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• The full Mitt Romney fundraiser video is out, and it only gets worse for the GOP candidate.
• U.K. residents can now buy social media insurance.
• A guy faked a blowj*b on live TV last night and nobody noticed.
• A chef in Florida committed suicide in the dining room of his own restaurant.
• The new Entourage movie is chock full of shameless product placements.
• Steve Sabol, who changed the way we watch the NFL has died. RIP.

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• From The Dish: Andrew Sullivan tells Mitt Romney to "f**k off."
• From MotherBoard: How Big Pharma got America hooked on legal heroin.
• From CNN: What really enrages Muslims? Twitter knows.

Watch This:

• Glove and Boots does an AMA, with the characters answering questions via video.
• The most incredible volcano video you'll ever see.
• Excited Train Guy is the new spokesman for UpDesk.
• Fox News got trolled AGAIN.
• StoryCorps' latest animated short, about a kid named Facundo, is charming.

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• Newsweek's "Muslim Rage" cover turned into a meme.
• You can win a 10-day trip to Africa by plugging your e-mail in here.
• A leaked video reveals what Romney really thinks about Obama voters.
• A woman in Virginia lost 76 pounds on the Starbucks diet.
• This is how you keep ice cream juuust soft enough so it doesn't bend your spoon.
• Colorado and Washington are close to legalizing marijuana.
• Toronto Blue Jay Yunel Escobar wore an anti-gay slur in his eye black during Saturday's game.

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• From The Village Voice: Occupy Wall Street, Year 2.
• From Collectors Weekly: The high price of a degree in LSD.
• From Vulture: Everything Nancy Botwin has ever done on Weeds.

Watch This:

• The bug-eyed bungee jumper gets remixed -- and gets even better.
• "Gangnam Style" takes over NYC.
• Poor kid -- proof that no one likes reporters.

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• The best of the "Eighties Bill Nye Rocks Out" meme.
• Occupy Wall Street, the 1 year later infographic.
• How testing one drop of blood can change your life.

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• A restaurant in Florence, Italy, now lets patrons pay for food with fresh produce.
• A Ph.D. student paid his tuition with mail-in rebates.
• The Brave Little Toaster is getting a CGI reboot.
• Ahmadinejad says his enemies have destroyed Iran's rain clouds and caused a drought.
• NYC passes Mayor Bloomberg's ban on large sodas, to take effect six months from today.

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• From Uproxx: A scathing review of Guy Fieri's new restaurant culinary hell.
• From Jalopnik: The woman who cut off her breasts to be a better racer.
• From Forbes: If Mitt Romney is elected president, what does that mean for pr0n?

Watch This:

• The Simpsons intro is recreated with stills from Family Guy.

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• Behind the scenes on the production of Disney's The Lion King.

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Happy Hour List: 10 Awesome Dinosaurs From Pop Culture

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• Obama and Romney are selling some weird sh*t in their campaign stores.
• Comedian Josh Sankey will travel the U.S. with only bacon as currency.
• Red Robin will serve beer milkshakes in honor of Oktoberfest.
• Kate Middleton has been toasting with water lately...
• The body of King Richard III may have been found -- under a parking lot.

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• From Salon: Science proves Dan Savage right -- when it comes to sex, we should all aim to be GGG ("good, giving, and game").
• From The Daily Dot: One man's brave foray into My Little Pony fandom.
• From NBC: Are the 100 most endangered species even worth saving?

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• The man who overcame crippling polio to build a helicopter out of trash.
• Meanwhile, in an Australian snowstorm...
• The Epic Rap Battle Of Manliness.
• Ah, memories: Steve Jobs announces the original iPhone.

Look At This: 

• The ultimate kitchen cheat sheet -- print this out!
• Cave homes we'd like to live in.
• At long last, a way to turn iPhone pics into real-life photos.
• Banksy gets animated.

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Happy Hour List: The Funniest Internet Reactions To Apple's iPhone 5 Release

Let's take a moment for the victims of September 11, 2001.

