Blog Posts by Piper Weiss, Shine Staff

(Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Zynga)[Shine's daily spotlight of the most jaw-dropping photo from today's news.]

Do not be alarmed by the rigor mortis hipsters wandering through Manhattan. They're just products of the recent solar eclipse and that locket you should never have purchased from the grave-digger-turned-jewelry designer.

Actually it's not that exciting. Zynga, the mobile gaming company hired actors to walk around Soho in zombie costumes to promote their new game "Zombie Swipe-out."

Marcella's hairstyle, proudly posted by dad to Twitter. (Courtesy of Marcello Marino/Twitter)There are bows and then there are Lady Gaga bows. Four-year-old Marcella Marino chose the latter for a school photo, only to end up in tears, according to her dad.

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The British primary school student asked her father, professional hairstylist Marcello Marino, to make her look like a princess for her upcoming class photo. The  salon owner went more rock princess than Cinderella, and tied his little girl's long blond hair into a tilted bow, a look popularized by Gaga back in 2009.
Marcella loved the look but her school didn't, according to the Daily Mail.

"When she went for the school photo on Monday she was told she wasn't allowed to wear her hair in that style because of the dress code," Marcello told the British paper.

In fact, the primary school his daughter attends has a very strict dress code, which is detailed on its website. With regards to hair, the school requests ribbons or bows are "made of dark colors, maroon/navy blue/black"

(Clive Rose/Getty Images)[Shine's daily spotlight of the most jaw-dropping photo from today's news.]

This morning, The Netherlands hosted Europe's Synchronised Swimming Championships, a pre-curser to this summer's worldwide pool dancing challenge at the London OIympics. As you can see, Italian competitor Linda Cerum rose to the occasion. (So did her silver water-proof eye-shadow.)

(Eric Krebs/National Geographic)[Shine's daily spotlight of the most jaw-dropping photo from today's news.]

Every year, National Geographic Traveler hosts a photography contest in search of the most dramatic images of earth's wild inhabitants. The submissions, open until July, already boast a fair share of lions, tigers and bears.

But nothing compares to this entry from photographer Eric Krebs, taken deep in the jungle of the living room.

Before you conference call Child Services and Animal Control, let Krebs explain: "It was taken at about 1:30am after my 7-month-old son decided he wanted to wake up and play with some toys...our dog Molly decided to walk in front of the camera and yawn the moment I took this shot." Believe it or not, that mouth doesn't belong to a wooly mammoth preparing to carry the newborn in her jaws to her winter cave. That's just Molly being sleepy.

Martha Payne, 9-year-old food critic and school lunch reformer. (Rex Photos/AP)Jamie Oliver and Michelle Obama may be commanders of a healthy school lunch revolution. But a 9-year-old girl is on the front lines.

A Scottish grade school student named Martha Payne has launched her own revolution in school lunch reform. It all started with a simple idea. What if food critics reviewed school lunches? Cafeterias would probably do a lot more to satisfy their customers.

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That's what Martha discovered two weeks ago, when she started the blog NeverSeconds, a daily review of her flimsy cafeteria lunches.

With help from her dad, Dave, the Argyle-based student, photographed her sparse lunch tray daily and offered a Zagat-style rating system based on the following criteria: food-o-meter (or overall taste), mouthfuls (or portions), health, courses and pieces of hair. So far there's been one or two hairs on her lunch tray, but not much else.

One of the first lunches she reviewed included a dried-out rectangular piece of pizza,

(Facebook)They may have different friends and different interests but nothing brings high school students together like alphabetical order.

For the eight students at a California high school with the same last name-Nguyen- it was obvious their wallet-size snapshots would be sharing the same yearbook page.

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So instead of exerting their individuality with the standard Grateful Dead quote and a prom-worthy up-do, they decided to join forces for the ultimate prank. Alexandra, Angela, Angelica, Elizabeth, Emily, Isabella, Madeline and Vi Nguyen all wore the same black off-shoulder dresses and the same hairstyles. Then they went for the win.

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Eschewing the optional yearbook one-liner under each of their photos, they divided up two sentences that made fellow students and administrators think twice before making any stereotypical assumptions. Altogether, the words under the Nguyen girls' eight pictures read: "We know

Mark Zuckerberg isn't the only one who's had a big week. On Monday, Priscilla Chan, the longtime partner of the 28-year-old Facebook founder-earned her medical degree from the top institution in the country, just days after inspiring a revolution in organ donor access. Also: her boyfriend just turned his first job into $19 billion dollars. Am I forgetting anything? Yes: They got married.

On Saturday, a small group of friends and family expecting to attend a party for Chan's graduation were surprised by an impromptu wedding in the backyard of their $7 million Palo Alto home. The couple had been secretly planning the event for months, on top of all the other projects on their plates. Zuckerberg even found time to design the ruby ring for his bride.

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So far it's been a good month for Priscilla, the Harvard alum who met Zuckerberg at a campus frat party almost a decade ago. On May 14, while the tech world marked Zuckerberg's 28th birthday, Chan was