Point a remote control at your balls and click the off button if you want to have sex for fun. Point it again and click the ‘on’ button to get down to the business of making a baby. Yes… it’s an adjustable vasectomy. Love it.
Happy Valentine’s Day, readers and commenters.

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Are you sitting comfortably?
So the U.S. launches a spy satellite in 2006 incorporating some top-secret U.S. technology to be used in the international war on terror and national defense in general. But a technical issue with the satellite makes it almost immediately inoperable, uncontrollable, and on a slow path toward the earth’s atmosphere, where […]

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This legal dispute could only happen in California, summarised by the LA Times thus:
“When the shade from redwoods casts a shadow over solar panels, what’s an environmentalist to do?”
It’s a beautiful crystal of environmentalist angst. Which is more important? Planting (and conserving and respecting and embracing) the beautiful and mighty redwood? Or […]

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