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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.

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• 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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Happy Hour List: The 10 Grumpiest Movies Ever Made

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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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Happy Hour List: The Most Disgusting Cartoon-Themed Snacks From Your Childhood

This Happy Hour brought to you by Lindsay Lohan's guide to 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?

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• 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

This Happy Hour brought to you by Destination Win.

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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

This Happy Hour brought to you by Pleated-Jeans.

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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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Happy Hour List: The Most Nostalgia-Inducing '90s School Supplies

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."

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• 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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Happy Hour List: The Very Best Of The "You Are Drunk" Meme

This Happy Hour brought to you by the GOP.

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• The Dems unleashed some dubious claims Tuesday night, according to fact checkers.
• Fox's Megyn Kelly rightly trashes Jason Biggs for his tweets about Romney's and Ryan's wives.
• Rush Limbaugh says that if Obama were white, this election would be over.
• Ellen got her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Playing in the NFL triples men's risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

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• From Deadspin: Why grown men walk around wearing football jerseys.
• From New York: How the Paul Ryan pick puts the spotlight on Joe Biden.
• From Dead Homer Society: How The Simpsons became the broadcasting undead.

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• What if Obama had called a real stoner instead of Harold and Kumar?
• Sandra Bernhard takes on Jerry Seinfeld with Comedians Walking & Getting Mani-Pedis.
• Why the Republicans have no heart (and the Democrats have no balls).

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• The 20 best closing scenes in TV.
• Amazing balloon animal muppets are freakin' amazing.

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Happy Hour List: The 20 Most WTF Moments In Disney History

This Happy Hour brought to you by the opening night of the DNC.

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• A Paralympian has become the first woman to live at home with a robotic exoskeleton.
• Parents of twin infants on their first flight handed out please-forgive-us goodie bags to fellow passengers.
• Organic food isn't necessarily healthier for you, a new study shows.
• Crime and religious beliefs appear to go hand in hand...

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• From Discover Magazine: The woman who needed to be upside-down.
• From The New Yorker: The mending friendship between Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

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• TV's first days of school.
• Noah Kalina took a picture of himself every day for 12 years. Holy schnikes.
• A montage of Family Feud's best fails.

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• Romney laughing at things -- a Reddit Photoshop battle.
• The Macbook Air is a concert camera.
• On her 31st birthday, 31 reasons Beyonce is the icon of the decade.

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Happy Hour List: 15 Criminals Who Got Caught By Bragging About Their Crimes

Today's Happy Hour is brought to you by the blue moon, whose next appearance will be July 31, 2015.

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• Of course there's a Breaking Bad look-like contest.
• A man obsessed with Fox News tried to murder his girlfriend for being a liberal.
• Ron Swanson's Reddit AMA is almost as popular as Obama's.

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• From ESPN Magazine: 120 reasons football will last forever.
• From Something Awful: What it's like to be a princess-for-hire at little girls' birthday parties.
• From Wired: In search of the living, purring, singing heart of the online cat-industrial complex.
• From Open Salon: What it was like to get a "coat hanger" abortion in 1967.

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• Their cover of Justin Bieber's "Baby" was amazing. Now Palter Ego is back with MJ's "Man In The Mirror."
• Meet America's biggest balloon artist.
• How to devastate a 3-year-old boy.

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• Clint Eastwood's greatest scenes -- the definitive GIF gallery.

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Happy Hour List: The 15 Most Cringe-Worthy Scenes From The Newsroom

Happy Hour: Today's edition brought to you by Mike, whose pic-a-day project spanned five years, all kinds of friends, and every imaginable combo of facial hair and head hair.

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• Just how addicted to Sriracha are you?
• A slice of bread is the best way to mop up tiny shards of glass.
• Campbell's has redesigned its line of soups for hipsters -- new flavors, and no more cans.
• True story -- a woman in New Jersey has a disorder that causes her to orgasm 100 times per day.

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• From The Independent: How the Paralympics -- which kicked off tonight -- got their start.
• From Salon: Is anti-obesity the new homophobia?
• From Forbes: Up close and personal with a cupcake ATM.

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• A video interview with Frank Simms, the voice behind the Kool-Aid man.
• Kobe Bryant really did set out to be the next Michael Jordan.
• There's no way this kick is real -- right?
• Novak Djokovic gets a marriage proposal from a young fan, and his response is heartwarming.
• Aaaand, the latest Old Spice commercial. In case you somehow missed it.

