(#1) Chelsea Handler boycotts Instagram over topless picture [SFGate (blog)]
Comedienne Chelsea Handler is boycotting Instagram after the site twice deleted a topless photograph of her. The “This Means War” star was lampooning Russian president Vladimir Putin when she was photographed riding a horse topless in a wooded area.
(#2) Daylight saving time has made some enemies [Atlanta Journal Constitution]
It's that time of the year again. Sunday at 2 a.m., many clocks will fell back an hour for the end of daylight saving time. But was it really beneficial in the first place? During the energy crisis of the 1970s, President Richard Nixon signed an act ...
(#3) Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Crashes in New Setback for Commercial ... [New York Times]
SpaceShipTwo, a rocket plane that was meant to carry well-heeled tourists on short if expensive rides to space, crashed in the Mojave Desert on Friday during a test flight, killing one of the two pilots. The pilots, who have not yet been identified ...
(#4) Movie Review: 'Before I Go to Sleep' [CBS Local]
Oscar winners Nicole Kidman (2002's The Hours) and Colin Firth (2011's The King's Speech) played husband and wife in last year's The Railway Man and do so again in Before I Go To Sleep. But whereas she supported him last time out, this time he returns ...
(#5) Victory Records' Top 10 Halloween Music Videos [Bloody Disgusting]
Halloween may have been last night but it landed on a Friday, which means we get to keep the celebrations going! So, to make sure your day starts off on the right note, our friends over at Victory Records have whipped up their Top 10 Halloween Music ...
(#6) Jimmy Butler nails two FTs in final second as Bulls edge Wolves [ESPN]
Butler coaxed the over-aggressive Wiggins into a foul with 0.2 seconds left. Then Butler calmly knocked down two free throws to help the Bulls weather another absence from Rose in a 106-105 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night.
(#7) Derrick Rose's decision to sit was correct [ESPN (blog)]
That is the right approach in Rose's case, and one the Bulls' front office has filtered down to Thibodeau since before the season began. While the veteran coach might not be happy with the minutes restrictions being placed on both Rose and Joakim Noah ...
(#8) Mensa members pick their favorite Halloween movies (really) [Los Angeles Times]
Fall prestige pics, maybe. A Shane Carruth Sundance puzzler, sure. Halloween? It's not the holiday one immediately thinks of for movies that tickle the noggin. That hasn't stopped members of Mensa from choosing their favorite movies themed to the holiday.
(#9) Amanda Bynes -- Pleads with Judge to End Conservatorship [TMZ.com]
Amanda Bynes's lawyer started without her ... showing up in court at 1:30 PM Friday and making a beeline into the judge's chambers trying to free his client of her parents' conservatorship. Amanda's parents showed up. Our sources say they will say ...
(#10) Joker Goes Offline After Pressure From Copyright Holders [TorrentFreak]
This week the web-based torrent service Joker has been making headlines all over the Internet. However, after a few days the fun stopped thanks to pressure from copyright holders including Sony Pictures, who ordered Joker's hosting company to pull the ...
(#11) Meet 5 "Zombie" Parasites That Mind-Control Their Hosts [National Geographic]
Zombies may still be a thing of fiction, but some parasites more or less turn their hosts into the walking dead. These masters of mind control manipulate their hosts from within, causing them to act in self-destructive ways that ultimately benefit the ...
(#12) Second-Grader Gives Weather Report For Local Chicago News, Absolutely ... [Huffington Post]
This, courtesy of Charlie Hale, a second-grader in Chicago, who joined the WGN Morning News for the station's "Friday Forecaster" segment last week, and gave the weather report of a lifetime. Despite his clear on-camera abilities as a meteorologist ...
(#13) Michigan closes Dave Brandon, Inc. with athletic director's resignation [SI.com]
ANN ARBOR -- Michigan is selling athletic director Dave Brandon's exit as a voluntary resignation, a trick straight out of Brandon's management manual. Brandon forced out so many good people and marginalized so many others, and you rarely heard a word ...
(#14) Photo gallery: Florida Day of the Dead celebration [MiamiHerald.com]
Jackie Simpson checks her makeup for the Florida Day of the Dead Celebration at America's Backyard nightclub Saturday night. The creative spectacle honoring Mexican traditions continues Sunday at venues throughout downtown Fort Lauderdale.
(#15) 'Once Upon A Time's' Georgina Haig On Elsa & Emma's Blossoming Friendship [Access Hollywood]
And I think it's as important to Elsa as it is to Emma to have that friendship. It's nice. And I think people have been really responding well to that relationship. They've been kind of liking that Emma's got a friend -- a friend with common problems ...
(#16) All The 'Hocus Pocus' Quotes You Should Be Using On Halloween [Uproxx]
Whether you're an 8-year-old kid or a 27-year-old man, there's a special movie that, come Halloween time, people of all ages love to watch — that movie is of course Hocus Pocus. Chances are if you turn on your TV to ABC Family you can catch it playing ...
(#17) JK Rowling's new Pottermore writing, review: 'delightfully grisly' [Telegraph.co.uk]
Midnight traditionally heralds the start of the witching hour, yet it was at 10 o'clock on Halloween morning that JK Rowling sparked a frenzy among Harry Potter fans by publishing six new stories on her Pottermore website. A full 17 years after the ...
(#18) Rocky Horror Is Surely Queer. But Is It Good for the Gays? [Slate Magazine (blog)]
Children, when The Rocky Horror Picture Show was first released, there was no streaming video, and although VCRs existed, they were expensive and rare. If you wanted to see this film about two conventional young sheeple having their eyes opened to all ...
(#19) Nightcrawler (2014) [Entertainment Weekly]
He decides then and there to become a ''nightcrawler.'' The first half of the film chronicles Lou's baptism into the profession—how he goes from an ambulance-chasing wannabe to a fearless camcorder-wielding Weegee. Gilroy's ace cinematographer, Robert ...
(#20) Is the world starting to turn against Bill Cosby? [Washington Post]
The man once known as “America's Dad” is too radioactive for daytime television. Bill Cosby, who was scheduled to appear as a guest on “The Queen Latifah Show” to promote his new comedy tour, is no longer going to be on the show. TMZ initially reported ...
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