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Actor Doug Hutchinson, 51, marries 16-year-old girl in Las Vegas

Actor Doug Hutchison, best known for roles on "Lost" and "The Green Mile," married last month to his aspiring country singer bride Courtney Alexis Stodden in Vegas last month. clearpxl

Seems like happy news, right? Well, that depends on how you feel about the fact that he's 51 and she's 16.

Stodden was in the running for Miss Teen Washington USA just last year and has featured some of her music on YouTube and MySpace, including a music video titled "Don't Put It On Me" which looks like a bad Elle Woods impersonation.

But most importantly, she also has her mother Krista Stodden's legal consent, who says that Hutchison is a "wonderful man." He's also only four years younger than Courtney's dad.

"They are very much in love and we are so supportive of this," Krista Stodden told Radar Online.

"We're aware that our vast age difference is extremely controversial," the couple said in a statement. "But we're very much in love and want to get the message out there that true love can be ageless."

Weird Al Yankovic spoofs Lady Gaga

Weird Al Yankovic released his new music video ‘Perform this Way’ today. The song parodies Lady Gaga’s ‘Born this Way.’

Originally there was a disagreement between Yankovic and Lady Gaga’s management about whether the song would be allowed to be parodied. After seeing the lyrics of the song however he finally allowed for it. Lady Gaga was reportedly upset that the manager had denied Yankovic permission to parody the song without first asking her. She apparently loves the song.

In the video Yankovic’s head is superimposed to a female body that undergoes numerous wardrobe changes. Some of them include a bee suit, cheese suit, an outfit with her intestines wrapped around her shoulders and then set aflame and much more.

Is it just me or does Weird Al Yankovic bear a striking resemblance to Lindsay Lohan in the pics to the right? I think he could be her double. (He’s a better actor too!)

Check out the video below:

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Woman says she’s too ‘educated’ to be kicked off New York train

A woman traveling on New York's Metro North train line was recorded by a fellow passenger telling train employees that she is too "well-educated" to be told to quiet down and not use profanity in her cell-phone conversation.

"Do you know what schools I've been to? How well-educated I am?" she asks the train employee, who is seen explaining to another employee that she asked the passenger to stop using the "F-bomb."

"I'm sorry do you think I'm a little hoodlum?" she asks, then demands her money back and dares the conductor to stop the train.

The person who originally uploaded the video to Youtube (who has since removed it) said in the description that the woman "was talking too loud on the train when the conductor politely asked her to keep it down and stop using profanity or to take it to the vestibule." After the altercation, the conductor came on the loudspeaker and reminded people to keep conversations quiet, "especially those people who went to Harvard or Yale or are from Westport."

Last month, a woman was escorted from a quiet car in an Amtrak train by police after she chatted loudly on her cell phone for most of the 16-hour journey, and then became angry when passengers asked her to stop.

The identity of Vancouver’s famous kissing couple is revealed

So how were Jones and Thomas ultimately identified as the unlikely "make love, not war" couple of Vancouver's embarrassing night of injury and destruction?

It probably won't surprise you to learn that Facebook was involved.

Though Scott's sister Hannah first identified her brother to an Australian news network, things really started taking off when Brett Jones, Scott's father, posted the following update on his Facebook profile on Friday morning from the family's home in Perth, Australia.

(Note the funny response from Scott's brother, Ryan.)

Brett Jones now says the couple is being besieged by media requests from outlets around the world. All, of course, are interested in knowing the circumstances that found the couple smooching as cars were burned and windows were smashed around them.

But despite some of our initial assumptions, the kiss seen 'round the world wasn't the product of a riot-fueled, uncontrollable passion. Brett Jones instead notes that Thomas was injured and his son was coming to her aid. An alternate angle taken from above shows other bystanders later attempting to help Thomas and Jones.

Combine that different angle with Brett Jones' story and it certainly dispels the rumors that the couple had intentionally staged the photo.

"They were between the riot police and the rioters, and the riot police were actually charging forward, and Alex got knocked by a [police] shield and fell to the ground," Brett Jones told CBC News. "[Scott] was comforting her and gave her a kiss to say, 'It's going to be OK,' and the photographer just took the shot at that moment."

Jones' mother Marie said she immediately knew it was her son in the picture because "he doesn't have a lot of clothes with him and he always puts on the same thing."

So where do they go from here? The good news is that Jones escaped the incident unhurt and Thomas only suffered a bruised leg. The bad news is that Jones is scheduled to leave Canada soon and head home for Australia after a trip to California. The Jones family says that Thomas plans to visit California with their son but that the couple's future after that is uncertain.

