Despite the scandalous move a few years back allowing Miss America contestants to wear nearly itsy-bitsy bikinis, the pageant's ratings have been colder than the winner's dip during her ritual ocean frolic. Last year, ABC dropped the show completely after abysmally low viewership. But the annual scholarship contest (thinly disguised as a babe parade) may be on the verge of an extreme makeover.  
 
The New York Post reports that the pageant has signed a deal with the William Morris agency and plans to come back to the boob tube as a reality show! For a series of six or seven episodes, film crews will train their ruthless lenses on contestants in regional competitions - think "Miss Congeniality" meets "The Bachelorette" - as they hone their interview skills, tone their glutei, and cry with joy and/or despair on their way to the live finale.

 

Dollers are people who don't just wear the clothes and face mask of the animated character they dress up as, but try to live as the character as well.  
There are things about Japan I may never get....when you get to the link, click on the photo for more photos.

 

LET’S ROCK AGAIN! is a one-hour music documentary following rock icon Joe Strummer as he tours across America and Japan.  
After a montage of Strummer’s glorious past with the seminal rock band the Clash, we are treated to a slice of life eleven years later on the comeback trail.  
Strummer’s main objective is simple -- to get his music out to the people and break his record even so that he can have another chance to rock again.  
This is achieved through photo shoots, magazine interviews and press appearances. In his humble quest, we even see Joe handing out flyers on the boardwalk and making a blind visit to a radio station in order to get his latest cd on the air and attract fans to his concert.  
Live performances feature songs from the Clash as well as material written with his new band, the Mescaleros.  
http://dickrude.biz/LetsRockAgain.html

 

Efforts to defend the US against bioterrorists - by throwing money at research - are backfiring, says a 750-strong group of top scientists  The US has poured billions of dollars into biodefence research since its anthrax attacks in 2001. More than half of the US scientists studying bacterial diseases have this week written to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) - their main funding agency - charging that the largess has created "a crisis for microbiological research".   http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7074

 

The world's largest musical instrument- can be heard in a cavern!  http://www.luraycaverns.com/history7.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hydroelectric power has drawn a lot of attention from Greens and environmentalist's and has been promoted as an alternative energy source.  There's a problem. It destroys the atmosphere.  http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg18524884.100

 

Apparently this girl picked the wrong guy to cheat on with her married boss! Not safe for work.  http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/about/best/bos/55265713.html

 

Are you a straight woman who wants to try women? This self help book is quickly becoming the rage.

 

Excerpts from his letters and a poem BTK wrote.  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148837,00.html

 

An international selection of film posters and lobby cards for sale. Includes Hollywood films translated into local languages, as well as non-Hollywood films.  
http://www.musicman.com/mp/mp.html

 

March 4th - March 13th  This marks the 64th anniversary of the annual Bike Week fest at Daytona beach

 

 

Explore the Moon... discover its dramatic features and phenomena - often beautiful, sometimes bizarre, always changing. Inconstant Moon will take you on a new tour each night, with maps, photos, explanations, animations, selected links and even music!  http://www.inconstantmoon.com/

 

 

 

Take a look at this really neat short film, AWAKE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS.  http://www.awakeyourconsciousness.com/

 

This dog has found Jesus and wants us to know.  http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/lassie/399/

 

Grow your own wedding rings from your mate's bone.  http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7050

 

Propaganda from the Soviet Radio magazine.

 

Kraft Foods has decided to stop making candy in the shape of run over animals on the road. 

 http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2005/02/25/942764-ap.html

 

The most painfully boring of all the Trek spinoffs has people protesting the show being taken off the air for no better reason than apparently they just want a Trek universe around. They can't actually be watching the show!  
 
Hey guys, go out and rent FORBIDDEN PLANET- the military unit in space film that the entire STAR TREK universe was based on. They even have the same insignia, except it is on the belt buckles of the FP military and not the shirts.

 

Nine Songs, a film with 30 minutes of very real sex scenes is causing controversy across Europe. Not safe for work.

 

As historians begin to use terms like "unprecedented" and "historic" to define Bush's policies this writer contrasts Europe's hatred for Reagan and the hatred for Bush.  This writer has just figured out that Bush could very well still be judged right and the world media, wrong.

 

Now when you brush your teeth, you can do it to the sounds of the street!

 

The King of Zing and one cool guy, Don Rickles has signed up for a new year on the boards.  Still funny and on stage at 78- good for him!

