Новости за 03.09.2015

Welcome to Would U?, an academic forum in which I share my gross crush of the week and ask if you, too, would bang that person.

Here’s something that’ll give you an incurable case of the creeps: Researchers tested nine different types of baby monitor and said they were all alarmingly vulnerable to hackers.

People love eating ice cream in the summertime. But not half as much as photographers love talking photos of people eating ice cream in the summertime.

“I love writing for this age level,” said Valerie Tripp, talking about her American Girl books. She’s written for Molly, Felicity, and Josefina. “Sometimes it’s the first independent chapter book that a girl has read and—it’s like it belongs to her.”

A Hollywood diversity report just released by USC’s Annenberg School of Media and Journalism notes that, among other things, Latinas and Black women are most likely to star in Hollywood films only when they are dressed in “sexy attire.”

Hey, folks! Sorry to dispense with my normal nonsense, but I got a really important letter that I‘m very excited to share. I don’t get a ton of letters dealing with real issues, but I’m always happy to try to help. If you only read this for silliness, don’t worry—there’s still an insane Mad Max theory and the world’s finest superhero butt, too.

As Fashion Week looms, we are reminded that the fashion industry is continually obsessed with and excited by its own inner workings. Thus, naturally, insider/muse/high profile friend, etc. Alexa Chung is premiering a new documentary series, “Secrets of the Fashion Industry,” on British Vogue’s YouTube channel.

Matthew Muller, the man charged with the Gone Girl-esque kidnapping of Denise Huskins that was initially thought to be a hoax, says a vaccine made him do it.

For a certain type of internet-fluent teenager, Shop Jeen is an unsurpassed mecca of cool. The retailer’s homepage looks as if a sex-crazed Hello Kitty threw up after drinking 1,000 jello shots, selling things like “Turnt Jesus” iPhone cases, “University of Bad Bitches” sweatshirts and T-shirts screaming “Ask Your Boyfriend How My Ass Taste.” It’s irreverent and exceptionally topical, a store for young women who don’t buy clothes as much as they buy costumes. But it is also, by many accounts, a black hole of dysfunction... Читать дальше...

Barack Obama has been in Alaska for three days and is basically treating it like his senior year spring break, by getting plastered (probably), taking selfies , getting jizzed on (by a fish) and dancing in places you’re not supposed to dance.

The now-infamous Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis decided she’d rather go to jail than do her job Thursday.

I’m not particularly proud of the fact that I’ve watched this Sesame Street parody of When Harry Met Sally twice, but I’m more than a little impressed by how spot-on the Meg Ryan character’s wigs are.

As we approach a weekend of bittersweet transition, I’ve only got one question for you.

To celebrate the launch of Pornhub Cares, the brand-new philanthropic branch of one of the world’s largest pornography websites, a $25,000 scholarship will be given to one very blessed college student. In the past, Pornhub’s goodwill efforts had only focused on cancer research and environmental charities. This would be their first foray into education.

Over the weekend, Icelandic author Bryndis Bjorgvinsdottir published an open letter on Facebook appealing to Iceland’s welfare minister, Eygló Harðardóttir, to accommodate more Syrian refugees than the country’s cap of 50. Her original letter reads:

Two former staff members of a New Jersey children’s day care center have been accused of encouraging young children to engage in physical brawls with each other. The incidents, which happened under the supervision of 22-year-old Erica Kenny and 28-year-old Chanese White at Lightbridge Academy, were also posted on Snapchat. I’m pretty sure the first rule of fight club is to not involve kids and film it on social media. Both women been charged with fourth degree child abuse.

In the latest issue of Elle Canada, supermodel Cindy Crawford, for the very first time, is addressing the supposedly untouched photo of her that leaked in February. “Why would seeing a bad picture of me make other people feel good?,” she asks.

In today’s Tweet Beat, Reese Witherspoon finds a good tree, Olivia Wilde has a few thoughts on tater tots, and Hailee Steinfeld makes a huge decision.

Natural redhead Cate Blanchett will be playing natural redhead Lucille Ball in an upcoming film to be written by natural blond Aaron Sorkin. The Wrap reports the film will be an “authorized” biopic, to be produced by Desi Arnaz Jr. and Lucy Arnaz Jr.

A Houston teen fatally shot himself while taking a selfie with a gun. Sigh.

On Monday, Kris Jenner was scheduled to appear on Bachelor in Paradise: After Paradise—but paradise was lost when an unidentified insect attacked Jenner on her face and forced her lip, or lips, to “blow up”!

Thank goodness Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is around to stand up for cops.

Lady Gaga’s infamous meat dress has a new home: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland. And while Gaga still owns the dress (so she can take it back when she decides the beef jerky look is in), you can see it at the museum for the foreseeable future. Or now, if you have the stomach for it.

On Wednesday, a Maryland judge refused to drop charges against six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray and announced there would be a separate trials for each defendant.

Hasbro added a hamster to its Littlest Pet Shop collection and named it Harris Faulkner. That is so funny and so weird.