All that’s trashy this week:
Famous fatties. Men’s Health, long-time advocates for all men having rock-hard abs and blindingly white teeth, name and shame their eight Least Fit Celebs, by which they mean “fattest celebrities”, as they can’t really know if these guys are objectively more or less fit than their skinnier counterparts.
Octomum’s porno offer. Octomum [...]
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Monthly Archives: February 2009
The fabulous Friday trash wrap: Spider-Man: The Musical and octo-porn
February 27, 2009 – 12:30 pm
Stuff we like: mermaid wish fulfilment
February 26, 2009 – 10:22 am
A New Zealand amputee has her Splash fantasy fulfilled plus other stories that have caught our attention.
Stuff we like: Cats in sinks and little girls who do graffiti
February 25, 2009 – 11:40 am
Nice things today:
Sometimes kids are cool. Ten-year-old British girl Solveig is an awesome graffiti artist. She does tatts, too.
Is social networking killing you? Set Facebook status to ‘unimpressed’. British scientists believe spending all day networking online could be bad for you. Wait: spending all day and night in front of a computer isn’t healthy?! Someone [...]
Stuff we like: Zombies, cookbooks & rappers on the recession
February 24, 2009 – 11:14 am
Our pick of the intertubes for the day:
What would a Microsoft store look like? In their continuing state of obliviousness, Microsoft are planning to open their own stores ala Apple. eWEEK’s Paul Connolly has a nicely drawn and amusing cartoon slideshow of what it might look like.
What cookbooks really teach us. The Economist looks at [...]
Stuff we like: Oscars edition
February 23, 2009 – 10:53 am
In honour of today’s Academy Awards, an all-Oscars edition of SWL.
Don’t forget to check out our Oscars liveblog, kicking off at 11:45am.
11 questionable Best Picture wins. Geeks Of Doom count down some of the more questionable Best Picture wins over the years. In hindsight, should Star Wars have beaten Annie Hall? Was Taxi Driver more [...]
Liveblog: The 81st Academy Awards
February 23, 2009 – 9:01 am
Join Crikey as we Liveblog the Oscars from 11:45am on Monday the 23rd.
The Burchett Chronicles
February 23, 2009 – 8:00 am
Here at Crikey we’ve been at the centre of a vigorous debate surrounding the Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett.
Such has been the interest that we were forced to introduce “The special Crikey Wilfred Burchett section” at the bottom of our comments section of our subscription email.
It all started here, when Crikey reader Nick Shimmin wrote in [...]
The fabulous Friday trash wrap: Pride and Predator & the Anatomy Awards
February 20, 2009 – 11:34 am
The week’s low-brow highlights:
RIP Loki. Aww, Mickey Rourke’s little canine pal, Loki, has passed away. Hopefully he’s gone to a better place — one where he’s actually allowed to walk around instead of being stuck under Rourke’s sweaty armpit all day.
And the award goes to… Forget the Oscars — MrSkin.com has announced winners of the [...]
Crikey Twitter Poll: Who should lead the Liberal Party?
February 20, 2009 – 10:20 am
Friends of Crikey’s Twitter feed — @crikey_news – have their say on who should really be leading the troubled party. Fake Stephen Conroy a clear favourite.
Vote here.
Stuff we like: Prolific prostitutes and magenta strikes back
February 19, 2009 – 11:42 am
Things we dig today:
Yes Virginia, there is a magenta. The other day, we linked to an blog arguing that magenta isn’t a real colour and exists only in your mind and MS Paint. But ars technica begs to differ, and they do so with the power of maths and graph pr0n. I’m convinced! (but also [...]
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