Who Was Saint Valentine?
by Mike Krumboltz
Sweet chocolates, cheesy poems, and overpriced roses can only mean one thing: Monday is Valentine s Day.
Over the past 24 hours, Web interest in Saint Valentine has soared like
an errant arrow. Searches on Yahoo! for saint valentine and who was
saint valentine each spiked over 300 percent. So who was St. Valentine? Was he a great lover a la Casanova? Was he even a real person? According to Catholic Online, St. Valentine was very real, but he probably wasn t a smooth operator with the ladies.
Valentine was a holy priest in Rome, who, with St. Marius and his family
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Axl Rose’s Hatred of Slash Results in $20 Million ‘Guitar Hero’ Lawsuit
Eager to become the talk of every music fans Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, Axl Rose has just issued his most insane lawsuit yet , suing Guitar Hero makers Activision for $20 million for featuring Guns N Roses Welcome to the Jungle in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. Axl initially signed off on J…
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Laura Linney’s Cancer Comedy, New Number One Burger, Axl Rose’s Twitter Account: What’s the Buzz
by Claudine Zap
Our top picks from the day’s hottest searches.
Five Guys Burgers (Searches increased by 8,891%). Step aside, In-N-Out. Five Guys has been voted best.
Laura Linney (+7,851%). The actress stars in a new show, “The Big C,” about a woman diagnosed with terminal cancer. It’s a comedy.
Axl Rose (+4,184%). The rock performer says his Twitter account was hacked to claim that the Guns N’ Roses tour was off. Not true.
Arcade games (+472%). Forget the Xbox. What’s better than a stack of quarters, a pinball machine, and Pac-Man?
Egg recall (+280%). A voluntary recall is underway in
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Don’t Bury Kevin Rose’s Custom Moped
Digg founder Kevin Rose is so rich he can have any vehicle he wants. He chose this chromed-out 1977 Puch Maxi moped, but he hasn’t even seen it yet. So Kevin, here it is, your sweet new ride.
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Kevin bought the ‘ped online from a seller in Ohio as a non-running pile of rust, then shipped it to San Francisco to have 1977 Mopeds fix it up. They fully restored it, then made it better than new with a chrome finish and a 74cc big bore kit. Now that the engine’s the size of almost three shot glasses, it’s actually kind of fast.
Using a mix of pedal and engine power, the guys at 1977 say, “It rips up to 50mph in less than a block.”
Mopeds are popular for one main reason: in California you can ride them on a motorcycle learners permit and insure them super cheaply, as long as they aren’t capable of going over 30 MPH. Also, you can park them on the sidewalk and ride between lanes of stationary cars, a huge advantage in a crowded city like San Francisco. You can’t take mopeds on highways.
And while mopeds may sounds like eco-friendly transportation, Kevin’s custom Puch is anything but. It uses a two-stroke (think weed whacker) motor that burns oil along with the fuel and is fitted with a custom open exhaust called the “Motomatic Destroyer.”
[Special thanks to 1977 Mopeds]
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