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London socialites frequenting the Soho House will be disappointed to find flat surfaces removed from bathrooms to discourage cocaine use…

Here are some essays on hidden cameras and hidden microphones brought to you by Radio-Television News Directors Association & Foundation.

If you’re gonna be by the bay end of April, check out this Masami Teraoka exhibit. If not, the online version will give you a taste.

Believe it or not, your very body has genetic secrets wrapped in the double helix of your DNA strands, and the worldwide project to understand the Genome has ruffled not just a few privacy feathers. There is debate as to whether you actually own these secrets.

Clear Channel has been in the news for being iron-fisted. The NY Times is reporting that at least some of the pro-war protests were organized by the pro-Bush Clearn Channel Communications.

Dr. Michael Persinger is in the news again, this time for an electromagnetic helmet he’s created which stimulates the temporal lobes, supposedly responsible for religious experience.

[boingboing]

Tony Fitzpatrick did time for car theft. Striking an unusual history for an artist maybe, but the tattooed Fitzpatrick is also an accomplished artist.

We got plenty of conspiracy here… Conde nastiness, secret elevators, secret floors, Frank-G, and oh-baby that double-curviture glass gets me hot…

In this context on, like so on, like relevant, timely, witty, and curious! There’s hidden text, there’s drama, excitement, superheros, and villans.

[Gawker]

Strange but true, someone’s selling a figure of Mr. Jack-style dangling his baby over the precipice.

[Gawker]

Check out this site for a life real-action etch-a-sketch. Create or very own picasso or Van Gogh…

[Geisha Asobi]

If you’re out of the loop here, Optimus Prime is a transformer toy, and well a National Guardsmen changed his name to Optimus Prime because “the toy actually filled a void in his life” when he was a kid, just after his father died.

Maybe I’ll change my name to latissimus dorsi. Yo, wassup d-lat?

Thanks Dn.

This has got to be a conspiracy, but apparently it’s true. The plan is to ban smoking. French-non-smoker? Isn’t that an oxymoron? No offense to any Frenchies out there… even in these curious times, but on my visits to Europe, it seemed a hell-of-a-lot of French and German people smoke.

Thanks Charelle.

When I first visited NYC before moving here, I noticed there were a many narcissists here. Shortly after moving here I became one. In that vein, check out this site of New York’s transformation.

In an ad you can be proud of, a Vancouver newspaper aired an ad which apparently didn’t fit the hate speech profile. The ad features a mass transit bus, with the destination window as “CREEPS AND WEIRDOS”.

We mentioned mochi warnings before.
Don’t forget to pull the god of the paddies.
Don’t ask… I don’t understand the translated page either!

[Tokyo Ouja]

I still find it bizarre some of the things people will spend their hard earn cash on. I searched for underwear and panties, but no dice! Probably have to go to Japan for that.

In December I remember reading about this long-standing Chess rivalry. If you’ve ever been down Thompson Street, you’ve seen these two shops, but probably never knew about all the love…

If you lust after interior decor, and hot sexy smooth apartment living, check out Joel Grey’s digs.

Rochester Institute of Technology’s Computer Science House were one of the first groups to put something besides a computer on the internet.

These pics are just too funny not to post.

[Geisha Asobi]

A Japanese friend of mine, after having seen my site declared… You are OTAKU! Though she claimed it means “computer mania”, the dictionary defines it as “geek”, “nerd”, “enthusiast”.

Well hey, don’t we all. But of course the conflict of interest probably wouldn’t be so apparent. I’m trying to chew on that one, but it’s getting stuck in my teeth.

A new oxymoron has been invented. Emergency Foreign Intelligence Warrants will allow the FBI to bug you without judicial oversite for 72 hours.

Remember, you’ve got nothing to worry about if you’ve got nothing to hide. From AEON FLUX… Nothing is SACRED, nothing is SECRET!

Kevin Sites innovative war-blog took on-the-spot live news to a new level. He was shutdown though. Not by the powers-that-be, but by CNN, his employer…

[boingboing]

Certainly a sign of curious times. A grandma with a gas-mask and white powder shuts down LaGuardia for two hours Saturday. The white powder, thought to maybe be Anthrax turned out to be Cream of Wheat. So comical, I only *WISH* I was making it up.

[Gawker]

Idle Type has a great piece about cliches we could all do without in the war rhetoric… I mean news.

These guys like “mother of all” stuff too. Check out The Great God Contest and see whose is the best.

[Idle Type]

If you’re sick of the television coverage, check out Gawker’s war news guide.

What the heck is Defend Brooklyn? Hey, they have cool t-shirts, and hoodies! I guess those 11211′ites can’t sit still.

[Gawker]