Jennifer Lopez insured her ass

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According to tabloids in London (The Sun) and New York (The New York Post) Jennifer Lopez insured her entire body for $1 billion in 1999. According to the Post, Lopez's breasts were valued at $100 million each; her buttocks and legs combined went for $300 million. Finer details overlooked, the rumor soon became that her ample derriere alone had been insured for $1 billion. "The billion-dollar booty" — it's just catchier. Lopez denied the claims, but not very fervently: "I don't know where they got [that story] from. When I heard the story I thought it was very funny." Interestingly enough, Lopez's ass is not the only celebrity body part that is rumored to be financially guarded. Dolly Parton's breasts, male stripper Frankie Jankman's penis and both Bruce Springsteen and Rod Stewart's voices join the ranks as well.

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Bush Sr. to masturbate in a coffin?

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Some of the nation's most prominent politicians, including George W. Bush and his father, are members of Yale's secret society Skull and Bones. Bonesmen are sworn to secrecy, so no one knows what really goes on in the Tomb (the group's on-campus headquarters), but rumors about bizarre initiation rituals and connections with shady organizations like the Illuminati and the CIA and have circulated through word of mouth and in publications like Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly and the New York Times. According to these reports, to gain admission to the sect, our future president lay naked in a coffin while masturbating and reciting his sexual history, participated in nude mud-wrestling matches, jumped into a pile of shit, kissed a skull and received $15,000 upon becoming a member. Bonesmen give each other secret names; supposedly Bush Sr. received the title "Magog," awarded to the inductee with the most sexual experience. Bush Jr. was allowed to choose his own nickname, but didn't come up with one, so the elders christened him "Temporary." Given W's infamous facility with comedic handles ("Turd Blossom" for Karl Rove, etc), this seems unlikely.

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AOL dumps DMOZ?

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At this stage it it still just a rumor, but there are reasons to believe that DMOZ will suffer the same fate as Zeal. DMOZ has been dieing for a while, AOL knows it, and educated webmasters knows it. This has gone on for years.

However it is not possible to kill DMOZ right away, DMOZ is editor driven and some editors have spent hundreds or even thousands of hours adding content to the directory. Like any other large online community it has it�s own culture and codex, by pulling the plug AOL would make this mass of web users unhappy. It is better to soften up the community first and make more and more editors discontinue their work for the project. A year ago I would have guessed that DMOZ would still be a active project in 2010, I now doubt that DMOZ will see the second half of 2007. If the rumors I am hearing are correct DMOZ will die in a month or two. By not allowing new edits and discontinuing the RDF, most sites using DMOZ data will replace DMOZ with something else or nothing at all.

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Metal gear Solid 4: Coming to Xbox 360

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Sony can't be happy to lose another big exclusive.

Earlier this week, the information of Metal gear's non platform exclusivity was imparted to me by way of a dev source close to the team who cannot be named by pain of death. It's coming a few months later than the PS3 game, but it's happening folks.

This is said to be because publishers - including Konami - don't believe there'll be enough PS3s out there by the time the game hits because of the blu ray diode failure issues.

Now all I need is VF5 and I won't have to buy a 3rd console!

I'll get official comment from Konami in the week, but it is Saturday and this came pretty much from the horse's mouth, so you can count on this being legit.

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