Model Melissa Stetten wants you to meet Brian Presley , an actor who is a devout Christian AND is married with a 5-year-old, in the most embarrassing possible way.

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Have you ever wondered how they filmed the special effects for the Hulk in the Avengers? This video shows how they did it!

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Another day, another attack. GOOD LUCK.

This is Brandon De Leon, he tried to eat a police officer.

According to The NY Daily News:

After cops put him in a police cruiser, Brandon De Leon, 21, slammed his head against the plexiglass divider and shouted at officers, "I'm going to eat you," NBC Miami reported.

He then growled, gnashed his teeth and tried to bite the hand of an officer attempting to treat his head wounds.

Cops placed restraints on De Leon and fit him with a Hannibal Lecter-style bite mask, the report said.

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Please, help with the cause, join C.A.N.N.I.B.A.L.

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Please, abide by the 5 D's and everything will be fine.

Thanks, Science Photography! Special filters and satellites caught some pretty impressive images yesterday of Venus transiting the sun, a phenomenon where Venus passes between the Earth and the Sun, that won't happen again for 100 years.

In this handout composite image provided by NASA, the SDO satellite captures the path sequence of the transit of Venus across the face of the sun on June 5-6, 2012 as seen from space. The last transit was in 2004 and the next pair of events will not happen again until the year 2117 and 2125.

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Where are his hair feathers?? And did he ( Larry ) lose weight???? The new Twitter logo sticks his BEAK up at us and I don't think I like it.

Ok, a couple things: Doesn't the new one seem a little less friendly than the old one? And more, like, aloof? If you don't see what I mean, maybe this will help:

Look at this friendly fat bird, he just wants to tweet and be friends:

Then look at this jerk!!!

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In honor of the Queen's diamond jubilee, Starbucks asked its Irish twitter followers how it feels to be British. Awkward . (via guardian.co.uk ).

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Last week, Groupon offered deals “for the man who gave birth to you.” In its latest email, the company shows a sense of humor about its mistakes.

The upcoming video game opus from Pixar features references to everything from Super Mario to Street Fighter to Q-Bert. It has a Toy Story meets Monsters Inc. vibe. So pretty much it looks awesome.

That privacy notice you've seen posted on your friends' Facebook walls? It has no legal effect, but it may be a landmark for privacy online.

For the last couple of weeks, people on Facebook have been posting a jargon-laced "Privacy Notice" stating that their profiles were off-limits, for any use, and by anyone, without their permission. This Privacy Notice invokes irrelevant law, gets the facts wrong, and is powerless to modify the Facebook Terms and Conditions. It's not even well-written, as far as legal clauses go. In short, it is legal nonsense.

But you should post it — or something like it — on your Timeline anyway.

Before I explain why, let's look at the Privacy Notice.

For those of you who do not understand the reasoning behind this posting, Facebook is now a publicly traded entity. Unless you state otherwise, anyone can infringe on your right to privacy once you post to this site. It is recommended that you and other members post a similar notice as this, or you may copy and paste this version. If you do not post such a statement once, then you are indirectly ...allowing public use of items such as your photos and the information contained in your status updates.

PRIVACY NOTICE: Warning - any person and/or institution and/or Agent and/or Agency of any governmental structure including but not limited to the United States Federal Government also using or monitoring/using this website or any of its associated websites, you do NOT have my permission to utilize any of my profile information nor any of the content contained herein including, but not limited to my photos, and/or the comments made about my photos or any other "picture" art posted on my profile.

You are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, copying, distributing, disseminating, or taking any other action against me with regard to this profile and the contents herein. The foregoing prohibitions also apply to your employee, agent, student or any personnel under your direction or control.
The contents of this profile are private and legally privileged and confidential information, and the violation of my personal privacy is punishable by law. UCC 1-103 1-308 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED WITHOUT PREJUDICE

It's bunk. First, the fact that Facebook is now publicly traded does not change the company's rights and obligations to its user's information. What about UCC 1-103 1-308? That's a provision of the Uniform Commercial Code, a uniform act that most states have adopted in its entirety or used as a template for their own laws governing commercial transactions. It's also useless here. While 1-308 discusses the reservation of rights, you would not be able to invoke it here to undo the standard Facebook legal relationship.

