TMZ reported today that Jamie Lynn is considering taking legal action after rumors hit that she received liposuction while pregnant. Well, Lipodissolve is more likely, since Star mag published claims from a source saying “Her mom approved the injections and went through tons of red tape to get the clinic to administer them to an underage patient.”

Now TMZ reports that “Sources tell TMZ Jamie Lynn Spears is swelling up with anger over one gossip mag’s claims she had lipo while pregnant — so much so that she may take legal action.”

Many have claimed that it’s impossible Jamie Lynn had gotten lipo or Lipodissolve while pregnant because health care facilities administer mandatory pregnancy tests and screen one’s blood. However, if mother Lynne Spears had cut through said tape, she might have been able to skip through the tests to boot.

I doubt that Jamie will actually go through with suing anyone, either because the rumors are true and she’s just going through the motions to save face, or she’s too lazy to bother. We shall see!

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Lego has gone all edgy, and politically ironic expanding the range of villians in the Lego collection to include al-Qaeda terrorists. Sadly purchasing an al-Qaeda figure doesn’t automaticlly give you the 72 virgins play set but it does come with a rocket launcher, assault rifle, grenades, and hatred of America.

The new range also includes the ability to buy a Nazi major complete with SS insignia and storm trooper which has two grenade launchers. We think if you buy the nazi, you should get a surrendering french soldier for free.

Naturally, there are reports of outrage

Mohammed Shaffiq, of Muslim organisation The Ramadhan Foundation, branded the toy “absolutely disgusting”. He said: “It is glorifying terrorism — the makers should be ashamed.

“We should be coming together to unite against terrorism, but how is that possible when children are playing with toys like this?”

The £9.50 or $14.07 US two-inch figures are customised from Lego toys by makers BrickArms, who hope for a Christmas hit. Nothing says Merry Christmas to your 6 year old like terrorist lego!

Lego issued a statement saying it is not associated with the toys which are being sold by BrickArms. Apparently the toys have been customised without its Lego’s knowledge or permission. Whatever, its very cool.

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The program, called Trojan.PWS,ChromeInject.A, looks like a regular Firefox plug-in once it gets into your system. In fact, it’ll show up in the browser as part of Greasemonkey, the fully legit and quite handy customization tool.

This bad boy, though, won’t do you any good. Researchers at BitDefender found the malware will automatically run every time you start Firefox, then use JavaScript to identify any of about 100 different banking and financial sites you might surf to. Bank of America, Wachovia, and even PayPal are said to be included. Once it sees you on one of those sites, it’ll snag your login info and password, then send it all to a server in Russia.

Most people are being bitten by the ChromeInject bug by either downloading a program they think is legit, or by the phenomenon known as “drive-by download,” in which an e-mail or Web site installs the program without the user’s knowledge.

Antivirus programs will likely add protection against the bug before long — BitDefender says it already has — but in the meantime, the smartest thing to do is to keep up your own safeguard. Mozilla’s official add-on site has no instances of the bug, researchers say. Mozilla has been extra vigilant in its add-on scanning since some questionable code was found in a Vietnamese language pack on its site back in May.

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The Consumerist, which was put on the auction block as part of Gawker’s overall cuts last month, is currently in “preliminary negotiations,” site editor Ben Popken told NetworkWorld.

NetworkWorld first noticed a tweet from Popken stating: “The deal closes in…” Upon further inquiry, he reports the following dialogue with Popken:

NWW: “Just saw your tweet. By ‘the deal’ do you mean ‘The Deal?’ Have you been sold? Are you close to being sold? Hope you find a nice home.”

BP: “Yep, The Deal. Preliminary negotiations, but things look good. The prospect is a good name everyone will be happy with.”

The Consumerist is averaging just under 300,000 page views a day, according to Sitemeter.

Gawker-owned Valleywag also got slashed in the same set of consolidations. It, however, is hanging onto its name and becoming a single column within Gawker.com.

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The ChaCha Deal

The extent of the AT&T-ChaCha agreement isn’t quite clear. AT&T says it will now have a “co-branded greeting” and other AT&T promotions when users phone into ChaCha’s 1-800-2-CHACHA voice service. It also says the two will “work together to further enhance ChaCha’s free mobile-answers service and explore opportunities in both text and voice ad-based services.”

ChaCha, as you may know, offers free human-powered answers on anything via a voice call or text message — the latter of which I would guess is the more popular option. It’s a novel service and could come in handy. I gave it the ol’ smartass test a while back and found its operators to have pretty good senses of humor at times, too.

