Its Friday Link day again! I also wanted to remind you all about my Bloggiversary Contest, and to let you all know there is a new prize. Along with the Complete Sleeping Beauty Trilogy, the winner will get 30 pre-paid minutes to the adult video on demand site PassionateVOD.com - because who doesn’t love porn?

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Repairing the Damage, Before Roe - New York Times, found via Boinkology

“When such fears arise, we often hear about the pre-Roe “bad old days.” Yet there are few physicians today who can relate to them from personal experience. I can.”

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Ashes of Pringles can designer buried in his work - WRAL.com
“ The man who designed the Pringles potato crisp packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that a portion of his ashes has been buried in one of the iconic cans.”

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The Compleat Hanky Code

See, I bought boots, and wanted to see what I would be flagging when I bought purple laces for it. Apparently, I’d be flagging for piercing. I do like piercing, so its all good. :)

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Female Albatrosses Set Up Same-Sex Partnerships - Fox News

Bird are gay.

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“They’re trying to make nudity at San Onofre illegal” - California Catholic Daily

Dude. Why do people make such a big deal out of some naked people? Look at this: “Last year, according to the Orange County Register, a man was arrested for the alleged sexual molestation of a 12-year-old girl near the beach.”

Right. Near the beach. So, if I got molested near McDonald’s, would people think being near McDonald’s caused the molestation? People - nudists don’t want to molest kids. They just want to be naked. From what I’ve seen of nudists, they police that kind of behaviour pretty sternly. I mean, they don’t *want* to be associated with child molesters in any way. They just want to be naked at the beach.

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Nerd Night in the East Village - NYT

I so want to go to this!

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The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care) - NYT

“There was nothing very interesting in Katherine P. Rankin’s study of sarcasm — at least, nothing worth your important time. All she did was use an M.R.I. to find the place in the brain where the ability to detect sarcasm resides. But then, you probably already knew it was in the right parahippocampal gyrus.”