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Using passenger planes to monitor weather more frequently and thoroughly than balloons allow:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061029/ap_on_sc/predicting_storms_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061029/ap_on_sc/predicting_storms_1
2006-10-29
Why Tentacle Sex?
2006-10-29 15:06Shay explains.
Summary:
The Japanese see octopuses as playful comics or pranksters, not monsters.
The Japanese don't have Christian guilt and fear about sex, and no qualms about erotica or instruction manuals.
The post-WWII Occupation forces, OTOH, *did* have such neuroses, and spread the lack of fun by banning the portrayal of genitalia, leading to (a) fuzzy censored penis hentai and (b) a revival of tentacles.
Plus of course the full-bondage + triple-penetration without obscuring the scene with bodies capability of your friendly little tentacle monster.
Summary:
The Japanese see octopuses as playful comics or pranksters, not monsters.
The Japanese don't have Christian guilt and fear about sex, and no qualms about erotica or instruction manuals.
The post-WWII Occupation forces, OTOH, *did* have such neuroses, and spread the lack of fun by banning the portrayal of genitalia, leading to (a) fuzzy censored penis hentai and (b) a revival of tentacles.
Plus of course the full-bondage + triple-penetration without obscuring the scene with bodies capability of your friendly little tentacle monster.
10 minute Firefly parody -- James links to it, and then a comment mentions a black tea version of the song. Most of it's moderate, not superb; the song parody itself starts about 9 minutes in.