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Monday, February 27, 2006

Torino Olympics
In Japan, "tori-no" means "bird's," so they are having Bird's Olympics as Torino Olympics. How damn....


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Saturday, February 25, 2006

Biathlon Temptation

I wonder if anybody has ever been tempted to shoot from behind to get medal. I think Cheney should join this, who will easily win.

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Monday, February 20, 2006

I had no idea about curling. And even made fun of it. Until I saw team US on CNBC.

At office, we are totally rooting for her, Cassie Johnson of Johnson sisters (Jamie is her sister), even when she was competing with Japanese girls (who are kind of scary).

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The Wierdest and the Creepiest and the Bizarrest and the Spookiest people.....

Japan's obsession with camera-equipped mobile phones has taken a bizarre twist, with mourners at funerals now using the devices to capture a final picture of the deceased.

"I get the sense that people no longer respect the dead. It's disturbing," a funeral director told the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.

At one ceremony several people gathered round the coffin and took out their phones to photograph the corpse as preparations were made to begin a cremation, she was quoted as saying.

"I'm sure the deceased would never want their faces photographed," she said.

But others called it a form of a memento in the modern age.

"Some can't grasp 'reality' unless they take a photo and share it with others ... It comes from a desire to keep a strong bond with the deceased," social commentator Toru Takeda told the paper.

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

So this was her dream!!

Israeli-born actress Natalie Portman admires Steven Spielberg for making Oscar-nominated movie Munich, but admits she doesn't
Natalie Portman says she fulfilled a long-standing ambition by shaving her head for the sci-fi thriller "V for Vendetta."

"I was really excited to get to shave my head -- it's something I'd wanted to do for a while, and now I had a good excuse," Portman told reporters at the Berlin International Film Festival. "It was nice to shed that level of vanity for a girl."

However, "I wasn't used to being looked at so much," the 24-year-old actress said. "Walking down the street, I can usually blend in, and people really stare at you when you're a girl with a shaved head."

The star also worried her skinhead look would send out the wrong message.

She revealed: "People will think I'm a neo-Nazi or a cancer victim or a lesbian. But I'm not at all."

Last year, it was revealed Portman was being mistaken for Irish singer Sinead O'Connor after lopping off her locks.
Sinead O'Connor

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

I don't know if I should feel sorry for him. Maybe not.

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Quote of the day. Go Mr. Brady!

Vice President Cheney accidentally shot a hunting partner over the weekend instead of a bird he was trying to bag, his office said yesterday.

Cheney plugged 78-year-old lawyer Harry Whittington Saturday afternoon on the Armstrong Ranch in Texas, where they were gunning for quail.

"The vice president didn't see him," said ranch owner Katharine Armstrong.

The Humane Society of the United States took a shot at Cheney last night, urging him to find a "less violent form of relaxation." Gun control advocate James Brady, who was paralyzed by a bullet during the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, said, "Now I understand why Dick Cheney keeps asking me to go hunting with him. I had a friend once who accidentally shot pellets into his dog - and I thought he was an idiot."

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Brokeback Penguins!

Male Humboldt penguin pair "Sechs Punkt" (Six Point) and "Schraegstrich" (Slash) cuddling at the Bremerhaven zoo in 2005. Six gay penguins at a German zoo are still refusing to mate with females of the species flown in from Sweden in 2005(AFP/DDP/File)

Six gay penguins at a German zoo are still refusing to mate with females of the species flown in from Sweden in 2005, the zoo said.

The problem was that the female Humboldt penguins have proven too shy in their advances, the director of the zoo in the northern port city of Bremerhaven said.

"The Swedes will not make the first move," Heike Kueck said.

The females were flown in last year in a bid to bring the males to mate and help save the Humboldt species from extinction.

Kueck said last year she was optimistic the initiative would be successful because zoo keepers had noticed that at one point a female penguin had managed to cause a couple of males to "separate".

The zoo has 10 male penguins of which six have shown strong signs of preferring male company and formed couples among themselves.

The initiative to "turn" the penguins and make them mate had prompted a furious response from gay rights groups.

In a statement posted on its Internet website, the zoo on Wednesday sought to defend itself from fresh criticism.

"We will be delighted if the penguins form even one heterosexual couple and manage to produce first an egg, and then a little one," it said.

"But of course we accept the male couples that have formed and we are not trying to enforce heterosexuality, as we were accused of doing last year."

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