Myriam Bedard has long had an "alternative lifestyle"

Myriam Bedard has apparently long been playing around, not concerned about niceties, such as marriage. She was never married to Jean Paquet, father of Myriam's daughter Maude, for example. Now, she is running around with a less-wholesome character, Nima Mazhari, who has lots of hair and beard. Radio Canada has an article, in French, about Jean Paquet. The Toronto Star has the story about Myriam's arrest.

There seem to be a couple of versions of the Saddam video

Flopping Aces has one of the versions of the Saddam video. He says it is the "whole video". Kim Priestrap, at Wizbang, has another version in her post.

"The Last Supermodel" has some Christina Aguilera pics

"The Last Supermodel" has a page of Christina Aguilera pics, with her showing off what she has. This is an example of what is there. They are playing games so that I cannot link directly to their pics.

I am convinced that Google is censoring search results

I find that Yahoo image search is less likely to censor image search results. I can think of some tests that would either confirm or deny that theory. I know for certain, that Google even admits to certain types of censoring, as pressure groups have caused them to remove sensitive images from the result. If you never try such things, even as an experiment, you might not realize what is happening. I first realized what they were doing, some months ago, when images vanished from the cache and then from results. They tend to me women who may have asked to be removed, as well as celebrity women. I suspect that Google's lefty political agenda is driving this sort of thing. I could be wrong about the motivation, but something is definitely afoot.

Lindsay Lohan pic

Lindsay Lohan, despite being really whacked out, is still nice to look at. Cityrag blog doesn't think much of the men she is running around with, these days.

The new Dallas County Prosecutor is getting rid of the experienced prosecutors

Apparently, in the new regime, the new Dallas County Prosecutor, Craig Watkins, is getting rid of experienced people, so he can bring in his Democratic buddies. KRLD has a short piece on the subject. Craig is a defense attorney, not a prosecutor. Dallas County is also getting new judges, alledgedly lacking in much experience. There may be some who are experienced, by many very good, but Republican judges lost in the recent election. I have wondered if Dallas is turning into another Minneapolis, where leftist politics rules the roost. The Dallas Morning News has a longer piece. The "justice system" in Dallas County has taken a major hit, and we are going to see epic politicization, apparently.

Another Emma Watson pic

The Russian site, Trashovnik.spb.ru had more pics, presumably fake, of naked Emma Watson. We can say that because of the nature of the pics. The new pics at softpage1 blog are better than back late last year.

Two good pieces on success

I have been wracking my brain, trying to remember where I had read this one piece about success. All I could remember was something about a wealthy man having at times risked his entire net worth to achieve success. The other article was the latest by Ben Stein. I finally realized that where I had seen the "entire net worth" article was on RealClearPolitics.com.

I found that the piece was Ruben Navarette's "If You Want Something, Go Get It". He says:

"I do things that make other people nauseous,'' he said, explaining that he had often gambled his entire net worth on business deals that paid off.

The other article was Ben Stein's piece "Success Is All in a Day's Work":

...I know a lot of really successful people -- in finance, in government, in politics, in Hollywood, in journalism, in literature.

Their common denominator is a modicum of talent and a capacity and an eagerness -- not just a willingness, but an eagerness -- to work like Trojans to get ahead. I don't know of one really successful, famous man or woman who didn't work insanely hard to get there and to stay there.

I suspect that I omitted Ben Stein's "money quote", as I didn't feel that the other quote quite captured his message. What he says is:

But for those who want to be rich and famous (or rich or famous), there's no way to do it without daily, unremitting work. It's best if the seeker loves his work so much that he or she doesn't even consider it a burden, but rather a joyful, fulfilling, highly organizing principle of life.

A Britney Spears pic I hadn't seen before

I suspect that Google Image search may be censoring pictures, and have started using the Yahoo image search, which seems to be doing less censoring. Using Yahoo, I saw this Britney Spears pic that I had not seen before. This seems to be a related pic.

Another shorter YouTube video slideshow of Katie Rees

This is another, shorter video slideshow of Katie Rees pics (less censored) from YouTube.

A video slide show of Katie Rees pics

This page has the YouTube video slideshow of Katie Rees pics.

Gawker on men's magazines (with a Jennifer Love Hewitt pic)

Gawker, the gossip blog, has a blog post about men's magazines. The pic they chose is a cover with Jennifer Love Hewitt showing a lot of cleavage.

