Songs and lyrics by Men at Work: A federal workplace safety watchdog issued citations to the Broadway musical production of “Spider-Man,” fining it for stage injuries, including one in which the web-swinging superhero fell 30 feet when his safety harness was left unclipped.
In the interest of safety, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has also ordered script changes that will substitute Spidey for “Ergo-Man,” who gently flings safety violation reports, encourages workers to sit at their desks with proper posture and battles the evil Dr. Carpal Tunnel and his henchmen, Slip and Fall.
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Curse of the Fail Whale: Courtney Love, who is locked in a battle for “Most Train Wrecks” with Charlie Sheen, has agreed to pay a fashion designer $430,000 to settle a lawsuit over defamatory Twitter posts that Love made that accused the designer of theft, only one of several examples of celebrities plagued by their own tweets.
Tell us again why they call them smartphones.
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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1960, Cuban newspaper photographer Alberto Korda took the now famous photo of guerrilla leader Che Guevara in Havana, forever expanding the selection of posters and T-shirts for young college men trying to make it with “that cute girl in the Sociology Department.”
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