A block or so in front of my building, I spotted these hotties  from the Classic Car Club of NY:

Fort GT and Lamborghini Gallardo

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When you gotta go, this is definitely the way:  The "Pimped Out John" toilet, designed by plumbing service Roto-Rooter, comes equipped with a Philips 20-inch flat panel TV, an Xbox 360 gaming system, a DVD player, a laptop computer with a robot arm, a TiVo and an iPod toilet-paper dispenser docking station.

And if that's not enough to help you wile away the hours, there's a bike pedal exercise system and electric cup warmer and cooler. Lastly, this $5,000 customized crapper comes with a fridge, beer tap and coffee warmer, so you'll always feel like "going."

The one-of-a-kind toilet will go to the winner of Roto-Rooter's online sweepstakes drawing April 25, National Plumber's Day.

"We were trying to think of a way to reach out to younger potential customers," said spokesman Paul Abrams. "Their parents and grandparents grew up on our jingle - 'Call Roto-Rooter, that's the name, and away go troubles down the drain' - but younger people are so distracted by different media, we thought that's exactly what we should put on.

"We were brainstorming the idea, 'What if we created the ultimate toilet and you would never have to leave the toilet?' " Abrams said, explaining that the average person spends 11,862 hours - or one year, four months and five days - in the bathroom.

"Some of the names we came up with is 'Pimped Out Potty' or 'Pimp My Potty' and 'Super Toilet.' This one rose to the top. It had a nice ring to it," he said.

"I got to sit in the cockpit and take it for a ride. I had a blast in it."

Source:
THRONE FIT FOR A KING
CONTEST TO 'PIMP' YOUR TOILET
CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
NYPost, January 26, 2007
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01262007/news/nationalnews/
throne_fit_for_a_king_nationalnews_cynthia_r__fagen.htm

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What Would George Bush Do?

via Wellingtong Grey

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It barely sounds like them!

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My friend has managed to convince me of the evils of fur:

We last looked at this pressing issue on February 1

via fur is dead

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via the New Yorker

See also, this NYT artice:

"A quarter century ago, on March 29, 1976, a simple, pastel map of New York City appeared on the cover of The New Yorker. Drawn from the perspective of a low-flying bird looking west from Ninth Avenue, you could see the world receding from the city: the Hudson River, New Jersey, Kansas City, then the Pacific Ocean and Japan. It was Saul Steinberg's famous ''View of the World from Ninth Avenue,'' a drawing reproduced and imitated countless times. Every city wanted a version of its own. Steinberg once said that if he had gotten the proper royalties, ''I could have retired on this painting.''

This week, another simple pastel map, a flat, bird's-eye view of New York City drawn in pen and wash, appeared on the cover of The New Yorker. It showed the names of the city's neighborhoods Afghanistanicized: Lubavistan, Kvetchnya, Irate, Irant, Mooshuhadeen, Schmattahadeen, Yhanks, Feh, Fattushis, Fuhgeddabouditstan, Hiphopabad, Bad, Veryverybad, E-Z Pashtuns (leading to New Jersey), Khakis and Kharkeez (in Connecticut) and, most touchingly, Lowrentistan, where the World Trade Center once stood."

Source:
Critic's Notebook; A Funny New Yorker Map Is Again the Best Defense
SARAH BOXER
NYT,  December 8, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/08/arts/design/08NOTE.html

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We've been having a grand old time in La Jolla and San Diego.  Here are some random snaps I've taken over the past few days (all enlarge with a double click):

This is the view from where we are slumming it:

Walking along the waterfront in downtown La Jolla

Fascinating Tree/Root system in Balboa Park

Seals out sunning themselves on the beach downtown:

The View while walking along the cliff side at Torrey Pines
(we are way up there)

The Hang gliders sure look like they are having some fun!
(How hard can it be?)

It turns out, not all that hard!

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Fascinating exposition about one of the studio wizardary of the Dan:

via YouTube

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Hysterical!

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This foul pig not only was on the phone the entire trip, the heinous witch was wearing a full bottle of cologne: Stinky!

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Another fascinatingly funny set of interviews.

