Gollum at the Convenience Store
Photoshopping creatures from Middle Earth into everyday pictures
[http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=7485&display=photoshop#entries]
. Humorous stuff, at least for us Tolkien nerds.
Eric Scheske
Yeah, Baby
Austin Powers, Cat in the Hat, and now Keith Moon:
> Mike Myers will star as The Who's drummer Keith Moon in an untitled feature
being developed by Spitfire Pictures, says Variety. Roger Daltrey is producing
with Spitfire's Nigel Sinclair. Bill Gerber also is producing.
>
Dissecting Media
This link
[http://www.zombietime.com/sf_rally_september_24_2005/anatomy_of_a_photograph/]
has a very interesting (borderline fascinating) example of media bias. It starts
with a simple picture in the San Fransisco Chronicle and then, in five short
blurbs, shows that the Chronicle took a picture out
Zombie Me
> American television viewing climbed again last season to a record household
average of eight hours, 11 minutes a day, Nielsen Media Research has found.
> The latest finding challenges perceptions that Americans are watching less TV. .
. .
> [T]he average individual watched four hours and 32 minutes of television
200 Hours for Teenage Baby Slugger
> A teenage boy convicted of striking his girlfriend with a baseball bat to end
her pregnancy has been sentenced to 200 hours of community service at a pro-life
pregnancy center, drawing objections from his lawyer and his family.
Link [http://www.detnews.com/2005/metro/0509/30/B01-
PSA
Due to a rush of social and familial commitments, I don't have time to put
together a Weekend Eudemon. The feature will resume next Saturday.
Odd Consumer News
> A solar-powered handbag designed by a student from Brunel University promises to
make finding keys and other items at the bottom of a bag easier.
> The handbag, dubbed Sun Trap, uses a solar cell attached to the outside of the
bag to trap energy from sunlight.
>
Muslim Sci-Fi?
There's a web page dedicated to it. Link
[http://www.cs.rit.edu/~maa2454/SCIFI/sci_lit.html].
Kidman Undercuts Cruise
The Buddha v. L. Ron:
> Nicole Kidman has spoken out in defense of psychiatry, months after her
ex-husband Tom Cruise publicly denounced the medical practice. . . After
researching her role as psychiatrist for her next movie The Visiting, Kidman is
a full supporter of the benefits of psychiatry. She
Airport Security
The Smoking Gun has reproduced complaints from the Transportation Security
Administration about airport security. Funny and somewhat disturbing stuff. Link
[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0929051screen1.html?link=rssfeed].
Excerpt:
> While one woman was offended by an extremely close wanding, another gal, a
doctor no less, ran into problems