The “I’m avoiding my homework by providing links for you, so you’d better enjoy them!” edition:
- Is this the new MacBook Air? — Wired has their own ideas about what Apple’s newest portable computer might look like. Speculation says that the MacBook air may dispense with a wired Ethernet port, optical CD/DVD drive, and is supposed to be “super thin”. Now if only they can deliver it for under US$1299…
- Jessica Alba talks about race in Hollywood — I’ll be frank — I’m not what you’d call a Jessica Alba fan because (1) I’m not a heterosexual man with traditional taste in women and (2) because she agreed to star in “Good Luck Chuck”, but Alba’s views made me see her in a new light. After the interviewer added Eva Mendes to a (short) list of leading ladies of color that Alba rattled off, Alba replied, “But is Mendes greenlighting movies?”, quickly cutting to the real racial inequality in Hollywood. (via Racialicious)
- You’re never too young for your first Brazilian — via Feministe, an Australian company is marketing Brazilian waxes to ten year old girls, using the argument that “(n)obody really likes hair in their private regions and it has a childlike appeal.” At ten years old, almost *everything* has a childlike appeal, but what squicks is that in this case, childlike = sexually appealing.
- Spaceship-grade aluminum houses available in Canada — because who hasn’t dreamed of living in an escape pod? (via io9)
