You'll be able to tell if the curtains match the drapes from every conceivable angle, if the New Jersey state's Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling has their way. The board has recently proposed a ban on genital waxing. Salon owner Linda Orsuto said that women would "go ballistic" if the proposal passed. She says that some women would resort to waxing themselves, visiting unlicensed salons, or go to other states, including Pennsylvania, in a quest to remain bare down there. It's only a matter of time before the Pennsylvania Tourism Board rolls out their "Dare to be Bare!" bumper stickers.

If you think good daycare is hard to find here, try finding it in Africa.

The Fourth District Court of Appeals in Santa Ana agreed with a lower court when it ruled that a contract written in blood between two Korean businessmen is unenforceable. One of the men agreed to repay the other about $170,000 of an investment. The deal was written in blood on a piece of paper in Korean characters. The translated note read: "Sir, please forgive me. Because of my deeds you have suffered financially. I will repay you to the best of my ability." Although the court has struck down the blood oath, they made no mention of contracts written on the bodies of ritual sacrifices, which are still binding.

San Francisco Food Bank officials say they recently received a donation from Kellogg Co. of thousands of boxes of breakfast cereal, all with Olympic athlete Michael Phelps' face on the front. Kellogg decided not to renew Phelps' contract after his picture was taken with a pot pipe. Food bank executive director Paul Ash says he doesn't know specifically why the Phelps cereal was donated. Hopefully, the hungry people that this cereal is going to feed will be strong enough to resist the picture of Phelps, and the heavy drug use it causes, unlike the youth of America.

A Quebec entrepreneur, Gerald Dominique, plans on launching a TV network dedicated to broadcasting digital obituaries. Gerald obtained a license for "Remember the Name" in February from the CRTC and has plans to bring the channel to the rest of the country. Dominique says "the goal of this channel is to tell stories. How many stories are lost all over the world each year — great stories about people's lives — those are the stories we hope to tell." I can't think of anything more fun to do on a rainy day than curl up on the couch with a gun, or a bottle of pills, and watch the obituary channel.

Museum curators have confirmed that a story about a hidden Civil War message engraved inside Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch was true. A watchmaker pried open the watch at the National Museum of American History, and a descendant of the engraver, Jonathan Dillon, read aloud the message from a metal plate underneath the watch face. Part of the inscription says, "Jonathan Dillon April 13 - 1861, Fort Sumpter (sic) was attacked by the rebels on the above date." Another part reads, "Thank God we have a government." Much to the chagrin of Jon Turteltaub, and relief of countless movie goers, the inscription doesn't reveal the location of the script to National Treasure III.

This looks like something from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

The US Department of Homeland Security is studying lies, damned lies, and smells. They hope to prove that human body odor could be used to tell when people are lying. The department says they are already "conducting experiments in deceptive behavior and collecting human odor samples" and that the research it hopes to fund "will consist primarily of the analysis and study of the human odor samples collected to determine if a deception indicator can be found."

longacre writes "A man on trial in New York for possession of a weapon has been acquitted after subpoenaing his arresting officer's Facebook and MySpace accounts. His defense: Officer Vaughan Ettienne's MySpace 'mood' was set to 'devious' on the day of the arrest, and one day a few weeks before the trial, his Facebook status read 'Vaughan is watching "Training Day" to brush up on proper police procedure.' From the article: '"You have your Internet persona, and you have what you actually do on the street," Officer Ettienne said on Tuesday. "What you say on the Internet is all bravado talk, like what you say in a locker room." Except that trash talk in locker rooms almost never winds up preserved on a digital server somewhere, available for subpoena.'"

rjshirts writes "In further proof that Planet of the Apes is coming to pass, researchers in Stockholm, Sweden have proof that primates can plan ahead. From the article: 'Santino the chimpanzee's anti-social behavior stunned both visitors and keepers at the Furuvik Zoo but fascinated researchers because it was so carefully prepared. According to a report in the journal Current Biology, the 31-year-old alpha male started building his weapons cache in the morning before the zoo opened, collecting rocks and knocking out disks from concrete boulders inside his enclosure. He waited until around midday before he unleashed a "hailstorm" of rocks against visitors, the study said.'"

Workers at a state school for mentally handicapped adults in Texas are accused of staging a "fight club" among residents. A cell phone containing videos of the fights, believed to have taken place in a school dormitory at the Corpus Christi State School, was turned over to police. Corpus Christi police Capt. Tim Wilson said, "This has been going on for some time. That is what makes this an exceptional case. It is not the workers abusing the clients, so to speak. The workers are not hitting them, but they are allowing these clients to fight with each other, thereby endangering their well-being. These people are charged with the care and custody of these clients, and they are exploiting (them)." The first and second rule of running a school for the mentally disabled is, no fight club.

At least they are easier to spot than IEDs.

The Vatican newspaper says that the washing machine did more to liberate women than the pill or the right to work. "The Washing Machine and the Liberation of Women - Put in the Detergent, Close the Lid and Relax," ran on Sunday to mark international Women's Day. It's strange that the Vatican made no mention of the liberating aspects of cooking, or doing what you are told.

No, Michael did not have another child. Marijuana Pepsi Jackson is a schoolteacher with a master's degree in higher education administration, and a very unfortunate name. Her mother, Maggie Johnson, picked her name. Her father objected but lost the argument. To this day, a lot of family members and best buds call her Pepsi. "Everybody I meet says this: You're nothing like I thought you'd be," she says.

Gordon Brown has declared that the English will get more online powers to rate GPs, police, childcare and councils. Brown said, "We are ushering in a new world of accountability in which parents, patients and local communities shape the services they receive, ensuring all our public services respond not simply to the hand of government, but to the voice of local people." As we all know, the anonymity of the internet leads people to be honest, and to use feedback services in a responsible manner.

Sometimes your car needs to have a little fun.

The batteries are filled with liquid gold.

hundredrabh writes "Ever had a super needy girlfriend that demanded all your love and attention and would freak whenever you would leave her alone? Irritating, right? Now imagine the same situation, only with an asexual third-generation humanoid robot with 100kg arms. Such was the torture subjected upon Japanese researchers recently when their most advanced robot, capable of simulating human emotions, ditched its puppy love programming and switched over into stalker mode. Eventually the researchers had to decommission the robot, with a hope of bringing it back to life again."

San Francisco official say they are considering having a group of police officers suddenly appear to arrest people in flash mobs, and then disperse off to jail. This year's Valentine's Day pillow fight has angered some officials. They say the episode left the city with thousands of dollars in damage and cleanup costs due to mounds of wet, sticky feathers. The promoters of the counterculture event, now in its fourth year, must take responsibility for future happenings or "otherwise we are going to have to find a way to shut it down," said Lisa Seitz Gruwell of the Recreation and Park Department.

They're working on a "The Silence of the Lambs" coloring book too.