Dede Koswara born in 1971, lives in a small village in Indonesia. Dede is a former fisherman who lives with his two children, trying to take care of them. His wife left him because of his freak skin condition and unable to work. He has an extraordinary skin condition. He has root like structure that have grown out of his body and the branches can grow up to 5cm a year. This growth protrudes from his hands and feet and welts covering his whole body. He looks like a Half Man Half Tree. He is locally known as Tree Man. His condition baffled local doctors when warty roots began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident. In an attempt to earn a living to support his family, he is part of a circus troupe, displaying his Tree Man limbs along with others afflicted with skin deformities in ‘freak’ shows. The disorder is caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a fairly common infection that usually causes only small warts to develop. Dede suffers from the im...
This is a good article on Yahoo Tech Measuring Porn on the Web? by Robin Raskin Measuring anything on the web is part art and part science. Measuring how much pornography is on the web taxes the art of both. In part, that's because pornography is, at best, loosely defined and subject to local standards. In part, it's because some part of the pornography that's found on the web is not found in the places you might normally measure. And yet, a U.S. government-commissioned study just identified the percentage of pornography on the web. The study says that about 1 percent of the web contains sexually explicit content. What is 1 percent of the web? Tough to say. If you do a search on the letter a, the most common letter in the English language, you get 18.5 billion pages. Search on the word porn and you get 88 million pages. Search on porn or xxx and you get 186 million. Roughly 1 percent. If you add the word sex and search for porn or xxx or sex you get something more like 4.4 ...
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