Welcome to Stockton.
The city was named the second suckiest place in the country by Forbes, dropping from the top spot in last years’ ranking thanks to Cleveland. The “improvement,” however, did not console Michael Fitzgerald, columnist for the local paper, who had this wish for the mag:
Forbes, I hope a space barge filled with alien sewage strikes your headquarters and knocks your capitalistic fish wrap offline until 2013.
The Forbes study takes into account unemployment, sales and income taxes, commute times, violent crime, sports team performance, government corruption, weather and Superfund sites. And while Fitzgerald says the mag got some things right (taxes and commuting), he wonders about the categories for unemployment, Superfund site, city’s sports teams and crime.
via The Scavenger : ‘Miserable’ city list makes Stockton columnist miserable.
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For some reason, this post on what not to wear to your prom is one of the most popular post on this blog. Well if you really want to see ugly, this is the post for you. Most are pretty bad and I’m not even sure if some of them are intentionally bad. This one really stands out. It’s outright obscene. Why would anyone want to wear a giant vagina on their prom dress? Does she really need to paint a target?
Continue reading More worst prom dresses
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By Dan Hardy and Bonnie L. Cook
Inquirer Staff Writers
A Lower Merion family has set off a furor among students, parents, and civil liberties groups by alleging that Harriton High School officials used a webcam on a school-issued laptop to spy on their 15-year-old son at home.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court, the family said the school’s assistant principal had confronted their son, told him he had “engaged in improper behavior in [his] home, and cited as evidence a photograph from the webcam embedded in [his] personal laptop issued by the school district.”
The suit contends the Lower Merion School District, one of the most prosperous and highest-achieving in the state, had the ability to turn on students’ webcams and illegally invade their privacy.
via Student claims school spied on him via computer webcam | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/19/2010.
Robbins v. Lower Merion School District (PDF)
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Google is spreading its wings in yet another direction – this time as a network provider, offering super-fast broadband to thousands of US homes. It plans to build a fibre-optic network offering speeds of up to 1Gbps (gigabit per second) to up to 500,000 homes. It said it would compete on price with other broadband providers offering much slower speeds. Google said the trial was about promoting killer apps that would take advantage of fast speeds.
via BBC News – Google to offer ‘ultra high-speed’ broadband in US.
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via 100 Most influential photographers of all time.
UK’s Professional Photographer magazine released a list of the 100 most influential photographers of all time.
Starting with the top five:
1. Richard Avedon American 1923-2004
Avedon was the epitome of the modern photographer – a charming, sophisticated man-about-town and a photographer who was able to cross photographic genres. It did not matter where he was, which format he chose to work with or who his subject was, the image would be an Avedon image. It would have that unmistakeable elegance and confidence that marked him out, not just as a great photographer but as a highly successful commercial photographer, who was able to create instantly iconic and memorable images. So what’s his influence? His large-format portrait style with the stark white background, his use of two images to tell one portrait story, his use of strobe lights in fashion, the book In The American West? Of course it’s all this and more.Avedon is a photographer whom every photographer should get to know via his books. They cover his whole career and not only chart his own photographic and personal development but also, that of commercial photography over the last half of the twentieth century. Quite simply he is our No.1. www.richardavedon.com
2. W. Eugene Smith American 1918-1978
Intense and at times obsessed with his work. He helped establish the photo story and the power of black & white printing.
3. Helmut Newton German 1920-2004
Newton created erotically charged and powerful images of women, and developed the use of ring flash in fashion images. www.helmutnewton.com
4. Irving Penn American 1917- 2009
Every portrait shot in the corner of a room or simple symbolic still life owes something to Penn. He is the established genius of American Vogue magazine. www.irvingpenn.com
5. Guy Bourdin French 1928-1991
No one has been more imitated over the last few years in fashion and art photography than Bourdin. Erotic, surreal and controversial. www.guybourdin.org
See the rest by following the link above.
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There’s a lesson here. Don’t start shit you can’t finish. I saw on the news that this guy got his nose broken. Story here. Apparently, this took place on the AC transit N route near Oakland Lake Merritt. More here.
- Epic beard man has been identified as Thomas Bruso aka Tom Slick. See his interview below.
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AC TRANSIT BUS FIGHT I AM A MOTHERFUCKER
Continue reading Guy starts shit with a 67 year old and gets his ass whopped
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By CHUCK BENNETT & IKIMULISA LIVINGSTON
Ghouls are at play in the city’s morgues.
The people employed to respectfully handle the remains of the deceased have instead turned cadavers and body parts into macabre playthings, The Post has learned.
And they shockingly documented their depraved foolery in photos taken as keepsakes.
Grinning mortuary technicians use corpses as props in dozens of disturbing Polaroids obtained by The Post.
via Mortuary technicians in macabre photographs with cadavers – NYPOST.com.
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Goggle ran their first ever television ad during the third quarter of the superbowl.
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“Megan is young and sexy and has a lot of spirit,” Giorgio Armani said of the starlet, who replaces Victoria Beckham in the role.
Continue reading Megan Fox in sexy new Armani underwear and Armani jeans ad
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