Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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New York Post Exclusive: Ladies Argue In Supermarket
11:43PM Hamilton Nolan | In the cutthroat tabloid wars of America’s most competitive media market, scoops are the currency by which newspapers live and die. Today, the New York Post has scored what may prove to be the definitive journalistic coup in its centuries-long battle for supremacy in Gotham’s newspaper market: the EXCLUSIVE story of one lady being mad at another lady, in the supermarket. More »
Loose Tweets Sink Ships Full Of Young British Women
10:15PM jeff neumann | The British Ministry of Defence is worried about oversharing military personnel and their oversharing families, so they’ve created a few videos that should really make everyone think twice about careless tweets and Facebook status updates. More »
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Can Brain Scans Warn Us Of Terrible Songs Of The Future?
9:39PM jeff neumann | New get rich quick scheme: A researcher has found that when a kid hears a song that is likely to become popular, a brain scan will show the reward centre of their brain going nuts. Whoa. That is crazy.
Small Screen
TV Anchor’s Dalai Lama Joke Goes Wrong
4:20PM Matt Cherette | Recently on Australia’s version of the Today show, anchor Karl Stefanovic sat down for an interview with the Dalai Lama, during which he attempted a joke about the religious leader going into a pizza shop. That’s when things got really awkward. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
10:03AM Jess McGuire | Here’s one handsome young fellow (and, he claims, his “seven clones”) covering the classic Queen song Killer Queen. This is pretty adorable and brilliant. More »
YouTube Clip Of The Day
10:03AM Jess McGuire | Here’s one handsome young fellow (and, he claims, his “seven clones”) covering the classic Queen song Killer Queen. This is pretty adorable and brilliant. More »
Online
The Facebook Pump And Dump
9:57AM Ryan Tate | Someone is aggressively hyping Facebook to the financial community. Investors are being told the social network’s value will double in 12 months – and quadruple over 18 months – to $US100 billion. It sounds like someone has shares to unload. More »
Music
9:03AM Jess McGuire | Over the weekend I found myself watching Rage on the ABC, and that’s where I was introduced to the solo single of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros frontman Alexander Ebert. It’s called “A Million Years” and I LOVE it. Hippy dippy romantic delight, and it has my seal of approval. More »
Alexander – “A Million Years”
9:03AM Jess McGuire | Over the weekend I found myself watching Rage on the ABC, and that’s where I was introduced to the solo single of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros frontman Alexander Ebert. It’s called “A Million Years” and I LOVE it. Hippy dippy romantic delight, and it has my seal of approval. More »
Small Screen
The Future Dims For Jennifer Love Hewitt
8:15AM Richard Lawson | What once looked bright, briefly, has now darkened again. What will Love do? Also today: Good news for fans of The Killing, bad news for some fans of Game of Thrones, and Madonna gets picked up. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
The Real Reason Gay Men Don’t Get Fat
7:33AM Brian Moylan | New York gay about town and Barneys creative director Simon Doonan just sold a manuscript for a diet book called Gay Men Don’t Get Fat. While this is true, the real reason why gay men don’t get fat might not be the most marketable message. More »
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