Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Delete 'MySpace CEO'?

1. On Wednesday, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta announced he's resigning from the social networking site after less than a year on the job. MySpace employees said they were saddened when they saw the news on the their Facebook feed.

2. It was announced today that the restaurant chain Hooters is for sale and could fetch as much as $250 million. The franchise owner says however the price could be lowered if we go to your place instead and you take a shower first.

3. According to the newest issue of Nature, scientists have discovered DNA in a 4,000 year old man that suggests he may have dealt with baldness. Scientists identified specific markers in the ancient man's DNA which by today's data would have created a tendency towards baldness. Also reinforcing the baldness theory was the man's cave filled with Swanson's Dinner-4-One.

4. Researchers from University College London have published findings in the International Journal of Epidemiology that say being bored could be bad for your health and cause you to die prematurely. Those who reported being very bored were two and a half times more likely to die of a heart problem due to inactivity. In other news, Corey Haim has been found dead of a heart attack at his Los Angeles apartment 10 years ago.

5. Singer John Mayer is apologizing for an interview he gave with Playboy in which he used the N-word. "It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualize using it, because I realize that there's no intellectualizing a word that is so emotionally charged," said Mayer. However, there is a more surprising realization here: somewhere in America a man opened up the latest issue of Playboy, flipped to an interview with John Mayer, became offended, and never once lost focus.

High five.