The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery quickly removed a video Tuesday that was part of an exhibit after complaints from a Catholic group that the images were sacrilegious.
The offensive video featured ants crawling on a cross. The Catholic League President Bill Donohue said that the depiction was "hate speech" and designed to insult Christians.
After he was alerted to the piece Monday night by a New York Post reporter, Donohue began a campaign to urge Congress to cut public funding for the Smithsonian museum complex, he told The Associated Press.
"This is not the first time the Smithsonian has offended us," he said. "I'm going to cast my net much wider. Why should the government pay for this? ... How dare they take our money to fund attacks on (our religion)."
While he is correct that the Smithsonian is partially funded by the government to pay the staff and its facilities, the exhibits themselves are actually privately funded. It could be anyone. Maybe the guy that invented Asus, or Bill Gates, or you.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
2010 National Geographic Photo Contest
I'm not a phoography guy by any means, but this is always one of my favorite things to look at. The National Geogrphic annual phot contest. You can see the official page here, but there are a couple other sites that handpicked some of the best ones.
This site picked their 47 favorite and I must agree they are incredible. I actually saved a bunch of them and am trying to decide which to use as my new desktop background. I am using the two giraffes so far, but I'm not sure if I will stick with it. Glad I don't need to post them all, or I'd need a new web hosting service.
Boston.com put a bit of a slideshow together with some storyboards with it so you cna see a bit more about what the photos are from.
This site picked their 47 favorite and I must agree they are incredible. I actually saved a bunch of them and am trying to decide which to use as my new desktop background. I am using the two giraffes so far, but I'm not sure if I will stick with it. Glad I don't need to post them all, or I'd need a new web hosting service.
Boston.com put a bit of a slideshow together with some storyboards with it so you cna see a bit more about what the photos are from.
Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys to Quit Twitter for Charity
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
When you see a headline and that is the first thing that pops into your head you know you have to read it. Let's try and figure out how this would make any sense whatsoever before we actually get their explanation first shall we?
So...in an effort to raise some money for something they have decided to stop using the way they communicate to people dumb enough to give them money instead of an actual REAL charity. You know like one that isn't a huge tax shelter for celebrities that wastes most of the money on administration costs rather than just team up with a well established charity? Yeah...this is a pet peeve of mine. Donations used to pay paper pushers makes ALL kinds of sense doesn't it? Clearly more appropriate than just say giving to one of the big charities that are already established.
Anyways, the stars are part of a new campaign called Digital Life Sacrifice that will benefit Alicia Keys' AIDS charity, Keep a Child Alive. The entertainers plan to sign off sites including Facebook and Twitter starting Wednesday, which is World AIDS Day, and will not sign back on until the charity raises $1 million.
How am I ever going to know what eczema treatment to use?
Other celebrities taking part are Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Seacrest, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Elijah Wood, Serena Williams, Janelle Monae and Keys' husband, Swizz Beatz.
For the campaign, the stars have filmed "last tweet and testament" videos and will appear in ads showing them lying in coffins to represent what the campaign calls their digital deaths.
"It's really important and super-cool to use mediums that we naturally are on," Keys told the Associated Press.
When you see a headline and that is the first thing that pops into your head you know you have to read it. Let's try and figure out how this would make any sense whatsoever before we actually get their explanation first shall we?
So...in an effort to raise some money for something they have decided to stop using the way they communicate to people dumb enough to give them money instead of an actual REAL charity. You know like one that isn't a huge tax shelter for celebrities that wastes most of the money on administration costs rather than just team up with a well established charity? Yeah...this is a pet peeve of mine. Donations used to pay paper pushers makes ALL kinds of sense doesn't it? Clearly more appropriate than just say giving to one of the big charities that are already established.
Anyways, the stars are part of a new campaign called Digital Life Sacrifice that will benefit Alicia Keys' AIDS charity, Keep a Child Alive. The entertainers plan to sign off sites including Facebook and Twitter starting Wednesday, which is World AIDS Day, and will not sign back on until the charity raises $1 million.
How am I ever going to know what eczema treatment to use?
Other celebrities taking part are Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Seacrest, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Elijah Wood, Serena Williams, Janelle Monae and Keys' husband, Swizz Beatz.
For the campaign, the stars have filmed "last tweet and testament" videos and will appear in ads showing them lying in coffins to represent what the campaign calls their digital deaths.
"It's really important and super-cool to use mediums that we naturally are on," Keys told the Associated Press.
Harry Potter With Another Huge Weekend
Thanksgiving is another popular movie holiday. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (mouth full) opened last weekend at #1 and held onto it for the second straight week with a $50.3 million Thanksgiving weekend box office. This brings its two-week total to $220.4 million, according to studio estimates.
I still haven't seen it, and likely won't until DVD because I don't have any friends dorky enough to go to this movie in a theater...haha
www.teatreeoil.org
From what I've read it sticks to the book better than any of the others, but if you have read the book you know what the complaints are. It's slow moving and not much happens. This is because the first half of DH is SLOW. It's still a great start, but it isn't exactly action packed. Quite a bit of growing up for Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the first half and dealing with being off on their own for the first time. A lot of whining and fighting with eachother. Still it is interesting to see them start to come together and get a little lucky in their quest to destroy the horcrux's.
Most say it is the best directed of the movies so far so I'm sure Part 2 is going to be incredible. The ending of the series is absolutely perfect so the movie should have some very emotional and action packed scenes.
I still haven't seen it, and likely won't until DVD because I don't have any friends dorky enough to go to this movie in a theater...haha
www.teatreeoil.org
From what I've read it sticks to the book better than any of the others, but if you have read the book you know what the complaints are. It's slow moving and not much happens. This is because the first half of DH is SLOW. It's still a great start, but it isn't exactly action packed. Quite a bit of growing up for Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the first half and dealing with being off on their own for the first time. A lot of whining and fighting with eachother. Still it is interesting to see them start to come together and get a little lucky in their quest to destroy the horcrux's.
Most say it is the best directed of the movies so far so I'm sure Part 2 is going to be incredible. The ending of the series is absolutely perfect so the movie should have some very emotional and action packed scenes.
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