Ricky Gervais meets Gary Shandling:

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VI

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I recieved an email this weekend.

Its a photo of a US Servicement holding a little Iraqi girl.

The caption accompanying the photo was oh so very telling

"Why isn't this all over the news?  If he had done something wrong, it surely would be!"

Unfortunately, the discourse over the war has been reduced to swapping emotional images and lamenting the PR battle. It saddens me, because it shows how far we have fallen from grace.

To answer the emailer's question, it is not all over the newspapers because its not news. The good guys are supposed to do things like this. Its only news when the bad guys do this.

The good work of a US Military officer, a small kindness in a war zone -- thats what is expected of us. We are Americans, and in case you forgot, we are the GOOD guys. We are expected to do good deeds -- it is who we are.

We saved the world from anarchy in the early parts of the last century, from Fascism in the middle of the century, from Communism later in the Century.

The United States has time and again saved the world from evil -- and yet never before have any of us complained about the "PR" of our actions  Our list of global accomplishments and good deeds goes on and on. There was a concern for the results, not media imagery. This is a subtle but important point.

Can you imagine partisans whining that US Servicemen had freed the camp victims at Auschwitz -- but there wasn't enough coverage, it wasn't front page news?  That rebuilding of Germany and Japan after WWII wasn't getting enough airplay? The foodlifts to Africa, the inventions of life saving medicines, the racing to comfort earthquake victims, tsunami survivors, disasters anywhere on the planet neneded to be exploited further? Back then did anyone cry "Hey, where's our credit?!"

Absolutely not -- you shut your mouth and you got the job done. The results mattered more than the image.

That was a different era. We had leaders of great intellect, courage, and judgement. They surrounded themselves with the best and the brightest. They purposefully kept aides around them who challenged their views, thought strategically, mapped out all possible consequences, believed in Science. They were pragmatic, not idealogues; they were experienced experts, not partisans.

Too many people have lowered their standards to a point that is absurd. Hey, everyone, we repainted a school in Baghdad!

Talk about the soft prejudice of low expectations. Is that what our measure of greatness has become?

I regularly appreciate all of the great deeds done by US Servicemen, working with insufficient equipment under a great hardship. We've donated old cell phones to servicemen, participated in raising money for armor. Do not misinterpret this as anything but supportive of the troops in harm's way.

But recognize who we are talking about: These are the US Marines, the greatest fighting unit in the history of mankind! These are Air Force officers, flying the most sophisticated and powerful weaponry know to the planet. US Army personnel, Navy sailors -- these aren't just any military -- these people make up the Armed Forces of the United States of America! Does the emailer complaining about the lack of media coverage understand the history of these institutions, what they have accomplished over the past 2 centuries? I think he does not. Because if he did, he would not be as concerned about a single gentle kindness, about the imagery, about the PR, rather than the actual war itself.

The Marines understand war and their obligations within a conflict; that's why Semper Fi -- Always Faithful -- is their philosophy. The Air Force says "Aim Higher" -- because their philosophy is to achieve greater and greater results, as opposed to media spin. 

No, my dear emailer, you have forgotten who we are and what we are all about. A good deed by a US serviceman is what WE DO ANYWAY. In case you didn't know, we are the GOOD GUYS. If this not being in a newspaper is what upsets you, than you NO LONGER GET IT. This is what the United States is all about. This is what is expected of us. This is the standard we aspire to. This is who we are.

Follow the advice of the Armed Services. Worry less about the PR, and more about what really matters. "Aim Higher."

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Earliest known colour footage of the Beatles (sound dubbed in via BBC).

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This lady seems to think that its perfectly acceptable airport terminal behavior to file her nails down for 20 minutes.  I guess I should be thankful that she never pulled out the nail polish and acetone.

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We're big fans of Bill Hicks here at e&e. Here's a full collection of quotes:

"I'm so sick of arming the world, then sending troops over to destroy the fucking arms, you know what I mean? We keep arming these little countries, then we go and blow the shit out of them. We're like the bullies of the world, y'know. We're like Jack Palance in the movie Shane, throwing the pistol at the sheepherder's feet.

"Pick it up."

