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iPhone App To ‘Cure’ Homosexuality

On its own website, Exodus celebrates the release of the app in a short, two-sentence blurb that appears at the top of the main homepage.

One of those sentences is reserved for flaunting the fact that the app received a 4+ rating from Apple, a designation the company uses for applications like Angry Birds and Java Scoop, an app for determining how many scoops of coffee you need to make a mild cup of Joe. A 4+ rating means that, at some point in an approval process used in the past to weed out fart applications and an app that used an icon too similar to an iPhone, it was decided that Exodus International’s program contained “no objectionable material.”

World Record O’ the Day: Heaviest Person to Complete a Marathon

Kelly Gneiting, a 400-pound sumo wrestler, set a Guinness World Record as the heaviest man to complete a marathon, after finishing on Sunday in 9 hours 48 minutes 52 seconds.

Gneiting weighed 396.2 pounds after the marathon, smashing the past world record of 275 pounds and beating his 2008 marathon time of 11:52:11.”I’d like to see the Kenyan improve his marathon time by two hours,” he joked.

Gneiting jogged the first eight miles and walked the final 18, saying afterward that he lost track of where he was after mile 10 because he felt delirious.

$350 for a Stick of Gum? (It’s 100 Years Old)

Hey, hold your ew! Unchewed 100-year-old gum is not gross the way the vintage “ABC” gum found on Seattle’s Gum Wall or San Luis Obispo’s Bubblegum Alley is. Here’s the full story, found in the unassuming “Pocket Guide to Coin-op Vending Machines,” by John Carini. The author is quoting coin-op machine collector, Paul Hindin.

Around the world in 2000 pictures

Around the world in 2000 pictures. Directed by Alex Profit. After ‘Le tour du monde en 80 secondes’, his second project takes us though Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, St. Petersbourg, Shanghai, Tokyo, New york and London. Done in only 24 days.

The plastic found in a single turtle’s stomach

This collection of hundreds of coloured, jagged shards could be a work of abstract art. But the objects in the photograph to the right are the contents of the stomach of a sea turtle that lost its battle with plastic pollution.

Environmentalists examined the stomach of the juvenile turtle found off the coast of Argentina. The bellyful of debris that they found is symptomatic of the increasing threat to the sea turtles from a human addiction to plastic.