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Where Did That 'What People Think I Do' Meme Come From and How Can It Be Stopped? [Memes]

Adrian Chen — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:33:26 EST

This was the week Facebook turned into the "What People Think I Do" machine. Has there ever been a meme both so ubiquitous and so uninteresting? This is the web 2.0 version of those awful "You might be a ___" chain emails of the nineties. More »

Which Reality Show Judge Showed up to Work Wasted? [Blind Items]

Brian Moylan — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:51:01 EST

This TV celeb reported to work totally hammered. This star is neglecting a failing TV project to try her hand at being successful in film, and this singer just hooked up with his step-sister. Seems he's working under the influence too. More »

Damn, That's a Tiny Chameleon [Animals]

Adrian Chen — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:38:34 EST

Here is the world's smallest chameleon, the Brookesia micra, recently discovered on an island off Madagascar. These little guys are only an inch long, fully-grown. More »

Bye Bye Pat Buchanan, You Old Racist [Adios]

Hamilton Nolan — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:37:02 EST

In a refreshing move, MSNBC has officially "parted ways" with irrelevant old coonskin-cap-wearing racist Pat Buchanan, whose "kindly old grandpa" demeanor has been enough to keep him on ostensibly mainstream political shows, despite the fact that he is, at heart, a white supremacist. More »

The Big Running List of 2012 Metal Endorsements [2012 Elections]

Max Read — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:24:08 EST

With the Republican presidential primary still bitterly contested between the four remaining candidates, every last endorsement counts — especially the crucial support of the Big Four of thrash metal: Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax. Megadeth's Dave Mustaine has come out in support of Rick Santorum. More »

Times Foreign Correspondent Anthony Shadid Dies in Syria [Media]

Hamilton Nolan — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:34:52 EST

Anthony Shadid, a 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner for his coverage of Iraq for the Washington Post, died of an asthma attack yesterday while reporting in Syria for the New York Times. He was 43 years old. More »

Joan Rivers Discusses Whitney Houston Jokes and Fucking Robert Mitchum on Tonight's Watch What Happens Live [Video]

Matt Toder — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:30:49 EST

Jon Stewart Examines Romney's Michigan Problem and Santorum Gets Sprayed with Santorum [Video]

Matt Toder — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:31:22 EST

Rate of Mixed-Race Marriage Has Doubled in the Past 30 Years [Loving]

Caity Weaver — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:10:00 EST

The Pew Research Center released the results of a study today that found the number of mixed race marriages has doubled in the United States in the past 30 years. The Pew website features a great summary of the report if you don't want to slog through all eight pages of data. Here are some of the most interesting findings, if you don't even want to slog through the summary. More »

Underwear Bomber Gets Life; Don't Curr [Terrorists]

Caity Weaver — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:07:00 EST

The would-be suicide bomber who, in 2009, failed to blow-up a Detroit-bound international flight but succeeded in burning his genitals was sentenced to life in prison without parole today. More »

America’s Giant Kids Demand Giant New School Desks [The Children]

Caity Weaver — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:02:00 EST

It's a great time to sell regular-sized furniture and label it "kid-sized," according to a recent CNN.com report. More »

Live Blogging Project Runway All Stars, Week 7 [Group Chat]

MisterHippity — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST

New York Fashion Week may have ended today, but that doesn't mean you can't attend an exciting fashion event tonight—and you don't need to be in New York, or even leave the house. All you have to do is join our group live blog of tonight's episode of Project Runway in the comments section under this post. Everybody who's anybody will be there … meaning, um, anybody can come. More »

Over Half the Pets That Died On Airplanes Last Year Flew Delta [The Deadly Skies]

Caity Weaver — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:05:00 EST

More pets died on Delta than any other air carrier last year, according to an Air Travel Consumer Report released by the U. S. Department of Transportation earlier this week. More »

Sarah Palin No Longer Afraid of Asians: Linsanity Cured Her [Linsanity]

Maureen O'Connor — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:34:23 EST

Outside her New York hotel today, a smiling Sarah Palin proved that she has finally conquered her possibly crippling fear of Asians. Jeremy Lin for leader of the free world. More »

Chris Brown and Rihanna to Collaborate On a Song [Horrible People]

Leah Beckmann — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:30:27 EST

Rihanna is currently working on "Birthday Cake (Remix)," due out soon, and who better to feature on the track than Chris Brown. Forget that he once violently beat Rihanna, resulting in injuries police called "horrific," for there are Birthday Cakes to remix. More »

Facebook Releases New Content Guidelines, Now Allows Bodily Fluids [Social Networks]

Adrian Chen — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:00:00 EST

Turns out that just hours before we published our inside look at Facebook's content moderation process, they released an updated version of their guidelines. We've obtained the newest document and are happy to report that you can now splatter your Facebook wall with pictures of bodily fluids. More »

Literary Cad Also Lied About Having Sex With His Students in GQ [Video]

Maureen O'Connor — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:44:55 EST

Turns out Sam Kashner, the Vanity Fair contributing editor currently embroiled in a literary cheating scandal, has been accused of erotic deceit before. During his one-year tenure as a William & Mary English professor, Kashner wrote an ostensibly non-fiction bodice-ripper about sex with undergrads. The campus responded with outrage: Nobody believed Kashner could have tapped that much ass. More »

Feast Your Eyes On This Tiny Monkey Biting a Transvestite's Ear [Found It]

Leah Beckmann — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:39:27 EST

I shamelessly swiped this post, but it is perfect and deserves recognition. The image comes to us from Thailand's Tiffany Show, which is billed as "the original transvestite show." More »

What If Kim and Lin Started Dating? [Jeremy Lin]