Hollywood Backwash has more Katie Rees

HollywoodBackwash.com has more Katie Rees stuff, including one that I have not seen before.

We needn't have worried: Splash News Online has more Katie Rees pics

Thankfully, for us voyeurs, Splash News Online has more Katie Rees pics. They have bothersome watermarks, but I understand the desire to keep from being ripped off by other sites. Still, they are nice.

Katie Rees

Aside from the censored pics that got her "dethroned", I have had a hard time finding Katie Rees pics. There is the one of her that leaves little to the imagination, through her dress. ET online has the story.

A nice Su-30 pic from La Nueva Cuba

The site La Nueva Cuba has a nice color pic of a camouflaged Su-30.

Myriam Bedard

I had been looking for a picture of Myriam Bedard and her "common-law husband". The picture I found in the Ottawa Citizen shows both of them and her daughter. Myriam now has been arrested. This entire business seems very bizarre. Apparently, Myriam's lifestyle is just as bizarre as this case. Her father's comment is that Myriam is "under" Nima Mazhari's "spell".

Candy Barr (Juanita Slusher)

When "Candy Barr" (Juanita Slusher) died, I did some research about her. I noticed that there were a good number of pics on the web that were publically available. I had originally seen her pics back in the 1960's. She was still famous at the time. The claim was that she had been underage at the time the classic stag movie, "Smart Alec" was made, but if that were really true, the footage would be banned, this silly, modern age. In fact, the footage can be seen, so I am skeptical about the claim. I am also skeptical that she was forced at gunpoint to be in the film, as there is not evidence that she was being coerced. I have not seen the complete flick, but there is a video tape (unfortunately) that shows an extended excerpt from "Smart Alec". Image Makers has a "Candy Barr" photo gallery. She does look rather like the blue collar star, rather than the polished modern porn stars.

I saw Connie Kreski in a bathing suit when she was 15

My aunt and uncle, and cousins, lived at Blind Lake, in Michigan, in the early 1960's. I was the butt of jokes for a long time, because when I saw Connie Kreski, when she was 15 years old in a bathing suit, I walked off the dock into the water. The topic still comes up, this long after the event, as everyone got a good laugh out of it (except me). She had her 15 minutes of fame, after appearing in Playboy, when she was in the vanity flick "Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?" with Anthony Newley.

Metamorfose Digital (mdig.com.br) has 50 years of Playboy centerfolds

Metamorfose Digital has a page that covers the 50 years of Playboy centerfolds.

Jennifer Love Hewitt in Playboy?

Celebrity Crunch says that Jennifer Love Hewitt will appear in Playboy. They have a nice pic on their site.

Have I seen this Britney Spears pic before?

This is a nice Britney Spears pic. I don't think that I have seen it before. It is from a series where I have seen some of the pics, but not this one. The pic comes from a page on Avseq01.com. the page has links to pics of other female stars, as well.

Nosy Snoop has the Katie Rees pics and story

The now former Miss Nevada, Katie Rees, was dumped because of some pics that the pageant officials didn't like. It turns out that the pics were taken when she was 17. Nosy Snoop has an article to go with the pics, most of which we have seen already. So, where are the uncensored pics?

Some pics got Miss Nevada "dethroned"

The photos of Miss Nevada that got her in trouble are on the TMZ Photo Galleries. (Thanks to Ace)

Paging

Have you ever used a computer with too little memory for the kind of work you are doing? I have frequently been asked to do so, as a consultant, and have agonized, while waiting for Windows to "page". The computer effectively "freezes" and you sit until it "decides" to come alive again. This problem is in the process of being solved where I am currently at, thankfully, as will be getting enough more memory to bring us to 1GB, which is generally adequate. Doing Java development with Eclipse and 512 MB is a major bother, but it can be done, if you are patient and willing to burn a lot of time while Eclipse or the PC is "frozen". You can set the JVM args for Eclipse to a respectable amount, so that Eclipse is better behaved: ""C:\Eclipse 3.1.1\eclipse.exe" -vmargs -Xmx1024m".

A Lindsay Lohan pic of her showing off

From Exteme Mortman, he has a Lindsay Lohan pic of her "showing off".

William Beutler (The Washington Canard) writes at Blog P.I.

William Beutler, who I have long read at The Washington Canard (except when he took a long break), now writes at the Blog P.I. I had also read him at an earlier blog he had. He has a piece about Time Magazine's latest "Person of the Year". Bill now has made it to the big time: Mickey Kaus mentioned his name.

