Morphos in the News

Posted on by scott

Remember that scene in Uglies with the morphos? When Tally and Shay play with a digital version of their face to see what they’ll look like as pretties?

Well, a group of Israeli computer scientists have developed something similar: a “beautification engine” that automatically renders photos of faces into (supposedly) prettier versions of themselves.

I’m particularly happy with the name “beautification engine,” which is kind of steampunk sounding. Here’s an example of its work:

Interestingly, the software doesn’t smooth wrinkles or blemishes. It changes only facial geometry, while trying to keep the face recognizable. (Being faithful to the original is not something they’d worry about in Tally’s city, of course.) And really, like a lot of these attempts to reduce beauty to numbers, it’s more bland-making than anything else.

Here’s the article about the software in the NY Times, and here’s a slide show of celebrity faces altered by it.

What’s intriguing is how many faces are less pretty after they’ve been run through the software. (Especially Marlon Brando.) This may be because we “know” the celebrities involved, and don’t want them changed.

Or maybe it’s because some of these celebs are already pretties, and “there is no beauty without some strangeness in its proportion.” But the software, which looks kind of bland-making to me, removes that strangeness and actually makes certain people less pretty.

It’s cool that this came out now, though, because one of the biggest sections in Bogus to Bubbly is about the science of beauty. I tried to distill a lot of the research that’s been done, and to explain it in psychological and evolutionary terms in ways relevant to the Uglies series. And frankly, I think my explanations are better, or at least more complete, than those in the Times.

You’ll be able to judge for yourself in less than two weeks, because Bogus comes out October 21! (And yes, some school book fairs are already selling the book.)

Thank you for spotting this article, Sophie and Hiroki!

And one last shout-out from the tour bus: Tonight Justine will be in Kansas City, MO to talk about How to Ditch Your Fairy, with me in tow!

Thursday, 9 October 2008, 7:00PM
Kansas City Library
4801 Main Street
Kansas City, MO

146 thoughts on “Morphos in the News”

  1. In the picture you used, they made her eyes smaller…I find that interesting. A Pretty’s eyes are supposedly rather large, if I remember correctly.

    I don’t think machinery can simulate beauty like that. It just…doesn’t work…

  2. Good point about the eyes. I think this is more like averaging software than “beautification” software, really.

    And yes, it’s more bland-making than anything else.

  3. It’s kind of funny how Michael Cera’s facial features just get smaller as they changed him.

    But yeah…I find the differences pretty subtle. And, yes, bland-making.

    Be unique, kids! Your individuality is what makes you beautiful! *cheesy inspirational poster*

  4. i was soo close … but i guess second post is good enough 😀
    well i agree with the comment above that the pretties in the uglies sirese have large eyes, which was dififult for me to find attractive b/c big eyes frighten me and look unhealty and i wouldn’t want to be near them, but the face douse look more attracive in the “pretier” picture for me anyway b/c as i said big eyes scare me
    yea tallys city dosn’t worry about looking the same as the original b/c they want people to look almost the same so her ciity wouldn’t accept that technology experishaly cable she would sick ther speicals on them for even attemping you use that indead of her desines.
    i can’t waite for Bubbly to Bogas and Livathen >.< i’m posotive i spelled that wrong, sorry Scott

  7. wow. that’s crazy. technology just keeps changing. i agree, it sucks the individuality right out of the people. i wouldn’t want to have that done.

    and yay!!! Bogus to Bubbly!!! 😀

  9. I agree that most of them r LESS pretty than b4…. i mean really….. i dont know WHY they even make those sort of things cause they just make u feel bad about the way u look. seriously, celebritys should shouldnt care about how they look. they r rich anyway… they r just setting a bad example.

  10. I’m just kind of curious to see what I would look like. But I like kind of extreme things with looks sometimes so the whole black hair being to extreme for pretties just didn’t work for me.

  11. hhhhmmmm… her whole face is kind of… smaller and cuter looking than anything… thats what i think anyway. the lips are smaller too. wow. this software needs to be updated.

    my bookfair sold it early! (lucky for me!)

