"Famous" For a Day

Hey,

I understand that you don't actually have to be talented to be famous (thank you Paris Hilton for proving that to a new generation of people), but now you don't even have to be famous to be treated like you are...

Celebrity for a Day news article

Seems if you can scrape up $1,500 you can get hounded by your own stable of photographers... and for even more money, get a bodyguard and publicist.

Publicist!?!... Who are they going to publicize you to? Fake reporters and imaginary newspapers??

It's a strange world, and it just got a bit stranger...

PA Ninjas

Hey, everyone knows about asian ninjas from all manner of tv, movies and books, but apparently Mr Miagi's been training more than just Daniel-son (and Julie -- bonus points if you know who Julie is)...

Apparently Richmond township (PA) lived through the onslaught of a horde of ninja recently. And by "horde" I mean 2, and by "ninja" I mean NINJA. In days of yore they would fight for coin and do the dark bidding of oriential lords (at least that's what we thought at the D&D table), but nowadays, it seems their goals are a bit more common... smokes, cash, and some scratchers. All I can say is... hum.

For more on the story... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/25/ninja_blag/