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BREAKING: New Yorkers Say 'Fuck' A Lot [Urban Anthropology]
via Gawker by Ryan Tate on May 16, 2008
"You routinely hear Wall Street suits use the word at high decibels in the subway. Police officers bounce it casually among one another, no matter who else is around to hear. Teenagers use it all the time." [Times]
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Too Hard a Ball
via Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall on May 15, 2008
Right-Wing Radio yakker crashes and burns like the Hindenburg while trying to talk about appeasement ...
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Yep, I'm Getting Married
via TMZ.com by (author unknown) on May 16, 2008
Shared by Zach !!!!!!!!!!!!Filed under: Hook-UpsTMZ.com: Well, she's gone and done it. Ellen's gonna get hitched.A spy in the audience of this afternoon's taping of the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" tells us that after Ellen mentioned today's California Supreme Court ruling striking down the state's ban on gay... Read more
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CBS-CNET: The Logic Of The Deal
via paidContent.org by Joseph Weisenthal on May 15, 2008
CBS' (NYSE: CBS) acquisition of CNET (NSDQ: CNET) for $1.8 billion is already prompting some predictable shoulder shrugging from folks wondering why they went with a (here come the scare quotes...) "web 1.0" company and not some hip young thang. Look: There was no MySpace out there at $580 million. If you know of one, tell Leslie Moonves about it now and maybe you can have Quincy Smith's...
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Going Postal: Mailing rate hikes pinch small magazines, thanks to Time Warner - The New York Review of Magazines
via del.icio.us|nickdeplume by nickdeplume on May 16, 2008
bookmark this on del.icio.us - posted by nickdeplume - more about this bookmark...
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Flag Pin Politics, Seinfeld Edition
via The Stump by Michael Crowley on May 14, 2008
Responding to the item below, commenters adaglas and Rhubarbs came up with another great pop-culture reference. Substitute "pin" for "ribbon," Obama for Kramer, and Sean Hannity and Bill Kristol for the two guys at the end.--Michael Crowley
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Much Aloha To Dog The Bounty Hunter
via Stereohyped by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped on May 15, 2008
Dog the Bounty Hunter, who went on a tour of contrition after his son sold a tape of him dropping numerous n-bombs in reference to Dog Jr.’s black girlfriend, is coming back to A&E. Apparently the appropriate amount of time has elapsed after his racist rant. “We’re really confident that the time is right to bring him back,” said Dan Silbrman, the network’s vice president of...
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Harvard Magazine selects two Ledecky Fellows
via Harvard University Gazette: Campus stories by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Harvard Magazine's Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2008-09 academic year will be Brittney Moraski '09 and Christian Flow '10, who were selected after a competitive evaluation of writing submitted by student applicants. The fellows, who join the editorial staff during the year, contribute to the magazine's 'The Undergraduate' column and also initiate...
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Sources: WaPo Executive Editor Leonard Downie Out in '09
via Radar Online: All Articles by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
As Washington Post staffers reached the deadline to decide whether they would take buyouts, newsroom sources confirmed that WaPo Executive editor Leonard Downie will retire no later than inauguration day, 2009. An announcement could come as early as
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Berkman Center for Internet & Society becomes University-wide research center
via Harvard University: Current news by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, originally established as a research center at Harvard Law School, has been elevated to a University-wide, interfaculty initiative: the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. This transition enhances the University's capacity for interdisciplinary exploration of issues involving information technology.
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