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Man's Best Friend: 10 Tales of Heroic Dogs

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Cat Goes To Dairy Queen By Himself for a Chocolate Sundae

Today's Funniest Photos 9-19-13

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The Very Best of the Breaking Bad Comics

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The 20 People You Need to Follow on Vine

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The Funniest GIFs of the Week - 9-19-13

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Finally You Can Text and Drive in Peace

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If you're like me, you're tired of having freedoms taken away - like the freedom to text and drive. But thanks to this innovative new product, you can now focus on your important texts while driving and not have to worry about any hassle. It's about time.

 

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Rosanna Arkle Is a Bathing Beauty

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Fantastical App Helps Busy Guys Manage Their Day-to-Day

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Time for another episode of "APPtitude," our video series that highlights the apps you really need in your life. This week, host Kirby Kristen demonstrates the features of Fantastical, a calendar app that helps you manage your day-to-day schedule. No more excuses for missing your mom's birthday or pissing off a sweet gal like Kirby.

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10 Politicians With Dark Secrets

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The 'Breaking Bad' Predictions Keep On Coming

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Wow, only two episodes of "Breaking Bad" left. And after last week's "Ozymandias," now being heralded as the greatest episode of TV ever, who really knows what is going to happen from here? We certainly don't, but that's not going to stop us from taking a stab at it anyway. Here are our mind-blowing predictions of the week. Let us know what you think.

Walt Is Now on the Road to Redemption - Gary Dudak
I spoke with my wife about what could possibly happen in the final two episodes, and six hours later, I think we came up with the perfect prediction (if not, it's her fault). In "Ozymandias," Walt reached his absolute rock bottom when Walt Jr. called the cops on him while protecting Skyler. You could see it in his face, and in his desperate, panicked reaction of kidnapping Holly. However, he made that right at the end of the episode by exonerating Skyler with his phone call and returning his daughter. So from here on out, it's all uphill for Walt (or as uphill as it can get for a guy who has lost almost everything). He is obviously going away for a while, and in that time he is going to develop a plan to return and destroy Todd and the Nazis, who are not done doing very bad things to people Walt loves. He needs to rectify all the walt sitting, walt ozymandiashorrible situations he has created, and this includes ruining Jesse's life. Although Walt was ready to watch Jesse die in "Ozymandias," I believe he does some soul-searching and decides he has to save Jesse from Todd along with retrieving his fortune for his family. Then, he still takes the ricin himself.

Walt Will Get His Family Back - Rob Fee
Nothing is going to compare to last week's episode, but it looks like Walt is going to disappear until the Nazis go after his family. He'll catch wind of it and it'll lead to the flash forward we saw at the beginning of season 5 when Walt was buying a car loaded with guns. He's going to get his family back, no matter what it takes.

Jesse Kills Todd and Escapes - Cory Dudak
Honestly, I have no clue where Walt's story goes from here, but would venture to guess that by the time he makes his way back to Albuquerque, vengeance is on his mind. But I don't think it has anything to do with saving Jesse like a lot of people seem to think. After the tragic events of "Ozymandias," Jesse is on his own. I believe this week's episode will shift focus onto that, with Jesse devising a plan to escape via meth lab explosion, killing Todd in the process and leaving Uncle Jack without a cook. Jack and crew will then go after Walt's family to flush him out, which is where this episode will wrap up, leaving only the epic showdown teased since the beginning of season 5 left for the finale, as well as Walt and Jesse's final confrontation.
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Walt Poisons Uncle Jack With the Ricin - Matt Branham
The timeline skips forward now after "Ozymandias" to future Walt with the machine gun. Todd has developed a system for creating much more pure meth by not killing Pinkman and using him as a slave. But after being held captive for several months, Jesse pulls a chili-p style Walter-esque move, killing Todd in the lab. However, he can't escape Uncle Jack and the Nazis, which is where Walt comes in. After laying low, he returns to destroy the meth empire that Lydia and Uncle Jack have built, taking out a gang of heavily armed men (but not Uncle Jack) who aren't expecting him and saving Jesse in the process. Meanwhile, we find out that the "Heisenberg" painted in Walt's old house was done by an upset Flynn who now hates his dad and has started doing meth with Louis. Skyler, Holly and Marie are together in a quiet living situation, but the return of Walt upsets Uncle Jack, and without Todd around to diffuse the situation again, he goes after them. The family assumes Walt hasn't changed, but he's there to assure them he's still a good guy that needs his family. He slips Uncle Jack the ricin and wins back his family and their affection. Except Marie ... she still wants to poison the f*cker.

Walt Survives But Everyone Else He Cares About Is Killed - Paul Ulane
This is kind of an end-of-series prediction, but I think it will start happening in this episode. I feel like Walt will continue to figure out ways to survive on his own but one-by-one, everyone he cares about will get knocked off in the process. By the middle of the last episode, Walt will be the last man standing in his face-off(s) with the Nazis, Jesse and anyone else around, but he will have no reason to live. The torture of knowingwalt, heisenberg painted on the wall he's the reason that everyone that mattered to him is gone will be far worse than actually being killed by one of his many enemies. Essentially, surviving turns out to be the worst possible outcome for Walt.

Jesse Kills Todd, Uncle Jack Kills Walt's Family, Walt Needs a Haircut - Cory Jones
Gary just told me that the name of the upcoming episode is "Granite State," which is New Hampshire's nickname. Which tells us that we should finally get to the flash-forward teased at the beginning of the second half of this season. Going off that info, I think we finally see Walt's house gets trashed after the Nazis find the tape Jesse made with Hank and kill Walt's family. Walt finds out that his family is dead and begins his revenge rampage. Meanwhile, Jesse will kill Todd during their cook-a-thon (using some chemistry trick he learned from Walt) leaving Jesse and Walt left for a fight-to-the-death showdown in the finale.

Walt Wins and Puts His Life in Jesse's Hands - Steve Zorio
It seems, at this point, that Walt has come to the conclusion that it is time for a day of reckoning. His own version was memorably swift and dramatic, and I think there are three potential paths available:

1) Walt is left to continue suffering and we watch his world unravel. Apart from exaggerated schadenfreude, why? What's left to lose? I can't imagine we've come this far just to punish Walt in "Passion of the Christ" fashion for two more episodes.

2) Walt decides to avail himself of the one-time disappearance pro and vanish. This doesn't fit - at least for the next episode - because it flies in the face of what we know about Walt at this point. "Sopranos" proved that we're not always going to get catharsis, but this still seems too vanilla.

3) The threat to his family and remorse over how things ended, plus that good old wounded Heisenberg pride pushes Walt to ensure that if his world crumbles, the whole thing collapses with him. I think this is the most plausible scenario: Walt decides to wipe out the gang and frees Jesse in the process. I think he both manages to secretly send some cash to his family and leaves it to Jesse whether he lives or dies.

Walt Kills Jesse, But This Prediction Is Wrong - Max Miller
I just read an interview with Jesse Plemons, aka Todd, aka the greatest character on the show, and he said, "The final episodes are just so good, and right when you think you've got a step on it, you're thrown another curve ball. I would be really, really impressed if someone figures it out." So my real prediction is that both mine and all of the above predictions are wrong. And so are all of yours. The "Breaking Bad" writers have been so smart about taking all the possibilities we could think of and then coming up with something even better. I think they've tossed around every idea on this list and more. But if I have to take a stab at it, I'd say Walt kills Jesse. He blames him for Hank's death and he wants him dead. He wouldn't do it himself originally, but when he goes after the Nazis and finds out Todd didn't kill him and has kept him alive to cook the meth that he created, he'll finally take it into his own hands. It will be something slow, painful and emotional - the complete opposite of how he wanted Jesse taken out.

 

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If the ESPN Sportscenter Ticker Was Honest

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Today's Funniest Photos 9-20-13

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This Week's 20 Funniest Tweets

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iOS 7: Discovery and the Hidden Treasures

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September 18 saw the bright, orgasmic future of the digital evolution with the unveiling of Apple's new mobile operating system, iOS 7. Despite the usual hiccups, it looks sweeter than the first girl who ever loved you ... and smarter than her, too. With so many features, it's easy to miss some of the best ones. That is where we come in.

