Eye liner costs more per ounce than gold.

• Giant space monster sprouts wings, fangs
• Woman gives birth to MP3s
• Yahoo! asked to explain alleged perjury
• Giant space monster continues its approach
• Yahoos in suits choose cash flow over human rights
• Junior high textbook publishers act like junior high students
• Giant space monster is watching us
• Murdoch conspiracy uncovered
• Web site induces massive loss in worker productivity
• Porn averaged
• Giant space monster threat continues

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I have a few severly deep posts pending, on the interplay between anti-Jew sentiment and pro-Palestinian sentiment [executive summary: when you type `Jew' into Google and get anti-jew links, it's because sites that are allegedly just about being kind to Palestinians link to the Jewish conspiracy sites so frequently]. I had another part in the How to Argue with Conservatives epic [executive summary: avoid people who think empathy is bad].

But instead, I've been spending all my time looking at pictures of people. Here's a link (Right HERE, while it lasts) to a script which will give you the last twenty-odd images which have been uploaded to LiveJournal. It harkens back to what the Internet has been all about: looking at pictures of people.

No, not those kinds of pictures. Evidently, all you need to do to get porn is to boot Windows and just wait a few minutes for the pop-ups to find you; this takes much more effort than that.

No, I mean pictures of people with their outstrectched arm in the foreground of the picture, or pictures that are ever-so-slightly out of focus because the camera is focusing on the mirror instead of the person in the mirror. I mean grainy pictures that are all bluish because the only light in the room is the computer screen. Group photos of people being crayzy. People dressed up for the school play. People posing with their baby, car, or pet. Interesting natural artifacts. People standing next to interesting natural artifacts.

People beingarses. People in the bathtub with their wrists allegedly slit (whish I'd saved that one), which brings us to the most common thread to it all: people in eyeliner.

Art!
deep art!

What is it about LiveJournal? I know three of the people who read this thing regularly are LiveJournal users, and one of them, bless her deark heart, is hopelessly goth. Going out with her put me to shame: there she is, all fabulous in a tight black t-shirt with German that neither of us understands across her chest and a full length pleather skirt, and me standing next to her, schlumpy.

But from my own personal experience, the world is not mostly populated by goth girls. Am I just in the wrong part of town? Should I be moving to Seattle?

I'm liking this guy's script more than other methods of looking at people because I don't have to actually read anything they have to say. It's what depressed me so about Friendster and Spring Street Networks: everybody's hundred words on why they're crazy and unique were just like everybody else's hundred words. No worries here. Just faces.

Also astonishingly popular are quiz results like `You are Las Vegas' or `You are existential psychotherapy.' I'd love to see the quiz that got to that point, and what branch points lead you to be one instead of the other.

All for today. I like looking at pictures of people and the stuff they like to take pictures of. Also, the U.S. State Department didn't want to prosecute the Nazis for the genocides, and even fired the U.S. representative on what would eventually become the Nuremberg tribunal, but were eventually forced by a public/press outcry to reinstate the guy. Yeah, pictures of people are neat.

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