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TECH BUZZ: Gloves with features to help you access your gadgets are all the rage. No need to turn on your iPhone with your nose, glovemakers have caught on to our need to stay connected while staying warm. Glove will save the day.

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1. Freehands: Gloves with Tiny Magnets
2. “North Face Etip glove Gadgets and skiing do not sit well together ?”
3. “iTWYF Gloves for Gadget-Users”
4. “Unattractive iPod gloves are not for the style conscious”
5. “Tec Touch iPod Gloves Keep Your Hands Toasty When Using Gadgets “
6. D O T S: Gloves for touch screen devices

CELEBRITY BUZZ: Actor Mark Ruffalo 's brother is alive but in critical condition after being shot in the head. Scott Ruffalo was shot in the head in his Beverly Hills condominium early Monday morning. A police investigation is underway.

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1. Mark Ruffalo’s Brother Shot
2. Mark Ruffalo’s Brother Shot in Head
3. Mark Ruffalo’s brother shot in the head, in serious condition
4. Mark Ruffalo’s brother shot in Beverly Hills
5. “Actor’s Brother Clinging to Life “

CULTURE BUZZ: Stampedes of crazed shoppers have already claimed several casualties this Black Friday. So far today a Walmart worker in Long Island was killed and a woman suffered a miscarriage. As if we needed more reasons to avoid shopping.

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1. Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede
2. 2 die in Toys-R-Us shooting
3. Wal-Mart worker dies in Black Friday stampede
4. 2007 Black Friday Stampede At Walmart
5. Black Friday Stampede Kills Worker At Wal-Mart

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A U.K. based design firm Concentrate is attempting to help kids concentrate with pre-chewed pencils. Now you are definitely out of excuses for not getting started on that novel/screenplay/GRE Prep workbook. Cheeky novelties aside Concentrate is developing innovative products by identifying the reasons students might be distracted, uncomfortable or unable to focus.

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1. Concentrate - Design For Education
2. Pre-chewed Pencils by Concentrate

Confirmed by two girls from my high school on facebook.

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STYLE BUZZ: Described as “like the Sartorialist, but everyone is old,” Advanced Style features some of the freshest looks we’ve seen in a while. Finally, someone who appreciates classic sophistication of jaunty bow-tie as well as the authentic innovations that only the over-50 set can pull off. How long till trend forecasters stand mining the 8 a.m. Denny’s scene for fashion inspiration?

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1. Advanced Style
2. New Blog Like the Sartorialist, But With Elderly People
3. Everything Old is New Again
4. Love that Advanced Style
5. Elder Chic? Hmm…

CELEBRITY BUZZ: It seems the tide of public opinion around the ‘Queen of Quirk’ has changed and the inevitable backlash has begun. I think the think the tipping point may have been the ukelele. Oh Zooey, I will always remember you as you were in The Good Girl .

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1. “Is Zooey Deschanel the Most Boring Person Alive? A Scientific Survey.”
2. The Unbearable Quirkiness of the Unstoppable Charm Of Zooey Deschanel
3. Amazing Girls
4. Zooey Deschanel’s Music Career
5. Zooey Deschanel Sucks or Rules: Let the Internet be the Judge
6. Deep thoughts from Zooey Deschanel

My life would be complete with heart-shaped cucumbers! A Japanese company is sells mold that enable you to grow cucumbers in heart or star shapes. Sadly, the directions are in Japanese but I’m sure you can figure it out.

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1. Heartshaped Cucumber Mold Set

Polar bears at a zoo in Japan turned green after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae. Awww. It’s just like that episode of Diff’rent Strokes where Kimberly washed her hair with acid rain.

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1. Algae-dyed polar bears puzzle Japan zoo visitors
2. Diff’rent Strokes Minisode - Green Hair

CULTURE BUZZ: Beware of stray water gun fire — StreetWars a watergun assignation tournament is going in New York. Participants are given the a photo and personal information about their intended target and then set out to try and soak them. Assassins who complete their mission receive a new target and the last man standing wins a cash prize. Tournaments have also been held in Vancouver, Vienna, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Chicago and Paris.

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1. StreetWars: A 3 Week Long, 24/7, Watergun Assassination Tournament (Official Site)
2. Have gun, will squirt / 130 compete in Street Wars game, where it’s soak or be soaked
3. STREETWARS - WATER GUN ASSASINATIONS
4. Woman Arrested at Street Wars Water Fight
5. StreetWars

CELEBRITY BUZZ: Helen Mirren has caused an upset with her several controversial statements about date rape. Though applauded for the candor with which she revealed that she was date raped several times as a young woman the 63 year-old actress is being criticized for suggesting that women should not press charges in date rape situations. Although Mirren believes a woman has the right to say no at the last minute she says “I don’t think she can have a man into court under those circumstances.”

