Eric Scheske

Sacrilege on campus [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060608/ap_on_hi_te/colleges_ipods_8]: > In a rare instance, Apple Computer Inc.'s iconic iPod music player surpassed beer drinking as the most "in" thing among undergraduate college students, according to the latest biannual

*More common knowledge as science [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/bpl-mis060806.php]: > The authors find that after a five-minute conversation with a stranger of the opposite gender, men were more likely to interpret ambiguous or friendly behavior as indicating sexual interest. "The findings

> The oldest surviving condom in the world has gone on display in an Austrian museum. The reusable condom dates back to 1640 and is completely intact, as is its orginal users' manual, written in Latin. Link [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1870958.html] (be careful, there&

The secularists are twittering with Jon Stewart's overwhelming victory over Bill Bennett in a "debate" regarding gay marriage. See, for example [http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/07/jon_stewart_tears_op.html] ("Steward [sic] made mincemeat of out neanderthal pundit Bill Bennett"). I

Today's web crawling results: *My charitable effort of the week: Bishop John Steinbock ministered for 21 years on Skid Row and East Los Angeles. He wrote a book of anecdotes from Skid Row ( Ministry of Presence). Proceeds from the sale of the book will be given to Catholic

They caught the bikini strangler and released his details. You'd expect more from a rehabbed sex offender with tattoos on his neck. (Oh wait. They didn't say he was a "rehabbed" offender. But he must've been, right, or he wouldn't

Jeffrey Tucker at Lew Rockwell argues that the Internet and email are increasing children's literacy [http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker69.html]. He might be write right. He mentions a thing called "Pooh Blogs [http://poohblogs.21publish.com/]," which, based on a quick scan, appear to

Historians agree that declining population was a major cause of Rome's fall. When I did brief research regarding the cause of the declining population, two mainline sources blamed it on plagues (see this post [https://thedailyeudemon.com/4465/], third paragraph) and don't mention contraception and abortion,

A Romanian man has handed over his wife to a creditor as payment for his debts [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1868389.html]. The story says that the woman now lives with the creditor and enjoys it. I'm guessing the woman went voluntarily or, if not,

I haven't heard of anything bad happening, and the infamous date has already passed in parts of the world. I made it back from Lansing, and my children are okay. If you've been killed or something, let me know. One devilish problem, though: my computer is