Perkins took me to Lush in San Francisco last Saturday and the Rock Star soap I got is making my bathroom smell AWESOMECAKES.

A few months ago a Russian spacecraft returned from the International Space Station. Something went wrong and the spacecraft made a "ballistic reentry", which subjected the crew to much higher g-forces and caused the craft to land way off-target.

Anatoly Perminov, the head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, speculated that the ballistic reentry was connected to a Russian nautical superstition that having more women than men on a craft was unlucky. "This isn't discrimination," he stated when challenged on the point. "I'm just saying that when a majority [of the crew] is female, sometimes certain kinds of unsanctioned behaviour or something else occurs." Perminov said he would try to ensure that the number of women would not exceed the number of men in the future.[17]

Um, OK. Apparently it's OK to have chicks in space - just not too many of them....

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There is a place called Meltz, here in Colorado, that is filling my Lush needs without the Lush smell overload. I believe there is a Lush out here somewhere too.

Darth Vader's love interest. Or maybe some wacky fashion thing....

Super Cute Ice Skating Monkey (video)

That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this.

There is a place called Meltz, here in Colorado, that is filling my Lush needs without the Lush smell overload. I believe there is a Lush out here somewhere too.

There's finally one here in Cincy that's part of a Macy's cosmetics department; it just so happens to be in the mall that is literally across the street from my office. Which is both AWESOME and bad for my bank account.

Well, that's an old one, dating back to the late '60s. I'd say it was part of popular culture into the '70s but not much after that....

When I signed up for my Freshman college classes in 1979 I was given a punchcard with the Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate advisory. So it was still present through the 70s in certain liberal arts colleges unwilling to invest in newfangled computer technology.

Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate sounds like a good band name.

The phrase had some countercultural meaning, right? Back when computers were all big mainframes, and represented The Man.

The Colbert Bump good for Dems

Democratic politicians receive a 40% increase in contributions in the 30 days after appearing on the comedy cable show The Colbert Report. In contrast, their Republican counterparts essentially gain nothing. These findings appear to validate anecdotal evidence regarding the political impact of the program, such as the assertions by host Stephen Colbert that appearing on his program provides candidates with a “Colbert bump” or a rise in support for their election campaigns.