David Attenborough at 100

David Attenborough (born May 08, 1926) is widely recognized as the world's most celebrated naturalist and nature storyteller, having dedicated his life to documenting the natural world over an eight-decade career. 

And on his 100th birthday one Friday ago, it was marked by a week-long celebration of his work and legacy on the BBC. 

Let's not simply go ga-ga over this Englishman. Methinks, we should approach his oeuvre with critical distance, avoiding ultra-earnest hagiography. 

In fact, Rohan Chakravarty's Green Humour pierces the polished veneer of Attenborough’s documentaries as he provides a critical counter-narrative by highlighting the deliberate silences and excluded perspectives in his storytelling.

[Note: Rohan Chakravarty is a cartoonist and illustrator from Nagpur in Maharashtra, India. His series, "Green Humour", consists of cartoons and comics on wildlife, nature conservation, environmental issues, sustainability, and all things green]. 

A confession. I must have been too caught up with the Scottish Premiership that I got distracted and therefore, missed the PSA World Squash Championships (May 8-16, 2026) in Giza, Egypt. 

Sivasangari Subramaniam had entered the tournament as the fifth seed. She secured her spot in the quarter-finals by taking down fellow Malaysian Aira Azman (11-4, 11-9, 12-10) and America's Amanda Sobhy (11-8, 14-12, 11-6). 

And the Malaysian No. 1 even took world No. 1 Hania El Hammamy to the limit in a bruising, 93-minute battle where she ultimately lost in five grueling games: 11-9, 10-12, 12-10, 5-11, 8-11. 

The game actually started with stress and worry as Sivasangari twisted her left ankle during the opening game. She suffered with the painful injury and took a three minute medical time before coming back to the court. Although her movement was affected, she fought with all the energy she could, and still managed to win the first game. 

Her fighting spirit was very competitive, especially in the second and third game, where both players were immense and points were close. However, the injury somehow still held her, and El Hammamy gained control in the final two games that got her to the semi-finals. 

National coach Ajaz Azmat, Sivasangari coach, praised her brave performance, and described it as one of her best matches.

The defeat ended her hopes for reaching her first World Championship, but her game is another highlight of her growth as one of the world’s top squash players.

A Real-life Statue on the Met Gala 2026 Red Carpet

Celebrities arrived at the 2026 Met Gala with their take on this year's theme – costume art – where organisers asked attendees to experiment with the lavish and whimsical dress code. 

Heidi Klum, as expected, came well-prepared, looking like she walked out of a museum's sculpture gallery and onto the carpet. 

In fact, she was virtually unrecognizable on the May 04 event, dressed as a marble statue complete with draped robes that hugged her figure and facial prosthetics that mimicked a veil rendered in stone. And the 52-year-old supermodel wore a floral wreath and flat sandals, showing off head-to-toe chalky gray body paint.

 

It was her first appearance on this particular red carpet in 12 years, having last attended in 2013. 

Reds failed to beat Blues who had lost their previous six Premier League games, managing an uninspiring 1-1 draw at Anfield on Saturday. 

Rio Ngumoha’s work on the left wing opened the space for Ryan Gravenberch on the edge of the penalty box, with just one touch needed before a beautifully curled shot inside of six minutes.

Chelsea levelled in the 35th minute. Easy-peasy.

And that was it. When the final whistle was blown, the Liverpool faithful let loose a raucous outburst of boos at Arne Slot and his players. It was another poor game from them.

And yesterday too, Heart of Midlothian and Motherwell produced a similar score. They drew 1-1.

Leaders Hearts nudged four points clear of Celtic in the Scottish Premiership title race but really, they missed an opportunity to put maximum pressure on the defending champions before today's Old Firm derby.

Microsoft's Attempt to Block Word "Microslop" Backfires

Microsoft just gave the Internet a masterclass in the Streisand effect. The company added "Microslop" – a derisive nickname for Microsoft that took off after Merriam-Webster named "slop" its 2025 word of the year – to the auto-moderation block list on its official Copilot Discord server. Any message containing the word was silently swallowed by bots before it could appear in chat, reports Windows Latest. 

