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October 18, 2006 By Leave a Comment

Here are two amusing quizzes I found recently:

1) What American Accent Do You Have? (13 questions; they pegged mine as undeniably Southern–blast!).

2) What’s Your Brain’s Sex? (A series of tests from the BBC).::via [BB-Blog]

Some more finds:

We’re really, really backed up on our feed reader (we use Google Reader now, BTW, and we love it!), so we’ll be doing random feed finds (some quite old) over the next few weeks.

Time for another round of feed finds:

And some extra special Halloween links:

More quick finds:

“In the course of her nearly two years at the Elephant Sanctuary — much
of it spent in quarantine while undergoing daily treatment for
tuberculosis — Misty has also been in therapy, as in psychotherapy.
Wild-caught elephants often witness as young calves the slaughter of
their parents, just about the only way, shy of a far more costly
tranquilization procedure, to wrest a calf from elephant parents,
especially the mothers. The young captives are then dispatched to a
foreign environment to work either as performers or laborers, all the
while being kept in relative confinement and isolation, a kind of
living death for an animal as socially developed and dependent as we
now know elephants to be.” –Charles Siebert, New York Times.

Read more about the Elephant Sanctuary.

It’s been awhile, but Feed Finds is back.

  • Paul Newman is my permanent pick for Sexiest Man Alive.  At 81, he’s still married to his wife of 48 years, Joanne Woodward, has a legendary acting career and a successful business that gives all its proceeds after taxes to charity, and is still (bless him) hot.  Favorite quote: when asked by Empire magazine why he’d never cheated on Woodward, he replied “Why fool around with hamburgers when you have steak at home?”  Like I said, bless the man.  Here’s a nice NYTimes article about his new restaurant.
  • Sofia Coppola does Paris.
  • My favorite article on the thin model debate thus far has been this interview with Erin O’Connor, one of the models singled out by British politicians as an unhealthy example to young girls.  Unlike Lily Cole, O’Connor addresses the issue and her critics with a disarming sensitivity and perceptiveness.  Here’s an excerpt:

“My teenage years were ridiculous. I desperately wanted a boob job, I
desperately wanted a nose job, I constantly had sore feet because I
would wear shoes two sizes too small because I couldn’t bear to buy my
big shoes. But that,” she says, warming to one of her favourite themes,
“is because I had no perception of how a woman was meant to be and how
she was entitled to go with what her version of whatever being a woman
was. It was only in my late teens and early twenties, when I started
modelling, that I began to appreciate myself.” –Hadley Freeman, The Guardian

  • Having said that, have I got some filthy pictures for you!  Here’s Auguste Rodin’s “Shade,” and Aristide Maillol’s “Flora,” two of the works mentioned in the article.  Incidentally, similar Maillol statues are all over the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, which borders both the Louvre (also filled with “nude art representations”) and a kiddie carnival.  Ah, the French.

It’s Sunday, so time for another round of Feed Finds:

Big hearts to Boing Boing, Metafilter, YouTube, AdRants, Sploid, etc.

Some of you might remember our Sunday feature Feed Finds (which replaced NewsHer).  We went away for two weeks, our feed reader exploded with unread items (it exploded before vacation, honestly), and then our feed reader temporarily lost all our saved posts (hello, Bloglines subscribers!  You know we’re talking about).  So Feed Finds went away for awhile.  But now it’s back.

It’s Sunday, which means it’s time for another round of feed finds:

Time for a quick round of Feed Finds:

It’s Sunday, which means it’s clean out the feed reader time.  Favorite finds so far:

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