09/27/2007
News: Project Runway, Mars vs Iraq, Wes Anderson, Humanity
The Project Runway designers are here! (Bios)
David Beckham rushes back to England after his father suffers a near-fatal heart attack.
''It will take months and years to really see" if Episcopal vote on exercising restraint with regard to gay clergy and same-sex relationships will mend the rift in the Anglican church, according to church leaders.
Milo Ventimiglia's booty makes appearance in new film.
Darren Hayes releases new video for "Me, Myself & I" but his Attitude magazine cover story is nowhere to be found.
Hotel Chevalier, Wes Anderson's 13-minute prequel to his upcoming film The Darjeeling Limited, is now available for download on iTunes.
Fishing Polar Bear spotted for the first time in two centuries: "The Inuit people of the Arctic have always known about it. But no outsiders have witnessed it for 200 years: a polar bear fishing. Not by scooping the fish out of the water like a brown bear - but by plunging in and swimming...Last August, researchers based in Iqaluit, Canada, watched an adolescent polar bear swimming in a river estuary packed with charr, a relative of salmon, that was migrating upstream. It caught about one fish an hour, swimming and peering into the water, then diving. In the two days they saw the bear, it caught three charr and three sculpin, a spiny fish that lives under rocks - which the bear seemed to lose enthusiasm for eating."
Clergy members in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley have come together to urge the Supreme Court to overturn the state's ban on same-sex marriage: "Ahead of what is widely expected to be the next major state Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, reverends, pastors and rabbis met at St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Hollywood to announce they would file 30 amicus briefs, formal documents intended to persuade courts on an issue. The religious leaders, who were joined by 90 civil-rights organizations across the state that also filed briefs, are hoping to influence the court's decision on an upcoming review of a lawsuit seeking to overturn the ban on gay marriage."
The money the U.S. has spent in Iraq could have funded 11 independent missions to Mars.
A map of humanity.
Researchers: Is Alzheimer's memory loss due to a previously unknown third form of diabetes? " Now scientists at Northwestern University have discovered why brain insulin signaling -- crucial for memory formation -- would stop working in Alzheimer’s disease. They have shown that a toxic protein found in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer’s removes insulin receptors from nerve cells, rendering those neurons insulin resistant. (The protein, known to attack memory-forming synapses, is called an ADDL for 'amyloid ß-derived diffusible ligand.') With other research showing that levels of brain insulin and its related receptors are lower in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, the Northwestern study sheds light on the emerging idea of Alzheimer’s being a “type 3” diabetes."
Texas student suspended for wearing John Edwards T-shirt to school.
Elton John defends seized Nan Goldin photo: "The photograph exists as part of the installation as a whole and has been widely published and exhibited throughout the world. It has been offered for sale at Sotheby's New York … and exhibited in Houston, London, Madrid, New York, Portugal, Warsaw and Zurich without any objections that we are aware of."
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I'm a bit confused, Andy. Was that "map of humanity" what the earth looked like prior to continents parting ways?
Posted by: Shabaka | Sep 27, 2007 4:23:14 PM
Am I retarded? I don't get the Map of Humanity thing...why are Portland and Santa Fe in the Hatred section of the map? I'm lost...
Posted by: John | Sep 27, 2007 4:33:19 PM
And why does Hollywood exist on like four continents?
Posted by: Jeff | Sep 27, 2007 5:13:28 PM
I'm also totally confused about the map. Where did it come from?
Posted by: AdamN | Sep 27, 2007 5:54:33 PM
The map was created by James Turner, a local Toronto graphic design artist and comic book illustrator: http://www.slavelabor.com/product-exec/product_id/589/nm/Map_of_Humanity
Very clever stuff!
Posted by: Paul | Sep 27, 2007 6:16:10 PM
Thanks Paul!
I can't seem to find San Francisco on the map. Does anyone see it?
I have to say I think it gets a little fishy to have Salt Lake City as well as Jesus penninsula up by the Truth area. And then Portland in the Hartred section is super wierd. So I'm guessing Turner is on the more conservative side? Still pretty interesting though...
Posted by: AdamN | Sep 27, 2007 6:27:36 PM
Funny how biased the Map of Humanity is. There are Hollywoods everywhere on the bad side of the map. But of course New York has to be in the "Wonder" region of "Wisdom."
Posted by: Miguel | Sep 27, 2007 6:33:20 PM
i couldn't get the map to enlarge.
Posted by: nic | Sep 27, 2007 7:46:09 PM
Well, it's definitely not Pangea. I question some of the place-name placements, but it is a clever contrivance.
Posted by: nic | Sep 27, 2007 8:03:50 PM
btw, i hope becks' father recovers fully. i volunteer to hold him (becks) til everything's better.
Posted by: nic | Sep 27, 2007 8:09:07 PM
the Map of Humanity rocks!
Posted by: my2cents | Sep 27, 2007 10:15:35 PM
Sweet P - too old - she's out
Ricky - too swarthy - he's out
Carmen - too black - she's out
Steven - He's from the midwest - he's out
Christian - too artsy fartsy - he's out
Kevin - he reminds of the dude with glasses from last season - he's out
Jack - he looks like an Aberzombie, how dull! -he's out
Chris - way too gay, too much like the winner of season 1 - he's out
Posted by: Bri | Sep 28, 2007 12:06:47 AM
Becks and his dad have not always had a warm relationship -- I hope everything works out and they can get closer, although it sucks this has to be the catalyst. I'm praying for Ted.
Posted by: Becks07 | Sep 28, 2007 1:12:27 AM
I still don't get it and can't get it to enlarge. So the wording is too faint and tiny. Is it supposed to represent something? And what would that be?
Posted by: Shabaka | Sep 28, 2007 1:41:07 PM