thedailywhat:

A Laurel Burch designer pillow. I’m boned.

[biotv.]

The Nwk photo department.

Newlywed Man to Divorce Wife he claims faked leukemia to score free dress and honeymoon

Today in stories that make us shake our heads.

In related news that doesn’t involve a $4000 bar tab, Sharon Begley on what we can learn from “curable cancers.”

inothernews:

I’m sure whatever this is on Radar is delicious, but from afar it looks like an eviscerated gut.

Bad things happen when pizza leaves New York.

The most powerful woman in American politics has kept her head down for most of the first 18 months of her tenure as secretary of State. But she is also, at present, by far the most unscathed senior member of a badly battered administration. And the once-defeated Democratic candidate may have, at present, the most promising political prospects of just about everyone in the administration, including Barack Obama.

Michael Hirsh, on Hillary Clinton’s rising political star.

life:

This is too good:

The pretty young things they honor may come and go, but you can always count on MTV’s Video Music Awards to throw a spotlight on stars at their most outrageous and entertaining. Here, reminisce over 26 years of wild moments, courtesy of Britney Spears, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Eminem, Courtney Love, Kanye West, and other music stars.

We will never get enough of Courtney Love.

Our Friends at Good Magazine breakdown which cities are most dangerous for pedestrians

utnereader:

Is your city on the list?

*Like*

Workers Must Earn Salary of $163,000 to Feel Happy in NYC

jessbennett:

Aint that the goddamn truth!

Is this why we’re so angry?

A class to die for: Zombies 101 at U. Baltimore

“Call it Zombies 101.

“The University of Baltimore is offering a new class on the undead.

“The course is being taught by Arnold Blumberg, the author of a book on zombie movies, ‘Zombiemania,’ and the curator of Geppi’s Entertainment Museum, which focuses on American pop culture.

“Students taking English 333 will watch 16 classic zombie films and read zombie comics. As an alternative to a final research paper they may write scripts or draw storyboards for their ideal zombie flicks.

“The university isn’t the first to have a class on the undead. Columbia College in Chicago has offered a course on Zombies in popular media for years, and at Simpson College in Iowa students spent the spring semester writing a book on ‘The History of the Great Zombie War.’”

Via libraryland

(via youwillbeassimilated)

From this week’s cover: ‘Inside Al Qaeda’

Nine years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden’s network remains a shadowy, little-understood enemy. The truth, as revealed by one of its fighters, is both more and less troubling than we think. From this week’s cover, Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau report.

Moving day: version 392. (Yes, that is a case of Brooklyn Lager with our boxes. Gotta stay sane!)

Update: At least we get to keep our chairs!