In your manly Monday media column: BusinessWeek's actual sale price revealed, America's most fucked newspapers revealed, Gene Weingarten. revealed to still be (reasonably) funny, and a job revealed at Conde Nast. ! Oh, too late. Peter Kafka pulls out the actual sale price of BusinessWeek. : $9.3 mi
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In a retro twist on the Google Books idea, HP has announced. a partnership with the University of Michigan library to sell physical copies of over 500,000 rare and out-of-print works, while making the digital versions available online for free. HP's BookPrep service, currently in beta, will take i
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PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. Because of the book tour and PostSecret Events, I was unable to complete the Blog. I have included 20 extra secrets below from April 13, 2008. -----Email Message----- i just stop
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Since all white people consider themselves to be “creative,” they are constantly in need of products and accessories that will allow them to capture their thoughts. One of the more popular products in recent years has been the Moleskine notebook. This particular type of notebook is very expensive a
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A few of you have asked if we have RSS feeds. We do, both in flavorful, ad-supported, full content. and ad-free, partial content. varieties. If you'd like to join Gawker Media in welcoming the mid-'90s hottest trend in reader response, you may also subscribe our our comments only feed. . They are a
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Television is one of the keys to a white person’s heart. A proper reference to Arrested Development or the lending of a Wire Season on DVD are considered two of the easiest and most cost effective ways of getting a white person to like you. But with both of those shows off the [.]
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Twitter's growth these days seems to be coming from abroad. ComScore data shows a 6.7 percent jump from August to September in worldwide vistors to 58.4 million (which translates to 949 percent increase from a year ago) The 20.9 million visitors from the U.S., in contrast, has remained flat since J
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If you thought it was impressive that an iPod could survive a nine-story fall into the Pittsburgh G20 riots. , just wait until you hear about the perils that befell an iPod belonging to Aaron, a Marine deployed in Afghanistan. He writes: Mid-August, I asked my girlfriend to use my account to buy an
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Keeping up with art is hard; trips to galleries, enormous books, and costly bi-annual magazines are just a few of the many expenses you will incur during the process of attempting to stay current with art. While the challenge and difficult of this proposition would seem to actually attract more whi
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While leaning out her dorm window to watch some riots — hell, what else is there to do in Pittsburgh? — Bob's daughter's iPod decided it'd had enough of this world and took a swan dive into oblivion. But sure enough, when she scurried down to the pavement to retrieve the device, it was still playin
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Microsoft and FOX One have announced a marketing collaboration that will see Windows 7 in a new special with the working title "Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show" airing Sunday, November 8, at 8:30pm EST and PST. It will star Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy, American
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At the press day for the DVD and Blu-ray release of the 2009 Star Trek. , director J.J. Abrams. talked briefly about the possibility of putting the series' original Kirk, William Shatner. , in the forthcoming sequel. "The Shatner thing comes up quite a bit," Abrams said in a news conference Thursda
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Filed under: Mozilla. , Beta. , Browsers. While it's slightly behind schedule -- having been originally slated for a mid-September release -- Firefox 3.6 has reached beta. Version 3.6 beta 1 is now available for download from Mozilla's servers. As Softpedia mentioned a few days ago. , Mozilla is po
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