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! :mrgreen:

  13. my moms reading PRETTIES now and she was just telling me how “hilarious” the PRETTY speak is. hehe. i REALLY hope she doesnt try to sound cool and start using it or anything…

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  14. hmmmmm…weird, strange, unoriginal, and boring. the faces just are like BLAH!!! so “bland-making” as Scott said. i mean come on, their faces look so perfectly symetrical that it just looks unreal, boring, and NOT NATURAL!!! and why do the faces get SMALLER??? that doesn’t make sense, but watever. i think that even though Tally’s city doesn’t go for individuality, that their pretties are DEFINITELY prettier than those celebs.

    CAN’T WAIT FOR BOGUS TO BUBBLY!!!!!

    GREEN DAY!!! <3
    A though processed in my head,
    And i need to tell u,
    Wat news that i forethought.
    Was it just a dream,
    That happened long ago?
    I think i just forgot.
    Well it hasn’t been the first time.
    ANd it sure does drive me mad.
    Coz when i say there’s a boy who fogs his world,
    And now he’s gettin lazy.
    There’s no motivation and frustration makes him crazy.
    He makes a plan to take a stand, but always ends up sitting.
    Someone help him up or he is gonna end up quitting.

  15. ok just posted but i have a question about a post that was posted long ago.

    When is that analogy of Uglies book coming out?? i know it’s in 2009, but i still wanna know. ANd also… Is it titled or haven’t there been any ideas that were a winner?? just wondering coz i keep posting ideas on that one post and i was wondering if it was worth it or if i was just wasting my time. COOL!!!

  16. oh wow…i just wasted a good two hours coloring my shoes…but now they are all high-lighter colorish…..so yeah….plus i kept myself under control this time, so the shoes are appropriate the wear to school tomorrow…unlike last time….lol….

  18. dear lord james franco is hott!!

    *clears throat*

    ahem. ah yes, this scientific information was rather… oh who am i kidding…..mmmm….james franco….

  20. I think the original photo is better, the woman seems to have more personality.
    You’re right, the program would be fun to muck around with, but I think the mirrored photos, especially the one of Michael Cera looked creepy. They lost all the unique things in their faces and sort of look vacant and zoned out….like Pretties!

  23. Yay! Scott-la you made my day better!
    And her right eye is smaller than her left eye, in both pictures.
    Great Article.

  24. WHOA Jay-wa, did u make measurements or something???
    *Checks pic*
    You’re right.

    Another thing to point out – her ‘after’ face isn’t symmetrical. In Uglies, they made the faces symmetrical.
    If ya don’t believe me, check the eyebrows in particular. Oh and eyes.

    I agree with it making her bland-making. She totally looks more less individual after.

    Ummm, more less … More is superfluous …

    Andrea-la, how often do you colour your shoes?! Sounds like you do it often!
    And what’s that about appropriate to wear??!!
    I colour my hands often but half the time it’s by accident. And it’s only eva pencil or pen, if I’ve been writing or drawing … So funny how I almost always manage to colour my hands when I pick a pen or pencil up.

  25. I agree with lotti-wa, that is creepy. And it does take away personality, a lot of personality.

    ~Aryll-wa

  26. I had a hard time trying to figure out which one was supposed to be the after image, I found her oringial face to be prettier…It’s more in proportion with the rest of her face.

  28. i notice how the peoples faces got rounder kind of in the cute babyish way they make pretties eyes bigger interesting…

  29. This is the very first time I’ve seen a comment from Scott – Sensei himself! (Comment 2)
    Scott – you should get Uglies translated to Hebrew! So many of my friends ADORED Peeps and are dying for more, but can’t read English

  30. She does look prettier. Mean, yet true. i wonder what i would look like prettier…i dont think thats possible though. I just cant be perfected, Im just too gorgeous. Joking (or am I?).

  31. you can read Hebrew Irene-la!?! thats SO cool!

    oh wait. you didnt say you read Hebrew. you said your FRIENDS read Hebrew…

    oh well! its still cool!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 🙂

  33. I think its really cool that you can actually make your face like totally perfect. Although sometimes being to pretty is odd. I love natural beauty.
    P.S. Bogus to Bubbly is really good!!!
    <3 Nicole-la =)

  34. Hmmm… I agree with Bran-la (scary, I know!) that the second picture does seem to look better than the first. But if they used that software to change everyone, we’d all look the same, save for stuff like eye and hair color. I like the idea that the surgeons like to push the Pretty Committee limits, like they did on Zane… It shows that they didn’t use some generic software.
    Now if only they could make the toy Shay and Tally used in uglies. That would be effin awesome!

