Tuesday, December 7, 2010
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Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Arrested In London
9:29PM jeff neumann | As expected, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by the Metropolitan Police in London today on a European Arrest Warrant for sexual assault charges filed by two women in Sweden. Assange is due to appear in court later today. More »
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Kim Kardashian’s Continued Tweeting Is The Fault Of This Man
6:50PM Max Read | Remember when “reality star” Kim Kardashian and other celebrities promised to stop Tweeting until a million dollars was raised for Alicia Keys’ AIDS charity? Well, they finally reached their goal after a $US500,000 donation from pharmaceutical exec Stewart Rahr. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Photographer Garry Gross Dies At 73
6:39PM Max Read | Fashion photographer Garry Gross—most famous for his photos of a young Brooke Shields—has died of natural causes at 73.
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MasterCard Cuts Off Wikileaks, Assange’s Bank Account Frozen
5:05PM Max Read | More bad news for Wikileaks: Not only was founder Julian Assange’s Swiss bank account frozen over residency issues, but MasterCard will no longer process payments to Wikileaks. Time to get started on your cutting satirical “Priceless” commercial parody YouTube video! More »
Music
What Hell Sounds Like: All Of Billy Joel’s Hits Played At The Same Time
3:53PM Max Read | What was it like, before the internet? Well, when you wanted to listen to Billy Joel, you could only choose one song. Now, thanks to the internet, and “All of Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits Played at Once,” you don’t. Technology! More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
1:45PM Jess McGuire | REET REET REET! Sorry to sound the alarm, but I desperately require your attention once more. Remember that fan-fucking-tastic clip I posted earlier featuring celebrities singing along to ‘Let It Be’? Well, it seems that wasn’t the only time the folks from Norwegian television show Gylne Tider (“Golden Times”) have managed to coerce stars into singing along to inspiring ballads. @EmmaJChilvers just alerted me to the existence of the following video which sees some of the biggest names of the eighties () warbling along to “We Are The World”. More »
Your Day Just Got Even Better.
1:45PM Jess McGuire | REET REET REET! Sorry to sound the alarm, but I desperately require your attention once more. Remember that fan-fucking-tastic clip I posted earlier featuring celebrities singing along to ‘Let It Be’? Well, it seems that wasn’t the only time the folks from Norwegian television show Gylne Tider (“Golden Times”) have managed to coerce stars into singing along to inspiring ballads. @EmmaJChilvers just alerted me to the existence of the following video which sees some of the biggest names of the eighties () warbling along to “We Are The World”. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
1:17PM Jess McGuire | Are you having a particularly shitty Tuesday? I know just the thing to sort your mood out. Here are a whole lot of random celebrities singing along to ‘Let It Be’. Apparently they thought they were doing it for charity, but in actual fact a Norwegian television show called ‘Gylne Tider’ just tricked them into making an advert for the program by telling them it was for charity. Sucked in! And also, amazing! More »
Having A Bad Day? This Ought To Help.
1:17PM Jess McGuire | Are you having a particularly shitty Tuesday? I know just the thing to sort your mood out. Here are a whole lot of random celebrities singing along to ‘Let It Be’. Apparently they thought they were doing it for charity, but in actual fact a Norwegian television show called ‘Gylne Tider’ just tricked them into making an advert for the program by telling them it was for charity. Sucked in! And also, amazing! More »
People
12:54PM Jess McGuire | Sad news emerged yesterday that Norman Hetherington, the man behind iconic children’s television character Mr Squiggle, had passed away at the age of 89. More »
Vale Mr Squiggle
12:54PM Jess McGuire | Sad news emerged yesterday that Norman Hetherington, the man behind iconic children’s television character Mr Squiggle, had passed away at the age of 89. More »
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Julian Assange To Turn Himself In To Police
10:49AM Ryan Tate | The founder of Wikileaks said he’d voluntarily meet with police in London on Swedish sexual assault charges. In the meantime he’s raising bail money. Also, Columbia University disowned some anti-Wikileaks statements and AP will stop calling Wikileaks “whistle blowers.” More »
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