Holy wow, what the hell did my eyes just see. I feel like I’m sexist just for watching this music video for “Hit You” by Playboy Playmate turned “DJ” Alie Layus. Summary: Sexy models getting pummeled with junk food in slow-motion. More »
As 2012 drew to a close, we asked you creative types to let us in on your forthcoming crowdfunded projects — and boy did you deliver. We’ve spent the past week whittling down the submissions for our first-ever Insert Coin: New Challengers competition, and are pretty excited about the results. As detailed in our announcement post, we’ve chosen 10 semifinalists, who will receive a free trip to Expand next month, along with a $1,000 travel stipend. Better yet, those on the list are in the running to win a total of $25,000, including a $5,000 Reader’s Choice award and $20,000 Grand Prize, along with product reviews on this very site.
Congratulations to all the winners and a big thanks to everyone who entered — paring down the list wasn’t an easy task. We’ll be highlighting each entry further in the week to come, leading up to a Wednesday, February 20th, vote for five finalists. Skip on through after the break to check out the list of semifinalists, and we’ll see you in March!
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WASHINGTON — Citing financial concerns, the Obama administration Friday began quietly winding down one of the earliest programs created by the president’s health care overhaul, a plan that helps people with medical problems who can’t get private insurance.
In an afternoon teleconference with state counterparts, administration officials said the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan will stop taking new applications. People already in the plan will not lose coverage.
Sharks have a pretty terrible reputation, but one scuba diver wants that to change, and she recently went to great lengths to convince us that sharks aren’t the enemy.
Ocean Ramsey recently filmed herself swimming with a great white shark as part of a promotional video for the HD camera company GoPro.
On Friday, Ramsey joined HuffPost Live to speak about her experience. Ramsey, who lives in Hawaii, said she’s been swimming with sharks since she was 14 years old and that it upsets her to see them demonized.
Workout junkies at San Francisco’s Fitness SF woke up to more than just a protein shake on Friday when the popular gym’s website was highjacked by a developer bent on revenge.
Web developer Frank Jonen, who was hired by the company last year, hijacked the Fitness SF website and replaced usual content with a dramatic public rant after the company allegedly failed to pay him for his work.
Jonen claims Fitness SF failed to pay him for six months worth of design services. His efforts allegedly included the creation of logo renderings that accumulated more than 1,300 views per piece.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner hid in a mountain condominium as a door-to-door manhunt took place outside and, after he finally made his break, apparently killed himself with a gunshot wound to the head amid a fierce gunbattle with police.
Dorner is believed to have entered the condo through an unlocked door sometime Feb. 7, soon after he arrived in the area of Big Bear Lake after killing three people. He then locked the door and stayed hunkered down for six days until the condo’s owners came to clean it, San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon told reporters Friday.
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SugarSync 2.0 has been in the oven for awhile, having gone into beta last year, but it’s now fully baked. The finished version offers the promised extra-simple sharing and syncing, with drag-and-drop transfers to the cloud, contacts and Dropbox-style public links. A virtual drive and cloud search simply things, too. Both desktop and web apps get more of a consistent look, and the Android app has been given its promised overhaul both for the new features as well as to offer uploads and syncing from an SD card. Android, Mac and Windows users can update at their leisure; iOS users will have to wait a few weeks, although both new and old versions can coexist until everyone is on the same page.
Filed under: Cellphones, Storage, Internet, Software, Mobile
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Another struggling tenant in Spain committed suicide this week, rather than be evicted from his home. This is the fourth eviction-motivated suicide in the European nation since Monday.
As Spanish-language news site Informacion reports, police confirmed the 46-year-old man hung himself on Feb. 13 in the Spanish city of Alicante.
The man had allegedly not paid his rent for the past five years, according to the site. Police reportedly found his body when they arrived to evict him. Friends told Informacion they were not surprised, and that the deceased tenant had previously threatened to commit suicide if eviction papers were served.
High school can be really stressful — to say the least. Our weekly “Hey, It’s OK!” series is here to remind you of all things you SHOULDN’T be worried about, no matter who tells you otherwise!
So, you’re a perfectionist. While there are downsides to being “Type A” — with your high-octane personality, competitive streak and sense of urgency — there are also many benefits to having this personality type. Your friends may give you a hard time for being tightly-wound or impatient, but you’re also known to be driven, goal-oriented and good at taking calculated risks. Scroll through the list below for five benefits of having a Type A personality.
1. You have high standards.
Kid President is trying to make everyone happy — and so far, it’s definitely working on us. (Really, he had our vote even before his now-legendary pep talk.)
Now, in order to pump up the “happy” on a (very official looking) “happiness and sadness meter,” KP has merged his feel-good genius with the tuneful talents of young stars Lennon and Maisy Stella. All three kids got together to sing a Valentine’s Day ditty about how love outlasts any kind of obstacle.
Kid President, we’ll love you no matter what too. Unless you stop making videos, of course.
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