Users figured this out almost immediately and did what users always do: they started swapping letters. "Microsl0p" (with a zero instead of an "o") sailed right past the filter. Other creative variations piled in. Microsoft escalated to banning individual accounts, and then locked portions of the server and hid two days' worth of message history from late February. 

The result was the opposite of what Microsoft wanted. "Streisand effect in full swing", one Reddit user observed. The story spread across PC Gamer, Futurism, TechRadar, and PCWorld within hours. The nickname "Microslop" is now exponentially more famous than it was before Microsoft tried to stamp it out. 

The Copilot Discord launched in December 2024 and initially attracted a positive community, but the mood has gone sour as Microsoft keep cramming AI features into everything from Windows 11 to Notepad. 

Banning a nickname doesn't fix the underlying complaint – it just confirms it. If your product's reputation is so fragile that a portmanteau can threaten it, maybe the problem isn't the word. 

Note: The Streisand effect is a phenomenon where an attempt to hide, censor, or remove information has the unintended consequence of causing it to become more widely known and publicized. Instead of suppressing the information, the act of trying to cover it up increases public curiosity, causing it to go viral. 

In 2003, the American singer and actress Barbra Streisand sued the photographer, Kenneth Adelman, and Pictopia.com for $50 million for violation of privacy. The lawsuit was dismissed and Streisand was ordered to pay Adelman's $177,000 legal attorney fees. The case had sought to remove Image 3850, labeled as "Streisand Estate, Malibu", an aerial photograph in which Streisand's mansion was visible, from the publicly available California Coastal Records Project of 12,000 California coastline photographs. As the project's goal was to document coastal erosion to influence government policymakers, privacy concerns of homeowners were deemed to be of minor or no importance. 

In fact, the said print had been downloaded only six times prior to Streisand's suit, two of those being by her attorneys. After the lawsuit became public, over 420,000 people visited the site in a month. 

Two years later, Mike Masnick of Techdirt coined the name when writing about Marco Beach Ocean Resort's takedown notice to urinal.net (a site dedicated to photographs of urinals) over its use of the resort's name. 

"How long is it going to take before lawyers realize that the simple act of trying to repress something they don't like online is likely to make it so that something that most people would never, ever see (like a photo of a urinal in some random beach resort) is now seen by many more people? Let's call it the Streisand Effect", wrote Masnick, "Since When Is It Illegal To Just Mention A Trademark Online?", Techdirt, January 05, 2005. 😂😂😂

In her 2023 autobiography "My Name Is Barbra", Streisand, citing security problems with intruders, wrote: "My issue was never with the photo... it was only about the use of my name attached to the photo. I felt I was standing up for a principle, but in retrospect, it was a mistake. I also assumed that my lawyer had done exactly as I wished and simply asked to take my name off the photo". 😬😬😬

In case you're wondering, Copilot and ChatGPT are not the same, though they share underlying OpenAI technology (GPT models). The key difference is their focus: ChatGPT is a versatile, general-purpose conversational AI for creative tasks and learning, while Microsoft Copilot integrates directly into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem (Word, Outlook, Teams) to act as a secure, context-aware productivity assistant for work-related data and workflows.

Dalai Lama Mention In Epstein Files

Very many prominent figures and celebrities from the Silicon Valley elite, people in wealthy circles and academics, politicians, royals, musicians, and actors have appeared in the Epstein files. 

