As a gift to my wife for Christmas, maybe the gift I was most excited about getting her was a pair of replicas of "us". From the fun company, Mixeeme, I was able to walk thru their online setup to created a pair of figures that somewhat resemble us.  You go thru the steps of picking out your skin-color, hair, eyes, mouth, clothing and some other details (think avatar creation on Xbox live) and for $25 you end up with a little 3" version of your creation.  Extra neat is that you can upload your own images that can appear on the shirts, or use text for messages.  You can even create an image...


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A 21 year old Chicago area woman was the victim of an attack on a train by a man who hit her in the face and head with, as she describes, "…a sock full of his poop". The woman got on a train headed to Chicago when the assailant boarded the same car.  “The guy got on with me at (the) Oak Park (station),” the victim said, requesting anonymity. “I wasn’t really paying attention.” She says that she found her seat, got out her cell phone and began to send a text.  “Next stop (at Austin), he throws something in my face” she told the Pioneer Press. “He had a sock full of his poop...


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British puppy-dog Charlie is famous in his family for eating things he shouldn't.   "Back in March he ate one of my scarves and needed an operation to remove it, but I thought it was just a one-off incident as he hadn't shown any signs that he was going to be a repeat offender. I've had dogs all my life and have never known a dog act like this before" said his owner Sharon Fay. But last week Fey noticed something odd.  In Charlie's poop was little bits of wire sticking out.  Worried she took him to the vet and an X-ray reviled that Charlie had ingested a foot long strand of Christmas lights. And...


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Myron Rose may go down in history as 2012's worst dad of the year after he was arrested for breaking into his ex's home where he stole his own kid's Christmas presents. Amanda Miller came home late Friday afternoon and saw her ex-boyfriend running away from her mobile home with a giant bag over his shoulder.  When she got inside she realized there was electronics, jewelry and many of her kid's Christmas presents missing.  Rose is the father of two of her three kids. Rose apparently broke into the home from the underside and breaking a hole in the floor.  Miller called police and he was arrested...


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Jontae Dellano, 14, got in a fight at school and ended up getting whipped.  So he got his dad to help him find a little revenge by going to a bus stop to confront his nemesis, with a tube sock with padlocks in it. Jamal Shields, 30, drove Jontae to a bus stop to Palm River, Florida bus stop where he faced his 13 year old, now victim, and began to hit him with the "sock-n-lock".  Others at the scene called 911 and when the victim ran across the street to get away, Shields instructed his son to follow and go after him.  When the fight was over the father and son returned home and the victim...


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*updated*  at the bottom, watch the trailer, but with delToro's commentary - excellent insight Pacific Rim has been talked about for the last several months, but only in ways that amount to guessing and speculation.  Director, Guillermo del Toro's Summer 2013 will be a massive blockbuster on the grandest of scales. We know the plot line is that giant aliens invade earth, but they are more like the massive monsters from old Japanese monster flicks, and the human race creates an army of Jaegers (skyscraper sized, human controlled robots or mechs) to defeat them.  But in this trailer...


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Zack Synder very well may have been the perfect choice to direct the newest version/reboot of the Superman story.  Tasked several years ago with turning the greatest comic book/superhero graphic novel of all time into a movie, Snyder's "Watchmen" was a valiant attempt to do something with a terribly complex, dark tale. When we saw the first trailer for the upcoming "Man of Steel", it looked far more like an episode of "Deadliest Catch" than anything related to Superman, but the new trailer certainly corrects that course with a clear aim that points to some sort of origin story.  I have a hard...


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19 year old Johnathan Wise (right) was arrested for burglary late last month, but it isn't the pending criminal charges he probably most regrets.  That would be the beating he took at the hands of his "victim". Norm Houston (left) was home when he heard a noise coming from his garage and upon going outside to investigate he found Wise standing there.  Wise started the meeting by apologizing for any damage, but then attacked Houston. “The burglar started out by apologizing to him for getting into the garage and said he had fixed the damage only to follow that up by punching him in the face,”OKC...


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Greg Greaves was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly ambushed another man in a bar bathroom during an annual Chicago pub crawl. The unidentified man claims that he was stopping by one of the many bars participating in the Twelve Bars of Christmas pub crawl to use the bathroom.  When he walked in Greaves jumped from a stall with a broken beer bottle and began to stab the victim in the neck.  A bartender then entered the bathroom and found the scene with the victim with cuts on his neck, chin and hands. He was taken to a hospital and was in stable condition. Greaves on the other...


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41 year old Scott McFarland lead Austin police on a chase through north parts of the city in his jeep, while naked. Police responded to calls of a man sitting in a Jeep, naked, outside a hotel and when they arrived he sped off starting a high speed chase.  Reaching speeds of 80mph it was only when police used stop sticks did his vehicle come to a stop by rolling down a ditch.  Police reported that apprehending McFarland was tough because he was "slippery from the grease he was covered in". Turns out that McFarland wasn't only naked, and speeding… He was also high on meth.  He's in jail...


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