September 2010
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Grateful Dead, “Friend of the Devil”
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15 Shocking Poverty Statistics That Are... →
#1 Approximately 45 million Americans were living in poverty in 2009.
#2 According to the Associated Press, experts believe that 2009 sawthe largest single year increase in the U.S. poverty rate since the U.S. government began calculating poverty figures back in 1959.
#3 The U.S. poverty rate is now the third worst among the developed nations tracked by the Organization for Economic...
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Watchsesamestreet:
Computer cookie?!?
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“No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less...”
– Paul Auster, Moon Palace
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“George Washington chopped down the tree, and then he threw away the money. Do...”
– Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
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Cream, “Badge”
And you better pick...
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“When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed...”
– David Foster Wallace, “A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life”
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elle:
LADY GAGA FRAGRANCE SLATED FOR SPRING 2012
I hope it’s called fra-gra-ah ah ah.
“If there’s no grace to be found in things as they are, then you’ll have to find...”
– Tobias Wolff (via theparisreview)
RIP, the Press Release (1906-2010) -- and Long... →
Legend has it that early PR man Ivy Ledbetter Lee issued the very first press release in 1906 on behalf of the Pennsylvania Railroad, after a derailed train plunged into a creek in Atlantic City, resulting in 53 passenger deaths; The New York Times printed it verbatim.
If the same thing happened today, we’d all be looking for @nytimes to RT @PennsylvaniaRR’s real-time spin.
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“If I said I was a social media expert, would you believe me?”
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“I don’t like to take credit for stuff, but yes. Hmm. Maybe I do like to take...”
– Will Arnett: The Former Arrested Development star reunites with Mitch Hurwitz for Running Wilde.
“I’m so bored. It’s so unimaginative and uncreative and it’s like you don’t need...”
– Nur Khan talks to ELLE about reopening Don Hill’s with Paul Sevigny, just in time for Fashion Week
(via elle)
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“Make it simple, but significant.”
– Don Draper’s cocktail order. (via girlwithlandscape)
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Dear Internet
fimoculous:
Hey, did you see today? TechStars announced that is coming to NYC.
TechStars is a mentoring program for online entrepreneurs. It is similar to BetaWorks and Y Combinator, but more informal than those programs, which thereby allows it to open itself to a much wider swath of advisors, including people like Dennis Crowley, Chris Dixon, David Karp, Ben Lerer, Justin Shaffer, Fred...
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Internet Kills the Oxford English Dictionary →
huffingtonpost:
kateoplis:
The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary will never be printed due to internet’s impact on book sales. This, after 21 years of work by a team of 80 lexicographers.
Maybe people could give us less flak about being an internet newspaper now?
Newspapers pay their writers.
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