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"Jill Carroll 'Letter from Baghdad: What a Way to Make a Living' "

"UCLA students urged to expose 'radical' professors" ("A conservative alumni group dedicated to "exposing the most radical professors" at the University of California at Los Angeles is offering to pay students $100 to record classroom lectures of suspect faculty.")

WSJ on journalists and their weak basic math skills (via: Business Week)

"Blind woman regains sight after heart attack"

"Snapple releasing flavored tea bags"

Subway poster boy Jared blames past weight problems on Nintendo ( "I can trace it back to when I was given the best birthday present of my life: a Nintendo.") (via: Fark)

Gawker: "Blind Item Guessing Game, Continued: The Billionaire, the Yacht, and the Hookers" ("Hilton had worked as a “prostitute” on billion-nerd Paul Allen’s yacht during the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.")

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Random News: Bubble / Arrested Development / Pluto / Antonio Davis / Gamer Death / Sony - Dell / Wendy's Finger Scam / Weed Dealing Priest

Big theater chains refuse to show Soderbergh's "Bubble" ("Some cinema chains in America are refusing to show Steven Soderbergh's new movie Bubble because it's being released in a new way -- in theaters, on DVD, and via pay-per-view all at once.") / Mark Cuban weighs in on the debate of ending release date windows for movies

Arrested Development likely headed for the chopping block ("He suggested that "Arrested Development" might be an especially good fit for premium cable channel Showtime, where the comedy's current average audience of just over 4 million viewers would rank it as a major hit.")

"Profile of girl who named Pluto"

"Annihilate Your Coworkers With A Rubber Band Gatling Gun" (via: Digg)

What really happened in the Antonio "Nice Guy" Davis vs. Bulls fans incident. Nothing. ("At this point some security comes over, and another fan stands up to tell the wife to “Sit down and shut up.” She immediately walked over to him and started pointing in his face, which caused the fan to grab her finger. ")

"Men enjoy others' misfortune more than women - study"

"Man Said to Fake Death, Keep Child Support"

Major media outlets misreport suicide of gamer (via: Digg)

"Couple gets long sentence in finger scam" ("A couple who planted a human finger in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's fast food restaurant was sentenced in California on Wednesday to nine years in prison.")

"Bulgarian police have arrested an elderly village priest on drug charges after he refused to stop growing marijuana"

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Milliondollarhomepage.com jacked by russian hackers (via: Digg)

Worst sports song ever? "Sweet Shaun Alexander" - remake of "Sweet Home Alabama"

"Sexual orientation determines what people would they do if they unexpectedly received $100,000"

"Report: Inmate Loses Weight, Escapes"

"Woman Poses Naked on Car at Auto Show "

Deadspin breaks down the flurry of comments on Ben Roethlisberger's blog

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Random News: eBay Jobs / Bad Diet / Jessica Alba / Wackiest Conspiracy Theories / Mark Cuban / Blogger / Bettis / Portis / Cloning / anti-Kinkos / Dentist

Using eBay to land a new job ("Rocket Scientist seeks job; Space, UAV, Golf; Has BS" / Starting Bid: $46,728.75) (via: Digg)

Kid who only ate fries, beans and toast dies at age 20 (via: Fark)

"Jessica Alba Gets Her Hair Done"

Top 10 Wackiest Conspiracy Theories (via: Fark)

Will Arnett on Conan with Gawker reference (Video) (via: Gawker)

Mark Cuban's "Ref Stats Update" (The average number of travels called this year is 2.49. (Thank you NBA  for eliminating the “why don’t you call traveling, it’s a bad example” emails!) This compares to 2.1 at the end of last year.)

" There is no such thing as a blogger"

Pittsburgh man has heart attack after Bettis fumble on one yard line

Clinton Portis recaps all his press conference personas ("To, at last, close the book on our man Clinton Portis and all his press conference personas from the last year, the man himself has finally updated his personal Web site with a detailed timeline, with biographical sketches, of each fraction of his tortured soul.")

"Clonaid to defrocked Korean clone researcher: we'll hire you!"

"Disaffected: an anti-Kinko's videogame"

"A dentist has been banned from working after allowing her unqualified boyfriend to carry out dental work on patients in her surgery"

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"Why do we nod our heads for "yes" and shake them for "no"?"  (via: Digg)

Bol on being a pro blogger (...people are always interested in how much money I make. Without getting too deep into specifics, I'll say that I make so little that it wouldn't be worth any of you all's time to try to get into this business.") (I will soon be leaving my regular job that pays alright and begin focusing on Prefix. I expect to lose money for a while.)

Jessica Simpson sporting a black eye?

Bloggers at Gothamist revolt over not being paid?

True pizza delivery stories (via: Fark)

S. Korean fencer booted from team for having plastic surgery

British youth pick fame over brains

"Sober driver flees police drink check, crashes"

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Random News: Toilet paper dispenser iPod dock / Tecmo Bowl / $100K at Disney World / KKK / Kilt Boy / Lohan & Moss / Charbucks

Toilet paper dispenser iPod dock

Poplicks: 30 Facts That Are Difficult For Me To Accept ("An advertising agency angered Johnny Cash's family in 2004 when it proposed using Cash's "Ring of Fire" for hemorrhoid cream ads.")

