Part German, part Filipino and entirely hot model Sandra Seifert was a favorite among the pool of Miss Philippines 2009 candidates. But like so many other former and would-be beauty queens before her, Seifert’s past captured in still life came back to haunt her.

Was she, really, a post-opertive tranny? Did she do donkey shows in Tijuana? Did she date Criss Angel?

Nope.

But she did pose in FHM — not nude, just posed. Did I mention she was wearing a bikini?

Don’t believe me? See the photos here.

Congratulations Utah and Iran — you officially have competition for the title of “People Who Are Still Outraged by Exposed Ankles”!

FHM Model Disqualified from Miss Philippines Pageant

Besides cars, sushi and electronics (can you think about life without a PS3? Seriously, can you contemplate that circle of hell?) one Japan’s biggest export is anime.

Moving past its status as entertainment for kids with titles like Astroboy, Starblazers and Robotech, to arthouse appeal with movies like Akira and Ghost in the Shell, anime has moved into the mainstream. However, for all the appeal Gundam, Bleach and Cowboy Bebop has in the US, it turns out working in the anime industry is not all Hello, Kitty.

If anything, it’s long hours and low pay are more like being raped by the tentacles of a demon or robot — see, even references to hentai is something the whole family can gets.

But like today’s economy, it gets worse for anime otaku. Newer anime hits in Japan appeal to niche audiences with inside jokes that have almost no chance for foreign appeal. Some of the blame of the stagnation of the anime industry is blamed on piracy, but for the most part, it’s mostly due to it being an increasingly inbred — and irrelevant — art form.

Sad stuff indeed. But at least we’ll always have Evangelion and La Blue Girl.

Anime Ja Nai
Future of ‘anime’ industry in doubt

Breaking out of the overly spiritual stereotypes of Confucius, Buddhism and fortune cookies, women in Shanghai are proving they can be just as big gold diggers as anyone else in the evil, capitalist West.

To be fair, though, these women are much more poetic in their appeal for a sugar daddy — “Poverty has been torturing my soul and eating me alive”
– when they’re looking for cash and prizes love in the online classifieds.

After all, what could go wrong with a date from an Internet personals ad?

Potential suckers, er, suitors, who can lay the smackdown on the poverty that is this woman’s soul-torturing Jack Bauer need not apply if they are smokers, non-white, broke-ass, over 41 and are not height/weight proportional.

At least she’s honest: Beauty seeking millionaire