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100 Baby Names That Are Truly Unique
 100 Baby Names 
 That Are Truly 
 Unique 
no 'sloane' here
Aug 1, 2010 5:26 PM CDT

100 Baby Names That Are Truly Unique

Publishing them will probably make them less unique...

(Newser) - You want to give your baby a truly unique name...and think "Juniper" might do the trick. Think again. Plenty of "hipster choices" lurk below the list of the Top 1000 baby names—for now—but "Juniper" will be the next "Sloane" soon enough, and your...

16 Awful TV Spinoffs
 16 Awful TV Spinoffs 
Jul 31, 2010 3:20 PM CDT

16 Awful TV Spinoffs

Joanie Loves Chachi, but this list doesn't

(Newser) - PopCrunch rounds up 16 of the worst TV spinoffs of all time: Here's a sampling:
  • Joanie Loves Chachi: "A mewling stillborn abomination that starred two people who obviously hated each other." Happy Days deserved better.
  • Galactica 1980: Bad acting and a lame plot doomed this spinoff of the
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How Not to Be Boring
 How Not to 
 Be Boring 
Jul 25, 2010 1:55 PM CDT

How Not to Be Boring

Esquire's advice on keeping things interesting

(Newser) - Are you a bit of a dullard? Me, too. Thankfully, the folks at Esquire have put together a guide to being cool. Well, cooler. Here are some of their tips for the socially challenged:
  • First of all, just don't be boring: If what you're saying is making your own eyes
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Minnesota Town Tops List of Best Places to Live in US

Eden Prairie beats out suburbs of Washington, Boston, Seattle

(Newser) - If you follow the advice of Money magazine, you'll want to live in a non-diverse suburb of a not-too-gritty city. The top five places to live are Eden Prairie, Minn.; Columbia, Md.; Newton, Mass.; Bellevue, Wash.; and McKinney, Texas. The rest of the list is dominated by more suburbs and...

15 Things That Raise Your Chance of Divorce

No. 1: Getting married before age 18

(Newser) - You don't need a Magic 8 Ball to predict whether your marriage will make it. Using data from a number of studies, Anneli Rufus pulled together 15 facts about you and your spouse's age, kids, and health that all point to the same conclusion: Outlook not so good. She shares...

12 Craziest Plastic Surgery Procedures
 12 Craziest 
 Plastic Surgery 
 Procedures 
get dimples like these
Jul 5, 2010 2:10 PM CDT

12 Craziest Plastic Surgery Procedures

Dimpleplasty, eyebrow transplants, and other wacky stuff

(Newser) - Think Heidi Montag, with her laundry list of plastic surgery procedures, is a wackadoo? Her boob job and brow lift may seem downright pedestrian compared to these 12 totally crazy kinds of plastic surgery, compiled by the Daily Beast :
  1. Dimpleplasty: It sounds just like what it is: a procedure that
...

10 Best Albums Of 2010
 10 Best Albums Of 2010 
so far
Jul 5, 2010 5:52 AM CDT

10 Best Albums Of 2010

This year has been a bummer, but the music's good

(Newser) - As the first half of 2010 draws to a close, James Montgomery lists his 10 favorite albums of the year—so far—for MTV :
  • Kate Nash: “My Best Friend Is You represents Kate Nash at her most scattershot, squeaky and downright smart,” he writes. She’s made “
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5 Deadliest Honeymoon Spots
 5 Deadliest Honeymoon Spots  
Jul 3, 2010 2:05 PM CDT

5 Deadliest Honeymoon Spots

Gun violence, bombings, and spiders, oh my!

(Newser) - The most dangerous thing you should do on your honeymoon is order a fourth daiquiri. AolNews helps ensure that's the case by sharing the 5 most dangerous honeymoon spots. Avoid, or tread wisely:
  1. Mexico: John and Jackie Kennedy hit up Acapulco as newlyweds, but you may not want to—a
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The 50 States' Grossest Dishes
 The 50 States' Grossest Dishes 
that's a doughnut bun
Jun 29, 2010 12:29 PM CDT

The 50 States' Grossest Dishes

From reindeer fat ice cream to 2-foot-long hot dogs

(Newser) - Some states are pudgier than others—here's looking at you, Texas—but none escapes this list of beloved yet fat-filled dishes. Health.com tracked down the worst offender in each of the flabby 50:
  • Alaska: Eskimo Ice Cream, a mix of blackberries and salmon berries—in reindeer fat and seal
...