They include former British prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor; the 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton; British supermodel, Naomi Campbell; former chief strategist of the White House, Steve Bannon; former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns; American businessman and philanthropist, Bill Gates; former prime minister and Minister of Defense of Israel, Ehud Barak; German cognitive scientist, Joscha Bach; British business magnate, Richard Branson; American billionaire hedge fund manager, Glenn Dubin; Indian-American New Age guru and alternative medicine advocate, Deepak Chopra; American real estate developer, Andrew Farkas; American rapper, Jay-Z; American economist, former United States secretary of the treasury, and former president of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers; American former film producer and sex offender, Harvey Weinstein; Indian businessman, chairman, and managing director of Reliance Group, Anil Ambani; American magician, David Blaine; former UK politician and life peer, Peter Mandelson; American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian, Woody Allen and his wife; among many, many others.  

Of course, no wrongdoing is established by merely having their names mentioned in the documents. It should be said that they have also denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein's life and crimes. Yet the revelation of the names in the files released led to what the The Washington Post called "a wave of resignations and investigations".

Another name featured is none other than Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama himself. 

Actually, the Dalai Lama is referenced no less than 157 times in the latest tranche of documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, released by the US Justice Department. 

In an October 21, 2012 email, Epstein is telling a contact via email that he was going to attend an event on an unnamed island, which the Dalai Lama would attend. 

"Yes. First step would be to meet Tenzin. His student who runs the Dalai Lama center and is now a Director's Fellow at the Lab and going to start the ‘ethics initiative’ at the Media Lab. We're working on some cool things like a meeting about cognitive machines and man. I think you'll probably like him. He can get us the Dalai Lama", reads another email sent to Epstein on May 10, 2015. 

In another email the following day, Epstein writes: "I'm working on the dalai lama for dinner". 

American journalist and consultant Michael Wolff, who had acted as an advisor to Epstein, recalled in a podcast with host Joanna Coles for the Daily Beat last July that he met the Dalai Lama at Epstein's Manhattan residence. 

"Did you actually meet the Dalai Lama at Jeffrey Epstein's?" asked Coles. 

"Yeah, indeed", Wolff responded, adding that Epstein met many known figures at that house.

In fact, an 'ND24 Updates' post on Facebook on February 08, 2026 had the Dalai Lama's office stating that they "strongly rejected recent media and social media reports attempting to connect the Tibetan spiritual leader with convicted sex offender #JeffreyEpstein". 

As they say, there's no smoke without fire! 🔥

And here's the said statement: "We can unequivocally confirm that His Holiness has never met Jeffrey Epstein or authorised any meeting or interaction with him by anyone on His Holiness’s behalf".

Now that is a denial that simply won't stand up. Besides, birds of a feather flock together.

The Buddhist leader has been linked to past controversies, including an incident in 2023 in which he was filmed asking one of his young male students to “suck my tongue”, prompting widespread public backlash. [Read my April 10, 2023 post "Dalai Lama's Inappropriate Behavior"].

Fun fact: The Dalai Lama is a known CIA asset!

Reuse Your 1996 Calendar For 2024

Social media users have discovered that 2024’s dates identically align with those from 1996, prompting an outpouring of 1990s nostalgia online. 

 

Just as in 2024, 1996 began on a Monday and was a leap year featuring 366 days. Now, many are dusting off old boxes or scouring eBay in the hopes of finding a calendar from that year to use all over again. 

 

Meanwhile, others shared screenshots of 1996 heartthrobs and pinups to hang on the wall again this year. 

 

“Everyone who still has a 1996 @kylieminogue calendar, just a heads up, you can use it again in 2024”, one fan of the Australian pop princess penned. “The days line up with the dates and everything”. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another tweet, which was viewed more than 2 million times, read: “Just FYI, if you have this 1996 Jonathan Taylor Thomas calendar, the dates match up with 2024, so you can use it again”. Taylor Thomas, who was then aged 15 and starring in “Home Improvement”, was seen smiling in an accompanying photo of the calendar’s cover. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Home Improvement” was one of 1996’s hottest shows – and the Jonathan Taylor Thomas calendar isn’t the only piece of ephemera to prove it. On eBay, a calendar from that year featuring fellow “Home Improvement” star Pamela Anderson is currently going for $149.99. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But if you don’t want to part with that much cash, a third “Home Improvement” star is now reproducing her original 1996 calendar for 2024 consumers. 

