I started hearing the descending tone at 17.

By curious coincidence, that's roughly the age at which I started transmitting the condescending tone.

There needs to be a website one can quickly check to see if a particular wacky right-wing Christian website is a parody or not. Anyway, supposedly this is real - From the folks at Passion for Christ Movement - P4CM.com, P4CM PRESENTS "EX-MASTURBATOR" CAMPAIGN

Yeah we said it….Nobody talks about it, but most people have done it or are still doing it. It's seems to be a rite of passage for both girls and guys into the world of sex. Some say masturbation is not a sin, some say that it is. But is it really okay in the eyes of God?

Check out "P4CM TV" as people from the movement give you some live, uncut, behind the scenes footage of The Movement. Get an inside look of what goes down after church. In this episode we discuss the new Ex-Masturbator shirt.

When God wants to take His message of deliverance across the globe, there is NO stopping Him. Check out this feature of the EX Shirts on one of the fastest growing Christian Hip Hop magazines in the US: www.DaSouth.com. Also, hit up their new article, "Masturbation" It breaks down the lies behind masturbation, explains how this is actually a sin, and how we can be freed through Christ.

And if you need even more encouragement, check out ya girl Dameco's latest blog entry, in which she fearlessly testifies to her struggle and victory over masturbation!

We pray that you will join us in breaking the silence on an issue that has stayed silent for too long. Be the first to boldly rock your Ex-Masturbator shirt and let's change the world baby! Click below on one of the pictures to order your shirt.

Feel free to share your thoughts, testimony or any other comments with us.

By curious coincidence, that's roughly the age at which I started transmitting the condescending tone.

Dammit, now someone's gonna have to go through the trouble of comm-ing bt all over again....

I should go to bed. Instead of posting this:

The person behind the Save the Tree Octopus! YouTube channel has made an exciting find -- actual video of Octopus paxarbolis in the wild:

Tree Octopus Caught On Tape! (And A Poem)

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Speaking of the Crystal Palace's octopus, here's an 1872 ode to it written by Arthur Clement Hilton (under the pen-name "Algernon Charles Sin-burn") in parody of Swinburne's "Dolores":

The poem is pretty good too....

More octopusnews:

Octopus opens valve, floods Santa Monica aquarium

Huh. So The Simpsons has been renewed for two more seasons which means it will break the record of 20 seasons held by Gunsmoke.

But Law and Order has been on for nineteen seasons, so could conceivably overtake it if the Simpsons went off the air.

And both shows are in syndication incessantly.

It just seems weird that in these days of market fragmentation that the longevity record will be broken by two largely contemporaneous, but vastly dissimilar shows.

sarameg, the house you linked to above is listed in its last assessment record as having 840 sq/ft of living space.

If you have a certain piece or pieces of furniture you need to take with you, measure them before you go -- they may rule places out (this happened with our vintage dining room table, that we weren't going to get rid of). Also, you'll be surprised at how many places you walk into and think, "there's nothing wrong here, but I can't picture myself in this space."

sarameg, the house you linked to above is listed in its last assessment record as having 840 sq/ft of living space.

Wow. That house could be almost as long as three football fields, if it were one story and one foot wide inside.

Random photo ' the day: [link]

More than 1,500 inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Centre perform Michael Jackson's Thriller dance in celebration of a religious festival in Cebu City central Philippines.

This is great: xkcd takes on The Princess Bride...

Westley's a Dick