California Cryobank announced Tuesday that it has started posting photos of celebrities who resemble their donors to give prospective clients a better idea of what their potential offspring might look like. “The number one client question we get is: `Who does this donor look like?”‘ said Scott Brown of California Cryobank. “We decided this would be a great way to give thorough and consistent answers. Clients love it. Look-a-Likes has only been available for a week and our Web site traffic is up 50 percent.”

A group of employees spent six months putting together the photos and matching them to donors. Clients can search for attributes such as height or eye and hair color, and the database will return a list of donors who each have two or three celebrity look-a-likes. Users also can choose from an existing library of celebrities to generate a list of matching donors, according to California Cyrobank, which was started in 1977.

Now those of you who have purchased CDs know how much trouble it is to take that plastic wrap off. And then to remove the front insert and especially removing the back insert from the CD case without breaking the plastic case can be tricky. So what it all boils down to is that the Saudi government is actually paying religious police members of the Committee for the Protection of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (CVPVP) to remove the plastic wrap from these CDs, open up the CD cases, remove the front and back inserts, and carefully and painstakingly color in with a marker any photos baring exposed female flesh that is deemed objectionable. Hence, while the general public is protected from such vulgarity, the CVPVP members get to view photos with women’s flesh abounding and then get to stroke on colored markers over the exposed women’s skin. I wonder what they are thinking or how they feel as they stroke those markers onto the smooth female flesh in the photos. I wonder if it makes them feel good that they are shielding young teenage boys from such crude displays of the nubile female form.

CHICAGO (AP) - Jennifer Hudson was one of seven family members and close friends who cried and held hands as they identified her nephew’s body from a live image on a TV screen at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. Like his grandmother and uncle, the seven-year-old boy had been shot. His body was found yesterday(10/27) in an SUV parked ten miles from the house where Hudson’s mother and brother were found murdered on Friday. An autopsy on the boy’s body
is planned for today(10/28). A spokesman for the county says “Miss Hudson wanted to request privacy. This is a very trying time for her and her family.” Hudson’s aunt, Dorothy Hudson, says the Chicago funeral home she owns with her husband will handle arrangements for the family, but details were pending. She says “we’re just sad. We’re going through this stage where we’re just sad and in shock.”