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• The Simpsons characters that are truly obscure.
• TV's greatest high school nerd transformations.
• The high school reunion blurb that will melt your heart.
• But it's not a legitimate stabbing!

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Happy Hour List: The Funniest Internet Reactions To Obama's Reddit AMA

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• Coal miners in Ohio were forced to attend a Romney campaign event and donate to his campaign.
• Here's the latest on Hurricane Isaac.
• You can actually buy Where's Waldo? glasses.

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• From Collectors Weekly: How your grandpa got his LOLs.
• From Uproxx: Why Netflix's decision to release the new episodes of Arrested Development all at once is bad for America.
• From Slate: What do Swedes think of the Swedish Chef?

Watch This:

• Intrepid girl reporter asks Stephen Colbert to be her RNC date.
• The new trailer for Madden NFL 13.

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• What if The Wizard Of Oz were modernized with hipsters?
• Why did Romney pick Ryan?
• Naked people salute Prince Harry: the definitive gallery.
• 1990s TV teachers -- where are they now?

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Happy Hour List: 9 Substances That Only Exist In Sci-Fi

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• According to everyone, UCLA has upset Oregon in football. Never mind that they didn't even play.
• A Mormon-owned NBC affiliate in Utah won't air The New Normal, a new show about two gay dads, their surrogate, and their kid.
• The Romney camp admits it's trying to win 61 percent of the white vote.
• The GOP platform has been updated to oppose all forms of pr0nography, not just child pr0nography.
• Facebook is counting how many times you mention Mitt's hair.

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• From NJ.com: The redemption of The Wire's Michael K. Williams.
• From The New Yorker: The man who made Justin Bieber.

Watch This:

• The movie trailer for How To Make Money Selling Drugs.
• A supercut of baby headbangers -- rage, baby, rage!

Look At This:

• Rare photos of Pee-wee Herman looking serious.
• The most influential people made in the United States.
• LIFE's coverage of the moon landing is online and interactive.
• The top presidential campaign donors may (or may not) surprise you.

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Happy Hour List: The 13 Scariest (Believable) Scientology Conspiracy Theories

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• ABC has picked up a pilot about a multi-ethnic family with lesbian moms, produced by Jennifer Lopez.
• The verdict is in -- Samsung owes Apple $1.05 billion in damages.

Read This:

• From Gawker: Inside Mitt Romney's tax-dodging Cayman schemes.
• From GQ ca. 2010: Is Lance Armstrong a doper?
• From The Bold Italic: Moving in with a girlfriend 101.

Watch This:

• The movie trailer for Butter -- a flick that goes inside the competitive world of butter sculpting.
• A tribute to Paralympians, because sport doesn't care who you are.

Look At This:

• The most scandalous muppet photos of all time.
• Inside the secret lair of Hans Zimmer.
• The iPhone horn.

Listen To This:

• A 1960 audio interview with Martin Luther King, Jr., recently discovered in a Tennessee attic.

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Happy Hour List: The 20 Greatest Misheard Lyrics Music Videos On The Net

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• The Navy SEAL author of an upcoming book about the Bin Laden raid has been outed by Fox News.
• How to make a daiquiri cocktail -- this is important!
• Arrested Development will premiere on Netflix in spring 2013.
• The child porn charges against Minnesota State's head football coach are horrifying.
• Obama fundraised Wednesday night with NBA star Carmelo Anthony, who helped make a popular pro-drugs YouTube video called "Stop Snitching."
• Speaking of Obama, his camp will buck tradition and launch a major counter-programming assault during the RNC.
• Meanwhile, Romney won't let reporters question him about Todd Akin or abortion.

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• From the BBC News Magazine: Paralympic athletes who harm themselves to perform better.
• From The Atlantic: Why Millenials aren't buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy.
• From Hypervocal: Surviving a death sentence -- what it's like to live with HIV for 27 years.

Watch This:

• A guy tries to jump his bike over a BBQ, and we get to watch him fail.
• Behold "My Ultimate Ayn Rand Pr0n Song."
• News coverage of Prince Harry's Vegas trip: a supercut.

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• Cinema's most famous babies: Where are they now?

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