Almost plays as SNL satire, i.e., if SNL were playing on the Breast Channel. This video has so far had over three and a half million views with over 10,000 comments (btw, the typical retarded youtube commenters are as funny as the video).
(Note: hat tip to Ms Sammi for sending me this funny YT link all the way from merry ‘ol England).
Breastfeeding update: Evidently this is catching on…Read more.
“About a year ago in my first visit to Second Life, the popular online virtual world, I spent half an hour trying to make my avatar, or online character, look like a hotter version of myself — which isn’t easy when you don’t know how to use the tools. When I finally made it onto Money Island to mingle, a stranger approached me and said, “Hello there, Devon.” I froze. Then I tried to run. I was desperately searching for the teleport tool when my sister walked into the room, peered over my shoulder at the computer screen and said, “Why’d you make your avatar ugly?” I logged off…I didn’t realize how instructive my sister’s question was until recently, when I discovered research being done at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL). Jeremy Bailenson, head of the lab and an assistant professor of communication at Stanford, studies the way self-perception affects behavior. No surprise that what we think about ourselves affects the confidence with which we approach the world. What is a surprise is that this applies in the virtual world too…” Read rest of article.
“I felt cruel when I turned it off…” Understandable. I mean the damn coat was alive and growing at an alarming rate, even though one of the sleeves had fallen off.
“One of the strangest exhibits at the opening of “Design and the Elastic Mind,” the very strange show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York that explores the territory where design meets science, was a teeny coat made out of living mouse stem cells. The “victimless leather” was kept alive in an incubator with nutrients, unsettlingly alive. Until recently, that is…” Read rest of article.
NOTE: “unsettlingly alive”–Gees that gives my stomach the squirms.
Taki, from the London Spectator, talks about past Hollywood glamour (you know, the Fifties) as he comes face to face with the new Hollywood as it materialized in Waverly Inn:
“So there I was, at the Waverly Inn, Graydon Carter’s little toy, which has been the hottest ticket in the Big Bagel for two years, when the booth next to mine filled up with young people, all of them scruffy and dressed like the homeless, their girls rather plain and some of them even ugly. Par for the course, I thought to myself, then I noticed everyone looking at them. My son and daughter, with whom I was celebrating Greek Easter, set me straight. The boys were Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Robert Downey Jr, the last two unknown to me, Leo baby hiding under a 19th-century working-man’s hat. Truth be told, I was expecting the worst, but to my delight the large group was not only extremely quiet, but also very polite. I made sure no one at my table looked their way, but when I sneaked a look I was surprised how normal and undistinguished the group was. No glamour à la old Hollywood there, no one with looks like Bill Holden, stature like Gary Cooper or just plain allure like Burt Lancaster. No, this was real working-class stuff, salt-of-the-earth types, taller than those two midgets, Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino, but midgets nevertheless when compared to the stars of my age group…” Read the rest.