  35. Ooh! Did I mention I finished Maureen Johnson’s “Suite Scarlette” (Haha, I found a typo where she left off the “e” in Scarlette’s name!) and I just started Cory Doctorow’s “Little Brother.” It’s alright so far, a little confusing with all the high-technical stuff.

  36. Brigitte Bardot isn’t prettier. The DEFLATED her lips. They even admitted it. It’s not a beautification machine- it’s a generic-making machine!

  38. also, to me, all the pictures look the same….people all look similer as it is, so why the heck are people trying to go for a gold star? gosh….it’s like human intelligence is regressing….

  40. Lizzy-Wa – I’m Israeli, Hebrew is my first language. Actually, I live in Jerusalem (holy city, ring a bell?)
    I read a lot of English, but many of my friends don’t – so I’m really hoping more books will be translated=)
    Where are you from?

  41. well, by dad was born in Hong Kong, and my mom’s half Irish and part Swedish and part Luxembourgish (hehe) and part English. but i was born in the states. hehe. im a U.S.A.lien. hehe.

    that is SO cool! ive never met anyone from Jerusalem. except… i guess i still havent… hehe. oh well!

    wish i cood speak 2 languages…

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😀

  42. coolio………i’m just Canadian….and i don’t even speek french…lol…looks like the school system has yet another flaw…..i mean, Canada is supposedly bilingual…lol….i probably spelled that wrong….

  45. I’m so procrastinating rite now…

    so. isn’t the weather lovely today?

    yes, I think so too.

    quite, quite.

    *awkward silence*

    *more silence*

    I just can’t do this anymore! I love you, lotti-wa!

    I love you too, lotti-wa!

    Okay, that was just weird

  46. oh wow…i think i’ll go write that story for english that the teacher hasn’t even assigned yet….yes, that’s what i’ll do…i hope she doesn’t deduct marks for finishing it before she assigns it…..

  47. I think every one should see this, go to youtube and type in dove evolution, then think about that for a while. Then go over to the side, and watch dove evolution parody, think about that one and you decide which one makes more sense.

  48. That’s cool…
    I want to see what they would do to my face!

    I’M SO FREAKING EXCITED FOR BUBBLY TO BOGUS!
    I’ve been waiting for it since… forever!

  49. Andrea-la, don’t worry you spelt bilingual right. It’s just a weird word.
    Wait – how do you know what the assignment is if it hasn’t been assigned yet?

    I have sparky ancestry – English, Irish, Dutch German and Norwegian. The Norwegian bit is best cos some of them be Vikings 🙂
    But like I said, that’s ancestry. I’m just a boring Australien (spelt that way on purpose 🙂 )

    I know bits and pieces of German, Russian, Japanense, Spanish and French. I could carry a conversation and talk about stuff a bit in German and Russian, but the others I could do just a basic conversation.

    Irene that is so sparky, the whole lot. And your English is sparky as!

    Photoshop is fun when you get someone else’s face and muck with it.

  50. The thing with this is that in a few years, they might not necessarily be considered “pretty”, or at the least, not as pretty seeing as that people’s view of pretty tends to change through out the years.
    Like I saw a picture somewhere that meshed a whole bunch of famous people from a long time ago into one picture of what “pretty was for that time period, and another one next to it that had people from now.
    I’ve got to say that the pictures were pretty different or at least seemed to be. So if that’s the case then wouldn’t they have to research what people find pretty every few generations or so for their program to be ‘correct’ and that seems like too much of a haste, even for scientist.

    And Woahh!! Scott-sensai commented!!
    -in shock-
    Pft, I soo did not just point out the obvious :]

  51. My ancestry is kinda sparky too – German, Dutch and French

    I learnt French and Gereman at school, so can sort of speak it, and I suppose Dutch is kinda like Afrikaans, which I can speak cuz I come from South Africa

    I want sun again!!! New Zealand’s got eight months of really cold and rainy winter and then four months of unbearably hot summer.

    sigh

  52. oh wow…yesterday i started working on the english assigment that hasn’t been asigned (we’re doing a short stories unit…it is unavoidable that eventually during this unit we WILL have to write a short story) and it’s probably already too long….as in, it’s already, like, 2 writen pages, front and back, single spaced…so yeah….it’s so sad though, already…i might not be able to finish it….wow…..all the short stories we read in class involve people dying and mine starts with that….wow….

