Oct 31 2003
“Bunny Man
haunts Virginia: “PARKED near the bridge, Proffitt recalls she noticed two children at the tunnel opening. She watched them and suddenly, poof! They disappeared, she says.
� � � �”I’m saying, ‘Oh my God!’ And seconds later the children were at the back window of the car looking right at me,” she says. “I was hysterical.”
Oct 31 2003
CNN.com - Girls pummel man who exposed himself - Oct. 31, 2003: “A man described by authorities as a known sexual predator was chased through the streets of South Philadelphia by an angry crowd of Catholic high school girls, who kicked and punched him after he was tackled by neighbors, police said Friday. “
Oct 30 2003
Wired 11.11: Cosmic Reality Check: Already, the probe’s findings have provided a few salient new notions about the nature of cosmic reality. For starters, the universe is 13.7 billion years old. Unlike previous figures, this is not a rough estimate; the margin of error is about 1 percent. In addition, the universe is flat. Forget all that mind-boggling space-time-is-curved stuff. Euclid was right all along. And the space-time pancake will expand infinitely. There’s no such thing as an end to this particular universe.
Oct 17 2003
Wired 11.11: These Are Definitely Not Scully’s Breasts: ” The moment he boots up case file 371, the detective gets that twisted feeling in his gut. Ed Lake - blue button-down shirt, gray hair, hangdog jowls - studies the evidence alone in the musty dining room of his tiny apartment in Racine, Wisconsin, a small town southeast of Milwaukee. It’s that blonde again. Elisha Cuthbert. He’s seen her. The daughter on the TV show 24. And here she is now. Frozen on his computer screen - the smoky eyes, the parted lips. But something’s wrong. The plunging neckline. The sheer black blouse. The exposed nipples. It’s her, but it’s not. It’s a sham. “
Oct 14 2003
Salon.com Sex | An antique institution: “When my first marriage ended, I thought I’d figured one thing out: Don’t ever get married. Not if you enjoy sex. And then I met Janet.”
Oct 09 2003
CNN.com - Scientists think universe shaped like soccer ball - Oct. 9, 2003: “Jeffrey Weeks, a MacArthur Fellow based in Canton, New York, and researchers from the University of Paris and Observatory of Paris studied astronomical data which suggests the universe is finite and made of curved pentagons joined together into a sphere. “
Oct 08 2003
Salon.com Sex | “I was a middle-aged virgin”: “‘Gentle, nurturing touch is new for most older virgins,’ Blanchard explains. ‘Many don’t recall ever being touched that way before by anyone. Imagine what it must feel like never to have known gentle touch, and then to have someone hold your hand, stroke your arm, run their fingers through your hair. It’s a profound experience. Often, clients cry.’ “
Short screenplay or story about the boy in the bubble who’s now become a man in the bubble? Imagine all the things you would want to experience after a lifetime imprisioned, and being immobilized at simple touch… Something to think about.
Oct 06 2003
Salon.com Life | Somebody’s watching you: “Eight million American women — or one in 12 — will be a victim of stalking at some point in their lives. So why are law enforcement agencies so inept at handling their cases? “
