Via Yahoo News: File this under People Who Don’t Know They’re Orthodox Yet:

PARIS (AFP) - A Cambodian-born French woman faces prosecution for criminal damage after planting a kiss on a

painting by the American artist Cy Twombly, leaving the imprint of her lipstick on the otherwise immaculate white canvas.

Good thing it wasn’t an icon she kissed or people would think she was weird, right?

Thirty-year-old Sam Rindy, who visited the show with a friend on Thursday, told AFP that she was so overcome by the white canvas that she kissed it.

“I stepped back. I found the painting even more beautiful,” said Rindy. “The artist left this white for me,” she added.

And if she’d have just wiped off the lipstick before she laid one on the canvas, the art museum might have agreed with her. As it is, though, they think her actions could have defaced the “image” (if you can call an white canvas an image) and so she has to appear in court and pay a fine. I still think someone should get her a booklet or something. I mean, you never know.

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In other news of the weird:

“Tiny dog saves baby from rattlesnake” — Well, that was the headline on this Yahoo News story, anyway. When you actually read the story though, it seems like it should’ve been “Chihuahua Stupidity Comes in Handy.” Zoey the chihuahua got in the way of a rattlesnake and may have kept a baby from being bitten. But I can’t exactly make a Lassie moment out of that, since there’s nothing in the story to indicate that Zoey did it on purpose. And if the snake’s bites didn’t have any lasting effect on a five-pound dog, it doesn’t seem like it would have even bothered a one-year-old. But I suppose we ought to be sure. My next door neighbors have a perpetually-barking Yorkie that we could try putting in with a rattlesnake, just to find out. It’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make in the name of science.
• West Hollywood wants Bush and Cheney to be impeached. Oh well, it’s all settled then. I usually just sit around and wait for the rocket scientists in West Hollywood to instruct me on matters of great importance.
• Via Drudge – Privacy nuts start your engines — two employees working around sensitive information were implanted by a security firm with microchips so that their actions could be monitored.
  

  The “chipping” of two workers with RFIDs - radio frequency identification tags as long as two grains of rice, as thick as a toothpick - was merely a way of restricting access to vaults that held sensitive data and images for police departments, a layer of security beyond key cards and clearance codes, the company said.

  No word on whether the chips were etched “666″.