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Yamanba are the uber-tanned young women with the makeup and sparkles and outfits that look like Madonna-on-crack. Now there's a male version, The Center Gai (guy).

Area 51: tentacle pr0n g?

AlterNet: Do Pregnant Women Have Rights? : "'For our law to compel the Defendant to submit to an intrusion of his body would change every concept and principle upon which our society is founded. To do so would defeat the sanctity of the individual and would impose a rule which would know no limits.' Forcibly restraining someone to make them submit to surgery for the benefit of another would 'raise the specter of the swastika and the Inquisition, reminiscent of the horrors this portends.'" /irony

This Alf doll tells stories . (thanks, K.D.)

Fark thread: Sci-Fi photoshop mash-up .

Wideload Games , headed by Bungie-founder Alexander Seropian, is making a new PC/Xbox game based on HALO technology. He plans to keep permanent headcount low, and bring on contractors as-needed. "The solution he is attempting to implement at the independently funded Wideload is one which has been championed regularly by developers over the past few years, but which few have actually managed to utilize - namely operating a studio with a very small number of core staff, and hiring independent staffers to actually bring the game through to completion ." I'm betting the plas is similar to normal temp work, except the contract's wording most likely involves a monthly, not hourly wage (with no pay for overtime), which may be ameliorated by other clauses relating to bonuses for timely completion. I'm most intrigued by the observation about Hollywood: "It's kind of broken," Seropian told Reuters, speaking about the current model of development used by the ...

Random Pixel is a project where a camera with a return-mail envelope is given to strangers, then passed from stranger to stranger until it is sent back to the project's creator , who then posts the pictures to the web.