Social Animals

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Northern Downpour (Panic at the Disco)

If all our life is but a dream
Fantastic posing greed
Then we should feed our jewelery to the sea
For diamonds do appear to be
Just like broken glass to me

And then she said she can't believe
Genius only comes along
In storms of fabled foreign tongues
Tripping eyes, and flooded lungs
Northern downpour sends its love

Hey moon, please forget to fall down
Hey moon, don't you go down

Sugarcane in the easy mornin'
Weathervanes my one and lonely

The ink is running toward the page
It's chasin' off the days
Look back at boat feet
And that winding knee
I missed your skin when you were east
You clicked your heels and wished for me

Through playful lips made of yarn
That fragile Capricorn
Unraveled words like moths upon old scarves
I know the world's a broken bone
But melt your headaches, call it home

Hey moon, please forget to fall down
Hey moon, don't you go down

Sugarcane in the easy mornin'
Weathervanes my one and lonely
Sugarcane in the easy mornin'
Weathervanes my one and lonely
Sugarcane in the easy mornin'
Weathervanes my one and lonely

Sugarcane (hey moon) in
(Hey moon) the easy mornin'
Weathervanes (hey moon) my
(Hey moon) one and lonely

Sugarcane (hey moon) in (hey moon)
The easy (hey moon) mornin'
Weathervanes (hey moon) my (hey moon)
One (hey moon) and lonely

[Continues in background:]
Sugarcane (hey moon) in (hey moon)
The easy (hey moon) mornin'
Weathervanes (hey moon) my (hey moon)
One (hey moon) and lonely

Hey moon, please forget to fall down
Hey moon, don't you go down
You are at the top of my lungs
Drawn to the ones who never yawn

Hey moon, please forget to fall down
Hey moon, don't you go down
You are at the top of my lungs
Drawn to the ones who never yawn

Single Ladies (lyrics) – Beyonce

All the single ladies (7x)
Now put your hands up
Up in the club, just broke up
I’m doing my own little thing
Decided to dip but now you wanna trip
Cuz another brother noticed me
I’m up on him, he up on me
Don’t pay him any attention
Cried my tears, three good years
Ya can’t be mad at me[Chorus]
Cuz if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it
If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it
Don’t be mad once you see that he want it
If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it

(Chorus)
I put gloss on my lips, a man on my hips
Hold me tighter than my Dereon jeans
Acting up, drink in my cup
I could care less what you think
I need no permission, did I mention
Don’t pay him any attention
Cuz you had your turn
But now you gonna learn
What it really feels to miss me

(Chorus)

Don’t treat me like things of this world
I’m not that kind of girl
Your love is what I prefer, what I deserve
He’s a man that makes me and takes me
And delivers me to a destiny, to infinity and beyond
Pull me into your arms
Say I’m not the one you own
If you don’t, you’ll be alone
And like a ghost, I’ll be gone

All the single ladies (7x)
Now put your hands up

(Chorus)

They

They say I should wear orange. Too bright for me.

They say go out with us.  Ain’t too sociable.

They say eat with us. Too expensive.

They say I  mustn’t be silent. I’m a man of few words.

They say I must know that. I really do.

They say don’t be silly. Who isn’t?

They say I can do it. They did. I didn’t.

They say be happy. I’m sad at times.

They say don’t refuse. I don’t know how.

They say I’m funny. They knew I am.

They say I’m a good friend. Can’t feel they are.

…

So…

I’m looking for another THEY.

State of Nothingness

5-minute reality suspension.

Traveling in mind.

Dark room. White spotlights.

Endless road.

Countless faces. Fruitless vices.

Nothing to expect but nothing.

No one to mind but no one.

Everyone isn’t there but you.

Nonesense. Fun. Adventure.

Full of surprises.

But mind you, it’s fulfilling.

Down to the spine, it’s relaxing.

The best.

Tireless backpacking.

No strenuous mountain climbing.

Jogging without sweating.

Jumping without moving.

Walk is a wingless fly.

The road is an endless sky.

You’re in a different kind of high.

Vital Signs – Designer Babies

Bring your partner, grab a seat, pick up your baby catalog and start choosing.

Would you be comfortable selecting what cosmetic features you want your baby to have?