UPDATE: Jones and Thomas spoke with the Toronto Star:

Thomas said this morning that everything happened so fast that there was just massive confusion all around. "I was trying to understand what was going on. The photo was definitely not something we expected to happen," said Thomas.
The couple is leaving in three days on a trip to California, before Scott heads back to Australia. Thomas said the response from her friends and family has been overwhelming.
"When I saw that picture I couldn't believe it and then I looked at it more and realize it's quite artistic and really something beautiful."

Google AdSense new Policy Update

AdSense abuse is, like it or not, a part of the game. Google does do quite a bit to counteract that abuse, including monitoring of the AdSense network, giving the ban hammer to any obvious offenders, and follow-ups with anyone whose made a minor error. Additionally, Google has updated their AdSense policy to prevent certain abuses that may or may not have been intentionally.

Those abuses were happening due to the AdSense content being “iframed” into a site. An iframe is a way to construct your code so, rather than having content present on the current page, it creates a virtual window to another online location. Iframing is typically used to import embedded features – such as website elements, reports, or a database front-end – into a different branding environment. With AdSense, however, iframes were serving a different purpose.

Google acknowledges that there are some legitimate uses of iframes for AdSense, but the majority of what was happening was redundant, faulty, and redundant. And I’m not just being ironically redundant there – the code actually has two forms of redundancy. The first problem is that the iframe isn’t necessary. It was once helpful for making the site load more quickly, but changes to the AdSense code earlier this year rendered this tactic unnecessary. Second, much of the AdSense code displayed iniframes is improperly truncated, leading to partially obscured – and sometimes miss-clicked – content. And third, the iframe tactic was sometimes being used maliciously to create ad exposure redundancy by showing the content on locations outside of the approved site – sometimes without the approval of the webmaster who was displaying the ads.

Google has stated that they will approve any uses of iframes for a legitimate purpose on a case-by-case basis.

Crystal Harris and Hef Call Off (Supposed) Wedding

Hugh Hefner, 85, and his betrothed bunny, Crystal Harris, 25, were supposed to get hitched at the Playboy mansion this Saturday, but they confirmed their surprise split with separate statements Tuesday.

Harris' camp then quickly dismissed reports that she is carrying on a secret affair with Jordan McGraw, the songwriting son of TV's Dr. Phil McGraw.

She and McGraw reportedly were spotted together at the Chateau Marmont on March, 14, with McGraw kissing her shoulder and trying to hold her hand, Life & Style magazine said.

"That is absolutely not true," Harris' manager Michael Blakey said when asked if she was dating McGraw. "It's a complete fabrication."

Blakey said Harris moved out of the Playboy mansion Monday.

"It was an amicable split up, and they will remain good friends," Blakey told the Daily News.

"After much deep reflection and thought, I have decided to end my engagement with Hef," Harris said in a statement on her website. "I have the utmost respect for Hef and wish him the best going forward."

Her cold feet came after the couple mailed custom Swarovski crystal-encrusted invitations to more than 300 guests.

"The wedding is off. Crystal has had a change of heart," the founder of the skin mag empire wrote Tuesday on Twitter.

The multimillionaire mogul and Harris got engaged in December and shared all the details of their planning with fans.

Harris was supposed to wear a pink Romona Keveza gown for the backyard nuptials, and Hefner asked for his favorite strawberry cake, People.com reported.

The May-December couple had been dating for more than a year, overlapping with Hefner's relationship with the Shannon twins.

The twice-married Hefner proposed Christmas Eve, putting the 6-carat engagement ring in a Disney-themed box that played music from Harris' favorite movie, "The Little Mermaid."

Hefner shared his joy on Twitter.

"When I gave Crystal the ring, she burst into tears, this is the happiest Christmas weekend in memory," he wrote.

Harris was Playmate of the Month in December 2009 and released her "Club Queen" dance single Tuesday.

Blakey said it was "more coincidence than anything else" that the breakup coincided with the song's debut.

Before news of the breakup, Harris directed her Twitter followers to a FunnyorDie.com video skit spoofing her difficulty in dealing with Hefner's cultural references from "olden times."

GoDaddy Home Web site goes down

It appears the domain and hosting super giant GoDaddy.com--perhaps best known for its trademark racy Super Bowl commercials and spokesperson, Nascar driver Danica Patrick--is having server troubles today.

Users have reported on Twitter and elsewhere their troubles accessing GoDaddy.com, which many customers use as a primary access point for hosting and domain accounts. Tweets about troubles accessing the site first began showing up around 3 p.m. Pacific. The company's Twitter stream is currently a long list of replies to frustrated customers:

Currently, as of around 5 p.m. PT, GoDaddy.com redirects to the mobile version of the site. Just after 5 p.m., the company began tweeting this response to customers:

"...We're working on it. Thanks for your patience. We're directing to godaddymobile.com for now. You can manage most things there."