For days, Gmail has been displaying scary red banners above certain users' inboxes, warning "Your account was recently accessed from China." So, now you at least know if Chinese hackers are spying on your Gmail.
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The Gulf of Mexico's latest plague is a "sea-snot blizzard," a "huge, slimy event" covering the ocean floor in suffocating layers of goo that could cause a "deadly void." Apparently phytoplankton create huge amounts of snot when stressed. [NatGeo, image]
Did you know you can send contributions to the Treasury Department to reduce the National Debt? Last year, citizens sent $3.1 million. The Times says it would take "millions of years" to retire the debt this way. Get to it!
A 50-year-old Army veteran who was arrested after an eight-hour standoff with federal agents was charged on Wednesday with threatening to kill President Obama. Officials said he planned to ignite a war between Muslims and Christians and "start an apocalypse."
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Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the devastatingly handsome twins who claim Facebook was their idea, lapse all too easily into self-caricature. Consider their outfits for a screening of The Social Network, which included, says an accompanying journalist, matching man purses.
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Today we looked at the new, glorious Republican Pledge to America. It's a stirring document, full of hope and exceptionalism and misty-eyed vagueness. But what about the other side? Where is the Democrat pledge? One commenter gave us a copy.
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Citing "several unforeseen professional responsibilities," Meghan McCainbowed out of a campus speaking engagement tonight... and is now tweeting up a storm about "my first real time off in months," partying with "my favorite crew of sinners" in Las Vegas. More »
Christine O'Donnell is the Republican nominee to the U.S. Senate seat in Delaware. She's radically pro-life, she considers homosexuality an "identity disorder," and she's fervently anti-masturbation. Oh, and guess what? Dan Savage just declared it Masturbate To Christine O'Donnell Season!
[Fleshbot] [NSFW]
The Way We Live Now: spreading the wealth around. Around to the richest Americans. They pay most of the taxes, you know? It's only fair. Besides, with the work ethic Mexicans have, they'll be rich soon, too! Haha. Ha.
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Scottsdale, Arizona's raunchiest porn scribe, Ben Quayle—spawn of America's greatest vice president—has resurfaced with his latest congressional campaign ad. Get your paper and pencil ready now, because young Master Quayle has some important numbers to share.
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For the second day running, Facebook's servers stopped responding. What gives? Facebook says they're working on it, again, but does not describe the actual problem. We'd like to blame the endless, deafening Facebook movie chatter, somehow. Update: Back, partly.
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[Young Lourdes listened carefully—into one ear whispered a devil, and into the other an angel, but she could not remember which was which. Taylor Momsen, Lourdes Leon, and Madonna at a Material Girl event via Splash.]
San Francisco's Twitter just rented space for its burgeoning New York staff. But don't call it an "office:" Twitter is insistent its only real office is in California, and the thing in Gotham is, by definition, ghetto and weak.
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Today at Gawker.TV,Tina Fey explains why she doesn't use any social media tools, Modern Family returns, watch the awful first edition of the Gilligan's Island theme song, and Stephen Colbert brings his "fear" to Good Morning America.
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What with all the fresh female wingnuts let loose in Senate campaigns, you could forget the original specimen, Sarah Palin. But she is dropping more hints than ever about a presidential run, including last night to Greta van Susteren.
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Try as she did, her presence on air last night didn't get people worked up. Also today: Matt Dillon gets a juicy role, Angelina finds her leady lady, and two favorite Lost actors are getting together for a new show!
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Facebook has slammed The Social Network as a work of "fiction" that lies to be entertaining. Yet a company spokesman ended up inadvertently writing a climactic line of dialog that ties the Facebook movie together. Whoops.
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You can't have a hamburger without a side of fries. Heck, French fries are sometimes a meal unto themselves, but either way there's no getting around the fact that they're unhealthy. Here's a ranking of the worst offenders in America.
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[Keanu Reeves consumes a cupcake on the set of Generation Um. Why is the sight of this man eating alone in public so damn funny? Images via Bauer-Griffin.]
Forbes' list of the 400 richest Americans is out today, with Jay-Z and Warren Buffett on the cover. Funny, since there's only one black person on the list, and it's not Jay-Z. Who is on the list? A breakdown, below. More »
Now that Craigslist has removed their Adult Services, we can assume that all the "exploited" women of the world can breathe safely. But what about all the women who happily and voluntarily advertised their erotic services on Craiglist?
[Jezebel]
Here we go, America! House Republicans have finally leaked their long-promised platform for the midterm elections, called the "Pledge to America." They're formally unveiling it today at a Virginia hardware store. Let's do a quick lil' run-through, shall we? More »
Despite a brief Gossip Girl stint and an upcoming Morgan Freeman movie about a crippled dolphin, the one-time Disney queen's heyday seems mostly ended. So it's time to move out of the $7M, 9,827 sq.ft. palace in Toluca Lake.
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