March 03, 2009
Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller? - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - Nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job. Economists cite a few reasons: discriminatio...
Akkam's Razor
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March 01, 2009
There’s been a ton of buzz about the February 25th NY Times article What’s Eating Our Kids? Fears About ‘Bad’ Foods, by Abby Ellin. The article asserts that parents who are “vigilant about their children’s consumption of sugar, processed foods, and trans fats� and “try to stick to an...
The Jew and the Carrot
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Arlyn Boltax
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February 23, 2009
We've all been there: you're surfing the pornotubes, looking for some sweet amateur action, only to find a clip... featuring your best friend/next door neighbor/attorney. What's an ethical porn watcher to do? Well, lucky for all of us pervs, Randy Cohen—aka the man behind the New York Times Ma...
Fleshbot
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Lux Alptraum
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February 22, 2009
RAMJAM! Daron Aaronofsky more than made up for The Fountain with this one. Should have been Best Picture AND Best Actor. Bonus link: Long ass New York Times Magazine profile from November of this year, a Radar interview from 2006, and a NY Times profile from 2003. No obligatory New Yorker profile fo...
Unlikely Words
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AC
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February 15, 2009
Michael Lewis checks in with a profile of player Shane Battier and statistical whiz kid Daryl Morey. Some nuggets for you: The virus that infected professional baseball in the 1990s, the use of statistics to find new and better ways to value players and strategies, has found its way into every major...
Unlikely Words
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AC
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February 13, 2009
Twitter is often written about, often used and as often abused. Everyday, thousands of tweets fly by me at break neck speed due to the volume of people I follow. Many of these short form messages in 140 characters or less are eloquent and precise. Others constitute butchered English short form that ...
Technosailor.com
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Aaron Brazell
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February 09, 2009
I found this quotation in the NYTimes' coverage of Avigdor Lieberman: “I am afraid of this guy, and I dislike him,� said Shmuel Sandler, dean of social sciences at Bar Ilan University, an institution that emphasizes Jewish identity and values. “He appeals to simple-minded voters. Average Israe...
My Right Word
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YMedad
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February 07, 2009
Fonera 2.0 Smart Router Connect Devices | Business 2.0 Press - The La Fonera 2.0 is a new smart wireless internet router that will let you connect a plethora of devices to access the internet from the router easily, anything from a printer, to hard drives, laptops, mp3 players, to other USB devices ...
Vinny Carpenter's blog
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Vinny Carpenter
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February 05, 2009
Back when I was in the record business one of my bosses would always say you can find the future by looking at the edges. Well he didn’t say that exactly but he would always go first to the gay clubs and see what they was listening to now because he claimed, by next year, everyone would be lis...
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New York Times, one of the most widely read websites on the web is planning to make access to its online content paid once again. NYtimes used to follow paid subscription model for its content till two years back when it made the content open and free. The idea was to test out advertising revenues b...
he Power 150 - Top Marketing Blogs - By Todd
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Maneesh Madambath
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