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1. Helen Mirren On Being Raped, And Why Women Should Just Learn To Work It Out
2. Rape Isn’t Always Criminal
3. “Mirren Criticized Over Rape Remarks”
4. “On Helen Mirren: Women Must Wake Up to the Reality of Date Rape”
5. “Helen Mirren Talks About Being Date-raped, Loving Cocaine”

CELEBRITY BUZZ: Anna Faris is garnering rave reviews for her recent comedic performances. Her hilarious performance in Greg Araki’s Smiley Face is making the film an instant stoner classic and even earned her the High Times ‘Stonette of the Year’ award. She’s also showing she is more than just a dumb blonde by taking the executive producer role in her new film The House Bunny .

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1. Note on a Face
2. Anna Faris Interview
3. ‘House Bunny’ May Open Doors for Anna Faris
4. ‘Smiley Face,’ Anna Faris Leave Audiences Dazed, Confused (With Laughter)
5. Interview: Anna Faris
6. “Anna Faris Makes Smiley Face Worth Watching”
7. Anna Faris is God
8. Anna Faris

CULTURE BUZZ: A solid gold statue of Kate Moss has been unveiled in the British Museum. The work titled “Siren” was created by artist Marc Quinn and is said to be the largest gold statue erected since the times of Ancient Egypt. Start saving up, the statue will be auctioned off for charity some time in 2009.

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1. Solid gold statue of Kate Moss unveiled at British Museum
2. Gold Statue Of Kate Moss To Visit British Museum
3. Thou Shalt Not Worship Some Other Ugly Idol
4. As We Lie In The Kates Of Gold
5. Kate Moss: Kate Moss Is Solid Gold. No, Really.
6. Supermodel Pharaohs - $2.7 Million Gold Kate Moss ‘Siren’ Statue
7. Golden Girl: Does Kate Moss belong in a museum?

TECH BUZZ: New cameras from Casio come will a “make up feature” which uses in-camera technology to “beautify” the image. A natural next step after the Slimming Camera trend these cameras are able to recognize facial features and make skin look smoother, cover wrinkles and hide shadows, but you will still have to apply your lipstick and mascara yourself. Or you could just start taking pictures of better looking people.

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1. Automatic Make-Up Cameras - Casio Exilim Zoom Z300 & Z250
2. Casio’s New Exilim Camera Has Built-In Photoshop
3. Casio intros the blemish-zapping EX-Z300 digicam with a slew of likeminded friends
4. Casio Release 3 new cameras with Makeup functions
5. This Camera Will Do Your Makeup

A UK man’s iPhone arrived with snapshots of the girl who made it set to the home screen. Aww, and she’s cute. Marxists rejoice! Technology is negating the separation of means from mode of production. Heavy.

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1. Surprise: New iPhone Comes Loaded with Photos of the Girl Who Made It
2. Hi! I Made Your iPhone!
3. iPhone 3G - already with pictures !

SCIENCE BUZZ: A baby whale that had been abandoned by its mother off the coast of Australia was euthanized after veterinarians determined it would not survive on its own. The poor little thing bonded with a yacht thinking it was his mother and tried to suckle from it. The whale was only two or three weeks old, hadn’t eaten for a week and had been bitten by sharks. The move to euthanize him has caused considerable controversy and animal lovers everywhere are mourning the loss of the whale nicknamed “Colin”.

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1. Sad Sad News
2. “Lost Baby Whale Mistakes Yacht for Its Mother, Later Put Down “
3. “Wildlife Officials Euthanize Abandoned Baby Whale”
4. Australian officials euthanize lost baby whale
5. Lone Sydney Baby Whale Put Down
6. “Lost Baby Whale Thinks Yacht is Mom”
7. Lost Baby Whale Euthanized

SCIENCE BUZZ: A Chicago cat with four ears goes by the name Yoda. The extremely rare cat, who was adopted from a bar, appears to be very happy and healthy. He’s really the apex of the whole slightly sinister yet totally adorable look.

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1. “Our Newest Monster Is a Four-Earred Kitty Cat”
2. Yoda Look-Alike Cats
3. Meet Yoda the cat with FOUR ears
4. Yoda the Cat Astounds With Four Ears
5. “Cat ‘ear-marked’”