Website of the Noise Ninja creator
December 19th, 2004Very good photos, high standard!
And, of course, Noise Ninja is a must have product, very reasonably priced cleans up digital photos and even old scans.
Lahore Photo Gallery by Ian Butterworth at pbase.com - Lots of photos posted
December 17th, 2004Cannondale Cyclocross Fan Club?
March 11th, 2005
Thinking of a new web site.
People that have Cannondale Cyclocross bikes particularly with the head shock are big fans!
What are Big Girls Made of?
December 17th, 2004“What are Big Girls Made of?”
The construction of a woman
a woman is not made of flesh
of bone and sinew
belly and breasts, elbows and liver and toe.
She is manufactured like a sports sedan.
She is retooled, refitted and redesigned
every decade.
Cecile had been seduction itself in college.
She wriggled through bars like a satin eel,
her hips and ass promising, her mouth pursed
in the dark red lipstick of desire.
She visited in ‘68 still wearing skirts
tight to the knees, dark red lipstick,
while I danced through Manhattan in mini skirt,
lipstick pale as apricot milk,
hair loose as a horse’s mane. Oh dear,
I thought in my superiority of the moment,
whatever has happened to poor Cecile?
She was out of fashion, out of the game,
disqualified, disdained,
dismembered from the club of desire.
Look at pictures in French fashion
magazines of the 18th century:
century of the ultimate lady
fantasy wrought of silk and corseting.
Paniers bring her hips out three feet
each way, while the waist is pinched
and the belly flattened under wood.
The breasts are stuffed up and out
offered like apples in a bowl.
The tiny foot is encased in a slipper
never meant for walking.
On top is a grandiose headache:
hair like a museum piece, daily
ornamented with ribbons, vases,
grottoes, mountains, frigates in full
sail, balloons, baboons, the fancy
of a hairdresser turned loose.
The hats were rococo wedding cakes
that would dim the Las Vegas strip.
Here is a woman forced into shape
rigid exoskeleton torturing flesh:
a woman made of pain.
How superior we are now: see the modern woman
thin as a blade of scissors.
She runs on a treadmill every morning,
fits herself into machines of weights
and pulleys to heave and grunt,
an image in her mind she can never
approximate, a body of rosy
glass that never wrinkles,
ever grows, never fades. She
sits at the table closing her eyes to food
hungry, always hungry:
a woman made of pain.
A cat or dog approaches another,
they sniff noses. They sniff asses.
They bristle or lick. They fall
in love as often as we do,
as passionately. But they fall
in love or lust with furry flesh,
not hoop skirts or push up bras
rib removal or liposuction.
It is not for male or female dogs
that poodles are clipped
to topiary hedges.
If only we could like each other raw.
If only we could love ourselves
like healthy babies burbling in our arms.
If only we were not programmed and reprogrammed
to need what is sold us.
Why should we want to live inside ads?
Why should we want to scourge our softness
to straight lines like a Mondrian painting?
Why should we punish each other with scorn
as if to have a large ass
were worse than being greedy or mean?
When will women not be compelled
to view their bodies as science projects,
gardens to be weeded,
dogs to be trained?
When will a woman cease
to be made of pain?
From: http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/poet_Marge_Piercy/Samplepoemspiercy.htm
Ballistics - a photoset on Flickr
January 31st, 2005Gizmodo : Simple Ferrite Bead Absorbs Cellphone Radiation
January 30th, 2005BBC NEWS | Health | Child warning over mobile phones
January 30th, 2005BBC NEWS | Health | Child warning over mobile phones: “Although we “
BBC NEWS | Health | Bead ’slashes mobile radiation’
January 30th, 2005Geek.com Geek News - Magnetic bead could solve mobile phone radiation fears
January 30th, 2005Geek.com Geek News - Magnetic bead could solve mobile phone radiation fears: “hat did some study that no one else has been able to replicate (that I could find) saying that the hands-free earphone is even more dangerous than putting the antenna near your head.”
Weblogs Compendium - Blog Tools
January 25th, 2005The Photoshop Displace Filter: Tutorial: The Gurus Network
January 24th, 2005Eagles & Salmon: 20D Photo Gallery by Norman Rich at pbase.com
January 24th, 2005Man robs doughnut shop with a laser pointer - Engadget - www.engadget.com
January 24th, 2005USATODAY.com - Memories gone in a snap
January 24th, 2005USATODAY.com - Memories gone in a snap
Maxell says they are about to launch a super DVD designed to withstand both abuse and contaminants. According to Maxell, “DVD-RPRO incorporates breakthrough technologies, resulting in the utmost in DVD durability for long-term data protection.” This will make it ideal for photo archiving. Read the entire press release.