missing links

By Todd Stadler · Wednesday, April 25, 2001 6:00pm

You know, I haven't done much linking to things I've noticed on the web lately. Since my life is outright boring and overwhelmed with free time right now (hee hee - it's not true!), I have taken it upon myself to read every page on the Internet and catalog each as "interesting" or "not interesting". Here are some of the former:

Finally, a true extreme sport! "Surfers also have to worry about alligators, anacondas, piranhas and the dreaded candiru, a tiny fish that swims up the penis of humans and lodges its extremely painful, spiny fins in so firmly that removing it usually requires amputation." Okay, I have to admit, I was only mildly interested in the story about surfing the Amazon* until I read the above citation. In most sports of derring-do, the most bodily harm one has to worry about deals with broken bones, bleeding, and the occasional death. Nothing that they wouldn't touch in an episode of Blind Date. But penis penetrating! Member mangling! That's something different. Unfortunately, it may also be something exaggerated. I'll assume that large gasp I just heard is the collective expression of your being shocked - shocked! - that travel writers may not have the best fact-checking around. I'll never turn to Cond? Nast again for my icthyology homework.

Then there's succinct photographic essay on why crime is bad. Wow. That'll do it for me.

Uh, well, that's all I've got so far. But I'm sure I'll find more, and when I do, I'll let you know.