Missed News (4/2009)

If you were expecting pictures and a farewell today ... April Fools! :-) I at least convinced one blogger who realized it may not be true an hour later. I also had friends questioning if it was true or not, but they at least flagged my post as fishy right away. Other than that, it seems that nobody cares... Or they wanted to wait and make sure I was leaving before commenting. Here's a roundup of other April Fool's jokes.

The "Missed News" series is for all the random stuff I found interesting, but was missed by other popular bloggers. (Or that needs to be covered again.) Hopefully I filtered out the duplicates from Nudiarist's recent flood of news posts.

• NAC needs your help! Send an email to the Vermont representitives indicating that you want public nudity to remain legal on public lands, and to leave the many skinny dipping sites alone. (I sent an email last weekend.)
  
• I haven't heard anything from anyone in the nudist community about the new 2257 regulations that went into effect this month. Photographers who shoot nudes are freaking out about this, but the news hasn't hit any of my nudist blogs. Why?? Stephen Haynes wrote a whole book about these new regulations, and did interviews talking about it. Dave Levingston, a very popular photographer, has posted examples, got mad as hell, and is considering giving up nude photography because this law threatens to jail him for his work. How is this law going to impact nudists? It threatens to jail anyone who takes a picture that includes the pubic region, unless lots of records are kept.
  
• Mazo Beach's least favorite church is in a new battle. I had to laugh when I saw it in the paper!
• Speaking of the beach, I'd like to buy a bunch of these mosquito-killing lasers for the trail.
• All Nudist reminds us that the Ocean Angels paddle their naked butts across the Indian Ocean starting this month. It's not too late to join us in cheering them on!
  
• New image programs (iPhoto, Picasa) now feature face recognition. Picasa links the name to an email address and stores it on Google's servers. Soon enough we'll be able to identify all those anonymous naked people on the internet.
  
• Rich is afraid to be naked.
• Photos from The Century Project were banned from UNC, and protests are pouring in because of it.
• Here's a video showing just how fake most pictures can be.
• This is a very cool project to crowdsource to bored people with cell phones.
• A lawmaker wants to ban Barbie in West Virginia because she promotes an unrealistic body image.
• Hummer is probably closing unless someone is dumb enough to buy them. Yay!
• One photographer boasts that has has never killed a model, although this one was pretty close.
• In fact, modeling is fairly dangerous.
  
• I know it's been covered already, but I have to say it: Since when does an "anything goes" party not tolerate anything? I'd classify "clothing" and "mini-riot" as a part of "anything", which makes ot OK, right? It seems the owner forgot that anything goes at an anything goes party.
  
• For some laughs, check out the top 10 confusing place names, or the top 10 rudest place names.
• Although not naked, the lack of clothing is still mentioned in this headline. More cops need to sleep naked!
  
• More proof that Australians are tough. There's no mention of their sleeping attire, is that just an American thing?
  
• Urinating in public makes for an interesting equal rights case.
• I thought this photo of a "nudist locker room" was cute.
• A TV show is seeking a naturist couple who are getting married. We're not planning a wedding just yet, but I'm interested in seeing the show when it airs. Let me know if you spot it!
• People are surprised to find topless sunbathers in Europe, and other interesting things, through Google Street View.
• Australian magazines are testing the child nudity laws.
• NASA goes through so much trouble sending clothes to the space station. Sending clothes back to Earth just to get washed is such a waste. There is no reason at all why they need to wear clothes in an environment that is completely climate controlled.
• Here's PETA protesting pregnant pigs. They also protested KFC recently too.
  
• It's gotta be fun when the festival promises that you'll have a ball.