Truth becoming stranger than commisioned fiction

What a story! The American drug companies don't like us buying drugs in Canada. So, in a rather strange attempt to reduce or eliminate demand, they budget $300,000 for a publisher to get a writer to cobble together a story about "Croation Muslim Terrorists" who poison Canadian drugs that are then to be re-imported back into the US.

The publisher rejected the book as badly written and tried to get the writers to take hush money. They didn't, they re-wrote their book, casting an American pharma company as the one doing the poisoning.

Now the American pharma industry is trying to distance itself from the whole insanity, that the whole scheme was concocted by "rogue" employees.

Man, I love a good story!

http://www.slate.com/id/2131200/

The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 1

I don't know if Straczynski needs money or has simply been out of the limelight for too long or what, but apparently he's going to publish all of his scripts to Babylon 5.


This is a Slashdot thread, so it might take a minute to load. LOTS of comments!
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/02/169255

Medical Oddity

There's this couple that used to hang out at Bear's for gaming and such. They got married, had a kid, and got weird to the point that they were no longer welcome. There are still intersecting circles, so news occasionally trickles around. While I was in Phoenix I found out that they had a second kid, and while she was in the hospital (presumably after she delivered) she was told that she's pregnant already.

I had thought that being pregnant meant no ovulation and that such a thing wasn't possible, apparently there are exceptions to that. I know breast feeding acts as a birth control method, still, I was rather surprised.

Randy little buggers!

Get Fuzzy icons!

I really enjoy the comic strip Get Fuzzy. Here's a user with a pageful of Get Fuzzy icons!