Kevin Federline’s Playing with Fire record gets tagged as “laughable crap” that’s “horrible, pathetic, and god awful” and is so “painful and appalling” to listen to that “aardvarks died for his sins”. Among other things…
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The Department of Homeland Security will now give every traveler a Terrorism Quotient based on data provided to it by airlines. This is one time you don’t want a passing score. |
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It’s the obvious next step after the Whistle Tip, the exhaust mounted flame thrower. Spewing fire up to 20ft from your car’s exhaust, this puppy will really discourage tailgaters. |
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UTube sues YouTube. The Ohio based company has sued YouTube over, wait for it, sending too much traffic to their website and threatening their business — which is making tubes. |
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It’s the Nike+iPod sport kit, sans Nike. If you don’t want to pony up the cash for a pair of slick iPod compatible Nikes to go along with the iPod sport kit, this $7.99 solution is just the ticket. |
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Finally a hybrid to write home about. The new Toyota GT-R hybrid boasts a 0-60mph in under 5 seconds and top speed of 170mph while still turning out 30mpg. Zoom zoom … zoom. |
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A U.S. government web site, which made public vast archives of Iraqi documents captured during the war, is said to include enough information to constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb. |
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Dance Dance Revolution becomes a disco inferno when combined with a 12ft screen, over-sized pads, fire-retardant gear and 9 fire spitting propane jets that light up when you miss. That’s hot. |
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Some of the best things in life are still free, such as the 2007 iPod buyers’ guide, published yearly by iLounge. Go and snag your 180 page free copy of all things iPod. |
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Daniel Craig, the future 007, has admitted he hasn’t even seen a James Bond movie on the big screen since Live and Let Die in 1973. Can one man kill a franchise? It would appear so. |
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Madonna is protecting her son from The Evil Eye with a little piece of red string tied to his wrist. Her reps confirm that she intends to raise David as a follower of Kabbalah. |
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Using actual parts from a Gulfstream jet, this former mechanic recreated a plane crash in his front yard for Halloween. Authorities are still searching for the black box. |
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It’s been less than a day since the Reddit buy out announcement and Conde Nast has already put the technology to use at his latest venture, Lipstick.com. It’s Reddit for gossip. |
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Having not made any major purchases in about 3 weeks, Google has announced that they have acquired JotSpot, a do-it-yourself wiki site. The Internet is officially Google’s candy store. |
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San Diego, home to Shamu and the world’s largest skateboard ramp. Skateboarder and owner Bob Burnquist says of the 360 ft long, 75 ft high ramp, “I’m not afraid of falling. I’m afraid I might jump.” |
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Lasers on airplanes. The US Missle Defense Agency and Boeing unveiled the first laser toting aircraft that can be used to shoot down enemy missles. Star Wars fans everywhere rejoice (both the film and military type). |
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Home valuation website, Zillow.com, has been accused of undervaluing homes in low-income neighborhoods, specifically black and Latino. Zillow says its valuations are merely estimates and shouldn’t be taken at face value. |
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The crazy Diet Coke and Mentos scientists are back, this time they set-off 502 liters of Diet Coke with 1,506 Mentos to answer the question, can one fountain trigger another? |
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Reddit may have always played second fiddle to Digg, but they were first to snag a suitor. The social news site has been purchased by Conde Nast, owner of Wired and other ventures, for an undisclosed sum. Treat, no trick. |
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Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe have officially split without further explanation. Rumors are running rampant, with the latest being that Ryan rocked his co-star’s — Abbie Cornish — world. |
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Cindy Margolis, the once most downloaded woman on the Internet, has announced that she’ll finally be baring all for Playboy … again. We get it already, you’re going to get naked — a decade or so after anyone really cares. |
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MySpace has announced it will be using a file filtering application to weed out unauthorized material and prevent illegal files from being uploaded on the site and banning repeat offenders. 14-year-olds everywhere are laughing. |
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Video-sharing site YouTube is now systematically removing copyrighted material, starting with Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and South Park. Users are left wondering what to watch now. |
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Diebold voting machines are so advanced, they will choose your candidate for you. Certain machines have registered Democrat votes as ones for their Republican counterpart. Voters commented, “this is too weird”. |
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Jeri Ryan is best known for two things, and it’s not her beauty or acting skills. According to the buxom blonde her “Girls” have been a constant topic of conversation on the set, both past and present. |
As (un)covered by your local news … and other tasty tid-bits.
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Halloween gets dubbed as Dress-Like-a-Whore Day as women’s costumes have undeniably evolved to more strip club than storybook. And what’s wrong with that?! (New York Times) |
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Halloween has become the perfect excuse for seemingly smart and sophisticated women let out their inner slut and trick themselves out to treat all those around to a healthy dose of eye candy. Yum! (Courier-Journal) |
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the hottest of them all? Halloween is all about fantasy, forget functionality, as women snatch up costumes with names such as home-run hottie and sexy Snow White. Sweet! (Houston Chronicle) |
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Still looking for that last minute costume? Head on down to Girls’s Costume Warehouse where the costumes are sexy sexy! (College Humor) |
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Halloween might be the perfect excuse for the otherwise unadventurous to be more adventurous, but why limit the naughty costumes to just one night? Here’s a round-up of the best spots to stock up on your sexy. (Fleshbot) |
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Gawker takes a break from their usual reporting and returns to the root of their name posting pictures from the Halloween Rated X Panty Party. (Gawker, NSFW) |
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End of the line for the Ford Taurus. The last Ford Taurus to be manufactured rolled off of the assembly line on Friday; auto design aesthetes everywhere cheered its death. |
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The Institute for Public Policy Research, a British think-tank, is urging for the reform of outdated British copyright laws saying that it should be within the users’ rights to make copies of their own CDs and DVDs for personal use. |
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The government pushes forward with the release of RFID passports despite the report compiled by an outside privacy and security advisory committee to the Department of Homeland Security that states it’s a bad idea. |
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Naked pictures Marcia Cross were found in the trash and the lucky finder is demanding payment for their return. And in case you were wondering, they say that the carpet matches the curtains. |
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Is your betty ready? The first safe, specifially formulated coloring product for your hair down there has hit the market. Give your betty the perfect finishing touch. |
Maria Bartiromo: I’m curious, have you ever Googled anybody? Do you use Google?
George Bush: Ah, Occasionally. One of the things I’ve used on The Google is, ah, to pull up maps. And it’s, ah, very interesting to see — I’ve forgot the name of the program — but where you get the satellite, and you can — like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes.
A 22-year-old New Milford, Conn., man was killed and seven others injured after a beer keg thrown into a fire barrel exploded at an outdoor party.
The blast at 3:13 a.m. Sunday was powerful enough to shake windows a mile away from the field where between 50 and 100 people in their 20s were attending an annual pig roast, the Danbury (Conn.) News-Times reported Monday.
O.J. Simpson is confessing. Hypothetically, that is.
The former football great, who was acquitted in criminal court 11 years ago of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, reportedly has been paid a whopping $3.5 million to write about the double murder that shocked and riveted the nation in 1994, according to a detailed report in the new National Enquirer.
But Simpson is not actually confessing to the murder — rather, he’s writing a “hypothetical” book — which the Enquirer reports is tentatively being called “If I Did It.”
