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The toothpaste your parents never told you about

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If Mayor Bloomberg wants to help hobos (and high functioning alcoholics) please get Crest to make this toothpaste!

Copyranter posted this found ad from a 1961 House and Garden magazine. 1961?!? How can I go there?

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National Enquirer eligible for Pultizer. Blind squirrels and broken clocks also want credit for being occasionally right

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If the nation’s first name in celebrity sex and UFOs is eligible for recognition for journalism’s highest prize, what’s keeping bloggers and twittererers from receiving equal recognition? What is meaningful journalism in a digital age?
From The Huffington Post, the Pulitzer Prize committee has apparently run out of reasons to NOT accept The National Enquirer’s bid [...]

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How to make yourself more attractive. In 1938.

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With advice like this, how did our grandparents ever manage to not end up being a bunch of miserable misogynists trapped in loveless marriages? Oh wait…
A great find by Coudal Partners, Prose before Ho’s Tumblr features this pricelessly hilarious cache of images from a guide on finding love in the 1930’s. Just one question: did [...]

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eBay found liable for Wuittons. Ordered to pay LV $275,000. Do they accept paypal?

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EBay has been ordered by a French court to pay LV $275,000 for their liability in directing users who searched for ‘wuitton’ to eBay.
The irreparable damage that this has done to the venerable fashion house, to Paris, France and Gaullic culture at large, was amusingly only worth $275,000…approximately what a rock star spends on her [...]

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Meta-procrastination: Illustrated and Ironic

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Oh, there is something deliciously clever about creating an animation about procrastination and unleashing it on an entire population of people looking for distractions the Internet.
I’ll admit, the irony didn’t kick in until I was 2 mins in, but hey, you’re on a blog. Giving you a link to a video, is probably helping [...]

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Steve Jobs will kick your ass if you put your ugly sausage on his ’simply amazing’ iPhone

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Allegedly, sales of certain Korean snack sausages are up this winter as Koreans who love their iPhones, but hate cold, gloveless fingers have been using them as pork meat fingers to operate their iPhones.
No idea if it’s true, but there certainly will be no debating the tranformative power the iPhone has had on the world [...]

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The Matthew Effect

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Matthew Effect: The Power of Links
View more presentations from Torsten Henning Hensel.

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