Lindsay Lohan Snapped With Coke In Cannes – She’s doing very well, old Lindsay. She was in Cannes this last week, partying up a storm, as a warrant for her arrest was issued back in LA – for not appearing in court for something completely different. Probably DUI. What does it matter? It’s a train wreck and it doesn’t seem to be ending. And how are those savoury individuals she is hanging with? Brilliant vibe. [tmz]
Fergie Gets Bust Selling Access To Prince Andrew – Sarah Ferguson is getting better at embarrassing the Royal family as she gets older. This time she walked right into a News of The World sting. She has been recorded on video offering access to her ex-husband, Prince Andrew. The price for access was set at £500,000 and she accepted a downpayment of £400,000. “Look after me and he’ll look after you,” she told them. Fergie, Fergie, Fergie.. [bbc]
Tiger Woods Set To Lose $750 Million – Elin Nordegren, Tiger Woods’ soon to be ex-wife, has apparently ramped up the requested divorce settlement. This comes after our boy demanded a life-long muzzle be put on her with regards to stories and info to do with their life together. It’s not a very large sum of money. I mean, if you think about it, it’s about $1million for every stripper he nailed. Hey? [suntimes]
“Uncle Boonmee” Takes Cannes Top Honour – Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” won the Festival de Cannes’ top honor, the coveted Palme d’Or, as the 63rd annual Festival de Cannes wrapped Sunday night. Charlotte Gainsbourg joined jury president Tim Burton to present Weerasethakul with the prize at the traditional closing-night ceremony held in the Palais des Festivals. [hollywoodreporter]
New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It – Launched last year, Foursquare is unique in that it not only allows users to broadcast their whereabouts, but also offers a number of built-in incentives, including some innovative new crap The New York Times surely has a throbbing hard-on for. In fact, why don’t we just let them report on this garbage and call it a day? [theonion]
Investec Bans Card Users From Buying Lottery Tickets – Investec have sent out a warning to all card holders, banning them from buying overseas lottery tickets online. Luckily 2oceansvibeLottos.com and its lottery partners do not operate any lottery, but rather provide a service to buy your ticket for you, on foreign soil. Just like if you were to ask your buddy in England to buy a ticket on your behalf. And the reserve bank is fine with that. More.. [2oceansvibe]
Porn Goes 3D – It’s done. Game on, broheim, because 3D is here to stay. The first 3D porn full feature film made for modern stereoscopic TVs—those that use shutter eyeglasses—has arrived. It’s called Kama-Sutra, and even Woody Allen will like it.That’s what Allen said at the last Cannes Film Festival: “[I like 3D movies because] three-dimensional women look a lot better. I don’t see it in my movies, but for Playboy it will be perfect.” [gizmodo]
Black Box Found After India Plane Crash – As crash investigators pulled the black box from the charred, twisted wreckage of an Air India plane Sunday, Koolikkunnu Krishnan marveled that he escaped the crash alive. Of the 166 passengers and crew aboard when the plane overshot a hilltop runway and plunged over a cliff at dawn Saturday, 158 were dead. Krishnan and just seven others survived. [yahoo]
Ninth Suicide At iPad Manufacturing Company – A worker at Foxconn Technology Group, which makes iPhones and iPads, jumped to his death Friday from a building in the southern Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen — the ninth suicide this year at the world’s largest contract maker of electronics, state-run media reported.The latest victim, logistics worker Nan Gang, 21, leapt from a four-story factory building about a half hour after finishing his shift at 4 a.m. [msnbc]
Bull-Fighting Matador Gets Impaled [Video] – A day after dashing Spanish bullfighter Julio Aparicio showed his dominance by cutting the ears off two vanquished bulls, one of their bovine brothers got revenge yesterday by gruesomely impaling the matador through his throat and out his mouth. If you think bullfighting is cruel and it makes you angry to watch, then you will enjoy this. Be careful though, it’s pretty hectic. [nypost]
Vegas’ Biggest Loser’s Losses Now Over $200 Million – In a lawsuit filed last year against Harrah’s Entertainment, Terrance Watanabe’s lawyers acknowledged that the Omaha, Neb., philanthropist had lost the astounding sum of $127 million. But now that his attorneys have examined casino records handed over in discovery, they say he lost far more: a staggering $204 million in a single year at two Harrah’s casinos. Shame, he should try learning the strategy of blackjack! [aolnews]
Pac-Man Turns 30 – It’s probably impossible to count the times someone has written that video games are a business as big as or bigger than Hollywood. But long before the Halos and the Sims and the Call of Dutys and the Maddens began bringing in billions of dollars, the world was dominated by a simple yellow character munching his way through a maze of dots, trying to avoid getting eaten by ghosts. [cnet]
The Scumball Rally, By AA Gill – “Once a year, Monte Carlo plays it down for the Grand Prix. It is, uniquely, a road race. And where every other European city is desperately trying to get rid of motorcars, Monaco lies on its back in the street like a trucker’s prostitute braced for a petrolheads’ gang-bang. The truth is, there’s nothing better to do and even if it knew how, it couldn’t do anything else, anyway. Naturally, we arrive by helicopter.” [travelintelligence]
Vitamin D: Why You Are Probably NOT Getting Enough and How That Makes You Sick – What vitamin deficiency is almost never diagnosed and has been linked to many cancers, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, depression, fibromyalgia, chronic muscle pain, bone loss and autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis? What vitamin is almost totally absent from our food supply? You guessed it.. [huffpo]
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