Ok, on the one hand, I'm sad. Sad, because I really wanted this blog name. On the other hand, I'm happy. Happy, because I randomly stumbled onto that piece of blogdom which had been missing in my life.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you:

The Porn Blog

On the third hand, however, I'm very confused. Confused, because it seems that every domain name I want to register is already, in some other sphere, a well-known porno site. I submit to you xoffender.com and youbitch.com, neither of which are safe for work, yet both of which are easily confused with my own, independently-registered non-porn domains xoffender.de and youbitch.org.

The question is, of course, whether this is just some sort of perverts' zeitgeist, or if, indeed, the highest order of probability in the Internet belongs to porn. What's the most common sort of webpage? Porn. What's the most common sort of email? Porn Spam. What comprises well over 75% of my browser cache? Stock Quotes. Ok, ok, it's porn. I feel myself to be a pawn, nay, a victim of statistics.

I'm at a loss.

Whew! This is a nice thing. I just donated 30,000 of my Delta Skymiles, since I always forget to use them anyway. Hopefully, some poor little old mother will get to see her soldier-boy or -girl for Christmas, just because that anonymous guy in Germany was nice enough to empty his sky-miles account for them.

I've got warm fuzzies now.

I dare you to make this your wallpaper.

I double-dog dare ya.

Russia To Give Kyoto Thumbs Down from Wired

The Kyoto Protocol is, according to many, a cynical attempt by the Europeans to slow down the rest of the world until it can catch back up. It's an economic handbrake for anybody who signs it, providing they actually produce anything. At any rate, it's irrelevant, as global warming itself has been thoroughly discredited as the alarmist Green political card that it is.