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Are you in the market for the most cumbersome and comical piece of jewelry in the world? Get ready to max out your credit card for this completely absurd, “flawless” 100-carat diamond being auctioned today by Sotheby’s.

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Charli XCX and Bleachers' Jack Antonoff are bringing their inventive, colorful pop across America in a co-headlining jaunt dubbed the Charli and Jack Do America Tour. The duo announced the summer run with a fun announcement video featuring the pair discussing Antonoff's phobia of getting sick on the road before Charli reveals that she has...

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A full 20 years have puff-puff passed since the stoner comedy Friday lit up movie theaters and became not just a cult sensation but a bona-fide classic. The hilarious film – about potheads Craig (Ice Cube) and Smokey (Chris Tucker) trying to enjoy a day off while avoiding both the...

Just one day after a memorial tree was planted in Michael Brown’s honor, some callous asshole cut the tree in half and stole the memorial stone that accompanied it. The 18 year-old was already unjustly killed and his family denied the right to seek justice so why not pour salt into that wound just because?

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This beanie baby is worth a fortune http://t.co/jM6qnUcjLd pic.twitter.com/zUnMHXMiOx

— The Independent (@Independent) April 19, 2015

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There's a new color in town, and it's pretty adorable. PANTONE Minion Yellow marks the first time in the color authority’s history that a color has been created and named after a character. The Pantone team worked with the Minions' creators at Illumination to find the most pure version of the characters' hue. It's "a color that heightens awareness and creates clarity...the color of hope, joy and optimism," says Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute.

• Minion Yellow | Pantone
• How A Movie Co-branding Campaign Spawned A Brand New Color: Minion Yellow | Co.Create

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Finding ways like this to use as much of your ingredients as possible is a great way to reduce your food waste and get the most for your grocery money. You can do this by adding both the stems and leaves from leafy greens to sauces like pesto.

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In a recent episode of Divorce Court, a man named Nathan accused his girlfriend Lia of banging the entire Wu-Tang Clan when she hung out with the group after a concert. Lia denies the accusation saying that although she “had an amazing time” hanging out with the rappers until dawn, it was an innocent gathering that included political chat with no boners in sight.

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The Litchfield inmates are back with a vengeance in the first trailer for Orange Is the New Black's third season. The clip gives a tiny glance at life for the prisoners following Season Two's explosive, shocking finale. When fans last left the popular Netflix original series, Piper (Taylor Schilling) had found...

Last night, our dog, Riley, died. Today would have been her thirteenth birthday.

Riley had a long and wonderful life. She lived much longer than the person who locked her in a closet at a motel that was being torn down thought she would, and though she could be a huge pain in the ass, she was an important part of our family.

Riley was anxious and nervous to the point of being neurotic. She was terrified of the garden hose, had terrible arthritis in all of her joints, and was almost completely deaf. Still, she was happy these last few months, getting to sleep on a the couch whenever she wanted, or sleeping at my feet while I worked in my office. She didn’t want to play very much, but when she did I’d swear she was ten years younger. She still liked to take walks, but she was slow and stayed so close to Anne and me, she hadn’t needed a leash for almost a year.

She wasn’t crazy about Marlowe, and I think Marlowe knew it. Marlowe has so much energy, I think she sort of scared Riley, who was brittle and nervous as a result of it. But Marlowe always tried to help calm Riley down. She would lick her face and nuzzle her all the time, and she stayed out of Riley’s way the rest of the time.

Riley was the last direct connection we had to Ryan and Nolan’s childhoods. She has been part of their lives for so long, through so much and so many things, they lost a member of their family even more intensely than I did, and I have a huge IMADOG hole in my heart right now.

I want to take a second and share a moment Riley and I had several years ago, right after our dog Ferris had died. I was alone in our house because Anne was out of town, Ryan was in college, and Nolan was busy being a teenager. Ferris had died the day before, practically in my arms, in the lobby of the vet:

I saw Ferris’ empty dish last night when I fed Riley, and it unleashed an agonizing wave of sadness so overwhelming, I dropped to the floor in our living room and cried as hard and as long as I ever have in my life.

After she was finished eating, Riley came over to me and sniffed at my face. Through my tears and gasping sobs, I told her it was okay, I just missed Ferris a lot and I was sad.

She rubbed her face against my cheek and trotted into the family room. A moment later, she returned with her soggy tennis ball, which she gently put into my lap. She looked up at me, and then walked into the corner of the family room, where she picked up her rope – her favorite toy, which she brings with her to the front door whenever we come home – and brought it over to me. She set it on the ground next to me, and then laid down and put her head in my lap. I cried for a good long time, but I was comforted by Riley’s actions, even if I’m projecting my own feelings onto her. I felt like she could tell I was grieving, so she brought me the things that make her happy, before letting me cry on her until the fur on her neck was soaked with my tears. When I finally stopped, mostly because I was physically and emotionally exhausted, I felt a tiny bit better.

Riley was a pain in the ass sometimes. She was  complicated, damaged, and difficult, but she was ultimately a sweet and loving member of our family.

I really miss her, and her terrible breath, and that wonderfully derpy look on her face that always said “IMADOG!”

Bye bye, piles. I love you.

A small request: if you choose to comment, please don’t post that Rainbow Bridge thing. I know you mean well, but it has always made me uncomfortable.

If you think that posting nude pictures of your ex is somehow an acceptable response to your breakup, take a lesson from Kevin Bollaert. He's been sentenced to 18 years behind bars (he could be eligible for parole after 10) for operating 'yougotposte...

