Social network nixes users who 'let themselves go'Source: CNET.com
BeautifulPeople.com, a social-networking and dating site for "attractive people," announced on Monday that it has removed 5,000 members from around the world for putting on too much weight over the holiday season.
(Pic) Rihanna Gets 2 Gun Tattoos On Her Rib CageSource: eurweb.com
The 21-year-old singer -- who often wears a miniature gun pendant necklace – first had him draw two guns on the lower part of her shoulders, but she decided not to get inked there because of her contract with Cover girl....
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Odd Nosdam - Pretty Swell Explode (Anticon, 2008)Source: Chewing Pine
The Cincinnati native and cLOUDDEAD founder brings out Pretty Swell Explode , not so much as a follow up to Level Live Wires , but as a summation of recent remixes and apparent ephemera.
Do Pretty People Earn More?Source: msn.careerbuilder.com
Good looks can have a real impact on workers' bank accounts, according to research by Daniel Hamermesh and Jeff Biddle published in the Journal of Labor Economics.
The 15 Hottest OlympiansSource:
Regardless of where they stood on the medal stand in China or in previous Olympics, the lovely athletes in the gallery below will always medal in our hearts as well as give us a reason to watch women's sports.
Sex? Yawn. Politics? That's Hot! Source: The New York Times
A FORMER editor of People magazine had some hard-and-fast rules: young is better than old, pretty is better than ugly, television is better than music, music is better than movies, movies are better than sports.
And anything is better than politics.
So What If I'm Ugly, Wanna Make Something Of It?Source:
How strongly does an unattractive author portrait affect your decision to buy or not buy? If a title and the description of a book are of interest to you would an author's portrait be enough to tip your decision to buy one way or the other?
Eyes Can't Resist Beautiful PeopleSource: Yahoo! News
...Whether we're looking for someone to date or sizing up a potential rival, our eyes irresistibly lock on to good-looking people, a new study finds.

Newsvine is great, but the developers cant do specific things that target individual users, not easily anyway. The design of newsvine has to fit EVERYONE, including the new, the inexperienced, and the un-illuminated (those on internet explorer).

It's been a while since I checked out the ole' YouTube Thinspo videos….so I went for a troll this morning. Consider the time and energy young women spend to create these videos, creatively adding music, screen fades, and proanorexia text.

Anorexia has killed yet another, but this time the death of a young girl is documented, minute by minute, for the world to see.

Here are the worst of the worst plastic surgery cases I have ever seen. If this is the "New Beauty" count me out.
Ugly defendants 'more likely to be found guilty than attractive ones'Source: the Mail online
Good looks could help guilty defendants dodge justice, researchers have said.
They reported that in an experiment jurors were more likely to convict suspects deemed ugly than those seen as attractive.This wasn't mind blowingly obvious to everyone already?
Mark Shuttleworth: Pretty Is A FeatureSource: markshuttleworth.com
If we want the world to embrace free software, we have to make it beautiful. I'm not talking about inner beauty, not elegance, not ideological purity… pure, unadulterated, raw, visceral, lustful, shallow, skin deep beauty.