Monday, October 20, 2008

The Truth Behind the 12 Hottest Sex Myths



Will having Sex in Water kill Sperm? Do Oysters Make You Horny? Will Having Sex Before an Important Event Ruin Your Performance (for the Event)?
Interesting Myths - fact or fiction?

1. Men Reach Their Sexual Peak at 18, and Women Reach Theirs at 28
TRUE: With regard to their supply of sexual hormones, at least. Testosterone peaks at age 18 in men; women's estrogen hits its high point in their mid-20s. "But peak hormones don't mean peak sexual performance," says Marc Goldstein, M.D., a professor of reproductive medicine and urology at Cornell University's Weill Medical College. So feel free to try for a personal best—at any age.

2. Semen is Low-Carb
FALSE: "Semen is mostly fruit sugar [fructose] and enzymes—not low-carb," says Dr. Goldstein. Which finally explains why there's no Oral Sex Diet.

3. Masturbation Yields the Strongest Orgasm
TRUE:
But it's not a hard-and-fast rule, as it were. "It depends on the individual," says Jon L. Pryor, M.D., a professor of urologic surgery at the University of Minnesota. "For some it does, but for others, there's nothing that beats good ol' intercourse."

4. The Average Erection Measures 8 Inches
FALSE:
Relax, Shorty. It's closer to 6.

5. No Penis is Too Large or Too Small for Any Vagina
TRUE:
But perception still wins the game in the end. "I was once at a dinner meeting with seven other sex doctors—six men and one woman," says Dr. Pryor. "The men all agreed that size doesn't matter. The woman looked at us and said, 'Think what you want. Size matters.' We all left dejected."

6. Oysters Make You Horny
FALSE:
You make you horny. "There is no scientific evidence that oysters increase libido," says Dr. Pryor. "But there may be a placebo effect, so if it works, great!"

7. Green M&Ms Make You Horny
FALSE:
Unless they do. Then it's true. Isn't the mind wonderful?

8. Men Think About Sex Every 7 Seconds
FALSE:
That number is tossed around a lot, but the truth is that only 23 percent of men claim to fantasize frequently. But maybe the rest are just too distracted to check the clock.

9. Cutting Out Broccoli Will Make Your Semen Taste Better
TRUE:
Semen is naturally bitter, and eating broccoli and drinking coffee can make it worse. A ray of hope for the Oral Sex Diet!

10. Having Sex Before an Important Event—the Big Game, the Critical Presentation—Can Ruin Your Performance in the Event
FALSE
: Swiss researchers performed stress tests on people 2 and 10 hours after the subjects had had sex, and found that by 10 hours, the participants were fully recovered. There was only a small dip in performance 2 hours after sex.

11. Having Sex in Water (Swimming Pool, Hot Tub, Shower) Will Kill Sperm
TRUE:
Some of your swimmers may die, but it isn't an effective method of birth control, according to Dr. Pryor. Though a hot tub can overheat your testicles and kill sperm, there should be plenty left for the egg hunt.

12. You Can Become Addicted to Web Porn
TRUE:
But the risk is low. Only 1 percent of all people who check out Internet porn will become addicted. If you're sporting a ring, be careful: 38 percent of addicts are married.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Free Download Google Chrome - the new browser from Google

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Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows
Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

One box for everything
Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.

Thumbnails of your top sites
Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.

Shortcuts for your apps
Get desktop shortcuts to launch your favorite web applications.

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Source: blogs.iiu.edu.my

Why they built Google Chrome

According to Google:

A fresh take on the browser
At Google, we spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And like all of you, in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends - all using a browser. People are spending an increasing amount of time online, and they’re doing things never imagined when the web first appeared about 15 years ago.

Since we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if you started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.

So today we’re releasing the beta version of a new open source browser: Google Chrome.

On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff - the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.

Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better . By keeping each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built V8, a more powerful JavaScript engine, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.

This is just the beginning - Google Chrome is far from done. We’ve released this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We’re hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and we’ll continue to make it even faster and more robust.

We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we’re committed to continuing on their path. We’ve used components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox, among others - and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.

The web gets better with more options and innovation. Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better.

But enough from us. The best test of Google Chrome is to try it yourself.

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Source: Google.com

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

An Experiment in Nudity: Top 10 Female Names on Google

By Seth Brown, CRACKED

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We've taken the 10 most popular female names in America, plugged them into Google Image search, and rated the results according to how naked they are. It' like rating your classmates yearbook pictures, only your class is the size of the whole world, and the yearbook committee is surprisingly tolerant of pornography.

Yes, we ran out of things to do at the office.

#10.

Margaret

First Result:
Margaret "Dink" Nolan, the Bond girl from Goldfinger. A Bond girl at No. 1! That' promising ...

Overall Front-Page Strength:
... And, then there's a whole bunch of professors and school teachers, including that physicist lady in the first row who studies asteroids. Seriously, this is like a feminists' dream, here. There's six Ph.D.s and zero thong models. That's ... progress we guess.

