The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

You have to Love Perez...I don't think C.S. Lewis had this image in mind when he wrote The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe~

Dita Von Teese,Claudia Schiffer and Alien Spice attended the Roland Mouret Fashion show in Paris on Wednesday. They all wore sunglasses because they (were in mourning for Heath Ledger) thought they'd look cool.
[Photo via Getty Images.]

I wish I was back in school....No I Don't!

Remember sitting in Physics class with a blank stare on your face because you got loss in the ten-plus frame-by-frame drawings on the chalkboard of scenarios you never had to consider in everyday life? Imagine two pendulums swinging against one another, each suspended by springs, and then a bullet is shot at them out of a gun moving at 47.56 km/hr, etc. etc. etc.

Well now you'll actually know what they're talking about, as long as you can figure out how to work the computer (and as long as you still care about Physics)…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZNTgglPbUA

Funniest little skit EVER....so cute!

Last year K and TM were at my place watching this Will Ferrell skit, I guarantee you will watch this more than once:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHZjMyT8LWQ

What Do Bill Clinton and Jessica Simpson Have in Common?

Freakonomics is probably one of my all-time favorite books...Levitt and Dubner are fantastic at connecting the underlining philosophies of economics into every single part of the world...they have an awesome blog which i frequent:(http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/)

Here's one of my favorite pieces I found last summer by Dubner:

What Do Bill Clinton and Jessica Simpson Have in Common?
By Stephen J. Dubner

Let me explain. First, here are the top ten Yahoo! search queries last year in Canada and in the U.S.:

Yahoo! Canada
1. NHL
2. FIFA World Cup
3. American Idol
4. Rock Star Supernova
5. WWE
6. Neopets
7. Revenue Canada
8. Days of Our Lives
9. Environment Canada
10. Jessica Simpson

Yahoo! U.S.
1. Britney Spears
2. WWE3. Shakira
4. Jessica Simpson
5. Paris Hilton
6. American Idol
7. Beyoncé Knowles
8. Chris Brown
9. Pamela Anderson
10. Lindsay Lohan

You will note that Jessica Simpson is the only individual who makes both lists. The only other items on both lists are American Idol and WWE, which are (for lack of a better word) institutions.

Now, about Bill Clinton. Several months ago, I was one of the speakers at a day-long lecture event in Vancouver. It was held at the Canucks’ hockey rink, and there were about 7,000 people in attendance. I had the good fortune of speaking immediately before Clinton, who was the headline act. It was a bit unnerving but mostly fun to speak before so many people who were so eager to get to the next guy. When I finished my talk, I went backstage and there was Clinton. We shook hands and chatted for a minute — I’d never met him before — and then he stiffened up, mentally preparing to go on stage. I sat down to watch his speech on a big TV monitor backstage. The first surprise was that he began his talk with some nice words about Freakonomics and the talk I’d just given. The second surprise was that, instead of giving a breezy talk about his personal life, he launched into an hour-long lecture that he seemingly wrote just for this occasion, on U.S.-Canadian relations.

He began by highlighting the significant issues that divide the two countries: timber, oil exploration, and the war in Iraq. He talked about these issues for a few minutes and then he asked, rhetorically, If these are the things that we disagree about, then what do we agree about? His answer: Everything else. He then proceeded to talk about a variety of political and social and environmental issues about which the U.S. and Canada are largely on the same page.

This struck me as a quite brilliant rhetorical strategy: start off by accentuating the negative in order to show how prominent the positive really is. It reminds me of how some wise people discuss the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. The differences, if you dwell on them, seem vast and unbridgeable — until you begin to focus on the commonalities, which are far more numerous.

And so that is what Bill Clinton and Jessica Simpson have in common: they both seem to unite Americans and Canadians — even if the overall Yahoo search results suggest that the two nations aren’t quite so close after all.

Bill Gate does Big Pimpin...really watch to see

Bill Gates...Hot nerd!

What does Bill Gates and Britney Spears have in common:

Answer: Both have fallen into retirement....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AbysP-9AryQ&feature=related

(curtesy of T.M.)

Maybe Bill Wouldn't Have Cheated If He Had Bruni?

The French President’s Lover
-NY Times

MAN trap, serial heart-wrecker, rocker arm candy, photogenic cipher, arrogant heiress, polling gimmick — the woman who appears likely to become the first lady of France has been called a lot of things lately. The last thing anyone would have thought of is that she’s a catch.

