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16 Jul 2010 10:33

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Offbeat: Awkward Stock Photos: Sometimes an idea just sucks, guys

The problem with stock photos sometimes is that they really suck. Some are just so bad that nobody would ever use them. Hence, this site. (Hat tip Charles Apple) source
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16 Jul 2010 10:22

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Music: Vampire Weekend’s cover model: I’m suing you jerks!

  • The thing about this photo, which Vampire Weekend made the cover of their second album, is that it looks like it could’ve been taken at any moment in the last year. People like this still exist. But no, it was taken in 1983. And now, Kirsten Kennis, the presumably middle-aged woman in the photo, has reportedly sued the band to the tune of $2 million, claiming the photographer forged her signature on the contract and the band never verified it was hers. source
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16 Jul 2010 10:09

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World: The Vatican pissed off lots of people with their female priest rules

  • When he comes to Britain, there will be people who are deeply offended. I feel offended by it as a woman.
  • Catholic Women’s Ordination representative Pat Brown • Speaking with anger about the Vatican’s decision to label the attempted ordination of a female priest a “grave crime.” Because, well, they put it in the same category as child sexual abusers in the church, at the same time child sex abuse was in the news! Were they trying to slip it under the rug and hope nobody would notice? An awful decision; they really don’t get it. source
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16 Jul 2010 09:51

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World: Iran hit by large terror attack, still manages to blame U.S.

  • what A back-to-back series of suicide bombings, claimed by the Jundallah militant group, killed at least 27 people and injured at least 270.
  • who? For some reason, Iran is trying to blame the attacks on the U.S. and U.K., saying they funded the terror group. source
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16 Jul 2010 09:35

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U.S.: We slept through this: A tiny quake startled the D.C. area

  • 3.6 magnitude earthquake hit D.C.; that’s not a metaphor, guys source
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