Humble Bundle Raises Money for 5 Charities

Electronic Arts and the Humble Bundle crew have partnered up to let gamers buy six EA games for whatever price they want. Paying more than the average purchase price (currently $4.73) unlocks two bonus titles. In a special twist, 100% of the proceeds go to charity - no money is going to EA or to Humble Bundle Inc. All eight games are redeemable via EA's online service Origin. Steam keys are also included for all the games besides DeadSpace 3 and Battlefield3. The normal...

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Bacon burger meal at CNE weight 7,500 calories

The Notorious P.I.G. Combo features three-way oink in the “CanuckBurger” — two ground-bacon patties, a slice of peameal, crispybacon strips, cheddar — an order of bacon-cheese fries and a peanutbutter and bacon milkshake to wash it all down, of course. For dessert: last year’s carnival hit, the bacon-wrapped, deep fried Mars Bar. At about 7,500 calories — so its creator estimates — this “meal” not only flies in the face of a 2,000 calorie a...

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Gia Allemand Dead at 29: She dies in Suicide by hanging

Reality TV beauty Gia Allemand, who grew up in Queens, N.Y., and experienced televised heartbreak on “The Bachelor,” died Wednesday — two days after her boyfriend found her hanging in her New Orleans home. The 29-year-old former Maxim model was removed from a life-support machine at a hospital after doctors determined she suffered a “critical loss of brain and organ function,” her family said in a statement. “Ms.Allemand passed away peacefully...

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Why 'Duck Dynasty' rules reality TV

A proposal for a TV show about a Louisiana family that makes duck calls didn't have to go far to find doubters. They were seated at the dinner table. "I said, 'This will never work. Nobody's going to watch that,'" remembers Jase Robertson, who works for the family business. "My dad (Phil) echoed that. I think he said something along the lines of 'A redneck family, they're not going to run that.' " Well, they did run it, and people watched....

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Kendrick Lamar blash rap peers

Big Sean's seven-minute Control track didn't make his upcoming Hall of Fame album because of sample-clearance issues, but that's not why its release on the Internet ignited a brushfire of controversy. The track, produced by NO I.D., features verses by Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica. It's Lamar's chest-thumping spiel that has fans and peers reacting with shock, outrage and, mostly, cheers. Lamar, who hails from...

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Pamela Wallin's troubling expense

The independent audit of Senator Pamela Wallin's expenses has been referred to the RCMP by a Senate committee that is also imposing restrictions on her travel and asking her to repay more of her expenses. The internal economy committee met Tuesday morning on Parliament Hill and agreed to a set of recommendations in response to the Deloitte audit it received Monday. The audit assessed more than $500,000 worth of Wallin's travel claims and determined...

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Payday 2 Review

The plan was to play it by the books: mask up, get in, get out. Grab sixbags of cash, more if we’re feeling confident. We’d go in through the back, it’s easy to lock pick that door. I’d take point, ’cause I can talk patrolling guards down; no shooting required… but we’ll put silencers on our pistols anyway, just in case. Ideally, though, nobody will see us go in. That was we hoped would happen, anyway. Who could have guessed we’d...

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