Human Tetris

A game for the mind (?)

Curtis Blows?

The showdown became the UK's biggest chart battle since Oasis versus Blur after 50 Cent, 32, suggested in an interview that he would scrap his solo career if he lost the race for the top spot.

Both albums were released on the same day and the rapper - real name Curtis Jackson - vowed in an interview. Fiddy announced, "If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on September 11, I'll no longer write music. I'll write music and work with my other artists. But I won't put out any more solo albums."

Figures due to be released later on Sunday are expected to show that West also sold more than 50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, in the United States.

West went straight in at number one in the album chart with his latest offering, Graduation. Chicago rapper West, 30, outsold his New York rival's latest release, "Curtis", which got the number two spot, the Official UK Charts Company said on Sunday.

Happy Birthday Tomoji Tanabe!

The world's oldest man celebrated his 112th birthday Tuesday with a healthy Japanese breakfast of rice, miso soup and seaweed, saying he wanted to live forever.

Tomoji Tanabe, who has been the world's oldest man since January this year, lives with his son and family in Japan's southern prefecture of Miyazaki. He keeps a diary and reads the newspaper every day.

"I want to live indefinitely. I don't want to die," he said as he marked his birthday, Kyodo News reported.

Tanabe, a teetotaller who has repeatedly said that avoiding alcohol is a secret of his longevity, was given a certificate from the Guinness Book of World Records by the mayor of his local municipality in June.

I Can't Decide If This Is Funny...(i think it is).

A University of Florida student was Tasered and arrested after trying to ask U.S. Senator John Kerry about the 2004 election and other subjects during a campus forum.

Stubby

Relatives of Charles Keith Teer, 47, claim he died after the armless man head-butted and kicked Teer during a fight.

Teer's relatives told police the men were arguing over a woman (pictured here).

Teer's sister said the armless man attacked her brother.

"They got into a big confrontation, a verbal confrontation and a fist fight and he came after my brother, he came with full force, and head butted him as hard as he could," said Lynn Elliot.

She said Teer collapsed and died a short time after the fight. The two men lived across the street from each other on Pine Street in the Atlanta suburb.

Police questioned the armless neighbor, and will decide by Tuesday afternoon if any charges will be filed.

The Only Bright Spot

Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, and Jon Stewart at the Emmy's

Go On...Take The Monkey And Run

A 20-year-old man and 18-year-old woman are accused of stealing a tiny baby marmoset from the Zoo of Acadiana.

Broussard Police Chief Brannon Decou said the 6-month-old monkey had been missing for four days when an anonymous caller told Broussard police that the monkey had been taken.

Police found the monkey at the home of Zachary Chase Guidroz and arrested him and Emily Elizabeth Trosclair.

Decou said neither said why they took the tiny animal, which was still nursing and weighs less than an egg.

They were booked and charged with theft. The monkey has been reunited with its mother.

Where's The Bathroom?

That's the question camera-toting tourists in Minneapolis are asking as they visit the men's room where U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, was arrested in a sex sting.

"It's become a tourist attraction," said Karen Evans, information specialist at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. "People are taking pictures."

Craig's arrest came to light Aug. 27, and Evans said the airport has since been giving directions to the men's room near a central food court and shopping area.

"It's by the Lottery shop, right next to the shoeshine shop," said newsstand worker Abdalla Said, adding he gets the question daily.

"People have been going inside, taking pictures of the stall, taking pictures outside the bathroom door — man, it's been crazy," he said.

On their way to Guatemala, Jon and Sally Westby of Minneapolis made a visit to the new tourist attraction. "I checked it out," Jon said. "It's the second stall from the right."

Crack For Dorks

A 30-year-old man fainted at a cyber cafe in the city of Guangzhou Saturday afternoon after he had been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported.

Paramedics tried to revive him but failed and he was declared dead at the cafe, it said. The paper said that he may have died from exhaustion brought on by too many hours on the Internet.

The report did not say what the man, whose name was not given, was playing.

The report said that about 100 other Web surfers "left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man's death."

China has 140 million Internet users, second only to the U.S. It is one of the world's biggest markets for online games, with tens of millions of players, many of whom hunker down for hours in front of PCs in public Internet cafes.

Super Troopers

Robeline La.’s only convenience store decided to do something nice for its police officers: give them a free fountain drink or coffee at closing time. But somewhere along the way, investigators say, it got out of control.

"Over a period of time, it evolved into regular drinks and more," Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's investigator Travis Trammell said. "There's no telling how it got to this point, but the store started experiencing losses and they watch their videotapes and see all of this going on."

Surveillance tapes showed each officer going into the Shop-A-Lott at Lott Oil around closing time and filling plastic bags with dozens of bottled soft drinks, Trammell said. The officers also are reportedly seen eating an assortment of other snacks without paying.

Police Chief Gordon O'Con confirmed that the officers remain on active duty, but said he was advised not to commment about their arrests.