My friends and I use to calculate our sex numbers relative to other people. If you have slept with someone, your sex number for that person is 1. Your sex number for anyone that they have slept with is 2, and so forth. For example, my Al Stewart number is 2.
Now, via Boing Boing again, I discover that people are studying this. Once again, ahead of our times.
When was the last time a music video made you cry? This one did for me. (Requires iTunes. Via ongoing.)
I have no opinion whatsoever about the facts of the matter, but this has to be the saddest story I've read today.
OK, OK, maybe I do have an opinion on it: If you spend 15 years screwing someone, you have an obligation to them. You do not just send them packing and hope that the State Basic Pension will take care of them. "Cad" does not even begin to describe it.