It’s a headline just begging for a cheap joke (and who am I to refuse?): Op can boost size of micro-penis. I’ll leave most of the examination of societal attitudes alone, but I at least have to mention the equating of "proper" urination with "standing up." It also seems like there would be implications for FTM folk, but the BBC doesn’t mention any.

A topic mentioned briefly in some of my library school classes was the Infoshop- a storefront librarylike affair intended to be grassroots, revolutionary, and aimed at opressed persons. My impression was that they ended up being collections of “underground” magazines and newspapers that the opressed were no more interested in reading that they were before they were stuck in an infoshop. Besides, if you want to be revolutionary, what better way than to get a municipal job you can’t be fired from for anything short of arson (but only if it was arson at work and they could prove it wasn’t due to mental illness) and then answer whatever questions the opressed have the best you can while buying library materials they seem to like (and not just the ones that your smelly friends are publishing out of their commune basement). But an actual grassroots library that could be brought out to preexisting gathering places instead of requiring people to find the building THE MAN has put the information in seems pretty cool. So I was disappointed that the nandeya (why? shop) seems to be more of a streetcorner Infoshop than a performance-art library installation. But maybe it will morph into that. Any librarians interested in making some nandeya-like fun here in the states?

So this guy always wanted to fly carried by helium balloons and did it the smart way- with hot air ballooning training, good safety equipment, flight planning, disaster planning, and permission from the local air traffic controllers. But I would be more interested in using his techniques to try a simulated moonwalk! Boiiiiing!

The BBC’s discussion of Brian Wilson makes that Barenaked Ladies song make more sense.

Honestly, it sounds like something out of Seinfeld, so it’ll get lots of media attention: a fast-food style breakfast cereal bar. Actually, it sounds like a really good theme party, with the necessary addition of cartoons and footie jammies.

Wondering where your favorite life-on-the-edge patron is, since usually he or she is at the library all damn day? Perhaps he or she is in jail. But there’s still no way to see if they’re at Harborview.

Telehaptics "combines virtual touch technology with networking to allow people to feel things locally that could be happening miles away." Teledildonics (probably worksafe) is more specific (probably not worksafe).

Speaking of deadly and mysterious incidents, do you miss the terrible tragedies of Kent, WA? Sure! We all do! Well, catch up on your old hometown’s mayhem.

Yes, the “funny” aspect of this story is the killer lava lamp (actually a much less funny shard of glass through heart), but here are the elements that make it an FP story:
1. Kent, WA
2. Trailer home
3. the lamp was being heated on the stove for reasons unknown
4. “Police found no evidence of drug or alcohol use.”

Some time ago, I deactivated fpcraig at this domain, after entering it into a "remove me" page. The spam bots are still hitting it—my mail host bounced ten messages in the last month—but even more troubling than that is that my gmail account with that alias is getting spammed. I can only infer that eventually every alias that has ever been identified at any domain will be tried at gmail.
As an experiment, I think I’ll set up an fpcraig alias in another domain I have access to, and which I know gets dictionary-spammed, to see if fpcraig is now just part of the spammers’ alias dictionary.
Update: five years on, I believe the gmail spam was due to some invitations I sent: I have not seen spam to fpcraig at any other domains I have access to.