Nine-year-old organizes gay rights rally in Denver

The “NOM NOM NOM” campaign would have you believe that children are confused by having two parental figures of the same sex in the same household. Considering the variety of blended families and serial monogamy that they already deal with, that seems a little strained.

In real life and without indoctrination, children are on the side of fair play: Nine-year-old child organizes gay rights rally in Denver,

Sauce for the gander

It’s well known that the LDS church (Mormons) spend time and energy retroactively baptising other people’s dead ancestors into their church. They are famous for their geneological database, which they built for the purpose of retroactively “saving” everybody posthumously. Some people are indifferent to the practice. Others find it rude, ghoulish, offensive, or downright sacrilegious. However, one blogger responded with a humorous case of “turnabout is fair play” and posthumously inducted Brigham Young and Joseph Smith into The Village People.

Follow the link for a view of the results. If the article is gone, look below the fold.

“Eyeborg”

In a “What will they think of next?” moment, a one-eyed film-maker decided to look into his chances of getting a camera that would fit into the socket of his missing eye. I just saw the fellow featured on Daily Planet. Even with a small, circular PCB imitating an iris, it looks pretty weird. The interviewer said that he looked like a cyborg, and he responded that he was an eyeborg—so I looked it up on the Web. Sure enough, he has a blog: Eyeborg Blog (formerly Eyeborg.

Netizen’s guide to Flame Warriors

As we all know, arguments tend to become more heated over the Internet than in real life, erupting into insult-fests called flame wars. Mike Reed amused himself by describing the different kinds of flame warriors.

Snow globe art

Larryfire posted an article about two artists who make unusual art using models, cut-outs, etc. In this case he focused on their scary snow-globes, which contain tiny scenes of fantasy and strangeness. Read the article and then click through to the artists’ Web site.  The globes are fairly large, 15cm x 15cm x 22cm.  On the Web site there are also small images of scenes that are rendered at about 2m x 1m and printed in small editions of 5 or 6 copies. They are also weird and thought-provoking.

"Traveller 63 at Night, 2003" by Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz