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Flotsam & Jetsam
The Truth About Zoos
8:21AM Hamilton Nolan | From Rhett & Link, the guys who brought you the ad that all ads should probably be like, comes this new spot for the Central Florida Zoo. Their relentless honesty requires it to focus totally on excrement. More »
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MySpace’s Future: Online Slum For Depression Refugees
6:18AM Ryan Tate | It’s hard to imagine much of a future for MySpace. Which is probably why it took a science-fiction author to do so: Bruce Sterling says the flagging social network is an ideal shantytown for the nihilistic unemployed. Compelling! More »
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Forget Balloon Boy, Today’s All About Train Baby
8:05PM Andrew Belonsky | If Balloon Boy and his family were looking for publicity, they’ll find it’s fleeting. There’s a new amazing tot on the horizon, and this one survived being hit by a train. More »
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Weird Science
5:44PM Andrew Belonsky | Scientists have developed a “Marilyn Monroe” gene that makes female fruit flies overwhelmingly alluring. Useful…
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Deflating Google
4:28AM Ryan Tate | Once upon a time, search engines were cluttered. A scrappy upstart called “Google” surpassed them with a minimalist interface. Ten years later, Google still has a minimalist interface… if you install a popular javascript bookmark. Progress!
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Good Riddance.
5:05PM Andrew Belonsky | Model soap The Beautiful Life, which starred Mischa Barton, was cancelled because it totally blew.
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SYTYCD Tour Is Like Watching TV With 20,000 Strangers
8:10AM Brian Moylan | Last night I ventured all the way out to Newark, New Jersey to catch the live version of So You Think You Can Dance. It is simultaneously worse than you would expect and more awesome than you could hope for. More »
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New Yorker Gets Great Hip Hop Story Somehow
2:52AM Hamilton Nolan | Wowza, Ta-Nehisi Coates got an entire profile of MF Doom in the New Yorker this week, something so unlikely it sounds like a dare. The best hip hop journalist profiles today’s illest MC in America’s best magazine. Mmmm, food.
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