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Tomorrow Could Be Rupert Murdoch’s Last Day As CEO
10:11AM Max Read | Rupert Murdoch might be replaced as News Corp CEO by COO Chase Carey, if he blows tomorrow’s parliamentary hearing. Murdoch would remain chairman, and retain the dirigible from which he orchestrates his plots and directs his steam-powered robot army. [Bloomberg]
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MySpace Layoffs Rumoured For This Week
8:45AM Ryan Tate | We hear MySpace’s Southern California offices are thick with rumours that the social network is planning some serious bloodletting this week. Scary as that sounds, some employees are apparently looking forward to the layoffs. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
The One About The Vampire-Penis Ad Exec
6:36AM Hamilton Nolan | Hey, how about a totally unsubstantiated crazytown story, from the internet? It’s about an advertising executive’s penis! Oh, now you’re interested. Well then, fine. More »
People
Carla Bruni May Be Pregnant
2:20AM Brian Moylan | Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the former model turned singer turned French first lady, is pregnant with her second child, according to several French newspapers. More »
People
Gwyneth Paltrow To Launch World’s Most Perfect Cooking Magazine?
2:42AM Richard Lawson | American princess turned white English tea rose Gwyneth Paltrow loves to cook food. We know this. She’s always nattering on about her love of cooking, and is even releasing a cookbook. So what’s the next logical step the divine Ms. P? A food magazine, naturally! More »
People
Semi-Celebrities Finally Have A Place To Go To Complain About The Internet
3:56AM John Cook | One of the tragedies of being marginally famous is that people can write true things about you that you don’t like on the internet. Well now, thanks to a knight, these lost souls finally have recourse: iCorrect, the internet’s premiere source for niggling, picayune corrections from people you don’t particularly care about. More »
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Justin Bieber Fans Gloat Over Rumoured Selena Gomez Beatdown
2:33PM Adrian Chen | Justin Bieber celebrated his 17th birthday with presumed girlfriend Selena Gomez last night at Maggiano’s Restaurant in LA. In some of the paparazzi pictures that resulted, a red bump is visible on Gomez’s lip. While we assumed it was just a late-winter cold sore, many Justin Bieber fans grabbed onto a darker explanation: Selena had been punched in the face by a jealous Bieber fan. More »
Big Screen
Is Lindsay Lohan Making Her Big Comeback In Superman?
4:31AM Richard Lawson | TMZ is reporting that cocaine golem Lindsay Lohan, the troubled actress who’s been in and out of both jail cells and rehab over the past few years, is in talks to get a major role in the new Superman movie currently in the works at Warner Bros. If this is true, it would be surprising! More »
Music
2:11PM Jess McGuire | Melbourne based readers – if you are planning on hitting the town tonight and currently finalising your itinerary, perhaps you ought to know about an evening called ‘Rumours’ that is happening at The Gasometer in Collingwood from 10pm this evening. More »
If You Are Looking For Something To Do In Melbourne Tonight…
2:11PM Jess McGuire | Melbourne based readers – if you are planning on hitting the town tonight and currently finalising your itinerary, perhaps you ought to know about an evening called ‘Rumours’ that is happening at The Gasometer in Collingwood from 10pm this evening. More »
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