don't call it a comeback

Some residents of Greenport, New York – including its mayor – are protesting immigration raids which have netted long time residents with steady employment. Immigration authorities maintain they are searching for gang members.

Ladies and gentlemen: the world's fastest clapper. No, really. As in, "fourteen claps per second."

Spin interviews Lil Wayne on his preternatural productivity: "I hate strip clubs, so that's not what I'm going to do... I don't see nothing more exciting than doing a new song."

Jenni Rivera, "La Diva de la Banda," apologized to disappointed fans from a hospital bed after an emergency appendectomy forced her to cancel a concert in Michoacán, México.

Alicia Keys has swapped places with Chris Brown to take the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100. Last week, Keys released her third studio album, As I Am.

Hundreds of thousands of would-be voters will be unable to vote in next year's election due to a backlog in citizenship applications at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency. An increase in the application fee prompted an additional one million applications this summer. Some Hispanic leaders have expressed concern that the delay is motivated by politics: Latinos tend to vote Democrat.

MySpace, which allows users to disable HTML in comments, has prompted millions to get into ASCII art – pictures made out of keyboard characters. Meet the late Paul Smith. Homeslice was making paintings of trains, planes and celebrities with a typewriter. In the 1940s. And he had cerebral palsy. (via BoingBoing)