Sunday, January 10, 2010

Playboy model's gruesome death

Paula Sladewski, a 26-year-old who once modeled for Playboy, was identified Wednesday by Miami police as the person found dead and "burned beyond recognition" in a trash bin on Sunday.

Now, police are asking for the public's help to put her killer behind bars. Whoever the murderer is, police said, they are nothing short of a "monster."

Read more at CNN.com -- 1/7/10


Harmless web prank or security concern?

For Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, it was a global virtual black eye.

Instead of seeing his photo on the new European Union site, launched this week as Spain took over the presidency, visitors were greeted by Rowan Atkinson's comic character of Mr. Bean.

And if you clicked over to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Web site, you'd see that hackers took him on, too.

Millions flocked to mock and clicked to laugh at worldwide leaders -- but security experts say the truth is that the real joke could have been on them.

Read more at CNN.com -- 1/6/10


Dating site expels "fatties" for holiday pounds

A dating site that markets itself as an elite community for beautiful people with a "strict ban on ugly people" has axed about 5,000 members for packing on the pounds during the holiday season.

The international site BeautifulPeople.com threw out members after they posted photos "revealing that they have let themselves go," according to a company statement.

This story became a viral hit and struck a chord with our audience, leading way to hundrends and hundreds of comments, and a large online debate.

Read more at CNN.com -- 1/4/10


Claims that HP's webcams don't see black people

Can Hewlett-Packard's motion-tracking webcams see black people? It was a question posed on a YouTube video that went viral across all social media platforms.

I spoke to the people behind the video about their intentions with the video and HP to find out if there really is a problem with their webcams seeing people based on the color of their skin.

Read more at CNN.com -- 12/22/09



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