Using Tecmo Bowl to preview the NFL playoffs

"Kid spending a year and ($100k) at Disney World before college" ("A 19-year-old entrepreneur is blowing $100,000 out of his savings on spending a year at Walt Disney World before going away to college. ")

KKK offer membership to black man (via: Fark) ("About 25 years ago, Ron Stallworth was asked to lead the Ku Klux Klan chapter in Colorado Springs. Problem was, the outgoing Klan leader didn't know that Stallworth is black.")

"Kilt-wearing boy wins apology"

Lohan and Moss do some dancing at strip club Scores after leaving Dark Room (via: Yeeeah)

"Small coffee company can keep 'Charbucks' name"

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Random News: Nick Lachey / Jessica Alba / Million Dollar Home Page / Britney Spears / Elvis / Pistons Cheerleaders / Living in NYC / Telemarketers / Monopoly / Gervis Podcast / One Eyed Cat

Nick Lachey is looking for someone that looks like Jessica Alba, has slept with less than 10 guys and respects his music  (You can't have everything even if you're rich and famous.)

Washington Post on Million Dollar home page (via: Boing Boing) ("At exactly 1:42:28 p.m. EST today, Tew can post a "sold out" sign on the Million Dollar Homepage. (You can see it at http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ . ) The spiky-haired Brit put the last thousand pixels up for auction on eBay 10 days ago with a $1 starting bid for the lot. With 24 hours to go, yesterday's bidding reached $152,300, putting him over the million-dollar mark.")

Britney Spears atop worst dressed list

"A woman stabbed her boyfriend with a pair of scissors because he repeatedly played the Elvis Presley hit "Burning Love" (via: Fark)

Religious group American Decency Organization compares Detroit Pistons Cheerleader Calendar to prostitution

Give me $735,000 to buy a starter home in NYC please

Script to use on telemarketers

Variant rules for Monopoly

Jeff Jarvis is a fan of Ricky Gervais' (star of The Office, Extras) podcasts for the Guardian Unlimited and wishes the Times could do the same with someone like Seinfeld

Binge eating worse than being unfaithful?

"One eyed cat had medical condition"

Naked news hits Japan

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Random News: Chuck Norris Responds / Zelda / Super Mario / Myspace / Flickr Bar / Oprah / Paris Hilton / Beer Can Bracelets / Mark Madsen / Netflix

Chuck Norris responds to mass email on "Chuck Norris Facts" being spread over cyberspace

Best Zelda game?

Video of computer beating SNES Super Mario in 10:51 (fastest possible time)

"MySpace banning Revver?"

SF bar adds photo booth that feeds directly to Flickr (My friend told me about a very similiar idea last year although not necessarily using Flickr)

"The man who conned Oprah"

"Purse shaped like Paris Hilton's dead chihuahua"

"Beer/soda can bracelets"

NBA 9th Man/Hustle Guy/Horrible Dancer Mark Madsen blogs about text messaging Robert Horry last year (Horry's Text Message: "Who is this?")

Postal worker blamed for Netflix thefts

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Random News: Movie Theatres / Porn stars / Myspace / NFL

Movie theatre economics ("Popcorn reportedly makes 90 cents on the dollar, which means that the "large" popcorn they charge US$4 for cost them, at most, 40 cents....And some advertisers are paying more than $50,000 per screen annually, especially to theaters willing to pump up the volume to near ear-shattering level so that seated customers will pay attention. ") (via: digg)

Porn stars strut their stuff at awards

Myspace users revolt / Myspace up to 47.3 million users (160,000 new users a day) / USA Today on teens and Myspace (via: Largehearted Boy)

"NFL Says Goodbye To Its Boner Pills"

"Man Chooses Girlfriend Over Elvis"

"Canadian woman offers her dead body for display"

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Hipsters / Nick Cannon / Christina Milian Movie Trailer Law / Hipsters / Wal-Mart / $20 bill for $20,000 / NYC Real World Apartment / Drunk Skiing

A Byron Crawford special report on Hipsters ("A recent trend in hipster music has been to celebrate the absolute worst trends in black music, including R. Kelly's sad and bizarre "Trapped in the Closet" series and most Southern rap. While they pretend to enjoy this music, they're actually secretly mocking black people the same way they do poor white people and Mexicans.")

After break up with Christina Milian, Nick Cannon becomes addicted to white women / Avril Lavigne gets dolled up

"Connecticut State Representative proposes bill to require movie theatres in the state to post the actual starting time of a movie"

"Hipsters Must Die: 10 signs of the (Yindie) apocalypse" (via: Coolfer)

Wal-Mart Planet of the Apes controversy / CNET coverage (I think some of the Boing Boing comments are looking too deeply into it. My feeling is that it was likely someone pulling a prank and that it's racist.)

$20 bill with Del Monte sticker on it could fetch $20,000 (via: Digg)

The second NYC apartment on The Real World is up for rent ("The $35,000 monthly rental price is well below the $55K that MTV paid for it")

"Diamond earrings stolen from a college fundraiser were recovered when a Minnesota man tried to have them appraised at the jewelry store that donated them"

Olympian discusses difficulties of skiing drunk (via: Fark)

"Miffed man pays bank bill a penny at a time"

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