 

 

 

Pot may delay and sometimes even stop the onslaught of Alzeihmer's!  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4286435.stm

 

 

A new type of organism discovered in an Arctic tunnel came to life in the lab after being frozen for 32,000 years.  The deep-freeze bacteria could point to new methods of cryogenics, and they are the sort of biology scientists say might exist on Mars and other planets and moons.  

http://www.livescience.com/othernews/050223_arctic_life.html
 
The story of two surrealists, their art, and their jailing by nazi's.

 

Why in our culture do people distrust intelligent people?   http://members.shaw.ca/qjackson/writing_editing/articles/ShameOfIntelligence.html

A nightclub in the UK put a psychic in the women's bathroom.  It has become a huge hit! 

 http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15224101%26method=full%26siteid=89488%26headline=gypsy%2drose%2dloo-name_page.html

 

Paul Krassner on his dealings with Hunter S. Thompson.  http://www.nypress.com/18/8/news&columns/krassner.cfm

 

I've never seen a cashew with a shell. Does it even have one? If so what does it look like? How is it grown?  
Yes, indeed, the cashew does have a shell. So why have most people never seen the shell? Because it’s poisonous!  
http://www.gigglemoose.com/quest-cashews.htm

 

Lots of photos of all the things this guy has collected over the years. I can't believe how much stuff this guy has. The collection goes on and on and on...  He does display everything very well though. Must be a pain to dust. 

http://www.tonystrading.co.uk/my-collections.htm 

 

Rock & roll has always been populated by fringe figures, cult artists that managed to develop a fanatical following because of their outsized quirks, but few cult rockers have ever been quite as weird, or beloved, as Ian Dury. As the leader of the underappreciated and ill-fated pub-rockers Kilburn & the High Roads, Dury cut a striking figure -- he remained handicapped from a childhood bout with polio, yet stalked the stage with dynamic charisma, spitting out music-hall numbers and rockers in his thick Cockney accent. Dury was 28 at the time he formed Kilburn, and once they disbanded, conventional wisdom would have suggested that he was far too old to become a pop star, but conventional wisdom never played much of a role in Dury's career. Signing with the fledgling indie label Stiff in 1978, Dury developed a strange fusion of music-hall, punk rock and disco that brought him to stardom in his native England. Driven by a warped sense of humor and a pulsating beat, singles like "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick," "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" and "Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part 3)" became Top Ten hits in the U.K., yet Dury's most distinctive qualities -- his dry wit and wordplay, thick Cockney brogue, and fascination with music-hall -- kept him from gaining popularity outside of England.   http://www.iandury.co.uk/

This is so not good. The latest Mydoom worm shows that hackers are hitting search engines.  The FBI is investigating the Paris Hilton hack that happened, which is also mentioned here, the odds are the hacker just did a search on a search engine and discovered the security flaws of the system she is using.  Search engine problems.......  http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/virus/story/0,10801,99947,00.html

 

The baby boom rebellion, according to this writer, has ended. Interesting piece. 

 http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=5274&R=C42E2B82

 

From 1964 to 1968 a lot of bands experimented with psychedelic music. Here you can hear and find out about them.  A great internet radio station!

 

From Mama Cass and a sandwich to Led Zep and fish, you've probably heard most of these stories were true.  Great article! Not ok for work.

 

The Swede's may not have much of a military, and they do offer free health care to anyone around the world that can get there (yep- every American has free health care in Sweden), but now they are starting to ask questions that could change the country.

 

We have lived through a period of left brain thinking called the information age.  The new age is starting.  It's the age of concepts!

 

In April, 1937, Claire L. Chennault, then a captain in the United States Army Air Corps, retired from active duty and accepted an offer form Madame Chiang Kai-shek for a three month mission to China to make a confidential survey of the Chinese Air Force. At that time China and Japan were on the verge of war and the fledgling Chinese Air Force was beset by internal problems and torn between American and Italian influence. the result was The Flying Tigers!

 

 

A former Johnston County chemistry teacher who lost his job after leading students in an experiment in which they drank milk until they vomited has asked a judge to overturn the school board decision that cost him his job.  http://www.wral.com/news/4223118/detail.html

 

 

Save Our Bluths is a grass-roots campaign by fans of the Emmy-award winning comedy Arrested Development with two goals:  
 
1. To urge Fox to renew Arrested for a third season,  
2. To introduce the innovative comedy to new viewers.  http://www.saveourbluths.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting article on the way we understand love and the way the French do.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15610-2005Feb10.html

 

Most of us have experienced deja vu at least once in our lives - that uncomfortable feeling that you have been here in this place, in this situation before.  There have been attempts at clearing up the phenomenon, which some people see as evidence for metempsychosis - the belief that after death the soul passes to another body, whether human or animal.  One point of departure for researchers has been that a deja vu experience is linked to an experience in a dream that has been half or totally forgotten.  http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=14&click_id=117&art_id=qw1108355223840B212

 

 

 

In Japan vending machines dispense beer, porn, panties- you name it.  This is a great photo series of these incredible machines.

