By Gavon Laessig (BuzzFeed) Nancy Upton, the gorgeous prankster who satirized American Apparel’s condescending search for a plus-sized model with smutty and silly overindulgence photos, actually won the online contest! Then American Apparel acted all American Apparel and wouldn’t recognize her victory, even though she had far and away the most votes. Here are some more of the photos that lampooned the contest and won the hearts of online voters.
via Woman Who Made Fun Of American Apparel Contest Wins, American Apparel Act Like A Bunch Of Babies.
Rumors Of Extramarital Affair End Campaign Of Presidential Candidate Who Didn’t Know China Has Nuclear Weapons
Anti-piracy group BREIN is caught up in a huge copyright scandal in the Netherlands. A musician who composed a track for use at a local film festival later found it being used without permission in an anti-piracy campaign. He is now claiming at least a million euros for the unauthorized distribution of his work on DVDs. To make matters even worse, a board member of a royalty collection agency offered to to help the composer to recoup the money, but only if he received 33% of the loot.
via Copyright Corruption Scandal Surrounds Anti-Piracy Campaign | TorrentFreak.
(MSNBC) For a fee of $5 for members and $10 for non-members, the Scottsdale Gun Club in Arizona will arrange a Yuletide photo op with Santa and a selection of automatic weapons valued at $170,000.
Costco's 'Mini-Piglet'
By Curtis Cartier (Seattle Weekly) Feast your eyes on the Mini Piglet! This pressure-formed pig-shaped pork monstrosity is a revolution in culinary alliteration (looks and tastes like the animal it began as). And it’s on sale at Costco right now!
via ‘Mini Piglet’ Is Costco’s Most Horrid Meat Abomination – Seattle News – The Daily Weekly.
(WTAE-TV) Police in Ross Township have arrested a man after they said he stole a sandwich from a restaurant and then tried to flee in a forklift parked nearby.
via Police: Man Steals Sandwich, Flees In Forklift – Pittsburgh News Story – WTAE Pittsburgh.
By James B. Kelleher and Cynthia Johnston (Reuters) An 87-year-old Indiana man was arraigned on drug charges in federal court in Detroit on Monday after police found 228 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $2.9 million in his pickup following a routine traffic stop.
via Indiana man, 87, nabbed with 228 pounds of cocaine, police say – chicagotribune.com.
By Sam Hemingway (Free Press) Eight helicopters on loan from the Illinois National Guard were expected to arrive Tuesday night in Vermont to help the Vermont National Guard deliver food, medicine, water and other supplies to 13 Vermont towns cut off from the rest of the state in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene.
The outside helicopter support is needed because all six of the Vermont Guard’s Black Hawk helicopters are still in Iraq, where they and 55 Vermont soldiers are wrapping up a yearlong hospital transport mission, said Lt. Lloyd Goodrow, spokesman for the Vermont Guard.
By Cole Petrochko (MedPage ) The FDA has issued a safety communication for the ShoulderFlex Massager because of a risk of strangulation, or other serious injury, with the device. The Consumer Safety Products Commission has received reports of one death and another near strangulation, the FDA said.
The fatality and near fatality occurred when clothing or jewelry became caught in the device’s rotating component. Two other reports of similar events that involved clothing and hair getting caught in the device were noted in the FDA safety statement.
By Jef Akst (Science) In addition to improving one’s mental health, optimism may also substantially reduce your risk of having a stroke, according to a new study published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. Among 6,044 adults over the age of 50, self-reported optimism correlated with a decrease in acute stroke risk over the following two years: for every point increase on standard cognitive test for optimism (a 16-point scale), stroke risk decreased by 9 percent.
