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Lindsay Lohan — Suspect in Criminal Battery Case

Filed under: Lindsay Lohan , Celebrity Justice Lindsay Lohan is a suspect in a criminal battery investigation and the alleged victim — a staff member at Betty Ford —

Solar Powered "Swater" Concept Collects and Purifies Water In the Desert

Images via Yanko Design Ways to gather water in arid places has grabbed the attention of designers more often lately, and the newest concept to come on the radar is the Swater, by designers Chun Yen Tsao and Hsing-Tan Yang. The idea is a small basin that collects water and uses solar power to purify what is collected. Could a field of these provide water enough for a village?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Man to Travel 200 Miles in Solar-Powered Wheelchair

Photo via The National Chances are, you haven’t heard of Haidar Taleb yet, but he’s on a mission to inspire the world. On Monday, the disabled 47-year-old from the UAE is set to embark on a record-breaking 200 mile voyage across the desert in a solar-powered wheelchair he designed and built himself. “With this journey I hope to raise awareness of disability and sus… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Could Perennial Fodder Crops Mean More Sustainable Livestock?

Image credit: Permaculture Research Institute TreeHugger has featured an awesome tour of a permaculture allotment , permaculture-inspired disaster relief in Haiti , and even greening the desert in Jordan . Yet while permaculture—which very simply put is the art of designing gardens and farms that mimic natural ecosystems—… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Could Perennial Fodder Crops Mean More Sustainable Livestock?

What Happens When Business Students Think About the Water Cycle?

Image credit: Good Business students spend a lot of time thinking about supply chains, but what happens when you take them out into the desert and ask them to think about the water cycle? It’s a question for which the Stanford Graduate School of Business wanted an answer…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Taio Cruz Sexts With Ke$ha In ‘Dirty Picture’ Video

The clip ends with the two together at a sexy house party. By Jocelyn Vena Taio Cruz Photo: MTV News Taio Cruz ‘s new clip for his track “Dirty Picture,” which on Monday (May 24), opens with the singer speeding through the desert alone. Before long Cruz is at a house party where everyone is drinking and sending pretty PG-rated dirty texts, a fitting idea considering the song is all about sexting. All Cruz wants his lady friend to do is “take a dirty picture.” While Cruz is grinding up against some of the female revelers at the bash, enter Ke$ha , all dolled up, hanging out in the ladies’ room responding to Cruz’s call to arms, asking that her man do the same. Then we’re back in the desert with Cruz, who’s thinking about his woman again. And once again we’re back at the party, and it seems that there’s not one person who isn’t getting into the sexting action, kissing, touching and bumping and grinding as the flashes flash. Ke$ha’s role in the video is limited; eventually she and Cruz are hanging out while elsewhere ladies are getting alcohol poured all over them. The video ends with Cruz and Ke$ha canoodling, telling their loved ones to “click, click, snap” that dirty picture their way. Cruz recently talked to MTV News about working with Ke$ha on the track, noting that Lady Gaga was his initial choice. But Ke$ha won him over after producer Dr. Luke told him all about her. “She looked really sexy, and I just thought she was talented. Her voice was awesome,” he said. “It had this — I hope she won’t mind me saying this, but her voice has this kind of yodely quality to it, the way that she does things and the way that she ends words. I just loved that quality about it.” Related Artists Taio Cruz Ke$ha

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Ke$ha’s ‘Your Love Is My Drug’ Video: Beards, Boulders, Beatles And Bodypaint

‘Tik Tok’ singer’s wild clip, from Animal album, premiered today. By James Montgomery Ke$ha on the set of her “Your Love Is My Drug” video Photo: Eric Ford/ On Location News You can accuse Ke$ha of being many things (and after her divisive performance on “Saturday Night Live,” last month, many people have), but you cannot say that she’s not honest. In recent weeks, she’s told us that her brand-new video for “Your Love Is My Drug” would be set in a desert, would feature plenty of animals, at least one bearded dude , an extended, body-paint enhanced dance sequence in a cave, and animation inspired by the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” film. And now that the video has premiered … well, she wasn’t lying. “Drug” — which premiered at 12:01 am Thursday (May 13) on Vevo.com (link) — is very much all of those things, a rollicking, slightly nonsensical thing that follows Ke$ha and her hirsute lover on a psychedelic romp through the deserts of Lancaster, California. She rides an elephant. She covers herself in body paint (like she did on “SNL”), wraps a python around her neck and writhes beneath the glow of black lights. She crawls around with a tiger mask stuck to her face. Midway though the clip, the whole thing morphs into a heady, psychedelic trip, with curvy animated waves lapping against the desert rocks, and singing fish that look like they were lifted from the Beatles’ 1968 “Submarine” flick. None of it makes much sense, but that hardly matters. As Ke$h herself even admitted, she wrote the song “on an airplane, in, like, 10 minutes.” None of this is a slight on either the tune or the clip: It’s a supremely catchy pop tune, and the video is the perfectly blissed-out accompaniment. Of course, if one were to get deep about it, with all the desert interloping, “Drug” also recalls Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1970 film “Zabriskie Point,” not to mention the “Mr. Show” sketch “Jeepers Creepers Semi-Star,” but I’m willing to bet those similarities are purely coincidental. It seems that, with “Drug,” Ke$ha has stumbled on a perfect formula for pop success: Don’t think too big, or too much. Sometimes an elephant ride is just an elephant ride. It’s a lot harder than you’d think to make something seem this effortless. Like I said, you can accuse Ke$ha of many things — but don’t ever say she’s not smart . What do you think of Ke$ha’s video for “Your Love Is My Drug”? Let us know in the comments below! Related Videos MTV News Extended Play: Ke$ha Related Photos MTV.com Exclusive: Ke$ha Related Artists Ke$ha

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Ke$ha’s ‘Your Love Is My Drug’ Video: Beards, Boulders, Beatles And Bodypaint

Ke$ha Dances With Snakes For ‘Your Love Is My Drug’ Video

‘This is the video where I really got to play with animals and a hot bearded guy in the desert,’ the singer says. By Jocelyn Vena Ke$ha on the set of her “Your Love Is My Drug” video Photo: Eric Ford/ On Location News Recently, photos of Ke$ha prancing around the desert for her “Your Love Is My Drug” video hit the Web and fans immediately began to wonder what the singer had planned for the clip. MTV News got a few details from the singer herself about the sexy video. “In my video for ‘Your Love Is My Drug,’ it has a lot of animals in it, so that’s exciting ’cause I’m a huge animal lover and I get to actually, like, hang out and ride and perform with animals,” she said about the clip, shot in Lancaster, California, last week. “For more details, check out my video,” she added. However, we were able to get a few more details out of the singer. “I am wearing an animal mask,” Ke$ha continued. “I’ll give away one of them. I do get to perform glowing in the dark, in a cave, with a python wrapped around my body. So if that’s not sexy, I don’t know what is.” She says the video will also help to clear up any theories as to why she named her debut Animal. “I love animals — that’s why my record’s called Animal. People have their theories about why I called my record Animal — it’s really just because I’m obsessed with animals and I feel like I am an animal and I want to bring that out in people,” she said. “So this is the video where I really got to play with animals and a hot bearded guy in the desert. It’s so good! Just watch it!” Are you excited to see Ke$ha’s new video? Let us know in the comments below! Related Videos MTV News Extended Play: Ke$ha Related Photos Behind-The-Scenes: Ke$ha At ‘SNL’

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O’Neal Sues — You Hacktus My Shaqtus

Filed under: Celebrity Justice , TMZ Sports Shaquille O’Neal has some unfinished business in Arizona — where some dude in the desert is trying to stake claim to the legendary “Shaqtus” … a mystical plant indigenous to Florida, Arizona, Southern California and Ohio.

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Sex and the City 2 Trailer: Get Carried Far Away

Ready to get Carried away, Sex and the City fans? The first official trailer for this movie’s sequel has been released. The preview doesn’t give away many plot details, but it’s set to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind,” while Carrie appears to still be in love with Big; Charlotte is busy with motherhood; and Samantha is, of course, searching for men.

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Sex and the City 2 Trailer: Get Carried Far Away