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From the Daily Tar Heel:

Students walking through Polk Place on Nov. 10 can play a game of pin-the-finger on the clit as part of the Orgasm Awareness Festival co-sponsored by Choice and Feminist Students United.

Choice members said the two groups are hosting the event to embrace female sexuality.

"Without understanding your own sexuality you can’t make informed decisions about what’s best for your reproductive life," said Jessica Polka, executive board member for Choice. "We also have the goal of trying to work towards fighting the social stigma against female sexuality."

The festival also will include a museum of sex toys, a masturbation raffle featuring vibrators, lotions and candles, an Orgasm Awareness reading list and a challenge involving putting a condom on a banana.

Only thing missing is the conservative outrage counterstrike... at this point.

Anyone else having real allergy problems this fall, presumably due to mold spores? October has been extremely wet for Pennsylvania. I'm noticing it.

Okay, okay. Knight-Ridder has a piece out today you might find a bit more helpful... I actually learned something from it.

Did you know there are three basic types of rake?

Okay, I admit it. That's all I learned. I mean, c'mon, I've been raking ever since we moved to Pennsylvania, and it doesn't take a genius to know that you should rake when the leaves are dry.

From Yahoo:

A tropical storm warning was in effect Sunday for the Cayman Islands and residents began preparing for the worst. The U.S. Gulf Coast could be affected later in the week, forecasters said.

The Cayman Islands were devastated last year by hurricane, and this is at least their third scare this year. And we really don't need this thing getting into the Gulf.

Last month at the Great Insect Fair at State College, we stopped by the booth of Rick Lieder's BugDreams.com. If you want to take a look at some of the most artistic photography of insects you can find, take a look at his site. BoingBoing.net gave the site a big plug a while back - both deserved and helpful for his photography efforts.

It's been 16 years since the "World Series" earthquake in California. Hard to believe it's been that long.

During floods.

If your house or yard was flooded, watch out for fire ants.

Their colonies don't drown when floods fill their underground nests. Instead, they hold onto each other and float out in balls, mats or ribbons until they reach a dry area or something they can climb onto, LSU AgCenter entomologists warn.

Fire ants are most dangerous during floods. The floating ribbons, mats or balls of ants hold the entire colony - worker ants, eggs, larvae, pupae, winged males and females and queen ants.

Moreover, ants inject two or three times as much venom when "rafting" than they do at other times, Beckley said.