Occupy Toronto Infiltrated by Foot-Sniffer Who Passed Off His Urine as Energy Drink

Seth Abramovitch · 10/21/11 12:31AM

The revolution has spread past the 49th parallel and towards our friendly neighbors to the north: Occupy Toronto is only five days old, and already 2,000 have marched to the city center, with 100 of them having settled into a tent city in St. James Park. Sadly, however, the movement hit a slight bump on Thursday, as one demonstrator had pitched his tent in the grossest way imaginable.

China's Hit-and-Run Toddler Has Died

Seth Abramovitch · 10/20/11 11:56PM

Wang Yue, the two-year-old captured on video being run over twice in a Foshan market and ignored by bystanders, has died. The Guangzhou Military District General Hospital said she succumbed to her severe injuries shortly after midnight on Friday. [AP]

Cell Phones Don't Cause Cancer, If You Trust the Danish

Seth Abramovitch · 10/20/11 10:17PM

Great news, people who don't want brain cancer! A Danish study of 350,000 people over 18 years has found no link between that disease and cellphone usage. This contradicts the WHO's findings, who ruled they might cause cancer. [BBC]

1 in 100 Americans Made Suicide Plans

Seth Abramovitch · 10/20/11 09:45PM

If you're the kind of person who likes to casually drop Debbie Downer statistics into your holiday party conversations, here's some new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that will certainly be of interest to you: 8 million adults reported considering suicide at some point between 2008 and 2009, and 2 million actually made plans to do it.

These Protesters Will Lick Your Face

Seth Abramovitch · 10/20/11 09:00PM

They are the littlest, furriest, most adorable faces of the Occupy movement; or, as the NYPD sees them, target practice! Now, we can all coo over them over at Awwwccupy Wall Street, a Tumblr devoted to their ongoing crusade against the vast disparity of treats plaguing our nation.

Lawyer Behind Stupid Drive Lawsuit Explains How the Movie is Anti-Semitic

Seth Abramovitch · 10/20/11 07:50PM

The dumb lawsuit filed by Michigan resident Sarah Deming against the distributors of Drive because it wasn't Vin Diesel-y enough also claimed that the film was anti-Semitic. Specifically, the suit stated that Drive contained "extreme gratuitous defamatory dehumanizing racism directed against members of the Jewish faith, and thereby promoted criminal violence against members of the Jewish faith." If that assertion leaves you scratching your skullcaps, you aren't alone. Luckily, the legal mastermind behind the suit has been quite vocal about what he meant by that language — in the comments section of a movie blog.

Live Blogging Project Runway, Week 13

MisterHippity · 10/20/11 07:00PM

We've reached the second-to-last episode—time for the last four designers to journey home and make their final runway collections. Join us in the comments while we live-blog the action—and while you're at it, you can help us play the Tim Gunn Home Visit Drinking Game!

Battlestar Is Back, Baby

Richard Lawson · 10/20/11 05:30PM

It is, it really is! Also today: Matt Damon makes more plans to head behind the camera, a recent literary hit goes to TV, and something about Dallas.

Inequality Is More Popular Than Ever

Hamilton Nolan · 10/20/11 05:10PM

Here's the type of blatantly contradictory and self-harming political belief that Americans are famous for: during this recession, support for redistribution of wealth has actually gone down. (This is why every American political economist is for shit, historically.) Researchers publishing in Scientific American suggest the problem is that we are willing to throw the poorest members of society to the economic wolves in order to ensure that we always have someone to look down on:

Inseparable, Insufferable TV Hosts to Write Joint Memoir

John Cook · 10/20/11 04:14PM

Coffee marketers and morning-show hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are writing a memoir. Together. Because the fact that you see them on the TV together means that you want to read about them both at the same time! If you'd like to read about them separately, pick up Brzezinski's 2009 already written memoir All Things at Once and Scarborough's 2004 "part memoir, part political treatise" Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day. Maybe this new one will have awesome sex scenes, or something.

The Recipe for a Perfect LinkedIn Profile Photo

Brian Moylan · 10/20/11 03:58PM

Today the Wall Street Journal chatted with Nicole Williams, who is a "connection director." No, that's not what Heidi Fleiss got put in jail for. Williams works at LinkedIn, the social media equivalent of a "networking event" in a hotel conference room except without the sweaty cold cuts that bald guys are eating with their fingers.

Dropping Out of Community College Sure Is a Huge Waste of Money

Hamilton Nolan · 10/20/11 03:54PM

As the dying middle class sees its children swallowed by the student debt bubble as they desperately take out loans to afford college degrees from their likely substandard schools, it's worth remembering the fact that the vast majority of college students in this country are part-timers who will never graduate. You'll never guess how much money we're wasting on remedial English classes! From the LA Times:

Steve Jobs Regretted Wasting Time on Alternative Medicine

Ryan Tate · 10/20/11 03:46PM

Everyone else wanted Steve Jobs to move quickly against his tumor. His friends wanted him to get an operation. His wife wanted him to get an operation. But the Apple CEO, so used to swimming against the tide of popular opinion, insisted on trying alternative therapies for nine crucial months. Before he died, Jobs resolved to let the world know he deeply regretted the critical decision, biographer Walter Isaacson has told 60 Minutes.

No, Herman Cain Is Not Pro-Choice

Jim Newell · 10/20/11 03:27PM

Things keep getting better and better for Herman Cain, whose latest feat is winning today's Outrage of the Day contest! His poorly worded comments about abortion on Piers Morgan last night have led many to believe that he is actually pro-choice! Well, he's not. He just sucks at speaking.