A New Meaning for 'Thanksgiving'
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How concrete feels after you jet-pack across a 1053-foot-deep gorge.
Read More »The Who2 Blog November 2008
A Vote for Franken Is a Vote for the Lizard People
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Minnesota Public Radio has an enlightening display of challenged ballots from the Al Franken-Norm Coleman Senate recount.
Included is a Coleman voter who also wrote in "Bachmen" (or "Bad men"?) and a Franken voter who wrote in "Lizard People."
(Lizardy hat tip: Swampland.)
People's 'Sexiest Man Alive' Through the Years
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A gallery.
(Nick Nolte was in there? Really?)
Hugh Jackman is this year's winner. He may need the distraction from the reviews for Australia.
'NASA Jubilant at Urine Solution'
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Headline of the day.
Aide Grabs Joe Biden's Seat
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Delware Governor Ruth Ann Minner has named Ted Kaufman to fill the Senate seat of Joe Biden.
Kaufman is a longtime aide to Biden. He'll serve until 2010, when a special election will determine who will hold the seat for the remaining four years of Biden's term.
Read More »Monopoly... the Movie?
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Read More »Ridley [Scott] is now officially attached to direct this collaboration between Universal and the games manufacturer Hasbro - Hasbro! Jesus wept! - and according to the Hollywood Reporter is planning to give it "a futuristic sheen along the lines of his iconic Blade Runner". Really? Really?
To Boldly Go Where Chelsea Went Before
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Sasha and Malia Obama will attend Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C., the Obama family has announced.
Spokesman Insists Karolina Kurkova is Humanoid
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Ms. Kurkova has not spoken publicly about how she came to have a smooth navel, and all her agent will say is "she's not an alien."
The BBC has the scoop.
Supermodel Karolina Kurkova Is Missing Her Belly Button
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You know it's a big story when the Daily News and the Daily Mail are both on the case.
"It disappears in photos, so we keep a collection of belly button shots in different positions, and Photoshop them on to her whenever she's doing a bikini picture."
What Will Be the Obamas' Next Church?
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As the first African-American First Family, will they be criticized if they choose a black church, or if they don't? If they choose a white pastor, or if they don't?
[ Update: And if they choose nothing at all? That gets reported, too. ]