How do they do this?<\/p>\n
Well, first they freeze-dry your corpse, and then they shatter the corpsicle jerky into dust with sonic bursts<\/a>. The dust, which doesn’t decay as long as you keep it dry gets put into a corn starch coffin, which will decompose quickly.<\/p>\n Come on, that’s awesome.<\/p>\n You<\/a> know, I thought that story about the carnivorous fish spa<\/a> was the freakiest thing I would read about the Japanese and fish. Not so, however. It comes a very, very distant second to the article about the sexual habits of Japanese fishermen<\/a>. (The original link seems to have vanished, but there’s a copy of the story here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Look, I’m going to quote a little bit of it, but you go read it for yourself.<\/p>\n Should you happen to find yourself climbing on a seaside crag, you might come across a type of anemone known as “isoginchaku.” And this, says Makeburu, bodes well for some fishy frolic.<\/p>\n The creature gets its name from the old Japanese coin purse called a “kinchaku,” which puckers tightly in the center when you pull on the drawstrings.<\/p>\n “So if you stick in your you-know-what, it’ll snap shut around it,” he says. “You don’t need any foreplay at all. Just ram the old avenger home. It feels goooood,” he grins, rolling his eyes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There’s a picture with that bit in the article that makes you wonder about those old size stereotypes for Asian men.<\/p>\n So, you want to be able to access your mail from anywhere, so you use GMail<\/a>, or something like it. 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Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n Be sure to at least watch the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n Scientology Faces Criminal Charges<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) \u2014 A Belgian prosecutor on Tuesday recommended that the U.S.-based Church of Scientology stand trial for fraud and extortion, following a 10-year investigation that concluded the group should be labeled a criminal organization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! <\/p>\n Finally, I have this one problem at work that is plaguing me–things that work everywhere else behave dismally if the application server happens to be a specific version of Weblogic, running on Solaris (same version of WLS works fine on Windows). 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