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Toilet chef’s try at hot sausage evacuates prison

CLALLAM BAY, Wash. – An inmate’s attempt to heat up sausages in his toilet went up in smoke when the cooking fire forced a unit evacuation at a Washington prison. (another shining example of human ingenuity!)

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Man gets 90 days for sex with car-wash vacuum

SAGINAW, Mich. – A man police caught performing a sex act with a car wash vacuum has been sentenced to 90 days in the Saginaw County Jail. (Funny as the headline is, its the comments section that had us cracking up!)

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Alaska and Florida consider bans on bestiality

It’s a subject that can cause nervous snickering, a little uneasiness and even a few bad jokes.

But many in the southeast Alaska community of Klawock, population 800, weren’t laughing last April after a 26-year-old registered sex offender was accused of molesting a local family’s pet dog.

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Really NBC? CEO Of NBC Calls Stewart Attacks ‘Absurd’

“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart’s recent criticism of CNBC, host Jim Cramer and the business media was “absurd” and “completely out of line,” NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker said here Wednesday.
“I thought it was incredibly unfair to CNBC and the business media in general” (this whole thing is just highly amusing to watch unfold.)

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Mobile users at risk of ID theft

The advent of smartphones has seen the types of information that pass through handsets proliferate and it is now much more common to store sensitive information and work-related details on handsets. (good to know!)

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Tyler Perry’s Madea Is Not Just Eye-Opening About Race.

(”Are you crazy?” “A little bit.”)

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Queen Cleopatra ‘of African descent’

The legendarily beautiful Egyptian queen Cleopatra was part African, says a documentary team who believe they have found the tomb of her sister. It was traditionally thought that Cleopatra was of Greek descent.
But remains of the queen’s sister Princess Arsinoe, found in Ephesus, Turkey. indicate that her mother had an “African” skeleton (interesting)

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Memo to Jim Cramer: Three rules to consider

You’d think people on TV would have a better idea of how it works. (gotta love witty, funny articles)

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Social networks ‘are new email’

With more than 175 million users Facebook is the dominant platform for status updates. Ari Steinberg, an engineering manager at the firm, told BBC News: “It’s been interesting to see the way people change the way they communicate. You used to e-mail content to people and you had to choose who you wanted to e-mail it to…”

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CNBC’s Dilemma Is To Make a Recession Seem Entertaining – FO

NEW YORK — CNBC has emerged as The Network We Love to Hate. (Amusing reading)

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