Michael Dare
MAY 20: Draw Muhammad Day
These Mohammad smileys or emoticons are called 'Mocons' or 'Frowneys'.
Mocons aka Frowneys are the most efficient way to digitally propagate the maximum amount of Mohammad imagery per byte.
Muhammad (((:~{>
Muhammad playing Little Orphan Annie (((8~{>
Muhammad as a pirate (((P~{>
Muhammad as Moshe Dayan (((P~{>
Muhammad on a bad turban day ))):~{>
Muhammad with sand in his eye (((;~{>
Muhammad wearing sunglasses (((B~{>
Muhammad giving the raspberry (((:~{>
Giving Muhammad the raspberry ;-P
Mohammad with a lit bomb in his turban *-O)):~{> 
Mohammad with a lit bomb in his turban *~@:~{>
Mohammad, full of booze and pork, pukes up Allah (((:~O????
Intoxicated Mohammad (((‡o{Þ
High Mohammad ((( ¦o) >
The devil Mohammad ]:~{>
Sombrero Mohommad ???(:~{>>
Mohammad with a bomb in his turban *@(((:~{>>
Mohammad with a nuclear bomb in his turban @=(((:~{>
Carmen Miranda Mohammad ????((:~{>
Muhammad without beard O:-|
Muhammad without beard; or Jesus O:-)
Muhammad having a vision O8-)
Muhammad with goatee O:-)*
Muhammad pissed off that his favourite goat ran away (((B-|>
Muhammad being shot by Starship Enterprise =-o * * * (((:~{>
Mohammad with a lit fuse coming out of his turban *-(((:~{>
Mohammad on a *really* bad turban day )8(:~{>
Muhammad sees a Danish cartoonist !((((8~{o>
Muhammad turns Christian (((+:~{>
Muhammad imitates Charles Manson ((((x8~{>
Muhammad wears his Johnny Carson "Great Carsoni" turban (((0))):~{>
Muhammad after going quail hunting with Dick Cheney (:(:(:((8~>::::::::::::
Saudi Arabian/oil shiek version of Muhammad (($$(((:~{>
Muhammad wearing his personalized designer turban (((MOE)));~{>
Muhammad wearing his 'elevator' turban ((((((((((((((;~{>
Osama bin Laden dressed up as Muhammad on Halloween (((:~{>
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CANNES -- To sign or not to sign is the big question at this year's Festival de Cannes, and there's not a deal memo in sight. But then a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who is under house arrest in Switzerland in connection with a 33-year-old sex scandal, is always going to set tongues wagging... The petition, posted on a website overseen by French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, asks for "justice" from the Swiss authorities...
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Director With An Opinion
Ken Loach
Director Ken Loach, in Cannes with his Iraq war film, called Thursday for the "war criminals" George W. Bush and Tony Blair to be tried for launching the invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.
"We have to keep pursuing Blair, Bush and the others until we have them in the dock," he said as he arrived for a red carpet premiere of his film "Route Irish" which is in the running for the festival's Palme d'Or top prize.
"It's certainly true that the people who started the war, who are war criminals, have not been called to account," said Loach, whose new work probes the murky world of private security contractors in Iraq.
Britain's former prime minister Blair was George W. Bush's staunchest supporter when the then US president launched the Iraq invasion in 2003.
Ken Loach
Unpublished Intro Read
Malcolm X
Decrying American race relations as a near-war, Malcolm X expressed hope that his tumultuous life story could help blacks and whites, according to a never-published introduction to his best-selling autobiography.
The introduction, read publicly for the first time Wednesday, underscores the ambition, personal-as-political power and foreboding of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," published shortly after the civil rights leader was assassinated in 1965.
The existence of the introduction, and three other unpublished chapters apparently intended for the 19-chapter political classic, has been known since entertainment attorney Gregory J. Reed bought them at a 1992 auction of Haley's estate. Some pages have been exhibited in a Detroit museum.
It's unclear why the introduction or the other chapters weren't in the book, said Morgan Entrekin, who heads the autobiography's original publisher, Grove Press. Now called Grove/Atlantic Inc., the publisher is talking with Reed about possibly releasing the unpublished sections.
Malcolm X
Group Dislikes Title Of Shatner Series
CBS
A parents group is threatening CBS affiliates with challenges to their broadcast licenses if they air the network's new comedy with a title that alludes to an obscenity.
The Parents Television Council, which monitors decency issues, criticized CBS for picking up a comedy series called "(Bleep) My Dad Says" that is based on a popular Twitter feed. Instead of the word, the CBS title uses a series of symbols.
