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Aaron Sorkin To Write Official Steve Jobs Biopic

Posted 5/16/2012 6:30 am by

Like him or not, the late Apple founder Steve Jobs had an interesting life.  He founded a major tech company, was kicked out by the board, then came back to save the company from failure in the ultimate redemption story.  Jobs changed the way we use computers, changed the way we listen to music, and […]

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The Top Baby Names Of 2011

Posted 5/15/2012 7:00 am by

When you give a baby a name, you’re charting the life course for that person.  Names are for life, and they will affect how your child acts (if you put stock in Freakonomics).  It’s a tough choice for any parent, as you try to balance giving your child a unique name, but not so unique […]

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Facebook Raises Stock Price, Could Be Worth $100 Billion

Posted 5/15/2012 6:30 am by

In the movie The Social Network, Sean Parker asks Facebook founder Eduardo Saverin a question:  “You don’t even know what the thing is yet.  How big it can get, how far it can go.  This is no time to take your chips down.  A million dollars isn’t cool, you know what’s cool?  A billion dollars.” […]

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Fish Kill Blamed On Swimmer Urine

Posted 5/14/2012 7:30 am by

It sounds like a bad comedy routine.  Someone out swimming in the water pauses to go to the bathroom, and then dead fish start popping up out of the water, killed by the potency of the swimmer’s waste.  Well, it’s not funny to fishermen in Hamburg, Germany.  Eichbaum Lake, a destination near Hamburg, is the […]

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Facebook Founder Flees To Singapore, Renounces US Citizenship

Posted 5/14/2012 7:00 am by

When you’re preparing to receive a billion-dollar windfall in the biggest IPO of all time, it’s a smart move to flee the United States.  Eduardo Saverin, who was Mark Zuckerberg’s friend and business partner at Harvard, owns about 4 percent of Facebook stock as a result of his many court battles with Zuckerberg.  That’s going […]

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The Avengers Rakes In $1 Billion Dollars Worldwide

Posted 5/14/2012 6:30 am by

The Avengers had a record-shattering opening weekend, becoming the fastest movie ever to $200 million in US box office history.  That was a good warm-up act.  The record-breaking continues for The Avengers in its second weekend, when the movie grossed $103.2 million dollars.  This is the first time in movie history that a movie has […]

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Zooey Deschanel Is A Coal Miner’s Daughter?

Posted 5/11/2012 7:30 am by

In 1978, Loretta Lynn brought actress Sissy Spacek onto the stage at the Grand Ole Opry and announced, to the world, that Spacek would be playing Loretta Lynn in an upcoming biographic film.  That movie, Coal Miner’s Daughter, won Spacek the best actress Oscar and helped turn Loretta Lynn into an icon far beyond her […]

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Time Magazine Cover Kicks Off Breastfeeding Controversy

Posted 5/11/2012 7:00 am by

Breastfeeding is normal, natural, and a wonderful way to bond mother to baby.  Key word in that sentence, for most people, is “baby.”  Not toddler, and certainly not kindergartner.  Time Magazine has kicked off a scrum of controversy with a photo depicting a woman breastfeeding a 3-year-old boy.  Meanwhile, the crux of the issue isn’t breastfeeding […]

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Chris “Birdman” Andersen Investigated For Child Pornography

Posted 5/11/2012 6:30 am by

When it comes to crimes against children, there’s nothing more shocking than when that crime allegation comes against a sports figure, especially one known for his charity work.  While his minutes have disappeared this season, Denver Nuggets basketball player Chris “Birdman” Andersen is very popular in the community for his colorful tattoos, high-flying blocks, and […]

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Vidal Sassoon, Hairdresser To The Stars, Dead at 84

Posted 5/10/2012 7:30 am by

The change was overnight.  Gone were the heavily hairsprayed helmets and greased-down locks of the 50’s.  The product was minimized; the cut was the thing according to Vidal Sassoon, and he crafted some of the most iconic hair styles of all time at his London, England salon.  He would later go on to revolutionize the […]

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Russian “Superjet” Crashes Into Volcano

Posted 5/10/2012 7:00 am by

The best way to sell something like a car or an airplane is to take people up, show them what it can do, and then sell them on the comforts and luxury of the plane.  That’s what Sukhoi was doing with their new Superjet-100, which was on the fourth stop of a six-nation Asian tour. […]

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Play Wolfenstein 3D For Free In Your Web Browser

Posted 5/10/2012 6:30 am by

Once upon a time, having a game that renders in 3D was a novelty.  Among the best of this first generation of 3D shooters is the Nazi blasting classic, Wolfenstein 3D.  Wolfenstein 3D is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and Bethesda Software has a unique celebration for that event.  Bethesda has published a free browser-based version […]

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Against Me! Singer Tom Gabel To Become A Woman

Posted 5/09/2012 7:00 am by

For years, punk musician Tom Gabel has harbored a secret.  Apparently, that secret has been gender dysphoria.  That’s when a man or woman feels like they should have been born as a member of a different gender, like the infamous pregnant man.  Against Me! lead singer Tom Gable is planning to become Laura Jane Grace. […]

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42 Percent Of Americans To Be Obese By 2030

Posted 5/08/2012 7:00 am by

Between 1960 and 1980, 15 percent of the population was obese.  Those numbers stayed flat and consistent, but since then, obesity rates have skyrocketed.  In 2010, 36 percent of Americans were considered obese (30 pounds or more over their healthy weight range) and 6 percent were considered severely obese (100 pounds over their healthy weight […]

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Nevada Gets Driverless Cars

Posted 5/08/2012 6:30 am by

Nevada is the first name you think of when you think of gambling.  Nevada is the home of Las Vegas, the world’s gambling mecca, and as such, it’s the state most associated with risk-taking and putting everything on the flip of a stack of cards.  Unsurprisingly, Nevada’s gambling goes past casino games and covers pretty […]

