For a cheap way to print out a bunch of photos using the dropsheet function in photoshop, see the pics and info at Wayward Blog.

Also, check it these photomosaicing options too (all free):

• Centarsia - this is what I use, but I just found out about rick-n-steve below and will try
• Rick-n-steve - Crappy name, but looks like its pretty good.

Ooops, you mean you didn’t notice that’s Martha’s head on someone else’s body? How long until celebrity is completely fake… maybe I’m thinking of Tara Reid, Jessica Simpson, or Paris Hilton. All of whom are famous for being famous (which cancels out in my opinion).

Anyway, newsweek was naughty naughty,

last week’s cover, which used digital manipulation to merge an image of Stewart’s head onto a model’s body. Media critics and readers alike felt that the composite image looking deceptively real.

… and as a result,

… bylines for cover photos and illustrations will now appear directly on the cover, marking a shift from the industry practice of crediting cover photos on the table of contents page. Newsweek is the first major news magazine to adopt the crediting policy. See we are proactive people, sheesh! Its called spin, look into it.

Ok, I added that last part. But I don’t claim to be a source for anything more than amusement.

Source: Newsweek

Harpers index can be scary, here are a couple items from February:

• Percentage of children who by age seven have had at least one imaginary friend: 65
• Percentage of these friends who are animals: 41
• Estimated number of Florida homeowners who signed contracts last year forbidding them to complain about their homes: 4,000
• Minimum damages sought by a builder last fall against a homeowner who had broken the rule: $15,000

My conclusion: people in Florida still have imaginary friends who give them bad advice regarding home contractors.

Source: Harper’s Index for February 2005

I could be refering to any number of crappy cars but this one really does suck. It was called the “Aurora….”

Why are your tax forms so complicated? Because life is complicated. But why are the rules to rock, paper, scissors so complicated? You could read the full set of rules in the link below, or you could read the following summary (keep it simple stupid):

Rock: make a fist
Paper: flatten out your palm
Scissors: point the peace sign at your opponent

• 6.0.1 Rock: wins against Scissors, loses to Paper and stalemates against itself
• 6.0.2 Paper wins against Rock, loses to Scissors and stalemates against itself
• 6.0.3 Scissors wins against Paper, loses to Rock and stalemates against itself

Read for the crazy rules: 2004 Rock Paper Scissors International World Championships

In response to the Japan Monkey Center publishing the crushing news of Buenos’s untimely passing, I have written her a eulogy.

We lost Buenos only days ago, but we have missed her for a long time. We have missed her kindly presence, that reassuring screech/ hoot, and the happy ending we had wished for her. It has been two months since she said her own farewell; yet it is still very sad and hard to let her go. Buenos belongs to the ages now, but we preferred it when she belonged to the Japan Monkey Center.

In a life of good fortune, she valued above all the gracious gift of her mate, ‘young male monkey’. During her career, Buenos passed through a thousand crowded places; but there was only one person, she said, who could make her lonely by just leaving the room — young male monkey.

[lifted]

Not even the Easter bunny can hide his past:

“Back in the 80’s, the Easter Bunny was doing more blow than the rest of us put together,” said former Hollywood brat-packer Molly Ringwald in a 1996 interview with Reader’s Digest.

The TRUTH About the Easter Bunny

From the website:

Two men have spent six months eating 350 Easter eggs….

During the course of their 10-year careers, Jeff and Rahul estimate they have eaten their way through a whopping 6,000 eggs and 4,000 boxes of chocolate, the majority of which have been tried at this time of year.

I feel sick…

Two men eat 350 Easter eggs