Borderland Edition

This case is akin to a meat-eater suing a vegetarian restaurant for not offering him a rib-eye, or a female patient suing a vasectomy doctor for not providing her hysterectomy services. But rather than defend the persecuted business, the New Jersey attorney general intervened on behalf of the gay plaintiff and wrangled an agreement out of eHarmony to change its entire business model.

The Coercion Of Tolerance At eHarmony

This is crap. No offense to anyone, but this is bad for free enterprise and for sanity. If you don’t like what eHarmony sells then you are welcome to buy another product. Next time I’m at Starbucks I’m asking for a Ukrainian beer. If they don’t provide it, then watch out…

From Being Brain Healthy:

Have a social life with non-distracting friends and family. By non-distracting I mean not distracting people like those of the opposite gender (having a girlfriend will not help you sleep, especially if you’re a geek like me, it will just make you confused, hopeful, frustrated, whatever — not that I’m encouraging anyone to not have a girlfriend, I’m just saying that that doesn’t fall into the context of “non-distracting”) as well as frustrating relationships with people who make you have grudges or regretful memories or overly enjoyable or hopeful thoughts. Children are great for this.

Ah, poor lonely computer geeks…

“All men dream, but not equally, those that dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act upon their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible” - T.E. Lawrence.

I think I could grow to like children more if they all came with a $100,000 bonus….

Mass Wedding Hopes to Spark Baby Boom in Separatist Territory [Eurasianet]

Each couple received a payment of $2,000; newlyweds living in villages received a cow. That financial support will continue with each child born: couples will receive $2,000 for their first child, $3,000 for a second child, and increasing sums up to $100,000 for a seventh child. […] Vladimir Hakobjanyan, a 24-year-old from Askeran, said he was happy to finally get married. “Three month ago, I kidnapped my wife as her parents would not give their consent.

Another nifty idea from Google: Mail Goggles

Mail Goggles would prevent you from sending e-mails to ex-girlfriends or boyfriends while drunk on the weekends

Maybe we should have Google takeover Wall Street instead of the Feds.

I miss the Stone Age…