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Andy Murray Reaches Australian Open Final – I know, it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, does it? But it’s good – this is exactly where we want him. Remember what they say – The higher and harder they fall, the better the visual.” Andy Murray will face either Roger Sainsbury Federer Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the final. Good luck, Don. [skysports]

Imitation Google And YouTube Websites Emerge In China – YouTubecn.com offers videos from the real YouTube, which is blocked in China. The Google imitation is called Goojje and includes a plea for the U.S.-based Web giant not to leave China, after it threatened this month to do so in a dispute over Web censorship and cyberattacks. The separate projects went up within a day of each other in mid-January, just after Google’s threat to leave. [newser]

Kate Moss Launches Bag Collection For Longchamp – Kate Moss, supermodel extraordinaire, has added yet another lucrative deal to her expanding business portfolio. The model-designer, property “tycooness” and sometime rock ‘n’ roll singer, who celebrated her 36th birthday earlier this month, has designed her first handbag collection for the French, luxury leathergoods brand, Longchamp, famous for its foldaway ‘Le Pliage’. [telegraph]

Black Students Targeted In Ohio – The FBI is investigating a threat scrawled last week on a bathroom wall warning that black students would be killed Feb. 2. It bore the trademarks of just another casual, though chilling, threat of violence on a college campus, but students here aren’t taking any chances. “I don’t feel too safe walking by the woods,” said one student. [msnbc]

Gisele Had A Water Birth – Gisele Bündchen dispels reports that she went into labor and was taken to a Boston-area hospital. Instead, she says, “I gave birth in the bathtub,” at the couple’s Beacon Hill penthouse. Well thank God we’ve cleared that one up. Although if she really wants to convince us she should consider releasing the footage. [people]

Miramax Film Studios Closes Down – It’s been a slow death, but Miramax (which brought you “The Piano.” “Pulp Fiction.” “Sex, Lies and Videotape.” “Clerks.” “The English Patient” and more) dies on Thursday. The New York and Los Angeles offices of the arthouse movie studio owned by Disney will close. Eighty people will lose their jobs. The six movies waiting distribution — “Last Night,” “The Debt,” “The Tempest” among them — will be shelved, to gather dust, or win a tepid release. [thewrap]

J.D Salinger, Author of ‘Catcher in the Rye’, dies – Reclusive ‘Catcher in the Rye’ author J.D. Salinger has died at age 91 at his home in New Hampshire. Salinger is best known for his coming-of-age novel ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ about rebellious teenager Holden Caulfield, which came out in 1951 during the time of anxious, Cold War conformity. [telegraph]

Misspelled Tattoos : Permanent And Hilarious – An extreme tattoo can be totally badass. Unless you spell it “exreme.” Then it’s just hilarious. We’ve compiled some of the funniest tattoo misspellings we could find. Either these folks had no access to spell check or are simply oblivious to the mistake. Regardless, they cracked us up. [huffers]

Alicia Keys Buys Lenny Kravitz’ Crib – Alicia Keys and her secret fiancé, hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz, are said to be buying Lenny Kravitz’s penthouse duplex at 30 Crosby St. for $14.5 million. Briefly home to Nicole Kidman, Kravitz’s ex, and Denzel Washington, the penthouse has been on the market for eight years at various prices. [nypost]

Is Couture Dying? – Paris’ haute couture season hobbled out on its stiletto heels this week, humbled by a down economy and the absence of once-flamboyant French fashion darling Christian Lacroix, whose financial woes prevented him from showing a collection for the first time in two decades. What does the future hold for Paris’ fabled luxury lines? [dailybeast]

Hitler Was A Massive Fan Of Irish Folk Music – Irish musician Sean Dempsey played for Adolf Hitler in 1936, and the Nazi dictator loved his music. When he arrived to play however, there was no room for him to sit, and it looked like it would be canceled. That’s when Hitler jumped up and demanded that an S.S. member get down on his hands and knees and that Dempsey sit astride him while he played. No spice! [irishcentral]

Porn And The New Apple iPad – Internet-enabled computers managed to transform the way we consume porn—as did smartphones like the iPhone a few years later. Now, with the iPad, Apple’s released a whole new class of device: how will it effect adult entertainment? [fleshbot (chips!)]