"I don't wanna pick it up, Mister, you'll shoot me."

"Pick up the gun."

"Mister, I don't want no trouble. I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don't even know what gingham is, but she goes through about ten rolls a week of that stuff. I ain't looking for no trouble, Mister."

"Pick up the gun."

(He picks it up. Three shots ring out.)

"You all saw him - he had a gun."

******

I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your fuckin' mouth.

******

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.

******

A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back he ever wants to see a fucking cross? It's like going up to Jackie Onassis wearing a rifle pendant.

******

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

******

People say "Iraq had the fourth largest army in the world". Yeah, maybe, but you know what, after the first 3 largest armies, there's a REAL big fucking drop-off. The Hare Krishnas are the 5th largest army in the world, and they've already got all our airports.

******

People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction.

******

It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?

******

I don't do drugs anymore... than say, the average touring funk band.

******

"This is your brain." I've seen a lot of weird shit on drugs. I have never ever ever ever EVER looked at a fucking egg and thought it was a brain.

******

If you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, then go home and burn all your records, all your tapes, and all your CDs because every one of those artists who have made brilliant music and enhanced your lives? RrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrEAL fucking high on drugs. The Beatles were so fucking high they let Ringo sing a few songs.

******

The musicians today who don't do drugs and in fact speak out against it? "Rock Against Drugs?" BOY do they suck.

******

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

******

Childbirth is no more a miracle then eating food and a turd coming out of your ass.

******

I have never seen two people on pot get in a fight because it is fucking IMPOSSIBLE. "Hey, buddy!" "Hey, what?" "Ummmmmmm...." End of argument.

******

We gotta come to some new ideas about life folks ok? I'm not being blase about abortion, it might be a real issue, it might not, doesn't matter to me. What matters is that if you believe in the sanctity of life then you believe it for life of all ages. That's what I hate about this child-worship syndrome going on. "Save the children! They're killing children! How many children were at Waco? They're killing children!" What does that mean? They reach a certain age and they're off your fucking love-list? Fuck your children, if that's the way you think then fuck you too. You either love all people of all ages or you shut the fuck up.

******

Because you know if you play New Kids on the Block albums backwards they sound better. "Oh come on, Bill, they're the New Kids, don't pick on them, they're so good and they're so clean cut and they're such a good image for the children." Fuck that! When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? I want my children to listen to people who fucking ROCKED! I don't care if they died in puddles of their own vomit! I want someone who plays from his fucking HEART!

******

I was in Nashville, Tennesee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me: " Hey, whatchoo readin' for?"

Isn't that the weirdest fucking question you've ever heard? Not what am I readING, but what am I reading *for*? Well, godammit, ya stumped me! Why do I read? Well... hmmm... I dunno... I guess I read for a lot of reasons, and the main one is so I don't end up being a fucking waffle waitress.

******

Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm... Sounds like...every commercial on television, doesn't it? You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing, so maybe that's the connection they're trying to make.

******

Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?
******

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit... unnatural? You know what I mean? It's nature. How do you make nature against the fucking law?

******

I can speak for every guy in this room here tonight. Guys, if you could blow yourselves, ladies, you'd be in this room alone right now. Watching an empty stage.

******

I dunno how much AIDS scares y'all, but I got a theory: the day they come out with a cure for AIDS, a guaranteed one-shot cure, on that day there's gonna be fucking in the streets, man.

******

I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution. OK, not the most popular idea ever expressed. Either that or you're all real high and agreeing with me in the only way you can right now. (Starts blinking)

******

They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.

******

You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks liked He rushed it.

******

I love talking about the Kennedy assasination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that's interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy. Sarcasm - come on in. People say "Bill, quit talking about Kennedy man. It was a long time ago, just let it go, alright? It's a long time ago, just forget it." I'm like, alright, then don't bring up Jesus to me. As long as we're talking shelf life here...

******

No, I don't do drugs anymore, either. But I'll tell you something about drugs. I used to do drugs, but I'll tell you something honestly about drugs, honestly, and I know it's not a very popular idea, you don't hear it very often anymore, but it is the truth: I had a great time doing drugs. Sorry. Never murdered anyone, never robbed anyone, never raped anyone, never beat anyone, never lost a job, a car, a house, a wife or kids, laughed my ass off, and went about my day.