  53. TRIATHLON STARTS TODAY AND IT ISN’T AT SIX IN THE MORNING!!!! IT’S AT NOON!!!! YAY! (please note that noon is a great improvment from six thirty which is what it was for swimming on saturdays.) YAY! This means that I get to run for half an hour and swim for an hour!!! I’m mega-excited! I hope that it’s like swimming in that there are lots of people like me there…cuz with swimming, everyone was kinda weird and it really rocked!

  57. Andrea-la: noon is a BIG improvement from 6:30. ugh…i HATE getting up early in the morning (btw early for me is like before 10 o clock) ya so today i got up early (9:15) and tomorrow i’ll have to get up early (8:00) sooo ya, but i have monday and tuesday OFF YAAAA NO SKOOL!!!!!

    Tonight is my homecoming! and my friends are making me go! seriously peer pressure was working overtime. i was fed up with them asking me to go that i just said YES!!! it better be fun or otherwise…well…something bad will happen. and there better be some GREEN DAY music!!!

    GREEN DAY!!! <3
    I’m the son of rage and love.
    The Jesus of Suburbia.
    The bible of none of the above.
    On a steady diet of.
    Sodapop and Ritalin.
    No one ever died for my,
    Sins in hell,
    As far as i can tell.
    At least the ones i’ve gotten away with.

  59. When I saw this story, I instantly thought of Uglies.

    They didn’t look how I imagined ‘prettyfied’ faces would look, though…

  64. Surprisingly, (or not surprisingly), I found a few of the originals prettier than the final product…

  65. bran-la: normal was in season? when did THAT happen?
    TYC Leader: early for me is before six. Late for me is after 8. I can’t sleep in past 8:30. I was so proud of myself, today i made it til 8:32. Yeah.

  71. I don’t know who that person was that I mentioned in my last post, but she was on the slideshow (if you actually looked at it. Otherwise I don’t think anyone would know who those people were!)

    Hmmm… no new post from scott-la. I’m uber-bored right now. Anyone here still?

  74. Do you guys remember Mr. Licking Nose Man? Yeah, well, guess what? HES BACK!!!!

    :-9

    Oh yeah. Well isnt he just so cute…(said in a cooing voice)

  75. Most of the celebrity photos look pretty much the same….
    OMG, so that’s how everyone says they already got it! Darn my school for having such a late book fair!! Now I have to (attempt to) be patient for another two weeks, and NOT spent all my money on books until then.

  76. my school doesnt even have book fairs(my elementary school did but its in November and Im in grade 1 now so I cant
    but waiting is driving is crazy

  77. Kristin-la, you’re in grade ONE and reading Scott-la’s books. I’m sure I probably just understood wrong, but if not, impressive. My school does, but once a year, and they’re NOT THAT GOOD. They sell the usual useless junk, scented erasers, little diaries, and pens galore, and a lot of books, too, but not many are really GOOD books. Not that I usually don’t get one or two things from there every year…but it’s just nothing compared to Borders or Barnes and Noble.

  78. My school doesn’t do book fairs either 🙁

    Cute Mr Licking Nose Man, Bran-la!

    Lotti-wa, you come from South Africa? Sparky.

    I LOATHE writing short stories … cos I can’t get them short. So unhappy-making when you have to write a short story for an assessment …

    Hmmm, the fact that the general opinion of pretty will change is right. Look at how models and stuff have changed over the past years.

  80. poor Bran-la… it’ll come out… eventually. 😛

    my scool has book fairs! there usually suckish, but now im IN LOVE with them! that is how i got BOGUS TO BUBBLY 18 DAYS EARLY!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

    hey Bran-la, remember Mr. Licking Nose Man Jr?

    6-:P

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  81. I don’t think my school has book fairs, but my sis’s school does. nothing too special there the usual books, pens, erasers, the little toys that everyone gets, and so on. The funny thing ’bout her book fair is that it starts one day before bogus to bubbly comes out. i still hope they have it though. saves me a trip to the mall.

