When Not Water Boarding, FBI Guys Spy On Girls Trying On Prom Dresses

Two FBI workers are accused of using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event at a West Virginia mall, according to a story in the Charleston Daily Mail.

The FBI employees have been charged with conspiracy and committing criminal invasion of privacy. They were working in an FBI satellite control room at the mall when they positioned a camera on temporary changing rooms and zoomed in for at least 90 minutes on girls dressing for the Cinderella Project fashion show ...

These are the same guys we are counting on to protect us from terrorists and people who illegally copy DVD's.. But as Plato asked "Who guards the guards?"

Cassini Spacecraft Sends Back Stunning Photos

I am not a space geek but you need to check out these stunning photos sent back from NASA's Cassini spacecraft in the Boston Globe. Over 20 great pictures to ponder.

Buy TOMS Shoes...And A Child In Need Gets A Pair For Free

His name isn't Tom it's Blake Mycoskie. He is the founder of TOMS Shoes. If you think all American corporations are populated by heartless mercenaries, check this out. Then get your butt down to the store and pick up a pair of TOMS Shoes.

THE TOMS PROMISE

ONE FOR ONE
TOMS Shoes was founded on a simple premise: For every pair you purchase, TOMS will give a pair of shoes to a child in need. One for One. Using the purchasing power of individuals to benefit the greater good is what we're all about.

OUR STORY
In 2006 an American traveler, Blake Mycoskie, befriended children in Argentina and found they had no shoes to protect their feet. Wanting to help, he created a company that would match every pair of shoes sold with a pair given to a child in need. One for One. Blake returned to Argentina with a group of family, friends and staff later that year with 10,000 pairs of shoes made possible by caring TOMS customers.

Since our beginning, TOMS has given over 140,000* pairs of shoes to children in need through the One for One model. Because of your support, TOMS plans to give over 300,000 pairs of shoes to children in need around the world in 2009.

Our ongoing community events and Shoe Drop Tours allow TOMS supporters and enthusiasts to be part of our One for One movement. Join us.

Okay. Now you know . Check out the TOMS Shoes site. They have cool shoes. And This guy Blake (aka Tom) is one cool guy.

Pets Who Want To Kill Themselves

If you hate people who think its cute to dress the family cat up in baby clothes or duct tape antlers to the Great Dane's head or have a terrified parakeet ride on the back of an ornery Tom cat Pets Who Want To Kill Themselves is the site for you.

Filled with goofy pics of humiliated pets, this site presents the animals point of view. The idea of comedy writer Duncan Birmingham, Pets Who Want To Kill Themselves is about to become a book.

Rumor has it that that plans could could be underway to make the book into a block-buster feature film, because, as an unnamed Hollywood source said, "It couldn't be any dumber than the other movies we released this year."

Bedpost Web App Helps Track Your Sex Life

Assuming you have a sex life and assuming you want to quantify it, Bedpost is a new personal web application that will give you insight into your sex life.

After each escapade you simply log in and fill out a brief form. Bedpost does the rest. The questions are basic:
1. What time did you start?
2. How long did it last?
3. How was it? (indicate by clicking number of stars. 1 star for "I'm considering celibacy", 5 stars for "I died and went to heaven."

You can even enter descriptive tags, which you get to define yourself.

There is also a question that reads "And this was with whom?" This gives you an excellent excuse to ask for your partner's full name, which can save a lot of embarrassment later on when you run into them at Starbucks.

If you are anal about your sex life or suffer from mild OCD, this could be the app for you.

Twitter Apps From twitdom.com

twitdom.com offers over 600 apps to improve your twitter experience. You can also submit your apps to them.

Categories include browser plug-ins, desktop, mashup, mobile, web and more. If you tweet, you need to check Twitdom out.

Inside Phone Numbers For Corporate Customer Service

When you call Best Buy, Amazon, Citi Bank or any of hundreds of other corporate giants for customer service you get that endless menu of choices but you can never get through to a human being.

Now you can use Contact Help to find the secret way to get right through to a living person.

DEVONthink Uses AI Software To Organize Your Thoughts ...Assuming You Have Any

You know you have great ideas. As they fly through your brain you IM yourself. You use Word to enter your amazing insights into your computer, you leave yourself brilliant iPhone messages.

Now the time has come to organize you thoughts in some coherent manner in order to create the work art that is going to punch your admission ticket to the Hall of the Immortals. But upon reexamination of your data you find an info-jumble that makes no sense.

It's DEVONThink to the rescue. This software employs Artificial Intelligence to organize your data, messages and notes, and helps connect information that is related. Sort of like a brain in a box.

Popular with writers and other malcontents, DEVONthink is the answer for those with creative vision that is blurred by a cluttered mind. Check it out.

A Note From Anonymous

Back on November 8, 2008 I posted that Shepard Fairey created this poster to champion the gay struggle for equal rights.
Today Anonymous sent me this, which I allowed to be published as a comment on that post:

"Hey moderatoer fuck yourself and this little illuminatist wannabe jewboy who makes communist style propagandist posters."

I can only assume, based on the erudition of this observation, that Anonymous is either an art critic or a professor of religious philosophy. On the other hand there is some evidence to suggest he is an illiterate cucumber farmer eking out a meager, yet honest living in rural Pennsylvania.

I can understand his consternation. It's like we lost World War II and nobody noticed. Budweiser has been purchased by communists in Germany thus driving up the price of a weekend drunk. GM is about to be put out of business by Japs who make cars that never need to be fixed, and the Italians, well what can one say about the Italians except that they make fantastic leather handbags for homosexuals.

And in addition to killing Jesus and all the Saints in Heaven, the Jews continue to control all the cash money in the the entire universe.

Is it any wonder that Anonymous is fed up?

I think we are lucky that he resorted to the printed word to express his disgust instead of employing his traditional means of expression, the well placed pipe bomb. While I salute his effort, I also view this as a sign that the parole system in this country is still in need of a little tweaking.

Improve Your Creative Work

drawn.ca, one of my favorite web sites has a good article on "Oblique Strategies", a deck of cards created by Brian Eno (yes, that Brian Eno) and Peter Schmidt. Each card presents a situation designed to help you work your way through creative problems and help you bring new energy to your work.

Depressed? Check Out These Blogs From Psychology Today

Psychology Today has lots of blogs that give you ways to lift your spirits. Suffering is, once again, optional.