freedom of expression - what's the limit

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By now you have probably heard about the art exhit My Sweet Lord. It is a chocolate sculpture of a naked and anatomically correct Jesus. If that's not bad enough, I have also heard that the sculptor has invited art lovers to lick it and eat it before it was to be taken down on Easter Sunday. I have always considered myself a social liberal but this is over the line even for me. I wonder if anyone would actually lick and eat it. There are all sorts of people in the world so someone would probably do it.

BrakeLok - What's the point

I am pretty sure you have come across great design that are not practical at all. I just came across one that may qualify if it was a great design. It surely fit the not practical part. The BrakeLok is a device similar to The Club except that you put it on the hand brake. I wonder if the designer has actually tried to see if this product actually works or not. I don't know of any car that will actually be immobilized by not releasing the hand brake. Do you?

SuperSuper Tuesday

It looks like New York will be joining a growing number of other states which are moving the primary election in 2008 to February 5. So it is very likely that the winners of the primary election will be determined on that day. I have always wonder why there isn't a national primary election. There is a national general election so why not for the primary election. Wouldn't any argument against the national primary election be true for the general election too? What do you think?

Gotta What

I have seen many Japanese gadgets and inventions that are way out there. But I think this one beats them all. It is called the Gotta Go Briefcase. I know I have said this before but this one you really have to see to believe. It is meant for business professionals who wants to better maximize time efficiency and encourage higher job performance. The manufacturer claims that it will offer an extra edge over corporate competitors. I wonder what kind of edge one will get after being seen using one of these by competitors and colleague.

The Other White Meat

I have always wonder if the US government is still being as wasteful as before since nowadays you don't hear story like the $600 toilet seat that often anymore. Or maybe it is just not news anymore so people stopped talking about it. Well, according to the Pig Book, money is still being wasted, if at least not as much as before. I guess one can always look at the bright side. Every dollar wasted by the US government is a dollar earned by someone else. So the US government is just doing its part to keep the economy going.

(RED)

You may or may not have heard of the RED Campaign. I have because one of my favorite companies, Apple, is a participant. Well, according to the Numbers column of the latest issue of Time, it has raised $18 million worldwide so far. You may say that is no small change. But it actually is when compared to the $100 million spent on marketing the RED Campaign by Gap, Motorola, and (yes) Apple (too). I wonder if they realize that their marketing overhead is that much more than what they are raising. I have a feeling that they do. But I guess it really shouldn't be considered marketing overhead since they are marketing both the RED Campaign as well as their own products at the same time. And they are spending their own money and not the money raised. But I wonder if any one of them had considered giving some of that marketing money to the campaign directly.

Japanese Gadgets

I always wonder what gadgets the Japanese will invent next. I think they are way ahead of everyone when it comes to gadgets. That is terms usefulness, strangeness and plain weirdness. Well someone has make a list of top 12 weird Japanese inventions. You have to check it out. My favorite is the gardening tool. You have to see it to believe it.

Rats Backlash

There now seems to be a rats backlash in New York City after video and photo of a rats infested Taco Bell/KFC restaurant hit big time on the web. Restaurant owners are complaining that they are unfairly targeted by the Health Department. None of them are actually denying that their restaurants have rats. They are saying they are now being tickets for conditions that existed before that they were ticketed for. I wonder what makes them think that it is OK to have rats in their restaurants.

Happy Birthday, Leap Day Babies

I always wonder how people born on Feburary 29th celebrate their birthday. Do they do it only in leap year? Or every year on Feburary 28th or March 1st. I actually don't know anyone born on leap day so I have no one to ask. I have always thought that it is due to the fact that being born on leap day is small. Well according to the Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies, the chance is 1 in 1461. Then I heard a report on the news radio that when a leap baby was born, the doctor asked the mother if she would like to put on the birth certificate either Feburary 28th or March 1st as the birthday. I wonder how many mother would do just that.