Will you go for the brown hair or blond? Would you prefer tall or short? Funny or clever? Girl or boy? And do you want them to be a muscle-bound sports hero? Or a slender and intelligent book worm?

When you’re done selecting, head to the counter and it’s time to start creating your new child.

Does this sound like a scary thought?

With rapid advances in scientific knowledge of the human genome and our increasing ability to modify and change genes, this scenario of “designing” your baby could well be possible in the near future.

Techniques of genetic screening are already being used — whereby embryos can be selected by sex and checked for certain disease-bearing genes. This can lead to either the termination of a pregnancy, or if analyzed at a pre-implantation stage when using In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), can enable the pregnancy to be created using only non-disease bearing genes.

British scientists last week developed a “genetic MoT” test, which offers a universal method of screening embryos for diseases using a new technique of karyomapping, which is more efficient than previous processes.

The test would be taken on a two-day-old IVF embryo and is yet to be validated, but it could mark a significant change; allowing doctors to screen for gene combinations that create higher risks of diabetes, heart disease or cancer.

Experts estimate the test, if licensed by the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, could be available for around $3000.

In the future we may also be able to “cure” genetic diseases in embryos by replacing faulty sections of DNA with healthy DNA, in a process called germ line therapy. This has been performed on animal embryos but is currently illegal for humans.

Furthermore, the developing technologies of genetic alteration open up a whole new set of possibilities — which could result in so-called “designer babies.”

The technique — known as inheritable genetic modification — modifies genes in eggs, sperm or early embryos and results in the altered genes being passed on to future generations. Should parents be allowed to create their babies?

This could potentially irreversibly alter the human species. So, the obvious question arises: should we be doing this?

Some countries have made genetic screening or alteration illegal by law, and the ethical questions surrounding the uses of the technology are vast — creating a palpable tension over the subject.

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In September, Internet giants Google and Microsoft withdrew adverts for sex selection products and other services considered illegal in India when they were threatened with legal action.

The Center for Genetics and Society is trying to encourage debate on the topic — as soon as possible.

Executive director of the organization, Richard Hayes, told CNN that the general public of most countries was missing out on taking part in the debate.

“The debate has taken place amongst scientists and science journalists, but average people feel overwhelmed with the technical detail. They feel disempowered.”

Hayes said his organization supported the use of embryo screening to help prevent the passing on of serious diseases and disorders like Cystic Fibrosis, but is wary of other technologies and how genetic screening and alteration can be misused.

“We support the use of that to allow couples at risk to have healthy children. But for non-medical, cosmetic purposes, we believe this would undermine humanity and create a techno-eugenic rat race,” Hayes said.

He said there were immense amounts of resources being poured into developing gene altering techniques and no laws in many countries to stop them from starting clinics that could offer selected cosmetic traits.

“As technology advances it is possible that any number of human characteristics in part influenced by genes could come under human control. Right now there is an enormous amount of research being conducted to correlate specific genes with specific characteristics.”

One of the organizations researching genetic alteration is the University of California Irvine’s Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center.

Professor of biological chemistry and developmental and cell biology, and co-director of the Center, Peter Donovan, feels the research could have massive benefits.

After his team discovered a greatly improved method for genetically manipulating human embryonic stem cells earlier this year, Donovan said:

“The ability to generate large quantities of cells with altered genes opens the door to new research into many devastating disorders.

“Not only will it allow us to study diseases more in-depth, it also could be a key step in the successful development of future stem cell therapies,” Donovan

But according to Hayes the potential for misuse of this technology could have dire consequences for the human race.

“This runs many risks. It’s used in many countries to avoid the birth of female children.

“The technologies are going to be accessible to affluent couples and would be used in ways that could increase inequality. The last thing we need now is a genetic elite.

“This designing aspect would also lead to an objectification of children as commodities.”

Hayes said it was important that people began debating the issues now so the correct “rules, regulations and regulatory oversights” could be established before the technology was complete and accessible.

YOUTUBE – on Their Go to Movies.

NEW YORK — For months, YouTube has been making a pitch to Hollywood studios: Give us your films, and we’ll make you money.

The studios balked. Sure, they reasoned, YouTube had a massive audience of 74 million monthly users. But the Google- (GOOG, Fortune 500)owned site only wanted to give them a share of its ad revenues. It wasn’t offering them any money upfront.

