Punya Pacar Virtual dengan Cloud Girlfriend

Masa muda tidak punya pacar, wah, ketinggalan zaman. Sudah berusaha dan tidak mendapatkan perhatian sang pujaan hati. Ingin punya pacar seperti mantan-mantan saya? (baca: Tentang Arti Ladida). Nah, jangan khawatir, akan ada layanan yang akan membantu Anda menemukan pacar. Namun di sini bukan berarti biro jodoh, karena layanan ini mungkin hanya menyediakan 'stok' pacar virtual.

Namanya ada Cloud Girlfriend, aplikasi yang menyediakan pacar virtual pengguna facebook. Ya meski cuma pacar di facebook, tapi untuk menutupi gengsi kan bukan masalah.

Nantinya aplikasi ini akan memberi pacar khayalan yang sewaktu-waktu akan mengirim pesan wall dengan kata-kata manis, jadi jabatan Anda sebagai jomblower mungkin akan sirna. Sejauh ini kabarnya Cloud Girlfriend hanya menyediakan pacar untuk laki-laki. Bisa dilihat embel-embel 'Girlfriend' pada namanya, mungkin besok-besok akan ada Cloud Boyfriend untuk para wanita.

Dalam situsnya tertera cara mendapatkan pacar virtual sangat mudah. Pertama, tentukan seperti apa pacar yang sempurna menurut kriteria Anda. Kedua, Cloud Girlfriend akan mencarikan pacar yang ideal. Langkah ketiga, Anda dapat berinteraksi dengan pasangan Anda secara terbuka melalui jejaring sosial, dan terakhir, nikmati hubungan jarak jauh dengan gadis impian Anda. Jujur saya belum mencobanya jadi saya belum bisa memberi info pasti. Meski belum resmi diluncurkan, tapi layanan ini sudah dapat banyak tanggapan. Silakan langsung ke http://www.cloudgirlfriend.com/.

Namun, sepertinya banyak kontra dengan adanya layanan ini, berikut alasannya :

• Facebook melarang keras akun yang dikontrol secara otomatis oleh komputer karena dapat menyebabkan gangguan, seperti spam.
• Sejumlah pakar media juga menganggap aplikasi ini konyol.
• Menurut Christophe Mims dari Technology Review, ide ini terlalu buruk, karena jarang sekali aplikasi seperti ini yang bisa sukses.
• Yang punya sifat (maaf) 'playboy' pasti tidak akan ketinggalan, jadi ada kesempatan untuk selingkuh.
• Pemuja rahasia Anda akan pergi jika membaca kiriman-kiriman di profil facebook Anda.
  

Nah, bagaimana? Tertarik punya pacar imajiner di facebook?

Referensi :

• http://www.tabloidbintang.com/gaya-hidup/tekno/10517-miliki-pacar-virtual-lewat-cloud-girlfriend.html
• http://www.cloudgirlfriend.com

Anne Frank Memorial at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main – early March 1945 in Bergen Belsen) was one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.

Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. By nationality, she was officially considered a German until 1941, when she lost her nationality owing to the anti-Semitic policies of Nazi Germany (the Nuremberg Laws). She gained international fame posthumously following the publication of her diary, which documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained control over Germany. By the beginning of 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of Anne's father, Otto Frank's, office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died of typhus in March 1945.

Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne's diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl. It has since been translated into many languages. The diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.

Jury Recommends Death for Manson Family 1971

On January 25, 1971, guilty verdicts were returned against the four defendants in the Charles Manson murder trial on each of the 27 separate counts against them. Not far into the trial's penalty phase, the jurors saw, at last, the defense that Manson—in the prosecution's view—had planned to present. Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten testified the murders had been conceived as "copycat" versions of the Hinman murder, for which Atkins now took credit. The killings, they said, were intended to draw suspicion away from Bobby Beausoleil, by resembling the crime for which he had been jailed. This plan had supposedly been the work of, and carried out under the guidance of, not Manson, but someone allegedly in love with Beausoleil—Linda Kasabian. Among the narrative's weak points was the inability of Atkins to explain why, as she was maintaining, she had written "political piggy" at the Hinman house in the first place.

Midway through the penalty phase, Manson shaved his head and trimmed his beard to a fork; he told the press, "I am the Devil, and the Devil always has a bald head." In what the prosecution regarded as belated recognition on their part that imitation of Manson only proved his domination, the female defendants refrained from shaving their heads until the jurors retired to weigh the state's request for the death penalty.

The effort to exonerate Manson via the "copycat" scenario failed. On March 29, 1971, the jury returned verdicts of death against all four defendants on all counts. On April 19, 1971, Judge Older sentenced the four to death.

On the day the verdicts recommending the death penalty were returned, news came that the badly decomposed body of Ronald Hughes had been found wedged between two boulders in Ventura County. It was rumored, although never proven, that Hughes was murdered by the Family, possibly because he had stood up to Manson and refused to allow Van Houten to take the stand and absolve Manson of the crimes. Though he might have perished in flooding, Family member Sandra Good stated that Hughes was "the first of the retaliation murders."

Celebrity Grave: "Casablanca" Actor Paul Henreid 1992

Paul Henreid (10 January 1905 – 29 March 1992), whose birthname was Paul Georg Julius Hernreid Ritter von Wassel-Waldingau, was an Austrian actor and film director.

In 1942, Henreid appeared in his two most important films. In Now, Voyager, he and Bette Davis created one of the screen's most imitated scenes, in which he lights two cigarettes and hands one to her. Henreid's next role was as Victor Laszlo, heroic anti-Nazi leader, in Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.

Henreid died of pneumonia in Santa Monica, California and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. He was buried with a fan letter from one Mildred Jacobs which he received in 1937, before he became famous, and which he said meant more to him than any award he had won.