Debbe Dunning (right), who played sexy “Tool Time” girl Heidi on the smash-hit sitcom, took to TikTok to announce the crafty move. The pinup is even signing the calendars, which retail for $100 a pop. 

 

In the meantime, on X, another user shared a photo featuring the Muppets parodying “Seinfeld” in a 1996 calendar titled “Frogfeld”. That limited-edition item doesn’t appear to be up for sale on eBay. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, these years aren’t the only two to feature the same days and dates. According to TimeAndDate.com, there are five other leap years in the current 200-year time frame that feature that exact calendar. They are 1940, 1968, 2052, 2080 and 2120. 

 

So, if you want to save cash on a calendar in 2052, hold on to the one you buy this year. By that time, today’s heartthrobs and pinups will be seen just as nostalgically as the cast of “Home Improvement”.

Turn Your Keyboard Into A Typewriter

I once read that American actor and filmmaker, Tom Hanks is a typewriter obsessive. He collects Remingtons, Triumphs, Vosses and Cole Steels the way Imelda Marcos collected shoes. 

 

"They are each different in design, action and sound – each one stamps into paper a permanent trail of imagination through keys, hammers, cloth and dye", he wrote in an opinion piece "I Am TOM. I Like to TYPE. Hear That?" in the New York Times, published August 03, 2013. 

 

Hanks sees beauty in the fact that you can type the word “typewriter” using just one row of the Qwerty keyboard. He can tell a typewriter’s brand just by its sound. 

 

And in August 2014, Hanx Writer, an iPad app that Hanks (right) designed, became the most popular free app ever in the Apple store. It simulates a typewriter keyboard, complete with clickety-clack sounds and the distinctive ding at the end of each line, on your iPad. 

 

You can even “insert” new pages too. Once you’ve typed the text you can email it, print it or share it from the app. 

 

Hanx Writer is a skeuomorph – a design that adopts the look and feel of another object – rather than a retro fashion statement. According to Clinton Mills of Hitcents, the creative agency that brought Hanks’s idea to fruition, there is an element of nostalgia to the app, but “it’s not gimmicky. It’s to show iPad users that whenever you type, the sounds of the typewriter make you feel like you’re composing something special”. 

 

When manufacturers tried bringing out “noiseless” typewriters in the 1920s, few people bought them, because they found it hard to imagine writing in silence. And businesses wouldn’t buy them because they preferred to monitor activity by the sound of typewriters clicking and clacking. 

 

Anyway, yesterday, on Boing Boing, I discovered daktilo ("typewriter" in Turkish, pronounced "duck-til-oh", derived from the Ancient Greek word δάκτυλος for "finger") which turns your normal, everyday computer keyboard into a typewriter. An old, clacking, ringing, belligerently loud typewriter, perfect for the coffee shop, library or tranquil workplace. 

 

It is actually a small command-line program that plays typewriter sounds every time you press a key. It also offers the flexibility to customize keypress sounds to your liking. You can use the built-in sound presets to create an enjoyable typing experience! 

 

This cool product is available for Linux, Windows and MacOS, so you have no reason not to do this.

 

And if that doesn’t do it for you, you can always get a real typewriter, insert some paper and have yourself some real action.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Wednesday, Celtic encountered another Champions League defeat when they were beaten 2-1 by Lazio.

 

Kyogo Furuhashi showed great composure to slide in the game's first goal in the twelfth minute to give the defending Scottish champions hope of a rare home win in this competition – but the Serie A club hit back seventeen minutes later. 

 

Then, Celtic had to endure a late heartbreak when the Italians netted a 95th-minute winner. 

 

This consigned Brendan Rodgers' side to the bottom of Group E with zero points after two games.

"Bitch, I’m Just Ageing!"

When I came across this piece of news on Charlize Theron (right), I am reminded of what Eartha Kitt said: “Aging has a wonderful beauty, and we should have respect for that”. So true!