Leah Beckmann — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:12:19 EST

According to one of Kim Kardashian's friends, Kim's publicist has arranged for her to go on a date with Knicks demigod, Jeremy Lin. And while it's probable that there's no truth in this, it's kind of fun to imagine. Think of the Kimsane headlines. The Keeping Up With the KardashiLins reality show spin-offs. So much would stem from this coupling, it's almost too much to take Lin. More »

Inside Facebook's Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where 'Camel Toes' are More Offensive Than 'Crushed Heads' [Social Networks]

Adrian Chen — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:45:00 EST

Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year-old Moroccan man, is pissed at Facebook. Last year he spent a few weeks training to screen illicit Facebook content through an outsourcing firm, for which he was paid a measly $1 an hour. He's still fuming over it. More »

In My Day Gals Put Aspirin Between Their Knees, and Other Helpful Suggestions From the Contraceptive Debate [Video]

Leah Beckmann — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:39:00 EST

Representative Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, refused to allow women to testify at a hearing discussing a new regulation that requires employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Issa also denied a request to include a female witness to the hearing, stating: More »

Amanda Knox's Murder Mystery Memoir Sold For Four Million [Amanda Knox]

Leah Beckmann — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:32:03 EST

Hayden Panettiere muse and martyr, Amanda Knox has sold her memoir to HarperCollins for a cool four million bones. The rights to Knox's 2007 giallo in Perugia were put up for auction in a days-long battle between the top names in publishing. More »

Could This Gay Male Twin Fuck Story Possibly Be Real? [Twincest]

Maureen O'Connor — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:15:37 EST

Slate advice column Dear Prudence (which really is the prudest internet advice column) fielded a titillating question of dubious veracity today, from a gay man in a committed sexual relationship with his twin brother. Could this letter possibly be real? Let's discuss. More »

Times Media Reporter Brian Stelter Reveals Number-One Dating Secret [Relationship Advice]

Max Read — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:15:30 EST

Those of you who caught the news (revealed, no doubt coincidentally, in two different articles published on the same day) that New York Times media wunderkind Brian Stelter and NY1 traffic reporter Jamie Shupak are dating — and have been for five months, apparently — may be wondering what we wondered this morning when we heard: What is Brian Stelter's romance secret? (Stelter, after all, is known also for wooing CNBC reporter Nicole Lapin.) We emailed to ask, and Brian tells us: More »

Snooki's Getting Married (or Not) [Headlines]

Brian Moylan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:10:21 EST

"Snooki's Getting Married" is the headline in In Touch Weekly, the tabloid you buy when the supermarket is out of People, Us Weekly, Star, National Enquirer, and even OK!. Except there is absolutely no truth to it. More »

The Top 1% Must Stop Insisting They're Not Rich Right This Instant [Rants]

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:00:23 EST

Take a deep breath. Relax. Center yourself. Think about your bank account. Now. Are you ready for an article explaining why $196,000 per year is not that much money? Good. More »

Chris Brown's Pickup Line 'I promise I won't beat you!' Is a Promise He Probably Can't Keep [Chris Brown]

Leah Beckmann — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:04:30 EST

Commonly acknowledged worst living mouth-breather, Chris Brown has struck gold again. According to US Weekly, the belligerent singer has refined his pick-up lines so that they are more, uh, relevant. More »

Socialite Keels Over in the Middle of a Fashion Show in the Front Row [Rip]

Brian Moylan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:15:00 EST

Zelda Kaplan, the hard-partying 95-year-old socialite who has been a fixture of the New York scene since the '60s, collapsed right in the middle of the Joanna Mastroianni fashion show at Lincoln Center yesterday, just as the second model walked past her. She was later pronounced dead. This is the first time a fashion show has literally been deadly boring. More »

Which Famous Lady Has a String of Gentleman Callers Visiting Her Hotel Room? [Blind Items]

Brian Moylan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:10:00 EST

This famously sexy star has had every flavor of famous man stopping by her hotel room for a romp. This Real Housewives couple is close to breaking up and this famous couple is wearing promise rings. God, how annoying. More »

Russian Man Gives His Cat the Least Creative Chest Tattoo [Cat Tats]

Leah Beckmann — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:01:32 EST

Nothing to see here folks, just your typical Sphynx cat broadcasting "carpe diem" from his be-tatted chest. It's a cattoo! This man should be punished not just for animal abuse, but also for his poor taste in tattoos. More »

Christian College Full of Lice [Higher Learning]

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:30:25 EST

Of the ongoing battle against the stubborn head lice infestation at Indiana's Huntington University, one campus official says, "We feel like we're turning a good corner here." More »

The Colbert Report Mysteriously Suspends Production (UPDATE) [The Colbert Report]

Leah Beckmann — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:14:43 EST

Beginning with last night's rerun episode, which focused on Herman Cain, The Colbert Report has temporarily suspended production for at least a week. Seems like the suspension was a surprise to everyone involved with the show, considering ticketholders to last night's episode weren't notified of the cancellation until the last minute. More »

Politico Mistakes State Flag for Union Flag, Idiocy Ensues [Journalismism]

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:34:34 EST

See that flag? It is the state flag of Wisconsin. On the top there is the name of the state, "Wisconsin," and on the bottom is the year that Wisconsin was admitted to the union. More »

Jon Stewart Explains Mitt Romney's Lack of Authenticity to David Letterman [Video]

Matt Toder — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:35:50 EST

Bill Maher on Santorum's Politics: 'He Believes Life Begins at Erection' [Video]

Matt Toder — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:01:00 EST

2012 Is the Year of the Bible in PA; Previous 2,011 Years Not Years of the Bible [Church And State]

Caity Weaver — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:11:00 EST

A handful of Pennsylvania legislators claim they were duped into supporting a measure that would make 2012 "the Year of the Bible" and have asked the state House of Representatives to reconsider its adoption of the resolution. More »