tommyrot, someone on Facebook made that joke too. Heh.

I want to see the ballistics video, but that's blocked too.

I gleefully voted for Obama (though not in the primary), and I am thrilled he's our POTUS.

But I honestly cannot BELIEVE that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after doing...jack and shit.

Seriously. Bill Clinton deserved in a HUGE way yet got the shaft. But Obama? That's a bit much.

Boing Boing 1, Ralph Lauren 0.

Ralph Lauren apologises for digitally retouching slender model to make her head look bigger than her waist

The image of the 23-year-old Swedish-French model attracted widespread revulsion when it was reproduced on an Internet blog last month with the caption: 'Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis.'

A spokesman for Ralph Lauren said: ‘For over 42 years, we have built a brand based on quality and integrity.

'After further investigation, we have learned that we are responsible for the poor imaging and retouching that resulted in a very distorted image of a woman’s body.

'We have addressed the problem and going forward will take every precaution to ensure that the calibre of our artwork represents our brand appropriately.’

Ralph Lauren's initial reaction to the image being published on the website was very different.

The company accused the Boing Boing website, which highlights the web's weird and wonderful sights, of copyright infringement when it reproduced the image.

Boing Boing, however, refused to remove the post, claiming that the image publication was: 'classic fair use: a reproduction "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting."'

Co-editor Cory Doctorow wrote: 'Instead of responding to their legal threat by suppressing our criticism of their marketing images, we're gonna mock them.'

Other strategies were to include reproducing the ad with the original criticism, publishing Ralph Lauren's legal threats and offering 'nourishing soup and sandwiches to [their] models'.

The article has an unretouched photo of the model (not the same photo as the retouched one).

I thought Clinton *did* have a Peace Prize (that he shared with Rabin and Arafat for the Middle East Peace Accords), but apparently that's just my brain trying to revise history.

(Or else they all won Time Man Of The Year and I'm going to be horribly embarrassed to have mixed those two prizes up.)

I thought Clinton *did* have a Peace Prize (that he shared with Rabin and Arafat for the Middle East Peace Accords), but apparently that's just my brain trying to revise history.

In 1994, Arafat, Peres, and Rabin jointly received the Peace Prize. But despite his role in it, Clinton got a big steaming bowl of jack.

Jimmy Carter did receive it in 2002, and Al Gore in 2007. Both of them deserved it, but again, Clinton getting the shaft -- especially while Obama received it for, basically, Not Being Bush -- is ludicrous.

I think you misunderestimate the importance of not being Bush on the Global Circuit.

Anyhow, it's making B-J an amusing read this morning.

A crafty alternative for those who don’t necessarily want to eat their baby’s placenta, but want to pay their respects to the life sustaining organ by turning it into a one-of-a-kind teddy bear.

So if you made a "plush" cthulu with it, would some kind of dimensional portal open?

It looked shockingly innocent for such a pain in my ass.

I think I can see what the first problem was.

Oh great, bt. I'd managed to successfully block any memory of assbabies...until now.

This seems kinda' cool:

Clank, Clank, Nom, Nom: Steampunk Wedding Cake [Geeky Cake]

...until you realize that everything is edible. Then you wonder how they did that....

This isn't as exciting as winning the Nobel Prize, but...

For the first time in my adult life (18 years and up), I am 100% totally completely absolutely DEBT FREE!!!!! I paid off the last bit of my credit card this morning.

Wild.

And The Boy is out of town, so I have only the pets to celebrate with, and they're not as enthused as I'd like them to be. Even when I explained that no debt = more money in my wallet, which means I can buy them more snacky treats, they just weren't as excited as I am. I just don't understand their values.