 

Coming back to Theron, the forty-eight-year-old is calling out the double standards for female actors over 40 in Hollywood. 

 

The actor – of “Monster”, “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “Snow White and the Huntsman” and “Atomic Blonde” fame – said she “despise[s] the concept” that while men “age like fine wines” women do so “like cut flowers”. 

 

“I also think women want to age in a way that feels right to them”, Theron told Allure magazine. “I think we need to be a little bit more empathetic to how we all go through our journey. My journey of having to see my face on a billboard is quite funny now”. 

 

The star has also worked extensively in modelling, most notably for Dior, and said that despite being accustomed to scrutiny, she remained frustrated by assumptions people made about whether she’d had work done to her face. 

 

“People think I had a face-lift”, she said. “They’re like, ‘What did she do to her face?’ I’m like, ‘Bitch, I’m just ageing! It doesn’t mean I got bad plastic surgery. This is just what happens’”. 

 

I have another quote to share. From Swedish actor Ingrid Bergman: "Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!" 

 

I cannot agree more!

Let Women Exist, Says Billie Eilish

Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish (right) is taking on critics who apparently have an issue with how her style has evolved over the years. 

 

The 21-year-old posted a series of photos to her Instagram stories over the weekend and wrote: “I spent the first 5 years of my career getting absolutely OBLITERATED by you fools for being boy ish and dressing how i did & constantly being told i’d be hotter if i acted like a woman. 

 

Now when i feel comfortable enough to wear anything remotely feminine or fitting, i CHANGED and am a sellout”, the caption over a photo of herself continued. “And ‘what happened to her’ ‘OMG it’s not the same Billie she’s just like the rest’ blah blah blah”. 

 

Eilish went on to call out the “true idiots” and “bozos.” 

 

“LET WOMEN EXIST!” she retorted.

 

Hear! Hear! 

 

Interestingly, Eilish told Elle magazine in 2021 that she lost 100,000 social media followers after she shared a different look. 

 

“People hold on to these memories and have an attachment”, she told the publication. “But it’s very dehumanizing”. 

 

For the record, she swept the 2020 Grammys, becoming the youngest and first female artist to ever win all the Big Four categories (Best New Artist, Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Album of the Year). And she became the youngest artist to write and record a James Bond theme song for "No Time to Die".

Run, Tom, Run

I came across this Devin Nealy piece on Boing Boing, found it interesting and wish to share it here. 

In the age of dwindling cinema attendance, many film critics and fans have begun to proffer multiple theories pertaining to why audiences aren't tuning out in droves. One of the most widely accepted theories is how we're currently in a post-movie star era. Outside of a handful of established names, most actors can't summon audiences in the numbers they used to. 

One of the few celebrities that can generate public interest with their name alone is Tom Cruise. Since his debut, Cruise has essentially remained a top draw, irrespective of the era.

As one of the most recognizable stars in all of Hollywood, Cruise's distinct mannerisms are as iconic as his stature within the industry. Without question, one of Cruise's most defining mannerisms is his trademark run, which appears in copious movies across his catalog. 

In the video below, the YouTube channel "Scene It Reviews" explains why Tom Cruise's run is more important than most people realize:

Heidi Klum Transforms Into a Giant Worm

I had featured Heidi Klum in her Halloween costumes before. The supermodel and reality TV star pulls out all the stops for Halloween and she loves taking fashion risks. 

 

This year, she hit the red carpet of her 21st annual Halloween party held on October 31 in New York City, USA dressed as a giant worm with husband Tom Kaulitz escorting her as a fisherman. 

 

The outfit – a ringed sarcophagus from which only Klum’s eyes and mouth could be seen – looked like what might happen if the Michelin Man mated with a Slim Jim. It instantly set social media on fire, drawing amusement, confusion and revulsion in equal measure. To some, it was hailed as a performance art masterpiece; others saw it and demanded it instantly be killed with fire. 