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• A bar patron with a license to carry shot a homicide suspect on a rampage in Pennsylvania.
• A handbag that charges smartphones actually exists.
• Blink-182 made fun of One Direction 11 years before the boy band existed.
• It's National Preparedness Month -- are you prepared?
• A (possibly stoned) NASA scientist wonders if maybe we do live inside a computer?

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• From Hypervocal: "Let our reflections on 9/11 be only a brief pause."
• From The Advocate: Zac Efron in his first gay-press interview.
• From Vulture: Funny girl Mindy Kaling on... everything.
• From Raw Story: What Chris Brown's tattoo tells us about violence against women.

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• The obligatory time-lapse of One World Trade Center.
• The funniest bungee jump footage of all time?
• The man behind the SportsCenter theme song.

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• The September 12, 2001, front pages from 147 newspapers around the world.
• This is the greatest police department website you'll see... ever.
• These illustrations of cats by Louis Wain are killer.
• First look at Jane Fonda and Alan Rickman as the Reagans.

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Happy Hour List: The 11 Ways 9/11 Changes How We Talk

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• Snoop Dogg Lion endorses Obama.
• The pizza shop owner who hugged the president is getting bad reviews on Yelp from Republicans.
• Pat Robertson "jokingly" advised a man to move to Saudi Arabia so he could beat his wife.
• The CDC is preparing us for a zombie pandemic.

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• From The Washington Post: Argo looks like the leading contender for Oscar.
• From The Week: Mark Ambinder sizes up the election over the next two months.
• From The Atlantic: Why sports stadiums are risky investments.

Watch This:

• Enough with the fails -- here's the "Like A Boss" win compilation.
• Twin Falls, ID, has a rapping meteorologist.
• The "Clenching My Booty" Justin Bieber parody video.

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• Poor Bill Clinton -- here's his campaign website from 1996.
• The Curiosity rover's first self-portrait.

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Happy Hour List: 10 Awesome Bookstores Repurposed From Unused Structures

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• Martin Scorsese is making a documentary on Roger Ebert.
• A wedding can actually save you money over the long term -- but how much?
• New CIA documents finally prove that Bush's WMD claim was merely that.

Read This:

• From Truth-Out.org: John Cusack and law professor Jonathan Turley on Obama's war on the Constitution.
• From the Today show: Is it problematic to label larger girls' clothing plus-size?
• From Slate: What I learned about life from eating every variety of Pepperidge Farm cookie.
• From Ad Age: Why Twitter makes us care when even minor celebrities die.

Watch This:

• How Air Force One has changed since 9/11.
• Larry David on The Daily Show -- Without Obama, it could have been worse.
• The U.K.'s bold new breast cancer ad. (Not Safe For Work -- nudity.)
• The Ultimate "That's What She Said" News Montage.

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• MMA fighter Renzo Gracie live tweets an attempted mugging -- and it's hilarious.
• Honest logos from around the world.
• Red Staters make fun of a child on Facebook -- and it gets ugly.

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This Happy Hour brought to you by Pundit Kitchen. Know This: 

• Grindr is pushing its gay users to vote.
• The infamous Billy Joel hater has changed his tune.
• How to block annoying political posts on Facebook.
• Astronauts fixed the International Space Station with a toothbrush.
• Organ donation may be a matter of how we're asked.

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• From The Daily Dot: A Japanese woman sends more tweets to Obama than anyone else. What's the deal?
• From Forbes: Is Apple a sin stock?
• From New York, circa 1992: Bill Clinton -- Who is this guy?
• From Pacific Standard: The real-life chemist behind Walter White.

Watch This:

• The new trailer for Cloud Atlas is a little easier to follow than the first.
• Your food packaging is bad and you should feel bad.
• Grease, "Gangnam Style."

Look At This:

• Famous authors' adorable school photos.
• The difference between a $99 suit and a $5,000 suit, in one graphic.
• The best pics from the Paralympics.

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