MUSIC BUZZ – Fun with remixed childrens show footage and M.O.P.’s “Ante Up.” Who knew the guys from Sesame Street were so hardcore?

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CELEBRITY BUZZ – Miley Cyrus’ half-brother also has a band, half of her genes. Like the Spears, the Lohans and the Duffs, the Cyrus family is hoping to land more than one teen in the limelight, though Trace hasn’t had any photo-related scandals yet.

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1. Before You Scoff, Note That Their Album Has Sold 130,000 Copies
2. Miley Cyrus’ Half Brother Trace Rocks, Or At Least Maybe He Does
3. Trace And Miley Fight!
4. Miley, Trace and Mr. Billy Ray Cyrus

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TECH BUZZ – A site devoted to documenting when professionally made cakes go bad. What you’ll see: Cakes with misspelled words, cakes with unnecessary quotes, ugly cakes and cakes in the spirit of 2 Girls 1 Cup Cake and our favorite Wal-Mart cake ever.

The Best Links:

1. Cake Wrecks
2. Favorite #1: “Congraniate Nicole and Mark”
3. Favorite #2: This is Wrong in Every Conceivable Way
4. Favorite #3: Bad Chuck Norris Caricature Plus Typo Equals Happy Birthday

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SPORTS BUZZ – It’s the WNBA’s first fight! The final seconds of the LA Sparks/Detroit Shock game last night turned violent — three players and an assistant coach got the boot afterward.

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The Best Links:

1. Key Moment Caught In Photo: Lisa Leslie Gets Pushed
2. Certainly Well-Timed For the WNBA!

FOOD BUZZ – Dining in the nude joins the long list of things people enjoy doing naked. Health codes usually require that the cooks and servers keep their clothes, but nude diners just need to remember to bring something to sit on.

The Best Links:

1. “Why would I willingly combine my dinner with something so manifestly distracting as naked people?”
2. Nude Dining Joins Long List of Naked-Craze Activities
3. Your Source For Clothing-Optional Dinners In NYC
4. Video Footage of Nude Dinner (NSFW, Also Mixing of Nudity and Gross-Looking Food)

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POLITICS BUZZ – This is John Edwards’ alleged mistress. The John Edwards extra-marital affair/love child story has resurfaced after the National Enquirer says it followed Edwards to a tryst with Hunter at a hotel in Los Angeles.

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1. The National Enquirer Follows Edwards to His Rendevzous With Hunter, Love Baby
2. Hunter Denies Any Connection to Edwards (Last Fall)
3. The Anatomy of Innuendo: Where the Rielle Hunter Story Came From
4. Edwards Joins Vaunted Tradition of Sick-Wife Cheaters

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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!

The Best Links:

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.

The Best Links:

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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