******

Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It's a very interesting defense mechanism and the only way to get by it -- and believe me, I was raised Southern Baptist -- is to take massive amounts of mushrooms, sit in a field, and just go, "Show me."

******

It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

******

One of my big fears in life is that I'm gonna die and my parents are going to come to clean out my apartment and find that porno wing I've been adding on to for years.

******

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

******

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

******

I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are.

******

The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.

******

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

******

That's an act, that's a frying pan, that's a stove, you're an alcoholic! Dude, I'm tripping right now, and I still see that that's a fucking egg, alright? I see the UFO's around it, but that's a goddamn egg in the middle. There's a hobbit eating it, but goddammit that hobbit's eating a fucking egg! He's on a unicorn. But, no, th-th-th-that's a fucking egg. How dare you have a wino tell me not to do drugs!

******

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

******

It's great to be here. I thank you. Ah, I've been on the road doing comedy for ten years now, so bear with me while I plaster on a fake smile and plough through this shit one more time.

******

By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they'll take root. I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show.

"You know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar, that's a big dollar, a lot of people are feeling that indignation, we've done research, huge market. He's doing a good thing."

Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scumbags, quit putting a godamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!

******

I've learned a lot about women. I think I've learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and Adam said one day, "Wow, Eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with God, we'll never age, we'll never die, and all our dreams come true the instant that we have them." And Eve said, "Yeah... it's just not enough is it?"

******

Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your goverment is in control. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on the living in the land of freedom. Here you go America - you are free to do what well tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!

******

I'm gonna share with you a vision that I had, cause I love you. And you feel it. You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense each year, trillions of dollars, correct? Instead -- just play with this -- if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world -- and it would pay for it many times over, not one human being excluded -- we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace. Thank you very much. You've been great, I hope you enjoyed it.

******

The worst kind of non-smokers are the ones that come up to you and cough. That's pretty fucking cruel isn't it? Do you go up to cripples and dance too?

******

If the FBI's motivating factor for busting down the Koresh compound was child abuse, how come we never see Bradley tanks smashing into Catholic churches?

******

I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's got God on his side.

******

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!

-- Bill Hicks, on being censored from "The Late Show with David Letterman"

******

Fundamentalist Christianity - fascinating. These people actually believe that the the world is 12,000 years old. Swear to God. Based on what? I asked them.

"Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years."

Well how fucking scientific, okay. I didn't know that you'd gone to so much trouble. That's good. You believe the world's 12,000 years old?

"That's right."

Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?

"Uh-huh."

Dinosaurs.

You know the world is 12,000 years old and dinosaurs existed, they existed in that time, you'd think it would have been mentioned in the fucking Bible at some point.

"And lo Jesus and the disciples walked to Nazareth. But the trail was blocked by a giant brontosaurus... with a splinter in his paw. And O the disciples did run a shriekin': 'What a big fucking lizard, Lord!' But Jesus was unafraid and he took the splinter from the brontosaurus's paw and the big lizard became his friend.

"And Jesus sent him to Scotland where he lived in a loch for O so many years inviting thousands of American tourists to bring their fat fucking families and their fat dollar bills.

"And oh Scotland did praise the Lord. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord. Thank you Lord."

******

People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

Hat tip:  this guy

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Too much truth for one song/video

via MC Lars:

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Too funny:

via Deb   

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Just in time for Valentines Day:  2 Chocolate recipes, and a guide to Chocolate 101

CHOCOLATE, HOT AND COLD

Here are two simple recipes that show off the flavor of high-end chocolate: a hot chocolate drink that's rich enough to serve as dessert and a sorbet with only three ingredients.

