Digital self expression

Your profile photo on Friendster could be art.

License to play

It's not just the little guys. Established artistes are also being cheated by big corporations.

And so goes the life of the photographed humans...

When they are all together, they meet, make out, get married, get divorced, and one day when nobody talks about them anymore, they die (their last headline).

The bitter truth about fructose

The beverage and corn industries would have us believe that high fructose corn-syrup is no better and no worse than sugar a.k.a sucrose. However, scientists have found a strong causal link between consumption of fructose and obesity.

Clearly you must be joking

Thinking about releasing your band's live album? If Clear Channel has anything to say about it, you won't be able to do it without forking out money to them first.

Is religion a mental virus?

Condescending to the believers is counterproductive and just plain mean.

High-end girls for a high-end label

Maybe the Olsen twins are a natural choice for luxury advertising, but as a champion of cheap-o shopping, I feel a little betrayed.

What makes a man attractive?

More and more men from around the world are going under the knife to achieve that perfect look, but their ideas about masculinity and beauty could not be more different.

Do we have to go through this again?

It looks as though the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may be putting lives on the line again as they reconstruct the levees out of what is reportedly inferior soil.

Hand off the iPods

The RIAA is trying to swing it so that you can't legally copy CDs you've purchased to your iPod. Huh?! No, seriously.

GMHC doing its best

The Gay Men’s Health Crisis paired with the AIDS Project Los Angeles to create a several hundred-thousand dollar website addressing drug use and unprotected sex among the gay and M-T-F community, as reported in The Gay City News.

The need of luxury

The author examines consumers’ sense of comfort that propels the luxury market

What came first, the conservative chicken or the conservative egg?

Maybe the problem isn’t that the Voice merger will make it conservative, maybe it’s that the city’s current population is too conservative to notice.

What's that burning smell?

You know that girl whose skin radiates a frighteningly orange glow? Or that woman whose face seems to be made of leather? Both are the result of far too much time spent tanning, but recent medical research shows that these women may not be in control of their excessive behavior.

On Writer's Block

Neurologists believe that when you're in the throes of writer's block, your facility with language decreases and your ability to assign meaning is amplified. Consequently, you end up producing less material, but your “inner critic” is more powerful than ever.