Two modeling sites: Models Modeling and www.erhymez.com, both found through a site called blackcuties.com. Which I hit on a Google search looking for some good photos of black men (Samuel Jackson is tragically under photographed, at least as represented online).
Nimster is back-reading my blog and came across this post about the Google-on-Selection menu item in Mozilla. He comments:
“You can do that with explorer too.
regedit \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt
Add a key the (Default) value, aREG_SZshould be the action: something like
javascript:text=escape(doc.selection.createRange().text);
mywin=window.open('http://www.google.com/search?'+text,
'Google','scrollbars=yes,width=660,height=460,left=75,top=75,
status=yes,resizable=yes'); mywin.focus();
Add a contextsREG_BINARYfield with the value ’31’ (00011111) – I don’t know exactly what this sets, but it works.You need to restart explorer for this to work.”
Victorians’ Secret: Victorian Substance Abuse documents the drugs of the Victorian era, including such favorites as Absinthe and Cocaine toothache drops.
Ananova picked up this story from an Indian site, and it’s been blogged and quoted on various sites, but the original might be this:
UP’s newest godman is an English captain!
The newest deity to be worshipped in Uttar Pradesh is not one amongst the pantheon of gods and goddesses revered across India.
The deity is an Englishman who died in the mutiny of 1857, more than 145 years ago!
People have begun offering not just fruits and flowers at the Mazar (grave) of Captain F Wale at the historic Moosa Bagh about six km from Lucknow.
They also offer liquor, cigarettes and meat and have composed hymns and prayers for the Englishman. Locals now refer to their new “god” as “Captain Baba”, or Gora Baba or Gora Bhagwan.
Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp
“ These days, people are seeing their privacy punctured in intimate ways as their personal, professional and online identities become transparent to one another. Twenty-somethings are going to search engines to check out people they meet at parties. Neighbors are profiling neighbors. Amateur genealogists are researching distant family members. Workers are screening co-workers.
“In other words, it is becoming more difficult to keep one’s past hidden, or even to reinvent oneself in the American tradition.”
Of course, Israel has never had a tradition of obscurity – like most small countries, I guess, everyone knows everyone else, or at least their cousin.