Green & Black's Chocolate Sorbet

Yield: 1 pint
Active preparation time: 15 minutes
Freezing time: 3 to 4 hours

2/3 cup sugar
3½ ounces dark chocolate, minimum 60% cacao, broken into pieces
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

Adapted from "Green & Black's Chocolate Recipes," Kyle Books

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Scharffen Berger's Drinking Chocolate

Yield: 3 1/2 cups
Active preparation time: 8 minutes

2½ cups whole milk
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, 99% cacao, finely chopped
1/3 cup sugar
1½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
½ teaspoon cinnamon, optional
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper, optional

Heat the milk in a medium saucepan until it is hot to the touch. Whisk in the chocolate and sugar, and continue whisking for 1 to 2 minutes until the chocolate has melted and the sugar has dissolved. Whisk in the vanilla and the cinnamon and cayenne, if using.

Serve in demitasse cups as dessert.

Note: For a lighter consistency, remove the hot chocolate from the heat and mix it with a hand blender at low speed before serving.

Adapted from "The Essence of Chocolate," Hyperion

Source:
Chocolate (User's Manual Enclosed)
To add mystique to premium bonbons, makers add study guides; a 24-page insert
By KATY MCLAUGHLIN
February 10, 2007; Page P1
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117105955600404121.html

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Via Foreign Policy comes  The Terrorism Index
 

Source:
The Terrorism Index
Foreign Policy, February 13, 2007
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3700

PDF

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Hysterical:

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photo by Digital Playground courtesy of the NYT

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Did anything else even come close to this quote last month? That's your money shot:

“HD is great because people want to see how people really look,” Ms. Price said. “People just want to see what’s real.”

Ms. Price is allowing them to do so, mostly. She had laser treatments to diminish tiny purple veins on her thighs that weren’t visible to viewers before.

“You can see things you cannot see with the naked eye. You see skin blemishes; you see cottage cheese,” said Robby D. “But some cellulite is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s kind of sexy.”

The technology makes the experience more intimate, he said. “People look to adult movies for personal contact, and yet they’re still not getting it. HD lets them see a little bit more of the girl.”

That’s not necessarily good, said Savanna Samson, an actress who last December directed her first movie, “Any Way You Want Me.” During a scene in which she played a desperate housewife, she ran into a problem: the high-definition camera revealed she had a tiny ill-placed pimple.

“We kept stopping and trying to hide it. We put on makeup and powder, but there was no way,” Ms. Samson said. Finally, they tried another approach: “We just changed positions,” she said.

"a tiny ill-placed pimple."

That's a wrap, people . . .

Source:
In Raw World of Sex Movies, High Definition Could Be a View Too Real
MATT RICHTEL
NYT, January 22, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/business/media/22porn.html

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Good looking video for In My Life

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This is the coolest little app I've come across in a long long time: 

iConcertCal is a free iTunes plug-in that monitors your music library and generates a personalized calendar of upcoming concerts in your city. How fircken cool is that?

It is available for both Windows and Mac OS X.

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Can't argue with this:

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Very amusing:

click for larger map

Reprographics via GMSV

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Cool UK Songstress

(She's 21!)

Smile

LDN

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Lily Allen

LDN.mp4

Smile.mp4

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Sadly, we are losing The Art of The Well-Crafted Repartee.   

Here are some examples of classic repartees from a time gone by:

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
-Winston Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
-Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
-Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
-Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
-Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
-Abraham Lincoln

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
-Groucho Marx

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
-Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
-Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... If you have one."
-George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... If there is one."
-Winston Churchill, in response.

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
-Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
-John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
-Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
-Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
-Paul Keating

"He had delusions of adequacy."
-Walter Kerr

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."
-Jack E. Leonard

"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt."
-Robert Redford

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."
-Thomas Brackett Reed

"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them."
-James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
-Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
-Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
-Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
-Oscar Wilde

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
-Billy Wilder

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... For support rather than illumination."
-Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

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Too funny:

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Dazzling collection of photos:

Source:
Asian Soccer Can Also Be Exciting
Balendu Balendu,Delhi, INDIA
Jun 17 2006, 12:24 am GMT
http://www.adpunch.org/entry/asian-soccer-can-also-be-exciting/

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Looks like the live rooftop concert for Let It Be:

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"Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands.

The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are."

- Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit (Princeton University Press).

