January 2011
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December 2010
That awkward moment when Stephanie Meyer and Sarah...
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“Slush crept along behind the dawn from east to west on Thursday, turning city...”
– RELENTLESS. UNDEAD.
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“It is an architectural absurdity. Just south of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the...”
– NYT
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Taylor Swift - “Ours”
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“The It Bag is a totally marketed bullshit crap,” Maier told me. “You make the...”
– Tomas Maier, designer of Bottega Veneta
How Much Did It Cost AOL To Send Us Those CDs In... →
Case says that he doesn’t remember the total amount spent on the discs specifically, but says that in the early 1990s, AOL’s goal was to spend 10 percent of lifetime revenue to get a new subscriber. He says that since the average subscriber life was around 25 months, revenue was about $350 off of each of these users. So he guesses they probably spent about $35 per user on things such as...
“Officials in both Iowa and New Hampshire are talking once again about moving...”
– NYT
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“I don’t want a shoot that looks like it could be in some other teen magazine; a...”
– Amy Astley
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NCAA statement on fairness of rules decisions →
Finally, the notion that the NCAA is selective with its eligibility decisions and rules enforcement is another myth with no basis in fact. Money is not a motivator or factor as to why one school would get a particular decision versus another. Any insinuation that revenue from bowl games in particular would influence NCAA decisions is absurd, because schools and conferences receive that...
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“All that in just over 30 minutes, all without scoldy shaming or down-our-noses...”
– Lynn Harris / Salon
via joy
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"Three brave and articulate women may have begun...
joyengel:
MTV got it right. Seriously, they nailed it. And by “nailed it,” I don’t mean they just did a great PSA for abortion. I mean they told the many-sided truth: that abortion is safe and common, that abortion has been made difficult to get, and, most importantly, that abortion is a complex decision made by complex human beings. (That thump you heard around 11:35 p.m. EST was the sound of...
Magazines Are At War With Their Own iPad Apps
choire:
So while novelty purchase rates for magazines on the iPad have dropped off crazily, because people checked it out and are either unenthused or distracted or whatever, no telling the motivation, what’s also happening is that print subscription rates (and the print-side ad people) are totally undercutting iPad subscription initiatives. The rates I get for print subscriptions are INSANE. So...
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Does anyone have good tips on how to remove...
“We have all had the experience of encountering someone whose life seems so...”
– daily om
“It was the first Christmas snow for the Carolinas since 1989, when a foot fell...”
– NYTimes
““In the Bedroom” takes one question (such as, “What can I do...”
– Hank Stuever / Washington Post
Looks like OWN is going to be more risqué than anyone thought…
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