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Buy a Private Jet Trip with Ice Cream-Licking Art Star of Silicon Valley

Drue Kataoka sells engulfing quick dips in art and culture to rich Silicon Valley workaholics . Now she’s selling the ultimate fast immersion: the chance to “leave your mark” on Kataoka’s art during a private jet ride.

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Shakira’s Shakes Her Booty On SNL

I can’t imagine many people saw Shakira shaking her Colombian ass on Saturday Night Live this weekend, I’m a little surprised the show’s still on the air, so I thought the least I could do was post the pictures for my loyal readers. She’s got some pretty sweet moves. I don’t mean the ass shaking part, she’s Latina it’s part of her culture, I meant the lipsyncing

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Nobel winner slams Bible as ‘handbook of bad morals’

Nobel winner slams Bible as ‘handbook of bad morals’ By Agence France-Presse Monday, October 19th, 2009 — 3:00 pm Share on Facebook Stumble This! Email This Post Email This Post Nobel winner slams Bible as handbook of bad moralsLISBON — A row broke out in Portugal on Monday after a Nobel Prize-winning author denounced the Bible as a “handbook of bad morals”. Speaking at the launch of his new book “Cain”, Jose Saramago, who won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature, said society would probably be better off without the Bible. Roman Catholic Church leaders accused the 86-year-old of a publicity stunt

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Lil Wayne Rocks The Hottest MCs In The Game At #2!

Huge sales, huge tours, huge label take Weezy to ‘A Milli’ and beyond! By Shaheem Reid and Jayson Rodriguez Lil Wayne Photo: Universal/MTV News The 2009 Hottest MCs in the Game rollout is now complete! As in 2007 and 2008, the list, determined by the MTV News Hip-Hop Brain Trust, is based on an MC’s achievements right now, rather than an entire career.

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Jay-Z Is The Hottest MC In The Game!

Hov’s new music, business acumen and vast influence lift him above all others in 2009. By Shaheem Reid Jay-Z Photo: Roc Nation/MTV News The 2009 Hottest MCs in the Game rollout is now complete! As in 2007 and 2008, the list, determined by the MTV News Hip-Hop Brain Trust, is based on an MC’s achievements right now, rather than an entire career. The criteria is based on a combination of rhyme skill, flow and how those things are implemented musically as the main factors

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‘Vampire Diaries’ Star Paul Wesley Wants To Show His Fangs

‘I don’t want Stefan to be perfect,’ actor says of his character on the CW drama. By Jocelyn Vena Paul Wesley Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images Episode four of “The Vampire Diaries” is set to air on Thursday night (October 1), and so far, viewers have gotten a pretty good look at Damon Salvatore’s evil nature. But we’ve only seen his little brother, Stefan, as a nice, human-blood-abstaining, football-playing vampire next door

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50 Cent Slams Jay-Z, Kanye West In Hot 97 Interview

Fif goes after Kanye over Gaga tour, Jay over earlier comments. By Jayson Rodriguez 50 Cent Photo: Rob Loud/ Getty Images When 50 Cent called himself the “greatest show on Earth” during a radio interview on Wednesday, he wasn’t kidding about the circus reference. The G-Unit rapper held court on a number of topics with Angie Martinez on New York’s Hot 97, from Kanye West and Lady Gaga’s joint tour to Jay-Z to his possible plans to hang up the mic

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Lady Gaga Is Basically Fame Incarnate: NYU-Era Video Surfaces

Our Lady of the Immaculate Penis , Lady Gaga , was once Stefani Germanotta, an NYU student with dreams: to be the most post-modern pop star ev-ar, or at least, to leave the small-time dreck of NYU piano songstress obscurity. Video surfaces! In a recent profile of Lady Gags, Gawker alum Joshua David Stein pens for Out an awesome description of the Gags as an up-and-coming village artiste : Things weren’t going well for young Stefani Germanotta, an 18-year-old from the Upper West Side, at the Bitter End. It was Friday night at the famed Greenwich Village club and the chattering NYU kids in the audience — there because the place didn’t card — outnumbered the handful of misfit East Village friends who had come to see her play

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NASA: More water beneath ocean floor is possibility

A team of scientists from Oregon State University has created the first global three-dimensional map of electrical conductivity in the Earth's mantle and their model suggests that that enhanced conductivity in certain areas of the mantle may signal the presence of water. What is most notable, the scientists say, is those areas of high conductivity coincide with subduction zones – where tectonic plates are being subducted beneath the Earth's crust.

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Wildfire endangering over 10,000 homes near Los Angeles

A wildfire in the mountains above Los Angeles has surged in every direction, going in a single day from a modest threat to a danger to some 10,000 homes. The blaze nearly tripled in size in triple-digit heat Saturday, leaving three people burned, destroying at least three homes and forcing the evacuation of 1,000 homes and an untold number of people. A slight drop in temperatures and an influx of fire crews from around the state were expected to bring some relief Sunday.

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