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The Week in Celebrity Snapshots
Matt Cherette · 10/16/11 11:30PMSesame Street Hacked With XXX Content
Seth Abramovitch · 10/16/11 10:35PMTerminally Ill Man Mummified For New Reality Show
Seth Abramovitch · 10/16/11 09:26PM
Reality TV has certainly dabbled in ancient embalming practices before — Paula Abdul immediately springs to mind — but never, to my knowledge, has it been taken quite to these extremes. A terminally ill man with a longheld fascination for Egyptian burial rites donated his body to a documentary series about mummification on Britain's Channel 4.
Did iPhone's 'Find My Friends' Just Break Up Its First Marriage?
Seth Abramovitch · 10/16/11 08:15PM
If you set aside the five or so hours it took to download Apple's iOS 5 this weekend, you were richly rewarded with a suite of new functions for your favorite brain-cancer-hastening communications device. And none were niftier than "Find My Friends" — appointed in the finest iNaugahyde, it's an app that allows you to plot your friends on a map as if they were enemy ships on a blinking radar screen.
Scenes From Today's Martin Luther King Memorial Dedication
Lauri Apple · 10/16/11 04:39PMBreaking: Bankers Are Still Jerk-Offs
Max Read · 10/16/11 03:07PMDon't Burn Your Baby in the Oven
Lauri Apple · 10/16/11 02:43PMUsed Condom-Collecting Women Charged in Alleged Sex Attack Spree
Lauri Apple · 10/16/11 01:56PM
The three women in Zimbabwe accused of raping male hitchhikers during "ritualistic sex attacks" and saving up all the used condoms for creepy weird semen rituals have been charged with 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault, CNN reports. No word on what's happening to their condom collection, though. Is there a museum for such things? [CNN]
Four Mentally Handicapped Adults Found Chained in Philly 'Dungeon'
Max Read · 10/16/11 01:28PMCitibank Not Alone in Turning Away Account-Closing Customers
Lauri Apple · 10/16/11 12:51PMThis video shows some Occupy Santa Cruz (California) protesters trying to close their accounts at Bank of America and being told they can't protest and be customers at the same time. It says so in the U.S. Constitution!
Hotel Fires Employee for Loving His Country
Lauri Apple · 10/16/11 12:22PMZachary Quinto Casually Outs Himself
Max Read · 10/16/11 11:31AMMinnesota Company Maybe Didn't Make the 'Steve Jobs Sweater' After All
Lauri Apple · 10/16/11 11:25AM
After Steve Jobs died, Bernhard Brenner—the founder of the Minneapolis-based clothing company Knitcraft—reportedly told the press that Knitcraft had manufactured the black St. Croix turtleneck sweaters beloved by the fashion iCon. Brenner claimed that Jobs sometimes called him up just to rave about his sweaters. Sales of St. Croix's $175 "Steve Jobs sweater" subsequently skyrocketed. But was it all BS?
Thousands of Protesters Occupy Times Square, Hundreds Arrested Across U.S.
Max Read · 10/16/11 10:44AMWatch Lady Gaga Play Marilyn Monroe to Bill Clinton's JFK
Max Read · 10/16/11 10:02AM"I'm having my first real Marilyn moment," Lady Gaga told the crowd at the "Decade of Difference" concert (celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Clinton Foundation) last night after wishing Bill Clinton a happy birthday and before launching into a rendition of "Bad Romance" cleverly retitled "Bill Romance." (Technically, the former president's birthday is in August.) That seemed to be where the "Marilyn moment" ended, as far as we know, though President Clinton seemed to enjoy it nonetheless: "I got nervous when Gaga said she was planning to have a Marilyn moment and I thought 'I will have a heart attack for my 65th birthday.'" [Yahoo]
This Video of NYPD Arresting a Woman at Citibank Certainly Doesn't Look Good
Max Read · 10/16/11 08:48AMLet's not jump to conclusions about this video, which (at about a minute in) shows a woman dressed in a business suit, carrying her Citibank checkbook, trying to leave her bank only to be dragged back inside and arrested by a plainclothes NYPD officer.
U.S. Reportedly Ditching Iraq Entirely in January
Max Read · 10/16/11 08:07AMAirlift Hand Sanitizer to Occupy Wall Streeters Posthaste!
Lauri Apple · 10/15/11 04:46PM
The New York Daily News reports that the Occupy Wall Street protesters of New York City—the most hygienically sound municipality in all of North America—need to start using hand sanitizer if they wish to avoid succumbing to infection and disease-death. (The same paper once reported that hand sanitizer is a lie, but don't let that stop you from using it.)










