Category: Headlines
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Tina Fey hosted SNL last night for the second time; while there were a few funny bits (and a cameo appearance by Mark Sanchez) it’s a safe bet that all anyone is going to talk about today is the Sarah Palin Network. [via]
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Sanchez appeared during last night’s SNL monologue, where he was introduced by host Tina Fey: “I couldn’t do any of this without my beloved husband, who, for this performance only, will be played by New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez.” Video to follow, just as soon as we can get our hands on it.
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These mini Soviet-style concrete towers are designed and deployed by artist EVOL around Europe as a reminder of the failures of Modernism (and another way to reclaim decayed urban spaces).
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Sir, when a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all the life can afford. – Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) You can buy the print here. [via]
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Hardcore Toddler Says ‘That’s My Birthday Cake, Sucka’
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The pseudo-exclusive. We can take ownership of a story even if it isn’t a strict exclusive. In case of both Tiger and Peaches, other sites (the porn star’s site and Reddit, respectively) carried the original material. But we added context and packaged the stories up. (See Choire Sicha’s piece on The Gawker Exclusive: How the…
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If you count its earlier incarnations (namely Kyle Bunch’s Raw Feed), The Daily Bunch just turned 3!
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Arcade Fire Working With Director Spike Jonze on Short Film in Austin That’s right, Arcade Fire x Spike Jonze x Austin. As if that trifecta weren’t impressive enough, I’m linking to Pitchfork’s write-up for maximum hipster bonus points. If Carles could see me now!
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Twitter Devours Tweetie The best Twitter iPhone app is now the official Twitter iPhone app. Let’s just hope that all the developers of the OTHER Twitter iPhone apps come back from the night of heavy drinking that followed the news and keep working on their apps. There’s still plenty of room for improvement on the…
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Producers are trying to calm an outraged internet by issuing a statement that this, namely Robert Pattinson playing Kurt Cobain in the potentially disastrous Kurt & Courtney biopic (reportedly titled Heavier Than Heaven), is nothing but a rumor.
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UNIQLO drops its latest digital bomb: UTweet! I’m assuming this is Yugo Nakamura’s handiwork (or at very least creative and technical direction). Yugo, if you’re out there reading this, can we be friends? (If you don’t have a Twitter account of your own you can always use the President’s.)
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Feel like having your mind blown? Try this little exercise: Choose any number with 4 non-repeating digits. Say 7182. Arrange the number in ascending and then descending order Subtract the smaller number from the bigger number (8721 – 1278 = 7443) Repeat steps 1-2 with the result: 7443 – 3447 = 3996 9963 – 3699…
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