SD memory cards can survive going through the laundry. Who knew?

Data intact?

Yep. Warm wash, warm rinse, 25 minutes of tumble dry. (I had left it in one of my shirt pockets). Files (jpgs, it's one of the cards for my new camera) all intact, and the card is still readable and writable to full capacity (1.86Gb).

"Arresting Holiday Dresses": 1973 fashion meets TV detectives

There was a Shaft TV series? Huh. (Only 7 episodes.)

I love this comment:

Perhaps the less said about Buddy Ebsen lurking behind a tree the better...

The woman "blogging her suicide" now says it was an art project. [link]

90 Day Jane, the blogger who promised to commit suicide in 90 days, won't. She made the site as an art project, figuring only some friends would see it because people usually aren't drawn to dramatic stories on the Internet. While Jane hasn't revealed her true identity, Radar Magazine thinks they found her at a blog named Void, running the photo and caption shown here. Anyway, after Jane outed herself on the blog, she shut the whole thing down. We saved the confessional post below, in which Jane thanks her readers for being "real and heartfelt" and gives props to all of you who asked her to flash some tit.

90DayJane is a personal art piece about me. It was meant for me and (what I ignorantly thought would be) a small number of people who might find it on BlogSpot. It is the result of me tapping into the darkest part of myself and seeing where it led.

What I have written and filmed, at its core, is from a place of truth.

I am the girl in the videos. I have great disappointment with my generation and its obvious obsession with celebrity culture rather than their fellow man, thus the former Chuck Palahniuk reference. I wanted this blog to be about personal discovery and truth. But the correspondences I have received have taught me more about those qualities than I could ever express. 90DayJane has become its own entity and has influenced me. In fact, it has changed my perspective as a human being.

I feel a massive sense of responsibility to my art, but more importantly the readers of this blog. My closeness to this project must have made art seem like reality to many people. That is not a reaction that I expected nor can I morally justify. This is why my project, 90DayJane, will be taken down in the next few hours. 90DayJane was meant to mirror the tragic figure, Christine Chubbuck. Newscaster Christine Chubbuck committed suicide in 1974 by shooting herself in the head live on air. She was very vocal about her depression to those around her and gave every indication of her exact intentions leading up to the event. Sadly, no one reacted or helped Christine and those left behind could only ask "why".

...and so on....

is a personal art piece about me. It was meant for me

truer words...

figuring only some friends would see it because people usually aren't drawn to dramatic stories on the Internet.

Really stupid, or a big fat liar? You be the judge.

I took a nap! Although I feel like I could have slept all the way through.

Christine Chubbuck. Newscaster Christine Chubbuck committed suicide in 1974 by shooting herself in the head live on air. She was very vocal about her depression to those around her and gave every indication of her exact intentions leading up to the event.

Um. Not quite. At least this wikipedia article doesn't mention her talking specifically about what she was going to do (besides joking about it). [link]

eta:

Chubbuck spoke to her family at length about her struggles with depression and suicidal tendencies, though she did not inform them of her specific intent beforehand.

so, should we go back to the classics? because, really. enough said about 90-day-jane. though 90-day-jayne was AWESOME.

because I bring you (as I have been surfing the internets today, rather than doingge my jobbe):

Heere Bigynneth the Tale of the Asse-Hatte

Shrek is ballroom dancing at the ballroom championships. To that song with the "hey now, you're a rockstar". Seriously.

And now we have James Brown and a woman in pink go-go boots.

eta: this is the standard dance. Stuff like viennese waltz, foxtrot, tango. So it was all classic flowing ballgowns and tails until the show dance.

Spring roll strike in Israel: [link]