I was a student of James Prendergast in the latter 1960's

In one of my former lives, I was an art student at the University of Michigan. James Prendergast was one of my favorite teachers. I did not relate to his work, but he was very encouraging and I enjoyed his class. He allowed me to experiment with work that I might not have otherwise pursued.

The Marines land from space

Ace has linked to this pic of a USMC space vehicle that will be launched from a mothership into space, fly and land with marines. Popsci.com has the article and original pic.

Dr. Sanity has a piece: "The Curse has come upon us"

Pat Santy, blogging at Dr. Sanity, as a piece about the harm that Islam is doing to itself and the probably reaction:

Gerard Vanderleun has a very thoughtful and provocative post at American Digest (hat tip: Larwyn and Fausta) that exposes the silent question we in the West are asking about Islam:

LURKING BENEATH OUR INTERNAL ARGUMENT concerning the relentless demographic expansion of Islam into the West without assimilation, is the persistent background question, "Oh, my, whatever shall WE do with THEM?"

Vanderleun goes on inexorably to the conclusion that we are "toying with genocide" as we try to reform Islam and/or assimilate it in the west.

The only bare Ainsley Hayes I could find is at Phat Phree

Phat Phree seems to have the only pic of Ainsley Hayes showing off that I can find. Phat Phree seems to be making it impossible to link directly to his picture.

Connie Nielsen in Devil's Advocate

Connie Nielsen is pretty nice. There are pics of her naked, from The Devil's Advocate at paris-hilton-sex.com.

Holly Hunter, in the Piano

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A Molly Ringwald pic

There are not many pics of Molly Ringwald, and all we can find are bare-chested shots. Here is one of her from Malicious at ThePhatPhree.com. They seem to have a lot of "good stuff".

A Paula Yates pic

It is a rather bad scan of a Paula Yates pic, but it is the best that I have been able to find. It is from the Trash Fiction site. The title is: "Icons of Modern Culture: an occasional series #39: PAULA YATES".

Molly Good has the pics of Britney Spears' new hair color

I am sure that you wanted to know what Britney Spears' new hair color was? No? Well, Molly Good has the pics to show you. Molly also makes a snide comment: "Britney left the house fully dressed, but it just didn't feel right".

Yahoo Mail has been deteriorating, as of late

I had experimented with the Yahoo Mail Beta, but had given up on it (repeatedly), due to performance issues. I am a big Yahoo Mail use, as I receive over 500 mails a day (mostly spam). Lately, I have been getting error messages from Yahoo Mail, saying that their servers are having problems. They have generally been pretty reliable in the past, but this has been getting worse over the last month or so.

This pic of Heather from back when she looked good is new to me

Here is another pic of Heather from "back when", when she looked good. This one is new to me, and is from a Hungarian site.

A Heather Mills pic that I had not seen before

I found a Heather Mills pic that I had not seen before, despite the fact that I had thought that I had seen them all. This is from a Dutch site.

FreeNudeCelebs.dk also has a Jenny Agutter pic

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The Hotline has the scoop on Tim Johnson

The National Journal's Hotline has the scoop about Senator Tim Johnson's condition. He has a chance of recovery, although it is all very nasty.

Jenny Agutter, star of Walkabout (1971) and other flicks

I thought that Walkabout (1971) was pretty weird, but I thought that Jenny Agutter was hot. The pic is her nude in a swimming scene. I had wanted to link directly to the pic, but the site blocks that. She was also in the sci fi flick, Logan's Run, with Michael York. This is sexy, although not nude.

The GagReport has many Britney Spears pics

The GagReport has many naked Britney Spears pics (alright, some are partially clothed). They call them "Sexy Britney Spears Pictures".

Paul Graham says that yes, some art is just better

Paul Graham has a good article about "How Art Can Be Good". He is saying: art is not just a matter of taste; some art is really better than other art. It is the sort of eternal "truth and beauty", as well as what is good and what is bad. There is nothing more false than situational ethics. Some things are always true and some things are always false.

Things are getting even more ridiculous

In the war against "prohibited materials", things are getting even more ridiculous, if that is possible. TFW has a post about the latest developments:

"I am concerned that there is a slippery slope here," said Kevin Bankston, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. "Once you start creating categories of industries that must report suspicious or criminal behavior, when does that stop?" According to the proposed legislation, these types of individuals or businesses would be required to file reports: any Web site with a message board; any chat room; any social-networking site; any e-mail service; any instant-messaging service; any Internet content hosting service; any domain name registration service; any Internet search service; any electronic communication service; and any image or video-sharing service.