Porn Index:
Turning off Google's SafeSearch adds a single image of an almost-completely clothed Margaret Lee to the front page.

Seriously, Google, where is that pic not considered "safe?" Iran? Are you worried about the children? The children see more scantily-clad women in a Hanes commercial. Otherwise, nothing.

 

Overall Ranking (On a scale of 1 to 5 Google Boobs):
1 out of 5 Boobles. Margaret is a respectable woman, but she's no damned harlot. Moms, you want to keep your girl off the stripper pole, name her Margaret.

 

#9.

Dorothy

First Result:
Dorothy and Toto dolls surrounded by a bunch of giant virtual-reality raspberries for some reason.

It should be noted that if the search-engine gods had any taste in movies, the No. 1 image would have been this photo of Dorothy Stratten from the far-superior Galaxina.

Overall Front-Page Strength:
Of the first five images, only the fifth is a moderately hot girl dressed up as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, making her hotter or less hot depending on how many of your neighbors you've been legally required to introduce yourself to. Pretty much the entire front page is dominated by The Wizard of Oz (Ms. Galaxina was relegated to the fourth row). However, we did get a nice Halloween costume idea:

For the girlfriend, not for us.

Porn Index:
Considering we've never met a woman named Dorothy under the age of 70, we were holding our breath as we turned SafeSearch off.

It's mostly just a row of little girls in The Wizard of Oz outfits, thank God. Down the page, you do eventually get the arbitrary topless woman cupping her boobs. That's not good, considering that even googling the word "sofa" gets you a half-naked woman in the first row.

Overall Ranking (On a scale of 1 to 5 Google Boobs):
1.5 Boobles. Good for people with a The Wizard of Oz fetish. Bad for the rest of us.

 

#8.

Susan

First Result:
A model named Susan Van Tassal who appears to be urinating into her hand in a dark room.

Honestly, we're not sure what to think about that.

Overall Front-Page Strength:
Besides the urinating model, the first row features an attractive older lady who looks pissed off that you're looking at her, Susan Sarandon, and some girl who just borrowed a hat from one of the Fly Girls from In Living Color. After that, more professor types with .edu domains. Who'd have thought "Susan" would rival "Margaret" in the "Most Likely to Cure Cancer" category?

Porn Index:
The clothing flies off about one-third of the entries when you turn SafeSearch off. There are no less than four pictures of Susan Ward in various states of undress, but counter balancing it are a bunch of naked pictures of girls who look too young to use Google without SafeSearch, let alone appear on the page.

Also, a woman named Suan Owens who has written a book or made an album called Tanging the Hump:

We clicked that one (as you can see from the purple border) and we were hugely disappointed.

Overall Ranking (On a scale of 1 to 5 Google Boobs):
2 out of 5 Boobles. It' all or nothing with Susan: Ph.D or porn.

 

#7.

Maria

First Result:
Our first Maria image uses the twin excuses of high art and soft focus to sneak full-frontal nudity under the Google SafeSearch filter. That' gotta count for something.

We went ahead and MS Painted some underpants for her.

Overall Front-Page Strength:
Maria brings the strongest starting five so far. And, no Maria is not disqualified just because two of the first five are Maria Sharpova. Don't look at us like that Margaret and Dorothy, we didn't make up the rules. OK, we did. Now, go back to studying molecules or whatever and let us continue what we're doing over here.

Porn Index:
With the filter off, there's quite a bit of some young lady named Maria Ozawa, whose apparently unfamiliar with the dynamics of button-up sweaters and short schoolgirl skirts. Then, near the bottom of the page, we get a pic of a completely naked Maria the robot, from Metropolis:

Freaking Internet.

Overall Ranking (On a scale of 1 to 5 Google Boobs):
2.5 out of 5 Boobles. Strongest Booble rating thus far, though they were one Maria Sharapova away from being Susan.

 

#6.

Jennifer

First Result:
A bunch of creepy pictures of Rachel from Friends bending over at the beach.

Overall Front-Page Strength:
After No. 1' creepy stalking, Jennifer settles into a nice rhythm. There' a young lady named Jennifer Barretta, who apparently misunderstood her friends' invitation to a pool party, because she' in a bikini and playing billiards. This is from one of those magazines where it' supposed to be hot to show a girl doing stuff that they don't think women should be good at. There' also some Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jennifer Lopez thrown in, so it' almost not fair.

Porn Index:
Minus SafeSearch, it' pretty much just more revealing versions of the same. There' one of those fake celebrity photo shops of Jennifer Aniston at No. 1 on a site called AllSciFi. Either this site is cynically trying to snare nerds by promising sci-fi and giving pornography, or Photoshopping Jennifer Aniston' head onto a masturbating girl is the loosest definition of science fiction we've ever heard.

You may think that's the saddest possible thing a young male could get turned on by, but just a few inches down AllSciFi proves you wrong:

We're not saying you've misjudged your readers, AllSciFi, but we're pretty sure the only people who ever pleasured themselves watching Dirty Dancing only had eyes for Patrick Swayze.

