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America’s Tallest Man

Posted 5/25/2010 9:30 am by

Igor Vovkovinskiy might only be 27, but he has had quite the journey.  He was born in Ukraine, but came to America at age 7 to get radical pituitary gland surgery to halt his unusual growth.  However, he didn’t stop growing until he was 7 feet, 8 inches tall.  That height, plus his status as […]

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Fight For The Right To Wear A Kilt

Posted 5/25/2010 9:00 am by

Hamish Jacobs wants to honor his family heritage.  His line came over to North America from Scotland in 1965, and as such, he’s pretty fresh and pretty proud of his family roots.  As such, he wants to do the traditional Scottish thing and wear a kilt to his high school graduation.  Unfortunately, principal Mark Beazer […]

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Man’s Mustache Tattoo Leads To Arrest

Posted 5/25/2010 8:30 am by

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Brandon Anthony Gonzales got East Side 13 tattooed on his face as a way to represent his gang affiliation.  It doesn’t seem like much of a stretch, considering that 13 is connotative of MS-13, the Mexican gang taking America by storm at the […]

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Ugly Cat, Free To Good Home

Posted 5/25/2010 8:00 am by

Meet the adorable Bertie, AKA Ugly Bertie.  He’s been called the ugliest cat in Britain, and with good reason.  The poor bugger is pretty miserable looking.  Despite his unappealing looks, vets from Bolton’ s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) have said the cat is in perfect health, and as such, […]

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4-Year-Old Michael Jackson Impersonator

Posted 5/25/2010 7:30 am by

When Wang Yiming was born prematurely, doctors told his parents that the best way to help his frail body recover physically and catch up to his peers would be to move his limbs to music.  Somehow, that has lead Yiming to become the sensation known as Xiao Bao, or Little Treasure, China’s youngest Michael Jackson […]

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Water Gun Fight Leads To Poison Leak

Posted 5/25/2010 7:00 am by

I’m not sure what the weather is like in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, but by now it’s probably starting to get warm.  Here in the mid-South, we’re already getting temperatures in the 90s, so I can only imagine it’s getting warm all over.  Except maybe Canada.  Either way, there’s not much better for a kid than […]

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Wal-Mart To Sell iPhone For $97

Posted 5/25/2010 6:30 am by

If you wanted to know for sure whether or not the iPhone 4G was coming out soon, and all those leaks didn’t give the news away for you, here’s the latest clue.  Wal-Mart, which sells iPhones and AT&T contracts at its stores, has decided it’s time to move units off the shelves and clear space […]

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Venus Williams: Stylishly Funky Tennis Champion

Posted 5/24/2010 10:00 am by

Venus Williams is a fashionista.  She’s got a degree in fashion, she owns and operates her own clothing line EleVen, and her interior design company (V Starr Interiors) that designed the inside of the athlete housing during New York City’s bid for the 2012 Olympics.  So, to say she has a sense of fashion is […]

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Adopted Children Stalked By Birth Parents

Posted 5/24/2010 9:30 am by

There’s a growing problem, and it’s all about Facebook.  Like you’d expect any other site to be the source of problems these days.  Once again, there’s more privacy concerns swirling around Facebook.  Now, rather than employers monitoring your status updates, it’s a question of adopted children getting stalked by their birth parents on Facebook.  Not […]

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Cleveland Cavaliers Coach Mike Brown Fired

Posted 5/24/2010 9:00 am by

It has to be strange to be (former?) Cleveland Cavaliers coach Mike Brown.  You’ve guided your team of LeBron James and the Other Guys to the NBA Finals, won two conference championships, and you won 66 games this year.  However, if rumors are to be believe, Mike Brown has been fired by Cleveland owner Dan […]

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Fish Drags Woman Into The Drink

Posted 5/24/2010 8:30 am by

When Paul Tenuto landed a whopper of a fish while fishing off the pier in beautiful Pensacola Beach, Florida, he had to be excited.  Catching a fish is hard, and when you land something good and do it in an honest manner, it’s got to bring a smile to your face.  In order to drag […]

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Chicken Suits Banned From Nevada Voting Stations

Posted 5/24/2010 8:00 am by

In the 12-person race to determine the Republican opponent for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, things are starting to get nasty.  When people go to the polls to vote, they’ll be forced to leave their chicken costumes at home, as chicken suits have been banned at Nevada polling places this year.  It’s a strange ban, […]

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Bret Michaels Wins Celebrity Apprentice

Posted 5/24/2010 7:30 am by

Donald Trump is famous for his ruthlessness in the business world, and his inflexibility when it comes to his personal feelings.  I mean, who can forget his war of words with Rosie O’Donnell, or his decision to modernize the Miss USA pageant by having the contestants pose in sexy clothing for photo shoots?  One word […]

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Brittany Murphy’s Widower Simon Monjack Found Dead

Posted 5/24/2010 7:00 am by

It’s often noted in older couples that once one dies, the other dies shortly after.  While Brittany Murphy and her husband Simon Monjack were far from an older couple, Monjack didn’t outlive his wife very long.  Monjack was found dead on Sunday in the home he shared with Murphy in Hollywood, California.  His cause of […]

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Weird Rat-Tailed Creature Pulled From Canadian Lake

Posted 5/21/2010 11:00 am by

The town of Kitchenuhmaykoosib, Ontario, Canada, is pretty unique.  Mostly because its name is Kitchenuhmaykoosib.  But also because it’s one of the many bilingual towns in Canada.  Rather than speaking French and English, Kitchenuhmaykoosib is English and Ojb-Cree, an Indian dialect.  Now they have a second claim to fame as a bizarre creature with a […]

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Man Fakes His Way Into The Army

Posted 5/21/2010 10:30 am by

You hear of people trying anything and making up any story to get out of serving in the military, but how often do you hear of someone making up a story to get into the military?  That’s what authorities believe Jesse Bernard Johnston III has done, in what is being called the first stolen valor […]

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Apple To Sell 10 Million iPads This Year?

Posted 5/21/2010 10:00 am by

Say what you will about the iPad, it’s selling like crazy.  In fact, right now, the iPad is selling a mind-numbing 200,000 units per week, significantly more than Apple’s Macintosh computer line and almost as many as the iPhone.  If these sales hold up, Apple will move at least 8 million iPads this year, and […]

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Fight Aging And Look Better With Chocolate

Posted 5/21/2010 9:30 am by

Chocolate is one of the best things you can eat, taste-wise.  However, increasingly, chocolate is looking like a wonder food for the promotion of good health, too.  While too much is a bad, fattening thing, eating a little chocolate in moderation is shown to have positive heart benefits, and if the cocoa chemists at chocolate […]

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Artifical Life Created

Posted 5/21/2010 9:00 am by

It’s the achievement of a lifetime, yet it also may be one of the most dangerous things ever created by man.  Scientists in Maryland, lead by Dr. Craig Venter, have developed artificial life.  The scientists created artificial bacterium DNA and transplanted it into a cell, where it replicated and created a completely artificial life form.  […]

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Jupiter’s Disappearing Cloud Belt

Posted 5/21/2010 8:30 am by

One of Jupiter’s most distinctive features is disappearing.  The planet features two prominent belts of clouds, one called the North Equatorial Belt, and one called the South Equatorial Belt.  Well, out of nowhere, the Jupiter’s South Equatorial Belt has gone missing.  Actually, this isn’t the first time this has happened, but it is one of […]

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Ninjas Stop A Mugging

Posted 5/21/2010 8:00 am by

Everyone knows that ninjas are cool.  They have Real Ultimate Power, so how could they not be sweet?  And by sweet I mean totally awesome.  The purpose of a ninja is to flip out and kill people, but sometimes ninjas can help people, too.  In New South Wales, Australia, three men decided to do some […]

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Justin Bieber Walks Into A Door

Posted 5/21/2010 7:30 am by

It must be hard to be a celebrity.  Everywhere you go, there’s someone watching you.  Every little thing you do, every cough or burp, is caught on film by someone.  People are just waiting to pounce on your every mistake.  That’s why I kind of feel bad for Justin Bieber.  I mean, he’s just a […]

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Google Maps Shootout

Posted 5/21/2010 7:00 am by

Chicago is a great town, but it’s also  a very rough town.  There are a lot of neighborhoods where people probably shouldn’t go if they want to avoid crime.  However, the job of the Google Maps crew is to go into every neighborhood and get panoramic views of it from every angle for Google Maps […]

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Unbearably Cute Golfing Bears

Posted 5/20/2010 11:30 am by

Some days, you just need to see some cute animal pictures.  For example, how about a family of bears at play in an unusual location?  At the Fairmount Chateau Whistler in Whistler, British Columbia, a family of bears (mom, dad, two cubs) have taken up residence on the golf courses, and the two baby bears […]

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KFC’s Double Down Sandwich Survives

Posted 5/20/2010 11:00 am by

It was initially dismissed as a publicity stunt, as if KFC was thumbing its nose at the healthy eating trend by rolling out the unhealthiest item they could think of:  a chicken sandwich with two chicken breasts, cheese, bacon, and absolutely no bread to speak of.  However, the people have spoken, and KFC’s Double Down […]

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$500 Million In Art Stolen In Paris

Posted 5/20/2010 10:30 am by

Museums are generally some of the safest, most secure buildings in the world.  The more valuable the artwork within, the more secure the museum.  However, museums still get robbed with alarming frequency.  The latest museum to get knocked over is the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, France, where thieves made off with over […]

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PETA And Octomom Launch Spay And Neuter Campaign

Posted 5/20/2010 10:00 am by

They’re two of the most self-promotional enterprises you could ever possibly see, yet there they are together.  One of them seeking to cling to her 15 minutes of fame, the other one seeking to get some publicity any way they can.  Octomom and PETA, together at last, as PETA has put up a spay-and-neuter billboard […]

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First Grader Suspended For Vandalizing Her Own Yearbook

Posted 5/20/2010 9:30 am by

What may seem like a bit of harmless social commentary to you and me was enough to get a first-grade girl suspended from school.  When Natalie Day, a first-grade student in the Yuba City Unified School District in Yuba City, California, scribbled out the face of a classmate in her yearbook, penning “because she is […]

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Running On Water

Posted 5/20/2010 9:00 am by

What do you do when you’re bored with extreme sports?  That’s the question three men, Ulf Gartner, Sebastian Vanderwerf, and Miguel Delfortrie, were asking themselves when they came up with an idea:  they’d learn to run on water.  Now the men have put together a video of themselves running on water, which has gone viral.  […]

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Woman Loses “Bioch” Vanity Plate

Posted 5/20/2010 8:30 am by

For four years, Kim Romano has been the only bioch in New Jersey.  “Bioch” is a slang term for bitch, which Romano picked for her vanity license plate as a way of expressing her outsized personality and sense of fun.  Her first selection “big kim” was rendered as “b1g kim,” which was just not going […]

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