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June 26, 2008
The Scanner: And now for something only slightly different

We've got more KG news, the first church of Tiger Woods, a Bruce Wayne sighting, rock, paper, scissors champs and bacon, bacon, bacon.

It's time for the Weekly Scanner.

Looks like KG's "Anything is Possible" has became its own meme, complete with video tributes and remixes. (Hat tip: Urlesque)

The Portland Buy Local crew is is looking for new T-shirt designs. We got plenty of artists in this town.

I've always thought car GPS units were handy, but this "Knight Rider" edition with the KITT voice has me completely sold. (Hat tip: Engadget)

Like I could pass up a list called "Great Moments in Michael McDonald."

Yes, one's belief that Tiger Woods is god was so strong that he created a church and religion based around the great one.

Best way to start the week? All-you-can-eat bacon Mondays. Take notice Portland. (Thanks to ac)

Continuing on with bacon: The guys at Bacon Salt are looking for bacon-loving interns. Oh the perks!

Good way to get caught stealing: Do the job while a live web cam is on. Brilliant, really.

Again, why did they not have things like this Lego Death Star set when I was a kid?

More "The Dark Knight" coverage - A "Gotham Cable News" piece on handsome and mysterious billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne. Having "billionaire playboy" always attached to your name can't be bad.

A Massachusetts man won $50,000 and is the national "Rock, Paper, Scissors" champion.

Remember kids, in videogames it's not aliens that kill you, but that celebratory drag from a Marlboro. (Hat tip:Kotaku)

Remember those spooky singing robot-animal things at Chuck. E. Cheese and Showbiz? Someone did a little tinkering and now they perform Usher's song "Love in this Club" Scary.

Also scary? How about the prospect of companies developing a "kill switch" that could shut consumer electronics or other devices on the manufacturers end.

Don't forget! Over at WMPG they're throwing a yard sale and BBQ to help raise money for the station! Stop by the station which is on Bedford street on the University of Southern Maine Portland campus.

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Justin is a former newspaper intern and has the scar tissue to prove it. Justin has been a staff writer for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram since 2003, and in 2004 began writing a weekly column in the Monday Magazine.

If he had to pick a label, the column would fall under "youth culture," covering everything from high school dance etiquette, dealing with college debt, the resurgence of Roller Derby and Portland's one-of-a-kind music scene. This of course has not stopped him from answering letters to Santa Claus or writing about his experience riding shotgun in a drift car.

Justin is an export from the Midwest. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri and is originally from Minnesota. He enjoys bacon, cheap beer, redheads, Burt Reynolds jokes and wondering what the soundtrack to his life would sound like.

When he grows up he wants to be an international art thief. Or Captain America.

Until then he'll be bringing you dispatches about "the young people" and what they do.






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