Finally, the Facebook Terms and Conditions, which you all surely read before signing up and using Facebook, expressly establishes when, how, and by whom it can be amended. Unsurprisingly, it does not include "amendment by status update." (Status Update: Give me one billion dollars, Zuckerberg.) Here is Section 13 of Facebook's Terms and Conditions, the amendment clause:

13. Amendments

We can change this Statement if we provide you notice (by posting the change on the Facebook Site Governance Page) and an opportunity to comment. To get notice of any future changes to this Statement, visit our Facebook Site Governance Page and become a fan.

For changes to sections 7, 8, 9, and 11 (sections relating to payments, application developers, website operators, and advertisers), we will give you a minimum of three days notice. For all other changes we will give you a minimum of seven days notice. All such comments must be made on the Facebook Site Governance Page.

If more than 7,000 users comment on the proposed change, we will also give you the opportunity to participate in a vote in which you will be provided alternatives. The vote shall be binding on us if more than 30% of all active registered users as of the date of the notice vote.

We can make changes for legal or administrative reasons, or to correct an inaccurate statement, upon notice without opportunity to comment.

You want to change your relationship with Facebook? In the short term, you can participate in the amendment process as outlined in the Terms and Conditions. Facebook recently proposed changes to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and its Data Use Policy, and is currently holding a vote until June 8 on the changes. If more than 30 percent of all active registered users vote — by some counts, that's nearly 300 million people, or the entire population of the United States — it will be binding on Facebook. And, since Americans are so great at democracy, I have every faith in our ability to amend the Facebook Terms and Conditions through this process.

But in the long term, periodic privacy outbursts from the Facebook-using public — like the ill-conceived, viral Privacy Notice — may contribute to judges or lawmakers identifying a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in our lives online. Once recognized, a reasonable "expectation of privacy" would curtail the government's ability to investigate our Facebook activities. And that expectation of privacy would likely spill over into many civil and commercial contexts as well.

Do you want a Facebook that does not mine your private life for profit and a government that cannot track your every move online? Then you should participate in the Facebook vote. Share your bizarro Privacy Notices. And keep demanding a right to privacy.

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Commencement has come and gone, and you’re settling into life without school. You’re free, you’re educated — and you have student loans. Now that you’re out of the dining halls and into your own kitchens, here are a few ways to eat well by dressing up typical, everyday pantry staples, without breaking the bank.

Bananas

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Banana Cardamom Milkshake

You’ll be surprised by how much spices can jazz up mundane food items you always have around. Here, cardamom is the secret ingredient: combine it with all those browning bananas you have on your shelf, and you’ve got yourself a first-rate, fancy milkshake.

Makes 2 smaller shakes

1 large banana, peeled
2 scoops good vanilla ice cream
1/2 cup whole milk
Juice of 1/2 lime
Seeds from 4 cardamom pods, crushed

Chill a tall glass. Blend everything together and serve with a wedge of lime or chunk of banana.

Polenta

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Blueberry Almond Breakfast Polenta

Bag the rushed, pre-class bowls of cream of wheat, and start your day with polenta instead. The additions of vanilla, fresh blueberries and cardamom turn this into a breakfast that’s all grown up.

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Where would we be today as a society if it wasn't for these portable little sauces?

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Gaming is on the rise among girls aged 8 to 12. But the games they're playing aren't exactly sending them great messages.

Shopaholic

As video games have risen dramatically in popularity over the past few decades, so has criticism of the messages they're sending kids. But for the most part, that concern has been directed at the violence in games marketed to boys. Today, though, half of girls ages 8 to 12 play games online, according to a recent study — which means it's about time time we start looking at the games for girls and the lessons they teach. And they're not good: The most popular games among those tween girls surveyed centered on themes like cooking, shopping, makeup, and boys — and portray a world of limited, dead-end choices.

To see what these games are really like, I spent a few days playing some on my iPhone and on the computer. Clearly, I'm not the target demographic for these games — I'm more than 10 years older than the intended audience and I'm not a big-time gamer. But what I found was even worse than I expected: not only are the games pretty poorly designed and uncreative in their storylines, they also teach misguided values. Many of the games taught that romantic partners should be rich and buy you things; that shopping for pricey clothes is the way to get ahead; and that stereotypically female jobs and activities, like working at a fashion magazine or baking, are the only options for girls. This isn't the way to go about raising the next generation of strong, empowered women.

