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Melissa Rivers To Mom: Enough Plastic Surgery!

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© Frederick M. Brown/Getty ImagesJoan Rivers (L) and Melissa Rivers speak during the ‘Joan Knows Best?’ panel at the WE TV portion of the 2011 Winter TCA press tour held at the Langham Hotel on January 7, 2011 in Pasadena.
Melissa Rivers has a message for her mom: enough plastic surgery!

She said her 77-year-old mother's surgical enhancements are a source of conflict.

Comic Joan Rivers said in a book she wrote two years ago, Men Are Stupid ... And They Like Big Boobs - A Woman's Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery , that she's had more than a dozen cosmetic surgeries.

"In my opinion, it's like enough," Melissa Rivers said. "Stop it. It is a source of conflict, it really is. It bothers me."

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Polar bears get the better of spy cameras



The cameras used for a documentary on polar bears were designed to be as unobtrusive and resilient as possible.

Polar Bear: Spy on The Ice used hi-tech "spy cams" to get as close as possible to the bears during summer in the Arctic islands of Svalbard.

But while they were built to withstand temperatures as low as -40C, in the end most could not cope with the curiosity displayed by their subjects.


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Man Quits Job, Makes Living Suing E-mail Spammers

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Daniel Balsam hates spam. Most everybody does, of course. But he has acted on his hate as few have, going far beyond simply hitting the delete button. He sues them.

Eight years ago, Balsam was working as a marketer when he received one too many e-mail pitches to enlarge his breasts.

Enraged, he launched a Web site called Danhatesspam.com, quit a career in marketing to go to law school and is making a decent living suing companies who flood his e-mail inboxes with offers of cheap drugs, free sex and unbelievable vacations.

"I feel like I'm doing a little bit of good cleaning up the Internet," Balsam said.

From San Francisco Superior Court small claims court to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Balsam, based in San Francisco, has filed many lawsuits, including dozens before he graduated law school in 2008, against e-mail marketers he says violate anti-spamming laws.

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Sacred Site Sex Scandal

A Territory man said he could see into the future and told a Japanese tourist she would die if they did not have sex on a "sacred site", a court has heard.

The woman said the man told her he could see her dying in hospital in three years' time if she rejected his advances while at Ubirr Rock, a popular Kakadu site of ancient cave art.

The woman's allegations were heard at a committal hearing in Darwin Magistrates Court this week.

Magistrate Michael Carey dismissed the four charges of sexual intercourse without consent against the man, saying the woman's evidence was unreliable, contradictory in some places and "did not hang together".

"There is no way (a jury) would convict on her evidence," Mr Carey said.

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A Holiday Message From Ricky Gervais: Why I'm an Atheist

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Why don't you believe in God? I get that question all the time. I always try to give a sensitive, reasoned answer. This is usually awkward, time consuming and pointless. People who believe in God don't need proof of his existence, and they certainly don't want evidence to the contrary. They are happy with their belief. They even say things like "it's true to me" and "it's faith." I still give my logical answer because I feel that not being honest would be patronizing and impolite. It is ironic therefore that "I don't believe in God because there is absolutely no scientific evidence for his existence and from what I've heard the very definition is a logical impossibility in this known universe," comes across as both patronizing and impolite.

Arrogance is another accusation. Which seems particularly unfair. Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn't know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -­- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn't get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn't hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition. If it did, you wouldn't get a shot of penicillin, you'd pop a leach down your trousers and pray. Whatever you "believe," this is not as effective as medicine. Again you can say, "It works for me," but so do placebos. My point being, I'm saying God doesn't exist. I'm not saying faith doesn't exist. I know faith exists. I see it all the time. But believing in something doesn't make it true. Hoping that something is true doesn't make it true. The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn't. It's not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can't have your own facts.

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Julian Assange Interrupts SNL To Explain Why He Should Be Time's Person Of The Year

The more notorious Julian Assange becomes, the more fun Bill Hader seems to have with the character. He interrupted a message from Mark Zuckerberg on last night's Saturday Night Live in order to demonstrate why he should be Time's Person of the Year. "Thanks to WikiLeaks, you can see how corrupt governments operate in the shadows." he said between muahahas. "Thanks to Facebook, you can figure out which Sex and the City character you are."

Yet despite his sneering, it seems that Assange ended up taking the quiz anyway. "I'm a Samatha," the alleged lothario said. "But if the Swedish police ask, "I'm a Charlotte."

He also included a couple of barbs at how differently WikiLeaks and Facebook define "invasion of privacy." His organization reveals corporate tidbits to consumers for free, while Zuckerberg's company inverses the equation, selling your personal information to corporations.

But that's heavy stuff. So we mostly got more jokes: "If you want to make a movie about Mark Zuckerberg, you'll have to make stuff up," went his routine. "If you want to make a movie about me, just to rate it R, you'll have to leave stuff out."

And so forth! You can see the rest of the budding stand-up comic's act in the NBC clip below.

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Bring the TSA Home - This Holiday Season - with The Handheld Body Scanner

Jeri Ellsworth thinks the TSA are on to something with all of this body scanning brouhaha.

The TSA has gotten a lot of flak from frequent flyers because of their full-body scanners and questionable pat-down searches. Now, you can help others enjoy the same level of discomfort and invasion of privacy wherever you go with this DIY handheld body scanner.


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A Rabbit Takes Bite Out of Christmas Lights

A homeowner near Denver, CO finally caught the Grinch who has been damaging his light display for years. But the culprit ended up being a lot cuter than he expected.

Barry Miller says for the past four or five years, his driveway lights had been cut in the same exact place. He thought maybe a neighbor had been pulling a prank on him so he decided to hook up a surveillance camera and a motion detector to catch whoever was doing it.

"I was so excited, cause they were cut in broad daylight. Then we looked at the tape, I was so disappointed, I actually thought we were gonna catch a person and go through with my plan."

Turns out, it was a little rabbit. The critter had been taking a little bite and running off.

Miller says he's going to try to find a homemade rabbit repellent -- like pepper -- to keep his decorations in tact.

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Wisconsin Postal Worker Delivers Mail Nude

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A Wisconsin postal carrier says he simply wanted to cheer up a woman on his mail rounds who seemed "stressed out." But, upon further review, the postal worker says delivering the mail in the nude probably wasn't such a good idea.

A police report says the 52-year-old man told the woman he would deliver the mail to her office in Whitefish Bay completely naked to make her laugh. He says the woman dared him to do it, so he took the dare Dec. 4 and brought the mail wearing only a smile.