The sippacino

Barry Dennen, Barbra Streisand’s ex-boyfriend who discovered her in 1959 and convinced her to become a singer, is auctioning off three tapes he made of her earliest performances, with bids starting at $1 million. These tapes are so old, one of the songs Barbra sings is “The Way We Are.”

Billy Ray Cyrus said in an interview he supports his daughter Miley’s stripper pole dance at the Teen Choice Awards. Miley appreciates her dad’s support, although she wish he wouldn’t have done it while holding a fistful of dollar bills.

Starbucks is raising the prices on some of its more complex drinks, like the frappucino. Customers on a budget can still get a little of their favorite by ordering the new really small serving, the sippacino.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued guidelines to colleges to prepare for a possible fall swine flu epidemic. Right now, most college students plan to deal with it by doing Nyquil shots every time someone on CNN says “swine flu.”

The owner of a South Carolina bar says the sign on the door that reads “No colors” is not racist but a ban on customers wearing gang clothing. He had no explanation for why the pool tables all had 8-balls but the sign above them said “No blacks.”

A man in Australia says he waited six months to cash in a winning $2 million lottery ticket because he wasn’t ready to become a millionaire. No, wait. That’s the reason Sarah Palin gave for staying in office after the election.

A 95-year-old Pennsylvania man listed by Guinness World Records as the world's longest-serving bartender is retiring after 77 years on the job. He’s so old, he’s the only bartender left who knows how to mix a Sex on the Rumble Seat.

Police in Massachusetts arrested a woman who attacked a store clerk with a Slim Jim snack and a bottle of apple juice. Because she used the Slim Jim, the woman will be charged with da-meat-stick violence.

According to the National Climatic Data Center, the average ocean water temperature worldwide was 62.6 degrees in July, making it the hottest the world's oceans have been in almost 130 years of record-keeping. The waters are so hot, the Gulf of Mexico is only one degree away from being reclassified as gumbo.

Current Biology reports that scientists using global positioning software found that people trying to walk in straight line usually end up walking in circles. And people who try to walk in circles usually end up becoming NASCAR drivers.