Breaking News of the Day: Infamous Irish Mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, who spent the past 16 years in hiding, has reportedly been arrested in Santa Monica.
The 81-year-old former leader of Boston's notorious Winter Hill Gang fled for the feds In December
Mini-Doc of the Day: "And that's how we get down: Tow truck and get p*ssy and then go home to my domestic life of raising three kids": My Name Is Two-Ten -- a mini-doc by Michael Nusbaum about a Boston-area tow truck driver nicknamed "Two-Ten."
(sNSFW, explicit language.)
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Lies Sarah Palin Told Me of the Day: Sarah Palin, who brought her magical mystery tour bus to Beantown yesterday, took some time out of her busy schedule (?) to give reporters a wildly inaccurate history lesson on Boston silversmith Paul Revere and his legendary "Midnight Ride" (see above).
Time-Lapse Thing of the Day: An hour and 10 minutes of planes taking off from Boston's Logan International Airport, set to Massive Attack's "I Am Home."
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Accidentally Beautiful Photo of the Day: A tractor trailer that was hauling 16,000 pounds of printer ink bound for a newspaper company rolled over and spilled its technicolor load all over Route 128 near Peabody, MA, creating this surreal scene captured by Boston-based freelance photographer Winslow Townson.
No one was injured in the incident.
