This is the new $100 bill. It is revolting. But that’s not the only reason you wouldn’t want to try counterfeiting this malignantly redesigned slip of currency, the most counterfeited of all denominations (outside the US).
It has two big new security features that had over a decade of R&D poured into them, and that odd blue stripe running down the center is one of them: It’s a 3D security ribbon, woven into the paper. Tilting the bill makes the bells in the ribbon dance from side to side.
The other is that cooper looking blotch next to Ben, “the Bell in the Inkwell.” When you tilt the bill, the bell inside of the inkwell turns green. Besides the ribbon and the inkwell it has all of the old security features, like the portrait watermark, microprinting and color-shifting numbers.
I think the fact it gives you a headache if you stare at it for too long is a pretty good defense mechanism too. It goes into circulation next February, so we have time to steel ourselves for the onslaught.
Disney recently banned fake boobs in their actresses, the question is will the rest of Hollywood follow?
This article was taken from Jezebel:
Though it was once considered fairly standard for actresses to increase her busts via the magic of plastic surgery, Sally Brampton of the Daily Mail notes that studios are now calling for “authenticity,” when it comes to women’s bodies.
“Plastic, it seems, is no longer fantastic,” Brampton writes, pointing to a recent Disney-ban on implants for the next Pirates of the Caribbean film, the drop in interest in plastic surgery makeover shows like The Swan and Victoria Beckham’s removal of her implants as a sign that Hollywood, and perhaps the world in general, has tired of the overtly-fake implant look. “That’s why, for women in the public eye, ” Brampton writes, “having fake breasts is looking increasingly less like a career move and more like career suicide.”
Keep in mind that Brampton, who claims to have “naturally” large breasts and makes a point to note that the downsides of having an ample chest—including back pain and issues with dealing with men—aren’t spoken about as much as they should be, is speaking more about the celebrity obsession with breast implants than breast implants in general; there are, of course, many women who undergo breast augmentation for personal reasons that have nothing to do with wanting to become famous by increasing their cup size.
This is the sequel to the 2004 French film District B13. I don’t know how big the following for that movie is, but for what it is, an action packed thriller addressing class issues and showcasing Parkour, it is highly entertaining. Ultimatum should be released on DVD here in the U.S. pretty soon, but in the meantime, go rent District B13 if you haven’t already seen it.
One of my personal all time favorite books by my favorite childhood author Roald Dahl, is going to be released as a film interpreted by Wes Anderson. Enjoy.
So Deejer, that youngblood Travs and myself went to go see Jennifer’s Body this evening (highly recommend everyone to see it…if you got kids bring the whole family, grandma, baby, everyone) and we saw this trailer that made me jizz in my pants…ancient warrior shit meets modern days, guns, and it’s got my two favorite words in the title. ENJOY.
Tron Legacy, the sequal to Tron, looks pretty dope, but more exciting is DAFT PUNK composing 24 tracks for the score to the film. It is set to release December 2010…that’s TWO Christmas/Chanukahs away…FML. OK not FML but you can sense my anxiety and love for Daft Punk, check out this teaser trailer revealed @ComicCon
Wearing a helmet while motorcycling in Texas is not mandatory. Indeed, Texas is one of six states that have repealed mandatory helmet laws since 1994. The consequences remind me of an old Faye Kellerman novel, Prayers for the Dead, about a transplant surgeon who is active in a motorcycle club because he wants to discourage helmet use in order to increase the supply of transplantable organs (motor vehicle deaths being a major source of organs).
A recent unpublished study links changes in state laws on mandatory helmet laws to the supply of transplantable organs, showing that where and when helmet wearing was no longer required, the supply of organs for transplants in the state increased.
I’m all in favor of increasing the supply of organs for transplant, as there is currently a substantial shortage of transplantable organs. Some economists have argued for a free market in organs that lets the market establish a price.
I find that repugnant; I don’t want people selling their kidneys, just as I find the Kellerman doctor’s behavior repugnant. Perhaps the best hope, or at least the most moral, may be the incentive that today’s shortages provide for innovation of trans-species or, better still, artificial organs for transplants.
The campaign, called “GoingGoogle” has a very clear target: Microsoft Office. A series of advertisements will begin touting how and why some 3,000 organizations are signing up to use Google apps each day. But the crown jewels of this campaign will be billboards on four major U.S. highways that will give a new message about Google apps everyday for a month.
The billboards will be placed on the 101 in San Francisco, the West Side Hwy in New York, the Ike in Chicago, and Mass Pike in Boston. Google says that the vinyl being used to create these new messages each day will be recycled or reused into either computer bags or shopping bags.
For some reason, black people and white people still don’t seem to like taking photographs together.
Which makes it awfully difficult when a magazine, newspaper or brochure wants to demonstrate diversity.
I dug around the Internet for the best pictures I could find where a black person was either blatantly Photoshopped in or out. Here are the 11 funniest and most absurd ones I found. (Huge, preemptive dap goes out to the brilliant blog Photoshop Disasters, who pointed me to almost half of these.)
1. Photoshopped diversity in Toronto. Our first entry is the most recent one… this comes from a summer fun guide that Toronto published last month. A spokesman said they “superimposed the African-Canadian person onto the family … [with] the goal to depict the diversity of Toronto.”
They made the change because of a new policy in Toronto where the city manager mandated the staff always try to represent the cultural mix of residents.
And, according to Kevin Sack, Toronto’s director of strategic communications, awkwardly plopping a miscellaneous black guy into a photo is sometimes an acceptable substitute for, ya know, actually having races mingle. Sack told reporters, “The policy doesn’t say Photoshop, the policy says ’show diversity’ … [but] when you’re publishing something with deadlines and you don’t have the right photo, the objective is to communicate the service.”
2. Curves cereal. If you’re an overweight black woman, listen up: Not only does Curves cereal help you lose your belly… it turns it white! (And belly button-less, like Kyle XY.)
This past Saturday, an entire apartment building in Shanghai collapsed. To be fair, the building was under construction and thus unoccupied, but it’s still a minor miracle that there was only one fatality.
Does life, or at least economics, imitate art?
