Clever F******s

Werner Habermehl, from the Hamburg Medical Research Institute says that sex, "besides giving excitement to the body also provides brain with plenty of excitement. Consequently, the increased amount of adrenaline and cortisol hormones that are produced in the brain stimulates the grey matter and improves sharpness of mind." In The Times of India.

'Snot that bad

"Picking your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy, according to a top Austrian doctor."

Another, er, tasteless celeb story

"Jamie Oliver burnt his penis while cooking a St Valentine's Day meal for his wife - naked. He stripped off to treat wife Jools, but wound up in agony when he got too close to the oven." On Ananova.

The Times They Are A-Changin' Their Underwear

"Bob Dylan appears in a new series of commercials for Victoria's Secret, his grizzled face intercut with shots of model Adriana Lima cavorting through Venice in a bra, panties and spike heels." At CNN.com.

I got music, i got algorithms, who could ask for anything more?

Sony's 58-centimetre-tall humanoid robot, QRIO, led the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in a unique rendition of Beethoven's 5th symphony. And QRIO is versatile. Apparently four of them performed a complicated dance routine in December 2003. In New Scientist.

It had to happen some time: a hack-and-slash computer game based on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. But there's hope. "Human malevolence remains creepier than anything animators have yet to come up with."

We wish we could write so mean and funny. NY Press's list of the 50 most loathsome New Yorkers.

With their history of wonderful, complex, painstakingly executed April Fool gags, we were kinda sceptical when we heard the buzz about Google Mail, but this is from the horse's mouth. Ten One gigs of webspace. Yeeha! But the word on the street isn't all good. Main bone of contention: The Goog's gonna pay for it by automatically reading your mail and serving you ads. Class, discuss.

Call me Laughing Ent. Or as an Elf, Nursoronion, as a Hobbit, Hildigrim Smallburrow from Tuckborough, as a Dwarf, Trán Granitehammer, and the Adûnaic: Arîdtrahâru. Try The Middle-earth Name Generator.

And a bit late, but...
Also, wander by this blogpost which is all too chillingly possible. (via Many-to-Many.)