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Last login: 6 hours agoKahlilaGibran: Kahlila is a woman in a relationship from Kia Ora, New Zealand.; Likes 3,526 pages, 180 videos, 540 photos • 479 fans • Received 176 reviews; Member since Jan 20, 2007

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Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain - New York Times: Feb 27, 7:22am 4 reviews cyberculture, internet, blogging
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/fashion/21webgirls.html?ex=1361336400&en=cf...; Computers are no longer a boys' field, this article finds.
Blogging and online communities have dramatically
changed the demographic.
Whereas the mechanics of computing, and the
games, were always a male domain, it is girls
who have responded most enthusiastically
to the online world.

The article focuses on teenagers and quotes boys
who say they don't have the patience to present
blogs and girls who have taken to the phenomenon
as naturally as their mothers might have taken
to diaries and making photo albums.

From the page . . .
The prototypical computer whiz of popular imagination -- pasty, geeky, male -- has failed to live up to his reputation.
Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are not misfits resembling the Lone Gunmen of "The X Files."

On the contrary, the cyberpioneers of the moment are digitally effusive teenage girls.
"Most guys don't have patience for this kind of thing," said Nicole Dominguez, 13, of Miramar, Fla., whose hobbies include designing free icons, layouts and "glitters" (shimmering animations) for the Web and MySpace pages of other teenagers.

TRAVEL GALLERIES Photo Gallery by Fred Relaix at pbase.com: Feb 26, 10:47am 1 review photography, travel-photography, pbase, fred-relaix
http://www.pbase.com/frelaix/travels; Impressions of Yemen
Pascal and Maria Marechaux
p123

"In the vicinity of Khamir, the decorative black stone set in white gives no quarter in stating its contrasts.
Beneath the crowning frieze, four vertical lines and one horizontal form God's name.
A wooden dove is perched on top of the dark windows."

I bought this book -- for the pictures, of course -- because it's one country I will almost certainly never visit.

I especially love the way the building ornamentation is set on some pages against the faces and bodies of local people, adorned in paint and textiles that use similar patterns.

I have collected a whole library of such books to treasure and remember traditions, arts, thoughts and patterns fast being lost.
They are disappearing in the same way that nature is
being conquered and corrupted.
And all for what?
For the sake of rampant, mindless, materialistic
expansion led by a shallow and shortsighted West.

(This is a real hobby-horse of mine.)

The black and white photos featured here, by the way, are not from the book I picked up for this exercise but from the portfolio of Fred Relaix at Pbase.

His gallery of travel photography is wide-ranging and gee pretty jaw-dropping at a quick glance.
In other words, back for seconds another time.

StumbleUpon - orangegurus web site reviews and blog: Feb 26, 7:16am 24 reviews stumblers, man-boobs, orangeguru
http://orangeguru.stumbleupon.com/; My friend OrangeGuru, bless him, is an example of why we needed gynecomasty specialist Marvin here at SU.

Wouldn't you feel so much more comfortable in that
get-up without the floppy bits, Hairy Godfather?

I will send Marvin to visit you personally and discreetly, and give you good advice; man boobs are his business.
If he can recycle and give you a fat down under the tulle
instead, even better.

Let's know how it goes.

Cos you do scrub up well,
Orange (given enough make-up).

r6773201147289917yj7.jpg (JPEG Image, 600x536 pixels): Feb 26, 4:27am 1 review rock-music, art
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/6334/r6773201147289917yj7.jpg

StumbleUpon - Etceteras web site reviews and blog: Feb 25, 11:28am 1100 reviews stumblers, etcetera
http://etcetera.stumbleupon.com/; In this case, 6821 stumblers (at the
time of checking in) can't be wrong.
Etcetera is exquisitely cultured, tasteful,
friendly and astonishingly accomplished.

And as for rating her picks for all the Oscars,
where I have seen not one of the movies,
that just leaves me breathless (and pretty
disgusted with myself).

Overcoming Masturbation: Feb 25, 11:27am 57 reviews religion, sexuality, masturbation, mormons
http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/daily/sexuality/overcoming_masturbation.html; Probably the only page from this Mormon
website that gets many ratings on here.

Light Planet? What a bunch of wankers.

Marrie Bot Fotografie: Feb 25, 11:16am 10 reviews aging, photography, relationships, portraits, bodies
http://www.marriebot.com/; Ani calls it "love". I say they're
just holding each other up.

And what's that on the carpet?

Circus Hour | Celebrity, Art, Gossip, Entertainment, Fashion, Pop Culture, Satir…: Feb 25, 11:16am 5 reviews celebrities, bizarre, pin-ups, george-clooney
http://www.circushour.com/; Hate would not be too strong a word here.

StumbleUpon - applznorngzs web site reviews and blog: Feb 25, 11:15am 21 reviews stumblers, intelligent, applznorngz
http://applznorngz.stumbleupon.com/

Outta the Coop: A Day in the Life of The Chick: For You Bookish Types: Feb 24, 10:03am 46 reviews books, words, reading
http://chickfeed.blogspot.com/2008/02/for-you-bookish-types.html; Well no-one asked ME to play but I'm going to anyway.

"Because this is always the complementary opposite pole to the feeling of oneself that is embodied in the Ascendant, it is quite acceptable to use the common phrase 'better half' to describe the Descendant.

Although the forms of relationships listed in the following chart are an important aspect of the partnership theme, it is just one aspect of the overall theme, which is usually quite complex. Further aspects result, for example, from the distribution of the elements and the position of the masculine (Sun, Mars) and feminine (Moon, Venus) lights and planets, as well as the planets in the 7th house."

-- Key Words for Astrology (Hajo Banshaf & Anna Haebler)

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