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I'm not selling this stuff. Do not.... I repeat DO NOT click on a full stomach.

For the environmentally conscious, a free Target tote shopping bag. Terms and conditions apply.

This probably makes you laugh but

Do I Creep You Out | Funny Jokes at JibJab

this and the ubiquitousness Big Brother-esque-ness of Google totally creeps me out.

GOOGLE, continuing to work closely with government, claims it would keep individual user data confidential: "GOOGLE FLU TRENDS can never be used to identify individual users because we rely on anonymized, aggregated counts of how often certain search queries occur each week."

Google working with the government. Closely. How reassuring. Determining disease outbreaks based on internet searches, how scientific.

Fortunately alternatives are popping up like daffodils.

I'm glad I bake my own bread (occasionally) when I read stuff like this. If it has fur, whiskers, and a long skinny tail, it's probably a mouse. Bon Appetit!

If you have a daughter, read this before her next round of shots. Gardasil may help protect against cervical cancer but the tradeoff is, um, warts. Ew, yuck.

Corruption in Africa is nothing new: Tribal leaders sold their charges into slavery hundreds of years ago. This is just awful.

Sorious Samura shows how in Africa corruption has become normal and accepted, even though it's tearing the continent to pieces. Despite the billions in western aid poured in, Samura claims Africa is heading into oblivion: but it's not war, famine and disease strangling development; it's corruption.

Dispatches provides a sober portrait of how modern Africa really works, where the voiceless millions, living in poverty, have had their futures stolen by their corrupt governments, aided and abetted by the West.

This roundup courtesy of my pals over at www.alabama-moms.com.