It’s my worst nightmare.  I’ve been changed into a frog by the spell of an evil witch.  And instead of being kissed by a beautiful damsel who’s in this dress, I mean, distress, oh hell, I want a princess…anyway, instead of all that, I get informed that a…

Pesticide is blamed for sexual mutation in frogs

Male frogs exposed to even very low doses of a common weed killer can develop multiple sex organs -- sometimes both male and female -- researchers in California have discovered.

   -CNN

Oh great.  Some new-fangled freaky mutant Viagra for kinky amphibians.  Do frogs with multiple sex organs eat more weeds?  Wait—if I develop multiplicity, can I play with myself and have babies?

Asked if atrazine might also be a threat to people at low levels, Hayes (the researcher) said he did not know, adding that, unlike frogs, "we're not in the water all the time."

"There is virtually no atrazine-free environment," Hayes said.

Oh that’s super, too.  Not in water, but guess what, the water’s in me.  Is he suggesting that I curtail my showers or not take a swim in the lake?  And if I get caught out in a rainstorm, should I just stop off at the department store and buy jock-strapped modified panties in addition to an umbrella?

"I'm not saying it's safe for humans. I'm not saying its unsafe for humans. All I'm saying is it that it makes hermaphrodites of frogs," he said.

Now that is SO reassuring.   All it does, not much , mind you , you see , is irreversibly fuck up animal sexuality.

Stanley I. Dodson of the University of Wisconsin at Madison called the work "the most important paper in environmental toxicology in decades.

Asked if people should be worried, he also said: "We don't know."

We don’t know? We don't know?!  Well, I know.  People will worry.  Some will worry about becoming hermaphrodites.  Others will worry about not becoming hermaphrodites.  And then there are still others who will be worried that it’s going to change the yummy taste of pickled frog legs.

"It's like a canary in the mine shaft sort of thing," Dodson said, referring to the former practice of miners of bringing canaries with them as warnings of dangerous gases.

Former practice because most of the miners never noticed that the canaries were perched up dead against the cage until they themselves started to develop multiple organs on their shafts?  And as they grasped and gasped and orgasmed in futile rage, the caves collapsed?

Well, this is not for me!!  So either a beautiful princess will need to rescue me soon with a transformingly luscious kiss, or I will mutantly spawn my own female aspect and save myself!

The Anciently Updated List

Here is the ancient, founding key, the Rosetta Stone, to the genesis of Xanga  as we know it.

Earlier yesterday in  a blog, vickyvix asked who had the very first post on Xanga?

She had reference to an 3.5 year-old or so blog, Jewel, that never posted, but just registered.  But it’s common knowledge to us Xangarelics that John,  Genius, et. al., were around and playing with aliases and setup sites long before Xanga ever went public.   Thus Jewel (not to be confused with the later Jewels who was very popular) appears to be a spoof or alias in the developing stage.  So, if not Jewel, when did the real public first hit Xanga?  What was the first post on the first day?

It may be exactly impossible to say .  But if you go to the page I indicated above, you will see that pre- and post- the two shadows named JaneDoe and JaneDoe1, there is a radical temporal rift as broad as Noah’s parting of the Red Sea.  All the  blogs above The JaneDoes were ones first created and last published upon on 12/18/1999 .  And they are chronologically-sorted forward in a continuity all the way until today.  Below the JaneDoes, all the posts are seemingly unpublished, often established at later chronological times and randomly scattered —not well-sorted—even into the future.  But JaneDoe and JD1 published at the very midpoint of this temporal discontinuity, seemingly in their own box, around mid-December. Yet their identities were ones established much earlier (7/99) than those that follow them upon 12/18.  It’s as if Jane Doe and JD1 were the last “test units”  who, though created much earlier, were first  tested for operationality just before the initial public roll-out on 12/18, retired, and succeeded by the first true Xanga pioneers of 12/18, some of whom we witness here never themselves making it beyond their first posts. 

Note: This is *The Newly Updated List* meaning that this was the very last time these Xanga pioneers wrote.  There are some, however, like David, who came on the 18^th and are still around today.   You will not find them on this listing of the Anciently Updated Page because they yet persist.