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Wednesday September 26, 2007

+5 Some nightclubs on the Granville strip have banned clothing brands Ed Hardy and Affliction because they are associated with gangs. Interestingly enough, these very same brands were recently banned in Iran… but for entirely different reasons.

+4 Microsoft wants to buy a 5% share of Facebook for an estimated $300-500 million, placing the worth of the entire social networking site at up to 10 Billion dollars. With an estimated 40 million users, this places the value of each Facebook account at something like $250.

- 2 Google to plans to make YouTube obsolete, and introduce 30 second ads on all of the videos.

+7 An American polygamist leader has been found guilty of being an accomplice to rape, after performing a wedding between a 19-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl. The girl claims that she cried at the wedding, was forced to kiss her new husband, and cried in pain for days after her first sexual encounter, which was basically rape… Take it from her, that Big Love show is full of shit.

+2 Actor Kiefer Sutherland has been arrested for drinking and driving — for the FOURTH TIME.

- 1 A draft of the speech President Bush gave to the UN General Assembly was accidentally leaked, and reveals that he has almost every word over six letters (like Sarkozy “[sar-KOzee]”) phonetically spelled for him. That guy is such a loo-zer.

Today: +15 This Year: - 42