• # Half-naked motorcyclist charged with failing to wear a helmet
  → A 40-year-old Hamilton, Ont. man is facing multiple charges after a half-naked run-in with the law on Sunday morning.

• # Florida bear rescued after getting head stuck in jar
  → It may seem like a story ripped from the pages of “Winnie the Pooh,” but a little black bear is alive after Florida biologists removed a plastic bottle stuck on its head for at least 10 days.

• # Kanye’s only Twitter friend doesn’t like being followed
  → Looks like Kanye West and Steven Holmes don’t see eye to eye on the subject of fame. The prodigious rapper and tweeter randomly selected Holmes as the solo person to follow on Twitter and let’s just say that Holmes is less than flattered by all of the attention.

• # Cloris Leachman: ‘I’m so sick of Betty White’
  → While promoting her new fall series “Raising Hope” at the Televisions Critics Association gathering in L.A., co-star Cloris Leachman was asked about the current adulation Betty White is enjoying. “I’m so sick of Betty White,” Leachman snapped, to laughs and a few gasps. “Never liked her.” (LOLz)

• # Indonesian Muslims told to change prayer direction
  → Indonesia’s Muslims learned on Friday they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country’s highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa.

• # ‘Conan the Bacterium’ could have been the origin of life on Earth
  → Brazilian scientists discovered that a microbe dubbed “Conan the Bacterium” is so tough it could withstand space travel, leading them to suggest such organisms could have been the origin of life on Earth.

• # Woman, 108, Reunites With 38-Year-Old Husband
  → A 108-year-old Malaysian woman has reunited with her husband, a man 70 years her junior, after a year-long separation, AFP reported Saturday. (I needa find this bitch’s secret!)

• # Psychic Octopus: There’s an App for That
  → Paul the Psychic Octopus may be leaving the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany, for the Madrid Zoo, but more importantly, he could also be headed right into your iPhone. (Laaaawwwdd.)

• # York City halfway house sued over urine regulations
  → A former state prison inmate who alleges he was humiliated at a halfway house in York City — including by a dismissive comment about his manhood — is suing the facility and seven women staff members.

• # Scientists count five-second rule down to zero for safety
  → The controversial “five-second rule” — the one that allows us to eat dropped food if it’s quickly scooped off the floor — is a bunch of baloney, according to Clemson University food scientist Paul Dawson, who stirred up the long debated issue in this month’s National Geographic.

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Bent Flicks

• Splinter (2008/I) 8/10

  2010-08-22 17:40

  

  Simple, short and sweet. Just the way monster movies should be. Although the film could've used some more gore.

  0.3

• Moon (2009) 9/10

  2010-08-21 21:43

  

  Engaging and visceral, this movie makes you question your own identity, worth, and place in this world.

  0.3

• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) 8/10

  2010-08-13 10:56

  

  Snappy, delightful and entertaining. Michael Cera was born to play Scott Pilgrim.

  0.3

• The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) 8/10

  2010-08-12 13:46

  

  I'm only halfway through this movie and I already know it's going to be a timeless guilty pleasure.

  0.3

• Salt (2010) 10/10

  2010-07-31 13:39

  

  The best movie of Summer 2010 that is not Inception.

  0.3

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