The Awoke.

Had very strange dreams of having bought an old dilapitated (sp?) house and exploring it to figure out what fixing up it needed. Discovered there was an old speak-easy hidden in the basement, and it was still being run!

Ah well, now to coffee and verticallity -- alertness will hopefully come in the fullness of time.

Not exactly an aphrodesiac

Then again, a patch to promote sexual desire in post-menopausal women is an intriguing development.

NWO and collaborative Filtering.

I often blather on about collaborative filtering and how its the salvation of the internet -- or at least a large chunk thereof. Now here is someone who is thinking along the same lines. He's not going in quite the same direction as _sps_ and I, but it does show what sorts of things the technology is good for.

Possible treatment for Osteoporosis

A new Antibody drug has been found to stop bone loss and improve bone density after a year, while only being administered once every 6 months. More information here.

Asexual pride

New Scientist has a long feature on asexuality and how online communities of asexuals are declaring their non-desire to be "as valid an orientation as being straight or gay."

The amazing degree of variation in the experiences of asexual people suggests that the underlying causes of their lack of sexual attraction are very different. Some asexuals might simply have extremely low sex drives in spite of an innate orientation towards males or females. Other asexuals might form a fourth category of sexual orientation in addition to the hetero-, homo- and bi-sexual ones, namely people who are attracted to neither gender, even if they have normal sex drives.

There is no official definition for asexuality yet, but it probably needs to take all these variations into account, says Anthony Bogaert, a psychologist and human-sexuality expert studying asexuality at Brock University in St. Catherines, Canada. The place where we draw the line is the desire to interact sexually with other people, says Brian  (name changed), a navy veteran from Virginia. When it comes to having children, some asexuals say they would like to have a baby, but most would use IVF to avoid having to have sex.

Full article is here.

Breastfeeding Women Secrete Aphrodisiacs

Interesting study about human 'pheremones'.

So much for Catan.

Well, nancyrihakova was apparently eaten by crocodiles and _sps_ is currently doing his famous impression of the superhero "Face-Down Unconcious Man", so it looks like there's no Catan for me this evening.

POO!

I Think I may be Ill.

I've been somewhat irritable and grumpy all day, and haven't been able to keep warm. Plus my sinuses have been going haywire. Not long ago, taxlady pointed all this out to me, and I realized I'm probably coming down with something. Looking back, I may have been coming down with something for the last few days, since my sinuses have been out of whack for that long.

Anyway, taxlady made me some homemade chicken soup, which helped a lot, and I'll probably go to bed in the not-so-distant future.