AT&T Layoffs

Unfortunately for AT&T, the ChaCha announcement is largely being overshadowed by new word of wide-reaching layoffs. The company said Thursday it will cut 12,000 jobs — about 4 percent of its total workforce — in an effort to “streamline” operations and deal with financial woes and business changes.

The cuts will start this month and last through 2009. AT&T hasn’t mentioned any specifics as to who’s getting the ax but does say it plans to add jobs in some areas at the time. Its wireless, video, and broadband divisions are expected to expand. Still, AT&T is projecting a 12 percent drop in spending in 2009, compared to 2008.

AT&T’s shares have fallen by almost a third over the course of this year.

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There are rumors that Kim Kardashian was asked by United Nations officials at the Empowerment of Africa dinner in New York if she would be interested in becoming a UN ambassador for South Africa.

I know if I was South African, I would be asking the UN if there was anyone else. Come on. Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Bossip is reporting:

Word is the UN is looking for more influential “pop culture” celebs to inspire younger generations to become more involved in international affairs.

The source also told Bossip that Kim K. has officially teamed with Russell Simmon’s Diamond Empowerment Fund, but her specific role and duties have yet to be confirmed.

Ok. The UN are looking for desperate famewhores. Heidi Montag you must be next.

UPDATE

Apprently the UN Does have some dignity. Kim Kardashian denied the rumors she was asked to be a UN ambassador in a blog post.

I was not asked to be an ambassador for the U.N. (as some reports have suggested today) but it would be an honor and I definitely plan on helping out the U.N. in the future. I am also excited for the work that Russell and I have planed in our fight for Africa!

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The Japanese Government is trying to outlaw the sale of Japanese used school girl panties. They are so popular that they are sold in vending machines, individually wrapped with a picture of the school girl who allegedly wore them. Wrong on so many levels.

The Japanese government is banning the sale or purchase of used schoolgirl panties because they are such a problem this includes the vending machine sales. No longer will you be able to get a can of Coke, a packet of chips, and someone’s used undies at the local train station. What’s the etiquette on buying these anyway, are you allowed to open your packet at the station or do you need to wait till you get home, does it cost extra if they are extra smelly, what about crusty? Are they scratch and sniff? SO many burning questions.

A commercial has been made to convince men that buying used school girl panties is not a great idea, because they probably haven’t been worn by school girls at all. Yeah that is definitely the problem.

Is there a term that is more extreme than WTF, because this story needs it. Check out the commercial.

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Just short of two weeks after first offering widescreen video, YouTube has rolled out widescreen embeddable videos, with a new standard search feature.

The new embeds deliver a 16:9 ratio for widescreen vidoes, allowing sites to show a full widescreen video without black above or below the video. Notably each embed now includes a YouTube search box; either a handy feature or annoying depending on your perspective.

The new embeds are not retrospective, so existing embeds retain the 4:3 aspect ratio.

I noted on Twitter 2 weeks ago how that I was disapponted that YouTube didn’t role out widescreen embeds with the general widescreen rollout; most video producers or uploaders like having the option of widescreen, but having it on site and not via embed seemed a little unfair. Guess the tail was slow in wagging.

Here’s an example of a widescreen YouTube embed from our Livestation iPhone post:

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I’m a big fan of P2P live television service Livestation, and unlike many other sites we’ve covered them heavily. The service offers live television from a range of major providers, including BBC, Al Jazerra, France 24 and others. More recently, they added support for internet streams as a well, so it now offers CNN and others all from the same handy interface. I watched all the US Presidential debates from Livestation, and its my first port of call for anything I need live TV news coverage on.

We also have a nice Livestation story: Livestation picked up streaming of the Large Haldron Collider after I mentioned in a post that it would be great if they could, so they also listen, and continue to deliver.

The next stage in the development of Livestation is an iPhone client, which given they’ve only had a Mac client for less than a year is remarkable progress. The iPhone client will be officially demonstrated on Livestation live December 4 at 5pm GMT, or 9am PST. Unfortunately that’s 4am my time so I won’t be tuning in, but if you want to see the future of mobile TV, it’s a recommending viewing experience.

Here’s the preview video:

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There’s a new 2 minute preview out for the next season of Lost.

The new release isn’t a trailer, but show spoiler of sorts. If you don’t want to know too much, just don’t watch it.

Lost returns to ABC January 2009.

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