I take a crap load of calcium every day. I take 2000 mg of calcium plus 800 mg of magnesium and a very potent synthetic vitamin D to help me absorb the calcium. This is all under a doctor's supervision, so it's not something the average person has to do. But it gets annoying taking all those pills every day.

Besides, people who take their vitamins have skin that makes better book binding material.

Exactly. People should also wash those vitamins down with lots of water.

These are cool: [link]

Also, check out her lamps.

Actually, when I took some powerful antibiotics recently, I was surprised to see that the instructions for taking them included suspending my multivitamin and mineral supplements for the ten days. Evidently that interferes with the body's absorption and processing of the drug.

signed, Glad I Read The Pill Bottle Carefully

These are cool:

Hey! I met her! Her baby brother stomped my heart into little bits and pieces! Though this should have no bearing on any Buffista's interest in her work, as she herself did no stomping (and, really, I spent an awful lot of time and energy stuffing my heart under his feet again and again, and my heart could have easily escaped with only minor bruising if I hadn't been so stupid).

Crap, I seem to be running out of outrage again....

I think this is an administration strategy, especially after the warrantless wiretaps and the statment that we can still torture people while signing the anti-torture legislation. It makes you kinda forget about all the lies about Iraq.

Exercise is also very important in preventing osteoporosis.

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$12,495 for an iPod Nano case. Yes, it is jewel-encrusted:

With 10.36 carats of diamonds set in 120 grams of white gold, it weighs more than your Nano. Late-night subway flaunting not recommended

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Plus a few more Nano cases, the rest of which are less than $100.

With 10.36 carats of diamonds set in 120 grams of white gold, it weighs more than your Nano.

Ways You Can Tell That Diamonds Have Nothing To Do With Good Taste.

SEE ALSO: People who put diamonds into their gold teeth; people who wear engagement diamonds large enough to choke a toddler.

It's squideriffic!

A squid that cares for its young:

But a team of ocean scientists exploring the inky depths of the Monterey Canyon off California has discovered that at least one squid species cares for its young with loving attention, the mother cradling the eggs in her arms for months, waving her tentacles to bathe the eggs in fresh seawater. The scientists suspect that other species are doting parents, too, and that misperceptions about squid behavior have arisen because the deep is so poorly explored.

"Our finding is unexpected because this behavior differs from the reproductive habits of all other known squid species," the scientists wrote in the Dec. 15 issue of Nature. "We expect it to be found in other squids."

From Squidblog: Squid hats With a picture of a cat wearing a squid hat.

More on the cat squid-hat: [link]

also, with instructions for knitting a squid hat for your infant