Here's photos from the media premiere - http://www.geocities.com/lostnprofound/evildead.html
(Unfortunately they just had rather weak lights and I couldn't use my flash) - the helmets are bowls from Honest Ed's department store, I believe.
The public premiere the next night was during the black out of 2003, so they had it outdoors.

Gee, there's a crowd of guys dressed like bikers! I'm sure they'll be delighted with me dancing around in a clown suit with them. Even though they're scowling and gesturing at me to go away. Hey! They're pushing me - they must want me to dance some more.
I'd respect Owens if he'd started bugging the fascists who dress up in paramilitary outfits and blare nationalist songs out of loudspeakers and rough up Koreans, but the rockabilly guys just wanted to be left alone.

I agree with the "Western style eyelid" comment being quite foolish - it tells a great deal about the vanity of those of European ancestry that they believe that any change someone of another ethnic group makes in their appearance must be so that they will look more like "Westerners".

"Asian" is a racial identity only in the United States - Koreans, Chinese and Japanese in Asia don't consider themselves to be the same race - in fact, inside of China, Uighur, Han, Tibetans, Manchus and Mongols are the five major racial groups - anyone who has watched the news this month should realize that racial tensions exist there as well.

I remember one time in Japanese class a student asked the teacher if there were any visible minorities in Japan. She answered "Yes, the two most common are Koreans and Chinese". He asked "I mean VISIBLE minorities." She repeated a little slower "Koreans and Chinese".

Many Japanese do have what's called a 'double eyelid' already - some to the same degree as most people of European ancestry - fewer Chinese and Koreans do - it's really a matter of how much fat there is under the eyelid.

The crease doesn't do anything to the epicanthic fold that most east Asians have - in fact, if you think about it, if they wanted to look more like Europeans, why wouldn't they take that off when they had eyelid surgery?

Perhaps it's better just to link directly to the motionportrait.com site? The Brazilian one now just links to a snack commercial site - looks like a twinkie-like snack - and you can look at this flash animation and others there - according to the site, MotionPortrait is software to animate photos, so it would be more accurate to say that this is a photo of a model that's been animated rather than "created".

Irshad Manji isn't Arab, and the only qualification she has to comment about Islam is that her parents were Ismaili Muslims - this isn't a sect that's had much in the way of conflicts with non-Muslims in the first place - they're best known for their charity works - while non-Muslims are deeply impressed with Manji, most Muslims in Canada, her homeland, were nonplussed at her sudden embrace of a Muslim identity after 9/11, when for years she'd been best known as media personality, mostly on gay-themed shows, without any interest in Islam.
Wafa Sultan is anti-Islam, and it's her right to be so, but her promotion by MEMRI hardly will support reform among Arabs - I think MEMRI's main goal is supporting Israel.

That IS disappointing - I liked Ringword when I was a kid...

"Given the age of the main component, identifying information was left on it (unusual for professional bugging devices) and that similar-looking auto alarm systems exist, its real purpose can be questioned. Is it a bug, or did someone buy a used car not knowing it was outfitted with an alarm system at one time?" - Kevin's Security Scrapbook
http://www.spybusters.com/blog/2008/03/bugging-device-found.html

The 'alpha centauri' scenario cited in Wikipedia is brought to you courtesy of that great font of scientific wisdom, the History Channel.

The OysterCard is shucked, shurely?

It's a hoax done by the kids themselves - the Sun ran one version that Fox picked up, but El Tribuno in Argentina used a different one! They show two different takes of the same gnome shuffling out but with different dialog, props and movement.

Here's the one from Argentina:
http://www.eltribuno.info/verContenido.php?id=7901
and here's the one from the UK Sun:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article902014.ece

Not the smartest way to do a prank by releasing two versions of themselves pretending to run in terror!!

The only controlling factor for these people was that they were usually too socially inept to reproduce - now he wants to change that?

The Barham was a battleship - it was a big ship with 14 inch guns - since the sinking could not be confirmed by the Germans, they had to keep a lot of resources tied up to protect themselves from it - the families of the sailors were notified of their deaths but asked to keep it a secret. Gordon didn't do the world much of a favor by spreading the word.

You can get guns, dildos and antique porn on eBay Belgium!

The decision to go to lock down when no gun was ever seen just because someone is carrying what looked like photography equipment at a photography school has to be investigated - this incident diverted lots of resources, and who's going to pay for the tens of thousand of dollars of emergency and police time? Sheridan or Halton Region?

You do have to wonder why Steve Spielberg chose to have Nazis parading around in full uniform, and using marked Luftwaffe planes when they were presumably on a secret mission in a country that was under de facto British rule and on the alert against a fascist invasion from Italian-ruled Somalia.

A bug version of Casablanca. NOW!
"Of all the dead horses in the world, she had to land on mine"

I think those ARE Cona siphons - they're identical to the one I have - not from 1910 though - those were made from quartz rather than the modern Pyrex ones - I guess it's the heating system that's the thing that's new - I don't think it really boils water $20,000 dollars worth better though!

A more detailed view here:

http://www.anonymousphilanthropist.com/jots/snowcreature2.jpg

(from The Snow Creature - 1954 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Creature )

Remember the scene in Buster Keaton's The General where the girl is smuggled into a train's baggage compartment in a duffel bag, then a huge trunk is dropped on her?