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Watch Out, Balki: It’s Risky Business to Accuse Tom Cruise of Homophobia

Turns out Balki Bartokomous is kinda bitter. Tom Cruise was not only the “biggest bore on the face of the Earth” on the set of Risky Business, according to Bronson Pinchot, but…

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Japanese Girls Melting Ice Creatively

A Japanese game show pits girls against one another to see who can melt a dildo-shaped piece of ice the fastest. An alternate title of this post would be “A Japanese girl's instructional guide to giving blow jobs.” Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

32 Planets Found Outside Our Solar System

SCIENCE BUZZ : There have been hundreds of planets found outside our solar system but this particular find includes 'Super-Earths', which mean, slightly larger planets than Earth, but with the potential for life. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

Prison paradise: In Norwegian open prisons murders & rapists lead the good life

In summer, inmates can improve their backhand on the tennis court, ride a horse in the forest and hit the beach for a swim. In winter, they can go cross-country skiing or participate in the prison's ski-jumping competition. Welcome to Norway's “open prisons”, where murders & rapists live the good life

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Found far away: 32 new planets

Astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop. Scientists using telescopes by the European Southern Observatory telescopes didn’t find any planets quite the size of Earth or any that seemed habitable or even unusual. But their announcement increased the number of planets discovered outside the solar system to more than 400.

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Just the Bullet Points: How a Former Assistant Ratted Out Balloon Boy’s Dad

Wow. Ready to have your mind blown?

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Just the Bullet Points: How a Former Assistant Ratted Out Balloon Boy’s Dad

War game imagines Obama on the run

The year is 2011. President Obama has just outlawed the private ownership of firearms, announced that the Constitution has been dissolved and revealed that the United States is going to be replaced by the North American Union, an amalgamation of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Revolution breaks out.

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War game imagines Obama on the run

Other Kids Books That Should Be Movies

Link: http://wonderwall.msn.com/movies/Chil… In honor of Where the Wild Things Are, Wonderwall did some fantasy casting for other children's books we'd like to see as movies. (Ian McKellen as “The BFG”, Woody Allen as “Captain Underpants”, Abigail Breslin in “Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret” and more!) Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

Apology Form For Being Drunk

This is a Chinese apology template from the 9th century. Translated in part: “The next morning, after hearing others speak on the subject, I realised what had happened, whereupon I was overwhelme with confusion and ready to sink into the earth with shame.” Oh hey, still relevant! Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

2012 isn’t the end of the world, Mayans insist

Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly “running out” on Dec. 21, 2012.

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2012 isn’t the end of the world, Mayans insist