Turkish pin-up & 2002 Best Model of the World Kivanc Tatlitug
A steamy, secular Turkish soap is shaking up the No-Fun Zone of the Middle East! Noor flopped in its native Turkey, but became a smash hit when Saudi satellite TV began airing it this spring, dubbed in Arabic. The show has made a heartthrob of [...]

Newly constructed World Trade Center towers at dusk (before Battery Park City), circa 1973. More here.

Whatever might be happening in Iraq, Afghanistan, and points east, Al Qaeda’s online affiliates continue to use the ‘nets to distribute propaganda that manages to be simultaneously full of hate and full of WTF?-level nuttiness. The latest example comes from an AQ-linked website in Glasgow, which has distributed a video promising death to that [...]

It cannot get any plainer than video footage showing a celebrity waltzing past airport security where all the “civilians” wait in the endless line. While the little people purchase expensive airline tickets and must endure the requisite luggage inspections including removing footwear, separating laptop computers from their protective cases and subjecting these expensive items to [...]

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt can breathe a wee bit easier after learning that they are not terrorist targets in relation to their current production, A Mighty Heart. According to US Weekly Online:

“A source close to the Jolie-Pitts and their three children explains that a little-known Islamic fundamentalist Web site put out a threat [...]

Page Six: Osama Bin Laden agrees with the U.S. general public on one thing – Bobby Brown is a completely useless human being. Yet as terrorists often carry beliefs to dramatic heights involving bloodbaths, Osama actually pondered taking out a hit on Brown so that he could possess Whitney Houston as an addition for his [...]

Hot damn, that’s one hell of a coping mechanism. Too bad I’m a vegetarian.
Two more examples of our infidel American culture: Uno y Dos.
Dammit, I just might have to break out the photoshop this weekend. Suggestions welcomed.

10. SixApart provides MT 4 for free to all users.
9. Dave Winer starts prophesizing that Allah is the one true god, as opposed to himself.
8. Slashdot reports that the latest virus hidden in Blogger blogs actually causes computers to explode.
7. Andrew Sullivan outs himself as being straight.
6. Osamafanclub.blogspot.com tops the Top 100 at Technorati.
5. The [...]