] This experiment is designed to test whether you can spot
] the difference between a fake smile and a real one
]
] It has 20 questions and should take you 10 minutes
]
] It is based on research by Professor Paul Ekman, a
] psychologist at the University of California

Personally, I suck at this kind of thing... I need more context than just a face. But I still found it interesting, especially the discussion at the end.

BBCi - Science - Human Body - Spot The Fake Smile

PRESIDENT BUSH: — because Saddam Hussein used weapons of mass destruction, invaded Kuwait. ... But the fact that he is not there is, means America's a more secure country.

[Sigh]... Look how he backpedals and changes the justification for the war.

It's hard for me to describe to you what that means. It's — let me just say this: It's a leap of faith to understand.

Way to explain. things.

DIANE SAWYER: But stated as a hard fact, that there were weapons of mass destruction as opposed to the possibility that he could move to acquire those weapons still —

PRESIDENT BUSH: So what's the difference?

DIANE SAWYER: Well —

PRESIDENT BUSH: The possibility that he could acquire weapons. If he were to acquire weapons, he would be the danger. That's, that's what I'm trying to explain to you. A gathering threat, after 9/11, is a threat that needed to be de — dealt with, and it was done after 12 long years of the world saying the man's a danger. And so we got rid of him and there's no doubt the world is a safer, freer place as a result of Saddam being gone.

The difference is that you lied, jackass.

ABCNEWS.com : Transcript: President Bush Interview, Part 2

Home shopping follies. The mix of rednecks and swords.

Ten Mint Ten

ix wrote:
] the gothamist writes:
] --
] FCC Chariman Michael Powell opens an FCC investigation by
] saying, "I am outraged at what I saw during the halftime show
] of the Super Bowl. Like millions of Americans, my family and I
] fathered around the television for a celebration. Instead,
] that celebration was tainted by a classless, crass, and
] deplorable stunt. Our nation's children, parents and citizens
] deserve better."
] Yes, deserve better, like farting horses on the beer
] commercials, 'cause flatulence and animals is classy.
] --
]
] seems to me, there's a lot of bigotry around.

It was only a fucking tit!!! If their kids can handle a bunch of men slamming into and on top of one another, they should be able to handle Janet Jackson's fucking tit. It was mostly metal anyway. They don't object to the Viagra commercials trying to cure their limp dicks, but one flash of titty and its "outrage." No wonder they need Viagra. What sort of message does it send to kids to get angry over tittage anyway? Its the parents reaction to this bullshit which makes their kids retards.

RE: Gothamist: Janet Jackson's Garment Collapse

A 170-pound bronze statue of Yoda, the Star Wars Jedi master, has been stolen in Pasadena, California.

Hah... Some Star Wars geek probably has it in his livingroom.

£14,000 Yoda is stolen

Karen, Birmingham Social Services said, had Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy, the mental illness that causes parents to harm their children in an attempt to draw attention to themselves. Her child had been placed on the 'at risk' register even before she was born in December 1999.

A mother tells how she was blamed when her son died after being given cisapride

just click on the photos link... it pops up a bunch of photos of this graffiti bot... very very cool.

Hektor.ch

] Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who urged the United
] Nations to endorse a preemptive war to strip Iraq of its
] weapons of mass destruction, conceded yesterday that
] Saddam Hussein's government may have no longer had such
] munitions.

[ well, how about that. ] -k

Powell Voices Doubts About Iraqi Weapons (washingtonpost.com)

Its a shame they cant put this on TV.

george bush has failed america

Elonka wrote:
] ] Long Island native Bob Keeshan, who gently entertained
] ] and educated generations of children as television's
] ] walrus-mustachioed Captain Kangaroo, died Friday at 76.
]
] (sigh)

First the wolfman...Now the kangaroo.
It was a bad day to be a lyncanthrope.

RE: Bob Keeshan, 'Captain Kangaroo' Dies