gun functioned how it was supposed to. When the trigger was pulled, the gun went off.”

Great, guys, now explain why the officer didn’t function as he was supposed to. He’s got a round in the chamber of his Glock at an event where he’s surrounded by small children, deliberately getting them interested in his gear. And he’s wearing it in a “tactical” thigh holster that’s so poorly fitted that the kid managed to get his finger squarely on the trigger without Officer Friendly noticing.

“If it weren’t for her plump breasts, most opponents would probably mistake her for a man. Therefore she dressed daringly, exposing most of her flesh. Her skin was swarthy, with a strange design inked on her left cheek. An informed observer would recognize the design as a warding spell of the Arido hill tribes.”

That settles the question of why competent women in fantasy show so much skin: they’re feminist pioneers, working twice as hard to prove they’re just as good as men!

[this message brought to you by my attempt to figure out the word 呪払い, which apparently should be read as “noroibarai”; it’s not explained anywhere, but is in common use in the online fantasy community to refer to warding magic. See also here.]

Jeff Atwood and Weyman Kwong are making a sturdy programmer’s keyboard with silent mechanical keyswitches. While I enjoy the ear-shattering clatter of my current mechanical keyboad, I’m less fond of the shoddy physical construction and poor multi-keypress handling (and, of course, I’d swallow broken glass before dealing with the assholes at Matias ever again), so this is definitely on my must-buy list.

Perhaps I’ve been away from teenage girls for too long, but my automatic reaction to this product suggests I should be kept away from them…

Why make a big fuss about announcing what everyone knew well before the trial started? Because Leavenworth is an all-male prison. This makes it look less like a courageous stance by a transgender individual, and more like a cynical ploy to avoid spending the next 7-35 years in Leavenworth.

(cynical quotes around certain words in the previous paragraph have been omitted to avoid discussing the general issue of gender as a fluid concept disconnected from biology)