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Eric Scheske

Top Ten Annoying Habits

According to a British poll: > Top 10 most annoying habits (percentage of people who get annoyed by it) 1. Nose picking 59%; 2. Snoring 55%; 3. Teeth grinding 50%; 4. Knuckle cracking 49%; 5. Finger tapping 49%; 6. Breaking wind 46%; 7. Humming 38%; 8. Leg jiggling 34%; 9.

Internet Growth Finally Slows Down

> A new report [http://www.telegeography.com/ee/free_resources/pdf/gig06_exec_summ.pdf] from TeleGeography [http://www.telegeography.com/products/gig/index.php] shows that "global cross-border internet traffic grew by just 49 percent in 2005, down from 103 percent in 2004." In rich

What's Lower?

Being a porn icon or working for PETA? Link [http://www.helpinganimals.com/feat/ronjeremy/]. Excerpt: > Recently, Ron [Jeremy] proved that he's a big man when it comes to small animals by taking a break from his daily grind to pose for a new PETA ad promoting

Top Party Schools

According to the Princeton Review: 1. University of Wisconsin-Madison 2. Ohio University-Athens 3. Lehigh University 4. University of California-Santa Barbara 5. State University of New York at Albany 6. Indiana University-Bloomington 7. University of Mississippi 8. University of Iowa 9. University of Massachusetts-Amherst 10. Loyola

Babs is Back

> Streisand's Stranger in a Strange Land debuted Tuesday on a notable parcel of Internet real estate -- it's spending one week as an exclusive (and free) streaming video on the home page of Amazon.com. It is culled from Guilty Pleasures, the singer's upcoming

Sex Overrides Again

In New Hampshire, a minor needs parental consent to use a tanning salon, to get a tattoo, to get body piercing, or take an aspirin while at school. But a minor doesn't need parental consent to take the morning-after pill, thanks to recent legislation. The governor even

Call a Barber and Aggressive Hunter . . .

. . . not necessarily in that order: > The daring duo at Dolce & Gabbana has dropped the boundaries several inches. Their fall 2005 menswear line, which debuted on the Milan runway in January and now appears in print ads and stores near you, includes jeans that plunge so low that they&

This Ain't Sydney or Amsterdam

Odd choice of venue: > Staid Singapore will host its first-ever Sex Expo in November after receiving in-principle approval from the tightly-controlled city-state's authorities, a local newspaper reported Sunday. > The Singapore police have already imposed certain conditions for organizers - no obscene acts can

Hands On

We've said before that art comes in all sizes and types. When it comes to crafts, making things with ones' own hands, we're hopelessly inept, yet we respect the efforts. Here's a book for those who do what we can't. Link

Weighing in at Four Pounds . . .

. . . the September 2005 issue of Vogue: > For years, September has brought heavy issues of monthlies, traditionally women's fashion and beauty magazines like Elle, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. More recently, other magazines are also producing ad-thick issues, in categories like men's lifestyle, health