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Bryce Harper Steals Home Plate

Posted 5/07/2012 7:30 am by

There are a lot of exciting plays in baseball.  Chicks dig the long ball, and everyone loves a good fight, but the Washington Nationals haven’t had a lot of positive highlights in their team history since reforming as a Major League Baseball franchise in 2005.  There’s Stephen Strasburg and that’s about it.  Then, Bryce Harper […]

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Goober Pyle, AKA George Lindsey, Dead At 83

Posted 5/07/2012 7:00 am by

It’s not often that a show puts multiple iconic characters into the national consciousness, but The Andy Griffith Show was no ordinary show.  When secondary character Gomer Pyle proved to be so popular he got his own spin-off program, Gomer’s cousin Goober Pyle stepped right into the role of comic relief in Mayberry, filling in […]

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The Avengers Shatter Box Office Records

Posted 5/07/2012 6:30 am by

When Marvel started the process to create an Avengers movie, it was a bit worrisome.  After all, The Avengers combines four franchises, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and The Hulk (also Hawkeye and Black Widow), which would mean at least establishing franchises for two new characters in the wake of the two moderately successful Hulk […]

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The Super Moon Strikes Tonight

Posted 5/05/2012 6:00 am by

Ever since NASA bombed the moon in 2009, the moon has been looking to get its revenge.  You see, we started a war with the moon, but we didn’t finish it.  The moon will not be tamed so easily.  Tonight, Saturday May 5, the moon will return stronger than ever.  That’s right, tonight is the […]

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British Woman Adopts 161-Word Name For Charity

Posted 5/05/2012 5:30 am by

When her son died young, 41-year-old Dawn McManus founded a charity known as Red Dreams to help young people live out their artistic dreams.  The woman, from Hartlepool, England, has been a big cheerleader for the charity since its foundation, and the organization has helped out many people during its time.  That’s why Ms. McManus […]

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Adam Yauch, AKA MCA From The Beastie Boys, Is Dead

Posted 5/05/2012 5:00 am by

You cannot say enough about pioneering rap group The Beastie Boys.  Three Jewish kids from New York named Mike D, Ad Rock, and MCA took punk rock and metal and fused it with the growing hip-hop sound and thus straddled two genres.  They rapped over beats from the Dust Brothers and they rapped over music […]

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Free Comic Book Day Is This Weekend

Posted 5/04/2012 7:30 am by

Are you busy Saturday, May 5?  If not, then you’re in for a treat.  The first Saturday in May has been dubbed Free Comic Book Day for a few years now, so that means Free Comic Book day is coming up on Saturday, May 5.  Thousands of comic book stores are planning on giving away […]

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Researcher Killed By Lab Bacteria

Posted 5/04/2012 7:00 am by

For 20 years, researchers at a lab in San Francisco have been hard at work trying to figure out a vaccine for Neisseria meningitidis, a strain of bacteria that causes meningitis, blood infections, and infects a thousand people in the United States every year, mostly infants and college students.  The bacteria infects the body rapidly, and […]

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Mariano Rivera Blows Out A Knee, Done For Career?

Posted 5/04/2012 6:30 am by

For years and years, Mariano Rivera’s greatness has been related to his ability to be consistent.  He’s got one pitch he throws, a cut fastball that hits in the low 90’s on the radar gun.  He has saved at least 25 games for 15 seasons (and is baseball’s all-time saves leader).  For 11 seasons, he […]

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Paralyzed Football Player Signs Professional Contract

Posted 5/03/2012 8:00 am by

When Eric LeGrand was paralyzed in a game against Army in 2010, he lost more than his dream of playing professional football.  Fracturing two vertebrae in his neck, LeGrand was told by doctors that he would never walk again, let alone play football.  While his official football days are over, Eric LeGrand has served as […]

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Dangerous Dog Gets Sent To Prison

Posted 5/03/2012 7:30 am by

There have been a lot of dangerous dogs covered in PopFi’s long history, from death row escapees to vicious Pomeranians, but there hasn’t been a story like Chief.  Chief, a wolf-dog hybrid like the one seen above, was sentenced to death row in Louisiana until a judge stepped in and gave him a reprieve.  Chief […]

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NFL Legend Junior Seau Found Dead

Posted 5/03/2012 7:00 am by

Junior Seau was a tough man.  Every day for decades, he battled other massive men on the football field with the reckless abandon of a kid playing his favorite game.  (He also survived a 100-foot fall down a cliff in his car in 2010.)  He did some wonderful things on and off the field, but […]

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Kate Upton Is Too Hot For YouTube

Posted 5/03/2012 6:30 am by

Kate Upton is one of the most famous models in the world.  Her bikini-clad figure was displayed on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, and that was the moment she went from being a working model to being a celebrity model.  Since then, videos of her goofing around in bikinis (or just in […]

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Edvard Munch’s The Scream Is Worth $119.9 Million Bucks

Posted 5/03/2012 6:00 am by

It is possibly the most iconic painting of all time.  A screaming man pictured under a blood red sky.  It is human anxiety made manifest in pastels on board and is one of four variations on the same theme by Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch.  Now, you can call it the most expensive painting ever […]

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Jessica Simpson Gives Birth After Gestating Forever

Posted 5/02/2012 7:30 am by

It seems like Jessica Simpson has been pregnant forever.  I mean, the jokes about her eternal pregnancy have been going around for months now, so surely she’s been gestating for a year or more, right?  As it turns out, she’s only been pregnant since late October and her daughter, 9 pound 13 ounce Maxwell Drew […]

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