CULTURE BUZZ – A simple plea to car thieves. I wrote a message like this once to the person (or people) in my building who kept stealing my paper. It didn’t work; I just finally canceled my subscription. Also, in case you’re wondering: ocarina.

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FOOD BUZZ – The FDA announces the Great Tomato Scare of Aught Eight is finally over. Thank god we all survived! For a while there, we couldn’t even get beefsteak tomatoes on our pizza. Now the FDA is saying tomatoes might never have been the source of the outbreak to begin with. Watch out for those peppers, though!

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1. The Salmonella Outbreak, Meanwhile, Remains As Unexplained As Ever
2. FDA Says Tomatoes Are Okay (Kinda. And Don’t Even Get Them Started on Peppers)
3. “We’re telling people that tomatoes now in the market and in stores — domestic and imported — are OK”
4. Some of Us Never Stopped Eating

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MUSIC BUZZ – Creepy and fascinating, the goop takes on a life of its own over a vibrating subwoofer. It’s not alien biological material — just a simple mixture of water and cornstarch and bass.

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STYLE BUZZ – The porn-lite ads for Dov Charney’s fashion regime lend themselves naturally to being mocked. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but these don’t look too sincere.

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1. Say Hello To Two Fake Asses (NSFW)
2. AmAppAirlines
3. Taking American Apparel Ads All Retro (NSFW)
4. American Appalling
5. Early New York Spoofs of American Apparel Ads (NSFW)
6. These Might Actually Be Ads
7. Slightly Disturbing Spoof Flier (NSFW)
8. These Spoofs Are Getting So Self-Referential (NSFW)
9. Strangely Attractive
10. Manboobs Are So American Apparel

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MOVIE BUZZ – Warner Bros. is releasing the trailer for the next Terminator installment, starring Christian Bale, just in time to capitalize on the country’s “Dark Knight” fever. People seem surprised that it looks like it doesn’t totally suck, especially given that it’s directed by McG. Jason Kottke raises a good point here: When is McG going to stop going by that ridiculous name?

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1. Please Put It Back In The Can

CULTURE BUZZ – Twins born to a mixed-race couple in Germany have two different skin colors. Doctors are calling it a rare combination of genes, but I just call it two cute babies. Their names are Ryan and Leo.

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1. Twins Born To Mixed-Race Couple Have Different Skin Colors
2. 2 in 1 Million Chance

MUSIC BUZZ – Does Yeezy actually post all those things himself? There’s a mini-mystery brewing over Kanye West’s blog — how does a multi-platinum rapper have the time to blog about exotic sneaker lines? Inquiring blogs want to know.

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1. No One Has Actually Seen The Ghost Blogger
2. For The Right Price, I Will Be Your Ghost Blogger
3. Is This The Real Kanye Blogger?
4. Kanye Doesn’t Have Time For Your Skepticism Right Now

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CULTURE BUZZ – Kommes allegedly offered a police officer $10,000 and sexual favors to avoid a drunken driving ticket in Wisconsin; he declined. Her license plate actually spells TROUBLE. It may come as somewhat of a surprise that this wasn’t her first DUI arrest — her mug shot pose is excellent, very poised.

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1. Sex Doesn’t Trump a DUI
2. Her License Plate Spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E
3. At Least She Smiled Big in Her Mug Shot

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POLITICS BUZZ – Watch as John McCain admits to being 5th from the bottom of his graduating class; also, he’s computer-illiterate. Sure it was a different (much earlier) era when McCain was still in school, but at least Bush was a C student. (Also worth noting: While Obama hasn’t released his undergrad transcript, he did graduate Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law.)

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POLITICS BUZZ – An information architect is running against an incumbent as a Kansas State Representative. Here is his story. Tevis’ incredibly web-friendly presence — his main page has a XKCD-style webcomic laying out his goals — has made him a hit among the Twitterati. He’s already more than doubled the Kansas State record for number of number of donors. And he uses the word frack!

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1. Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner
2. Twitter Loves Sean Tevis’ Site: “This is the best political campaign site I’ve ever seen”
3. Sean Tevis’ State Rep. Site
4. “I feel it’s my duty to help him get the word out to his fellow Kansans”
5. The First True Internet Candidate?

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