15 Oct 2004
Strangers on My Flight

This is possibly the most politically incorrect document I've ever run across. It's also disrespectful, obnoxious and in poor taste. However, if your sense of humor is even slightly warped, you will probably find it screamingly hilarious.

Strangers on My Flight

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It's Time for Reality Porn

It's about a lot more than porn:

Living in Los Angeles I see an increasing acceptance of biosculpting as a normal part of American life, like daily moisturizer with SPF 15 and a mammogram when you're 40. Our alternative weekly paper is thick with advertisements for Botox injections and collagen lip plumping, liposuction and face lifts. Asymmetrical labia ruining your sexual confidence? Labiaplasty can help! Life sucks? Apply to be on Extreme Makeover or The Swan, and all your dreams will come true!

I, too, find the trend towards plasticity very disturbing: as a culture, we seem intent on believing that the look makes the book. Maybe we need to remember things our mothers used to tell us, things like "Beauty is only skin deep ..."

Gina Lynn wonders why cosmetic surgery has become so commonplace and suggests that it's time for a change.

(link) [Wired News]

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IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill

Well, now we know! Hrumpf! As the comments on the Slashdot thread point out, I can download third party software all day on my Mac, and I never seem to get a virus. Hmmm... wonder why that is, Mr. Bill?

But the most damning comment comes in the form of an experiment:

Furthermore, I have performed the experiment: Install Windows on a computer and hook it up to the Internet. Leave it hooked up without downloading one bit of software from anywhere and the machine will be compromised. Why is that Mr. Gates?

Methinks both Microsoft and Gates need a refresher courses in responsibility, corporate and personal, respectively.

As part of the Media Center release discussed previously, Bill Gates had an interview with USA Today. Best quote: 'Q: Speaking of security, Internet Explorer has had well-publicized holes... Gates: Understand those are cases where you are downloading third-party software.'

(link) [Slashdot: ]

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Evolution

orangeguru has a post today where he questions the outcome of evolution. So I figured I'd throw this cartoon I ran across several years ago into the discussion ... it just seems, well, true.

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