The New York Daily News has identified the mystery mer-man who saved 37-year-old Brian Jordan from drowning in the waters off Coney Island last week.

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The Herndon Climb, Or A Banned Abercrombie Catalogue?

The U.S. Naval Academy is considering an overhaul of one of its most unusual traditions, The Herndon Climb. The annual decades-old ritual wherein half naked plebes attempt to get to the top of a 21-foot granite obelisk greased with 200 pounds of lard, is likely to undergo some serious changes because of so-called “danger” to the first-year midshipmen.

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John Tyler Hammons’ Day Off

A 19-year-old freshman at the University of Oklahoma was elected mayor of Muskogee this past Tuesday. John Tyler Hammons won with 70 percent of the vote over former Mayor Hershel Ray McBride.

“The public placing their trust in me is the greatest, humbling and most awesome experience I’ve ever had in my life,” said Hammons, who is from Muskogee but attends the university in Norman.

Hammons, who will be sworn in next week, said he plans to continue his college education but expects to transfer to a school closer to Muskogee.

Source: CNN

Is That A Thumb In Your Pants Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

The imaginative image above was created for Sony to promote it’s popular Playstation 3 game console in Austria. The ad, created by Sony’s European ad agency, TBWA\Wien, features a nude male model with a thumb where his penis should be, giving a whole new meaning to the word “joystick”. Hot? Yes, in a carnival freak show kind of way. Click on the image for the NSFW version.

Source: adsoftheworld.com

The trailer for Woody Allen’s upcoming film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” is out.

The film features several steamy love scenes, including a threesome between it’s stars, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, as well as a lesbian scene between Johansson and Cruz. “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” opens September 5th, 2008.

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CBS News has a story on Winter, the world’s first bionic sea creature.

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Eva Mendes has landed on the cover of what is considered to be the fashion bible, Vogue.

Famed photographer Steven Meisel asked the 34-year-old Cuban-American actress to pose for Italian Vogue after they worked together on Calvin Klein’s upcoming perfume and underwear ads earlier this year.

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Don’t Mess With Uma

Jack Jordan, a University of Chicago graduate and former mental patient who developed an obsession with actress Uma Thurman, was convicted of stalking and aggravated harassment Tuesday morning.

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Cutler and Gross‘ new campaign features model Danny Schwarz of Premier Model Management, in a series of ads inspired by the 1967 Dustin Hoffman film “The Graduate“.

“The Graduate” won an Academy Award for director Mike Nichols and tells the tale of Benjamin Braddock, a college graduate trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, an older woman who just happens to be the wife of his father’s business partner. Things get complicated when Benjamin finds himself falling in love with Mrs. Robinson’s teenage daughter, Elaine.

The film costars Oscar nominees Katharine Ross as Elaine and Anne Bancroft in the role Mrs. Robinson, one of film world’s most memorable characters.

Photos: Cutler & Gross

Director Breck Eisner (”Sahara”) talked with ShockTillYouDrop about Universal’s long in development remake of “Creature from the Black Lagoon”.

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Variety reports that Nicole Kidman will play British pop superstar Dusty Springfield in a biopic currently being written by “The Hours” novelist Michael Cunningham.

Kidman will also produce the film through her Blossom Films banner which is in a race against Universal Picture’s own Dusty Springfield project, in which Kristen Chenoweth (”The West Wing”) is attached to star.

Husky-voiced Springfield, became a huge star in the 1960s before battles with drugs, alcohol, mental illness and her own lesbianism took their toll. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995 and died in 1999.

Source: Variety