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New TSA-Compliant Cupcakes Will (Hopefully) Breeze Through Security Checkpoints

by Max Eddy | 2:44 pm, January 17th

In response to the TSA confiscating a “cupcake in a jar,” the Silver Spoon Bakery in Rhode Island decided that they could make the world a better, sweeter place with their TSA compliant cupcake. In addition to looking delicious, the cupcake is guaranteed (by the bakery, not the government) to pass swiftly through security checkpoints. Its secret? It contains exactly three ounces of icing, which the TSA classifies as a gel, and it comes in its own clear baggy.

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Mr. Show Comes True: 13-Year-Old Commits to USC

by Robert Quigley | 3:57 pm, February 5th

A 13-year-old named David Sills has verbally committed to play football for USC, ESPN reports.

Sills is six feet tall with an “off the chart” skill set, and his father says that USC “has always been his dream school.”

Not surprisingly, the sports blogs are jumping all over this one and more than gently ribbing USC coach Lane Kiffin, because it is a ridiculous story.

Here’s the thing: we not only saw this coming, but could have seen this coming 13 years ago: The number of years ago that David Sills was born, coincidentally. Specifically, in the “Recruiters” sketch on immortal sketch comedy show Mr. Show:

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First Four Minutes of Lost Season 6 Leak

by Robert Quigley | 2:52 pm, January 29th

The first four minutes of next week’s Season 6 Lost premiere have leaked online. Though we will not watch it ourselves until next Monday because we have morals (and some Lost catching up to do, admittedly), we feel obligated to report this to you.

Have at it, ye jackals. Better: don’t. It’ll probably go down soon anyway.

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3 Wolf Moon Embraced by NH Govt.: “Every CEO Should Be Wearing this Shirt.”

by Robert Quigley | 8:35 am, January 28th

3 Wolf Moon t-shirts: they will help you fly and grow reinforced bones, their wearers gain 250 pounds of muscle and the ability to see and hear for miles, and … they are now powering New Hampshire’s economy. That last part is actually true.

The Mountain, the t-shirt company behind the ironic, iconic shirt, has done so well in the wake of its unexpected Amazon success that a state agency has designated the 3 Wolf Moon shirt “the official T-shirt of New Hampshire economic development.” That’s quite an honor! The Division of Economic Development is even starting a campaign to get pillars of the community to wear the shirts:

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It’s Called the iPad. Good/Bad Name?

by Robert Quigley | 1:25 pm, January 27th

The iPad: Well, it’s definitely a better name than the iSlate. What do you think of the name? Poll after the jump:

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A Beginner's Guide to Diablo III's Lore

Twelve years later, the third installment in the famous hack-and-slash franchise has finally released. Though the franchise is largely known for an inordinate amount of hacking and slashing, there's actually quite a bit of complex lore backing it up. Luckily for you, we have it summed up right here. Take a gander.

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Eric Limer If anyone is looking for some totally garbled, nigh-incomprehensible ad copy, I'm your man.
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Eric Limer What? None of my Facebook friends are on So.cl? How can this be?!
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Eric Limer "Does this mustache look creepy? Experts are blind; can't tell."
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Rollin Bishop Lin Beifong is suddenly one of the best things about Legend of Korra.
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James Plafke I just taught someone what TIL means. There's some kind of poetry to that.
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Max Preparing some mails.
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Eric Limer Walking my sister through the finer points of PS2 emulation as something of a birthday gift.
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Max Whoever just had The Strand pull a copy Of the Prose Edda: We should be Viking nerd friends.
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Eric Limer "That Spacex launch last Saturday was an absolute abortion."
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Max "lily_tomlin_explosion.gif"
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Eric Limer André 300 http://t.co/4HX40AEk
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Max Lowest rating for the Antz soundtrack on http://t.co/l4iFAqyD is three stars and is titled "It did not meet all of my criteria."
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Eric Limer Spotify is great for listening to soundtracks of games with licensed music. There's playlists for everything. Now playing: Guitar Hero 2.
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James Plafke I think the next Bond movie, Skyfall, should be 2 hours of Bond falling through the sky, doing action and spy movie things.
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Eric Limer I swear Xbox Live is never not offering me 2 months of gold for $2. At that price, I kind of don't even mind the dirty, auto-renew trick.
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Rollin Bishop Easily the strangest thing I've seen this weekend. http://t.co/AW7UGSQJ
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Max Pull up a loose tile in fifth avenue, discover a secret world populated by dogs that walk on hind legs and wear little waist coats.
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Max Legally changing my name to The Beachbummer
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James Plafke Just got home from a friend's, and now I'm eating Kix and reading about underwater phenomena on Wikipedia. #Saturday
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Eric Limer It's really a shame that writers spend so much of their time writing, which is -- coincidentally -- a very boring thing to write about.
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