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14:28 UK time, Wednesday, 28 September 2011
While readers on many sites, including the Telegraph, are catching up on the farmer who asked singer Rihanna to leave her farm after she got topless for a video shoot, Daily Mail readers are clicking on another cleavage controversy. It claims that a Canadian MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan's cleavage has been photoshopped out on her picture on the parliament's website. This was spotted by a blogger doing an image search who noticed the thumbnail of the picture was different.
Guardian readers are also drawn to a story of toplessness but this time with a side portion of vegan burger. The paper reports the world's first ever vegan strip club is to open in Oregon. "Treating women like meat and eating it often go together" the article goes. But it says using women's bodies to promote animal welfare has become more and more common place - culminating in The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) is launching its own .xxx website.
New Yorker readers prefer to click on Mindy Kaling's guide to romantic comedies. As a writer of the US version of The Office, all she really wants to do is write a romantic comedy feature film. But this doesn't mean she is impressed with the genre.
"I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world," she says. One of the rules is that female characters in films bare no resemblance to real life. Among the stereotypes that spring up with peculiar regularity are the beautiful klutz, an alarming amount of women who work in art galleries and the 42-year-old mother of the 30-year-old male lead.
The answer to the question, where is the best place to live in England and Wales, turns out to be a village called Winkleigh. A popular Channel 4 News article reports the research by savings provider Family Investments. The Devon Village came out on top because it has low crime figures, salaries are well above the national average (£37,566 compared to a national average of £24,170), it has a successful local primary school and cheap housing.
It goes by the name Cornficker and, according to NPR's most read article, it could bring down banking, telephones, security systems, air traffic control and even the Internet itself. So what is Cornficker? It's a computer worm which, the article says, can control your computer without your intentions and could be in as many as 12 million computers already. But beyond that, it's a mystery - no-one knows who controls it or why.
