Friday links

Great Valentines Day gift: DIY beef jerky underwear.

A Chinese zoo is to mark Valentine's Day with a 'cross species wedding' between a sheep and a deer.

Mermaids scare off reservoir workers - "the only way to solve the problem was to brew traditional beer and carry out rites".

Woman with the longest fingernails in the world breaks them all in a car crash.

Gallery: coffee art and style 

Ancient origins of of plastic surgery.

Read more here: http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/#storylink=cpy

Study: Distrust Of Government A Mental Disorder

Details and links at Breitbart: "unfounded fear of government is a recognizable mental illness, closely related to paranoid schizophrenia?

What a great idea

In South Africa, weathermen face jail for getting it wrong.

If you're an evil Syrian dictator

Don't use "12345" as your e-mail password.  Unless, of course, you want to emulate "Spaceballs". 

via Geekpress.

Feds Debunk Food Pyramid They Pushed for Two Decades

The “experts” who tell us how to live our lives.

Looking for a Valentine's Day gift for that special someone?

Bull testicles pie.

Purple Squirrel Found in Pennsylvania

Pictures and video.

Tuesday links

New movie: Osambie - Bin Laden has returned from his watery grave and is making an army of zombie terrorists.

On the bicentenary of Dickens' birth, what if he had to write his stories in 140 characters?

A sheepherding Swedish rabbit.

Radiation Safety Posters From 1947, and here's a 1960 IBM video ad for the SAGE air defense system.

Top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

In the Things You Don't Want to Think About category

STD rates skyrocketing among seniors.

Italian cruise jokes

How do they serve alcoholic drinks on Italian cruise ships?

On the rocks

What vegetables do you get with dinner on Italian cruise  ships?

Leeks

What's the fastest way to get off an Italian  cruise ship?

Follow the captain