<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Members : lynxears : Submitted Links : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime/</link><description>I need to think of something clever to put here.</description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2008, plime.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>Members : lynxears : Submitted Links : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/plime/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Germany facing Santa shortage]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the economy in a rut, Germans are looking for a festive Christmas... but they are out of St. Nikolaus'.<br/><br/>Sucker, need a job? They pay &#8364;60 an hour!]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/82726/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/82726/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime and the economy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Does the sinking economy mean we'll see a spike in crime? Brilliant historical/analysis piece by NPR on our chances of seeing a Bonnie and Clyde crime spree.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/82392/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/82392/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Man wields bat to &quot;liberate&quot; cat]]></title><description><![CDATA[A man finds his lost kitty at a shelter. He wants his kitty back. They ask him to pay $132 for babysitting his little kitty. <br/>Man doesn't want to pay, and &#8212; after carefully signing the guestbook &#8212; takes the kitty with the bat from his truck.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/82223/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/82223/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey, Brits, slow down!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Residents of a small British town take a low-tech route to solve speeding.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/81944/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/81944/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Church's cash gift keeps giving]]></title><description><![CDATA[When a church had too much cash, they gave it to members, with instructions to help others.<br/><br/>Ignore the poor web design and read this gem. This is the sweetest news story I've read in a long time.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81930/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81930/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[5 million to participate in fake quake]]></title><description><![CDATA[To prepare people in Southern California for The Big One, at 10 a.m. tomorrow they're all going to imagine they've been hit by a 7.8 quake.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/81741/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/81741/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[What is love? (Rules of physical attraction)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The physical (human body?) 'rules' of love and attraction. Interesting to think about your past and current (and future?) loves in these terms.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/sex/l/81502/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/sex/l/81502/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Religious law vs. medical responsibility]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hospital asks judges for permission to take Orthodox Jewish boy &#8212; who all doctors have declared completely brain-dead (not vegetative, dead) &#8212; off the breathing machine, against his family's wishes.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81394/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81394/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama victory opens door to new black identity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Considering our <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/politics/l/81270/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">lively discussion</a> over the appropriate use of the label &quot;black&quot; in regards to our President-elect, this article discussing the cultural identity of blacks in America seemed fitting.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81386/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81386/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Gun fans panic over Obama presidency]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gun sales skyrocket as owners get crazy alarmed over potential tighter gun controls.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/81341/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/81341/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheetahs on a plane!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cheetah being shipped to a temporary zoo home breaks loose mid-flight and wanders around the cargo hold.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/80781/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/80781/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you really love your vulva and want to show it off?]]></title><description><![CDATA[You should get a Velvet Vulva.<br/><br/>&quot;More than a sumptuous Renaissance bag, the Velvet V represents in three-dimensional form the sacred portal to the feminine temple.&quot;<br/>SFW unless you have an imaginative boss.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/80594/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/80594/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Nebraskans hate their kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[23rd kid (a 17-year-old this time) dropped off under their safe haven law.<br/>Politicians panicking over how they can quickly change the law to limit it to babies under 3 days old. Big switch.<br/>Questions for plimates in comments.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/80534/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/80534/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Political bias in the news]]></title><description><![CDATA[Or, why McCain is getting hosed in the press. <br/>&quot;Before answering the question, indulge us in noting that the subject of ideological bias in the news media is a drag. The people who care about it typically come at the issue with scalding biases of their own. Any statement journalists make on the subject can and will be used against them. So the incentive is to make bland and guarded statements. Even honest ones, meanwhile, will tend to strike partisans as evasive or self-delusional.&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80458/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80458/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Teen pregnancy: Not so great, actually]]></title><description><![CDATA[Teen motherhood has gained a bit of celebrity allure with the pregnancies of Jamie Lynn Spears and Bristol Palin, but front-line professionals see a starkly different reality involving poverty, lost opportunities and a cost to taxpayers in the billions of dollars annually.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/sex/l/80147/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/sex/l/80147/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Analysis: Voter fraud or mudslinging?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'll let you decide. Associated Press piece explaining the recent ACORN voting controversy.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79767/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79767/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids have closed their election]]></title><description><![CDATA[And they've guessed the president correctly since 1940.*<br/><br/>*except for the Nixon/Kennedy election in 1960 and Bush/Gore in 2000.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79727/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79727/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Florida primary recount reveals huge problems]]></title><description><![CDATA[A close primary election in Florida is bringing to light massive vote-counting problems, in one of the major swing-counties in a major swing state.<br/>This could be bad news for the Presidential election.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79046/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79046/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronaut's diary survives fall to Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[And goes on display in a museum. <br/><br/>The diary was found two months after Columbia exploded in 2003; The diary survived extreme heat in the explosion, extreme atmospheric cold, and then &quot;was attacked by microorganisms and insects&quot; in the field where it fell.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/78649/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/78649/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Fussy Germans enjoy complaints choir]]></title><description><![CDATA[A German choir that has strung together a list of everyday gripes about everything from lousy weather and bad services to poor leaders and unfaithful husbands has become a musical hit in a country that loves to complain.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/78500/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/78500/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Extra-special brew]]></title><description><![CDATA[Picture this: After you enjoy your nice cup of coffee in the morning, you go to clean out the coffeemaker, only to find a dead bat in the filter, boiled alive.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/77936/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/77936/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Ladies, the calendar you've been waiting for]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yes, that's right, the 2009 &quot;Men on Mission&quot; Morman man calendar has been released! <br/><br/>The maker of the calendar was excommunicated from the Church of Latter-day Saints two months ago to bring us this lovely calendar. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://mormonsexposed.com/store.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">If you want to see some, try the online store</a>]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/sex/l/77665/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/sex/l/77665/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Rubber duckies for science]]></title><description><![CDATA[When an expensive probe failed to answer his question, this NASA researcher turned to 90 rubber duckies.<br/><br/>Of course he did.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/77356/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/77356/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychologist explains sex addiction]]></title><description><![CDATA[What exactly constitutes a sexual addiction? It's generally described as obsessive sexually related behavior that dominates the addict's life. Still, the notion that people can be clinically addicted to sex is controversial.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/sex/l/75182/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/sex/l/75182/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Protests rage at Republican national convention]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some anarchists and anti-war protesters are causing a stir at St. Paul. Some of the stuff they are doing is rather amusing.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/74490/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/74490/1/</guid><category>plime</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>