Wow, a real face! With smile lines and eye crinkles and everything. After 90,000 Real Housewives shows it's easy to forget that most people DON'T look like their faces were sculpted by Rick Baker.

She would make a great Macbeth! And she's no stranger to gender bending roles...

Okay, now I'm looking forward to Lohan's Gooplite blog:

The Pro-Glove Lobby will litigate you into an early grave. Isotoner makes the Illuminati look like boy scouts.

Now that I think about it, there may be a way to reconcile Superstrings with Quantum Gravity....crap! I've got to write this down before something distracts m@%$#&...

Well, I understand Europeans are supposed to be very "civilized" about these things.

Pretty sure she's already orbiting out there somewhere in the Oort Cloud.

Well, you can learn a lot even from failed experiments, even badly designed ones. And all information, even if it's only "Don't do that again!" is worthwhile to advancing human knowledge. To me, limiting the pool to volunteers negates any ethical qualms of such a venture. Truthfully, I would go even if I were…

You stay on earth and eat some bad blowfish: BAM, you're dead. You develop something that needs specialized treatment, but your sucky insurance doesn't cover "experimental treatments": BAM, you're dead. You think that it's safe to back in the water: Bam, Jaws 4. You wish you were dead.

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. I would go in a heartbeat. To be one of the first people to set foot on a new world? To live there and have experiences that no human in history has ever had, expand human knowledge in ways that no one has been able to before?

That was completely unintentional. I've always kind of liked Mischa Barton. I thought she showed a lot of potential in this odd little movie, and she is talented, but that Hollywood Lifestyle can really kick the shit out of you, I guess. Wasted talent's a sad thing, but she's still young, so who knows what the future…

Isn't it funny that even though there are two women in the header, everyone on this thread, myself included, immediately assumed you meant Morena and not Beth?

Heh, I saw that pic and my first thought was these people should breed to insure that future generations will have people to swoon over.

I caught one of those Animal Planet Top 10 Most Whatever shows once where they did felids. I think the qualifier was range of prey animals or something similar. Top of the list, higher than lions and tigers and bear(cats) oh my? Housecats. Basically they're 5-10 kilos of walking death and will hunt, kill, and eat…

Any fans of Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic here? Yes, I realize I'm not on IO9.

His family didn’t understand his passion, he told me one recent afternoon. Hutcherson, who is African-American, offered a cultural explanation: “Generally, black people don’t like cats.”

Your average housecat is actually one of the most efficient killers on the planet. It's really only the vast difference of scale that keeps us off their menu.

Well that does make it a pretty easy choice...

THIS is what Anna Wintour looks like without those welding goggles? Holy crap, they add like a century to her age.

One of the most beautiful women in the 'VERSE, if you please. She's one of the most in demand Companions in the entire system.