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07 Nov 2010 20:13

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Culture: New York Times once again proves more clever than everyone else

  • There’s journalism, and then there’s the NYT. Today, as runners got past the finish line at the New York Marathon, the New York Times (fresh off Cheesegate) got a bunch of the finishers to take post-race photos, and some of the faces are pretty amazing. Witness the post-marathon glow. (In other news, Chilean miner Edison Pena reached the finish line, too.) source
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02 Nov 2009 10:00

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Offbeat: Denver’s Gorilla Run pounded its chest until it got a world record

  • 1,061 runners in gorilla costumes in Denver source
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06 Aug 2009 22:06

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Offbeat: Steve Misiura is currently far too familiar with The Rembrandts’ one hit

  • 84
    hours     amount of time a British man spent watching “Friends”; he was trying to set a record
  • 1,000 times number of times we’re guessing he heard that really $(^@)^@ grating theme song source
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20 Apr 2009 10:58

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Sports: The Boston Marathon is going on right now

In case you care about marathons (a lot of people don’t), this is the one you probably care about most. source
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