The Karen Owen List is the culmination of a thesis joke that is all about education beyond the walls ding of the classroom and extending to ” the realm of horizontal academics”. Karen says all there is to say about the missionary position, and the list is a “thesis” catalogue elaborating in explicit detail her serial encounters with every Duke University athlete there is. It became an internet sensation and spread like wildfire the moment it was posted.
The result was that the horizontal academician was forced to pull …

Another day, another bullycide. Hope Witsell, a 13-year old who sexted topless pics to her boyfriend’s cell phone, committed suicide after being bullied at school when the images got viral. The death happened in September 2009 but came to light only in the wake of a spate of bullycide tragedies. The body count due to cyber voyeurism, cloud communication privacy infringement which means smut travels in nanoseconds to iPhones and tablets, and bullying is rising at a disturbingly exponential rate.
After school bullycide incidents claimed Phoebe Prince, Ty Smalley, Seth Walsh, …

The board of Genzyme has rejected the Sanofi Aventis 18.5 billion dollar takeover offer by the French Company, claiming the bid is quite low.
Genzyme is one of the largest actors in biopharmaceutical markets, while a regulatory filing had suggested that a meeting that had taken place between the two interested parties on September had the Sanofi chief executives proposing a bid at the range of $69-89 per share.
However, Christopher Viehbacher, the Sanofi executive claimed that justifying the bid for a $80 per share tag without credible information from the pharmaceutical …

A democrat candidate from Virginia for Congress, Krystal Ball is having a set of six photos haunting her, taken around 2004.
The Krystal Ball photos are obviously of the candidate and her husband but posing in lewd sexual poses during a party in Christmas. The candidate has however condemned the leaked photos, saying that the blogger who had posted the pics was giving her what she termed as ‘sexist treatment’.
The blog, a republican known as ‘Virginia Vertucon’ had the photos first before they were posted again by another blogger, a republican …

The Internet is heating up again, this time because of Scott Charney, the vice president of Microsoft of Trustworthy Computing, after he had said he desired to see at least the internet somehow policed, as he gave a speech on Tuesday in Berlin, on the conference ISSE 2010.
Charney says that be believes such measures once taken would monitor people better, especially those who release malwares online. He is one of the people who are hoping the Obama administration would be handling cyber security issues as he said in the conference …

The 71-year-old Veruschka von Lehndorff, former supermodel, hit the runway on Monday in London one more time. She is still considered by many fans and pundits in the fashion industry as being the first world supermodel, being popular during the 1960s. Her modeling career and stints in the fashion industry went as far as 1975. Her premature departure was after Vogue and she had disagreed.
25 years later Veruschka returned to the runway again in the Melbourne Fashion Festival in 2000 albeit a guest appearance. However, at that time many …

After unveiling a novel logo on Wednesday that the vice president of Gap’s Corporation Communications termed as an intense “contemporary” and “modern expression”, fans, webizens and designers almost anywhere obviously hates it and Gap is changing course.
A status update on the Facebook Page of Gap is displaying the older logo of the company, a navy blue one. However, there is a status update that is asking its fans to share what they think should be the right Gap Logo design. The page reads to the effect that they love their …

If you are a food stamper, no soda pop for you.NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday sought federal permission to debar 1.7 million people, who get food stamps, from exchanging them for soda pop. This is being seen as an aggressive push by the mayor to counter childhood obesity. Couch potatoes got a round of respite after an attempt to slap a tax on sugared drinks failed. After this, Bloomberg is trying to get the US Department of Agriculture that regulates the food-stamp programme, to say no to soda.
The food …

It’s like McDonalds replacing the golden arches after a vote from pedestrians about how to revamp its logo. Consumers were aghast after the latest social experiment in crowdsourcing for ideas from FaceBook users had the erstwhile iconic logo replaced by a new one that some said looked like it had been done up on MS word.
What GAP calls a “passionate debate” ended in the unveiling of a garbled new logo that looked pedestrian and what an enraged fan called “intentionally shitty”. You cannot even say its garbled, goes the GAP …

Lou Dobbs has become the latest epitome of American hypocrisy after it was revealed that he hired and exploited undocumented immigrants, paying them peanuts. Dobbs during his heydays at CNN, earned a whopping reported $6 million a year for his supposed “fearless commentary”, and had an enviable TRP count. He was notorious for his rabid rants against “illegal aliens”, that’s illegal immigrants for you. He spewed venom against those exploitative employers who flouted US law, and even proposed that they should be slapped with felony charges
Now it turns out Lou …