Today in #tips, J.Lo's ex plots with ashleymadison.com, a blackboard rabbit menaces a German teacher, fresh roadkill legislatin', Dakota Fanning tours NYU, in-law restraining orders and more.
djmbm points us to the unholy mating of d-list celebrity and the web: J.Lo's ex-husband, Ojani "Who?" Noa, is attempting to avoid bankruptcy with a proposed reality show entitled "I Owe J.Lo." Noa, who was ordered to pay Lopez $545,000 in 2007 after he tried to publish a tell-all about their relationship, could pair with website ashleymadison.com for the show. This innovation in internet entrepreneurship, for those who have somehow escaped it, is a dating site set up to facilitate extra-marital affairs. On "I Owe J.Lo," Noa would seek to perform a variety of menial jobs to pay J.Lo back. The target audience? People who find Jersey Shore a touch too highbrow for their tastes.
banannastand has the story of the naughty German schoolgirls who drew a rabbit on the blackboard with full knowledge that their teacher suffered from a crippling terror of fluffy bunnies (leporiphobia). The teacher "was removed from the class" and is now suing the instigating 14-year-old Kaninchen artist "for her terror and her loss of earnings."
momof3wildkids digs up the unintentionally hilarious story of a Connecticut family that has sought a restraining order against their son's future in-laws, seeking to bar them from the wedding. The in-laws had implied that the unemployed bridegroom was a "loser." The parents offer that their boy is fond of volunteering and far from loser status. "According to Bridgeport Hospital, it's been about two years since Brian Banacowski volunteered there, but his mother said he'd like to do it again in the near future."
rowaan writes in from their peachy home state: Georgia's legislature spent Thursday passing crucial roadkill legislation. Now, because of the bold representatives serving their country, it has been clarified that if you hit a deer or a bear in Georgia, you may keep it. Previously you had to turn the bear over for official Department of Natural Resources stuffing and mounting, but now you get to be creepy all on your own.
sweetpieceoffluff submits "The Gulf Restoration Network," a group that works towards creating a better environment for animals in the Gulf and could probably use some cash right around now. That is if you're not out back stuffing a freshly mowed-down bear.
tse-tse-fly shares a huge graduation party for students at the University of Technology of Baghdad, one of the biggest such celebrations since the invasion. Many students came in costume, including some dressed as Na'vi warriors from Avatar. We'd try to extrapolate something about young Iraqis costumed as the anti-Imperialist native Na'vi, but they probably just thought Zoe Saldana was blue-hot.
djmbm brings the news that Dakota Fanning makes us feel old: the former child star and current Twilight not-Edward vampire was seen getting a tour of free-spirited NYU school Gallatin. If Fanning goes the Olsen twin route into Gallatin, she could set a new star trend there if she finishes the degree.
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