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Calling bullshit on this Cancer scare: Spotted this at the supermarket… “Oh, no! Miss Universe 1983 has Cancer? How awful!” But a quick scan of the actual story (from the NZ Woman’s Weekly) reveals that the former Dancing with the Star winner Lorraine Downes hasn’t got the big C, but that she’s doing some charity work with children with cancer and building her public profile. Talk about crying wolf! Nothing new in lying in a headline to get a sale, it just seems to be getting more and more blatant and everyone’s doing it. What do you think?

Video link: Colour film footage from 1922 – the earliest recorded from a test of Kodak’s Kodachrome film.

Video Link: Everyone loves a good pole dancing FAIL. Don’t they?

Car adornment trend: Carlashes (yes, eyelashes for your headlights) are the Truck Nuts for ladies. Equally stupid.

WTF? How to ask for a pay rise, apparently …

Today in sexism: Belgian men’s magazine explain what a male “dream” of a “better world” would be like. That’s right: in a better world, guys, your wife would rent you a sexy teen and then take the kid out.

Video: A man has been able to stop burglars raiding his house despite being 1,400 miles away — by using an app on his iPhone, costing a few dollars. Vince Hunter had installed an iCam app which notified him when motion sensors in his home in Dallas, were triggered. He was then able to watch a video stream from CCTV cameras and saw a pair of burglars breaking into his home. As he watched the men smash a glass door with a brick, police were called and the would-be burglars quickly fled empty-handed.