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get yer official 50 Shades of Grey branded bondage merch (and other adventures in social networking)

Tue, Nov 06, 2012
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Alex “Repo Man” Cox insists you pirate his movies (and other adventures in social networking)

Tue, Feb 28, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw yesterday and today…

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question of the weekend: Do we diminish terrible events when we turn them into funny Internet memes?

Sat, Dec 10, 2011
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Most of the riffs on the UC Davis pepper-spraying are satirical: the cop has been Photoshopped pepper-spraying fallen colonial soldiers of the American Revolution, little children listening to Jesus, and so on. But not all are so pointed…

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Crazy Stupid Love (trailer)

Wed, Jun 08, 2011
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Hey, now this is the kind of romantic comedy I like (if the movie actually lives up to the trailer)…

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why celebs love Scientology; Netflix in deal for original programming; the real problem of ‘Mars Needs Moms’; more: leftover links

Sun, Mar 20, 2011
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Plus: why Republicans want to destroy NPR; Hereafter (with its tsunami scene) pulled from Japanese theaters; promo fail for Limitless viral video; more…

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Stephen Fry is Mycroft Holmes; Emma Stone is Gwen Stacy; Armie Hammer is NOT the Winklevi (but he kinda is); more: leftover links

Sun, Oct 10, 2010
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Plus, Avatar sex toys, Cory Doctorow on the real cost of free, how the rich buy journalists, and more.

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is Betty Draper misunderstood?; the end of cable TV?; why never to throw away someone else’s action figures; more: leftover links

Sun, Aug 29, 2010
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Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post…

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Roger Ebert hates 3D; is Sacha Baron Cohen worth $20 million?; Brits playing American; and more: leftover links

Sun, May 02, 2010
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Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…

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