'When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza line...'

A Florida pizza parlor has set the Guinness World Record for longest line of pizzas. Delicioso!

Scott Van Duzer and employees of Big Apple Pizza and Pasta created a chain of pizza on Saturday that reached just over 722 feet. A judge believes it broke a previous Guinness World Record of just over 611 feet that was set in Italy in 2006.

The record-breaking event was also for a good cause: The parlor raised money for a St. Lucie County firefighter and his family who had their home destroyed by fire earlier in the week.

I still question where people come up with this stuff? Longest line of pizza? Like, what? But I love how Florida steals this record away from Italy. That's just messed up.

Teams of people turned out for the pizza line, which I'm sure had nothing to do with the fact that it was free pizza all around once the length had been tallied.

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The 'perfect' gift

The Giants may have stunned the world by beating the Patriots in this year's Super Bowl, but the children of Nicaragua don't care, because we all win when one team loses.

Hundreds of shirts and caps proclaiming the victory of the New England Patriots were shipped off to poor Nicaraguan children in the southern city of Diriamba.

"The children are the winners," said Miriam Diaz, of World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization.

So essentially, what would have made a perfect season is making the perfect gift, ehh?

Thanks, Kat Fox!

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Benazir Bhutto killed in Pakistan

I know I tend to steer clear of weighty and worldly political stories, not because they're unimportant, but because there are enough blogs out there hashing and rehashing conservative or liberal ideologies. I'm pulling the blatant truth card here: The chances of someone caring what I have to say about politics are right on par with a snowball's in hell.

That being said, I can't go without mentioning what happened in Pakistan today, because it is undoubtedly one of the biggest news stories of the year.

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, died today of gunshot wounds following a rally. An attacker ran toward her vehicle, fired shots into her neck and shoulder and detonated an explosive device that also killed 22 other people.

Officials have reported that the attack may be attributed to al Qaeda.

A member of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Bhutto became the first woman to lead a modern Muslim country in 1988. She was an advocate of democracy in Pakistan and earned her fair share of militant enemies [click here for a comprehensive timeline of Bhutto's life].

After gaining power and being removed twice for clashing with military, Bhutto was charged for corruption and banned from politics. She went into self-exile, and after President Pervez Musharraf signed an amnesty quashing any corruption charges against her, the former prime minister returned to Pakistan in October.

Unfortunately, she was immediately met with an attempt on her life at a rally in Karachi in which 50 of her security guards who had formed a human chain around her truck were killed in what was later determined to be a suicide bomb attack.

Bhutto was well aware of the danger to her life but was committed to fighting Islamic militants.

"We can take care of this, I can take care of this, you can take care of this." --Benazir Bhutto.

From CNN/Time.com: Pakistan is the only Islamic state with a nuclear arsenal. And Washington has private concerns about the security of those weapons. Those worries will intensify in the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination. Peter Galbraith, of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation says one thing is certain: It is "not a good idea to have 70 nuclear weapons in the hands of a country that is falling apart."

World AIDS Day

Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day. This year's theme is leadership.

According to estimates, there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2007 some 2.5 million people became newly infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35.

To learn more, visit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website.

Black Friday, Schmack Friday

Totally against shopping on Black Friday? Consider today Buy Nothing Day.

Who wants to break stuff!?

Today, Nov. 8, 2007, is Guinness World Records Day.

This year, you can receive GWR goodies, be featured on the website and of course, be included in the book next year if your record is kick-ass enough. All you need to do is go to their website and register to break a world record.
I'm sure if you're creative enough, you can come up with something so ridiculous no one has ever even thought to attempt it, like most rattlesnakes sat in a tub with (Jackie Bibby and Rosie Reynolds-McCasland, each with 75 Western Diamondback rattlesnakes), or most books typed backward (Michele Santelia of Campobasso, Italy, typed backwards 58 books (3,204,764 words) in their original languages including The Odyssey, Macbeth, The Vulgate Bible and the Guinness World Records Book 2002).

As you can probably imagine, this site is a lot of fun to play around on.

Also, a Virginia man is being honored today as the tallest man in the U.S.A. at 7-foot-8, two inches taller than Yao Ming, but not tall enough to beat the 8-foot-5.5 man in the Ukraine.