Remember, America: When you become rich and famous and in need of hip surgery, you too can recover on a gold-plated wheelchair like Lady Gaga.
I don’t condone what he does, but he’s my friend.Former NBA superstar Dennis Rodman • Discussing his plans to visit North Korea again in August to vacation with Kim Jong-un. Rodman made the comments to what clearly is the most prominent media outlet in the country, Fargo, North Dakota’s KXJB. Rodman was reportedly giddy throughout the interview. Remember when the weirdest thing this guy did was color his hair purple?
Today in WTF: A Gawker tipster has revealed that the Boy Scouts of America aren’t sure if those scary Gays™ can keep their eyes/hands to themselves. The BSA is apparently polling members about the appropriateness of homosexual leaders attending overnight camping trips, and other rules/activities which could/would be impacted by a proposed change to the BSA’s policy barring gay members. While some argue that certain questions have merit — like questions about the appropriateness of gay teens sharing a tent — the overall tone and apparent need for such a poll doesn’t seem very inclusive to us. Thoughts?
The Pirate Bay has been hunted in many countries around the world. Not for illegal activities but being persecuted for beliefs of freedom of information. Today, a new chapter is written in the history of the movement, as well as the history of the internets.
A week ago we could reveal that The Pirate Bay was accessed via Norway and Catalonya. The move was to ensure that these countries and regions will get attention to the issues at hand. Today we can reveal that we have been invited by the leader of the republic of Korea, to fight our battles from their network.
This is truly an ironic situation. We have been fighting for a free world, and our opponents are mostly huge corporations from the United States of America, a place where freedom and freedom of speech is said to be held high. At the same time, companies from that country is chasing a competitor from other countries, bribing police and lawmakers, threatening political parties and physically hunting people from our crew. And to our help comes a government famous in our part of the world for locking people up for their thoughts and forbidding access to information.
We believe that being offered our virtual asylum in Korea is a first step of this country’s changing view of access to information. It’s a country opening up and one thing is sure, they do not care about threats like others do. In that way, TPB and Korea might have a special bond. We will do our best to influence the Korean leaders to also let their own population use our service, and to make sure that we can help improve the situation in any way we can. When someone is reaching out to make things better, it’s also ones duty to grab their hand.
Dennis Rodman and the Pirate Bay. What a week for North Korea. (And by the way, we checked. It’s March 4, not April 1. And some on Hacker News have done a traceroute of the IP and found that it does seem to lead to North Korea.)
EDIT: More details on this situation from TorrentFreak.
Ridiculous Story of the Day: A California high school student set up a sting operation to catch a locker thief at Linden High School, only to discover one of her teachers was actually the one guilty of taking students’ money. Naturally, after she showed the footage to her principal, he asked her to delete the footage. Yes, really. (ht Gawker) source
The Onion’s last half hour of tweets: Where to start? Particularly in regards to the one we blacked out. *shudder*
Need an idea of how far Billy Corgan has fallen? Well, the Smashing Pumpkins singer a) is featured in this furniture commercial with the b) wrestling company he owns, and c) the jingle isn’t even a B-side from “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.” Like Jack White, Corgan has weird hobbies and tastes. Unlike Jack White, they’re lame weird hobbies.
Murder suspect on the run from the law for over a year turns himself in, told the police station is closed … Murder suspect on the run from the law for over a year turns himself in, told the police station is closed … No matter how many times we read, type, or say this one out loud, we’re pretty sure nothing is ever going to make this make sense to us. Even if “things are a bit messy” right now, are you really telling us there wasn’t anybody that could have escorted Mr. Hadri to another station? source
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What’s the first thing you would think if you got a letter like that? You’d think it was some kind of scam.Attorney Donald Behle • Discussing his deceased client, Ray Fulk, and his decision to leave the bulk of his $1 million estate to two obscure television actors—Kevin Brophy, who was raised by wolves in the 1970s TV show “Lucan,” and Peter Barton, a 1980s-era star of “The Young and the Restless.” Fulk, a reclusive man who lived in an Illinois farmhouse without running water, claimed he was friends with the two actors, who each starred in the 1981 Linda Blair movie “Hell Night.” (Barton, while skeptical, eventually met with Behle to analyze the estate.) But Behle points out that the friendship goes as far as the fan letters he exchanged with the two actors. “They sent back responses that basically said thanks for writing and please watch me in whatever their next movie or show was,” Behle explains. (ht @putneydm)
AFP: The body of a kidnapped Russian lawmaker has been found in a cement-filled barrel in a cellar outside Moscow, investigators said Monday.
‘The body of Mikhail Pakhomov, a lawmaker from Lipetsk city council, has been found in one of the cellars of a private garage in a metal barrel filled with cement,’ the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
Yes, stuff like this still happens in 2013. It’s pretty messed up, wouldn’t you say?
Norwegian public television plans to broadcast a burning fireplace for 12 straight hours from Friday evening, with firewood specialists providing color commentary, expert advice and a bit of cultural tutoring.
“We’ll talk about the very nerdy subjects like burning, slicing and stacking the wood, but we’ll also have cultural segments with music and poems,” Rune Moeklebust, a producer for state broadcaster NRK.
“It will be very slow but noble television.”
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