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Us and Them
Via NotCot Web-based culture criticism usually specializes in subculture mining or and oh-so-thinly veiled contempt, so it was only a matter of time before someone combined the two. This chart splits...
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Just For Kicks
Sneakerheads are a pretty obsessive bunch, so it makes sense that they’d take to the internet in force. And since counterfeits make eBay too sketchy to rely on, it was about time someone started up a...
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A Hard Drive
Unless you’re an unusually big fan of the radio, traffic information can be remarkably hard to come by. Luckily, anyone with a smartphone is about to get a new secret weapon. Here’s a hint: Google is...
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Word Life
Good books get all the press but a good sentence is worth quite a bit on its own, especially if you’re trying to get through it on an elevator ride. And with tweets, status updates, and email...
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Heidi Klum is Good at Branding
Good Press: Page Six has an extremely persuasive photo editor. [Cover Awards] The Anti-Trend: Trads make the trend page, despite not being a trend. Does this mean we can start wearing ascots again?...
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Trying to be Amber Heard
Look Back in Amber: DETAILS makes the most of its time with Amber Heard. [DETAILS] Great Scott: The Sartorialist gives GQ UK some style advice. One highlight: He recommends owning only one pair of...
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Box Full of Letters
The world of Flickr photography is massive, but it doesn’t take much browsing before one wishes for something a little more tangible. But that’s nothing the internet can’t solve… The UK-based Biscuit...
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Anouck Lepere is Your New IT Staff
She Means Business: And don’t give her any of this Linux crap. [Refinery29] Hooverville: George Saunders takes a stroll through a modern tent city. [GQ] Web Civics: Choire Sicha ponders the ethics of...
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The Google Takeover
We warned you before, and now it’s happening. Google is taking over your voicemail, and even though resistance isn’t exactly futile, we’re not sure why you’d bother. As of Monday, you can import...
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The Trench Coat Gets its Day in the Sun
The trench coat is already one of the more iconic items in the menswear canon, so it hardly needs the ad treatment—but it couldn’t hurt. Today, Burberry launched a site called Art of the Trench...
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Guinevere Van Seenus is in Repose
Contortionists: The girls in AnOther Magazine always look kind of uncomfortable. [Fashion Copious] Fare Thee Well: The final Alexander McQueen men’s line. Chavvy stuff, but in a good way....
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Tanith Belbin is our Favorite Name So Far
She’s a Figure Skater, Apparently: Seriously, just say it out loud. Tanith Belbin. Ta-nith…Bel-bin. [Esquire] Soon, Facebook Will Poke People in the Eye: Unvarnished is the evil LinkedIn, which is...
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Career Opportunities
The Webby nominations came out this morning, and while there are plenty of nits to pick, we prefer to appreciate the oddball feats of cracked-out web obscuro that somehow made it through unscathed....
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Julianne Moore Has Been Stealing from the Zoo
via Frockwriter How Your Noise Rock Sausage is Made: The Times peers into the tortured soul of Pitchfork Media and finds a reasonably fastidious, self-reflective media organization. Go figure....
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Has Anyone Heard of This Facebook Movie?
via LikeCool The Longform Poke: Aaron Sorkin thinks Mark Zuckerberg isn’t really such a bad guy… [NYMag] The Script-Quoting Blog Poke: …he’s just a product of his tech-saturated generation. [io9] The...
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Guinevere van Seenus Just Really Loves Cool Whip
via Fashion Gone Rogue Yeezy Strikes Back: XXL’s new Kanye cover story is basically unedited excerpts from his diary. He’s officially broken the fourth wall of journalism. Awesome stuff. [XXL]...
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Daria Werbowy Has Really Let Herself Go
Just Kidding: Zach Galifianakis brings his distinctive brand of crazy to the pages of Vanity Fair. [Vanity Fair] Postcards from the Sideline: A sports agent comes clean on a career’s worth of crimes...
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Isabeli Fontana is Not Making Breakfast
via Fashion Gone Rogue The British Invasion: Our new favorite anorak, courtesy of Mr. Williams. [A Continuous Lean] The First Step is Hiding Your Valuables: Explaining the internet to a Dickensian...
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Amber Anderson is Uncombed
via Fashion Copious The Internet is On Fire: As you may have heard, some pretty scary internet privacy stuff is happening right now, specifically surround a program called Firesheep. Here’s how to keep...
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Supercharging Your Brain
Productivity tools have become something of an arms race lately but staying focused doesn’t have to be complicated. We’d start with a pen, a pocket notebook and a habit of writing things down… A web...
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Konichiwa, Internet
The pop star/elf queen known as Robyn has given us a lot this year—in particular, a great album and an excuse for hipsters to listen to pop music—but apparently she’s got a few more plans. Also, she...
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Dusting Off: the Snow-Day Radio Roll Call
As connoisseurs of history, we sometimes find styles, trends and turns of phrase from the past that we wouldn’t mind bringing back to the present, Doc Brown-style. This time around, we’re dusting off...
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Online Poker Goes Underground
Word came down today that Full Tilt Poker, one of the largest poker sites on the internet, has been playing fast and loose with its bookkeeping. There’s $440 million missing, and more than a few...
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Today Was a Good Day (for the Internet)
If you could just look away from the steady stream of Tumblr, Instagram and blog photos scrolling across your screen for a moment, we’d like to direct your attention to this poorly photoshopped album...
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