Harrods department store – Knightsbridge – London

Harrods Sells Gold Bars – Harrods department store announced on Thursday it had joined with Swiss refiner Produits Artistiques Metaux Precieux to offer gold bars weighing 12.5kg. Harrods, established in 1834, is the first London shop to offer gold in-store. The bars are being kept in a miniature vault on the lower ground floor. [luxuo]

Woody Allen wants supermodel Adriana Lima in his next film – No spice. Following the success of “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” Woody Allen will make Rio de Janeiro the setting for his next movie — and he apparently wants supermodel Adriana Lima as his muse. Fair enough. I’d probably do the same. [nypost]

Santana ends stint with South Africa – Joel Santana’s reign as the head coach of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ hosts, South Africa came to an end today as the Brazilian-born coach reached an ‘amicable’ decision with the country’s football governing body, SAFA, to step down with immediate effect. [fifa]

Meghan McCain Twitter Photo Creates Uproar – Meghan McCain, whose profile as a young political commentator has steadily risen in the wake of her father John McCain‘s loss in the 2008 presidential election, posted a photograph on Twitter of herself yesterday in the midst of what she called, in a tweet, her “‘spontaneous’ night in” with “my Andy Warhol biography and takeout.” [cbsnews]

Police seek associate in alleged balloon-boy hoax – An associate of the father accused of carrying out the now-infamous balloon boy ordeal to promote a reality TV show was wanted for questioning after e-mails surfaced showing the two had discussed a similar stunt months ago as part of a public relations campaign for the program. [msnbc]

Seriously, they dated? – Cher and Tom Cruise? Yep! Kelly Preston and George Clooney? Yep! Liv Tyler and Joaquin Phoenix? Sure! Check out these pics of the most mind blowing celebrity hookups form the past that you probably didn’t know about! [popeater]

Is Email Dying? – Email has taken the back seat, with Twitter, Facebook and other real-time communication driving how people communicate online. Media sources question if this really is the case. [newsy]

The Pixar Lamp goes full circle – In the video after the jump, the lamp is finally tried for stomping out the letter I in the Pixar intro. As punishment, he’s supplied with a little too much electricity. [jezebel]

Pot-Smoking Patients Safe from Feds – US Cancer patients should soon feel freer to toke up to ease their pain. The Justice Department is about to issue a new policy on medical marijuana emphasizing to prosecutors that it is a waste of resources to arrest people who use or sell medical marijuana, but who are in strict compliance with state law. Medical marijuana is legal in 14 states. [yahoo]

Power Pouts, Frizzy Hair, Seductive Eyes Rule Beauty on Milan and Paris Runways – Spring beauty means focus. Makeup artists in Milan and Paris for the most part had one main feature as the center of attention: the eyes, the lips, the hair, but not all at once. Of course, that doesn’t mean you’ll be skipping on products next season. Prada’s red-hot lips were the glossiest, sexiest pouts of the season, while Bottega Veneta’s..more [thecut]

The Return of James Cameron – Director James Cameron has presided over the first film to cost $100 million, Terminator 2, the first film to cost over $200 million, Titanic, and now, Avatar, a $230 million sci-fi adventure that’s taken four years to produce. Cameron himself developed the camera system used to shoot this film, which will be “the first big-budget action blockbuster in 3-D.” [dailybeast / newyorker]

Bush Shoe Thrower Gets Hero’s Welcome – The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush leaned back in his chair and soaked in the round of applause. This was not Baghdad or Damascus or Beirut. This was Geneva, where Muntadhar al-Zeidi was given a hero’s welcome Monday far warmer than the subdued reception in his own homeland. [huffpost]

Blue Screen of Death (On a Belt) – I don’t why my belt crashed. I went to the restroom and then zipped up and then shook my hips like Elvis in the mirror…wait, Belt 7 isn’t Elvis compatible. That explains everything. [gizmodo]

Boyzone Stephen Gately Article Breaks Complaints Record – An article about the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately has prompted the most complaints ever to the UK’s media watchdog. The Press Complaints Commission said it had received more than 21,000 complaints about Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir. [skynews]

Today’s SuperEna Lottery has a £69,000,000 jackpot – With that kind of money you could buy Guiness heir Henry Channon’s nine-bedroom Thameside home on Chayne Walk. It costs R300 million. So you’ll have half a billion Rand change. I’m fine with that. [playsuperena]