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Photoshop Online

By now most people should have heard of, if not tried out, PhotoshopExpress. Those smart people at Adobe have been paying attention to the ever growing trend in Web Apps and have come up with a nice little web broswer based version of Photoshop. As it currently stands you're not able to do anything as slick as the healing tool and you don't have layers, but you can do some nice simple edits to your photos. What's really fun is you get 2GB of free storage to upload images, a free web gallery to share and check out other users and more importantly all those bad images you took with your phone and then send direct to Facebook can be accessed and edited from your web browser. Now that's gold in itself.

Ice Picks & Wayward Children

It's hard to comprehend what would possess anyone, let alone a mother, to request a lobotomy on a child, but that's exactly what happens as Howard Dully tells the story of his youth. My Lobotomy: A Memoir is a beautifully told story of the family and events that lead up to a boys 12 year old birthday and the harrowing life that ensues. In the 1970's Dr. Walter Freeman thought he has found the cure to Schizophrenia amoung many other mental health disorders, by performing a Transorbital Lobotomy. This procedure was performed without the presence of a surgeon on the majority of unfortunate patients and even on Dr. Walter Freeman's desk in his office, giving Electroshock Treatment as the anaesthetic. But this book isn't about the good doctor, it's about a boy who had a strong bond wth his mother, who sadly dies while he's still a child. How his overtly disobedient behavior and lack of interest in school are blown out of protion by a step mother with little patience and understanding and a father working three jobs to support the new larger family. Written with feeling and comprehension of what could possibly have lead to a little rascal getting more punishment than help, this is a great read and a travesty that it comes from experience rather than imagination.