A stunt driver lost control of his Ferrari last night while filming Nicolas Cage's new movie The Sorcerer's Apprentice , crashing into a Sbarro in Times Square. Two people were injured, although that doesn't speak for the Sbarro's employees already convinced they're cursed for working at Sbarro's.

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Leo is turning into Jack (I'll never let go!). This is desperately unfortunate. God, remember the first time you saw that beautiful face through the fish tank ? Time is cruel, friends.

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1. Via Molly Lambert
2. In Happier Times.

POLITICS BUZZ: Says the indicted gov: “Dec. 9 to my family, to us, to me, is what Pearl Harbor Day was to the United States…It was a complete surprise, completely unexpected. And just like the United States prevailed in that, we'll prevail in this.” At least he didn't say 9/11.

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1. The quote in full
2. What would Tennyson and Kipling say?
3. Patti also just got fired, which doesn’t help matters
4. Rod Blagojevich, Illustrated - Featured on BuzzFeed
5. Blagojevich Press Conference - Featured on BuzzFeed
6. Rod Blagojevich - Featured on BuzzFeed

She loves starting fires , but this devilish girl is responsible for other disasters, too!! Upload yours . Just grab this handy version of the girl with a transparent background and add your favorite disaster as the background. (Shout out to Dave Roth for taking the original .)

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Link: http://visz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.ph...

A map of all the disasters happening in the world right now, in real time.

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CULTURE BUZZ: Universal Studios caught fire Sunday morning, destroying sets from “Back to the Future”, “Austin Powers”, and “Bruce Almighty”, a mechanical King Kong, and 40,000-50,000 film and TV show reels. A Universal Studios spokesperson said there were no serious injuries, just millions of dollars in damages (not to mention all that toxic smoke!).

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1. Universal Studios Looked Like a “Disaster Film”
2. Video of Fire & Spectator Interviews: “Fire Everywhere”
3. Short News Video Covering the Fire
4. Photos From Fire Showing Mushroom Cloud
5. Residents Warned “Not To Breathe” Toxic Smoke from Fire

SCIENCE BUZZ: The U.N. warns that a quarter of the world’s wheat could be threatened by a new, “highly pathogenic strain” of wheat stem rust called Ug99. The scary what blight strain was first detected in Iran and may be making its way towards the bountiful wheat fields of Asia and the Near East.

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1. Stem Rust Fungi
2. UN Alert! UN Alert!
3. “Ug99 is not another Neil Diamond cover band”
4. Beware the Ug!
5. A Longer Look at the Scary Ug Super-Blight

TECH BUZZ: Twitter updates provided breaking news on the major quake near Chengdu, China. Twitter users, coordinated largely through the efforts of Robert Scoble , were providing news of the earthquake — including first-hand accounts — before mainstream news sites began reporting about the 7.8 quake. (Related: Twittering wildfires .)

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1. Twitter Brings News of the Earthquake ‘Round the World
2. Scobleizer on the Earthquake
3. Before CNN, MSNBC, BBC Or the USGS, Twitter Had the News
4. Earthquake Posts on Twitter via Summize
5. Crowdsourcing Without Managers
6. A Timeline of Tweets on China’s Earthquake
7. First Twitter Report of Quake?
8. A First-Responder Medium?