Controversy

Took me a while to spell that correctly - always forget it's with an 'o'

Anyway, essay procrastination, thought I'd post these up here to remember them, as I'm finding these issues quite interesting...

http://miss-landmine.org/cambodia/index.php

"On July 31st this year, the Prime Minister of Cambodia issued a decree banning the Miss Landmine Cambodia project and forbidding its organisers to continue the project in Cambodia. The Government's only stated motivation was that the pageant made a "mockery" of the candidates, 20 Cambodian landmine survivor participants. The ban made both national and international headlines and caused heated debates across the world, but so far the Cambodian government has upheld its ban. It is even refusing the Cambodian candidates to leave their hometowns to meet the project's organiser to take part in a farewell dinner, not to mention going abroad to participate in a final-in-exile."

After finding this today, it makes me happy knowing that these girls are proud to stand forward with their afflictions, yet ashamed of those who would mock and shun them.
The human body is a beautiful thing, surely these girls have more of a right to love what they have than those who would starve themselves for a fake western pedestal.

Hotel 626

I love Halloween, the dressing up, the party games. However, after being shown this last night, I remembered I'm still a kid at heart, and it's the fun side of hallow'd eve I like. If you like being scared, check this out.
If you're still into eating toffee apples and telling ghost stories around a fire, maybe give it a miss...

http://hotel626.com/

"In honor of Doritos bringing back two intense flavors from the dead, we created an intensely scary website. You're trapped in a hotel and have to complete challenges--like singing a demon baby to sleep--to get out. Hotel 626 uses several groundbreaking techniques to dial up the experience. Your webcam sneaks a picture of you and shows it to you later--inside the lair of a madman. Your one salvation is a phone call on your actual cell phone with directions on how to get out. To make it scarier, you have to play in the dark. Hotel 626 is only open from 6pm to 6am. " - http://www.awards.goodbysilverstein.com/2009/hotel626/