While it's a well done costume, this is yet another case of costuming-for-your-body-type nightmare scenarios.

'eh, who among us has anything that even REMOTELY resembles a "perfect body". He'd have been fine if he'd have left out the side profile shots! :) -lb

TRON Costume - 4 pictures you *don't* want to see

IconoclasT wrote:
] w1ld wrote:
] ] ]
] ] ] The hosts of the show on WXDJ-FM, Joe Ferrero and Enrique
] ] ] Santos, fed pleasantries to Castro before breaking in and
] ] ] calling him an assassin. The conversation ended after
] ] ] Castro denounced the callers with a stream of
] ] ] vulgarities.
] ]
] ] hahaha...
] But when the VOA (Voice of America) broadcast anti Castro
] propaganda from Key West into Cuba via Radio Marti back
] between 85 and 95, apparently, that was ok. Given the ongoing
] ineffective 40+ year trade and travel embargo w/ Cuba, one
] would think tormenting Castro would be promoted via almost any
] means.
]
] UPDATE: MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- Two Miami radio
] hosts who duped Cuban President Fidel Castro with a prank call
] are soliciting pennies from their fans to pay a $4,000 fine
] proposed by U.S. regulators because of the on-air stunt.
]
] Talk radio host Enrique Santos said the fine made no sense, so
] he and co-host Joe Ferrero plan to pay it with 400,000 cents,
] delivered in person to the Federal Communications Commission
] in Washington.
]
] http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/04/28/castro.prank.reut/index
] .html

AWESOME!!! -LB

RE: CNN.com - $4,000 fine for station that cranked Castro - Apr 24, 2004

] A radio station that crank-called Cuban President Fidel
] Castro and broadcast the recording should be fined
] $4,000, the Federal Communications Commission said.
]
] The Spanish-speaking hosts of "The Morning High Jinks"
] used snippets of an earlier prank involving Venezuelan
] President Hugo Chavez to move the call from a
] receptionist up the chain to Castro in a five-minute
] broadcast June 17.
]
] The hosts of the show on WXDJ-FM, Joe Ferrero and Enrique
] Santos, fed pleasantries to Castro before breaking in and
] calling him an assassin. The conversation ended after
] Castro denounced the callers with a stream of
] vulgarities.
]
] The FCC concluded Friday that the station should be fined
] for the broadcast. It rejected the station's claim that a
] rule requiring people to be notified before their voices
] are used does not apply to people in Cuba.
]
] Payment of the fine or a request for cancellation or
] reduction is required within 30 days.
]
] It was unclear whether the station had been fined for the
] prank involving Chavez five months before.
]
] There was no answer at the station's business line
] Saturday, and a call to the station's Washington attorney
] was not immediately returned.

The federal government has no sense of humor. -LB

$4,000 fine for station that cranked Castro

] The elderly parents of Grammy-winning recording artist
] "Weird Al" Yankovic were found dead in their home,
] apparently victims of carbon monoxide poisoning,
] officials said.
]
] Nick and Mary Yankovic were found dead Friday in their
] suburban San Diego home by relatives who were worried
] because they had not seen the couple in a while, said
] sheriff's Sgt. Conrad Grayson.
]
] Paramedics found Nick Yankovic, 86, in a chair in the
] front living room. His 81-year-old wife was on the
] bathroom floor.
]
] A wood fire had been set recently in the fireplace,
] Grayson said.
]
] "The house was full of smoke when they opened the door,"
] Grayson said, adding that the family members found the
] flue closed.
]
] "Weird Al" Yankovic, 44, had no comment during a
] performance in Mankato, Minnesota, on Saturday night.

That sucks. I don't know how someone manages to perform the night after losing both his parents, but I've met Al a couple times and he's a very cool person, not to mention an amazing performer. Would rather perform then disapoint his fans. Talk about an unselfish person. -LB

'Weird Al' Yankovic's parents found dead

The United States is good at two things. Being rich, and being rebellious.

The first is the product of two geographic accidents and one extremely intelligent decision.

We were close enough to Europe to provide an exciting, temperate, and vast destination for the bored and downtrodden of the 19th century, and yet far enough away to keep us from taking much more then a few bruises when the place collapsed on itself in the 20th.

The extremely intelligent decision was to keep the church out of government affairs. Thomas Jefferson accurately predicted that our southern, "priest ridden," neighbors would succumb to corrupt ineptitude for centuries.

We peaked about 1955. The space program, adjusted for inflation, made our present fiscally unilateral adventures in the middle east look like a minor expense.