Now Hollywood is warming up to the Internet’s top video site. On Monday, YouTube will announce an ad-revenue sharing deal with MGM – home of James Bond, the Pink Panther and Rocky – that will let the site show full-length movies for the first time from a major Hollywood studio.

Jordan Hoffner, YouTube’s head of content partnerships, called the agreement a “watershed moment’ for the company: “We are really happy about MGM. They have an incredible library.”

It’s easy to understand why YouTube is excited. Founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen want the site to be more than just a destination for clips of skateboarding dogs, experiments involving Mentos and Diet Coke and the occasional Simpson episode that needs to be taken down immediately because of copyright infringement.

After all, there are only so many ads YouTube can put into a short clip like “Tiger vs. Bear.” A feature-length film like “Rocky IV” has room from many more marketing messages.

The site is already showing full-length independent movies like “Harold Buttelman, Daredevil Stuntman.” Now YouTube can boast that it has the kind of big budget movies that people can watch on Hulu.com., News Corp (NWS, Fortune 500).’s partnership with NBC Universal. (GE, Fortune 500)

There’s only one catch. MGM – owned by an investor group led by Providence Equity Partners, Sony and Comcast (CMST) – will only be posting only a few of its 4,000 movies on YouTube at first.

“I don’t think you are going to be seeing a James Bond movie on YouTube,” said Jim Packer, MGM’s co-president of worldwide television. “That’s a very special franchise for us. We are very cautions about where we put those movies.”

He said MGM would offer lesser-known movies that aren’t as easy to sell to television networks and on DVD. Its initially plan is to share films it also shows on Impact, its video-on-demand cable partnership with Comcast devoted to action movies.

The first MGM movie to go up on YouTube will be a Lone Wolf McQuade, a Chuck Norris vehicle, “Bulletproof Monk,” starring Chow Yun-Fat.

Packer said MGM is also thinking about creating a special YouTube site for women to show films like “Fame” and television shows from its vault such as “Cagney & Lacey.”

The YouTube deal would enable MGM to both make money on such less-sought-after content and also promote its DVD and theatrical releases, according to Packer.

“YouTube has a lot of traffic,” he said. “It’s no different from being in Wal-Mart. You want to be in a store that has a lot of traffic.”

Hoffner says YouTube expects to reach similar agreements soon with other movie studios. He points out that the site already has content-sharing partnerships with television networks like CBS (CBS, Fortune 500), BBC Worldwide, Fox, Showtime and HBO.

“We’ve launched longer form content, and the monetization is really kicking in,” Hoffner says. “This is a good time to get a partner like MGM up and run

Who in the world is Pablo Banila?

HE began as a series of mysterious avatars popping up on my Multiply viewing history. He didn’t bother me at first, because I was used to friendly strangers visiting my site. But when he began visiting on an almost daily basis—and under different usernames, although with the same avatar—I started to wonder who in the world was Pablo Banila.

Visits to his websites offered no clue. His avatar showed a creepy-looking guy with matted chin-length hair (think Severus Snape from Harry Potter) and a flashing sign that read, “Pablo Banila has a crush on you! That’s why he visited your website!”

That would have been almost flattering had I not already known that he had visited the websites of at least a hundred other people—all under different usernames and the same annoying avatar. He also has a dotcom, www.pablobanila.com, but it offers no clues, only rambling passages of text and close-up photos of himself.

People started complaining. “Please get a life, you pervert,” wrote one girl in her blog, after listing down his many usernames—pablobanila, ppaabblloobanila, rainbowinmycoffee, carrotperfume, laughingmankuze, edwardward, blackbetweenthestars, theblackbetweenthestars, etc. People left similar comments on that entry, saying, “OMG he viewed me too!” or “He views mine too, it’s so creepy!”

Others chimed in, “He views me every other day, more often than I check my own Multiply site,” while guys posted nervous comments like, “He checks me out too, and I’m a boy.”

So far, his visits to sites have been harmless (all he does is view homepages; he doesn’t leave comments), but creepy—there’s just no other word for it. Attempts to discover his identity have so far been futile. But identity aside, what everyone wants to know is, how does he find time to check out all those Multiply pages?

Is Pablo Banila actually a team of high school kids with nothing better to do?

