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A court official said, "Ron has to clear outstanding traffic warrants" before a name change can take effect.

That's from an LA Times report stating that Lakers forward Ron Artest is not legally allowed to change his name to Metta World Peace just yet. After all, perhaps Artest was changing his name not because he wants world peace, but because he was finding a sneaky way to avoid paying his parking tickets. That's totally a Ron Artest move. -DM [Deadspin]

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If Your Mom Isn't Embarrassing You On Facebook Yet, She Will Be. A new study from the Pew Center (is there anything they DON'T study?) found social network use among baby boomers has increased 60% in the past year alone. I expect a corresponding 60% decrease from people aged 20-35, who will delete their Facebook account the second their mom posts a "we're concerned about your size because we LOVE you" message on their wall. -DM [Nikki Schwab]

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Your Hurricapocalypse Sextuple Feature. A hurricane is coming. You're going to be trapped inside. You're going to need something to do. You're going to need movies to watch until the power goes out and you're forced to huddle in the basement and eat all the canned herring. Why not try these soothing features? • "White Squall"

• "Hard Rain"

• "Black Rain"

• "Purple Rain"

• "Wind"

• "Me, Myself, & Irene" -DM

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You know what else a hurricane could be good for? Hurricane make-outs. Here's how to find your hurricane boyfriend.

The Village Voice has five simple ways for you find someone to hook up with during Hurricapocalypse 2011. But they left out the best way of all: HOARDING. If you hoard all the candles and water and beef broth and flashlights, then people will be forced to hook up with you just to survive. LOVE PROFITEERING IS TOTALLY ETHICAL. -DM [Jen Doll]

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“Yes, we will be doing the movie and hopefully with Mr. Murray,” he says, “That is our hope. We have an excellent script. What we have to remember is that ‘Ghostbusters’ is bigger than any one component, although Billy was absolutely the lead and contributive to it in a massive way, as was the director and Harold [Ramis], myself and Sigourney [Weaver]. The concept is much larger than any individual role and the promise of ‘Ghostbusters 3′ is that we get to hand the equipment and the franchise down to new blood.”

That's Dan Aykroyd, again telling everyone that "Ghostbusters 3" is going to start shooting, like, right away in a thinly-veiled attempt to get Bill Murray to finally agree to join the project. And all this dillydallying by Aykroyd just proves that Murray really IS bigger than "Ghostbusters." Like, way bigger. -DM [Collider]

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Additions Needed To The Hurricane Irene Playlist. Our colleagues at NBC New York came up with this playlist of songs for your weekend facing Hurricane Irene, but there are many glaring omissions, particularly when it comes to tracks by the Scorpions.

• "Rock You Like A Hurricane," Scorpions

• "Over the Edge," Hurricane

• "The Storm," Doves

• "Hurricane J," The Hold Steady

• "Purple Rain," Prince

• "After The Rain," Nelson

• "Here Comes the Rain Again," Eurythmics (NOTE: I actually hate this song)

-DM

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It's A Teaser For The "Hunger Games" Teaser! Here is four microseconds of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss in "The Hunger Games", the full teaser of which will be shown Sunday night on MTV. Yes, that's right, it's a teaser of a teaser. Someone took the "hunger" in the title quite literally. It's like an amuse bouche of Katnissness. -DM [Vulture]

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Our Idiot Brother wants to be an of-the-moment indie comedy version of a family drama, but it doesn't have the courage of conviction to make any one of its main characters anything other than a walking cliche. These are cardboard cutouts of quirk that I'd refer to as sitcom ... if I were being as lazy as the filmmakers.

That's Will Leitch panning yet another disappointing offering from Hollywood this coming weekend. He even calls star Paul Rudd a "throw pillow," which I think Rudd might actually consider something of a compliment, given his cheery demeanor. Perhaps Rudd's amiable complacency is beginning to bleed a bit too much into his work. -DM [The Projector, Grantland]

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Men And Women In New York Have But One Thing In Common. What you see above is a list of the most commonly used words by men and women on the dating site OKCupid. And as you can see, there is only one thing that the two sexes have in common: an unyielding love for Tine Fey and Alec Baldwin trading bon mots. If this really does end up being the last season of "30 Rock," New Yorkers may never fall in love again.  Also, the men are totally lying about Dylan. They just want you to think they love him. -DM [Jen Doll]

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New Annoying Web Meme Claims to Overtake Other Annoying Web Meme. Tired of planking?  Say hello to stocking!  Yes, that's right.  The folks at Stocking Is The New Planking show photos of people recreating various stock photography poses, and the results show you just how awful, and how unnatural, most stock photographs are.  Has anyone EVER grasped a mug while sleeping?  No, they have not.

-DM

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Know this much about Ryan Gosling: Man loves candy. He speaks of it the way rich men discuss wine; he picks it from the shelves like he's working piano keys. He knows where it lives on the racks — low or high, above what display, betwixt whatever chocolates squat there. (Gosling has no use for chocolate.)

That's from Esquire magazine's new profile of the gifted actor Ryan Gosling, and while I admire a man who appreciates the quality of a good bag of Haribo (it is the BEST), I must call into question the maturity of a young man who limits his palate strictly to non-chocolate items. -DM [Esquire]

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She's not as approachable as the others. She's really serious about what she does. Everyone else is so nice.

That's one-time Bobby Draper Jared Gilmore, who said the above in reference to his former colleague on "Mad Men," the oft-maligned January Jones. And I'll be curious to see how much of Miss Serious we get from Season 5 of the show, with Don marrying someone new and Betty becoming more and more insufferable. I put the over/under on her screen time for the whole season at about twenty minutes. -DM [Vulture]

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I think we can safely assume that one of them will be the new all-digital Yoda in Episode I.

That's from the folks at Digital Bits who report that George Lucas is again tinkering with the Star Wars movies, this time in advance of their Blu Ray debut. And he can change "The Phantom Manace" all he likes because it was terrible. But if he tosses a digital Jar Jar into "Empire," then we'll have words. -DM [SlashFilm]

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Know What Will Take Your Mind Off That Pesky Earthquake? MUPPETS. Here's OK Go with a reworked theme song to "The Muppet Show," and this is officially the second greatest video ever made with Muppets behind Weezer's "Keep Fishin'". I'm still shaking from the Great Quake Of '011, so I'll take all the mirth I can get. -DM [Uproxx]

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Holy Earthquake. I was downstairs and I heard a rumbling upstairs and I was all ready to yell at my kids for stomping on my floor when my wife, who was up there with them, was like, "What was that?", which caused me to realize EARTHQUAKE, and then stuff really began to shake. You West Coasters may be inured to this sort of thing, but I'd prefer it if that never ever happens again. (Reported from Maryland).  -DM

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A-Rod Gambling Again OMG! In the midst of being investigated by Major League Baseball for participating in illegal underground poker games, Alex Rodriguez was reportedly seen at the whale tables at Mohegan Sun. And leave it to A-Rod to be unable to resist being part of a trend that otherwise died out five years ago. I can't wait to see his new Friendster page. -DM [Ben Kabak]