Runaway bride TV role

The hardest part of casting a role based on a real person is finding a talented lookalike. Often a single physical characteristic that can’t be faked is necessary to capture the essence of the portrayee. With the Jennifer Willbanks the most important feature–or features, rather, are those crazy, bugged out eyes. There is only one person in showbusiness capable of consistently displaying enough sclera to capture the deer-in-the-headlights, bat-shit-nuts essence of the real life runaway bride. (The fathomless metatextual nature of this art-immitates-life-immitates-art narrative does not escape me, but I refuse to comment on it because it is beneath me.) Despite certain obvious other differences in their appearance, my nomination to play Jennifer Willbanks is the talented and beautiful star of UPN’s Girlfriends Tracee Ellis Ross.

Koreans make Kendo Robot

From Telecoms Korea:

The Manufacturing & Mechatronics Lab of Seoul National University led by Prof. Young-Bong Bang unveiled MUSA, a robot made for the practice of Kendo, or Japanese fencing after one and a half year of development.

The robot can do defensive waza, but is not programmed to fight back. The team hopes to improve the robot to san-dan or third-degree black belt.

iTunes now with Podcasts

Apple has finally integrated finding, subscribing to, and dowloading podcasts into iTunes. Brilliant!!!

Rockit Girl

Not just hot, Rockit Girl’s Gina Crosley is a dead ringer for a good friend of mine…creepy!

March of the Penguins

Even without Morgan Freeman’s soothing bass voice narrating, March of the Penguins looks like it would be quite entertaining.

FISSION_MAILED back in action

My travel photo site is back up and running. Go check it out. Really. Go now.
FISSION_MAILED || Travel Photography by Jeff Stein

World now free of Cardinal Sin

Heh, heh. Too easy a joke to make. I can imagine Peter Jennings on the news tonight asking some higher-ups in the cult–er, I mean “church”–what the death of Cardinal Sin means for Catholics. In all seriousness, Cardinal Sin was a good guy:

An ethnic Chinese, Sin shot to global prominence in 1986 when he rallied a million people to form human barricades on Manila’s main highway and to protect a puny band of 300 army rebels against advancing tanks loyal to dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

His radio broadcasts in support of the mutineers ignited the now legendary “People Power” revolt that drove Marcos into exile and swept political novice Aquino to the presidency.

Secrets of His and Her Brains

Deep, Dark Secrets of His and Her Brains (Yahoo! News)

Witelson also found that it lacked a fissure that normally runs along the length of the brain. The average human brain has two distinct parietal lobe compartments; Einstein’s had one.

Loveline is back

Adam and Drew are back on the air in Chicago, not on Q101. Instead, WCKG has added Loveline to their beefy talk lineup. Their start time is 11PM–an hour later than it aired on Q101, and following that chunky, steaming turd pile of a show called The O’Reilly Factor. If you can’t get enough or stay up that late, hit up The Loveline Companion for audio clips, photos, notes, links and other info.

I’m an idiot…

…once again. It must be the heat and humidity shrivelling my brain to Terri Schiavo-like proportions.