For years parents and the media have made noise about violent games targeted at boys in the same age group, but far fewer adults seem to know — or care — about the games that young girls play now.

I started out with GirlsGoGames's most popular shopping game, Shopaholic — which the company says has been played 163 million times on a variety of platforms, including the iPhone. (GirlsGoGames is one of the biggest producers of free online games for girls; it's owned by Spil Games, which also creates games for families and teens, and which commissioned the study about girls and gaming.) The premise of the game is to walk around "Paris," "New York," and "Hawaii," and buy items that the game specifies. For example, when a pink sparkly top pops up on the screen, the game prompts you to buy it and take a "photo" of you character wearing it, for which you'll be rewarded $15. As another means of acquiring money, you can also get a "job" — like working at an ice cream shop for two hours — but the labor requires nothing more than waiting two hours for your "shift" to end. It is hard though, to be motivated to "work," since your virtual "credit card" is automatically replenished with $500 each day, simply for existing. Can we get this feature added to the real world?

Shopaholic

While I completed my ice cream shop labor, there was time to switch over to another game — Beauty Resort, also made by Spil Games. In Beauty Resort — surprise — you own a beauty salon. This salon inexplicably happens to be on Easter Island, but there is little time to consider why you are opening a salon on a remote Polynesian island, as you must quickly begin washing people's feet and moving them into a hot tub over and over again, and then remembering to press the cleaning button to clean the chairs. Maybe if you wash enough feet you get to move to other obscure islands?

While Spil's iPhone games are popular, a lot of their business takes place on GirlsGoGames.com, where I navigated next. The number one game under the "Popular" tab was Prom Preparation Makeover, in which players give a friend who is a "diamond in the rough" (meaning she has bad skin and messy hair) a makeover for prom. After applying different creams and scrubs to her face, she miraculously looks like a perfect doll. It takes about four minutes. It's also worth noting that the unsightly character is your "friend," and not "you."

There are less strereotypically "girly" games on GirlsGoGames.com, like one called Papa's Taco Mia, where you get to own a taco shop. Tasks involve cooking meat and putting the ingredients — cheese, onions, etc. — customers want into a taco. By and large, it is pretty much the same thing as the prom makeover game, except with ground beef instead of exfoliating scrub. In theory, owning a taco shop might teach some semblance of entrepreneurship, but in order to do that, players would need to make some decisions, which aren't a part of the game.

Spil is aware of the limits of their offerings, but at the same time, they've seen the success of these stereotypical games. "The girls gaming market is still so new and there is much to still discover and learn when it comes to designing games for them. We know that cooking, dress up, tests & quizzes, caring for animals games are very popular with this audience," writes Scott Johnston, Spil's Head Of Global PR in email. "But, going forward we want to build on these solid foundations and make game experiences richer and more aspirational. For sure, the future will still feature the games they’ve loved playing up to this point, but we want to explore new themes and features, and game mechanisms."

The companies that produce the other games I played — Gameloft and Crowdstar — didn't respond to requests for comment.

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This looks downright Biblical. Every summer, Viking descendents on a tiny group of islands off the coast of Denmark herd hundreds of pilot whales into a bay and partially decapitate them. The result is a sea that runs red with blood.

Inhabitants of Faroe Islands catch and slaughter pilot whales during the traditional 'Grindadrap' (whale hunting in Faroese) near Sandur on Sandoy island June 5th, 2012. Residents of the Faroe Islands, an autonomous province of Denmark, slaughter and eat pilot whales every year. The Faroese are descendents of Vikings, and pilot whales have been a central part of their diet for more than 1,000 years. They crowd the animals into a bay and kill them. 'Grindadrap' whaling is not done for commercial purposes, the meat can not be sold and is divided evenly between members of the local community.

(Reuters / Andrija Ilic)

June 5th, 2012.

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June 5th, 2012.

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June 5th, 2012.

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She is a policewoman from Ohio. They are twins.

These cats have been around the world, taken classes and studied hard to be as cultured as they are now. In .gif form!

The Businessman

Expert negotiator, in three different languages. Culture is his middle name.

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The Polite Cat

Uses chopsticks properly, like a cultured cat would.

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The Pianist

Tickles that ivory like an old pro.

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The Dancer

Took ballroom dancing classes, can waltz with the best of them.

