Posted on : 14-Sep-2009 | By : dre elmore | In : daily headlines
Police: Found body is likely missing Yale student
Just seven months before police found what they believe is Annie Le’s body hidden in a Yale University building, the graduate student wrote a magazine article about how to stay safe on the streets around the Ivy League school. (ap/yahoo)
Chavez in $2bn Russian arms deal
Russia has agreed to lend Venezuela over $2bn (£1.2bn) to buy weapons, President Hugo Chavez has said. (bbc)
Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker Who Wrote ‘The Basketball Diaries’, Dies at 60
As a teenage basketball star in the 1960s at Trinity, an elite private school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Mr. Carroll led a chaotic life that combined sports, drugs and poetry. This highly unusual combination lent a lurid appeal to “The Basketball Diaries,” the journal he kept during high school and published in 1978, by which time his poetry had already won him a cult reputation as the new Bob Dylan. (nyt)
Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession
The biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history lies at anchor east of Singapore. Never before photographed, it is bigger than the U.S. and British navies combined but has no crew, no cargo and no destination – and is why your Christmas stocking may be on the light side this year. (dailymail)
Back From Retirement, Kim Clijsters Wins U.S. Open
Clijsters made history Sunday night, capping a comeback from two years out of tennis to become the first unseeded woman to win the Open — and the first mom to win a major since 1980 — with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over No. 9 Caroline Wozniacki. (ap/npr)
Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift’s VMAs moment: What was he thinking?
Is Kanye West the new “Soy Bomb”? Moments after Taylor Swift’s win for Best Female Video (”You Belong With Me”) was announced tonight at MTV’s Video Music Awards (check out our live blog), a furious Mr. West ran onstage, grabbed a mic, and interrupted her acceptance speech to announce his belief that Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” deserved that award instead. (ew)
Kanye West apologizes to Taylor Swift
Before the MTV Video Music Awards even came to an end, rap star Kanye West had taken to his blog and issued an ALL-CAPS apology to country star Taylor Swift and her mother. “I spoke to her mother right after and she said the same thing my mother would’ve said,” Kanye wrote in his explanation for interrupting Swift’s VMA win. (latimes)
Russell Brand MTV VMA Host Explains The Difference Between The English And Americans
Russell Brand… “English people are a bit different from you instead of truck we say lorry, instead of elevator we say lift and instead of letting people die in the street and we have FREE HEALTH CARE!” (moxnews)
10 People You Won’t See on Twitter Anymore
This week Twitter announced changes to its Terms of Service spelling out that you own your Tweets, and that Twitter (Twitter) can place ads next to your content. What’s more, Twitter wants to crack down on spammers, bots and other bad behavior. (mashable)
Badass of the Week
You’ve reached the Badass of the Week, your one-stop shop for all things badassery-related. (botw)
Size does matter: study
Female orgasms rely on penis size and mental focus, but not the duration of foreplay, according to a new study. (abcnews)
Porn laptop
I have an older laptop, about 8 years old, it’s a blue toshiba. It has a few missing keys and a few scratches, and only about 40 gigs of free space. I got a newer laptop though and I don’t need this one. I call it a porn laptop because I’m pretty sure it has a few viruses and stuff, but I still use it for porn. (bestofcraigslist)
