Category: Headlines
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The good news: I scored another Foursquare badge – the “Ziggy’s Wagon” badge for visiting 3 of Austin’s food carts/trucks. The bad news: I keep eating like this, and I’m going to wind up earning the “Man Boobs” and “Adult Onset Diabetes” badges.
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glowing grammar [v:ia]
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People should get excited about automatic captions in YouTube The transcription and translation work that Google is doing with Google Voice, Google Translate, Gmail and now YouTube has the potential to be massively game-changing. No small feat to figure out and do well, but the promise of 100% computer-powered transcription and translation is ginormous.
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On this date in 1980: Pat Benatar gives birth to Zubaz [v:i:a]
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David Simon Does The Big Easy HBO has given the greenlight to a 10- to 12-episode first season of Treme (pronounced “truh-MAY”), a new project set in New Orleans circa 2006, from the creator of The Wire (as well as The Corner, Generation Kill and Homicide: Life on the Street).
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There is so much to love about the Jan McFarland Cox and Tom Kundig’s house in the southern Idaho desert, but my favorite thing might be the bookshelves. [via]
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Nicolas Cage: The Worst Actor of His Generation Ben Affleck may beg to differ, but this montage, compiled by Gawker.tv, makes a pretty good case.
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People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere…
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On February 20th at the Nokia Theater at L.A. Live, Will Ferrell and friends will be putting on a comedy show to benefit Coach Carroll’s charity A Better LA. Click here for more info. (Photo by Andrew Macpherson/SI) Many more photos of Will and Heidi Klum after the jump… An Evening of Comedy with Will…
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Here’s to starting off Friday with a bang. [v:ia]
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Millions of dollars worth of Chinese Christmas bongs seized at LA harbor
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University of California Imposes 32% Tuition Hike
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