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How did the Tan Mom get so tan? Do parents really bring their young kids in to tan with them? A former tanning salon employee explains just how bizarre things really get under the UV lamps.

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I used to work at a chain tanning salon's Maryland and New York locations. Tan Mom is so scary, she's so gross. But some of the people I worked with were that level of tan. We would rig the booth, so they could go in multiple times when they weren't supposed to. We also used this stuff called Tingler, which is a tanning lotion that you put all over your body. When the UV rays hit it, it tingles and it activates the melanin in your skin even more so you get really, really tan. I know girls who would put it on their face and their faces would be purple when they came out of the booth. You're not supposed to wash it off after going under the lamps, so your skin would be burning. That was the next level tanning experience — they'd come out and look just crazy purple. I could not do that. And it is legal but it's really dangerous. We would always advise customers of the different Tingle levels. If you do a level 5 Tingle your skin will burn, so we recommend a level 1 or 2 Tingle.

I would just put on Australian Gold tanning oil. Tan Mom? I'm sure she has Tingled — she probably does something beyond a Tingle, her skin is crispy. But that's what this stuff would do — it would literally make you that tan.

I worked in the salons before the age restriction laws took effect but we always had a rule in place that you had to be 18 or older to tan, and if not you'd have to have a parent with you. We'd check IDs, and the high school kids, if you didn't let them tan, would be pissed.

In Maryland moms brought their kids to the tanning beds. They'd be as young as 12 years old up in the tanning bed. I felt wrong putting the kids in the beds, but the mom would always say things like, "We gotta tan for the beach." The moms would tan too. In Maryland tanning was such a thing — everyone wanted to be tan — so the kids were just happy they got to go to the tanning salon with mom. But I never saw anyone as young as five years old try to tan. I would never put anyone that young in a tanning booth.

In New York the place I worked had been a 24-hour tanning salon. Nobody needs a 24-hour tanning salon. Everyone was coked up all night trying to get people to tan. When they hired me, they also hired a bunch of new people and got rid of the old cracked-out people, but we still had to stay open til midnight. Nobody needs to be tanning at midnight.

A lot of people did not care about being naked. I saw so many naked booties all the time because a lot of them would leave their shoes outside and run around willy-nilly just wearing a towel.

Tan Mom Patricia Krentcil.

(AP / Julio Cortez)

We caught people having sex in the booth once. It was two guys and we had to bang on the bulbs and tell them to stop. They were not even being discreet about it, either — we could see it moving and we saw two pairs of shoes outside. We kicked one of them out of that booth. They still got to tan but we didn't let them tan together.

I worked with these flighty girls. Once a midget came in and one of my coworkers just screamed and ran to the back. That was really bad. I helped the midget, but the midget saw my coworker run and everything.

Once, this woman came in who wasn't a regular customer. We offered deals like $30 for unlimited tanning for a month, but she wanted a one-off. She kept asking all these questions about how to use a booth (we only had standing booths) and you always explain to people how the booth works and where the exit is once you're in there. It all looks the same once you're inside because there are bulbs on the doors. But you can open the door once you're tanning — people step out all the time to cool off for a minute.

But this girl was in the booth and she wanted to get out and couldn't find the exit, even though it's labeled "exit." She called us over and we said, ma'am look for the exit sign, and she's like, "I can't find it! I cant' find it!" So she started banging the walls of the booth — she was having a panic attack in there — and you can hear all the bulbs breaking. And they're still on! So my coworker rushed to unplug the booth because you can't turn it off or open it from the outside. So when he opened the door — I'm squeamish so I couldn't look — but my coworker told me there was blood and glass everywhere. We had to call the ambulance — she cut up her arms and everything.

Also, this is really gross, but wa lot of the time our laundry machine in the basement would go out. And we want to give everyone a towel every time they tan. But a couple times when we didn't have the washing machine, our manager would tell us just to put the dirty towels in the dryer and not wash them. I was like, we could take them to a laundromat, but they didn't want to do that because it cost money.

As told to Amy Odell.

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The Beijing U-Haul must have been booked up.

A man rides a tricycle loaded with lounge chairs along a road in Beijing June 5, 2012.

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When a young fan was told the New York Giants couldn't afford to keep Brandon Jacobs, he sent the 49ers running back a letter and some cash to do his part.

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A fitting tribute. Fahrenheit 451, the temperature at which irony burns.

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