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This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: First: Anonymous 4Chan trolls posted a fake screenshot of a tweet by verified “Entertainment Tonight” that “confirmed” Justin Bieber had leukemia. Tweets from Kanye, Nicki Minaj, and Chris Brown seemed to support the news.
Then: Beliebers began posting pics and vids of themselves with their heads shaved in a global show of support hashtagged #BaldForBieber.
Miraculously: The rumors were false and the Biebs is just fine, and now a bunch of tweens (and other random fans) have no hair.
[biotv]
Crap. I already shaved my head.
(Side note: I actually did shave my head for cancer patients a few years back as part of the St. Baldrick’s program a few years back, raising money for childhood cancer patients. But not for Bieber. — Ernie @ SFB)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcipktlSy91qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: First: Anonymous 4Chan trolls posted a fake screenshot of a tweet by verified “Entertainment Tonight” that “confirmed” Justin Bieber had leukemia. Tweets from Kanye, Nicki Minaj, and Chris Brown seemed to support the news.
Then: Beliebers began posting pics and vids of themselves with their heads shaved in a global show of support hashtagged #BaldForBieber.
Miraculously: The rumors were false and the Biebs is just fine, and now a bunch of tweens (and other random fans) have no hair.
[biotv]
Crap. I already shaved my head.
(Side note: I actually did shave my head for cancer patients a few years back as part of the St. Baldrick’s program a few years back, raising money for childhood cancer patients. But not for Bieber. — Ernie @ SFB)
You might make the case that Apple is sinful based on the gluttony for gadgets it inspires, but some extreme Orthodox Christians in Russia are more offended by the company’s “blasphemous” logo.
According to a translation of a Russian news report that’s been kicking around the Web, some conservative believers see the image of the bitten apple as a symbol of Adam and Eve’s original sin in the Bible. Some have gone so far as to cover up the logo and replace it with an image of a cross.
Apparently no one has clued these folks in to the fact that Apple’s name and logo were actually inspired by the legendary piece of fruit that fell on the head of mathematician and astronomer Isaac Newton.
Don’t know about you guys, but we’re going to sinfully eat our lunch.
Edward Archbold, 32, of West Palm Beach became ill shortly after the contest ended and collapsed in front of the store, according to a Broward Sheriff’s Office statement released Monday. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Authorities were waiting for results of an autopsy to determine a cause of death.
“Unless the roaches were contaminated with some bacteria or other pathogens, I don’t think that cockroaches would be unsafe to eat,” said Michael Adams, professor of entomology at the University of California at Riverside, who added that he has never heard of someone dying after consuming roaches. “Some people do have allergies to roaches,” he said, “but there are no toxins in roaches or related insects.”
Today in strange ways to die. The grand prize, a python, will be left to his estate. :/
On tonight’s episode of “Glenn Beck”, Glenn laid out a new theory regarding the attacks on American Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya. On the show, Glenn stated that he believes, based on his research and analysis, Stevens was not killed as a result of spontaneous riot spurned by the video spreading around YouTube parodying Muhammad. Instead, Glenn believes he was killed in a targeted attack and that the protests were just used as a distraction.
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Before the attack, one of the guards who died alongside Stevens, Sean Smith, posted the following on an online gaming message board: “assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures”.
Glenn wondered if all the elements of the timeline above and the message from Smith really match up with the story circulating Washington D.C. and the media – that the attacks were the result of a spontaneous protest spurned on by the YouTube video. He had a different theory.
Get your tinfoil hats ready: Glenn Beck thinks that Stevens’ last words to his friends on EVE Online are proof that the SomethingAwful forums are a front for CIA communications. We couldn’t make up stuff this fantastic/sad if we tried.
Last night I went to CVS and spotted this man on a box selling me pillows. I had to tell you about him because I had to tell someone. It’s like Bob from Bob’s Burgers found Jesus and a good night’s rest at the same time. — Ernie @ SFB
So basically what you’re telling us, New York Times, is that if you’re white and want to live longer, you have to get a high school diploma? “There’s this enormous issue of why,” said Harvard economics professor David Cutler. “It’s very puzzling and we don’t have a great explanation.” Weird.
USA Today: Wow, they sure gave that redesign a giant blue circle for a logo. (More info on the change here.)
CARRY OUT Pizza shop owner Scott Van Duzer lifts President Obama off the floor during a visit in Ft. Pierce, Florida. ”Scott, let me tell you, you are like the biggest pizza shop owner I’ve ever seen,” said the President. Van Duzer is a registered Republican who voted for Obama in 2008 and says he will do so again in November. ”I don’t vote party line, I vote who I feel comfortable with, and I do feel extremely comfortable with him,” he told the press pool. (Photo: AP via The Huffington Post)
To top Obama and Biden’s weekend antics, Romney and Paul should find the nearest state fair, stat.
Um, this is just insane. On Feb. 2, 1963, Richard Eggers tried to put a piece of cardboard in the shape of a dime into a washer at a laundromat. He got convicted of “operating a coin changing machine by false means,” which sounds like the silliest thing in the world to get charged with, right? Yeah, it was pretty dumb. Recently, Eggers lost his job with Wells Fargo. Why? Well, the company, in an effort to follow new federal guidelines designed to stop white-collar criminals, did a background check on Eggers. They found the dime story, classified it as fraud — and fired him. Wells Fargo says they had to do it, because they were facing million-dollar-per-day fines for noncompliance. Anyone think they were just looking for an excuse to fire this guy? (photo by Andrea Melendez/The Des Moines Register; ht LoweringTheBar)
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For this story, imagine Vladimir Putin dressed as a giant crane, hang-gliding through the air. You are not dreaming.
Still, without any actual quotes from Willis or his agents, lawyers, etc, nobody would follow this up and just write a story, would they? Without any sources?The Guardian’s Charles Arthur • Getting a little snarky about a story which floated around the ether yesterday, in which it was claimed that Bruce Willis had planned on suing Apple for the right to leave his music in his inheritance for his children. One problem: The original cited story has little to go on, and was later confirmed by his wife Emma Heming-Willis to be false — but not until after a number of media outlets picked it up. It gets worse — Arthur infers that the writer of the original story might have read a story regarding “Estates and Wills” and mistook “Wills” for “Willis.” (Which, if the case, is downright embarrassing.) Good rumors die hard.
So, according to former Nintendo employee Howard Phillips, Nintendo seriously considered selling a knitting add-on for the NES. “Now you’re knitting with power,” indeed. (ht Hacker News, where some suggest Nintendo should get into the 3D printing market)
A fundamental misunderstanding of cloud computing: According to a recent Wakefield Research/Citrix study, 51 percent of Americans believe stormy weather interferes with their cloud computing, which in their defense, it once did (though probably not for the reason they’re thinking).
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