The group says it will challenge the broadcast license of any CBS affiliate that airs the series or promotions for it before 10 p.m. CBS has scheduled the comedy for Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. It stars William Shatner as the father whose politically incorrect musings are put out on Twitter by his son.
CBS pointed out that the Twitter feed, which uses the obscenity, has more than 1.5 million followers and has spawned a book.
CBS
Pick-Ups
The CW
Ashley Tisdale of "High School Musical" is coming to the CW network this fall in a series about life at a big college campus in the South.
Tisdale's character will be the roommate of a girl played by Aly Michalka from the movie "Bandslam" in the Wednesday-night drama that will debut in the fall. The CW has one other new series, "Nikita," about a young woman seeking revenge after being trained as a spy and assassin as a teenager.
The network also said Thursday the Superman drama "Smallville" will have its 10th and final season this year.
CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp.
The CW
'I'm a Marxist:'
Dalai Lama
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Thursday that he is a Marxist, yet credits capitalism for bringing new freedoms to the communist country that exiled him -- China.
"Still I am a Marxist," the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader said in New York, where he arrived with an entourage of robed monks and a heavy security detail to give a series of paid public lectures.
Marxism has "moral ethics, whereas capitalism is only how to make profits," the Dalai Lama, 74, said.
However, he credited China's embrace of market economics for breaking communism's grip over the world's most populous country and forcing the ruling Communist Party to "represent all sorts of classes."
Dalai Lama
Hospital News
Bret Michaels
Rocker and reality TV star Bret Michaels suffered what doctors call a "warning stroke" and has been diagnosed with a patent forum ovale, or hole in the heart, according to a report Thursday on his website. Michaels' publicist, Joann Mignano, confirmed the report.
Michaels was hospitalized after experiencing numbness on the left side of his body, particularly in his face and hands.
Doctors say the condition is operable and treatable and likely unrelated to the brain hemorrhage the 47-year-old suffered last month.
Additional tests were being conducted to determine the best course of treatment. Doctors said Michaels is currently being treated with a daily injection of a blood thinner to reduce the risk of clots.
Bret Michaels
Wall Street Banks Lose Court Ruling
The Fly On The Wall
Three Wall Street banks suffered a legal setback when a federal appeals court in New York put on hold a ban on financial news service Theflyonthewall.com Inc from quickly reporting "hot news" about their analysts' research.
The ruling by the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals was a defeat for Bank of America Corp's Merrill Lynch unit, Barclays Plc and Morgan Stanley.
These banks had won an injunction on March 18 from U.S. District Judge Denise Cote that required Theflyonthewall.com to wait two or more hours before publishing their research. Wednesday's appeals court ruling lifts that restriction.
Bank of America, Barclays and Morgan Stanley have argued that Theflyonthewall.com had been getting a "free ride" by systematically misappropriating analyst research, including upgrades and downgrades that can instantly move stock prices.
The Fly On The Wall
Second Iranian Director On Hunger Strike
Mohammad Nourizad
A detained Iranian writer and film director has started a hunger strike after he was "severely beaten" by security personnel in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, an opposition website reported on Thursday.
Mohammad Nourizad was arrested late last year after he published on his blog three letters deemed disrespectful to Iran's highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and other senior officials.
Prominent director Jafar Panahi, winner of many international awards and a supporter of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi in last year's election, was arrested in March and began a hunger strike on Sunday.
Nourizad, sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison and 50 lashes, was arrested after he urged Khamenei in his letters to apologize to the Iranian nation for the crackdown on the opposition movement after last June's election, Kaleme said.
Mohammad Nourizad
Arrested For Alleged Assault
Marion "Suge" Knight
Ex-rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was arrested Thursday after he allegedly pointed a gun at a man and then drove off in his Cadillac, police said.
Knight, 45, was stopped by California Highway Patrol officers in suburban Gardena at about 12:30 a.m. and immediately turned over to Los Angeles police who swarmed around his white Escalade, according to police and news videos.
Knight was booked for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon - a gun - and also on a misdemeanor warrant alleging that he drove with a suspended license, Harding said.
It was not immediately clear whether Knight, a convicted felon, was still on parole. If he is, carrying a gun would be a parole violation that could end him back in jail.
Marion "Suge" Knight
Warrant Recalled
Lindsay Lohan
A judge on Thursday recalled an arrest warrant for Lindsay Lohan, hours after it was issued.
Los Angeles Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini said a bond was posted for Lohan later Thursday, and the warrant was recalled. Bail was set at $100,000.
Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel issued the arrest warrant Thursday after the 23-year-old actress missed a mandatory court hearing. She was due in court for a progress report on her probation stemming from two arrests in 2007.
