according to the billboard top 40 in this week’s rolling stone magazine…
barry manilow
the who
meat loaf
tony bennett
george strait
rod stewart
alabama
jimmy buffett
bob seger…
are all in the top 40?!?

fussy sophie and sophie feeding

click on the picture above to see sophie’s first movie!

this picture gives me a headache, literally…via boingboing

From the 1/13/06 issue of The Week: Automakers have designed their 2006 line of cars with wider seats to accomodate Americans’ burgeoning buttocks…seats in the 2006 Honda Civic are wider by three-quarters of an inch. The purpose of the change, said a Honda spokesman, is “to meet the growing needs of our customers.”

“Growing needs” indeed…why can’t people just stop eating?!

from the december 9, 2005 issue of the week: …a new study found that most adults can no longer receive injections into their buttocks, because the layer of fat there is too thick. the study recommended that doctors buy longer needles. (full article available on yahoo news

For all you frequent flyers, this is a fun web site to visit. People take pictures of their airline meals and rate them.

The picture says it all

this web site has phone numbers and instructions on how to reach a real live human being (instead of going through phone menu hell) for various large companies.

maybe angelina jolie should adopt penelope too?

godiva chocolate covered cookies and cream is crap! it’s got the texture of frozen dirt. seriously. and it doesn’t taste all that great. crap crap crap. ugh.

This is from a series of spray paintings done on the Palestinian side of the Israeli “separation wall.” More background here.

Damaged Lens with One Frame
Although the body of Moto Mosoro (54 at the time) was not found, a part of her burned head was discovered on September 6, one month after the atomic bombing, at a place 1,500 meters from the hypocenter. This was taken from an eye socket.

This picture and quote are from the “Hiroshima” archive of photographer Hiromi Tsuchida. The 3-part photo gallery can be found here. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima (for those of you who have not had the opportunity to visit), is very simple and not at all fancy, but there’s a quiet grace in the sadness that
surrounds the exhibits. It’s like visiting ghosts of a past that you weren’t a part of. (Today is the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.)

Recent article in the Economist about how people really respond to terrorism. Interesting how overcoming your fears about terrorism seems to be an “all or nothing” decision.

People do not fight their fear each time they step on a bus; they choose to overcome it once and for all, or not at all. Once a person has come to terms with terror, it makes little difference to him whether he gets on a bus twice a day or once a day.