Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I've just uploaded lots of new pictures to the site (2,684 images). Thanks to all the contributors as always and to MissAnnThrope for being the cover model. I've made one small change to the gallery index layout (that I'm not entirely happy with):

As I said though, I am really not entirely happy with the current gallery and gallery index layout, and think it desperately needs a fairly major overhaul. Some of the sections have too many galleries to effectively display, and most are just not easy to navigate. If anyone wants to create mockups of alternate layouts I'm very open to feedback (I'm not interested in suggestions without mockups though, sorry). Because of the wide range of gallery types and contents, I think I may have to bite the bullet and go with nice custom layouts for all of them, or at least partially custom layouts.

I'm also debating splitting the ritual section back into ritual and culture again, and then breaking up some of the mega-galleries like the BBQ area so that each event can have its own gallery… There are also issues as to how to handle artist galleries in the scarification section, suspension group galleries, and so on. I need to get caught up on this before the signal to noise ratio becomes too poor to keep the rebuild manageable… hopefully I can make the changes using my old legacy code, without too much rewriting.

I wanted to real quickly point at this article by Ron Paul (R-TX). His assessment of the 9/11 commission's fraudulent or at best incompetent recommendations are dead-on: "These hearings amount to nothing more than current government officials meeting with former government officials, many of whom now lobby government officials, and agreeing that we need more government!"

Today, being the 50th anniversary of the Communist Control Act is a real good day to say fuck the government (although the courts did eventually rule that sedition and conspiracy are not the same thing, it clearly illustrated that which is not true today — the government is not a friend of the people). It's also the 55th anniversary of the founding of NATO, if you want to shout about world government instead.

Since I'm talking about “all things August 24″ in this entry, it's also the 342nd anniversary of Britain's Act of Uniformity (which was signed on the eve of the 90th anniversary of the massacre of the Huguenots, killed for being Protestant) which forced state religion on the people — and state religion sucks, and there's no religion, no matter how “peaceful and loving” that hasn't become corrupt when applied on a large scale. That said, it's not all bad — it's also the 190th anniversary of Canada burning down the White House back in 1814 (after the Americans burned down Toronto, so don't get too cocky ya silly hosers), as well as the 14th anniversary of Judas Priest being found not guilty of the death of some kids in a suicide pact due to their lyrics.

SUBJECT: Amputation, (Accidental)

I saw a link for amputation, and i have a good picture, and maby a good story, I was doing construction work, using a miter-box saw. I was cutting a 45 degree angle out of a piece of crown molding. I am not sure what happened next, but some how my hand found its way under the saw blade. I looked down, realizing that the lower part of my hand was on the floor. Pervious EMT training told me to put my hand in a cold area, so I picked up my hand, and put it in a micro fridge. Using a shop towel, I tried to stop the bleeding.

After being flown to a Baltimore hospital after a 13 hour surgery my hand was replanted. This is where the pictures come from. The doctor took as picture before the operation. Any way its 2 years later and I am still missing a pinky finger, and I have 25% of mobility of my left hand.