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.