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Starving Themselves, Cocktail in Hand
Manorexia. Orthorexia. Diabulimia. Binge Eating Disorder. All are dangerous variations on the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia, and have become buzzwords that are popping up on Web sites and blogs, on television and in newspaper articles. As celebrity magazines chronicle the glamorous and the suffering, therapists and a growing number of researchers are trying to treat and understand the conditions. The latest entry in the lexicon of food-related ills is drunkorexia, shorthand for a disturbing blend of behaviors: self-imposed starvation or bingeing and purging, combined with alcohol abuse. [More?]
The biggest art theft in American history occurred at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on March 18, 1990. The stolen paintings, including the one that hung in this frame, Rembrandt’s “Lady and Gentleman in Black,” remain unrecovered. (via nytimes.com)
Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?
STYLES make fights — or so goes the boxing cliché. In 2008, they make presidential campaigns, too. This is especially true for the two remaining Democrats, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Reporters covering the candidates have already resorted to traditional analysis of style — fashion choices, manner of speaking, even the way they laugh. Yet, according to design experts, the candidates have left a clear blueprint of their personal style — perhaps even a window into their souls — through the Web sites they have created to raise money, recruit volunteers and generally meet-and-greet online. On one thing, the experts seem to agree. The differences between hillaryclinton.com and barackobama.com can be summed up this way: Barack Obama is a Mac, and Hillary Clinton is a PC. [More?]
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
R.D. Laing (Scottish psychiatrist noted for his extensive writings on mental illness)
Dear Internet
Please blow up all websites that have audio on autoplay.
Thanking you in anticipation
Vanessa
Eggs in peril, by Ariel Bariel Long. I’m a fan of concept photography.
Monochromatic Fashion. NY Times article about people who like to wear the same color everyday, and none of them wear black…
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Umbrella (Rihanna Cover)
» Mechanical Bride
Here’s another version of Rihanna’s omnipresent song. I’ve heard two other renditions of this hit (Mandy Moore’s and Scott Simons’s) and this is by far the one I like the most.
This version is quite haunting (in a good way), and I love how they decided to turn it into a sort of eerie folk ballad. So unique. ♥
