Since the beginning of time, (inception of the internet), people have been trying to translate beauty into the language of science, to little or no avail. True, scientists came up with the golden triangle and waist-hip ratios. Which, while somewhat helpful in explaining the evolutionary origins of physical attractiveness, really just became one more thing for thirteen year old girls to obsess about after Anatomy class. Now, we have a new, fail proof resource to break down your date-ability with just a few keystrokes.

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I’m not ashamed to admit that Craigslist has bestowed upon me great fortune: new apartments, mostly sane roommates, well-loved furniture, and months worth of missed connections to combat office-inflicted boredom. So it doesn’t surprise me that Craigslist is equally popular in places like Oregon where they have a lot of clean air and the hardest drug is caffeine smuggled across the border from Seattle. In an interesting turn of events, an anonymous poster submitted a hoax ad on Craigslist claiming that an Oregon man’s home and possessions were completely free of charge and ready to be taken to the first person with a pick-up truck and a dream. Once the man got home, he discovered over 30 people loading his belongings into their vehicles and were “relentless and refused to stop” ravaging his house.

He “informed them I was the owner, but …they showed me the Craigslist printout and told me they had the right to do what they did…They honestly thought that because it appeared on the Internet it was true. It boggles the mind.”

Craigslist is investigating the source of the ad which now has me wondering whether that “Free of Charge Brooklyn Heights Brownstone” ad might be smudging the truth a bit.

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A cold, dark city where no one, not even the mother of small, popsicle-loving children, care about the approaching armageddon of rat infestation.  The newest Republican attack ad? No, it’s a public service announcement a la David Lynch.  Half film noir, one quarter scare tactic reel, and one quarter twisted New York love letter, Lynch’s PSA has been making the rounds, though no word yet on whether our streets are cleaner as a result of the Citizen Kane approach to anti-littering.  Lynch, for the uninitiated, is the mastermind behind Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive and is basically a full time brilliant eccentric.  If the PSA strikes you as odd, keep in mind this is a man who composes daily video forecasts by looking out his window and saying things like, “I see a plane.”  You know, cause the weather channel just lacks that certain cinematic quality.

Miss Bimbo, an internet game targeting girls aged 9 to 16, is an especially innovative way to promote body image issues and low self-esteem among young girls. Think I’m being too critical? Times Online reported that children compete against each other to create what Miss Bimbo calls “the coolest, richest and most famous bimbo in the world.” Players accomplish this by earning “bimbo dollars,” which they must then use to buy breast enlargement surgery, lingerie, diet pills, and clubbing gear, along with a host of other products and services that you wouldn’t even want your 9-year-old to know about, never mind compete for. Kind of like the game, Oregon Trail, players must monitor certain vital stats in order to win the game.  But where Oregon Trail basically measures food, sleep and health, Miss Bimbo monitors weight, wardrobe, and wealth. Happiness is also thrown in for good measure. But really, so long as your weight is down and your wardrobe and wealth are up, who wouldn’t be happy? Right? *sigh* But I digress … More»

Most of you guys have now either heard of, or been invited to asmallworld, the niche social-network for jet-setters. And some of you may even have used their travel forums with much success.

Well now a new site, named Extravigator.com (a contraction between the words Extravagant and Navigator) aims to further develop an elite social-networking travel forum.

Extravigator is a new elite social network for those who know how to travel in style. The social network is centered around a highly interactive discussion forum that covers a range of topics about luxury travel.

Ok, sounds interesting, but what about quality control?  Well you need to apply for membership, and you are evaluated based on what you list as your “favorite hotel”. Certainly not as ironclad as Fort Knox, but let’s be honest, people who want to join are going to self select themselves anyway, so even if the application process is not super rigorous it really doesn’t matter.

To be honest, our application is still being reviewed (keeping fingers crossed!), so we haven’t been able to look inside, but it looks promising from the font (and will be so long as there are enough users to keep the discussions buzzing).  Till then, we will be debating in our heads whether to go to St. Barths or Gstaad for New Years, or maybe just stay home with some wine and Seinfeld reruns.

Ruff! Stanley here…wanted to share this away message from a friend’s Facebook profile:

I have to agree, those parents are gonna be pretty disapointed about the prospect of having a trashy Tenjune waitress as a daughter in-law. Now if she was a bottle girl from Marquee, that’s a different story entirely! The parents would most certainly approve of such a union.

Perhaps the most annoying thing about bottle service is not the 300% markup or the automatic 20% tip, but rather seeing “business guys” futile attempts at trying to pick up their table waitress with painfully tortured game (meanwhile thinking they are hot shit the whole time for throwing down money). Me and my homies don’t need bottles to pick up the babes. ruff!

With departure of the Socialiterank.com website, which according to New York Magazine “wiped out what little dignity New York society had left”, a vacuum was created in the socialite realm. Sure there are tidbits here and there on the web, information, gossip, but no real ranking system so to speak off. This is why we propose that someone develop an application for Facebook’s new F8 platform, that allows people to rank socialites. How about call it “socialtard”, or “fauxristocracy”?

For those of you who don’t know wtf Facebook is (yes all 2 of you), “Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you” (from Facebook.com website). So let’s pit Olivia Palermo, Tinsley Mortimer, Byrdie Bell, Kristian LaLiberte, et. al. ad naseum head to head in a battle royale, mano y mano, and hopefully it won’t destroy what little dignity is left in Facebook.