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Behold the Lizardman
WhiskeyJack writes "At the cutting edge of body art, student Erik Sprague
of Albany New York has turned himself into a human
lizard. His parents must be awfully proud. :) " Surgically split tongue. Ridge implants in his forehead. Green scales. And then there's me: scared to put on a rub-on tatoo ;)Update: 12/21 08:26 by H : For the not-so-squeamish, Zorro sent us some shots and pictures of the lizardman. Forked tongue, indeed.
Here's a time magazine article,an interview , his bio.
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Dude, power on if you're doing what you feel to be your calling in life. Congratulations. But, I can think of about 1,000 other ways to express one's creativity, be rebellious, get press, etc., that (1) leave you multiple options in the job market, (2) don't make you look like a moron when (or possibly WAAAAY before) you turn 60, (3) won't get your ass kicked between the pinball machines if you happen to have a layover in San Antonio, and (4) are reversible.
On a social level, I see the word "extreme" batted around in relation to this. "Extreme", as in "probably a bad idea", yes. "Extreme" as in "cool and MTV-televisable", who gives a shit? If we, as a society, took more notice of the things right and wrong around us, with an eye to making things more equitable for our fellow {men,women,lizards,klingons,lawyers,etc.}, than we do of someone making an arguable artistic statement by spending his government loan stipend and circus checks on scale tattoos and tooth filing, do you think maybe we wouldn't be completely fucked up as a race?
"Cause there's 40 different shades of black, so many fortresses and ways to attack, so why you complainin'?"
If /. is going to be publishing stuff about body modification, why not go with someone who has something to do with computers? He's been the editor of Phrack, he has really cool body modifications, and he produces code.
/.? There's a lot of good stories that are getting rejected, and we get stuff like this? I guess I would feel better about it if there weren't 200 stories in the queue right now. Some of those are probably really interesting things that we won't see.
Check out Nirva.
>rant<
Personally I think that body modification is cool, but do we really need it on
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Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
Funny, I remember when slashdot posted almost nothing but linux stories, people complained about being too focused on linux. Now that they're spreading their spotlight, people complain that they've sold out.
I'm not saying slashdot is perfect in anyway, just that people will always complain, no matter what goes on.
These things you say may be true, but consider, lest we forget:
he got posted on Slashdot.
All was not in vain.
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Nothing against the lizard man. More power to him. He's looking pretty good in the most recent pics, but come ON!
I guess I won't even bother with Reverend Alexander Cornswalled's essay on how Pokemon is from the Devil.....
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Damn... this is for real! http://www.achilles.net/~dextr a/spako/spidergod.html
Reality has a liberal bias