Pearl River Mart, the famed Chinese department store that's been a New York staple for more than four decades, is closing at the end of the year. Since 2003, the store has occupied three levels on Broadway in SoHo—its rent will increase more than five times when its lease is up. Pearl River is currently scouting smaller spaces on Canal, or considering going digital.

• Famed Pearl River Mart will close its three-level SoHo store | Crain's New York
• Facing Five-Fold Rent Hike, Pearl River Mart to Exit Broadway | Racked
• Pearl River Market - Store Profile | Apartment Therapy

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In Vegas, more people are betting on the Cubs to win the World Series than any other team. [ more › ]

Van Halen announced details of a 40-date summer tour this week with special guest Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Unlike their recent arena tours, this one will concentrate on outdoor amphitheaters. They're slated to perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live next week to promote the tour and their album Tokyo Dome Live In Concert,...

Janelle Monae delivers a dexterous flow on "Yoga," a new track with rising MC Jidenna that's set to appear on The Eephus, a new compilation EP featuring tracks from the various artists on the R&B futurist's Wondaland label. Monae's characteristically pristine vocal talents are on full display on "Yoga," as she flips familiar...

Longtime Twisted Sister drummer A.J. Pero has passed away, the heavy-metal act announced in a statement today. The Associated Press reports that Pero was found unresponsive on a tour bus in Poughkeepsie, New York and subsequently died of an apparent heart attack. He was 55. Related: Rock Censorship: Big Brother Meets Twisted Sister "Today,...

Sweden goes beyond the national anthem and adopts a national typeface. Sweden Sans, designed by Soderhavet, is part of a wider national branding project. Of the inspiration, designer Stefan Hattenbach says, "There's an expression in Sweden. We say lagom, which is not too much and not too little. You're happy with something in between."

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Mo'ne Davis, the 13-year-old little league star whose incredible pitch landed her on the cover of Sports Illustrated, is continuing to impress. M4D3, in connection with organization Because I'm a Girl, will release a line of limited edition Mo'ne Davis-designed sneakers and donate 15% of proceeds to impoverished girls around the globe.

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Need more good news after today's net neutrality ruling? Deadline and Variety report it has been confirmed that Harrison Ford will return to the role of Rick Deckard in the Blade Runner sequel that's currently in the works. Ridley Scott is producing ...

I can't decide whether this more disproves the existence of a just and loving deity, or whether this means the apocalypse is coming. Either way, I am not on board.

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Here's a story straight from a heist film: our heroine Lupita Nyong'o, whose gorgeous pearl-encrusted Calvin Klein gown swept the Oscars, is now no longer in possession of said gown because she has been ROBBED!

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A new report on diversity in the board rooms of publicly traded US companies reveals something startling: there are more men with spots on the boards of major S&P 1500 companies with the name John, Robert, William or James than all the women on those boards combined.

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The Bletchley Park codebreakers depicted in the film The Imitation Game (this year’s Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay) worked around the clock to crack the secret of Nazi communications during World War II, but they weren’t all about work. They also used their skills for play.

Mark Saltveit, World Palindrome Champion and editor of The Palindromist Magazine, has spent years researching palindrome history and recently published an article on Vocabulary.com where he shares his discovery that many well-known palindromes originated from a bit of spirited competition among the cryptanalysts of Bletchley Park.

It started with mathematician J.H.C. Whitehead’s* “Step on no pets,” which was answered by Peter Hilton’s “Sex at noon taxes,” and ended, after many rounds of increasingly heated one-upmanship with “what many consider the best palindrome ever.” No, not the Panama one, amateurs. This one:

Doc, note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.

The palindrome first came to light when it was the winner of a 1967 magazine contest. The person who submitted it admitted that he had not composed it himself, but had heard it from someone else who had also not composed it. Saltveit has now traced it back to Peter Hilton, the young mathematician who in the film pleads to use information from their partial decryption to save his brother on a naval convoy that is about to be attacked. (That did not happen in real life. Hilton did not have a brother on a naval convoy.)

It makes sense that those with a talent for uncovering meaning from patterns in strings of symbols would have a knack for creating palindromes. After all, a palindrome is just a meaningful string of symbols constrained by a specific type of pattern. In particular, Hilton’s talent for visualizing two streams of information at once came in handy. He composed the champion palindrome in his head, without writing anything down, over the course of five hours, while lying in bed with his eyes closed.

Read more about Saltveit’s research on the codebreakers’ palindrome contest at Vocabulary.com.

*Corrected: The article originally had Alfred North Whitehead, who was J.H.C.'s uncle.

Two of the music world's realest Gs joined forces on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday night: Warren and Kenny G took the stage for a funk-drenched, yet smooth, performance of the latter's 1994 classic "Regulate." Kenny G dutifully recreated the song's slinking synth line on his trusty soprano saxophone, but also provided melodic...

If you're disappointed that current emoji characters don't reflect your skin tone, don't worry: Apple is getting ready to accommodate you. Both the latest betas of iOS 8.3 and OS X 10.10.3 include modifiers that let you choose the skin color of some ...

On August 16, 2014, pop singer Christina Aguilera claims to have given birth to daughter Summer Rain. On February 11, 2015, People magazine released the first photos of the infant. Does something seem WRONG here? Of course it does. The "baby" isn't real.

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Actor Gary Busey hit a pedestrian while he was backing out of a parking lot in Malibu, authorities said.