 

Morton Subotnick is one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems. Most of his music calls for a computer part, or live electronic processing; his oeuvre utilizes many of the important technological breakthroughs in the history of the genre.  
 
Currently, Subotnick holds the Mel Powell Chair in Music at the California Institute of the Arts. He tours extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe as a lecturer and composer/performer.  http://www.mortonsubotnick.com/

 

Sport's Illustrated brings you more then 200 exclusive swimsuit photos. Play photographer by panning a full 360 degrees around a virtual photo shoot. Go on location -- from the Bahamas to Thailand -- via behind-the-scenes video and photos from each shoot.  http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2005_swimsuit/

History has been careful to erase one party out of the red scare era, and to pin the excesses of that party on "Joe McCarthy".  However, more and more people looking back on the era are discovering the vast majority of excesses that happened Joe had nothing to do with.  An eye opener. This article is written by a leftist by the way.  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/mcca-d18.shtml

OMFG,,,,,,,yes.  
It's her,,,Mary Kay LeTourneau, and this is her online wedding registry,,,,,mind boggling!  
http://wedding.weddingchannel.com/search_purchase/guest_view_store_ga.asp?retailer_registry_uid=301986711&listby=dept

Finally, you can have tasty, sizzling bacon, without all the shopping, planning, and preparation. Just schedule your appointment at baconwhores.com, and our trained experts will come and prepare bacon for you, exactly the way you like it.  Chicago is one of their areas, too!
http://baconwhores.com/

Cosplay is an odd world. The word comes from costume play, and it includes men and women who dress up as anime characters, men who dress as women, etc.  
 Someday someone has to do a documentary on this.  http://masamania.com/archives/2005/02/coplay_phots_ga_1.html#more

The alchemical information about cannabis use was reintroduced into Europe after the Dark Ages, when the Knights Templar, founded by Hugh de Payns (“of the Pagans”) around the beginning of the twelfth century, became involved in a trade of goods and knowledge with the hashish ingesting Isma’ilis. This knowledge was passed on from Eastern adepts and handed down esoterically through the medieval alchemists, Rosicrucians[1] and later on to the most influential occultists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.   http://www.alchemylab.com/cannabis_stone1.htm

This year is the 20th anniversary of the death of James Dean. Who still matters.  http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14931-1486914,00.html

What kind of people become spies against America? Who were and are they?  This PDF is the only known study I've seen on the subject.  http://www.nacic.gov/archives/docs/espionageAgainstUSbyCitizens.pdf

With lyrics like "a horse's ass is better than yours" and "shut up and eat," Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori made a splash in the early '90s as Cibo Matto. Sex- and food-obsessed, the duo gained critical acclaim for their fusion of pop, jazz, funk, punk, and hip-hop. After two albums, Honda and Hatori went their separate ways; Hatori recorded two EPs of Brazilian covers with former Beck guitarist Smokey Hormel, while Honda released two highly praised solo albums.
   With her latest LP, Eucademix, Honda has fine-tuned her cut-and-paste technique: disjointed beats and multi-layered effects make Eucademix playful, haunting and beautiful. Here, she comes clean with Nerve about taming dragons and sexual gray areas. — Nic Sheff

  

http://www.nerve.com/screeningroom/music/yukahonda/

Two magazine giants have discovered an ad campaign has the website to a child porn site. They are handling it in two very different ways.  http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000798594

It was more than eight years ago in Indiana that Andre Johnson raped and confined a woman, the first of two sexual assaults for which he would go to prison.  
 
On Monday, the victim found herself confronted by her attacker again -- this time at a Target at Roosevelt and Canal in Chicago, where Johnson was working as a security guard.  
 
The woman, who is a representative of a greeting card company, continued with her business, said a police source. But Johnson approached the woman, repeatedly demanding to know her name, police said. When she refused, Johnson allegedly followed her out to her car, again demanding her name and then taking down her license plate.   http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-guard16.html

When you get tired of the devil dressing you, order some good modest Christian clothes!
 

http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/

Mazda has this site on their cars, but the site itself is great fun to navigate.  http://www.mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/displayPage.action?pageParameter=bod

BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

When Heidi Klum met Darth Vader!  http://www.chaffinchshoelace.com/vids.php?id=115