Saturday, July 19, 2003

Colorful Fish

I subscribe to MSNBC's Week in Pictures. The images are always breathtaking and I highly recommend signing up for their notification list.

This week one of the images was of multicolored parrotfish in an aquarium. I literally went, "Wow!" when I opened the picture up. I had no idea that parrotfish could be such a wide variety of colors! Isn't it great? (Click for bigger version.)


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Friday, July 18, 2003

Burn It Delay

I left my file with the groups at work last night, so I wasn't able to send out the Burn It - The Summer Edition group information last night. Unfortunately, I probably won't be home until very last tonight, so you'll probably get your group information early Saturday. Sorry for the delay, everyone!

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Thursday, July 17, 2003

Blogathon Pimping

It's almost time for this year's Blogathon, so I thought I'd take a second to pimp all the people that I donated to this year. There are over 400 participants this year, all with worthy causes, but since I'm not a millionaire, I've only been able to support a handful of people. Even if you only have a dollar to spare, pick a charity or a blogger from their participants list and give some support. Here's who I'm supporting this year:

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Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Sinner!

I hadn't done one of these in quite some time, so I couldn't resist.


morally deficient
Threat rating: Medium. Your total lack of decent
family values makes you dangerous, but we can
count on some right wing nutter blowing you up
if you become too high profile.


What threat to the Bush administration are you?
brought to you by Quizilla


(Link courtesy of Zuly)

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Ping! Pong!

Ping-Pong: Matrix style.

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Talk to the Animals

Ever wonder what your cat is saying? Well, the Meowlingual may be just the thing for you.

According to the Japanese company that makes it, by having your cat meow into a microphone on the device, owners will be provided with a literal translation of what their cat has to say.

I'll predict Bella's most often used phrases right now: "Feed me! Don't pet me! Can't you ever just let me sleep? Where's my shmousie (fur covered mouse toy)? Stop putting me near my box! I don't need to go!"

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Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Last Day to Burn It

Just a reminder, but today is the last day to sign up for Burn It - The Summer Edition. We've got over fifty participants already and there's always room for more!

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Monday, July 14, 2003

Hunting For Bambi - The Degradation of Women

Today my buddy Dan sent me to a story on one of Las Vegas's news channels about a new sport they have there called Hunting for Bambi (link goes to the news story).

The premise is that men pay up to $10,000 to go into the desert around Las Vegas and hunt naked women with paintball guns. Safety is encouraged, but not for the women who are only allowed to wear tennis shoes. As the owner says, "I don't go deer hunting and see a deer with a football helmet on so I don't want to see one on my girl either." Keep in mind that these paintballs travel at about 200 miles per hour and usually draw blood when they hit their target. The owner encourages the hunters not to hit the girls above the chest, but he said that not everyone complies.

At the end, the hunter receives a video of his hunt, complete with the victor holding (and in the case of the guy on the video - fondling) their kill. The half-wit on the video completely sickened me by gloating how he got the one with the biggest rack and how he'd like to mount her.

I was completely disgusted that there is a market for this. One of the losers in the video kept talking about how this was just a game and good, clean fun, though I'm not sure how expressing violent actions against women was good, clean fun.

I went to the website for the "sport" and was horrified to see how violent and degrading their viewpoint really is.

Here are a few quotes from the site:

How can anyone think that something that espouses this kind of hatred and violence towards women could be a good thing? Is it any wonder that violence against women is so high in this country? Something like this goes beyond objectification and turns into dehumanization. How long is it before someone participating in this can't even relate to women as people any more?

As the creator of the "sport" says that the "goal is to be as true to nature as possible." How the fuck is this being true to nature? The pictures on the site show women men standing over women and firing their guns at them, pulling women by their hair, and women with fake (I hope) blood on their face. How can someone participate in this and think it's harmless? Think that this doesn't make a difference in how they look at women?

I truly do weep for humanity. Don't these people have wives, daughters, mothers, sisters, or friends? Would they want someone to do this to a woman in their life? This is some of the sickest shit I've ever seen and I hope that there's a nice spot in hell for the creator of this "sport." I pray that the psychologist on the video was wrong about this being every man's fantasy.

Oh, and speaking of the jackass creator, he hopes that he gets sued so that he'll get more publicity. Let's just hope it's not because someone gets killed out there, seriously injured, or raped.

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Sunday, July 13, 2003

French Poodle or Killer Storm?

You know, I just have to say that the name Claudette is more appropriate for a French poodle than a potentially lethal storm.

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