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Friday, January 21, 2005 Collected Untidy beds may keep us healthy. "Research suggests that while an unmade bed may look scruffy it is also unappealing to house dust mites thought to cause asthma and other allergies." This reminds me of something I posted a while back, a link to a paper titled: "The well-made bed: an unappreciated public health risk." The Biology of B-Movie Monsters. Find out why movie monsters are scientifically impossible. Writing Interactive Fiction. I'm always saying that I'll write one someday but so far, I haven't gotten past the manuals and tutorials. Of course, if someone else is a whiz at the programming part, I can always write the story/puzzle. Navel Gazing: Why even feminists are obsessed with fat. I find people's preoccupation with beauty standards a bit neurotic. Maybe a lot neurotic. Or it could be that I say that this is neurotic because I'm not anyone's notion of "pretty" and that I just want to whisk the subject into a dark corner, forget about it, and concentrate on other things that are more "important" (or that I wish were more important). But self-analysis to the point of making myself a victim of today's social mores is just not my style. Yes, there is the contradiction between femininity and feminism but I can't help think that maybe the contradiction will disappear if we change the sociological definitions of what it means to be feminine. For one thing, my definition of femininity excludes helplessness or deference. Those two qualities aren't feminine. They're for weak fools, period. The Shadow Internet. Hm. If the government and media conglomerates keep on chasing down the pirates only to have more pop up, what's the point? They should figure out a way to use the technology to their advantage instead of running after elusive shadows. (This is what everyone has been saying for a while now, but are they listening?) [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 4:18 AM : ]
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