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badpaintingsofbarackobama.com

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:30:03 -0700

Utada

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:21:35 -0800

My favorite artist of all time finally comes to America.

TopGraphics - Top rated/The bronze woman

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:01:59 -0800

finetune

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:21:02 -0800

http://ashuri2.stumbleupon.com/review/5670188/

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:57:59 -0700

Web Guitar Wizard Revealed at Last - New York Times

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:08:23 -0700

From the page: "EIGHT months ago a mysterious image showed up on YouTube, the video-sharing site that now shows more than 100 million videos a day. A sinewy figure in a swimming-pool-blue T-shirt, his eyes obscured by a beige baseball cap, was playing electric guitar. Sun poured through the window behind him; he played in a yellow haze. The video was called simply "guitar." A black-and-white title card gave the performer's name as funtwo."

Its a girl!

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:16:18 -0700

A British TV team gained access to several orphanages in southern China under false pretences and filmed what they saw. In one orphanage a dozen or so baby girls are supervised by an adolescent girl in a white coat. The infant inmates sit on bamboo benches in the middle of a courtyard. Their wrists and ankles are tied to the armrests and legs of the bench. They have been there all day unable to move. A row of plastic buckets is lined up beneath holes in their seats to catch their urine and excrement. The children will not be moved again until night when their benches will be carried back into their cot room and they will be lifted out and tied to their beds.

"It was heart-breaking." said Kate Blewett, producer of the Channel Four documentary. "They had no stimulation, nothing to play with, no one to touch them, They have never known affection. Such is the lack of stimulation for the children that the one thing they all have in common in an endless rocking. They sit tied to their potty chairs rocking backwards and forwards and screaming. Few of them will ever learn to speak and the rocking is the only exercise, the only stimulation, the only pleasure in their lives"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-selective_abortion

http://wiki.theppn.org/Utada_Hikaru

Here There Be Monsters - New York Times

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:55:59 -0700

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/14/news/korea.php
In South Korea, which has one of the world's most developed Internet
communities, the problem known as "cyberviolence" has reached
frightening proportions, officials say.
Complaints filed with the government's Korea Internet Safety Commission
more than doubled to 42,643 last year from 18,031 in 2003. Women have
reported sexual harassment. A 16-year- old schoolgirl accused of
informing on an abusive teacher ran away after her photos and insults
were splashed on her school Web site. A singer struggled with rumors
that she was a man. Twist Kim, a singer and comedian, had a nervous
breakdown after pornographic Web sites proliferated under his name, as
if he had created them, causing television stations to spurn him.

I don't wanna do this anymore 
I don't wanna be the reason why 
Everytime I walk out the door 
I see him die a little more inside 
I don't wanna hurt him anymore 
I don't wanna take away his life 
I don't wanna be... 
a murderer

Isis - Child of Earth and Sky

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:42:56 -0700

My 5001th Visitor: lavendermenace

http://ashuri2.stumbleupon.com/review/4753595/

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 01:35:30 -0700

Science Facts that People Get Wrong
http://www.mcrosolv.demon.co.uk/getwrong.html

* 1 Spacecraft heat up on re-entry because of the friction of the atmosphere.
* 2 Everest is the highest mountain in the world
* 3 Pressure cookers force steam into the food, cooking it quicker
* 4 There are five body senses
* 5 There are four tastes
* 6 A lightning conductor works by safely conducting the lightning to ground
* 7 Things expand as they get hotter
* 8 There are seven colours in the rainbow
* 9 Foucault's Pendulum appears to rotate because the earth rotates underneath it

The Dan Brown code http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000844.html
Approximately three people still haven't read Dan Brown's The
Da Vinci Code:
Mark Liberman,
David Lupher, and reportedly at least one other
person (as yet unidentified).*

Regrettably, neither Barbara nor I are able
to claim that the third non-reader is one of us. What can I say by
way of excuse for this?
I found the book was on sale really cheap in CostCo when we were about to
leave on a trip to Europe. I bought it for the long, long flights that
lay ahead of us, without knowing much about it except that it was supposed
to be an intellectual mystery with cryptography and symbology and stuff
and the blurbs said it was great. I didn't open it, I just grabbed one
off a pallet of about 500 copies.
Barbara was between mysteries at the time, so she grabbed it from me
and rapidly
read it over the next couple of days
before we even left for the airport. I asked hopefully what it
was like. She scowled and said something about the Hardy Boys.
My heart sank; I understood her to mean it was pathetic but
possibly of interest to the 11-year-old market. By the time we were
on our plane she had made sure that
her flight bag contained a new novel by
Menking
Hannell, and over southern Oregon she told me it was great as
usual. Unfortunately I had no better idea of what to do with my time,
so I opened The Da Vinci Code.