OOF – Out of Food

Marion Gordon “Pat” Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), the Christian Coalition, Flying Hospital, International Family Entertainment Inc., Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation, and Regent University. He is the host of The 700 Club, a Christian TV program airing on channels throughout the United States and on CBN affiliates worldwide. Wiki

Desiree Jennings fully recovered from her ailment. Full scoop here.

Start practicing your celebrations early with the Adidas Jabulani Ball ($150), the official match ball of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Built with only eight thermally bonded 3-D panels, the ball sports impressive aero grooves and 11 different colors, representing the 11 players on a team, the 11 official languages of South Africa, and the 11 South African communities.

Facebook seems to have contributed to countless broken love affairs, divorces, and insane levels of jealousy. People pry into your friend lists and updates until they sometimes reach conclusions far beyond reality. How lovely, then, that a mere status update appears to have saved a Harlem man from jail.

According to The New York Times, Rodney Bradford decided to update his status with a call from the soul. “Where’s my pancakes?” is the Times’ translation of a status update it says was written in “indecipherable street slang.” The fact that Bradford did this at 11:49 a.m. on October 17, using his father’s computer, meant that he would not have to suffer pancakes of a more distasteful nature in the local penitentiary.

Bradford, you see, was arrested the next day for robbery. However, after he was booked, his lawyer was intelligent enough to update the district attorney with news of Bradford’s Facebooking.

According to the Jedi code, there is no emotion, there is peace; there is no ignorance, there is knowledge; and there is no death, there is the force. Oh, and if you’re shopping for some Wookiee Cookies at your local supermarket, there is no hood.

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Astronomers have found the coldest spot in our solar system and it may be a little close for comfort. It’s on our moon, right nearby. NASA’s new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is making the first complete temperature map of the moon. It found that at the moon’s south pole, it’s colder than far away Pluto. The area is inside craters that are permanently shadowed so they never see sun.

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Microsoft apologized Tuesday for using photo editing techniques to change the race of a person depicted on the company’s Web site.

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A recent college graduate is suing her alma mater for $72,000 — the full cost of her tuition and then some — because she cannot find a job. Trina Thompson has sued her alma mater, Monroe College of New York.

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The policies of the outgoing Governor of Alaska may have faltered in attracting the American voters in the recent presidential election, but the onetime Miss Alaska (second runner-up) still has the charisma to turn heads around.

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