 

Whichever way one felt about it, however, the worm proved impossible to turn away from. 

 

I suppose Klum is right – Halloween is all about transforming and being creative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday, Mohamed Salah was on target twice (11, 40) as Liverpool secured their first away win in the Premier League this season with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur.

 

A precious three points.

Met Gala 2022 Red Carpet

It seems that social media has killed good taste at the Met Gala! 

It was once touted as the epitome of chic, but celebrities attending New York’s premier fashion event are now more likely to be playing it for laughs – and Likes! 

If you don’t know, the Met Gala is fashion’s biggest night of the year. Returning to the traditional first-Monday-in-May slot on the social calendar for the first time in three years, i.e. May 02, this year’s party made it abundantly clear that the fashion world is not remotely chastened, dimmed or otherwise humbled by the pandemic. 

From Katy Perry as a hamburger to Rihanna as the pope, the party has given us the most unforgettable celebrity looks of the past decade, and this year’s event showed no sign of slowing down. 

Modern party dressing, trailblazed by the Met, is dressing up as fancy dress rather than dressing up as an aspiration to elegance. Fashion’s biggest night of the year is now entirely about looking spectacular, rather than stylish. 

Much is made of the ultra-exclusive invite list of the Met Gala where individual tickets are reported to cost over $30,000, but what happens inside the party is entirely beside the point. 

Actually, the real party happens on Instagram, and everyone is invited. Kim Kardashian’s 300 million followers saw her in the very dress Marilyn Monroe wore to sing Happy Birthday to JFK in 1962 before her table mates did!

Kim Kardashian in Marilyn Monroe’s ‘happy birthday’ dress. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue 

The cartoonish wackiness is so prevalent. Jessie Buckley, in a Schiaparelli suit, wore a fake moustache. Gigi Hadid wore a burgundy latex bodysuit under a vast puffer jacket. Dakota Johnson and Jared Leto came as identical twins, down to their red satin bow ties and crystal hair barrettes. 

And beneath all that irreverent silliness, the pursuit of impossible levels of physical perfection is a deadly serious business. Kim Kardashian revealed that because Monroe’s dress was a historical artefact and could not be altered, she lost 16lbs in three weeks to fit into it. 

Cara Delevingne, taking the dress code of Gilded Glamour literally, removed the top half of her Dior morning suit on the red carpet to reveal nothing but gold body paint with matching nipple covers. Emily Ratajkowski, similarly, chose vintage Versace – it was last worn by model Yasmeen Ghauri on a 1992 Versace runway and making its Met Gala reappearance a moment around three decades in the making – made entirely of beads and chains above the waist, without even a wisp of fabric. The approval of the arbiters of good taste has been replaced by social media’s rapacious appetite for bare flesh.

Cara Delevingne: Literally gilded. Photo: Matt Baron/Rex/Shutterstock

Emily Ratajkowski: Vintage Versace. Photo: Neville Marriner/ANL/Shutterstock

Jessie Buckley goes all out in pinstriped Schiaparelli with a fake moustache. Photo: Matt Baron/Rex/Shutterstock

Dakota Johnson with a twinning Jared Leto and Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele. Photo: John Shearer/Getty Images

Bella Hadid in a Burberry corset dress. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue 

Amber Valletta shines. Photo: David Fisher/Rex/Shutterstock

Ariana DeBose celebrates her Oscar win in Moschino. Photo: David Fisher/Rex/Shutterstock

I’m glad Kate Moss didn’t follow the crowd! The supermodel’s attire was a floor-length black gown by Burberry, accessorised with old-school understatement, with sheer black tights, heeled sandals and a red lip. That's my kind of beauty! 

Kate Moss: Back to black. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue

Tattoo Artist Inks Infamous Will Smith 'Slap'

The moment that Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at this year's Oscars ceremony has been immortalised – as a tattoo lover got a frame from the video inked on his leg. 

It was the moment that defined the event on March 28, and since then a video of the incident has been shared everywhere. 

