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  • Hubble reveals Ring Nebulas true shape

    New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the real shape of the Ring Nebula. The glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, Sun-like star is like a doughnut, scientists suggested. "The nebula is not like a bagel, but rather, it's like a jelly doughnut, because it's filled with material in the middle," said C. Robert O'Dell of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. ...

  • Video Amanda Bynes makes strange court appearance in wig

    Actress Amanda Bynes appeared disheveled in a long blond wig and sweats Friday in a New York criminal court on charges she tossed a bong out the window of her Manhattan apartment ...

  • Tempura-battered tarantula on menu at California bug fest

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hungry? How about tempura-battered fried Tarantula for an appetizer? They're frozen then defrosted before bug chef David George Gordon cuts off the abdomen, singes off hairs with a lighter and dunks the remaining spider body into ...

  • The Strange Advice A Teacher Gave To One Graduate

    Making sure you have all your ducks in a row on the morning of graduation day can help make the whole process easier. Plan ahead so that you arrive early -- with your phone fully charged, wearing comfortable shoes -- and choose a meeting spot where you'll be able to find your family later. If you go to a large public school, these things are especially important -- you don't want to ...

  • Tuukka Rask ‘You Can Either Cry About It Or Laugh About It’

    BOSTON (CBS) — Everybody knows there’s no use crying over spilled milk. But if you’re the Boston Bruins goaltender, there’s no use crying over bad goals. Tuukka Rask, who embarrassingly tripped in his crease Thursday night to allow the first New York goal in a game the Bruins eventually lost in overtime, knows that well. While Rask was not happy to allow that type of ...

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Sling Blade [Blu-Ray]

Sling Blade [Blu-Ray]

As written and performed by Billy Bob Thornton, Karl Childers, the central character of Sling Blade, is one of the most fascinating, moving, and complex characters to come across a movie screen. A drawling, slow-moving and slow-thinking, but deeply felt man from Arkansas, Karl bear ... ...

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  • Superman Comic Set To Net Family Small Fortune

    Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a Superman comic worth more than $100,000! David Gonzalez is celebrating after finding the "Holy Grail" of comic books stuffed inside the walls of a house he was renovating. The father-of-four put the rare edition up for auction and it has so far attracted bids of more than 10 times the value of the Minnesota house he bought for ...

  • Google Puts Out Weird Cartoon About Porn And AdSense

    Google wants to remind you that it doesn’t allow AdSense ads on content containing: nudity or pornography, sheer clothing, strategically covered nudity, sexually gratifying ';stuff,'; fetish or adult toys, adult language links or comments, or extreme profanity (these are all their words). To do so, the company has put out a new cartoon to ...

  • Valley vintner gets weird on Tim Cooks tax problems

    A toast to Tim Cook. Gilroy winery owner Thomas Kruse raises a glass in a photo for the winery's newsletter. Talk about seizing on current events for a little off-color company marketing. The Internet was consumed earlier this week with Apple CEO Tim Cook's appearance before a Senate committee to talk U.S. tax-dodging with overseas subsidiaries, particularly in Ireland (read more about ...

  • Woman arrested for wearing thong in public

    Tiara Monique Garness, 22, of High Point, N.C., was charged with indecent exposure after officers in Myrtle Beach, S.C., warned her about wearing the skimpy suit, The Sun News of Myrtle Beach ...

  • Not just a bunch of swivel-eyed idiots The true Tories who want a new direction

    There are Tory heartlands and there is Shefford, a small town in the middle of Bedfordshire, in the middle of England, at the centre of one of the safest Conservative seats on the electoral map. "There's a saying around here," says a man outside Saint Michael and All Angels church (he did not want to be named). "If you painted a cockroach blue it would get elected in ...

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