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10 Jun 2009 12:02

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Offbeat: The English language has a pretty lame millionth word, guys

  • Web 2.0 The millionth word added to the English language, which is just awful and annoying. source
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07 Jun 2009 23:06

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Offbeat: Infomercial junk: The Wearable Towel snuggies into your life

  • Not content with blankets with sleeves, America now has a new option: A towel with arm openings that begs for levels of parody not yet seen in our society. You can wear it like at toga! How can you not love this freaking towel?source
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07 Jun 2009 11:30

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Offbeat: A 90-year-old woman, saved by a rubber duckie

  • She was stuck in her bathtub for three days. Shirley Madsen of Walnut Creek, Calif., who just turned 90, debated between taking a bath eating dinner. She chose the bath, which proved to be a mistake, as she could not lift herself out of the bathtub. She spent three days stuck in the tub, preventing dehydration by drinking water out of a rubber duckie. When she was finally found, she had a deep tissue bruise, two bedsores and dry skin. But the rubber duckie saved her life. source
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06 Jun 2009 10:19

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Music, Offbeat: A born-again hooker weds a born-again rocker. Hey, why not?

  • Former Las Vegas prostitute Annie Lobért founded the organization Hookers for Jesus, which tries to convince prostitutes that there’s a better way to live. source
  • Oz Fox, guitarist with the Christian hair metal band Stryper, best known for albums “To Hell With the Devil” and “In God We Trust,” married Lobért last night. source
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05 Jun 2009 10:46

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Offbeat, Tech: The Palm Pre is pretty awesome, but can it cut the cheese?

Palm Pre Cuts the Cheese from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

  • The answer, according to this video that uses Bryan Adams amazingly, is yes. It can cut the cheese. Want a slice?source
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03 Jun 2009 10:27

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Offbeat: We talk about zombies and pirates too much; here’s a vampire story

  • Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey pleads guilty to harrassment. The 45-year-old Sharkey, who’s not only a “vampire” apparently but a creep, pleaded guilty to harassment charges involving a teenage girl he met on MySpace. If that’s not good enough, he once ran for Minnesota governor under the “Vampyres, Witches and Pagans” banner. He should have waited. Tim Pawlenty isn’t running again and he might have had a shot. Now he’s just a laughingstock. source
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02 Jun 2009 10:53

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Offbeat: Police: Teaching your children to be armed robbers not a good idea

  • All of us should be disgusted by this. This is absolutely not how to raise your children.
  • Phoenix police Sgt. Phil Roberts • On the plight of Cynthia Roberson, who taught her children, ages 12 and 14, all the skills they needed to commit acts of armed robbery – 20 in all. The victims, mostly between the age of 13 and 20, were beaten and assaulted in an attempt to raise money for rent and car insurance. Roberson guilted her sons into it. Jesus. • source
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02 Jun 2009 10:42

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Offbeat: Long-suffering farmers: Watch out for the giant 600-foot jellyfish

This 600-foot beast convinced us of what we already knew: crop circles are probably man-made by massive nerdlingers. source
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01 Jun 2009 22:40

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Offbeat: Turning trash into highly-zoomable photorealistic art

Chris Jordan likes taking data about our how we waste, scaling it up as large as possible, zooming out and creating works of art. He rules. source
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01 Jun 2009 10:02

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Offbeat, Tech: University in Tokyo: We’ll give you an iPhone, but there’s a catch

  • Your GPS will catch you if you’re skipping class. It’s borderline brilliant and borderline evil, but Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo will give students of its School of Social Informatics for both classes and truancy reasons. As the university is one of the most prestigious in the country, attendance is very important, and now they have a better way to check it on those 550 students than notes from doctors or forged notes from classmates. There’s one loophole – a student could have their buddy bring their iPhone to class – but it’s unlikely because iPhones aren’t cheap. source
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