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05 Feb 2009 22:57

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Sports: Michael Phelps’ lifetime financial goal – can he still hit it?

  • $100 million in sponsorships during his lifetime source
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05 Feb 2009 22:53

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Sports: The Michael Phelps “Potgate” fallout is starting to hit

  • one company is pulling out of their sponsorship deal with Phelps – Kellogg’s, which featured the swimmer on boxes of Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes.
  • three months the suspension Phelps faces from USA Swimming for the incident. He also loses a $1,750 monthly stipend – which, if he loses any more sponsors, might hurt. source
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05 Feb 2009 21:23

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U.S.: Facebook allows the class creep to go to new depths of creepiness

  • It started with Facebook High school student Anthony Stancl of New Berlin, Wisc. (outside of Milwaukee) was arrested recently for a disturbing scheme where he pretended to be a girl on Facebook. Know how they tell you to watch out for sexual predators on MySpace and Facebook? Well, it’s kinda like that, but worse. “She” would allegedly talk to the boys in his class and convince them to send the “girl” naked photos of themselves …
  • It ended with blackmail … which “she” would then use to blackmail the students in question into giving him (not “her”) sexual favors. “She” would threaten to distribute the photos to friends or put them online. He apparently did this a number of times between February 2007 and November of last year, and faces up to 300 years in prison. And now we need to take a shower, because we feel very dirty for writing about this. source
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05 Feb 2009 21:11

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Music: M.I.A. will be F.I.A. at the Grammys – on her due date!

  • She’s nine months preggers, kids. The “Paper Planes” singer with sketchy political ties has accepted an opportunity to perform at the Grammys this Sunday, where “Planes” is nominated for Record of the Year. But while that’s great and all (and props to the Grammy organizers for actually getting someone cool this year), she’s so pregnant right now that she’s about to burst. If she bursts during her performance, we may burst too – with laughter. source
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05 Feb 2009 21:06

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Offbeat, Tech: Bill Gates + mosquitoes + malaria presentation = WTF?

The ex-Microsoft CEO unleashed a swarm of skeets on a crowd. It went over like a BSOD. source
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05 Feb 2009 11:45

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Biz: Donald Trump: We’re in a depression. He says so.

  • Let’s face it, Larry, we are in a depression. If they didn’t do the bailout, you would be in depression No. 2 and maybe just as big as depression No. 1, so they really had to do something.
  • Donald Trump • talking to Larry King about the economy and the banks. Trump says that the executive salary caps are necessary and that the big problem is that banks aren’t loaning out their bailout money and instead are using it for other things. • source
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05 Feb 2009 11:33

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Music, Offbeat: Meet the polka superstar with an absurd number of Grammys

  • 17 Grammys for Jimmy Sturr, which is kind of a lot – but it’s all in minor categories
  • ≈130 albums Jimmy Sturr and his orchestra have recorded, which is definitely a lot source
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05 Feb 2009 11:00

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Sports: LeBron’s feat, in the words of a Cleveland Cavaliers teammate

  • A pretty impressive triple-double. I bet his fantasy owners are pretty happy.
  • Wally Szczerbiak • A teammate of LeBron James in Cleveland. The Cavs, at 39-9, are in the midst of a pretty killer season, helped, no doubt, by James, who has 21 career triple-doubles. • source
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05 Feb 2009 10:56

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Sports: LeBron James shows off – again – why he’s a great player

  • 52 points last night, and yet another triple-double, for LeBron source
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05 Feb 2009 10:50

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Biz, Culture: Kevin Bacon: Great actor, one of Bernard Madoff’s victims?

  • Six degrees of separation wasn’t enough. Bacon is just one of the famous names that shows up on a 162-page document listing those who lost money in Bernard Madoff’s investment scheme. Madoff, currently being held under house arrest in New York City after losing more than $50 billion in investor’s money, is accused of masterminding the biggest financial fraud in history. source
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