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Early Addition: Gates Foundation Will Pay You $100K To Reinvent The Condom
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Ben Yakas
Published Mar 21, 2013
Modified Mar 21, 2013
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- Please, please, please Kanye West, name your kid "North" and your next album I Am God.
- What do Twitter, Rosie O'Donnell, Kevin Federline and Johann Sebastian Bach all have in common? It's their birthdays today!
- The man behind the website WhyLeaveAstoria has left Astoria...for California.
- KABOOYOW: watch this instant classic amateur weather report.
- McDonald's has unveiled the succulent Sausage Double Beef Burger...but only in China. We're already having sympathy heart attacks.
- First Moleskin store in America will open in the Time Warner Center.
- It seems Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band may be coming back to tour the US this fall.
- The Gates Foundation wants to give someone $100,000 to reinvent the condom.
- Check out this very cool animated gif that depicts the internet.
- Vulture wants you to appreciate Tina Fey's many different 'dos.
- After a year of denials, a "glamorous Ukranian embezzler" admitted that she stole nearly $1 million while working as the very "personal" assistant to her hedge funder boss.
- And finally, some god damn pets being god damn adorable:
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