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09 Dec 2009 10:31

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Culture: Dave Eggers latest work of staggering genius? A newspaper

  • We don’t pretend to have the solutions. We’re just asking a few questions. We admit how little we know, but we’re trying to luxuriate in print and maybe remind people of everything it can do.
  • Bestselling novelist and McSweeney’s founder Dave Eggers • On his latest gambit, the San Francisco Panorama, a 300-page newspaper he’s selling for $16. He had a little help from his friends – over 150 freelancers worked on the project, which is just as much a testament to the newspaper form as it is amazing art project which might get people excited about newspapers – and journalism in general – again. We know we are. Now where to we buy one of these? source
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05 Dec 2009 11:06

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Offbeat: Twitter is collectively enthralled by the idea of snow

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05 Dec 2009 10:22

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Tech: Reuters’ redesign is one of those designs that starts slow, gets better

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  • The interesting thing about Reuters’ redesign is the same thing that’s interesting about “All My Friends” by LCD Soundsystem: It starts out not looking like much, but as you get further down the page you realize that there’s a ton going on here. That’s how it starts, the way it does in bad films. Except the part where the motor kicks in. source
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01 Dec 2009 10:30

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Offbeat: All hail Zombie Reagan! All hail Zombie Reagan!


  • Personally, if we had Zombie Reagan as president, we’d vote for him. Well, after we, ourselves, turned into a zombie, of course.
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30 Nov 2009 10:42

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Culture: Another movie remade in Lego – this time, “The Matrix”

  • Somehow, this trick never gets old. Doing a movie scene – or any scene, honestly – up in Legos gives it instant cultural currency, as in the case of this shot-by-shot remake of a scene from “The Matrix.” We credit The White Stripes. source
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29 Nov 2009 10:57

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Offbeat: We’re all gonna die: Meteorite in South Africa will kill us all

  • It’s kind of like “District 9,” except without the spaceship. Last week, a giant meteor exploded in Gauteng, South Africa. Many in the country saw the meteor go off, and well, we’re scared of the aliens that are about to come out and kill us all. source
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27 Nov 2009 11:25

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Culture: Zhu Zhu hamsters: Meet this year’s new holiday toy obsession

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  • Like real hamsters, without any of the poop. This holiday season, the biggest surprise hit might be a bunch of motorized hamster toys. They look cool and goofy and are fun to play with, which is why kids are begging for them – and why quick-to-comply parents are trying to get their grubby hands all over them on Black Friday. source
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26 Nov 2009 22:08

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Offbeat: We’re thankful for the opportunity to buy the Pabst company

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  • Pabst Blue Ribbon‘s maker is on the market. Their asking price is $300 million. We’re thankful for PBR. Anyone want to help crowdsource ownership of the cheapest, crappiest/best beer ever? Just think – $5 could help make the dream of many hipsters come true. And us. We want to own the company and make rivers of Schlitz. source
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26 Nov 2009 16:09

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Offbeat: We’re thankful for this really intriguing Time Magazine article on pie

This article, which ran last year, tells us more about pie in a few hundred words than most books about pie could tell us in tens of thousands. source
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25 Nov 2009 20:40

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U.S.: D.C. socialites Tareq and Michaele Salahi step up their state dinner game

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  • These people are officially the greatest showboat reality-tv-whore badasses ever. Tareq and Michaele Salahi totally crashed the White House’s state dinner last night, and they did it in a blatant way, with Facebook photos, time with Rahm Emanuel (above) and no security clearance. Who knows how they got in; we wanna know what they’re gonna get out of it. source
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