Apple goes viral for all the wrong reasons

Apple got the bends last week when its new iPhone 6-Plus was discovered to be bendable – unintentionally bendable, that is. Owners quickly learned that the phone's aluminum case bends when exposed to external pressure.

As if that wasn't enough, Apple's IOS 8 update wreaked havoc with owners' cell service and Touch ID.

Not unexpectedly, web wits commented with #bendgate graphic images that used Apple's misfortune to tout their own products, like this one from Samsung:

And this one from Lenovo:

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Watch this video of the iPhone 6Plus bend test.

Other humorous graphics included this one from Coca Cola:

To view other humorous #bendgate jabs, click here and here.

Holy heights!

Watch as workers implement a state-of-the-art lightning rod system and restore Rio de Janiero's 120-feet tall Christ the Redeemer statue after a lightning discharge damaged a portion of the monument:

According to Sacred Destinations, Christ the Redeemer sits atop the 2,000-foot high Corcovado peak in Rio de Janiero. In 2007, it was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

According to one engineer, the crown on the head is a lightning rod, but didn't reach all the way to the middle finger.

Construction of the huge Christian landmark began in 1922. The statue of Christ the Redeemer or Cristo Redentor was designed by a Brazilian engineer and sculpted from concrete and soapstone. After nine years and a cost of $250,000, the statue opened to the public on October 12, 1931.

The worldwide symbol of peace is the second largest statue of Christ in the world. Here are five more amazing facts about the statue.

All your ISIS questions answered

All the questions you need answered about Obama's War in three minutes by "Late Night's" Seth Meyers!

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How common is your birthday?

This chart has the answer!

Are you in the top one percent?

A map produced by Business Insider using 2012 Minnesota Population Center IPUMS data, shows how much a household must earn in a year to be in the top one percent of any state’s income distribution.

The discrepancy among states can be significant. For example, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arkansas and Alabama households can make less than $300,000 and be in the top one percent.

But if you're in New York or New Jersey, your household would have to earn more than half a million dollars to be in the top one percent. Connecticut households require even more: $642,000.

The median annual U.S. household income in 2012, according to Census Bureau data, was just above $51,000.

Scoreboard!

Want to know what inspired this video?

Meet Apollos Hester, a high school football player who plays for the East View High School Patriots in Georgetown, Texas. After his team’s astounding 42-41 comeback win against Vandegrift High School, a local sports reporter interviewed the teen.

How good was the interview? The reporter's Twitter feed called it “the interview of the year.”

Watch the original interview below:

Gold Star Mothers Day

By an Act of Congress and presidential proclamation, Sunday, Sept. 28, the last Sunday in September, was designated Gold Star Mothers Day.

Soldiers, the official U.S. Army magazine, features "Grief That Never Dies," a series of short vignettes of Gold Star Mothers' shared experiences upon hearing that their loved ones will not be coming home again.

To all the Gold Star Moms across America, my heartfelt thank you for everything you and your loved ones have done. We will never forget.

More expressions of gratitude at Twitter.

Lost in Space?

Do you remember when Carl Sagan hosted his popular 1980 TV series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" on PBS? Since his death in 1996, an updated version of the series titled "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" is now aired on Fox Network, NatGeo and Netflix, and is hosted by astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

I began watching the Tyson hosted series on Netflix a few weeks ago and found myself disagreeing with several assertions Tyson made about the universe, evolution and Creationism. Evidently I wasn't the only one questioning his "scientific" conclusions.

Coincidentally, I have since read several articles that are critical of Tyson for his views, the latest eruption happening on Twitter, where Tyson was called out for allegedly using erroneous quotes to smear former President George W. Bush.

Earlier this month, Twitchy reported in "Neil deGrasse Tyson — serial fabulist? Now, with ‘quotes’ mocking the celebrated physicist" that The Federalist had done some fact-checking on "the more spectacular statements from celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and the result isn’t pretty."

Twitchy then followed up a few days later: "Neil deGrasse Tyson finally admits he was wrong. Kind of…; Update: Response from The Federalist".

And more recently: Neil DeGrasse Tyson will apologize to George W. Bush as soon as he finds "a good medium."

Twitchy reported that Neil deGrasse Tyson took to his Facebook page to halfheartedly admit that he was wrong for using erroneous quotes to smear George W. Bush. Tyson was pressed on why he hasn’t directly apologized to Bush.

So what gives? Incidentally, President Barack Obama intro'd the premiere of the rebooted Cosmos series when it aired last March.

Related: Sean Davis: Wikipedia’s scrubbing of Neil deGrasse Tyson controversy "would make China proud."

Twitchy’s coverage of Neil deGrasse Tyson