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Director of Italian Fashion House Missoni Aboard Plane Missing in Venezuela
Vittorio Missoni was one of six people aboard a plane that has been reported missing off the coast of Venezuela. Missoni — as you could have guessed — runs the famed Italian fashion house Missoni...
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This Week in Vomiting
It's hard to believe that only yesterday io9 introduced us to "Vomiting Larry,", the mannequin-like robot designed to vomit on command "not just forcefully, but in an anatomically accurate fashion."...
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For Some Reason, the New York Times Published a Story on Non-Married Spouses...
Sometimes the New York Times profiles people that are genuine monsters of upper-class naiveté and privilege — like, say, the parents that have their kids flown to summer camp on private jets or The...
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Rockland County Clerk Claims "Gun Maps" Outdated, Inaccurate
New York's Journal News has hired armed security guards after receiving a barrage of criticism over its recent decision to publish interactive maps with the names and addresses of licensed gun owners....
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Armed Hate Crime Victim Decides Not to Shoot Attacker
Earlier this week, a 24-year-old Tampa-area resident named Cameron Mohammed was walking with his girlfriend into Walmart at around 3 a.m. when the two were approached from behind by a 25-year-old...
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Cat Caught Smuggling Escape Tools Into Brazilian Prison
Early New Year's Eve, police in Brazil's Alagoas state thwarted a potential jailbreak when they captured a cat attempting to smuggle various escape tools into a medium-security prison. According to...
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Gérard Depardieu 'Betrays' France for Russia's Flat Tax
There is not a detail in the story of France's Orson Welles Gérard Depardieu's apparently-real move to Russia to avoid higher taxes that will not delight you. After President François Hollande...
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The Library of Congress Is Almost Finished Archiving 170 Billion of Your Best...
If you'd forgotten your drunken or embarassing tweets from 2010, bad news: the Library of Congress is reportedly weeks away from finishing their project to archive the roughly 170 billion tweets sent...
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Escaped Prisoner Disguised as Old Man Caught in Chicago
A bank robber who broke out of downtown Chicago's federal jail in an "old man" disguise has been recaptured. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, 38-year-old Kenneth Conley was arrested Friday while...
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Uruguay Has the President of Your Dreams
I'm ashamed to say that I was completely unfamiliar with the exploits of Jose Mujica, the onetime guerilla fighter who has been president of Uruguay since 2010. (So this is not "news" per se, but...
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Chinese Millionaire Keeps Street Cleaner Job to 'Set an Example' for Her...
A "millionaire woman" from Wuhan City in Central China has spent the last 15 years working six days a week as a street cleaner in order to show her kids the value of a hard day's work. Yu Youzhen, a...
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Boring, Stable White Collar Jobs Are Increasingly a Pipe Dream
Consider the predicament of today's aspiring member of the white collar leisure class: all of the old ways of doing things seem to be falling apart. Law school, once the fallback of choice for...
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Delta Prevents Musician from Bringing Vintage Gibson Guitar On Board, Ends Up...
Dave Schneider did everything he could to get Delta to let him bring his classic 1965 Gibson ES-335 on board his flight from Buffalo, NY to Detroit — going so far as to offer to buy the guitar its own...
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'Edith With Googly Eyes' Is the Only Good Thing About Downton Abbey at This...
The third season of Downton Abbey, ITV's counterrevolutionary paean to inequality and feudalism, is currently airing in the United States, where it will disappoint and frustrate the fans who are still...
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Google Chairman Arrives In North Korea to Examine North Korea's Non-Existent...
Google chairman Eric Schmidt arrived in Pyongyang today for the start of a controversial trip to North Korea on a "private humanitarian mission" with former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson. The...
View ArticleMan Tries Out the 100 Worst Pick-Up Lines of All Time So You Don't Have To
Seriously, don't try these terrible pick-up lines at home. You could get seriously injured. All comes on in this video are performed on a closed track by a professional jackass. [H/T: Brobible]
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Justin Bieber Is Almost Certainly Addicted to Marijuana
Justin Bieber fans are disappointed to learn that the 18-year-old singer will be spending eternity rotting in hell, instead of giving free concerts where everyone is in the front row in heaven, after...
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Delaware Playground Signs with Alarming Spanish Translation Considered Racist...
For the past year, Spanish-speaking parents in Milford, Delaware, who brought their children to the playground facilities near the Lulu M. Ross and Mispillion elementary schools were greeted by a sign...
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Caught on Camera: Girl in Hot Pants Disarms Suicidal Scissor-Brandishing...
The Google Translation of this harrowing story out of Guangzhou, China, leaves much to be desired, but the gist of it is that a mentally ill woman deemed "suicidal" in local media reports tried to...
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Your Guide to the Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coin That Obama Can Mint to Save...
Today, New York Times columnist and Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman wrote that President Obama should be "absolutely" prepared to mint a one trillion dollar platinum coin and use it to pay...
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