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AIM Gone

from The Atlantic AIM Was Perfect, and Now It Will Die A eulogy for the chatting service, which will shut down on December 15 by ROBINSON MEYER Axel Heimken / AP You kids don’t understand. You could never understand. You walk around in habitats of text, pop-up cathedrals of social language whose cornerstone is the rectangle […]

The Hooker Ripping It Up In Detroit

Kim Gets Screwed Again

from GIZMODO Supreme Court Declines to Hear Kim Dotcom’s Civil Asset Forfeiture Appeal by Tom McKay Former Megaupload chief Kim Dotcom’s long, wild ride through the courts crashed into another setback Monday, with the Supreme Court declining to hear an appeal in the 2012 seizure of his assets in New Zealand. US prosecutors had charged Dotcom […]

Paglia on Hefner

from The Hollywood Reporter Camille Paglia on Hugh Hefner’s Legacy, Trump’s Masculinity and Feminism’s Sex Phobia by Jeanie Pyun With the death of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner on Sept. 27, cultural historian and contrarian feminist Camille Paglia spoke to The Hollywood Reporter in an exclusive interview on topics ranging from what Hef’s choice of the […]

Sun & Peng’s ‘Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other’

Monty Hall Gone

from DEADLINE Monty Hall Dies; ‘Let’s Make A Deal’ Host Was 96 by Bruce Haring TV game show host and creator Monty Hall, the man who took Let’s Make A Deal from a daytime staple into prime time, has died of heart failure in Beverly Hills. He was 96 and died at home. His daughter, Joanna Gleason, […]

Taco Bell Garb

from People Taco Bell Is Launching a Clothing Line with Forever 21 BY COLLIER SUTTER RELATED: The Most Outrageous Taco Bell Menu Items of All Time You’ll soon be able to wear your fast food pride on your sleeve—literally. Taco Bell is teaming up with Forever 21 to launch a fashion line which they promise to […]

Ass Gold

from Reuters Sri Lankan arrested for trying to smuggle 1kg of gold in his rectum Customs officials find gold inside 45-year-old man after noticing his ‘suspicious movements’ at Colombo airport A Sri Lankan man who raised suspicion by the way he kept looking around in an airport departure lounge was found to be carrying nearly […]

Trigonometry Revisited

from PHYS.ORG Mathematical mystery of ancient Babylonian clay tablet solved UNSW Sydney scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3700-year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, possibly used by ancient mathematical scribes to calculate how to construct palaces and temples and build canals. The new […]