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New York Magazine: Tracking Technology Knows Which Personality You’re Surfing With
By: Nitasha Tiku

You didn't think The Wall Street Journal would let you go home to your families for the holiday without a new threat to online privacy, did you? The latest takedown in the paper's "What They Know" series looks at the reemergence of "deep packet ( Read more... )

Time to repost another comment I originally posted elsewhere. This week it's one from N.Y. Magazine, who was quoting CNN: Sarah Palin’s Expertise in Human Communication to the Rescue

"I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree."
I had the following to say about that.

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New York Magazine: The Dow Closed At 11005.97 Today!

Today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 11000 for the first time since September 2008. Who's afraid to say the recession's over, now? Oh, still everyone.

I'm still skeptical, too, although I suspect that the NBER will call the recession over back in July-September of last year. They ( Read more... )

Hollywood is big.

New York Magazine: The Fug Girls Rate the Men Hollywood Wants to Be Their Next Clooney, Hanks, Willis, and Beyond

This August, the mercenary flick The Expendables hits theaters, featuring the boldface names of a previous blockbuster era - Stallone, Lundgren, Willis, Schwarzenegger - in what feels like one last fling before they're ( Read more... )

I read the following blog post in New York Magazine--M.I.A. on Lady Gaga: ‘None of Her Music’s Reflective of How Weird She Wants to Be or Thinks She Is’--in which ohnotheydidnt (!) is cited as a the source. The mainstream media takes ONTD seriously as a source of gossip--it's the LJ apocalypse!

Regardless of the implications of LJ folding itself, the post is a ( Read more... )