Ephemera

• A Pome:   Making Light: Wocky Jivvy, Wergle Flomp
• Not "Them!":   The Biology of B-Movie Monsters
• The unkindest cut of all:   Awful Plastic Surgery

That was a reader submission, and I don't entirely agree with it. While it does feature some genuinely inspired examples of cosmetic surgery disasters, some of the items are highly questionable. Many, I believe, are examples of bad lighting, lack of make-up, aging, and Wonder Bras. What's more, some of the comments bring into serious question whether the writers have (or are ever likely too have) any first-hand experience with female anatomy. (And we won't go into speculation of their own visual esthetics.)

Posted by Hitch at 11:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

• Look closer:   eye of science
• Let it snow:   the snow show
• Pointless waste of cursors:   Cursor.swf
• Bitch bitch bitch:   THE 100 MOST ANNOYING THINGS OF 2004
• More lonely supermodels:   Supermodel Personals
• So cute and collectable:   Bad Taste Bears
• 3D waste of time:   Smashback

• One from woofs:    The Cubes™

Posted by Hitch at 02:20 PM | Permalink

...it's becoming too politically touchy of subject.

I came across this article today: Scientist decries moral audacity of environmentalists linking tsunami and global warming

My favorite paragraph:

In his new book, State of Fear, Michael Crichton repeatedly demonstrates that global warming ambulance-chasers often assume things to be true that simply are not. The book centers around a lawsuit by pacific islanders because of sea level rise; their case falls apart when the facts disclose that sea levels were actually falling in the region in question. Life imitates fiction. Michael Crichton should sue environmentalists who blame the massive death toll from the Indian Ocean's tragic tsunamis on sea level rise for plagiarism."

BTW: I'm midway through the book. It's pretty good. But, then again, I like Critchon's writing. I even enjoy the bad ones.

Posted by Hitch at 08:15 PM | Permalink