To show the craziness that we are living through:

But the reporting rules could prove problematic for individuals and smaller Web sites because the definitions of child pornography have become relatively broad.

The U.S. Justice Department, for instance, indicted an Alabama man named Jeff Pierson last week on child pornography charges because he took modeling photographs of clothed minors with their parents' consent. The images were overly "provocative," a prosecutor claimed.

Pantless Lindsay Lohan

The News Vault a many pics, including the pantless Lindsay Lohan getting out of a car. They are apparently doing tricks with Javascript to keep us from linking directly to the pic. I will see if we can find it in a linkable form, although I do not hold out much hope.

Heather Mills pics returned to Paul McCartney

news.com.au has a story about pics found in a dumpster and returned to Paul McCartney, thanks to the Sun.

Pixelbomb has a page with many Britney Spears pics

Pixelbomb is now on my list of places to look for celebrity pics, along with Perez Hilton and others. Pixelbomb has a page with many Britney Spears pics (thumbnails that will open the big pics).

Pixelbomb has a small pic of an "all-but-naked" and drunk Lindsay Lohan

Pixelbomb has a picture of Lindsay Lohan, after she has been doing some "underage drinking" and almost naked. This is the page from Pixelbomb's blog.

Google censorship

According to ChillingEffects.org and Google Image Search, Google is censoring material. Google already has the reputation of bowing to the Chinese goverment and restricting search results, accordingly. They are also doing that in the rest of the world, or at least the part accessible through the regular Google Image Search.

Emma Watson fakes?

There used to be this Russian site, trashovnik.sbu.ru, that liked Emma Watson. They had some fake shots like this (they had to be fake, given what they were). There was one, which was more extreme, but it had to be fake. Actually, we can see better now than back in January (at EmmasEroticPoses blog).

Linsey Lohan: letting it all hang out

There is a series of pics showing Linsey Lohan in a loose dress with no bra, getting into a car. She is one of the bigger kids, living a wild lifestyle.

I am still waiting for pics of Heather Mills in the PETA calendar

Supposedly, Heather Mills was one of the women who posed naked for this goofy PETA calendar ("I would rather go naked than wear fur"). Heather and Pamela Anderson were apparently two of those in the calendar. There is an old pic of Heather and Pamela showing off a lot of cleavage. I am surprised that someone has not leaked the pics by now.

I hope that I do not regret switching to "Blogger Beta"

I switched from the classic Blogger to the Blogger Beta, today, because I received an email from Blogger saying that the new Blogger was ready for everyone to use. Almost immediately, Blogger Beta was down, and I could not even access the one blog that I tried!

I can't check it now, but this has a link to the Britney Spears-Kevin Federline "sex tape"

This is said to be the link that will get us to the Britney Spears-Kevin Federline sex tape. There had been a big announcement to say that there was no such tape, but lmost certainly there was and this is said to be "it". As I am "at work", I won't be able to check this until I get home.

65 years ago today

65 years ago, today, my wife's aunt and uncle were living in Hawaii. Her uncle had been a machinist in the navy, on a battleship. When he was ready to get out, the navy offered him a job as a machinist at Pearl Harbor. My wife's uncle had an enduring interest in mechanical devices and aviation. He worked at Ford Island, doing machining jobs for PBYs and other aircraft. Early on Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, they looked out and saw trouble at Pearl Harbor. My wife's uncle Jim and his neighbor, who also worked on the base, went to the base, after the attack, to help clean up afterward.

Back in Detroit, on December 7, my Dad resolved to enlist in the Navy. My grandfather had fought in France in 1918 and had been gassed and concussed. He counseled my dad to look at the Navy, "to stay away from the mud". On December 8, my Dad enlisted and was sent to Great Lakes for boot camp. He got very sick with Catarrhal Fever. He survived and went to Indianapolis for radio school, after boot camp. From there, he was sent to New England, where PC-470 was completing. They worked up and were sent to Key West, to run convoys to Panama, Cuba, and South America. He did that until 1944, when PC-470 was sent to the West Coast, to be fitted out for service in the invasion of the Philippines. My Dad left PC-470 in San Diego. He eventually was sent to the Pacific Northwest to meet YF-720 being sent out to the Western Pacific by way of Pearl Harbor. At Pearl, he saw the USS Franklin, as she passed through on her way to the battles in the Western Pacific, as well. He also saw her towed back, a twisted wreck. From Pearl, the YF was eventually towed out to Leyte Gulf, after the battle, to supply warships, as a YF was a floating warehouse. At the end of the war, my Dad, and everyone else, fired off all their pyrotechnics to celebrate. After the war, he went to the University of Michigan on the GI Bill. Both my grandfathers had graduated from there after the Great War, in the 1920s.

