Tag: EXPIRE-IMAGES2009-9-10

Oops, she did it again Apparently having her Sidekick hacked and its contents released online in 2004 once wasn't enough for publicity-hound Paris Hilton. When it happened the second time in 2005, it wasn't just private e-mails and photos (some very private) that made there way all over the Web...many of her famous friends' private contact info was released too. LESSON #14: If you're ...

Obama/Clinton '08!...or not In late August, the Los Angeles Times had prepared several alternate headlines for Obama's VP picks -- and somehow accidentally uploaded the Hillary Clinton version to the paper's Web site in the middle of the night. A hasty retraction was a little too late to keep egg off the Times's face over this mistaken announcement of the much-discussed Dream Team. No word ...

Everybody does not wear sunscreen Writer Kurt Vonnegut had a lifelong wariness of both technology and flawed human nature. That mistrust was validated when a commencement delivered by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, (which was itself reworked from a Chicago Tribune column) was "mistakenly" attributed to Vonnegut. A slightly Vonnegut-ified version of the speech flew across the Internet in ...

Kramer said wha'? As lovable goofball Kramer on 'Seinfeld,' Michael Richards played an oaf who wouldn't hurt a fly. But as one video-enabled-cell-phone-wielding-guest at the Comedy Club in Los Angeles learned last year, Richards himself had some anger issues-to say the least. The nonsensical, disjointed racist rant was captured and sold to gossip site TMZ, which made a point out of making ...