Lohan has been on probation since August 2007 after pleading guilty to misdemeanor drug charges and no contest to three driving charges. The plea came after a pair of high-profile arrests earlier that year.
Lindsay Lohan
Paintings Worth Millions Stolen
Paris Museum of Modern Art
A thief stole five paintings valued at more than $100 million, including major works by Picasso and Matisse, in an overnight heist Thursday at a Paris modern art museum with a broken alarm system, officials said.
The paintings disappeared early Thursday from the Paris Museum of Modern Art, across the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower in one of the French capital's most chic and tourist-frequented neighborhoods.
The museum's alarm system had been broken since March 30 in some rooms, Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said in a statement. The security system operator ordered spare parts to fix it but had not yet received the equipment from the supplier, the statement said.
The intruder entered by cutting a padlock on a gate and breaking a museum window, the Paris prosecutor's office said.
Paris Museum of Modern Art
Graphic Novelist Alleges Ripoff
"Heroes"
Jazan Wild, the creator of "Carnival of Souls," is suing NBC Universal for using his popular graphic novel as the basis for the fourth season of NBC's "Heroes."
The author and Carnival Comics owner (real name: Jason Barnes) claims the network "knowingly, willfully, recklessly and maliciously infringed" on his copyright by introducing a traveling carnival "virtually identical" to the ones depicted in his successful three-installment digital book series.
The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, lists similarities including a carnival that can magically appear and disappear to collect protagonists, a young boy who develops special abilities, a carney or hero running through the woods chased by a mob, a circle of mirrors tied to the key plot, similarities in dialogue, and more.
Wild also claims that the ending of season four was changed in an attempt to minimize too obvious similarities.
"Heroes"
Author Challenges
"Avatar"
A San Diego woman is the latest to challenge James Cameron's authorship of "Avatar."
Kelly Van filed a lawsuit in California district court against Cameron, Fox and producers of the blockbuster film, claiming it infringes the copyright on her 2003 book "Sheila the Warrior: The Damned."
The complaint, filed Monday, doesn't indicate how producers got access to her work, but it alleges substantial similarity in characters, setting, plot, visual effects, scenes, concept and feel. Van's "Sheila" novel details two women who travel to another "breathtakingly beautiful" planet, full of peace and a nice ecosystem, fall in love with the locals and deal with "bloodsuckers" intent on destroying the planet if they can't get control of valuable minerals. Sound familiar?
The alleged similarities, notwithstanding that both films featuring characters with "long braided hair growing beyond the buttocks," are about as blurry as watching the 3D version of "Avatar" without the 3D glasses.
"Avatar"
Filmmaker Challenged Order
Joseph Berlinger
A judge said Thursday that a filmmaker can wait until the end of the month to decide whether to comply with his order to release raw footage of a documentary about a legal dispute between Chevron and Ecuadoreans over oil contamination.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan had earlier set a deadline of Friday for filmmaker Joseph Berlinger to turn over raw footage from the film, "Crude," which was released last year. He now has 10 more days to do so.
Berlinger has challenged the order on the grounds that the film's outtakes are protected from disclosure by the First Amendment. The judge declined to block his ruling while the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decides whether to hear the issue.
The lawsuit in Ecuador is the continuation of a 17-year-old legal battle. Ecuadoreans claim their land was contaminated during three decades of oil exploration and extraction by Texaco Inc., which became a wholly owned subsidiary of San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron Corp. in 2001.
Joseph Berlinger
Infomercial Pitchman Spared Jail
Kevin Trudeau
An appeals court in Chicago has ruled that an infomercial pitchman won't have to serve a 30-day jail sentence for getting his supporters to flood a federal judge's e-mail inbox.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed Kevin Trudeau's contempt of court conviction on Thursday. It says a judge cannot find a defendant in contempt on the spot and without a hearing unless the offending action occurred in the presence of the judge.
U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman found Trudeau in contempt after his computer and BlackBerry were jammed with e-mails from Trudeau's supporters. Gettleman argued that a contempt ruling was appropriate because his computer was part of his court.
The judge has overseen a long-running legal battle between Trudeau and the Federal Trade Commission.
Kevin Trudeau
Library Book Returned 221 Years Late
George Washington
A library book borrowed by the first U.S. president, George Washington, has been returned to a New York City's oldest library, 221 years late.
Washington checked out the book from the New York Society Library at a time when the library shared a building with the federal government in lower Manhattan.
The library said in a statement that its borrowing records, or charging ledger, showed Washington took out "The Law of Nations" by Emer de Vattel on October 5, 1789.
The missing book came to light when the New York Society Library was restoring its 1789-1792 charging ledger, which features the borrowing history of Washington, John Adams, John Jay, Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, George Clinton, and others.
George Washington
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