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‘That girl in pink’ fights back
When Rebecca Black’s infamous Friday hit the internet, it didn’t take long for 13-year-old Benni Cinkle to come under fire for her role in the music video. Although Benni’s screen time came to a mere 28 seconds, it was 28 seconds of gloriously awkward dancing that made the Californian teen internet famous
Desperately seeking Chinese meanings
Talk about talking heads. Oscar’s Guide to the Chinese Zodiac, TV3’s Inside New Zealand documentary which went to air on Wednesday at 9.30pm, had so many Kiwi celebrities and New Zealand notorieties in it, it was distracting viewing and hard to absorb the information
Weird and wacky celebrity baby names
North West may well take the cake for questionable celebrity baby names, but there is certainly some stiff competition.
Snoop wasn’t joking. He was a pimp
Snoop Dogg.
The Philippines: Smoke in Manila
Harry S. Stonehill resembles the kind of character that the late Sydney Greenstreet used to play in all the old Warner Bros, beaded-curtain thrillers.
Medicine: Cut Out the Liver
One of the most familiar of all trade names was booked for a major operation last week. The Federal Trade Commission told the manufacturers of Carter's Little Liver Pills to cut the word “liver” out of the product name
People of Walmart: Site Mocks Worst-Dressed Customers
Why don’t people wear shirts when they shop at Walmart? Or pants that fit
Borderline Personality Disorder: Mental Illness on Rise?
Doctors used to have poetic names for diseases. A physician would speak of consumption because the illness seemed to eat you from within
Internet domain names set to appear in non-Latin scripts
The group that controls top-level domain codes for Internet addresses is poised to permit non-Latin language codes for the first time in its history.