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  • President Obama turns 50 today! And is planning to have 5 birthday parties, what an animal! [HuffPo]
  • Oregon Rep. David Wu, who has been accused of having an "unwanted" sexual encounter with the teenage daughter of a campaign donor, announced that he would resign following a vote on the debt ceiling. [TPM]
  • Randi Zuckerberg is leaving Facebook to start her own new social firm. [AllThingsD]
  • Newark Airport is the most delayed airport, apparently. And I was thought JFK was bad. [WSJ]
  • Air France ruled that only male cabin crew were allowed to serve Dominique Strauss-Kahn, currently fighting accusations he attempted to rape a New York hotel maid. [NYP]
  • A peacock flew the coop from the Central Park Zoo Tuesday and took up residence on a fifth floor window sill of 838 Fifth Ave. This little bird knows how live in luxury. [AMNY]
  • James Franco reveals details of the NYU class he will be teaching, says students will transfer poetry to film and be able to distribute their film. [NYDaily]
  • Artist Justin Gignac is selling NYC's garbage as art... and people are buying it. [HuffPo]
  • Blackberry is reinventing their phones with touch screens to try and catch up to the iPhone. [WSJ]
  • A leading computer security firm has traced the hacking of more than 70 corporations and government organizations over many months. Experts say the snooping probably originated in China. [WashPost]
  • Model Linda Evangelista came to Manhattan Family Court yesterday and slapped Francois-Henri Pinault (her baby daddy) with $46,000-a-month support request, possibly the largest request ever. [NYP]
  • The finger pointing game still continues with the Real Housewives of New York -- who's the bigger alcoholic? [People]
  • Charlie Sheen's character in "Two and a Half Men" will be killed off to make room for Ashton Kutcher. [TMZ]
  • Apple provides more information about their upcoming product called the iCloud, a syncing system for multiple devices. [NYT]
  • J.Lo talks about her divorce, says that Marc Anthony wasn't treating her right. [VanityFair]
  • Foursquare will be soon charging merchants listed on their social network in order to make some revenue. [NYP]
  • Casey Anthony says no to interviews until she is finished being treated by professionals. [TMZ]
  • The man responsible for the Norway massacre had plastic surgery on his nose and chin, apparently, and is "obsessed" with his appearance. [Telegraph]
  • Miley Cyrus gets a marriage equality tattoo, taking it to a whole other level of support. [People]
  • Apparently, Amy Winehouse was secretly planning to adopt a little Carribean girl before her death. [NYP]
  • There was a refrigerator found on the West 4th street stop on the subway. [NYP]
  • McDonald's plans open a fast food restaurant a day in China for the next four years. [Bloomberg]
  • Weezer is setting sail! The band is launching their first ever music cruise for fans in January. [PerezHilton]
  • No one wants to adopt a six week-old kitten because of a black mark under it's nose resembling a "Hitler mustache." [Telegraph]
  • Ashton Kutcher replaces Charlie Sheen in the signature curtain shot for "Two and a Half Men." [Deadline]
  • Divorce filings are up 12 percent in New York since the state last October adopted no-fault separations, which allows couples to split without having to prove why. [NYP]
  • With a library, a massage parlor and a jam room for the musically inclined, Google’s New York headquarters sounds more like a celebrity spa than an office. [AMNY]
  • The Fred Perry collaboration collection with Amy Winehouse is now on hold. [Jezebel]
  • Alex Trebek battles a burglar in a San Francisco hotel and tears his Achilles tendon. [Mediaite]
  • Casey Anthony drinks beer on private flight right after being released from prison. [TMZ]
  • Teen beheads four, and is sentenced to three years of juvenile prison. [NYD]
  • The Connecticut Cougar traveled over 1,500 miles to make it into the backyards of suburban homes, he was orginally from South Dakota. [NYT]
  • First Windows "Mango" phone is revealed in Tokyo. [PCWorld]
  • There's a six year-old on the terror no fly watch list in Ohio, really!? [PH]
  • So Rihanna buys sex toys, does this really surprise anyone? [NI]
  • French director Jean-Luc Godard has come up with a plan to save Greece from it's economic problems, just tax everyone who uses the word "therefore." [Observer]
  • The house that The Amityville Horror was filmed in is for sale in Toms River, NJ for $1.35 million. [SacBee]
  • Amy Winehouse's cause of death is still unclear, funeral is today. [amNY]
  • The largest mass gay wedding will be taking place today in Bethpage State Park. [NYD]
  • Amy Winehouse's services, Mark Ronson and Kelly Osbourne, but former boyfriend Blake Fielder-Civil was denied release from prison. [TMZ]
  • Dominique Strauss-Kahn's hotel-maid accuser finally gave her side of the story yesterday, in order to push authorities to prosecute him. [NYP]
  • Amy Winehouse's "post-mortem" will take place later today and Amy's father speaks to the press, saying his daughter was about "love." [BBC]
  • Forget Mom's mini-van -- summer sleep away camp now includes a private jet ride to camp. [NYT]
  • M.I.A. has released the first single in memory of Amy Winehouse with a track called "27" - referring to the singer's age at the time of her death. [NYD]
  • A Norwegian police convoy carrying gunman Anders Behring Breivik, who admitted to Friday's mass shootings in Norway, has left an Oslo court house after a custody hearing on Monday, police said. [Reuters]
  • What is Anthony Weiner up to? No one is really sure, but he wants to get back on Hillary Clinton's good side. [NYP]
  • The many voices of Paris Hilton -- she ditched her baby talk for her "normal" voice in interview. [Mediaite]
  • There's an all girls Metallica tribute band called "Misstallica" in Jersey. [NYT]
  • John Edwards was ordered on Thursday to repay the treasury $2.3 million, the Federal Election Commission ruled unanimously. [People]
  • Lindsay Lohan photographed with a tequila bottle in her hand (but apparently it was all planned). [TMZ]
  • Sarah Palin is going to be a grandmother again, her eldest son's recent wife is expecting at age of 21. [Gawker]
  • Katy Perry gets 9 VMA nominations, beating out musical artists such as Kanye West and Adele. [People]
  • The Atlantis returned this morning safely in Florida, marking the end of an era in space exploration. [CNET]
  • Kim Kardashian is pissed Old Navy used her look alike, and is now suing them. [NYD]
  • Kate Middleton spruces up Kensington Palace With $1,500 in air fresheners. [GofG]