Barely three months after his divorce from his wife, Cécilia, the polarizing but media-savvy French president Nicolas Sarkozy has become a principal in a hyper-publicized romance that has even the normally high-minded French press gossiping about the details in goosey tabloid terms. See the lovers moon around the pyramids and Euro Disney! Watch the Saudis grapple with the free-living ways of the French! Can Indian officials invent protocol to accommodate a First Sleepover Pal? Will the French public accept a woman who espouses polyandry, has a son by a philosopher whose father she once also dated, and who has been romantically linked with Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger? Will a whirlwind courtship and marriage ultimately bring Mr. Sarkozy’s approval ratings up from the dumps?

Because model is so often used as a synonym for moron, few have stopped to consider that, in pure résumé terms, Ms. Bruni may be better equipped than many for a gig at Élysée Palace. For starters, she is a stepdaughter of an Italian tire magnate and classical composer, Alberto Bruni Tedeschi, who is married to her mother, Marisa Borini, a concert pianist. She is rich and well educated (in France, where her family moved in the 1970s to escape a wave of kidnappings in Italy) and speaks three languages.

After she aged out of her career as one of the most highly paid models of the 1990s, with campaigns for Dior and Chanel and some 250 magazine covers to her credit, she became a musician, a transition less surprising when one considers her heritage and past relationships. Her first album of breathy emotive music, set mostly to acoustic guitar was released in 2003 and quickly became a success. “Quelqu’un m’a dit” (“Someone Told Me”) produced a best-selling single, sold over a million copies in France, another 300,000 outside the country and in 2004 garnered Ms. Bruni the French equivalent of a Grammy as the country’s best female vocalist.

That she managed to make a go of her sophomore album, “No Promises,” was no mean feat, either, said Joe Levy, the newly appointed editor of Blender magazine. Why? “It’s pretentious and sexy at the same time,” Mr. Levy said, adding rhetorically, “how completely appropriate is it for a woman who embodies those virtues to marry the president of France?”

Work can make you stupid-er and stupid-ER but check this OUT!

I used to have a plethora of words to throw out in conversations, you know those SAT hit lists, but now I have a hard time communicating due to my ever-diminishing vocabulary list...this was before I discovered this!....go to:

Dictionary.com, and sign up for *Get the Word of the Day by e-mail.*

Today's word is "inculcate"...if you're drawing a blank in your ever shrinking brain, then this is a site for you :P

You know that when you need new pants, Your thighs are sending You a message

It's that time of the year....and the disturbing thing is it seems to Always be that time of the year...the word DIET...if Webster had more sense, he should have deleted it from the dictionary looong ago. We've all done it, yea yea yea...many times and many different ways...but honestly I'm just getting too old to even go through that torture and cycle all over again.

Anyways my main point is that no more fads to all those who've set new resolutions for the new year, but check out this column from Self Magazine. Cristin Dillon is a nutritionists who takes photographs of all the things she eats throughout the day...it's really nice to see a healthy and real eating plan visually, and in the process you get a lot of good ideas of snacks, dinners, etc. from her: bookmark this if you can~

http://www.self.com/health/blogs/eatlikeme

Your thighs will love you all the more...tata for now~

Domestic Disturbances- Outsourced Wombs!!

What will they think of next? What do you guys think about this?

NY Times Article:

Outsourced Wombs
Tags: India, surrogate motherhood
The voice was commanding, slightly disdainful and officious.
“The legal issues in the United States are complicated, having to do with that the surrogate mother still has legal rights to that child until they sign over their parental rights at the time of the delivery. Of course, and there’s the factor of costs. For some couples in the United States surrogacy can reach up to $80,000.”

For full article:
http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/outsourced-wombs/?scp=1&sq=india+womb

A circle has no beginning or end

Note from the author: I constantly send e-mails to friends regarding interesting news or a hodgepodge of other things, so I thought it'd be cool to start blogging into a single collective space.

I wanted to share this with all you guys-

A circle has no beginning or end (Harry Potter). This is a beautiful video from Christina Aguilera who just had her baby this past week...it's so simple yet so pure...her voice continues to amaze me~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYxmS4UNrWY

And of course, this first entry would not be complete without a reverence to ms. britney spears...you guys all know I'm a huge Perez reader, this is actually really interesting...don't try to eat and watch this at the same time...it's a wonder what people think up these days and actually film- britney and her starbucks really become one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWt1Avv77g