Boss is breathing down my neck. No time for anything profound right now, so here’s a little linkdump for you:

Finally, a website dedicated to that extremely popular schoolboy hobby: Pentrix: The Art of Pen-Spinning. « LifeHacker

The New Scientist reveals a study by psychologists from Vanderbilt and Yale which conclude (shock! horror!) that porn causes blindness. Vision testing showed that people exposed to shocking (erotic or violent) images were unable to spot a target picture show a very short time after the provocative one.

Spider abuse? A NASA study of the deleterious effects of common drugs centered around the effect of feeding the said chemicals to ordinary spiders and monitoring the webs that the doped spiders spin. Quote from CaffeineWeb:

the spider dosed with caffeine was by far the most disoriented and proved incapable of creating even a single organized cell. Its web showed no sign of the “hub and spokes” pattern fundamental to conventional web design.

What does the web of a caffeinated spider (which can hardly be accustomed to the jolt of a morning latte) have to do with human behavior? Unlikely as it sounds, it may be the most vivid illustration of caffeine’s effect on part of the human population, as a growing body of research indicates

Here’s something I can empathize with: broke college student furnishes his house entirely out of FedEx boxes. Incidentally, FedEx is threatening to sue him for running the website under DMCA.

OK, gotta catch the bus now. Byebye.