05/09/2007
News: Naomi Campbell, Fire, Rudy Giuliani, Encyclopedia of Life
Website to catalog all of Earth's approximately 1.8 million known species: "The effort, called the Encyclopedia of Life, will include species descriptions, pictures, maps, videos, sound, sightings by amateurs, and links to entire genomes and scientific journal papers. Its first pages of information will be shown Wednesday in Washington where the massive effort is being announced by some of the world's leading institutions. The project will take about 10 years to finish."
Burning: Fire threatens L.A.'s Griffith Park observatory.
Most Americans back Congress over Bush in Iraq war funding battle: "The reason the public supports a timetable for withdrawal may be because the four-year-old war remains unpopular, with nearly two-thirds of the public opposed. Of those polled, 34 percent said they support the war, while 65 percent expressed opposition. But while previous surveys show Americans are pessimistic about the outcome of the war, a majority of 55 percent said they were not yet willing to declare it 'lost.' The prevailing view, held by 63 percent of Americans polled in April, is that neither side is winning. Fifty-four percent said they don't believe the Bush administration's assertion that the war is the "central front" in the war on terrorist groups that was launched after al Qaeda's September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. Forty-three percent said they agreed."
Potential jailbird Paris Hilton forgives, rehires publicist Elliot Mintz. Mintz: "Paris and I met last night, I am still her media rep. She is still my client. She is also a dear friend."
Naomi Campbell in W glamour editorial surrounding her sanitation department gig in NYC: “I find solace in sweeping. I have no other responsibility. I have no phone. I have the time to think. Just have, you know, peace.”
New York City gay pride planners in battle with city over location of PrideFest.
Rudy Giuliani donated to Planned Parenthood six times in the '90s: "Giuliani's old contributions could echo throughout the 2008 GOP nomination battle, as he seeks to lessen the political impact of his support for abortion rights -- an unpopular position among the social conservatives who in recent elections have weighed decisively in the primaries and caucuses. The issue was raised anew at last week's debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, when Giuliani gave a noncommittal answer to the question of whether it would be a good day for the country if Roe v. Wade were overturned. 'It'd be OK,' Giuliani responded, adding that it would also be all right if the Supreme Court decided the other way."
Queer Zagreb Festival kicks off in Croatia.
Big Brother Australia gets a gay contestant. Nick describes himself as "arrogant, vain and self-absorbed."
In England's first gay football championship, Bournemouth take the Cup.
Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Richard Parsons slams "new media": "The Googles of the world, they are the Custer of the modern world. We are the Sioux nation. They will lose this war if they go to war. The notion that the new kids on the block have taken over is a false notion."
Just who is the hottest Brazilian online?
Reed Prescott, last seen as a contestant in Grease: you're the One That I Want, is set to play a gay porn star in I Google Myself, a new off-Broadway play by Jason Schafer: "The play is the unusual story of three very different men with the same name. One is a gay porn star with a dirty little secret. One is a stoner mechanic who blogs poetry and has anger management issues. And another is a wily stalker with a balloon fetish, desperate to make a connection. Their worlds collide when one man Googles his own name to find others who share his moniker. What he discovers leads to an unforgettable, ripped-from-the tabloids chain of events that will leave you asking yourself: what would I do to become a top search term on Google?"
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Gay big brother contestant - Uhm, maybe someone should tell him that those qualities are not positive ones and usualy sane people work on getting rid of them. Just a thought.
The encyclopedia of life = COOL!!!! recently a dutch guy built exact replica , same biblical size and everything, of noah's supposed ark. turned out he could only get in less than a hundred to scale replicas of 2 members each of animal species. LOL 1.8 million animal species discovefred so far kind of blows that myth out of the water. :-)
new media...LOL truth doesn't have to toot its own horn. He must be feeling the preasure of New Media gobbeling up his empire. Otherwise there would have been no need to even say anything.
Posted by: pacificoceanboy | May 9, 2007 2:26:51 PM
Apparently, that gay Big Brother contestant bought his eyes at the same place Jocelyn Wildenstein got hers.
Posted by: peterparker | May 9, 2007 2:43:15 PM
See also:
The Yankees' Clean-Up Man - Rudy went to bat for the Yanks, and look what he scored. - The Village Voice
http://hammer2006.blogspot.com/2007/05/yankees-clean-up-man-rudy-went-to-bat.html
Posted by: Alex Hammer | May 9, 2007 2:46:25 PM
Guiliani's a tool.
Posted by: Acolyte | May 9, 2007 3:15:21 PM
does anyone give a damn about naomi campbell ??
meanwhile, another horrific wildfire caused by some fool's cigarette.
when are smokers going to realize that not only do they ruin our air, but that they are playing with fire.
