• # Malawi man arrested for posting gay rights posters
  → Malawian police have arrested a man for allegedly putting up posters supporting homosexuality, which is illegal in the southern African nation.

• # This Tree’s a Lady!
  → Scientists have discovered the female sex hormone progesterone in a walnut tree, shaking up what’s known about the different between plants and animals.

• # Explorers’ century-old whisky found in Antarctic
  → Five crates of Scotch whisky and two of brandy have been recovered by a team restoring an Antarctic hut used more than 100 years ago by famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.

• # Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker dies
  → The last speaker of an ancient tribal language has died in the Andaman Islands, breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world’s oldest cultures.

• # Man arrested had 75 bottles of lotion in his pants
  → Police say a Massachusetts man who allegedly stuffed 75 bottles of body lotion in his pants couldn’t make a smooth getaway, hampered by slacks that were nearly bursting at the seams.

• # Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy
  → First, they teleported photons, then atoms and ions. Now one physicist has worked out how to do it with energy, a technique that has profound implications for the future of physics.

• # Hackers Steal Millions in Carbon Credits
  → Credit card numbers are so passe. Today’s hackers know the real powerhouse data to steal is emission certificates.

• # Heidi Montag Tries To Move Her Face, Can’t (VIDEO)
  → Heidi Montag recently unveiled her new and improved body and face and now she is trying to talk about her difficult journey, even though the ten surgical procedures left her unable to move her face or speak normally. And, she says, they almost killed her. (Oh mah Gah.)

• # Greg Oden APOLOGY: Naked Pictures ‘Very Embarrassing’
  → Greg Oden, the Blazers center and first overall pick of the 2007 NBA Draft, is sorry about the naked pictures of him that appeared online Tuesday. Oden told the media Tuesday night that the nude photos are “very embarrassing,” and said he “would like to apologize to everybody: Portland, the fans, the organization.” (Oh, honey, ain’t nuthin to apologize for. Give muh a call sometime, boo.)

• # ‘Betty’ gets the boot at ABC
  → ABC has confirmed that “Ugly Betty” will be just a memory once this season – its fourth – comes to an end. (Oh hail naw!)

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Bent Flicks

• Sherlock Holmes (2009) 9/10

  2010-01-30 21:50

  

  Smart, witty and very engaging. Directory Guy Ritchie has hit a fine stride.

  0.3

• Terminator Salvation 8/10

  2010-01-30 18:07

  

  A worthy and thoroughly satisfying installment in the Terminator saga.

  0.3

• Pandorum 8/10

  2010-01-29 13:13

  

  Claustrophobia, the end of the world, monsters coming after you. All on a massive spaceship and with no idea what's going on. Sign me up.

  0.3

• Legion (2010) 5/10

  2010-01-24 13:40

  

  Not even sexy angels with tight lean bodies could save this movie from its hole-ridden plot.

  0.3

• Polytechnique (2009) 7/10

  2010-01-16 13:45

  

  A clever retelling of the horrible Montreal massacre that shocked many in Canada and the world in 1989.

  0.3

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