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Lately, clothing stores haven't had enough sense to discern the line between popular slogan and inappropriate saying, so we're suggesting they call the whole thing off.
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Each year Jimmy Wales stares us into donating to Wikipedia; this year it's even easier than ever to make fun of the Wikipedia founder.
Just in time to take advantage of the Kindle Fire let down, Barnes and Noble's similar idea, the Nook Tablet, has hit reviewer's hands.
Spotify just lost about 200 record labels, which is bad for a service that's only as valuable as the music it provides.
There are two things that political conspiracy e-mail forwards have in common: Conservatives and senior citizens.
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With each Kindle Fire sale Amazon loses money, but not that much.
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The Jerseys Shore's Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino is making the most out of a contrived Abercombie & Fitch diss.
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Years late to the music party, Google makes up for it by offering its Music Service for free -- mostly.
Just days after Cain stumbled enunciating a position on Libya, the presidential candidate has been caught referring to the language Cubans speak as 'Cuban.'
After being accused of particularly sneaky insider trading practices, Rep. Spencer Bachus, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, is denying he did anything wrong.
The TSA is so sure airport body scanners are safe -- the kind that Europe just banned because of "cancer risks -- are safe, that it'scancelling plans for a health and safety study.
The Secret Service has arrested Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, a suspect for this morning's White House shooting, at a hotel near Indiana, Penslyvania.
In ridiculous sounding lawsuits of the day: Village Voice Media is suing Time Out New York for using the phrase "Best of NYC" on the cover of its November 3 issue.
Cutting it close, Google signed a deal with major music labels just one day before the official Google Music launch event this afternoon.
Finally, Facebook has made it easier for us to lie about our lives.
After 12 million plus YouTube views, a book deal, and an impending TV show, Jenny Slate and her fiance Dean Fleischer-Camp have given the Internet another 4 minute and 12 second dose of adorable with a Marcel the Shell with Shoes on follow-up.
NBC hasn't even canceled NBC's Community and the show's loyal fans are freaking out on Twitter.
In depressing economic news of the day: The U.S. will more likely than not experience another recession in early 2012.
Herman Cain's 2012 run could be over before we get to the bottom of the sexual harassment charges.
That Steve Jobs both did LSD and was also a well respected inventor, made him a good spokesman for a drug that more often has associations with burnt out Dead Heads.
The last season of Mad Men hasn't even started yet, but the show's creator Matthew Weiner already has an idea of what the finale will look like.
Salman Rushdie is having problems getting people to believe that his Internet self is his actual human self.
With the supposed iPad killer making its debut tomorrow, techies have gotten a day-early hands on look at the product, deciding that Amazon's tablet probably won't do too much damage to Apple after all.
For the first month in the eight months since an earthquake and tsunami hit the Fukushima nuclear power station, the Japanese government has opened the area to media.
Robert Crumb has revealed the politically charged New Yorker cover over which he quit over a year and a half ago, making The New Yorker look cowardly for rejecting his controversial image.
Even though the Kindle Fire's riding a wave of positive reviews, the tablet's insecurities are showing as it gets ready for the big reveal next Tuesday.
Apple's software update for the iPhone 4S battery drain doesn't seem to fix the issue for all affected phones, meaning this might require more than a quick-fix from Apple.
Zynga doesn't think there's anything wrong with forcing certain employees to give up their soon-to-be-very valuable stock options.
Things have only gotten worse for Twitter darling Ashton Kutcher since he offended his followers with a sympathetic Joe Paterno tweet on Wednesday night.
A class action lawsuit has forced Apple to start a cord replacement program for frayed Macbook power adapters -- something frustrated Mac owners would have appreciated years ago.
Ashamed of its thieving, Apple has hidden some of its more blatant Android pilfers.
An end-of-the-season retirement wasn't soon enough. Penn State's board of trustees has fired both football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier, reports the Associated Press.
To fight all the bad news out there, Herman Cain has launched an Internet offensive against all the possible voters that might learn bad things about him as they Google his sexual harassment scandal.
Let alone agree on a plan to reduce the deficit, Republicans and Democrats can't even agree on what happened at Tuesday's Super Committee talks.
The FCC's emergency test this afternoon, which was supposed to take over all TVs and radios across America, didn't quite monopolize screens.
As the Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal continues, Funny or Die has a parody of the candidate starring Mike Tyson.
The Twittersphere thinks Poynter's Jeff Sonderman's solution to the Associated Press's new, stricter social media guidelines is a joke.
This morning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd made a mistake that has Ivy Leaguers in a tizzy: she referred to Penn State as Penn.
Adobe has finally decided to let go of Flash for mobile platforms (it's not giving up the desktop quite yet), it acccording to its blog, and focus more on HTML5.
Like many other businesses, Apple is taking advantage a workers fearful of losing employment in a shaky economy -- and it seems as if it is not about to let a union get in the way of that.
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