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A Map of Penis Size (In Europe)

There have been numerous maps published online showing geographical distributions of penis size. Previously there was one that compared average penis size in various countries all around the world and another one which compared the average penis size of the Top 20 cities in the United States.

Today comes word of a map depicting penis size throughout Europe. Looks like might be fun to vacation in Hungary or France!

Sunday Funnies: Republican "Principles"

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Sunday Funnies: Explaining U.S. Dependence on Oil

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Who's Oppressing Who?

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Lost Producers Confess They Made It All Up Ad Hoc

Damon Lindelof (left) and Carlton Cuse were the showrunners on Lost

As you may recall, I was a huge fan of the television series Lost and was verklempt when it went off the air Sunday May 23, 2010.

The story was so complex that there was always a suspicion about whether the writers and producers really knew what they wanted to do all the time and was the intricacy intended genius or unintended confusion.

One of the main executive producers, Damon Lindelof, now admits it was more of the latter:

"The biggest issue with a desert island show was the audience is going to get very frustrated that the characters were not getting off the island," he said. "My solution was, hey, let's get off the island every week. And the way we're going to do that is we're going to do these flashbacks. We'll do one character at a time and there's going to be like 70 characters on the show, so we'll go really, really slow, and each one will basically say, here's who they were before the crash and it'll dramatize something that's happening on the island and it will also make the show very character-centric."

Abrams liked the idea, and also had another: "'There should be a hatch on this island! They spend the entire season trying to get it open. And there should be these other people on the island,'" Lindelof recalled Abrams saying. "And I'm like, ''We can call them The Others.' And he's like, 'They should hear this noise out there in the jungle.' And I'm like, 'What's the noise?' And he's like, 'I don't...know. They're never going to pick this thing up anyway.'"

Lindelof said the idea to tell the story out of chronological order came in part from "Pulp Fiction," in which John Travolta's character is killed about halfway through -- and viewers learn only at the end that he had failed to heed Samuel Jackson's speech in the diner about the path of the righteous man.

"That sort of flipped the switch in me, and was something that I really wanted to do as a storyteller and 'Lost' was really the perfect opportunity to do it," Lindelof said.

The most amusing revelation is that Lindelof really just wanted to get a job on J.J. Abrams' hit show Alias (which I also loved) which is why he originally met with Abrams and then was offered his new show while Abrams went off to direct movies like Star Trek  and Mission Impossible 3.

Celebrity Friday: Pierre, Novak Djokovic's Dog

World #1 Novak Djokovic graces the cover of L'Uomo Vogue (Italian Vogue), the top fashion magazine in the world, with his pet poodle, Pierre! Pierre happens to have his own Twitter page, if you're interested.

Djokovic is apparently a devoted dog owner and was distraught when he could not bring Pierre with him to Wimbledon due to the United Kingdom's extreme quarantine laws for cats and dogs.

Here's another picture of this week's Celebrity Friday, Pierre the Poodle (with Novak).

It makes me a bigger fan of Djokovic, knowing he also loves dogs, like I do.

An Explanation of The Debt Ceiling

Fox News: "No Terrorist Attacks From 2000-2008"

This is not a "Fair and Balanced" news network.

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Cartoon Reveals Republicans' Plan To Win In 2012