Flat, Colorful Format

The first thing one will notice upon discovery of the great new flagship operating system is its colorful new layout. Adorned with flat yet floating icons and a pearly white page layout, the fit of Apple is less sleek and more soft, less sophisticated and more playful.

The blue bubbles surrounding its folders, the lightness its applications put off and the simplicity in its form give the new layout breath like fresh spring air after a sturdy month of rain. Although only Apple's icons have this freshness, whereas others still hold their sleek personality, it's probably a matter of time for the others to join their ship.
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Control Center

Probably the most innovative and most likely to-be-used feature is its Control Center, a once swipe-left simple idea has been expanded into another weightless screen with all the convenience right at once. With it, the need to go anywhere else for fundamental tasks has diminished almost completely, giving you the alarm, volume, sleep mode, brightness, Bluetooth, camera and a new but very useful flashlight option, among others, within one swipe of the thumb. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Camera

Forget for a moment that the latest Apple announcement has a number of inviting camera improvements on board, but so does the new - yet free of charge - operating system. The camera is now set to shoot any shape or shade your little photo-happy heart desires. The camera app itself offers video, photo, square (for those sexy Instagrams) and panoramic modes all conveniently placed options on the same simply designed screen, and it's as easy as swiping to move from one to the next. The filters tab in the lower right corner allows you to shoot with the filter on with eight to choose from. Now you can add a vintage filter to your already vintage digital photos, still without knowing how to use a camera. It's about goddamn time!

If you're rocking the new line of iPhones, then you have another slew of hip features including the true tone flash and bigger aperture coming your way, but you already knew that because you read all my articles. Right!?

Smooth Moves

If there is one word we can use to sum up the iOS 7 update, it would be "swipe-happy." With plenty of new and improved features, everything seems to just be a swipe away, which is unfortunate for the uncoordinated swipers of the world. Now closing down your apps is as easy as swiping up after double clicking to pull up open apps and heading back to the previous page is as quick as swiping left. A new name (Spotlight) for an old feature, using a search field to find anything on your phone, is now just a swipe down motion, and of course, swiping up from bottom pulls up Control Center. There is something for swipes of all directions, it seems.

iTunes Radio

One of the biggest features announced several months back was the impending arrival of Apple's new music service, iTunes Radio. The long awaited invention by the people who brought you iTunes is finally here, and it's giving the kiddies at Spotify and Pandora a run for their money. The streaming service, which works much like the Genius tab on the computer's iTunes, pulls music it thinks you'll dig from records you don't own. Ran by a team of actual human beings and offering the purchase option of individual songs while syncing to all your mobile devices, iTunes Radio puts Pandora to shame, and rightfully so, since they have made little advances in the past. In time, the service will likely run Spotify out of town, too.

Offered free to iTunes Match customers ad-free, the service is just another great perk, but you can also get it for free without the subscription, if you don't mind your slow head-banging being interrupted by a commercial. For less than a quarter what you pay for a yearly Spotify subscription, you'd be doing a disservice to yourself if you didn't get it, music fiend.
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Sexchanging Siri

We got a little taste of what Siri was up to when they announced iOS 7, but it turns out, Siri is a man! Well, at least she can be, if you want her to. Siri hasn't just been having sex changes though; she's been going to school apparently, because this is a much brighter, articulate Siri than the tramp we've yelled bloody murder at while calmly scooting across town in our Priuses.

Not only does Siri have a lovely singing voice, but the search and pronunciation is top notch, not to mention more Twitter savvy. Hell, Siri might even remember your birthday this year, if your lack of family phone calls on your special day has you down. If Siri couldn't pronounce your name right before, there's an option to say "you didn't pronounce that right," and you can teach Siri how to speak correctly. Looks like Siri might be your new best/only friend.

Auto Updates

We've all grown sick of our champagne problem, the constant updating of applications. Constantly putting in your password to upgrade apps you don't use just to avoid seeing that haunting, big red bubble reminder is like slave labor that should be outlawed, thus the Auto Update option brought to you by iOS 7. If you heard about the feature and wonder why it isn't happening for you, here's a little hint: You have to turn it on.

Under the "iTunes & App Store" tab in your Settings application, you can scroll down to "Automatic Downloads" section and turn on your App Store updates with a quick swipe to the right. Goodbye, illegal child labor.

Number Blocks

With plenty of noteworthy features like bigger app folders, text timestamps and private browsing for your filthy, X-rated little eyes, there's one feature we all dreamt nightly about while gripping the life out of our phones as a constant stream of unwanted group texts come in: Number blocking. After years of receiving messages from people we don't know, don't care about or would prefer just didn't walk the Earth, we finally have the option to remove them from our iPhones, and thus, our lives. You can block calls, texts and just about any communication from those pesky coworkers, bitter ex-girlfriends and Tinder stalkers all with one slip of the finger. Found in your Settings application under the Phone, Messages and FaceTime tabs, it's everything you could have dreamed of in a mobile operating system. Doesn't that make life worth living again?

Safari

In addition to better organization with your photos across timelines and locations, the iOS 7 update also brought a smart revamp to Safari, but it's one of the trickiest updates of the new operating system. With the new Smart Search feature added to the address book in the same bar at the top, Apple just surpassed Google Chrome. Furthermore, the new facelift stacks Safari tabs all in one screen so you can get to them more quickly than swiping several times, and there's no longer a limit to the number of tabs you can have. So go nuts!

A couple other small, but worthwhile, features include Private Browsing, a playboy's wet dream for discrete searching, which is now built into Safari more conveniently, along with the Do Not Track option, which keeps ad-savvy crooks from keeping tabs on your search history.

FaceTime Audio

If you're sick of wasting your precious phone minutes on friends, preferring to save those for solicitors and the hour-long waits with the cable company, you can audio FaceTime without the annoying task of holding the phone up for a half hour. Just like iMessage paved the way for you to send 5,000 texts when you have a plan for 500, now you can do the same with phone calls using your FaceTime. Ah, loopholes. From now on, if you get a phone bill that says you've gone over your limit, you're officially a putz.

AirDrop

Only a feature to iPhone 5 models and other newer tablets, AirDrop is a convenient but not perfected file-sharing service that allows you to share from device to device within close proximity. It's worth a mention, but it's not the biggest mind-blower, as it basically saves little time and energy by keeping users from having to message or email links, videos, photos and files to one another. If you've got a iPhone 5 or newer, there you have it. If not, the sun will rise again tomorrow, you poor sons of bitches. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Alyssa Arce is an Ace of a Playmate

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Danni Wells is One of the UK's Hottest Glamour Models Ever

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Play 'Red Race Challenge' Facebook Game for Chance to Win Cologne

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We have teamed up with Ralph Lauren Fragrances to bring you a fun contest where all you have to do is play a video game for a chance to win. The game is called "Red Race Challenge," a fast-paced digital driving competition bared race challenge gamesed on the short film "Polo Red" directed by Bruce Weber and starring Nacho Figueras. Take the "Red Race Challenge" by clicking here.

As you can see, the game features a leaderboard allowing players to share their ranking against friends on social media. If that's not enough for you, we are also giving away a bottle of Polo Red cologne from Ralph Lauren to the person who submits the highest score to us via Twitter. All you have to do is follow us on Twitter (if you aren't already), play "Red Race Challenge," take a screen shot of your highest score and tweet it at us. At the end of the month, we'll send a brand new bottle of Polo Red to our follower who submitted the highest score. What are you waiting for? Get racing!


ralph lauren polo redPOLO RED is the ultimate in design, power and distinction, taking inspiration from Ralph Lauren's Car Collection, one of the world's most prestigious collections of exquisite cars. The woody, spicy fragrance combines powerful notes of fresh grapefruit, spicy red saffron and deep red wood to create an adrenaline rush of key ingredients. Price: $76 (125ml), available on RalphLauren.com and at select retailers.

 

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