Overall Ranking (On a scale of 1 to 5 Google Boobs):
4.0 out of 5 Boobles. Jennifers have a bunch of celebrity talent, but they must be punished for brining back those Dirty Dancing memories.

 

#5.

Elizabeth

First Result:
Elizabeth Hurley. Enough said.

Overall Front-Page Strength:
Aside from that first picture of Liz Hurley, it's all downhill. We do learn the answer to questions such as: Would Queen Elizabeth be any less ugly without the lace throat collar that makes her look like a lizard?

Porn Index:
For some reason, turning SafeSearch off makes the good Elizabeth Hurley picture dissapear. There is definitely more pornography than on most, but for some reason turning off SafeSearch actually gives you more pictures of the Queen, too, including one that makes her look like an alien in disguise:

The lovely Shannon Elizabeth helps but ... wait a second. Elizabeth is her last name. That doesn't count, does it?

Overall Ranking (On a scale of 1 to 5 Google Boobs):
2 out of 5 Boobles. Too much Queen Elizabeth, and one point deducted for cheating.

 

#4.

Barbara

First Result:
Somehow, even with SafeSearch on the first picture is a naked woman. Apparently Google, like us, underestimated the name Barbara. Just two images over is a topless, edlerly Barbara Golden, utterly destroying the entire concept of a "safe"-image search forever and ever.

Overall Front-Page Strength:
Once you get past the boob infiltration, you find a group of regular women who are maybe a little more attractive than their peers. Surprisingly, just the one pic of Barbara Bush and not a single Barbra Streisand. Nice.

Porn Index:
Turn off SafeSearch and it's a bucket O' Porn--nine of the first 10 pictures--and serious porn at that.

Overall Ranking (On a scale of 1 to 5 Google Boobs):
3 out of 5 Boobles. Since the first image with SafeSearch on involved full-frontal nudity, we're going to give Barb the benefit of the doubt. It's definitely the name that most exceeded expectations.

 

#3.

Linda

First Result:
Linda Cardellini, that girl from stuff on TV.

Overall Front-Page Strength:
There's Linda Caredllini looking very serious in a few pictures, some lady from the '50s, and then we drop off the continental shelf with satellite photos of Hurricane Linda and a bunch of women your mom has played bridge with at one time or another.

Porn Index:
Turning off SafeSearch makes one new pic appear in the top row. It's Cardellini sitting on a bed that was apparently deemed unsafe by the 1950s MPA Rating Board.

Aside from that hard-core bed-sitting action, there's exactly one porn pic on the whole page. That's 50 percent fewer than what Barbara had with SafeSearch on. Apparently all of Linda Lovelace's work pre-dates the Internet, because other than what you see above, it's all hurricanes and PTA.

Overall Ranking (On a scale of 1 to 5 Google Boobs):
1.5 out of 5 Boobles. Linda is an average-looking name. If you're not a mother of three and you're not Linda Cardellini then you're probably a hurricane.

 

#2.

Patricia

First Result:
The first image is a Photoshop pic of news anchor Patricia Del Rio which looks OK from afar ...

... but when you click through, you realize they've done something with Photoshop that makes it look like her face is melting.

Overall Front-Page Strength:
You've got a healthy dose of the mom from Everybody Loves Raymond and Patricia Arquette, some dude' fiancé posing next to a water fall, and our first furrie! Hey, it' about time! About .5 percent of our audience was getting antsy out there.

Porn Index:
Turn off SafeSearch and suddenly it's rainin' porn. Man, ain't nothin' that could ruin the mood now! Porn as far as the eye can see! Let's scroll alllll the way to the bottom of the page ...

WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!? GET THAT THING AWAY FROM MY BONER!

Overall Ranking (On a scale of 1 to 5 Google Boobs):
3 out of 5 Boobles. We don't want to discuss this any further.

 

#1.

Mary

First Result:
Well, the good news is it's a naked woman, even on SafeSearch:

The bad news: It's Mary Magdalene from the Bible. So, enjoy your eternal hellfire.

Overall Front Page Strength:
Pictures of boats outnumber hot women 3-1. Jesus' mom makes an appearance. The rest are just regular people. About what you'd expect, we suppose.

Porn Index:
A second, bigger picture of the naked Mary Magdalene shows up, and the fact that it wasn't visible on SafeSearch probably makes some important point about the arbitrary nature of censorship. We have little else to do but contemplate such matters, because there isn't a speck of nudity anywhere else on the page.

And get this: No porn appears until the ninth page of results! Holy crap! This is the Internet, people. You Google the word "shirt" and half the first row is porn:

You Google "Mary" and you don't get a picture of a woman touching a man's wiener until the 165th result. That doesn't seem possible.

Overall Ranking (On a scale of 1 to 5 Google Boobs):
0 out of 5 Boobles. Religious icons are frowning at us and apparently making dozens of the women keep their clothes on, too.