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The math geeks and advanced number theorists out there will find this amusing:

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There are things individuals can do," says Charles Wood, an information-security consultant in Sausalito, Calif. "You're going to have to work on it, it's going to take some time, and we're going to have to wait for better laws. This isn't something they need to throw their arms up about."

How consumers can remove themselves from popular online people-finder services:

• 555-1212.com
555-1212.com

Policy: Will remove a person's residential listing from the site on request.
To opt out: Fill out form at http://www.555-1212.com/support/contact.jsp?type=R

• Intelius
Intelius.com

Related sites: PeopleFinder.com, People-Lookup.com, PeopleRecordFinder.com and others
Policy: Will allow a person to "temporarily" opt out of the results of an Intelius search. The listing may return when Intelius refreshes its database with new records. For the full policy, go to find.intelius.com/privacy-faq.php#5

To opt out: Fax or mail name and address as it appears on the Web site, along with proof of identity, to: Intelius Inc., 500 108th Ave. NE, 25th Floor, Bellevue, WA, 98004. Fax number: 425-974-6194.

• PublicRecordsNow
PublicRecordsNow.com

Related sites: PrivateEye.com
Policy: On request, will block records from being shown in some, but not all, search results. See the full policy at http://www.privateeye.com/terms.asp

To opt out: Send a letter with first and last name, middle initial, aliases, current address, former addresses going back 20 years and date of birth to: Opt-Out, PublicRecordsNow/Privateeye.com, 15332, Antioch St, Suite 713, Los Angeles, CA, 90272. It also helps to include a printout of all the records to be withheld.

• ZabaSearch
ZabaSearch.com
Policy: Zaba's privacy statement says it doesn't offer a way to opt out of the service.

• US SEARCH
USSearch.com

Related sites: InstantPeopleFinder.com
Policy: Offers limited ability to opt out of search reports. US Search says it will "use good faith efforts" to prevent distribution of information from nonpublic records, such as magazine subscriptions, but says it can't guarantee that information from public records, such as court filings, will be withheld.
To opt out: Mail a signed request with full name, email address, mailing address, Social Security number, date of birth, past addresses and aliases to: US Search, Opt-Out Program, 600 Corporate Pointe, Suite 220, Culver City, CA 90230.

Source:
How to Protect Your Private Information
Your life is an open book online. It doesn't have to be.
MICHAEL TOTTY
WSJ, January 29, 2007; Page R1
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116974822657887925.html

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I'd love to order these:

Source:
Thought for the week
http://www.johnsonbanks.co.uk/thoughtfortheweek/index.php#141

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Randy Newman:

I'd like to say a few words
In defense of our country
Whose people aren't bad nor are they mean
Now the leaders we have
While they're the worst that we've had
Are hardly the worst this poor world has seen

Let's turn history's pages, shall we?

Take the Caesars for example
Why within the first few of them
They had split Gaul into three parts
Fed the Christians to the lions
And burned down the City
And one of 'em
Appointed his own horse Consul of the Empire
That's like vice president or something
That's not a very good example, is it?
But wait, here's one, the Spanish Inquisition
They put people in a terrible position
I don't even like to think about it
Well, sometimes I like to think about it

Just a few words in defense of our country
Whose time at the top
Could be coming to an end
Now we don't want their love
And respect at this point is pretty much out of the question
But in times like these
We sure could use a friend

Hitler. Stalin.
Men who need no introduction
King Leopold of Belgium. That's right.
Everyone thinks he's so great
Well he owned The Congo
He tore it up too
He took the diamonds, he took the gold
He took the silver
Know what he left them with?
Malaria

A president once said,
''The only thing we have to fear is fear itself''
Now it seems like we're supposed to be afraid
It's patriotic in fact and color coded
And what are we supposed to be afraid of?
Why, of being afraid
That's what terror means, doesn't it?
That's what it used to mean

The end of an empire is messy at best
And this empire is ending
Like all the rest
Like the Spanish Armada adrift on the sea
We're adrift in the land of the brave
And the home of the free
Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

Source:
State of the Union: Another Take; A Few Words in Defense of Our Country
RANDY NEWMAN
NYT, January 24, 2007
http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F00C14FF3D5B0C778EDDA80894DF404482

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Via Peta

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