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14 Oct 2009 21:16

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Culture: Ralph Lauren, a model, and a bad chop: A major Photoshop scandal

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It must be awesome to be called fat. Especially when you're as rail-thin as Flippa Hamilton in this laughable Ralph Lauren ad. Photoshop Disasters nailed a huge scandal. Not bad, guys.
5'10", 120lb Hamilton's height and weight, which sounds pretty thin to us
size four the size deemed too big to fit into Ralph Lauren's clothing; fortunately, they can hilariously Photoshop you any way they want SOURCE
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14 Oct 2009 10:03

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Tech: World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee: Sorry about the slashes

  • Look at all the paper and trees that could have been saved if people had not had to write or type out those slashes on paper over the years — not to mention the human labour and time spent typing those two keystrokes countless millions of times in browser address boxes.
  • Tim Berners-Lee • Admitting that the double-slashes separating the http: and the web address were really kinda useless and unnecessary for the design of the Web. He goes further to apology: “There you go, it seemed like a good idea at the time.” Apology NOT accepted. This fills us with RAGE! • source
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14 Oct 2009 09:55

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Music: Bob Dylan’s “Christmas in the Heart”: Everything we imagined

  • Hearing Dylan tackle “Here Comes Santa Claus” with that voice of his is just unbelievable. You think he’s doing it ironically, but no, he’s doing it with the passion of a guy who can pull off that bizarre mustache he’s been rocking the last few years. Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times gave this album no stars. That’s how bad it is.source
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13 Oct 2009 21:33

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Offbeat: The Onion skewers anti-gay Christian conservatives (hilariously)

  • It’s a simple matter of logic, really. God made me who I am, and who I am is a cold, anti-gay zealot. Thus, I abhor gay people because God made me that way. Why is that so hard to understand?
  • Onion columnist Jane Kendricks • Explaining why she hates gay people in an article titled “If God Had Wanted Me To Be Accepting Of Gays, He Would Have Given Me The Warmth And Compassion To Do So.” It’s not her, it’s God. It’s news, it’s The Onion. And “not news” is doing good business right now, based on this article. • source
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13 Oct 2009 11:21

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Culture: Ducktales sounds funnier when it’s translated into Arabic

  • It’s bizarre to think, being kids of the ’80s, that cartoon theme songs came in anything but English, but they did; and they got translated into all sorts of bizarre languages. Like this Ducktales theme song redux, which sounds hilarious. Holy Taco as a bunch more lost-in-translation moments where this came from.source
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12 Oct 2009 11:30

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Culture: Was it Soy Bomb? Guy sneaks onto Paula Deen’s “Today Show” set

  • The guy is totally cooked. And Paula Deen and Al Roker seem more amused than anything else. The best part of this clip? After they spot the guy, they keep going.source
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12 Oct 2009 11:02

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Tech: The content industry’s long history of fearing new technology

  • Under such conditions, the tide of amateurism cannot but recede until there will be left only the mechanical device and the professional executant.
  • John Philip Sousa • In a 1906 article titled “The Menace of Mechanical Music,” making a passionate argument against the use of the player piano and the gramophone. In a way, he was right – people don’t sing kum-bay-ya around the campfire much anymore – but even he admitted his claims rang a little alarmist. Ars Technica has a great article covering the ways that mainstream content creators have freaked out over new technology. Other new ideas scorned? The photocopier, the VCR, home taping, MP3s, DVRs and Digital TV and radio. Amusing read. • source
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09 Oct 2009 23:07

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Culture: Marge Simpson porn fans rejoice thanks to creepy Playboy cover

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  • If you think she looks hot now, just wait until she starts talking in that sexy, nagging, bus driver voice which she’s perfected. Man, we can’t wait until some kid is just like, “Mommy, but I want a Playboy! The Simpsons are in it!”source
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07 Oct 2009 21:21

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Sports: Ah, high school football: A drunk fan smacks a ref with a chair

  • There’s a good two minutes of buildup before the pretty awesome payoff. Trust us, stick with it. Stadium chair-on-referee violence beckons.source
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02 Oct 2009 23:04

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Offbeat: Bring me Ted Williams’ severed head … so I can open a can of tuna

  • Ahahahahahahahahahahaha. Best story ever. It’s been a while since we’ve heard some #^!((& stuff that makes us glad to be alive. And thanks to this story about malpractice at the Alcor cryogenics lab that has the head of Ted Williams, we have it. According to a whistleblower, these guys reportedly:
    1. Took his head off with zero medical knowledge.
    2. Tried to remove a can of tuna stuck to the frozen head.
    3. Used Williams’ head for batting practice. Wow. WOW. source
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