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How Bitter Infighting May Break Up One of Tech's Most Lucrative Conferences [Nerdfight]

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High revenues and relatively low costs have made

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Donald Trump to Solve the Country's Unemployment Problem on Television [You're Hired]

#yourehired

Now that everyone's been laid off, Donald Trump is goi

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Tea Partiers Know the Founders Didn't Intend For Anyone to Be Nice to Sick People [God Damn America]

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Do you feel love for your fellow man today?

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Comment of the Day: Martha Stewart Will Run You Over [We Read You]

#wereadyou

Today we cracked the spine of a Martha Stewart tell-all book, leaving many of you pondering the nature of this WASPiest of WASPs.

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Nothing Right About Criminal's Plan [Crime]

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Twenty year-old Jennifer Mercado was a juror on a credit card thief's case. So she stole a fellow juror's credit card. And used it on her lunch hour. And came back to court with the stuff she bought. Winner.

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Exclusive: The Book Proposal for Larry Flynt's History of Presidential Sex [History]

#history

A tipster sent us the proposal for One Nation Under Sex, Larry Flynt's

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Erin Go Wild [Pic Of The Day]

#picoftheday

[This reveler overdid it a bit on the flair at the St. Patrick's Day Parade along Fifth Ave today. We're sure he didn't skimp on the Guinness afterward either.

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NYT's Alessandra Stanley: Old Habits Die Hard [Corrections]

Infamously error-prone Times television columnist Alessandra Stanley earned herself a double correction today. More »

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St. Patrick's Day Frightens Twitterati More Than Debt [Twitterati]

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Spotted! John Edwards and Rielle Hunter Contemplate the Void at the Guggenheim [Stalker]

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Joe Biden Asked to Leave Correspondents Dinner After Awful Tiger Woods Joke [Videouhoh]

#videouhoh

Last year, the Radio & Television Correspondents Dinner featured the comedian John Hodgman.

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Janice Min Puts Her Soho Loft Up for Sale [Real Estate]

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Janice Min, the former Us Weekly editor-in-chief who res

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British Racing Green

Most countries have national colors, but many are shared. As a result, Britain chose a deep, rich shade of green to distinguish itself in competitive endeavors from rivals who had already claimed red, white and blue.

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Trailer for Parallel Lines: five short films that use the same dialogue



Parallel Lines is a project by from Ridley Scott Associates that will be released April 8. It's a neat premise!

Five directors were each challenged to create short films in different genres using the same dialogue.

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Larry Flynt to write history of presidents' sex lives

From Washington Post: Hustler publisher Larry Flynt is "teaming up with Columbia University lecturer David Eisenbach to write "One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents and First Ladies Shaped America," due in 2011 from Palgrave."



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Bob Harris: Joy is an international language

Bob Harris, the eight-time Jeopardy champ who wrote a terrific Peru travelogue a couple of weeks ago for Boing Boing gave a great talk about the culture of joy as an international language. It's on YouTube now.



Last year I was asked by Web Directions North, a gathering of assorted bigshots from Google, Yahoo!, etc.

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Gritty guerrilla poster artist Robbie Conal's new book features... cute animals!? 



I've been a huge fan of Robbie Conal ever since Mark asked me to profile him for The Happy Mutant Handbook back in 1995.

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What's with the Terry Richardson witchhunt?

"Says one person who's worked with [photographer Terry] Richardson: 'It's just impossible for me to see him as a sexual predator. What he does is completely out in the open.'



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Cat resembling Wilford Brimley skilled in art of playing "death by diabeetus"

Watch above in delight as a Wilford Brimleyesque feline named Cooper demonstrates the fine art of BANG DEAD. It's the fisheye lens what makes it magic. MOAR at sweetfurr.blogspot.com.

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Peruvian Scissor Dancing

My documentarian friend Andrea Dunlap over at the Seedling Project pointed out this great footage of a 'scissor dancing' contest in Peru, something she saw when she was living and filming there a few years ago. It happens a few times a year to mark Easter, Christmas, and Yacu Raymi (an annual water festival).