The real American Taliban: leftwing puritans

Britney Spears is now the target of our leftwing, atheist, puritan buddies. They are the real American Taliban: the L.A. Department of Children and Family Services is going to harass Britney over her recent partying. If Britney were a lefty, she could get away with this. Since she is from the South and has some religious ties, however tenuous, they come after her. Who cares? How about some boobs?(at TheHollywoodGossip.com)

Pantless Britney Spears from Splash News

Splash News has a pantless Britney Spears having a good time. This and other pics are linked at TheBosh.com. They link to the good stuff, as well, such as this. Going pantless and running around with Paris Hilton worked. Britney has established herself as hot, after being a non-commodity for some time.

Willa Ford seems to like to show off what she has

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It looks like there could be some interesting pics of Willa Ford

I am not very up on things, so I had not even heard of Willa Ford before we heard that she was engaged to Dallas Stars center Mike Modano. I took a look with Google Image Search, and it looks like there may be some good pics of Willa "out there".

Classic Jodie Foster

I happened to run into this classic Jodie Foster pic of her from the side, only partly covered. This is another classic pic of her with her back turned, standing in the water, wearing nothing. These are from BlazinBeauties.com. A classic Taxi Driver pic from LemonSound.com. This is another pic with a lot of skin that is also a classic. This is from a rather strange MySpace.com page. There are also this and this. This is a rare pic on the net. I had to grab it from the Google cache. The pic is of Harvey Keitel and Jodie Foster. In Taxi Driver, he was teh 12-year old Jodie's pimp and lover.

Pictures of Britney Spears at her 25th birthday party

Dan Madison, on his blog, has pictures from Britney Spears 25th birthday party. She is wearing a very short dress and looks good.

Another shot of Lindsey Lohan's breast hanging out

Lindsey Lohan seems to not mind showing off what she has. Here is another shot, where her right breast is hanging out of her dress. She seems to like clothes that only give minimal cover. Teamix at Aufeminin has the pic.

Sky Showbiz has a pic of Lindsey Lohan's breast

Lindsey Lohan, while trying to be demure, showed off her right breast through a mostly open black dress. Sky Showbiz has the pic, although it is rather small.

Michael Heraghty has a piece on usability and AJAX web appliations

Michael Heraghty writes at Media Junk about the problems associated with AJAX-based web sites in terms of usability. My own personal take on it is that server-side performance on high volume sites makes some AJAX interfaces almost unbearable. An example is the Yahoo Mail beta, which I keep trying and then quickly stopping. Michael says:

Interfaces that update on the fly cause usability headaches for interaction designers for one simple reason: with RIAs, the web page doesn't refresh.

As counter-intuitive as it sounds, page refresh is useful; it signals that the application is responding to your actions. And, until all sites are RIAs, users will expect page refresh. This was exactly what Vikram Goyal discovered when he decided to try an Ajaxian search interface out on some users:

I was happy with the result and so was my manager and we decided to show this to the users. They hated it.

There seems to be a move afoot to cover up pantless Britney on the web

I looked around, and Google seems to be working at making it hard to find the pantless Britney Spears pics and Perez Hilton has censored one that did not used to be censored. On the other hand, there is this page.

Britney Spears with no underwear and her dress hiked up

I had not seen this pic, of Britney in a car, no underwear, with her dress hiked up. Amazingly enough, this is from Topspeed.com.

Heather Mills seems totally clueless: her "celebrity" only existed from her now ending marriage to Paul McCartney

A post on the LiveJournal community suggests that Heather Mills is finding out that she has lost her celebrity status, now that she is getting divorced from Paul McCartney. Not only has she lost her celebrity status, but her moves against Paul McCartney have alienated his fans, and have brought out the wackos among them. That is why she is getting the death threats. She seems to remain clueless, however. She continues to fancy herself as the second coming of Princess Di.