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Put a tiny heating ring around it ...; also relatively easy to make it extremely spashproof when it's that small.

Good point. A smaller camera doesn't need as much heat -- heck, a small incandescent bulb might be enough if not an actual heated ring.

Splashproof? Ehh, I suppose, I just hope they'd actually stay clean enough over time. (Much too complex for this, but the broadcast racing cars cameras seem to have a rotating plastic shield that keeps junk from the actual lens -- I assume it's round and in back is some kind of soft physical cleaner so they never run out of "more" clean shield space.) I'll give you splashproof, but sometime run around in a very light rain with RainX on your windshield.

For that matter I don't really put any work into cleaning my phone's camera and it still works fine. We're not creating works of art here.

OK, I'll push back on this one. Some might disagree with that statement, and I wouldn't know art if I saw it, but my phone has no 3rd party enclosure, it's just as first delivered. There's a chance the camera and standard display will get cleaned just by me walking around or when inserting or removing it from my pocket. Actually, I think I remember just a single time having to clean the camera -- but like you say, it seems to stay mostly clean.

But notice there is no corresponding agent when mounted on a car producing this same physical cleaning effect. I'd think a bad case would be soot or road grime slowly accumulating on it; I'd expect the worse case would be "mudding" and then letting it dry producing caked-on dirt. "Splashproof" might handle the first case but I doubt the second.

Then again I guess that's extreme, and it also what the "Service Car Now" light and local repair shop is there for.

in the early 50s you find pictures like this rack-o-ribs that show her looking rather emaciated.

Er, that doesn't seem like a very fair label for that picture—lying on your back like that will emphasize anybody's ribs, 'cause your organs etc, obey gravity too...!

And, in terms of looks, consider that Marilyn Munroe would never get past the reception desk of most talent agencies today

Her chunkiness has been exaggerated. First, remember that when she died she was 36 - she had already moved from modeling to movies by age 20, so those pictures of Marilyn that you see in the JFK era are when she was well past the age that she walked past the reception desk!

I'm hardly a Marilyn fanatic, but I've seen enough of her movies to know that she's all over the place weight-wise, and in the early 50s you find pictures like this rack-o-ribs that show her looking rather emaciated.

That pic is the early prototype that only detects eye-related facial expressions. The production version detects much more subtle changes. Here's a picture.

Mark Newman has a very nice sliding rock poster with a good shot of rock and trail in a variety of sizes.

Depending on time and culture, most attractive looks can vary from

• rail-thin (today's model standard) to
• pleasantly curvatious (20s-60's model standard) to
• juicy plump ("Rubenesque") to
• downright obese (some arab cultures)

Just because you're used to it, doesn't mean that it's been (and will remain) the standard for all time.

"You can't criticize Jesus." true, though one can criticize some people's various figments** that those people label as "jesus". :/ ** look boss! da toast, da toast! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptions_of_religi ous_imagery_in_natural_phenomena http://skepdic.com/pareidol.html http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Fantasy-Island-Ph otograph-I10042195.jpeg, amen

It should be important for would-be martyrs comparing themselves to Jesus to note that, by most accounts, Jesus didn't take anybody with him when he went down.

But he did inspire at least one copycat.

The result

If that is all you want to see, wouldn't it be cheaper to buy this instead?

Hey, she was hot when she was young. With a body like she had her singing was irrelevant.

http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?idh8ioqcxt0

Au contraire!

I got one last year for my high school classroom and it's beautiful.

Like Janet Jackson is just Michael dressed up as a girl?
You're thinking of Barbara Steele.

This sounds like a job for these guys

Yes it would be wrong. As it wouldn't be very funny

Except not as funny

Thou shalt not ridicule the party view. Beldar, commence deletion of user profile!

But Evil Adrian is unwittingly (?) on to something. (Cf. MS press release.)

Airborne Mouse + Adobe Photoshop = Jackson Pollock