The best science fiction show on TV is “Farscape.” John Crichton stars as an astronaut from Earth who has been accidentally flung to the far reaches of the galaxy during a chance encounter with a wormhole. His predicament has a resemblance to yours, Scorpio, wouldn’t you say? Like him, fortunately, you’re making the most of your wayward adventure. There’s another parallel. “I’m the reverse King Arthur,” Crichton brags at one point, oozing self-deprecating humor. “I can put the sword back into the stone.” I advise you Scorpios to do something similar: Return the magical you-know-what to where it came from. A few weeks from now, you can circle back and retrieve it. At that time, you’ll be primed to take full advantage of the power you’re not yet ready to use.

What a kickass horoscope. I Love “Farscape”! I think it’s one of the best things on TV these days.

(– Horoscope from http://www.freewillastrology.com/ (which is boasting a spankin new cool design!) –)

Viagra Spill: “A freighter containing 62,000 metric tons of popular impotence drug Viagra struck a reef and sank in Lake Michigan today. As a result, the once-frigid lake no longer dangles into Illinois and Indiana, but now spans majestically across northern Wisconsin.” [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson]

I’m usually really good about my ATM card. I’ve gone years without losing one. Yet in the past two months I’ve lost mine twice. Am I going suddenly senile? What is going on here?

That and I don’t have as much in my checking as I thought right now and am peeved because of it.

Britain to Relax Marijuana Laws. Britain said today that it would keep the use of marijuana theoretically illegal but no longer arrest people using it in discreet amounts in private. By Warren Hoge. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Cool. Now if the US would just relax its laws too. I do think that it’s up to the individual to make the choice of weather or not to partake (even if I can’t ever again).

Boing Boing Blog posts about an article in The World & I titled The Feminization of American Culture: How Modern Chemicals May Be Changing Human Biology. Supposedly, chemicals that are getting into the environment have estrogen-like effects.

Plastics–including a plasticizer called phthalate, used in making flexible plastic for bottles of Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, Evian water, and so forth–are known to have estrogenic effects.

Damn, and I’ve been living on bottled water lately.

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You are TENJOU UTENA
You prize nobility above all else, striving to be reunited with your prince. Apart from this, you treasure your friendships most of all. Unwilling to compromise your values in search of your dreams, you often seem to create more trouble than solve it. However, your persistence is what sets you apart from all others.

Take the “What Magic Girl are you?” Quiz

Philip G. Hamerton. “Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?” [Quotes of the Day]

Thank god I’m a mac user:

Mac OS users to miss Big Brother 3 feeds [The Macintosh News Network]

Though I am still kind of pissed at Real and their lack of support for the mac. They really are quite suckful in that area these days.

I picked up Digweed’s latest mix CD MMII about two weeks ago and have only now started to have time to listen to it. I really like it. It has the same kind of feel as his other stuff in some ways, but the overall tone is different. It’s a bit mellower, a very different sound, but still feels like Digweed.

I’ve read a few reviews that didn’t like it because it didn’t sound enough like his other stuff. I think that is what I like most about it. I like when DJs show they have range, that they don’t just fit into a cookiecutter definition of ‘trance DJ’ or ‘house DJ’. That’s one reason I’m always looking for new music, experimenting with new styles. I hate to be classified like that. Anyways, I give this CD a big thumbs up.

The Miami Herald has a story about how Scanners can mistake chocolate for bombs. It seems they have a hard time “telling the difference among peanut butter, chocolate and deadly explosives.” So if you don’t want to be stopped, be sure you aren’t carrying any chocolate or peanut butter (recees peanut butter cups probably a big nono).