• # Florida man stabs his computer as police search for kiddie porn
  → A Florida man stabbed his computer with a Samurai sword after being accused of downloading kiddie porn. He was in his underwear when he did it. (LOLz)

• # Portable Bidet Takes Plastic Water Bottles To New Depths
  → Not every bathroom in the world is civilized enough to have a bidet. And so you never have to find yourself in a position where you’re reaching for toilet paper, the Hygienna Solo turns any plastic water bottle into a handheld portable bidet. How—um—practical?

• # Jimmy Fallon Bares His Assets for Comedy Album Cover
  → Jimmy Fallon unveiled the cover art for the forthcoming comedy record, fittingly titled Blow Your Pants Off, on his late night talk show Thursday. The photo depicts Fallon lying sultrily on a bed, holding a glass of red wine with a roaring fire in the background. He’s wearing a jacket, shirt and tie … and nothing else.

• # Teacher turned child pornographer replaces Bin Laden on the FBI Most Wanted list
  → A man sought in connection with child pornography charges has taken the place vacated by Osama bin Laden on the FBI’s 10 Most-Wanted list. (Osama be rollin’ in his sea grave.)

• # Nicki Minaj Quits Twitter After Fansite Leaks Music
  → Nicki Minaj has gone silent. An unlikely statement, yes, but true nonetheless, at least as far as her Twitter presence is concerned. The rapstress wished her 11 million followers good-bye (with more pointed words to a select few) on Sunday (April 15) after engaging in a battle with fansite Nicki Daily, which had started to leak her songs online.

• # Bear Grylls gets the ax from Discovery
  → It is a sad, sad day for wildlife and burly-man enthusiasts everywhere. Bear Grylls, the titular “Man” from the Discovery Channel series “Man vs. Wild,” has been fired by the network.

• # Extraordinary story of Appalachia’s ‘Blue Family’ whose bodies were discoloured after generations of inbreeding
  → In the Appalachian Mountains rests a medical oddity so unusual that it at first seems a massive hoax. Dating back to the early 1800s, an isolated family in eastern Kentucky – who can trace their roots back to a French orphan – started producing children who were blue.

• # Russian scientists revive plants frozen for 30,000 years
  → A team of Russian biophysicists has successfully grown ancient plants from tissue material that stayed frozen in the Siberian region for about 30,000 years. (Uh-maze-balls!)

• # Father shoots his karaoke singing son because he didn’t like his country music song
  → William Oller Sr told his son ‘I’m going to shut you up’ before getting a handgun from his truck car and shooting his son four times.

• # ‘Bootylicious’ horse fly discovered in Australia named after Beyonce for its golden backside
  → CANBERRA, Australia — A newly discovered horse fly in Australia was so “bootylicious” with its golden-haired bum, there was only one name worthy of its beauty: Beyonce. (How come nobody ain’t namin’ no damn fly after me?)

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Bent Flicks

• The Avengers (2012) - IMDb 9/10

  2012-05-12 09:53

  

  Thoroughly satisfying superhero movie that checks off all the boxes. The Hulk deserves particular kudos for finally being cool.

  0.3

• Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)... 8/10

  2012-04-21 17:56

  

  Tom Cruise yet again resuscitates his sagging movie career with this proven action vehicle franchise that sees Ethan Hunt embark on even more seemingly impossible tasks. A delicious thrill ride.

  0.3

• A Dangerous Method (2011) - IMDb 4/10

  2012-04-14 17:38

  

  A dreadfully boring look at how Freud and Jung founded psychoanalysis. Probably could've been somewhat saved by a Michael Fassbender frontal nudity scene.

  0.3

• Lockout (2012) - IMDb 7/10

  2012-04-11 17:42

  

  This cat-and-mouse chase film set in a prison floating in space has just enough camp, just the right amount of sci-fi stuff, and well-executed action sequences to passably entertain.

  0.3

• Mister Foe (2007) - IMDb 8/10

  2012-03-17 12:45

  

  An interesting take on the Oedipus complex. Jamie Bell delivers a solid performance as the title character.

  0.3

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