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Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In [Valleyspeak]

Twitter today announced it will prompt users to post by asking "What's happening?" rather than the old "What are you doing?" We asked a prominent linguist if this means anything. Turns out it does: Twitterers are no longer such loners. In short, Twitter's new slogan reflects t...

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Head of State [Pic Of The Day]

[There's nothing to hide the flaws in an extreme closeup of secretary of state Hilary Clinton taken during a press conference at the U.S. embassy in Kabul today. Image via Getty] ...

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It's the 2009 National Book Awards and These People Feel Fine [Gawker Party Crash]

2009's National Book Awards went down last night. In delightful twists of irony, they were a) sponsored by Google, b) held on Wall Street, and c) James Franco was there. So were Party Crash Photog Mo Pitz and I. BOOKS! "Look up, see that?" An editor at Reagan Arthur drunkenly smiled dur...

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Oprah Makes It Official: She's Leaving Syndicated TV in 2011 [Turning Points]

And thus an era ends. As rumored she would, Oprah Winfrey announced today that she will give up her syndicated show to focus on building her cable network. Oprah ends a 25 year run that puts hers up with Fidel Castro and Muammar al-Gaddafi as one of the most durable dictatorships of our age. Acco...

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Why is Sandra Bullock Still a Star? [Explainer]

She's made more bombs than the Krupp Arms Works and yet Hollywood keeps giving her the keys to its kingdom. This weekend, Sandra Bullock is back again in The Blind Side. When she burst into public consciousness, stealing the show in Speed 15 years ago, Bullock was hailed as the thinking man's sta...

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Santa Gives Up on America, and Vice Versa [Recessionomics]

The Way We Live Now: Ho-ho-ho-ping for a holiday miracle. Cause Santa is totally unreachable and all our Christmas money's going towards tuition and the luxury gourmet superdeluxe business we invested in is "in the red," like Rudolph. Fuck him. Here, tell this to your kids: Santa is no ...

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