Will Ferrell: Hollywood’s most overpaid starForbes has compiled a list of the 10 most overpaid actors in Hollywood. Coming in at number one is Will Ferrell, whose recent film, Land of the Lost, earned only $65 million on an estimated budget of $100 million.
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Could giant snails end starvation in Africa?
It may sound gross, but the giant snail is more nutritious than beef, rich in protein, iron, calcium, zinc, and essential vitamins, and is widely available in Africa. Could giant snail pies be the starving continent’s saviour?
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Ghetto gourmet: Cookin’ With Coolio
’90s rapper Coolio is releasing a cookbook, Cookin’ with Coolio, featuring such recipes as “Chicken Lettuce Blunts” and “Drunk-Ass Chicken” in a style of cooking he calls “Ghetto Fusion”. Check out the book’s Top 10 quotes: “Everything I cook tastes better than yo’ momma’s nipples.”
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“Let’s go to the video tape” and nine other phrases that will soon be dead
Steve Rubel looks at 10 common phrases that could soon be made redundant due to changing technology.
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SARS, shoe bombs and teen sex: the 10 stupidest scare campaigns of the decade
Remember how we were all going to die of bird flu? And the world was going to end with the year 2000? Newsweek looks at the most overblown fears of the noughties.
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The 50 best inventions of 2009
Time names the 50 coolest things created over the past year, including vertical farming, the robo-penguin and tweeting by thinking. It has also listed the year’s five worst inventions.
Oxford Word of the Year: Unfriend
The Ayn Rand revival of 2009-
Why we need an R18+ classification for video games
Australia remains one of the few first world countries to lack an 18+ classification for video games. By restricting a large portion of the gaming market, we become victims of media censorship, says Joel Vaughan.
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Silicon sweatshops
Global Post is running a five-part investigation into the dubious labour practices of the Third World factories manufacturing the First World’s favorite high-tech gadgets. How cool does your iPhone look now?
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Move over, Apple: get ready for the Google Phone
It’s only been a rumour until now, but TechCrunch says it can now confirm: Google is making its own mobile phone, and it should be out early next year. Time for Steve Jobs to start sweating?
NASA discovers water on the moon — or did it?
The short-sighted epidemic
The science of screams: why we love horror films-
One.Tel executives Jodee Rich and Mark Silbermann may have escaped their legal battle with ASIC intact, but One.Tel was still a colossal failure, says Stephen Bartholomeusz.
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Is it good for Australian society if schools compete for students on the basis of academic performance and standardised exams? asks James Farrell. Will parents actually be more informed, or just more obsessed with test scores?
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Has Texas accidentally banned marriage?
A constitutional amendment in Texas designed to ban gay marriages may have inadvertently banned all marriages in the state, according to a lawyer and Democratic attorney general candidate.
America opens its first pot cafe
Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the crisis at the Washington Times-
As the century’s first decade comes to an end, a look at how various Australian sporting codes are faring, and where they might be in another ten year’s time.
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Ireland’s football team was cruelly denied a place at next year’s World Cup in South Africa due to a blatant piece of cheating from the French this morning, declares Neil Walker.
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Any sport in a storm: Coates and Co cop a reality check
At a moment when we’ve just emerged from recession, when childhood obesity in Australia is at an all-time high and when some state schools have little or no sporting equipment — let alone PE teachers — David Crawford’s report into Olympic funding couldn’t have come at a better time.
