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Five Alternatives For the New ‘Bleep Photo’ Revolutionizing TV Censorship
6:50AM STV | A momentous trend apparently began last week in the least likely of places: The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, where the hosts introduced a new “Bleep Photo” feature for particularly saucy and immodest guests. The test drive came Aug. 13 when, while interviewing a pair of women about their ambivalence toward binge-drinking, producers cut out of nowhere to a photograph of a cat eating spaghetti. It was a Random TV Moment For the Ages, rivaling David Letterman’s greatest for sheer “WTF”-ness and cultural import. The blip has since been parsed in a variety of formats including FishBowl LA, where it was discovered Monday that the cutaway was merely a “Bleep Photo” to override one of the women’s descriptions of being “fucked up.” More »
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Hamsters, Ask Amy How
4:11PM Clem Bastow | While the UK press have been detailing Winegums’ apparent teetering on the bring of actually going back to rehab (yes, yes, yes!) with news that husband Blake will probably stay in jail over Christmas, we instead thought it was time to lighten the Winegums mood a little.
Of course, this being Winegums Watch, lightening the mood involves a story featuring a large amount of booze and the eventual death of a small animal.
Hey, what did you expect? Bambi part two?
AMY Winehouse has been accused of killing her friend’s hamster.
More » Late Taronga Rhino Allegedly Followed In Paper-Eating Russian Models’ Footsteps By Feasting On Sand
11:18AM Clem Bastow | The Lord of zoos giveth and taketh away at Taronga Zoo. While ridiculously cute baby giraffe Jimiyu has arrived safely at the high-security resort with stunning harbourside views, an autopsy report has revealed that rhinoceros Kua – who died on June 4th this year – suffered a sadder fate than initially thought:
A rare rhinoceros at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo was pregnant, emaciated and ulcerated when she died, according to an autopsy report. Kua, a greater one-horned rhinoceros who died on June 4, also had the equivalent of about seventy litres of sand trapped in her large intestine, Fairfax newspapers report.
Zoo staff said questions about how so much sand ended up inside Kua were irrelevant.
“At the end of the day, what difference does it make?” asked Taronga Zoo’s senior veterinarian, Larry Vogelnest.
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Sources within the zoo allege Kua developed the blockage by eating her sand-based bedding out of hunger.
The report noted that not until her autopsy was it discovered that she was nine months pregnant. The report also noted that Kua was on a carefully managed diet to prevent excessive weight gain.
The animal’s carers at the Zoo had noted that Kua seemed unhappy in her new home in the months before her untimely end. But before your itchy Animal Precinct finger gets a-dialling, the RSPCA did not find that the Zoo had breached any animal cruelty laws in their handling of the creature, making this just another sad dead rhinoceros story. We here at Defamer Australia hope that Kua is hanging out on the rainbow bridge and eating a delicious dessert that merely looks like sand. More » 
