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A controversial new YouTube trend; New Zealand gets rocked by a 6.3 earthquake; Bieber cuts his magical locks; people are still mad about the Grammys; and why so many of us skip the sunscreen.

I love a good action movie and I’ve even grown to tolerate, if not entirely appreciate, the art of the fight scene. Like many people, I’ll take movie violence over the real deal any day of the week because in real-life physical violence is ugly, and terrifying to witness.

Most of us take passive enjoyment in our big screen crushes. We daydream but we never take action. Two U.S. marines used YouTube to make their secret celebrity date dreams come true (via Gawker).

‘I don’t have time for a relationship. I need to focus on my career.’ It’s a phrase many women have uttered after a painful breakup, a foul first date, or simply when asked by the 115th time by her mother, grandmother and married friends why she’s still on her own.

A great househusband, much like a reliable wireless connection, may be a modern necessity for workingwomen the world round.