Is Pablo Banila actually a group of college students doing a psychology research project for their thesis?

Is Pablo Banila a new Internet virus?

Is Pablo Banila actually just the government looking for suspected terrorists by combing through the pages of unsuspecting Multiply users?

Is Pablo Banila merely the victim of pranksters who are out to get him?

Or is Pablo Banila just really a sad person with no friends and nothing better to do?

In any case, Multiply users are waiting for an answer. But until then, Pablo Banila continues to stalk our websites—and our nightmares.

Womanizer – Britney spears

Superstar,
Where you from? How's it going?
I know you,
gotta clue what you're doing 

You can play brand new to all the other chicks out here
But I know what you are, what you are baby 

Look at you, 

Gettin' more than just a re-up
Baby you,
Got all the puppets with their strings up
Fakin' like a good one, but I call 'em like I see 'em 

I know what you are, what you are baby 

Womanizer, woman-womanizer
You're a womanizer
Oh womanizer,
Oh you're a womanizer baby 

You, you, you are
You, you, you are
Womanizer, womanizer, womanizer (Womanizer) 

Boy don't try to front,
I-I know just, just what you are-are-are
Boy don't try to front, 

I-I know just, just what you are-are-are 

You got me goin', 

You're oh so charming
But I can't do it,
You womanizer 

Boy don't try to front,
I-I know just, just what you are-are-are 

Boy don't try to front,
I-I know just, just what you are-are-are 

You say I'm crazy,
I got you crazy
You're nothing but a womanizer 

Daddy-O,
You got the swagger of a champion 

Too bad for you,
You just can't find the right companion
I guess when you have one too many,
Makes it hard, it could be easy
Who you are, that's just who you are baby 

Lollipop, 

Must mistake me, you're a sucker
To think that I,
Would be a victim not another 

Say it, play it how you wanna
But no way, I'm never gonna fall for you, never you baby 

Womanizer, woman-womanizer
You're a womanizer
Oh womanizer, 

Oh you're a womanizer baby
You, you, you are
You, you, you are
Womanizer, womanizer, womanizer (Womanizer) 

Boy don't try to front,
I-I know just, just what you are-are-are 

Boy don't try to front,
I-I know just, just what you are-are-are 

You got me goin',
You're oh so charming
But I can't do it, 

You womanizer 

Boy don't try to front,
I-I know just, just what you are-are-are
Boy don't try to front,
I-I know just, just what you are-are-are 

You say I'm crazy,
I got you crazy
You're nothing but a womanizer 

Maybe if we both lived in a different world, yeah
(Womanizer, womanizer, womanizer, womanizer) 

It would be all good,
And maybe I could be your girl
But I can't, 'cause we don't, 

You... 

Womanizer, woman-womanizer
You're a womanizer
Oh womanizer,
Oh you're a womanizer baby 

You, you, you are
You, you, you are
Womanizer, womanizer, womanizer (Womanizer) 

Boy don't try to front,
I-I know just, just what you are-are-are
Boy don't try to front, 

I-I know just, just what you are-are-are 

You got me goin',
You're oh so charming
But I can't do it,
You womanizer 

Boy don't try to front,
I-I know just, just what you are-are-are 

Boy don't try to front,
I-I know just, just what you are-are-are 

You say I'm crazy, 

I got you crazy
You're nothing but a womanizer 

Boy don't try to front,
I-I know just, just what you are-are-are 

Boy don't try to front,
I-I know just, just what you are-are-are 

Womanizer, woman-womanizer
You're a womanizer 

Oh womanizer,
Oh you're a womanizer baby

The Seat for Parents

This is an anecdote of Napoleon that occurred when he marched into Poland after he became emperor.

When he was staying in a small village in Poland, he was invited to dinner by the lord of a manor.

The lord of the manor welcomed Napoleon at the door and guided him to his dining room.

He passed the first and second seats among the highest seats at the table, and when he reached the third seat, he asked Napoleon to sit there.

As Napoleon sat down with an unpleased look on his face, one of his subjects rebuked the lord of the manor for his inhospitality towards the emperor.

Then the lord of the manor said.

“I am truly sorry, but these two seats are for my parents. The emperor is the head of our nation, but my father and mother are the head of our family.

Then Napoleon nodded his head in agreement with a big smile on his face.

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