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"Gimme dat money!"

​I admit there's almost no Broward/Palm Beach connection to the super PAC run by Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, but I'm going to be waist-deep in South Florida's disclosure forms for a while, so hopefully this will tide you over.More >>

Colin Au: No B.S. from this guy.

​The CEO of Genting Group, which bought the Miami Herald's property on Biscayne Bay earlier this year and dreams of turning it into a mega-casino, wasn't exactly subtle when he said the project would result in a net gain of jobs for the state -- especially in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

At the first hearing about the casinos, somebody asked CEO Colin Au about claims that building a casino would cost the state jobs instead of generating them. (Here in Broward, pari-mutuel owners and the Seminole tribe also worry about losing gamers across the county line.)

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Anatomically correct placement of the Camo Coozie

​Aren't you tired of not getting off while holding your beer in a regular foam beer koozie?

Problem solved: A pair of brothers have created the Camo Coozie, which combines the traditional beer koozie with a miniature vibrator.

Ryan Sputh, who created the Camo Coozie alongside his brother Carl, says it all got started on the island of Saint Martin.

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Mad, Mad Libs

​Remember that Gov. Rick Scott -- a man who doesn't even read newspapers -- wanted people to mass-mail prewritten letters of his endorsement to local newspapers?

The "Dear Editor, When Rick Scott ran for Governor he promised..." blah blah blah one?

Well, Florida Watch Action has a different idea -- send a Rick Scott-style Mad Libs you can make yourself.

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Ryan Lipner

​Ryan Lipner -- the charismatic, bipolar 27-year-old who ran a Hallmark store at age 10 and once took girls out in a Hummer limousine with a wad of hundred-dollar bills in his fist -- is suing his parents in an attempt to force them to pay child support for him for the rest of their lives.

Lipner has a knack for creating news about himself. We covered his doomed reign as "the Hallmark Kid" in a 2001 feature by Wyatt Olson and heard from him most recently in January after he dubbed himself a "presidential candidate."

His parents have been largely out of the picture since their 1992 divorce and the failure of the Hallmark businesses Lipner ran with his father, Larry.

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Setting the stage. In the background, a 40-foot mural-covered container, which will become a recording studio.

​It was nine o'clock on a Thursday night in Fort Lauderdale, where the railroad tracks cross Sistrunk Boulevard and warehouses sit dark and empty, surrounded by chain-link fences, at the north end of FAT Village. But one of the warehouses was filled with light, garage doors open to passing freight trains, with a food cart cooking up tacos by the tracks. Plaid-shirted hipsters chatted up suit-wearing government workers. This was the first night of Ignite FTL at the Collide Factory.

Creative types in Fort Lauderdale like to talk about the problem of "silos" -- the idea that, while there's a small world of like-minded artists, entrepreneurs and thinkers in this town, many of them are isolated from each other, standing alone instead of intermingling.

The partners in charge of the Collide Factory intend to change that. 
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James Randi, the grandfather of modern skepticism and founder of the Fort Lauderdale-based James Randi Educational Foundation, has for decades offered a $1 million prize to anyone who can successfully demonstrate any paranormal ability in a laboratory setting. Now he's extending the offer to manufacturers of homeopathic medications while at the same time encouraging skeptics around the world to demonstrate the inefficacy of these treatments by "overdosing" on them.
 

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