13 Companies We Love to Hate
 13 Companies We Love to Hate 
Jun 26, 2010 11:49 AM CDT

13 Companies We Love to Hate

Standard Oil, Union Carbide, and other objects of our scorn

(Newser) - BP may be the recipient of our collective scorn these days, but it's not the first company we've come to despise—and it doesn't even take top honors on the Most Hated list. The Daily Beast asked 10 financial historians to nominate and rank their picks for the worst company...

12 Craziest eBay Offerings
 12 Craziest eBay Offerings 
Jun 20, 2010 5:10 AM CDT

12 Craziest eBay Offerings

A little girl's grandma, some tart's knickers, and more

(Newser) - You can get some pretty strange stuff on eBay—like someone's grandma, for instance. The 10-year-old seller noted she was "cuddly" but also "annoying and moaning a lot." Oddee runs down 11 more really weird items that have gone up for auction:
  1. The Meaning of Life: Someone
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10 Toughest Reads in Literature
 10 Toughest Reads in Literature 
Jun 13, 2010 4:20 PM CDT

10 Toughest Reads in Literature

This list might be enough to make your head hurt

(Newser) - Great books can bring great joy—and, in a few cases, great big headaches. Listverse compiles the 10 toughest reads in literature:
  • Finnegans Wake, James Joyce: If you thought Joyce would ride his way onto this list compliments of Ulysses, think again. Written partially in a made-up language of mindbendingly
...

10 Worst Workers Ever
 10 Worst Workers Ever 
Jun 12, 2010 6:46 AM CDT

10 Worst Workers Ever

Like the good teacher. Who accidentally gave students a homemade sex tape

(Newser) - For those who think the bar could be set no lower than Michael Scott, a list of the worst employees ever to grace headlines, courtesy of Oddee.com:
  1. The 5th-grade teacher who gave her students a homemade sex tape: Included in year-end DVDs she made for the kids was a
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10 TV Hosts Who Are Fantastic Jerks

They're mean, and we like them

(Newser) - Listen up, Ryan Seacrest: It's time to start being more of a smart aleck. Some of the greatest hosts in television history share one down-and-dirty characteristic: They're, well, a**holes, reports Movieline , which runs down the 10 who have most perfected the art of "likable meanness:"
  1. Anne Robinson: The
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10 Best Fake Twitter Feeds
 10 Best Fake Twitter Feeds 
Jun 6, 2010 11:25 AM CDT

10 Best Fake Twitter Feeds

You don't have to be the real McCoy to be hilarious

(Newser) - If only @BPGlobalPR were the real deal: The spoof account is far more entertaining than BP's actual one (find a clear demonstration of that here ). Time's Newsfeed shares 9 more spectacular, satirical Twitter feeds, with sample tweets:
  1. @FakeAP Stylebook : "'horrible tragedy'—use this phrasing to differentiate the described
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Killer Companies Started By College Kids

Time, Reddit, and other smart ideas

(Newser) - Turns out you don't have to suffer through a 6-hour graduation ceremony before you can make a splash in the business world. The Huffington Post lists 10 really impressive companies started in college:
  1. Time magazine: Yale seniors Henry Luce and Briton Hadden dreamed up the idea of a newsweekly, and
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7 Rock Stars Who Are Major Headaches

Liam, Noel Gallagher count as one...which they'd probably fight about

(Newser) - We expect rock stars to lay in beds covered in money while drinking insanely pricey liquor and, umm, doing some other stuff. But we forget about the poor, poor souls—agents, concert promoters, record producers—who depend on them to be on time...and coherent. Cracked presents the 7 rock...

8 'Health' Foods That Aren't So Healthy

Vitamin Water packs a lot more than just vitamins

(Newser) - Sure, an apple is a nutrient-filled snack, but so is a chocolate-chip peanut butter energy bar, right? Cracked blows the whistle on eight tasty "health" foods that actually aren't so good for our heath:
  1. Vitamin Water: As if the fact that it's owned by Coca-Cola isn't enough of a
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11 Items Weirdly Made From Animal Parts

Fabric softeners, cigarettes, sugar, and other meaty products

(Newser) - Turning down a cheeseburger is one thing; truly abstaining from all products containing animal parts is a wee bit trickier. Hugh Ryan reveals 11 surprising everyday items made from an animal ingredient for the Daily Beast .
  1. Fabric softener: The reason your clothes are so Downy soft? Dihydrogenated tallow dimethyl ammonium
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11 Wacky Vending Machines
 11 Wacky Vending Machines 
May 16, 2010 3:45 PM CDT

11 Wacky Vending Machines

Forget chocolate: You can get gold, pizza, and raw eggs

(Newser) - When you need to find a bar—gold, not chocolate—the Gold to Go vending machine at the Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi has you covered. It's one of a number of wacky vending options. Travel + Leisure lists 10 more weird things you can get from a machine:...

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