Charles Apple

The story was about Dancing With the Stars, which aired its season finale last night, in which Nicole Scherzinger — lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls — beat out figure skater Evan Lysacek.

Here is the headline the New York Post posted on its web site today:

The Post referred to Lysacek as a “king” because he won a gold medal in the Olympics, right? Makes sense.

What doesn’t make sense is the headline the Post used in its print edition today:

Hmm. Surely this wasn’t intentional, as the Huffington Press‘ Jason Linkins seems to think.

Find Linkins’ piece here. Thanks to Jim McBee for the tip.

…at the top of page A15 of today’s national edition:

The “noted Hawaiian,” of course, is President Barack Obama.

Find the story online — sadly, with a less-amusing headline — here.

Thanks to Kris Kinkade for the tip and the photo.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know the story by now — about the Apple computer engineer who accidentally left a prototype of the next iPhone in a bar in Redwood City, Calif.

The prototype was found and sold to online tech site Gizmodo — for five grand! — which gleefully posted photos and video of the prototype, scoring the tech news scoop of the year. Apple has reportedly reclaimed the device, but not until after we all read about it ad nauseum over the past two days.

The News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., found a local angle to the story. The kid who lost the phone turns out to be a recent graduate of N.C. State University. Who lost the damn thing on his freakin’ birthday.

The N&O’s headline, at the bottom of A1 today, was pretty funny:

N&O design director Teresa Kriegsman tells us:

It was a great headline. Copy editor Vann Trotter wrote it.

Find the rest of staff writer Jay Price’s story here.

For the record, here’s the entire front page: