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CNN reports that hundreds of Facebook pages have been hijacked by a group of protestors.

The insurgents aren’t fighting for world peace, or an equal distribution of wealth, or even better ice cream flavors at Baskin Robbins -

They’re fighting for more Facebook privacy.

Called Control Your Info, the group aims to spread awareness about how vulnerable your passwords, friend networks, etc. are to being “taken over” by other, more vicious Facebook members.

Um, okay.

A new Hello Kitty Mimobot was just released.

It’s got Hello Kitty holding a balloon on the bottom, and a giant pink bear on the top.

It kind of makes no sense.

Unless…

1.  The bear is also the balloon (a bear shaped balloon?)

2.  The bear has eaten Hello Kitty and here she is in his stomach.

3.  Hello Kitty, and possibly the bear, are both on LSD.

 You can buy it for $30 at Fred Flare.

And then maybe solve the mystery.

We just got a fun press release proclaiming the return of Mario Brothers.

Although Mario Cart, Doctor Mario, and various original editions of MB are still alive and well, Nintendo’s come up with another version that - they claim - is even better.

According to the Nintendo robots, the new Mario is “a simultaneous multiplayer Super Mario Bros. game. Players can navigate the side-scrolling worlds alone as before or invite up to three others to join them at the same time on the same level at any point in the game for competitive and cooperative multiplayer fun.”

Cooperative?!   Who wants Nintendo to be cooperative?

Last time I checked, the best part of Mario Brothers, Mario Cart, or any Mario game was shutting your little brother out of the game with deft and ruthless turtle-killing skills.

The new game comes out on November 14.  Fight the power, and make sure when you play, you clobber your competition!

Artist Mark Khaisman knows what to do with all the packing tape left over from your last move -

He’s been taking extra rolls and turning them into paintings.

But it gets weirder -

His sticky tape art is directed specifically at Hitchcock movies, including Spellbound, at left.

Need to see more?

Do it on CNN, where they’ve got a full gallery of his latest exhibit.

Andy Warhol once said, “They say that time changes things, but really I think you have to change them yourself.”

So I wonder what he’d think about these Andy Warhol watches, on sale today at Trilogy.

Each comes with a later Warhol graphic, plus something a little wonky -

A hot pink face, a square shape, etc.

They’re cute but also kind of inaccurate.

After all, in Warhol World, shouldn’t the only clock that actually exists be a timer that counts down every fifteen minutes?

Bing! You’re famous.

Bing! You’re not.

Well… guess Perez already has that job covered…

On Sunday, you’ll probably want to stay in bed all day with DVDs, a Hulu play list, and two giant bottles of water.

The only problem is, when you’re tired and possibly still drunk, the possibilities for spillage are endless.

And you don’t want to wreck your new Calvin Klein bedspread, do you?

Thankfully, designer Peter White has your back.  He made these crazy trays in yellow, red, and white to successfully stand-in for a tabletop when all you want is some Chinese takeout and the last episode of Flash Forward.

Check out Peter’s design, and his other projects, at bywhite.com

And make sure to follow all our Halloween party adventures on Twitter! 

According to the infallible news source Twitter, today is National Oatmeal Day.

Lina likes steel cut oats, Tylan says Starbucks oatmeal is “perfect,” Kelly prefers the oatmeal at Jamba Juice, and Jay refuses to eat it because “it looks like little dead space aliens.”

My thoughts exactly.

Actually, no, I like dried oatmeal as part of granola.

But why do we need a National Oatmeal Day?  Anybody?

CNN has an article today on “Fame Motive.”

According to some psychologists, it’s a neurological condition that takes our human need for connection and misreads it, in brain synapses, as a need for attention instead.

Psychologist Orville Brim says “The desire for attention may date back to the days of early humans, who lived in small groups. Those who were not approved by a group that protected all of its members would genetically disappear and die off.”

If that sounds more severe than sitting alone in a cafeteria, take heed - it’s only a theory.

And we’d argue that someone like Paris Hilton, left, uses fame much more as an economic success strategy - and a means of snidely acute cultural satire - than some sort of deep emotional gap.

But if you’re experiencing the following symptoms:

*Doing videos in the shower and posting them on Facebook

*Photoshopping US Weekly spreads to make it look like you’re the one with Leighton, not Blake

*Hiding in an attic while setting a balloon loose in your neighborhood

It may be time to get help.

Who knew some cartoon bunnies could be so ubiquitous?

Just weeks after we spotted Le Petit Lapin at Forever 21, they’ve moved into TopShop with a new series of bunny holiday cards!

Sold for charity, the cards - featuring tiny Peter Cottontail and friends in head-to-toe TopShop outfits - retail for about $8 a pack and can be found in the TopShop store and online. 

You can also (still) score Petit Lapin stuff at Le Sportsac.

Is this a new meaning for the term “multiplying like rabbits”?