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Is Muammar Gadhafi Dead? [GRAPHIC PHOTO]
According to media outlets, Libyan officials are announcing the death of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi by wounds suffered when an eight-month-old revolution effort overran his hometown of Sirte.
“There was a lot of firing against his group and he died,” Abdel Majid Mlegta, a National Transitional Council official, told Reuters.
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Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann Clips Get Hilarious Redubbings [VIDEOS]
Kudos to MSNBC for making us hip to Bad Lip Reading, a website that redubs videos of notable figures and celebrities with side-splitting results.
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Butler Media Games $4000 Sony Home Theater Winner
<img title="Tim Butler and Jason Young" src="http://929nin.com/files/2011/10/Tim-Butler-and-Jason-Young1-630x376.jpg" alt="" width="630" height="376" />Last Thursday the contestants met to compete in a game that nobody knew anything about, not even Tim Butler of <a href="http://butleralarmservice.com/" ta
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5 Celebrities-Turned-Politicians
Celebrities often look for a second act in their careers, including trading the glitz and glamour of Hollywood for the law and order of political office. Recently, ‘Survivor’ fan favorite Rupert Boneham announced he was interested in running for governor of Indiana, and Alec Baldwin is openly considering a run for mayor of New York City
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Upcoming Steve Jobs’ Biography May Become a Movie
Sony Pictures is reportedly in talks to acquire the movie rights to Walter Isaacson’s soon-to-be-published biography of Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs, who died last week after a long battle with cancer.
The book, titled simply ‘Steve Jobs,’ is slated for release on October 24. It’s the only biography authorized by
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Fan Arrested After Throwing Hot Dog at Tiger Woods During Tournament
During Sunday’s final round of the Frys.com Open, a fan ran at Tiger Woods — who was putting on the seventh green — yelled the former world number one’s name, and then tossed a hot dog at him.
“When I looked up, the hot dog was already in the air,” Woods said. “The bun was kind of disintegrating.”
The suspect, whose name
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Netflix Scraps Idea for Qwikster DVD-by-Mail Service
Netflix has been doing so much backpedaling lately, it’s surprising the company hasn’t adopted a bicycle for its logo.
In the most recent reversal, Netflix announced Monday that it’s scrapping a plan to split its streaming and DVD-by-mail
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Hypocrites: The Westboro Baptist Church to Protest Steve Jobs’ Funeral While Using iPhone
Normally we ignore the pigs at the Westboro Baptist Church, since their protests at funerals are just lame publicity stunts. But this time we can all laugh in their hypocritical faces.
After Steve Jobs passed away on Wednesday, a tweet was posted by Margie Phelps, one of the leaders of the church. Her father is Fred Phelps, the group's leader.
Margie announced that, quote, "Westboro will picket funeral. He had a huge platform, gave God no glory and taught sin."
And now, for the irony . . . underneath her tweet, it shows that she posted it using TWITTER FOR iPHONE.