    ~Aryll-wa

  82. Apparently, these people need to read your books and learn from them, Scott-la.

    Society prospers off of how beautiful the system of there government is…not on how beautiful the people working it are.

  86. i think a new post is needed coz there’s only so much u can say about these pics. i mean they’re boring, unrealy, and i dunno wat else…i guess just…BLAH!!!
    Ugh….soooooo MAD!!! Bogus to Bubbly isn’t out yet and i don’t have a book fair!!!! this is UNFAIR!!! it should come out at the same time everywhere! (well except with the time difference in different places…but still it should)
    Homecoming was fun last night (except they didn’t play GREEN DAY. apparently u can’t dance to it. i beg to differ. but watever.) ya so my friends making me go wasn’t all that bad. ugh… i hate it when people are right.

    GREEN DAY!!!<3
    DO U HAVE THE TIME?
    TO LISTEN TO ME WHINE?
    ABOUT NOTHING AND EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE.
    I AM ONE OF THOSE,
    MELODRAMATIC FOOLS.
    NUEROTIC TO THE BONE NO DOUBT ABOUT IT!

  87. HEY!!!!! GO LOOK AT NAME THIS BOOK!!!!!! IT’S UNDER JULY 2008!!!!! JUST FOR FUN!!!! DO IT!!!!!!
    (sorry for the caps but i put it on caps lock…ya…fun)

  89. i’m reading “The Host” right now…it’s pretty good….but i haven’t had much time for reading recently…i’ve been trying to write a short story for english class….but it’s kinda looking like it’s gonna be a short novel…oh well, i guess i wont be handing that in….i guess i’ll just hand in part of “The Wallie Chronicals”….lol….but i think i might of scarred my english teacher enough already….lol….whatever….i’ll write about wallie and the alien invasion….

  92. Andrea-la: wallie and the alien invasion…..intresting….

    Bethany-la: cool

    ugh, now i’ve got to go finish a project due tomorrow.

    ~Aryll-wa

    P.S. Happy Columbus day!!!

  93. bethany-la: YAY FOR YOU!!!! I wanna get a new oboe…mine is just a plastic student model…I want a nice one, but that might cost over $2000. Which is more than I can afford. Especially since I need to get a new bike for triathlon….

  95. yuck… Twilight(eeww)
    Im reading Skinned rght now
    trying to save it until bogus to bubbly come out
    (and how to ditch your fairy)

    (which comes out the same day.)

  97. OMIGOD!!!!! my “friend” is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ANNOYING!!!! and my cousin. so today my “friend” texts me saying that i called her a b**** and that she was gonna get pregnant in high skool but i didn’t say anything like that. my cousin did. and guess who told her that i said those things…MY COUSIN!!! ugh… i am SOOOOO mad right now it’s not even funny. people just piss me off sometimes…wait no correction…ALL THE TIME!!!! AHHHH!!!
    ok ranting is done…sorry!

    GREEN DAY!!!! <3
    Staring out of my window,
    Watching the cars go rolling by.
    My friends are gone i’ve got nothing to do.
    So i sit here patienly.
    Watching the clock tick so slowly.
    Gotta get away or my brains will explode.

  98. oh one more thing… GO LOOK at the NAME THIS BOOK COMMENTS!!! go down until u find my name and look at the titles i posted. some are creative and others are dumb but mostly creative!!! look if ur bored and look if ur not bored…JUST DO IT!!! (like NIKE) and tell me wat ya think. it may not make any difference but it’s still fun! sooooo…yaaa…DO IT, DO IT, DO IT!!!!! wow guess i’m a little hyper.

  104. I just bought a Ocarina (legend of zelda) but it is a wierd one (has 6 holes instead of 4) and i can’t find music for it

  105. The woman looked like a Extra before beautified. Your right Allie-wa pretties have bigger eyes but this woman had fish like eyes not big beautiful innocent eyes.She looked like she was having a mug shot taken.

  106. omg, I love legend of zelda!!! it’s my favorite video game series of all time. (especially Twilight Princess…I beat it 3 time) What kind of ocarina did you get?

    ~Aryll-wa

  107. The 21st is going to be a good day……

    What are you going to be for Halloween Scott??

