“Welcome to America”

Lebanese Muslim Immigrant is Miss USA 2010 – Former pole-dancing champion, Rima Fakih, says it was a certain look from Donald Trump that tipped her off that she had won the 2010 Miss USA title. The 24-year-old Miss Michigan beat out 50 other women to take the title Sunday night, despite nearly stumbling in her evening gown. Fakih, who was born in Lebanon, is the first Arab-American winner of the competition. Well done, angel pie! [popeater]

Vanity Fair Discusses Bafana Bafana – “The bad news, for South Africa, is that it may well become the first World Cup host nation to fail to advance beyond the group stage. As one of the lowest-ranked international teams in the tournament—only North Korea ranks lower—Bafana Bafana are staring up a cliff face to make it to the knockout round. But there’s some good news, too.” Read on.. [vanityfair]

Cat Fight Between Two Of Tiger’s Mistresses – One alleged Tiger Woods mistress unloaded on another over the weekend, as the war of words between the two became increasingly heated. Joslyn James, the porn star who will soon recreate her alleged affair on film, trashed sultry VIP hostess Rachel Uchitel, the first woman named as part of the golfer’s massive sex scandal. [huffpo]

Steve Jobs Email Rant About Porn On The iPad – For many years, tech fans have known that Steve Jobs will occasionally respond to messages directed to his well-publicized email address. Most of the time his responses consist of snappy one-liners, often containing a nugget of new information. But it’s rare to hear about a full-on debate, with Jobs offering some rationale behind Apple’s highly controversial decisions.That’s exactly what happened last night.. [techcrunch]

Superhero Porn Parody Films Ready To Fly – On the heels of wrapping production on “Batman XXX: A Porn Parody,” a skintastic skewing of the 1960s TV show, porn producer Vivid Entertainment has announced the creation of Vivid-Superhero, an imprint that will take the wraps off Superman (already in preproduction, according to the company), the Green Hornet, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Captain America, Thor and the Incredible Hulk. [reuters]

Cape Town Nightclubs Still Haven’t Learnt – What is this obsession with smart shoes and collared shirts? I’ve been to some of the smartest bars and clubs in the world, and it is ONLY Cape Town that enforce this ridiculous rule. And you know what happened this time? They wouldn’t let Gordon Ramsay in? Whether he is a prick or not is irrelevant – you want a guy like Gordon Ramsay in your club. But instead he will tell everyone not to go near Hemmisphere. [iol]

“I’m Afraid To Tell You There Is No Money Left” – Liam Byrne, the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, last week wrote a letter for his successor – the Liberal Democrat David Laws – stating: “I’m afraid to tell you there’s no money left.” Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Mr Laws said: “When I arrived at my desk on the very first day as Chief Secretary, I found a letter from the previous chief secretary to give me some advice, I assumed..” [timesuk]

Kate Hudson Freaks Out About Cameron Diaz Nailing Her Ex – The claws are out between two of Hollywood’s top female stars. Cameron Diaz and Kate Hudson are feuding over their ex-boyfriends, according to reports. They supposedly fell out when Hudson started dating Justin Timberlake shortly after his four-year relationship with Diaz ended. Now they are said to be at odds over Madonna’s former beau, baseball star Alex Rodriguez. [dailymail]

The Most Expensive Thing In The World – What may be the most valuable object in the world has gone on show in London amid tight security. It’s an 1855 Swedish postage stamp, called “Treskilling Yellow”, printed in the wrong color, and it’s worth £5million. Weighing just 0.03 grams, the rare stamp is thought to be the most valuable thing in existence by weight and volume. [luxuo]

Truckloads of Freaks, Strippers, Art and Noodles – If you were a cop and came across 30 unmarked box trucks gathered in a remote industrial corner of Brooklyn, who would you interrogate first — the folks bent over bowls in a mini ramen noodle house, the mourners in the funeral truck or the screaming masses taking turns shooting paintballs at someone in a chicken outfit? [wired]

Facebook Boss Gets Punished In His Own Movie – The 26-year-old billionaire, who is already under fire for his website’s abuse of privacy, now faces ridicule. JUST as he hoped to clean up his image, Mark Zuckerberg, the inventor of Facebook, is to be portrayed in a Hollywood film as a ruthless and untrustworthy sex maniac. Kevin Spacey is producing the movie, with Jesse Eisenberg playing Zuckerberg. Oh, Justin Timberlake is also in it! [timesonline]

They’re Doing A Movie About Winnie Mandela – “It was during my first Cannes Film Festival, that director Darrell Roodt told me about a movie on Winnie Madikizela Mandela he was working on. He told me Jennifer Hudson was interested. But now the Creative Workers Union of South Africa has voiced their dissatisfaction over the choice of a “non-South African” actress to play the part of a home-grown political stalwart.” One question, who will be playing Stompie? [dailymaverick]

Blighted, Buggered, Bastardized…Blighty – When Nick Clegg ascended to the leadership of the Liberal Democrats – a party once described by a future Prime Minister (who we’ll get to later) as ‘a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition’ – he sat for an interview with British Gentleman’s Quarterly, conducted by Piers Morgan. Morgan asked Clegg – on record – how many women he’d bedded. “Ah, I’d say no more than 30.” [southernwrite]

Wednesday’s PowerBall Jackpot Sitting On $145 Million – We only really get excited when these overseas lottos hit R1billion. Which is why I need to let you know that the US Powerball lottery has rolled over again and is sitting at R1.1 billion! If I win I’m gonna tell all the people I don’t like to get stuffed, then I’ll give then a bar each – just to confuse them! I’ll take pictures and email them to you – from my yacht.. [2ovlottos]

[thanks charlie]