Robots Have Sex In The City?

Tom Cruise's robot wife, Katie Holmes, is rumored to have been approached to take a role in the next Sex And The City film.

What? I didn't see Sex and the City listed at this years Comic-Con convention. Oh, I guess she won't be playing herself. A brainwashed Scientology zombie wind-up-doll, that looks more and more like death-warmed-over with every passing week.

And speaking of wind-up zombie dolls (anything for a segue here) in the video below we have Katie Holmes, dancing not to the Judy Garland tune, as seen on 'SYTYCD', but instead MC Lars Party at The Church of Scientology.

'PATCOS' The Musical / MC Lars / Katie Holmes

Poll Stuffers Go Cruise'n

According to jossip.com, A week ago yesterday, Parade sent out a press release like any other, hoping to generate a little buzz for its website, which polled readers on their thoughts about Tom Cruise. We saw the same shocking statistic that Parade's editors did;

• 84 % of of the 5,200 votes said the media were to blame for Cruise's "difficult year". Sounded a little bit odd to us, too. While nobody is making the outright claim Cruise or the Church of Scientology rigged the poll, Parade says there was plenty of suspicious behavior, reported Page Six this morning. Then Parade followed up with Jossip directly, relaying this:

Parade.com conducted an online poll asking readers whether they thought Tom Cruise was responsible for his difficult year or whether it was the media's fault. We were surprised when 84% of respondents said the media was to blame for his tough year and that Cruise did NOT bring his image problems on himself.

We at Parade found this a little bit fishy - so we did some investigating. We found out more than 14,000 (of the 18,000+ votes) that came in, were cast from only 10 computers! Furthermore, there was one computer responsible for nearly 8,400 votes alone, all blaming the media for Tom's troubles. We also discovered that at least two other machines were the sources of inordinate numbers of votes.

It seems these folks (whoever they may be) resorted to extraordinary measures to try to portray Tom in a positive light for the Parade.com survey. There is even a chance they wrote a special "bot" program for the sole purpose of skewing the results, rather than casting the votes by hand on a computer. Sounds like a pretty devoted group of people, don't you think?

Over at FoxNews, they added:
Collado told FOXNews.com that people can "draw their own conclusions" as to who is behind the scam. "We really don't know; there's no way to determine that," she said. Cruise spokesman Paul Bloch told the New York Post's Page Six gossip column, which broke the story on Tuesday, "I know nothing about the poll, so we have nothing to comment on."

And from cultnews.com this epilogue:
So if it sounds like Scientologists, looks like Scientologists and smells (figuratively speaking) like Scientologists, then it just might be Scientologists that helped out their fellow believer Tom Cruise. Is Scientology's bunny running down? After all, the actor is Scientology’s “Top Gun,” and the organization must be concerned about one of its most important assets. Cruise often acts like a never ending “Eveready Energizer Bunny” promoting the controversial church at almost any opportunity, whether its curing drug addicts or dyslexia Cruise’s answer is almost always Scientology. But it seems Tom Cruise might a falling star.

• In one poll the 43-year-old actor was “voted the person people would least like to go camping overnight with” below Saddam Hussein, reported China Daily.
• He also beat Paris Hilton and Bobby Brown for the top spot in a Los Angeles Times poll as the “Tackiest Star” of 2005 reported Hollywood.com.
• Cruise picked up the title ”most irritating actor in movies” in a vote taken by Britain’s Empire Magazine.
• Not long ago the actor also won two not so coveted Razzies. A silver gong for “the most tiresome tabloid target” and he got the gold for ”unashamed romancing” reported the BBC News.

With such increasing negatives. Scientology may be sweating a bit. As anyone in advertising knows likeability makes a good spokesperson. That is, people don’t buy products from someone they don’t like. Just ask any sports star that lost an endorsement deal after some personal or professional scandal.
So if people don’t like Tom Cruise how can he successfully sell Scientology? Enter the spammers and bots to make him look like a victim by deliberately skewing a poll.

Blogder.com: Scrapes 'Fresh Meat' but 'Serves Spam'

Yesterday I was checking to make sure Google's Blog Search picked up my article, and lo-and-behold, my headline is being used in a blog-spam link farm. Not just one day, but two in a row. What really tics me off is that it got a better listing than my article, and it was a bunch of nonsensical sentences strung together.

Well, this is a first for me, so I commenced on learning some more about it. Thanks to seo-theory.com's article Web Spam 101: Blog Farms and Copy Swapping, it turns out blogder.com isn't a link farm after all.
It falls into the category mush blog farm or frog blog farm (I understand why they have those names, but couldn't find any annotations elsewhere on the net). Here's where we get to what happened to me [see image]:

"Spammers fell in love with the mush blog, where they set up robots to scrape text from other blogs, from forums, from news alerts (that auto-posting through email came in handy, didn’t it?), etc. and create small posts. Some of the mush blogs are pretty sophisticated and a few of them have lasted for several years."

So I went over to Google's spam-report and filled it out. Whether blogder.com will eventually disappear from google's blog search, it's anybody's guess. Let's see... what's on the menu for lunch today? Spam, ...again.
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Top Gun Three Thousand

To bad I don't live in the area, but I saw this posted at kansascity.com under special screenings:

• TOP GUN: THE SCREENLAND ROAST
Watch Tom Cruise start WWIII to impress his girl … while local comics provide live commentary.
9:30 tonight, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Screenland Crossroads.

I'm sure it would be just as good as watching an episode of MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000). I can hear Joel, Crow and Tom Servo shredding this piece of high flying cellulose apart, maybe with David Miscavage and L.Ron Hubbard as Dr.Forrester and TV's Frank, respectively.

Weird Science

Those crazy Scientologists and their pseudo-science lectures. Lets learn what they want us to think our brain is used for, you'll be quite shocked. Excerpts from Anatomy of the Human Mind, by L.Ron Hubbard.

Runway Robots Invade Japan

She doesn't have the grace of a Cindy Crawford or Elle MacPherson. The walking, talking girlbot will be getting practice soon, as she's set to make her catwalk debut at a Tokyo fashion show next week.

No, not Katie Holmes [left]. She was getting a $43,000 robot overhaul, to erase effects resulting from a Scientology Purification Rundown, before hubby's Japanese premiere of Valkyrie.

Scientists from Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology reportedly designed the 5-foot (ish), dark-haired creation [right] to look like an average Japanese woman between the ages of 19 and 29. Unlike the average Japanese woman, however, HRP-4C has 30 motors in her body that allow her to walk and move its arms and 8 facial motors for blinking, smiling, and expressing emotions akin to anger and surprise.

According to the Associated Press, the robotic framework for the HRP-4C, sans face and other coverings, will sell for about $200,000.

Well, Tom will only get 4.6 makeovers for his robot before matching the same sum. But seeing as Katie's extensive renovations only last a day, Tom may want to trade-up before his old model starts to nickel & dime him to death.

The government-backed AIST says she's mostly being developed for the entertainment industry. Hey Tom, you used to be in that line of work, weren't you?