    I am going to be a Native American.

  111. Jay-wa: RANDOM MUCH?!?!?! “What if cannibalism was legal?” hmmmm….what if it was??? well…i don’t think people would eat other people either way (unless of course they’re vampires or…it’s like something to do with their culture) but i’m not sure. i don’t know if i would ever eat another person. i mean sometimes i want to bite my dentist or i act all vampire-like to scare my sister away (and trust me it works) but EATING SOMEONE?? i dunno…maybe i would…as long as i could cook them and smother them in BBQ (I LOVE BBQ. SOOOO GOOD!!) wow it feels weird talking about cannibalism…i feel like crazy or something…huh…weird.

    GREEN DAY!!!! <3
    I’m all busted up,
    Broken bones and nasty cuts.
    Accidents will happen but this time i can’t get up.
    She comes to check on me.
    Making sure i’m on my knees.
    After all she’s the one who put me in this state.
    Is she ultraviolent? Is she disturbed?
    I better tell her that i love her.
    Before she does it all over again.
    Oh god she’s killing me!

  112. I’m going as a Smokie for Halloween (which is my favorite holiday!) hey, wouldn’t it be weird if at Midnight on Halloween there was a thunderstorm? and at EXACTLY Midnight lightning would strike??? ooooohh…that would be creepy. actually it’d be even more creepy if time stopped. ya…that’d be cool…scary…but cool. i really wanna go to Bixby but my mom says i’ll be disappointed when i get there but i’m like “Duh! i know i shouldn’t expect anything, but i wanna go coz one of Scott Westerfeld’s books was set there!” ugh… no one understands what’s soooo important about going some place mentioned by someone u idolize. i guess i just doesn’t make sense to everyone…maybe not everyone is obsessed like i am but they could at least TRY to understand me. u know wat i mean?? it’s frustrating being different from everyone else and seeing the world differently. i guess i’m just passionate about alot of things and my imagination gets the best of me sometimes but…it’s not really that bad. *sigh* all this emotional crap and all i was talking about was Halloween. see it’s that passion again (or it’s the fact that i got depressed off of Blue Noon and no one understands why. even though it wasn’t totally just coz of the book alot of other things happening in my life played with my depression. *sigh*) i think i need to…i dunno..see someone about this problem or keep it to myself which is wat i do anyway. (not always a great idea but…watever) great i’m getting depressed again. time to put on a fake smile and pretend like everything is alright. which it’s gonna be on the 21st when BOGUS TO BUBBLY comes out!!! yay!!!

  113. TYC Leader: Obsessed much…….or alot?

    I have no idea what i’m going to be for halloween, haven’t given it much thought yet. oh well.

    ~Aryll-wa

  114. I just convinced my librarian to make us all read uglies! And I’m all excited do im posting something here!!

    This is all really awkward because Ive been reading this blog for ages and have never posted andthing….

    so yeah….

    P.S. I want to go to Bixby too!!!!

  116. i REALLY wanna go to bixby. I told that to my friends, and they were all “andrea, do you have a fever or something? we’re not gonna help you ride a goat to bixby”…cuz i really wanna go there….i mean REALLY wanna go there….just like how after reading Harry Potter I had to go to England…and eventually I got my way and went to England. So I fairly certain that someday I’ll get my way and go to Bixby. I don’t care how. I would honestly ride a goat there…just I don’t have access to a goat….

  118. Aryll-wa: ya…i’m kinda obsessed, but how can’t u be with Scott’s books. THEY ARE SOOOO AMAZING!!!!
    COOL i’m no the only crazy one who wants to go to BIXBY!!!!
    Andrea-la: SOOOOO jealous!!! i wanna go to England! btw: did u know that the castle that is Hogwarts in the movies, is actually someone’s house? i think there are like 8 kids in the family, but still the house is HUGE!!!! geez if my house was that big…well i dunno wat i’d do but…i think it’d be cool to have a house like that.
    khy: once again SOOOOOO JEALOUS!!!!! i want BOGUS TO BUBBLY SOOOO BADLY!!!! but i have to wait until October 21st. UGH!!!!!