We're still quite accustomed to being the richest people on the planet and few seem to be aware that we're in decline. If our military expenditures don't suck us dry the coming implosion of Social Security and Medicare certainly will.

In 40 years we're not going to be the richest anymore.

Neither cost should be underestimated. The domestic concern is now quite well documented. On the other hand, Islamic fundamentalism is an ancient, intractable hate that flourishes because it gives meaning to lives that have none.

Can we really replace that meaning with economic purpose? We can't even create economic purpose here at home.

The other thing, besides being rich, that Americans are good at is rebellion. Our culture is the space that exists between the dress codes of protestant piety and the cloud of pot smoke emanating from the local motorcycle bar. You are taught how to be, and they you are taught not to be it.

Our heros aren't the ones who worked together to solve the problem. They're the ones who stepped outside and succeeded. We don't care about the team. Only the star quarterback matters to us.

Americans are good at going off in a garage somewhere and doing something innovative on one's own. Rebellion is at the heart of that. Thats why the hacker scene was so edgy.

Thats the one hope we have that we can really build a future on once our geographic blessings are spent and everyone else gets an education.

And we're killing it. Between the outsourcing, and the attack on options, and the skittish contraction of meaningful technology investment, we're eliminating the dream that you can go out and work on the edges and be successful.

Sure, Steven Levy found people doing innovative things in Silicon Valley after the crash. There are those among us who don't care about taking risks because they could loose almost all of their net worth without having to change their lifestyles. They are bored and have nothing better to do then tinker. Are we really hanging the future of our economy on a few guys who are rich enough to create their own space programs for fun?

One in one hundred are successful and the more we scale this back the more good opportunities will slip through our fingers.

Today technology innovation consists of screwing up the DNS system. And its not just there. We've even forgotten how to make good music. Our endless co-option of the rebels has been too efficient. The rebels don't have anything more to say.

Taxes and Terrorism. Thats all I can see for years to come. And I'm sick of it already. We heading into a Japanese style socio-economic malaise.

Malaise

] The Census Bureau reported Thursday that four of the 10
] fastest-growing counties in America are in Atlanta's
] suburbs, where sprawl has created some of the worst
] traffic congestion in the country.

No shit Sherlock - some of us have known about this problem for the last decade or longer. -LB

Census: Atlanta suburbs exploding

] They are out there, ready to smack into the Earth and
] wipe out human civilization, but astronomers said on
] Wednesday they are well on their way to finding every
] asteroid that poses a threat.
]
] The next task will be to look for smaller objects that
] might just destroy, say, a city, the experts told the
] U.S. Senate's Subcommittee on Science, Technology and
] Space.
]
] In an update on the Near Earth Object Observation
] Program, experts told the Senate subcommittee that they
] are on schedule to finding everything bigger than 1
] kilometer in diameter that might approach the planet.
]
] "The survey officially started in 1998 and to date more
] than 700 objects of an estimated population of about
] 1,100 have been discovered, so the effort is now believed
] to be over 70 percent complete and well on the way to
] meeting its objective by 2008," NASA's Lindley Johnson
] told the hearing.

Good news. Nothing like the impact of a mile-wide wide rock from outer space to ruin your day. -LB

Dangerous space rocks under watch.

] First, the Passion of the Christ. Now, the torment of the
] Easter Bunny?
]
] It may not have been as gruesome as Mel Gibson's movie,
] but many parents and children got upset when a church
] trying to teach about Jesus' crucifixion performed an
] Easter show with actors whipping the Easter bunny and
] breaking eggs.

Oh those crazy christians! I'd love to see video of this! -LB

Church's Easter show shocks crowd with bunny whipping

] Dealing with criticism that national security adviser
] Condoleezza Rice wouldn't testify in public before the
] 10-member commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist
] attacks, White House spokesman Scott McClellan complained
] last month that when she testified in private, "only five
] members showed up" to hear what she had to say.
]
] What McClellan didn't tell reporters was that on Nov. 21
] %u2014 long before Rice met with the five commissioners
] in February %u2014 the White House counsel's office had
] sent the commission a letter saying no more than three
] commissioners could attend meetings with White House
] aides of Rice's rank.

Gotta love the shell game the whitehouse plays. Goes to show you should not trust ANYTHING the Bush administration says. -LB

USATODAY.com - White House criticism disputed

] Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose campaign was dogged by
] allegations of sexual misconduct, voluntarily took a
] training course about preventing sexual harassment after
] his election.

This is a bad joke BEGGING to be written, so I'll leave it to the Letterman/Leno/Stewart teams. I'm too tired to be that witty tonight! -LB

Schwarzenegger takes sexual harassment course