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Porn Hurts, Episode 1,982,001

A 45-year-old internet porn addict is facing jail after he attacked his wife and forced her to have her genitals pierced. Police said the man from Istria had demanded she get the piercing done so she would be more like a porn star.

Porn is the victim-less crime . . . until it deranges its users to the point they're a danger to others. I'm thoroughly opposed to porn, not so much because it's immoral, but because (i) it's stupid, and (ii) it messes with people's thinking (which can be expected, I guess, with its being stupid). Porn grows with the sex culture and feeds it. As long as porn continues to exist at the levels it does, we'll never make meaningful inroads against sex-related vice. If you're addicted to a vice, you're less likely to oppose that vice (certain preachers notwithstanding). Heck, if you're addicted to any vice, you're less likely to oppose any vice. It's human nature: You protect what's closest to your heart . . . or your crotch.

Best Vendor Since the Lucky Stripe Vending Machine

The Espresso Book Machine is an innovative vending machine, recently unveiled in London. It offers hundreds of thousands of items. You may not see them all available in the display window, but the Espresso Book Machine has access to half-a-MILLION books.
You just put in your money, make your selection, and the machine will print and bind your book right before your eyes. It prints 100 pages per minute and can pop out a children's book in seconds; abiography in minutes, and War & Peace in about 15 min-a-rooties.

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Catacomb Me

One of the coolest stories of the year: laser cameras are opening up the miles of catacombs under Rome:

When the process is finished, it looks like an actual film of the particular room in question.
In all, four billion dots were recorded, enabling practically the whole catacomb to be documented in this way. Only a handful of small spaces were left out because it simply was not possible to get the scanner in.
The final result is astonishing.
On a computer screen, you can now see the whole underground complex. Using different buttons on the key pad, you can zoom in on the tunnels.
You can travel "through" walls, down corridors and into chambers, giving the first real sense of its beauty, scale and detail.
Paintings on walls, which have not been seen in nearly 2,000 years, are now visible - their colours vivid and clear.

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