A tattoo artist working in Birmingham, UK was approached by a customer who said he wanted to get a tattoo to remember the moment. Jon Arton thought that was hilarious so together they decided which frame from the video they wanted, and soon he had it immortalised in ink on the anonymous customer's leg. 

Jon, who completed the tattoo on Sunday, added: "It’s a weird, interesting and crazy thing – I don’t think there’s a right or wrong side, it’s just an interesting thing some celebrities have done".

As far as I know, someone else too got a tattoo of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock: 

The red-hot Reds took charge of their Champions League quarter-final against Benfica on Tuesday as they took a 3-1 lead after the first leg in Lisbon, Portugal. 

Ibrahima Konate opened the scoring for Liverpool with a close-range header from a corner in the seventeenth minute before Sadio Mane tapped home in the thirty-fourth minute to put the visitors in command. 

Sport Lisboa e Benfica ComC MHIH OM managed to pull a goal back, but Luis Diaz added a third in the eighty-seventh minute to put Liverpool in sight of the semis.

This was a near perfect start to a mammoth run of games for the English side that will define their season, with the return leg sandwiched between Sunday's game against Premier League leaders Manchester City and an FA Cup semi-final against Pep Guardiola's side (again) six days later.

Body Language Analyst Reacts to "Slap Chris" Incident

Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards after the comedian made a joke about the Oscar winning actor's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. 

That “moment of madness” from him – read my post “Slap Chris” published March 29 – didn’t end just there. 

Not long after that, there was Smith's tearful best actor acceptance speech, in which he (left) apologized to the Academy and his fellow nominees – but then, at the same time, he had defended his action, even framing himself as a protector of his family. And he received a standing ovation. 

He then made a show of posing and dancing with his best actor statuette at the after-show party in classic Big Willie style, as if nothing had happened. 

And yet, on Friday, he resigned his membership from the Oscars Academy and had acknowledged how "shocking, painful and inexcusable" his “Slap Chris” stunt was. 

Let me say here that I’m not a fan of Will Smith but this video which offers an analysis of body language and behavior of that “moment of madness” from the actor is worth checking out – more so, when some people have speculated that it was all staged!

Slap Chris

The best browser games can be your secret anti-boredom potion between meetings, and they won't leave a footprint on your precious drive space. You also won't need a gaming PC to take advantage of them. 

There are countless great games you can run on anything from an old work desktop to an ancient laptop. They may not have the flashiest graphics, but these browser games make up for it in pure fun. Browser games require almost no effort to get going, and like locally installed games there's almost certainly something for everyone. 

Not only are there lots of multiplayer browser games, but many single-player ones are the early, free builds of games that went on to be popular full releases. If you're ready to get out there and kill some time, these are the games you should play. Besides, browser games are largely free to play! 

Anyway, Slap Chris caught my attention! It's just a simple new browser game by Tyler Hamilton in which you move an emoji hand to slap Chris Rock! 

The game helpfully measures your slap speed and rewards you appropriately. 

Sure, we shouldn't condone violence, blah blah blah…but when Will Smith mounted the stage to slap presenter Chris Rock at the Oscars on Sunday – it made the NEWS! 

It was apparently motivated by the latter’s jibe at his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s alopecia: “Jada, GI Jane 2, can’t wait to see it”! 

Rock’s joke referenced the 1997 war film in which Demi Moore, playing a navy lieutenant signing up for a reconnaissance, famously shaves her head into a close crop. In 2021 Pinkett Smith posted a video on Instagram in which she revealed her closely shaven style, writing “Mama’s gonna have to take it down to the scalp… Me and this alopecia are going to be friends … period!” 

The Oscars are always searching for a viral moment, and this slapping incident was IT! 

Anyway, the couple (left) have been targeted by gossip columnists for some time and the quip couldn't be considered a shock and awe moment! 

I mean if Will Smith is openly OK with his wife’s boyfriends, what’s the big deal about her hair loss, right?