Doesn't it seem like people are rude these days? It's totally not your imagination. Nor is it a simple garden-variety example of the human tendency to fallaciously generalize our own mundane experiences out onto the world at large. Not at all. It's a completely true trend, according to an official-sounding survey thing!
This actress is selling herself online to pay for her drug habit. This actress is servicing her famous boyfriend in public. And this actress might take drugs to fit into her wedding dress. No matter which stage of the relationship they're at, all these actresses are doomed.
The London riots are being blamed in part on the encrypted Blackberry Messenger service British youth are using to communicate. Blackberry manufacturer RIM has pledged to cooperate with the police. Now hackers have hit back, and are threatening to release sensitive information if RIM gives up rioters' Blackberry info.
The staff at The Ledbury, a 2 Michelin Star restaurant in London's Notting Hill, deserve some recognition for two separate acts of heroism during London's riots. A food blogger named Louise Yang wrote about an encounter at the restaurant where looters stormed in and began robbing patrons "around the fourth dish of the tasting course." Yang had a ring taken. Then the staff stepped in:
Remember Michael Kevin Lallana, the 32-year-old financial executive from Fullerton, California? You know, the guy who jerked off in a co-worker's water bottle at least twice because he had the hots for her? He was sentenced to six months in jail back in April, and yesterday he got off with a not-so-stiff fine:
The Ames Straw Poll this Saturday will gauge what Iowa Republicans think of the field of GOP presidential candidates, but there's a twist planned this year! For the first time, organizers are allowing write-in votes for as-of-yet undeclared candidates, like hard-praying Texas Gov. Rick Perry. This won't change the fact the poll is a pretty meaningless exercise. Unless, that is, Perry megafan Stephen Colbert and his freshly funded Super PAC have anything to do with it, as he explained on tonight's Report.
It seems like the Internet falls in love with a new time-lapse video on a daily basis, and yet it's always fun to see a new one with a twist. Ryan Killackey's "A Day in California" took 10,000 photos and 18 months of work to complete, but you'll only need about three minutes to enjoy the fruits of his labor in the video above. [via Laughing Squid]
In 2007, a 26-year-old Texas youth pastor named Thomas Jason Fortenberry organized a reality show-style activity for four, hand-selected young parishioners. All were minors, and girls. The game, as he'd devised it, was inspired by Fear Factor and involved drizzling large amounts of honey on them, after which they were instructed to "take a shower and wash the honey" off. No red flags there!
Since our economy is going to hell in a handbasket, why not distract yourself from the economic doom that is now upon us with this clip of Rep. Barney Frank letting out what sounded like a giant fart tonight while chatting with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC? As you'll see, his hips most definitely don't lie.
Jon Stewart opened tonight's Daily Show with a segment on the downgrading of the U.S. government's credit rating by Standard & Poors on Friday, which led to yet another stock market plunge today. Not surprisingly, Stewart had many targets at which to direct his rage and, as you'll see in the clip above, he took full advantage of the opportunity to do so.
A Phoenix man accidentally blew his dick off in a supermarket parking lot, after he tucked his girlfriend's "pink pistol in the waistband of his pants." According to a stone-faced police officer on the scene in this ABC15 report, the gun then accidentally discharged, sending a bullet directly through his penis and through his left leg.
This weekend brought a dark chapter to the Miss El Paso USA history books, as 21-year-old Lorena Tavera — who, as Miss El Paso USA 2008, was just five heartbeats away from the Miss Texas USA crown — was arrested on Friday for shoplifting a $69 blouse from a Dillard's department store.
Four separate law enforcement agencies were called to a Maryland Little League game on Tuesday night after as many as 50 parents and league officials got into a violent melee.
See that screenshot above? That's the nerve center for Operation Shady Rat, the newly notorious cyber attack possibly set up by some government-sponsored Chinese hackers. I just spent the last 30 minutes exploring it and managed not to get cyber-annihilated. No big deal. (Seriously, it wasn't.)
