Celebrities Boycotting BP – Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and the rock band Korn are just some of the celebrities coming out against BP and protesting the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Lady Gaga is joining Korn’s Jonathan Davis in a boycott of the troubled oil giant British Petroleum (BP). In a statement issued Friday, the rock singer says he has gathered a coalition of artists, including Lady Gaga, Creed and the Backstreet Boys. [examiner]

Longest Tennis Match In History – It is already the longest tennis match in history, and it is still not done. John Isner of the United States and Nicolas Mahut of France fought to a fifth-set standoff, 59-59, after 10 hours of record-setting play in their first-round match at the 2010 Wimbledon championships.For a second day, as darkness descended, play was suspended, to resume the next day. [newyorktimes]

Australia Gets It’s First Female Prime Minister – Wow, here’s one for the books. A sudden revolt within Australia’s ruling party gave the country its first woman prime minister, who today promised to safeguard her government’s reforms in education, health and industrial law. Julia Gillard had been deputy to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd since their Labor Party swept to power in a landslide election victory in 2007. [independent]

Boy Detained For Facebook Murder – A 16-year-old boy has been detained for killing a former best friend after the pair traded insults on Facebook. Salum Kombo, 18, was stabbed in the chest in Bromley-by-Bow, east London, in December after calling his killer, then 15, names including “pussy”. The trial heard the boy, who was found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey in May, could not take the “loss of face”. Pussy. [bbc]

SA’s PopYaCollar Features Veronika Zemanova – SA’s #1 street fashion blog, PopYaCollar, has managed to snap one of the world’s most popular nude models, Veronika Zemanova. Czech born Veronika (Top 10 most Googled women in 2000) has built up a huge following due to her statuesque body, the striking lines of her face and her smoldering eyes. PopYaCollar caught the moment recently in Provence. [popyacollar]

US Restaurants To Serve World Cup LION Burgers – The Il Vinaio restaurant near Phoenix, Arizona, is offering a “lion burger” for $21 (£14), served with spicy homemade crisps and roast corn on the cob. The restaurant has already received a bomb threat and hundreds of angry emails from animal rights activists. Owner Cameron Selogie said the decision to serve the lion burgers was a tribute to South Africa, host nation of the World Cup. [telegraph]

Digital Number Plate Ads Could Drive Recovery For California – Check this out. Cash-strapped US state California is considering the introduction of digital adverts on vehicle number plates to pay off its deficit. The electronic device would look like a normal number plate when the vehicle is moving but would switch to digital adverts when it has stopped for more than four seconds, in traffic or at a red light. [skynews]

Amid The Haze Of Rosé Wine – Live From Provence – “Ryanair are draconian about baggage and the big question was how to fit in 2×5l boxes of the Lumieres Cave’s finest white wine, plus a few other market purchases, some herbs, spices and – oh – clothes. No problem, it all worked out but not before a little re-packing and re-balancing of the equipment.” As LivingStylishlyWell continues to give A Year In Provence a run for it’s money! [livingstylighlywell]

The Enduring Power Of The Polaroid – Polaroids were the creation of an American engineer called Edwin Land, who is said to have invented the process after his daughter asked him why she couldn’t see the holiday snapshots they took together as soon as they took them.Plenty of fathers of course would like to make that kind of wish come true, but Land’s daughter was lucky. [thebeeb]

The 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera – Lamborghinis have long stood for sheer, menacing speed, usually courtesy of a monster engine. It’s a solid formula, but any engineer will tell you that you eventually reach a point of diminishing returns. How, then, do you make an even more insane Lamborghini? Make it lighter. [automag]

Time Magazine Profiles Online Poker Math Brats – A far cry from the early days of online bingo games, online poker is becoming the business of mathematics geeks. And they’re upsetting the old-guard by using a mountain of sortable data from the millions of hands played online to dominate the game. These new guys are focused on the math. And they are changing everything.” [time]

[thanks miki]