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The Straight Poop on Toilet Paper Wedding Dresses
By Monica Garske - AOL NewsWedding dresses can be awfully expensive, but with a little ingenuity -- and a whole lot of two-ply toilet paper -- a gorgeous gown can be rolled out in no time. That's the premise, at least, behind the seventh annual Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest being hosted by the bride-on-a-budget website Cheap Chic Weddings. Every spring, the wedding website holds a contest to see who can make the best-looking bridal-wear out of just a few simple tools: tape, glue and, most importantly, toilet paper. Contestants can sew the toilet tissue together with a needle and thread, but that's the extent of ...
Iran Hacks Voice of America Websites
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsThe digital arm of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard has launched a successful cyber attack on the Voice of America, hijacking dozens of sites operated by the government-funded broadcaster. The group, which calls itself the Iranian Cyber Army, placed a message on VOA's Persian-language news site, demanding an end to U.S. meddling in other nations' affairs. "Mrs. Clinton, do you want to hear the voice of oppressed nations will from heart of USA?" read the statement, which was displayed in both English and Farsi, according to CNN. "Islamic world doesn't believe USA trickery. We call on you to ...
UK Crime Map Crashes After Getting 18 Million Hits an Hour
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsA British website showing block-by-block crime statistics crashed within a few hours of going online today after public interest overwhelmed servers. The site, police.uk, crashed after receiving as many as 300,000 hits a minute, or 18 million an hour, The Press Association reported. "Most popular gov website ever?" the British Home Office wrote on Twitter. "Demand for new #crime maps at around 300k a minute, equivalent to 18m hits an hr. Working hard to make sure everyone can access." The site is intended to allow people to gauge levels of crime and police activity in neighborhoods in ...
WorldStarHipHop: 5 Facts About the Site 50 Cent Takes Credit for Shutting Down [VIDEOS]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsWorldStarHipHop.com, which billed itself as "the CNN of urban media," is offline as of today, with no official explanation for its disappearance. On Twitter, meanwhile, a famous rap star stepped forward to take credit for the site's demise. Reveling in his apparent influence, 50 Cent tweeted the following message to his followers: .bbpBox29641592193159170 {background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/146359618/guns.jpg) #ffffff;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px ...
Cyber Monday a Real Bust for Some Websites
By Lisa Flam - AOL News
(Nov. 29) -- Cyber Monday was a bust for some websites -- the feds accused them of selling fake handbags, sunglasses and DVDs and shut them down. Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that 82 domain names of commercial websites have been seized for allegedly selling counterfeit goods and illegal copies of copyrighted material. dvdcollects.com The Justice Department said today that 82 domain names of websites allegedly selling counterfeit goods and illegal copies of copyrighted material have been seized. The effort targeted websites selling counterfeit sports equipment, shoes, ...
New Website Streams Live Video of Northern Lights
By Hugh Collins - AOL News
(Sept. 22) -- A new website launched this week allows the wonders of the northern lights to be viewed from the comfort -- and relative warmth -- of your own home. The AuroraMAX website operated by the Canadian Space Agency is streaming a live feed of the colorful auroras from northern Canada each night from now until May. M. Scott Moon, AP The northern lights, seen here in 2006 from Denali National Park, Alaska, can now be viewed online from anywhere in the world. Auroras are ribbons of colorful light that can be seen sweeping across the northern skies on winter nights. They are created ...
Glenn Beck's 'Blaze' News Site Is Up, With Year-Old Lead Story
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Aug. 31) -- After only one day of "Blazing," Glenn Beck is already looking a bit slow. Today, fresh off his successful "Restoring Honor" rally over the weekend, the Fox News personality launched his new "news, information, and opinion" website The Blaze, leading with the following video expose. It covers Ricardo Dominguez, a University of California, San Diego professor who retrofits cheap cell phones with a simple GPS application to help save the lives of illegal immigrants crossing a perilous stretch of desert between Mexico and the United States. It's an important story, no doubt. So ...
France's Latest Woe: Brand-New Website Crashes
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News(July 15) -- Just when things seemed as if they couldn't get much worse for France's image, already tarnished by its disgraced soccer team, a messy financial scandal involving the country's richest woman and a president with his lowest approval ratings ever, the government just launched a brand-new $2 million promotional website to great fanfare and then watched as it promptly crashed. It's been down ever since. Visitors to the much-ballyhooed France.fr, which was to serve "as a major promotional tool for France's image abroad," found only an apology today and an explanation that the site ...
A Guided Tour of Alvin Greene's Weird New Campaign Website
By Carl Franzen - AOL NewsThere are many divisive and controversial figures in American politics these days, but none have managed to acquire quite the reputation of mystery, intrigue and sheer strangeness as Alvin Greene, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in South Carolina. The 32-year-old Army veteran appeared on the national political radar earlier this month, winning the South Carolina Democratic Senate primary seemingly out of nowhere, despite having no job, "no political experience, no money and no campaign organization," as AOL News writer Steve Pendlebury put it. The win was all the more surprising ...
Bangladesh Blocks Facebook Over Prophet Drawings
By not in system - AOL NewsDHAKA, Bangladesh (May 30) -- Bangladesh has blocked the social networking website Facebook over a page urging people to draw images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, joining Pakistan to become the second South Asian nation to ban the popular site over religious concerns. Chief telecommunication regulator Zia Ahmed said today that access to the site has been temporarily blocked because it was publishing caricatures that may hurt the religious sentiments of people in the Muslim-majority nation. Ahmed said the government had asked local Internet service providers to block the objectionable content, ...
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