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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: These Foolish Games
Richard Lawson · 10/11/11 01:02PMLast night's episode of They Shoot Housewives, Don't They? was one of those off-the-rails corkers that only comes around once in a blue moon on these shows, so naturally they're splitting it up into two installments.
Reddit's Child Porn Scandal
Adrian Chen · 10/11/11 12:11PMTips for Laid-Off Wall Street Losers
Hamilton Nolan · 10/11/11 11:48AMEnlightened: A New Age of Comedy
Richard Lawson & Brian Moylan · 10/11/11 11:41AMProtesters Lay Siege to Senate Office Building
Jim Newell · 10/11/11 11:06AMDemi and Ashton Reunite, Freak Out, on Yom Kippur Camping Trip
Maureen O'Connor · 10/11/11 10:55AMThe Avengers: A Special Kind of Club
Richard Lawson · 10/11/11 10:14AMHere's a first trailer for the big Marvel mashup The Avengers, which puts together all the superheroes you've seen at the movies in the past few years and, well, the orgy begins.
Chet Haze's Hollywood Video Proves: Chet Haze Is Cool
Hamilton Nolan · 10/11/11 10:05AMWhich Famous Director Proposed to a Real Housewife?
Brian Moylan · 10/11/11 10:00AM
This Oscar-winning auteur popped the question to a Real Housewife, even though they're both already married. This singer is trying to start a scandal. And another musician is such a drunk she sleeps with a baby monitor so she won't die in her sleep. Sounds like a story a great director could turn into a movie.
Say Goodbye to College Radio?
Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 09:46AM
Today people across North America are celebrating College Radio Day—a brand-new holiday founded by two enthusiasts of college radio's typically "unique and fearless programming." On college radio, DJs can play Birthday Party songs before bluegrass songs and after Miles Davis songs, but also play Ke$ha songs if they want. On college radio, DJs can go "um" and "uhhhh" and it's okay, nobody fires them.
Who Broke the Speaking Rules at the New York Times?
Hamilton Nolan · 10/11/11 08:54AM
New York Times ethics cop Phil Corbett just sent out the following memo to the newsroom, reminding them about the paper's rules for paid speaking engagements. (Thomas Friedman, among others, has had trouble with this in the past.) An NYT source says "they don't send these reminders out unless someone breaks the rules or screws up." So who was it? Email me if you know.
Steve Jobs Was Challenging to Photograph, Say Photogs
Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 08:24AMDo Not Forbid the Stutterer in Your Class From Speaking
Hamilton Nolan · 10/11/11 08:21AMCondom Store's Latest Product Is 'Occupy Wall Street'-Themed
Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 07:02AM
Given that Occupy Wall Street's HQ has turned into a revolutionary sex-fest that would make Caligula blush (h/t Smiths), you might be worried that protesters will reproduce awful things like sexually transmitted diseases and tiny socialist babies. To help you rest better—and to make a little money—the Condomania condom store has begun selling protest-themed protective devices.
Porn-Making Gang Keeps Trying to Kidnap Saddam Hussein Lookalike
Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 06:24AMWorld's Most Notoriously Unfinished Hotel Finally Opening (Supposedly)
Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 05:16AM
A big, tentative congrats to North Korea, whose infamous Ryugyong Hotel (aka the "Hotel of Doom") is slated to open its doors in April 2012—only 24 years after its groundbreaking, and just in time for the 100th birthday celebration of O.G. Most Glorious Leader on High Kim Il-sung. Sadly, he won't be doing the ribbon-cutting because he died in 1994. But his ghost is expected to haunt and place bugs in some of the rooms.
Can Your Homemade Rockets Do This?
Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 04:47AMEverybody say hi to Qu8k ("quake"): An artisanal rocket made by Derek Deville that zoomed 121,000 feet above the surface of Planet Earth in only 92 seconds. Deville launched Qu8k on September 30 from Nevada's Black Rock Desert (the same spot where the Burning Man Festival of the One Percent takes place). The 14-foot rocket weighs 320 pounds, yet looks so skinny. Must be muscle mass.
Man Won't Let Cops or Fires Stop Him From Eating His Taco Bell
Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 03:52AM
After drinking enough to allegedly register a .227 on a blood alcohol content test, Florida person Matthew Falkner went to a Jensen Beach Taco Bell, ordered some tacos, then passed out in his pick-up truck while waiting in the drive-thru—just like you sometimes do! Taco Bell drive-thrus are comforting.
Even Antelopes Hate Bicyclists
Matt Cherette · 10/11/11 03:13AMHave you ever been waiting patiently to cross the street, then when it's finally your turn, there's some jerk riding a bike down the middle of the road and you wish you could just run out there and ram right into him but you don't, of course, because then you'd be injured and/or in trouble? Well, this South African Red Hartebeest (let's call him Buck Norris) knows nothing about this "timidity" of which you speak. [via Doobybrain]







