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03 Jul 2009 12:06

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Offbeat: These flight attendants sure know how to wear body paint well

  • This video sure raised some eyebrows. Somehow, having stewardesses and pilots wearing nothing but some well-placed paint and seat belts on this Air New Zealand flight safety video makes the rapping flight attendant seem super-passe. source
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03 Jul 2009 11:54

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Offbeat: Note to teachers: Don’t mix up classroom memories with sex tapes

  • It goes from my son, straight to her on the couch. My son’s reaction was, ‘Dad, is that Ms. Defanti?’ …We were up till midnight doing the ‘birds and the bees.’
  • “Joe,” a parent who did not wish to be identified further • Describing the awkward situation he was placed in when a video of classroom memories he and his son were watching switched to a sex tape featuring the teacher. The teacher at Jackson Elementary in Elk Grove, Calif., had a lot of ‘splaining to do, but it was unlikely that she would get fired. • source
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03 Jul 2009 11:43

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Biz, U.S.: The bloodshed at banks is only getting worse this year

  • 52 banks around the country have failed this year
  • 7 banks were closed by the FDIC on Thursday alone source
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03 Jul 2009 11:37

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Offbeat: Meet torsoman. Despite his lack of limbs, he’s quite the athlete.

Nick Vujicic can swim, surf, play soccer, kick (with his nub of a foot) and play golf. And you’re sitting on your butt eating Cheetos. source
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03 Jul 2009 11:22

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Tech: Is leaving MySpace for Facebook somehow racist?

  • The fact that digital migration is revealing the same social patterns as urban white flight should send warning signals to all of us. It should scare the hell out of us.
  • Internet smart person Danah Boyd • On the uncomfortable truth that people are going to Facebook instead of MySpace, and those still on MySpace are the equivalent of city-dwellers during the white flight era. Is some sort of racism going on? Are people under the assumption that people on MySpace are lower-class cretins? We argue that it’s because MySpace isn’t a place for friends anymore. • source
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03 Jul 2009 11:15

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World: So much for avoiding a diplomatic crisis with the UK, Iran

  • They’re going to try those British embassy staffers. WTF? Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati (who, for a frame of reference, is this guy) announced the news today during prayer services. “And then some people in the UK embassy,” he said, “who had a hand in the disturbances, were arrested and will surely be put on trial.” The UK is pissed; the European Union plans to show solidarity in getting Iran to let go of those diplomats. And everyone else in the world is trying to tell Iran that they can’t shift the blame this time. source
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03 Jul 2009 10:58

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Culture: OK Magazine has taste? Over Michael Jackson’s dead body

  • $500,000 to show The King of Pop dead source
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03 Jul 2009 02:45

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U.S.: California’s recalled ex-Gov. Gray Davis doesn’t look so bad now

  • Nobody seems to understand that the economy is like the tide. When you’re in high tide no one thinks low tide is coming. Sometimes a crisis requires people to rethink how we got in this mess. That’s a healthy process.
  • Gray Davis • Who was recalled loudly and publicly in 2003 due to what were seen as some faulty economic policies. Now, seeing things from the outside in a much scarier situation, he’s glad that he’s not in the middle of this storm and stands behind his policies, but isn’t in the mood for vindication. “Every governor is faced with an economic challenge if they serve long enough,” he said. • source
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03 Jul 2009 02:26

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U.S.: Speaking of Texas police, they’re smarting over a Fort Worth gay bar raid

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03 Jul 2009 02:18

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U.S.: Next in the police-messing-with-good-samaritans file …

  • previously As you might remember, an ambulance in Oklahoma was pulled over by a police officer while he had a patient inside after the officer believed he was flicked off by an EMT. That situation was very he-said-he-said.
  • now A church pastor in Texas was arrested for obstructing the duties of a police officer during a traffic stop. During the incident, the pastor was tased by an officer near a church. This situation? Also very he-said-he-said. source
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