    GREEN DAY!!!! <3
    When i was younger, i thought that the world circled around me.
    But in time i realized i was alone.
    My immortal thoughts turned in to just dreams.
    OF a dead future.
    It was a tragic case of my reality.
    Do u think ur indestructable? and no one can touch u??
    Well i think ur disposable and it’s time u knew the truth.
    Coz it’s just one of my lies.
    Well it’s just on of my lies.
    And all i wanna do is get real high.
    Well it’s just one of my lies.

  120. Andrea-la: ya…that’d be really cool. but i think that sometimes i might get creeped out by how big it is (or i’d get lost). i dunno but i bet at night it’s really cool…scary..but cool!!!

    hmmm…i’m gonna go watch a movie: JUST MY LUCK!!! great movie and the band McFly is in it!!! *sigh* McFly is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo HOOOOOOTTTTT!!!!!! and *drum roll*………. THEY HAVE BRITISH ACCENTS!!!!! u can’t get much better than that!!!

  126. I wanna read Bogus to Bubbly too! 🙁 *tantrum*

    British accents be strange … Some are a lot hotter 🙂

    TYC leader, wouldn’t it be even more awesome if time just FROZE for an hour at midnight? 🙂 Go Midnighters.
    🙁 I can’t even read the first Midnighters book cos the library lost it 🙁 I’ve read the other two tho.

    Random question: Who likes Hayley Williams’ (think Paramore) hair?
    Cos I think it is SPARKY AS.

    So bored …

  127. YOU READ THE 2ND AND 3RD MIDNIGHTER BEFORE YOU READ THE 1ST!?!?!?!?!? HOW CAN YOU DO THAT?!??!?!?!?!?

    (couch) stupid caps lock.

    but seriously. thats like… one of the NUMBER ONE things i’ll never do! (skip ahead in a series… or a book… or a paragraph…)

    i REALLY hate backs of books. i just think it totally ruins everything. so i usually read the book without knowing anything, then read the back when im done with the book to see how well they sum it up.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 🙂

  129. The wonderful Carl Zimmer has another lovely column up at Discover (http://discovermagazine.com/2008/nov/15-why-darwin-would-have-loved-botox/article_print), among other things about possible psychosocial effects of Botox:

    ” In June 2008 in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, a team of cosmetic surgeons suggested this experiment is making all of us happier. People with Botox may be less vulnerable to the angry emotions of other people because they themselves can’t make angry or unhappy faces as easily. And because people with Botox can’t spread bad feelings to others via their expressions, people without Botox may be happier too. The surgeons grant that this is just speculation for now. Nevertheless, they declare that “we are left with the tantalizing possibility that cosmetic procedures may have beneficial effects that are more than skin deep.”

    Maybe. But for all the Botox youthfulness plastic surgeons may want to think about, neuroscience raises a darker possibility. Making faces helps us understand how other people are feeling. By altering our faces we’re tampering with the ancient lines of communication between face and brain that may change our minds in ways we don’t yet understand.”

  132. interesting… OH OH!!! ANYONE ELSE GET BOGUS TO BUBBLY YET?!!! I GOT IT!!!!!!!! I GOT IT!!!!!!! *sings at top of lungs!* i love the schoolastic book fair! I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE it scott-wa!!!! (which, i do believe is the correct way to put a suffix on that. u’ve got a doubled letter, i like the sound of scott-la better…. just like i like courtney-wa better than courtney-la.) i especially love the dedication… :’)

  137. I was going to be an special but it so hard to find special stuff so im going as a twilight vampire i have white coloring with sparky stuff and i thought all the under eye stuff looked fake so i stayed up till midnight last night. so sad i will be going to district honor chorus on halloween

  139. I cant wait any longer Im going
    insane but only 3 dayz now(yes I’ve been counting down. sad I know)

  140. i got Bogus to Bubbly today!!!! I started hyperventalating in the middle of the bookstore then started dancing. Everyone thought that i was nine kinds of weird. Yeah.

  142. That is so cool! I’ve wanted them to have something like that since I read Uglies 🙂 I couldn’t see much of a difference on some of the celebrity photos, so interesting though how different a face can look if you just tweak a few things. I would totally make my eyes bigger lol.

  144. OMG with the wii thing that’s so happy making, this would be way fawesome to be able to play with your own face!!! I wonder what i would look like as an Extra??? Hm…

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