Posted by: A.J. | May 9, 2007 3:35:41 PM
Nick - Big Brother Australia - is mutant spawn. He could actually be the grinch if he had green skin, scary.
We in Florida are also suffering from wild fires. It is like a quieting, aromatic mist has descended over our cities.
Posted by: Critifur | May 9, 2007 3:45:21 PM
POB, that's very interesting about the Dutch guy. Got a link I can check out?
Posted by: Silverskreen | May 9, 2007 4:43:30 PM
> Nick describes himself as "arrogant, vain and
> self-absorbed."
You already told us he was gay...why be redundant?
Posted by: Scott | May 9, 2007 4:58:52 PM
"Big Brother Australia gets a gay contestant. Nick describes himself as 'arrogant, vain and self-absorbed.'"
And I'm sure the TV execs chose him based on these stereotypical , negative qualities. Speaking of stereotypes, he looks like a huge flamer as well and sadly this is the type of role model today's gay youth will emulate, setting us all back by at least 100 years.
Posted by: Matty | May 9, 2007 5:01:56 PM
Silver I read it at Huffingtonpost.com
But I pulled this up from CNN just for you
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/04/28/dutch.ark.ap/index.html
I typed "Dutch guy builds ark" into my search engine and there were tons and tons of articles if you want to read more.
Posted by: pacificoceanboy | May 9, 2007 5:12:49 PM
Silver I read it at Huffingtonpost.com
But I pulled this up from CNN just for you
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/04/28/dutch.ark.ap/index.html
I typed "Dutch guy builds ark" into my search engine and there were tons and tons of articles if you want to read more.
Posted by: pacificoceanboy | May 9, 2007 5:15:13 PM
Thank you much! I thought about the search engine thing immediately after I asked. Follwed by a D'OH!
Posted by: Silverskreen | May 9, 2007 5:22:43 PM
Scott: LOL
But hey, not always true. Those people are just loudest and, alas, grab all the attention. And usually get cast in reality shows.
Posted by: Martin | May 9, 2007 5:33:09 PM
I agree with Scott.
"Arrogant, vain and self-absorbed", while are maybe not positive qualities to have, somehow seem to fit perfectly with the majority of Gay America. While there are always exceptions to every rule, it's no coincidence why stereotypes develop in the first place. Now if you will please excuse me, I have my monthly Botox appointment to get to.
Posted by: Jordan | May 9, 2007 7:12:04 PM
Silver :-) I have a million D'oh moments a day. :-)
Jordan noticing the few who through their loud, obnoxious, arrogant, and self absorbed antics doesn't mean they are the majority. it just means you yourself have not evolved enough to use your neck muscles and turn your head and see all the self sacrificing, loving, compassionate, etc gays out there. I don't claim to be such as much as i would like, but surprisingly when you use those neck muscles to turn your head you will realize the steriotype is the minority within our community
Posted by: pacificoceanboy | May 9, 2007 7:23:12 PM
Nick is so....yuck!
Posted by: FanGirlHater | May 9, 2007 9:55:25 PM
One gay contestant? Bah! According to sources, half the UK Big Brother house will be gay/bi this year.
And before y'all get on Nick's case for describing himself as vain or arrogant, you might want to watch an episode or two. He could have been joking. Either way, comparing him to the Grinch or Wildenstein says more about you as a person than him.
Posted by: tim | May 10, 2007 4:03:17 AM
Andy,
Tom Rielly here from the TED Conference. We're so proud of E.O. Wilson, recipient of the 2007 TEDPrize. To see his speech at TED where he "wished" for the Encyclopedia of Life, go to http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/83
Cheers,
Tom
Posted by: Tom Rielly | May 10, 2007 7:50:24 AM
Whoo! That's either a bad pic of Nick from BB Australia or Ms. girl is FUGLY!
Posted by: shane | May 10, 2007 8:22:30 AM
Well i'm Australian and watch BB and i can tell you..Nick is an idiot. However he 'won' his place into the house, a sort of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory type of competition, which i think was totally rigged.
5 finalists had to choose a box filled with lollies and 1 contained a golden key at the bottom which means they would enter the house.
Amazingly out of the 5 finalists, Nick was the only man who so happened to be gay too and won. So now the house contains a token gay man, which it was lacking previously. How stupid do they think we are? *rant over*
Posted by: stephen | May 10, 2007 8:30:07 AM
Say what you want Pacific, but no amount of preaching will ever convince me that the majority of the gay community is "self sacrificing, loving, and compassionate" when I see the opposite and worse adjectives that can apply. Also don't forget self-destructive and vain, two of my favorites.
Posted by: Jordan | May 11, 2007 9:24:55 PM